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Characters: trolls, trolls, trolls!
Location: up on the island
Time: dusk
Style: mingle! post a thread and play amongst yourselves!
Status: ~~inevitably murdering my inbox and making me cry~~

[ Twilight fades into the darkness of evening, and a whole gaggle of trolls are up on the island to camp out for one very big reason.

One big, angry, honking reason.

But general terror of the Grand Highblood aside, they're still fairly functional in-so-much as trolls ever are. And that's where the shenanigans come in. ]

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[Her attack is a success! Not that she expected anything else. It's if Equius wasn't expecting her to pounce that there might have been trouble. She's not foolish enough to creep up on him when he's on guard duty.]

Yes yes yes, I like it up here! We're all together and not stuck under the sea and really it's purretty nice! If we didn't have to worry about why we're here it'd be purrfect.

[She clings to his side like a monkey, arms looped comfortably around his neck.]

All right, good.

[Equius keeps making his patrol, easily carrying her on his back.]

I could use another pair of eyes on guard duty, you know. You see far better in the dark than I do.

You want me to help you patrol??

[She beams with pride - guarding with her moirail! This is awesome.]

Yes! I'll help you fur sure, and if there's anything nasty out there I will pounce on it and hold it down fur you to capture. Heehee.

Uhm. But furst can I talk to you about something? It's impurrtant!

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That sounds excellent. Just make sure you don't pounce on RoboEquius when we come across him, because I'll feel that too.

[His ears perk backwards at her mentioning that she needs to talk.]

Of course. What's on your mind?

I wo…you feel whatefur he does?! [WHY DID SHE NOT KNOW THIS BEFORE. Equius is so going to find himself pounced and hugged invisibly.] Oooh, okay. [Heeheehee.

But then she remembers what she needs to talk to him about and stops laughing. She really hopes he’ll take it well!]

Can we sit down furst?

[Well, RoboEquius was built so he and Karkat could beat up on each other without risking Karkat's death, so yes, everything RoboEquius feels, AlphaEquius feels too. It can be... problematic, soemtimes.]

[He slows down, though, when she asks to sit down. That must mean it's really important, and suddenly he's homesick for the bubble and a nice, comfortable pile.]

If you like.

[He carries her a few steps off the path and sits down.]

What is it?

[A pile would be just what they needed for this conversation, but Nepeta can’t afford to wait to talk to him about this. She doesn’t want him finding out from anyone else but her.

First things first. She curls up on his lap, turned to face him, reaching up to frame his strong face between her two small hands.]

You know you’re the most impurrtant purrson efur to me, right?

Yes...

[He's not sure he likes where this is going!]

[And she’s not sure that she likes that lackluster reply, but she presses on regardless, hands papping at his cheeks without consciously meaning to.]

And that won’t change efur, no matter what, okay? I’m always always going to be here fur you, I purromise.

[Those paps are working, too, but Equius forces himself to focus.]

What's going on, Nepeta? Just tell me already.

[Yes. Yes, okay, she can do this. PLEASE TAKE IT WELL, EQUIUS, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE.]

Yesterday…Tavros told me he pities me. [Her face is rapidly turning a bright green.] And I…I…uhm…

We’rematespritsnow.

... oh.

[Equius can't pull his face out of her hands without hurting her, so he closes his eyes. It's impossible to ignore the sinking feeling he has, deep in his gut. Here they go again, and just when they'd finally gotten things worked out and it was all back to normal.]

Equius!!

[She knows him by heart and there's no need for him to move phsyically for her to feel him pulling away. It wrenches at her and she smashes their faces together, hard enough to actually hurt herself but not caring because nothing can hurt as much as losing yet again what they'd worked so hard to regain. Her hands let go of his face to grasp at his shoulders instead, claws pricking at his skin.]

Don't, don't! I promised I'd never leave you alone again and I meant it! It doesn't matter if I've filled another quadrant now, I'd never care any less about you!

[But that's what I thought before, and you did anyway...]

[Equius doesn't say it, but his heart practically weeps the words, and he looks at his moirail with sad eyes.]

Who is it?

[She has the distinct feeling that nothing she's saying is getting through, and it's breaking her heart. She'd known it would be a bit difficult for him but had hoped that at least he'd be the slightest bit happy for her... After all she'd been more than glad to hear he'd filled his other quadrants, even when she'd found out his matesprit was the one who'd murdered them both.

Her eyes fill with green tears, but she tries to hold them back, knowing that whether she remembers it or not she'd already hurt him once this way, and that she shouldn't blame him for taking the news badly.]

D-do...do you want me to...

[But she doesn't think she could ever hurt Tavros that way either, breaking it off after only just accepting him. She pities him too much, and he doesn't have anyone else either.]

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[It doesn't take a genius to figure out what she's trying to ask.]

What? No! Oh, no no no, I don't want that!

[Fiddlesticks, now he's made her feel bad. Equius goes with his latent moirail instincts and puts his arms in a circle around her, "holding" her in the only way he can.]

Of course not, Nepeta, I just want you to be happy, that's more important to me than anything else... and Tavros isn't a bad troll, I mean, he's a little too nice and lets everyone push him around, but he isn't bad.

[Dangit, why'd she have to start crying? Now he's too busy trying to make her feel better than to be moody and depressed himself!]

Last time, you were matesprits with Sollux, that insufferable little monster, Tavros is a much better choice than that! He's nowhere near as selfish or foul-tempered, and I don't think he'd be threatened by you having a moirail, and...

[He trails off. He's made quite the case for Tavros, hasn't he? Almost enough to make him okay with the idea. To quell the turmoil in his brain, he starts slowly rocking her back and forth.]

[Nepeta leans back into the circle of his arms to make it feel as if he really is holding her, for both their sakes. She needs it right now, and he needs to know that she needs him and always will.]

I am happy...I was furry furry happy when he told me, I was only worried a little bit about you...

[Her hands rest on his cheeks again as she gives him a quiet smile.]

I didn't want you to think that anything or anyone could efur replace you. I don't care what happened last time...it was wrong and it wasn't like me and I don't understand it, but it isn't ever going to happen again. Tavros is kind and he was happy fur me when we became moirails again, he'd nefur want me to stop seeing you or anything ridiculous like that!

And yes, yes, he's furry nice, I don't think it's pawsibble to be too nice but even if he is it isn't a bad thing. You wouldn't want me to have a matesprit who wasn't nice to me! And he's got a lot better at not letting people push him around, and he even was the one to tell me himself how he felt which had to have been purretty hard fur him.

[She closes her eyes when he starts rocking her, humming happily, soothed.]

It's all going to be okay, Equius, I purromise.

[Equius listens to everything she has to say, and finds himself soothed. He believes her, this time around, that things will be okay. And at least he knows Tavros won't try to take advantage of her! He can't, Equius didn't put a bulge in his new legs!]

All right, Nepeta. I believe you.

Really? Really really? Beclaws you can talk to me and tell me if you're efur worried about it, you know that, right?

[Equius, there are going to be TALKS about this later. Really, first pointing out that her new matesprit is too nice and then already worrying about him taking advantage of her? Such a silly meowrail.

But for now she’s just immensely relieved that it seems like everything is going to be okay after all. She’ll have to be extra careful to pay attention to Equius in the immediate future, she knows that much, but it’s hardly a chore for her. She wants to be with her moirail all the time and look after him.]

[He's a guy, okay? He knows how these things work, of course he was going to be worried!]

I promise I'll come and talk to you if I'm ever worried about it.

[That's good that she'll be feeling extra committed, because Equius will probably be extra needy for awhile. ~~Fortunately, they'll be bonding over tormenting Eridan soon enough!~~ Very carefully, he rests his head on her shoulder and sighs.]

[Yes, he does know how these things work, doesn't he? Someone still needs to give all the troll kids that talk.]

Thank you. I want you to, really. You can always talk to me about efurything and anything at all.

[She cradles his head to her and pets his hair, carrying on the rocking he'd started before as she shooshes him quietly and rubs her face against the top of his head, thinking they've earned a bit of quality moirail comfort time after their conversation just now.]

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