vatheon | The big troll reunion thing.

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The big troll reunion thing.

Characters: Kanaya Maryam, Karkat Vantas, Feferi Peixes, anybody else up on the island at the time
Location: The Island
Time: March 2nd, early evening. After She arrived here and after pretty much all the conversations here
Style: Action or Prose, I'll follow your lead / preference.
Status: quasi-open? If you're there you're there.

The elevator finally came to a stop after it's long journey. The doors opened, releasing a single passenger. The glowing troll had arrived just in time to see the last of the sun dip away. Oh well. Karkat should be here to meet her shortly, and Feferi would be here soon as well, along with who knows who else.

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I didn't say that. I only met her the one time and we only talked for a few minutes before I left. I did find her interesting and I do want to talk with her more, but I don't know if I would call it a crush. I think she may have more information about what I have become, and that she may have some link to my past.

Nepeta giggled and nodded her head. "It's okay, I understand!" She won't point out that Kanaya herself had said that maybe Karkat wasn't overreacting; let her friend make of her new fascination whatever she wanted. "She really can be very nice, if you think she knows more things that are impurrtant for you to learn, you should ask her! I'm sure she'll tell you!"

Kanaya smiled and responded simply, "I certainly plan on it." A moment passes before she speaks up again. "It's good to see you again Nepeta. What..." Another hesitation..."What happened for you before you came here?"

"It's good to see you again too! I was hoping you'd come here, it's really a nice place! And I wanted Signless to get to meet you too!" She hesitated at that question then, but there was no getting around it. Everyone else knew anyway, considering the state Nepeta had arrived in. "Gamzee...Gamzee killed me."

"Oh.... I'm sorry..." Kanaya trails off as the awkwardness of the conversation left her unable to think of what else to say.

Nepeta rubbed at her face self-consciously - this was probably more awkward for Kanaya than it was for her, because at least she'd had some time to deal with it. "It's okay...I'm here, and Equius is here, and Gamzee knows what he did was terrible and has been really nice to me since I arrived. I don't like what happened but nothing's going to change it. I'm more upset about Equius but he's happy here too, so... It's okay, really, Kanaya."

"Alright. I was told that Gamzee and Eridan both know about the things they did... or will do. Karkat specifically warned me not to treat them how I otherwise might have." Kanaya allowed herself to smile at Nepeta. It certainly was a nice side effect of coming here that she could be with so many friends that she had lost.

Edited 2012-03-18 20:45 (UTC)

"I was really scared of Gamzee at first, but now we're even better friends than before I think. I had...problems with Equius when I got here at first and Gamzee was there for me a lot and helped me feel better." She nodded, wanting to reassure Kanaya that there really wasn't any reason to treat Gamzee harshly because of what had happened. She was quite sure he hated himself for what he'd done already without the rest of them doing it too.

Kanaya is successfully reassured! Or at least she isn't as apprehensive about Gamzee as she would have been. She's still going to withhold judgement until she can see him for herself, but now she might just give him the benefit of the doubt.

"Well that does sound good. How long have you and the others been here? Karkat told me he's spent almost half a sweep in this place."

"Only a couple of perigees! The others have all been here much much longer I think. But it feels like time goes by faster here than it did in Alternia sometimes...maybe because most of the time we don't have to worry about being culled." She scoots over a bit closer to Kanaya, thinking that maybe more hugs are called for right now. "Anyway! You need to meet Signless soon! He spoke to you already, right? He really wants to meet you, I told him about you befur now."

Well now that topic certainly interested Kanaya. She seems intrigued as she starts to answer the catgirl's question. "He spoke to me over text. I haven't seen him in person yet, but I am interesting in doing so. What is he like? I've heard that my ancestor was important to him and that this may have some relevance to me, but I don't really know anything about either of them."

Nepeta beams as she thinks of the older troll, face lit up in fondness in a way it only ever used to for Equius before she’d arrived in Vatheon and acquired an adopted dad and a matesprit besides her beloved moirail. "He's amazing! He's just so nice and he cares about everyone, even the people who are mean to him. He was trying to make Alternia a better place for everyone. He probably only spoke to you over text so you wouldn’t be frightened…he knows that we didn’t have adults on the planet and that we’re a bit scared of them."

"But your ancestor was his lusus! I met her when she was here for a while, she was so nice too, pretty and elegant like you but older and very very tall! Because of…well, you know about Karkat’s blood, and Signless’ is the same, so he didn’t get a sign or a lusus when he was a grub so Miss Dolorosa decided to look after him herself instead. He’s very very fond of her."

Kanaya giggled a little at Nepeta's enthusiasm, but listened with rapt attention all the same. She did want to meet the Signless eventually, if for no other reason than his connection to her own ancestor. She did not expect just what that connection actually was, and was caught a little off guard by the strange story. "So she raised him from a grub? He seems to be quite an unconventional troll."

"She did! I think she used to take care of the Mother Grub befur that but she abandoned everything to look after him!" Nepeta may be dressing it up to sound more dramatic than it really was but that was essentially what she'd heard about the story, and she'd been impressed that an adult troll could care about a grub so much as to do such a thing for them. No wonder Signless loved her. Then again, she'd met the Dolorosa for herself and knew she was every bit as caring as an actual lusus, if not more so.

"He's furry unconventional. You should hear him speak..." She shook her head, unable to convey in words just what it was like. "When he's talking about something he believes in, you just have to believe it with him; he doesn't lie about some things being difficult or hard to achieve but he still makes you believe that they're possible and...oh, I can't explain it right myself! You need to hear him for yourself."

"I suppose I will have to do that sometime. Right now I'm still getting used to this place, but I'm sure I'll have time to meet him soon." Kanaya gave her friend another smile while she thought this over. Her lusus had told her that in the past the jadeblood caste would server the mother grubs, protecting and helping them. That was why mother grubs would only ever be a lusus for a jadeblood. In a way, The Dolorosa abandoning that duty to raise The Signless was very similar to her own lusus choosing to abandon her expected role and live as a virgin to raise her. Both were events so rare as to be without known precedent.

“He’ll be so happy! He gives the best hugs, you know.” Nepeta highly recommends Signless’ hugs. Nothing makes you happy quicker than a Signless!hug! Or maybe that was just her personal bias talking, but somehow she thought that Kanaya would like him at least nearly as much as Nepeta herself did. He was just so caring, he really was quite unique for a troll.

“Maybe once it’s safe to go back to our hives I can hold a tea party and invite him and you, and you can get to know each other that way! I know he won’t say no, he even comes over to play with me and Tavros because he knows it makes us happy so he’d come over for tea for sure if I asked him!”

I would like that I think. You might have to give me some time to get acclimated to this place. ~~, and to avoid a PIME TARADOX with meeting the signless before she meets the signless :D~~
So, do you and Tavros share a hive then?

"Okay! I understand. It does take a little bit of getting used to, especially to having ancestors around as well." She took her kitty hood off for a while, fluffing out her hair. "Yes! He was staying with Gamzee and Equius at first but was looking for a hive when I got here and he didn't really want to stay on his own and I didn't either so he asked if I wanted to share with him!"

Oh yes, the housing thing. Well, this might serve as an opportunity to bring up that other matter. "I suppose when this is all over I'll have to choose a Hive as well. Karkat explained that the marking will allow me to do so for no fees, though there's a little problem there. I haven't been able to determine where my marking is. I don't suppose there is a mirror on this island I could use?" Her symbol wasn't too hard to find for someone else, positioned as it was on the nape of her neck. It's just completely out of her sight.

"Uh huh, that's right! Maybe we can be neighbours! ...but I don't think any of us brought a mirror up here." Anyone who'd ever met Nepeta would have no doubts that she'd probably never used a mirror in her life. "But I can look for it for you myself if you don't mind that?? Usually it's not somewhere hard to find, just sometimes it's in a place that's difficult to see."

Kanaya blushes a little bit, an odd thing to see on a rainbow drinker. The Jade color coming to her face actually darkens her cheeks against her glow. Kanaya turned around, reaching for the zipper on her dress and hoping that the symbol wasn't going to be somewhere embarrassing. At least this zipper doesn't go all the way down to her wound. "Ok. I've checked my front and I can assume that it's not on my face. perhaps it's on my back. If not we'll have to look later, I don't think I'm going to disrobe entirely here on a beach."

Nepeta does have the fleeting thought that Kanaya looks even prettier than usual when she blushes, but doesn't seem embarrassed at all as her friend unzips her dress. "Yes, if it's not somewhere I can see it easily it'll purrobably be better to...oh, there it is!" Her gaze had first fallen to Kanaya's back, before noticing the black mark beneath the other troll's short hair. "You can zip your dress back up, it's on the back of your neck! That's not too bad."

She zips up her dress then, seeming visibly relieved. "That's good. I was worried that it might be somewhere... more inconvenient."

"...oh. Yes, yes I suppaws it would be furry inconvenient if you had to take off your clothes for someone to see it every time." Nepeta makes a face, then shakes her head and laughs. "But usually it's somewhere easy enough to see! Even if you can't see it for yourself!"

Kanaya laughed as well, it was certainly an amusing mental image. "Where's your marking, if you don't mind me asking?"

Hey, it's cool. If I wasn't lazy with my tags I would have bugged you on plurk or something :D

:3

Besides, that was just before your big shipping wall fiasco. I understand. :D

OH YEAH that post totally ate my time and brain for a few days

Yeah, I figured! What's it at, 1100+ now? Crazy.

YEP. and some threads are still going!

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