vatheon | The big troll reunion thing.

Entry tags:

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.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

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?"

"On the back of my hand! Look!" She peeled up the back of one of her fingerless gloves to let Kanaya take a look at it. "Purrobably the easiest purrlace efur, I was lucky."

Kanaya takes her hand, looking closely at the mark. this was the first time she got to have a good look at it after all. "Oh, that's rather nice really. Karkat also has his on the back of the hand but he didn't show me what it looked like. It's a bit more complex than most troll symbols, isn't it."

Nepeta laughs and wiggles her fingers in Kanaya's grip. "Heehee, yes, it is! Though I nefur really paid much attention to it before now, it's just sort of there and useful for getting lots of tea and sugar and cake." Because what is a healthy diet...

Kanaya gives the hand a little squeeze before letting it go, launching into another line of inquiry. "I understand that this system allows us free goods, but what about businesses or workspaces? If I'm going to be here for a while I think I would like to get some fabrics and start sewing again. It's been a while."

"Oooh, you think you might want to set up your own business? That sounds pawesome! I don't really know what you'd have to do to make that happen but we could certainly fur sure find out fur you!" Nepeta was bouncing in excitement at the thought of helping out - she wasn't one for fashion but anything that made a friend happy was something she was all for.

"Well, I'm not sure about an actual business... I would like somewhere to set up as a studio. I need some place to do my work, and while I had a dedicated block in my hive for that purpose it tended to get a bit messy and overflow into the rest of the place. Fabrics and dressforms were all over my respiteblock. I like to keep things tidy in my living space but I tend to be a bit chaotic with my work area. Now that we're all here and we have some time, maybe I can finally try and get you into something a bit more fashionable!" Kanaya winked at the oliveblood. It would be nice to try and get her into something other than that jacket and hat. Not that her normal outfit is particularly terrible... OK, the hat is just awful with her green complexion and that jacket. Really, it can't be excused. Nepeta isn't the biggest offence against fashion that Kanaya has met, but she has certainly gotten a space on her List.

"Well, the hives here are pretty big! Me and Tavros share a place with all our stuff easily, and Equius and Gamzee share another one with Darkleer and they've got their workshops there and everything, and you know Gamzee makes a bit of a mess, so I think that if we get you an extra big hive it could work! Unless you want to get a separate purrlace to make sure the mess doesn't spill over?"

She tilted her head to the side, considering this. She wasn't sure if one person would have allowed two places, but they could try. And then she heard what Kanaya was asking her. "Nooooo, I like my clothes! They're comfortable and good for hunting and playing in!" That wink was answered with a great big pouty face. Her kittyhood was blue on purpose! She wore it because it was Equius' colour! She was thinking of getting something in brown for Tavros too in fact.

Kanaya couldn't help but laugh at that reaction. "You know, you don't have to wear the same thing all the time. If I made you something it could be a sort of special occasion wear. Something nice for you, so you can choose to dress up in something that makes you look extra pretty sometime. Maybe if there's a special someone you would like to catch the eye of?" Kanaya's teasing of course, but she doesn't yet know that Nepeta already has a special someone.

Nepeta opened her mouth to complain that she liked wearing the same thing all the time! It was her favourite! But she shut it again when Kanaya pointed out that it could just be a special occasion kind of outfit, something to look pretty in, and although Nepeta didn't care too much about pretty - she was cute! that was enough! - the thought that maybe Tavros would like it stopped her from outright refusing.

Living with him meant he'd seen her be a mess more times than she could count, and he apparently liked her anyway, but that didn't mean he shouldn't also get a chance to see her looking particularly nice, right? "Hmmmm..."

"Hmmm?" Kanaya mimiced. "Could that be the sweet note of someone concidering the idea of wearing something different for once? Don't worry, I know you're very attached to your current look. Now, the fact that my argument has at least started to sway you raises another question." She winks at Nepeta and gives a sly smile as she askes, "Is there someone special you're thinking about wearing a nice outfit for? I think I could tailor something to help catch his or her eye..."

"Welll, purrhaps there is." She giggled and flopped her head onto Kanaya's shoulder, managing to look bashful and sneaky at the same time.

"I don't think I need to catch their eye," since she'd somehow managed to do that already without even knowing how, "but it would be furry nice to have something special to wear just fur them! Fur special occasions maybe." Like dates. Ooh, a date! They hadn't been on one yet thanks to being stuck on the island, but Nepeta hoped they'd have the chance for one sooner rather than later.

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject