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[10thingsihateaboutme]

HEY, HAS ANYONE SEEN ANY ALTERNIANS AROUND THAT ARE NOT ALL THAT TALL, LIKE, I'M NOT SAYING SUPER SHORT OR ANYTHING JUST A BIT ON THE NOT TALL SIDE, WITH HORNS THAT ARE KIND OF

NOT ALL THAT POINTY, OR LONG. KIND OF ROUND I GUESS BUT NOT IN AN UNDIGNIFIED WAY

AND OKAY BEFORE ANY OF THE TRAILBLAZERS ON HERE START GETTING "REAPHOOK YOU'RE DESCRIBING YOURSELF" THIS GUY IS AN ADULT AND HE WEARS A FRANKLY NAUSEATING AMOUNT OF BRIGHT FUCKING RED AND I SWEAR TO GOD I KEEP SEEING HIM OUT OF THE CORNER OF MY EYE WHENEVER I GO OUTSIDE AND IT'S STARTING TO FREAKING ME OUT.

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[10thingsihateaboutme]

[karkat rolls his eyes.]

Okay, well now you do, because I just told you again, that's how I ended up on Earth, because these fucking cultists who believe in goodwill to all trolls found me and brought me here for fucking safekeeping or whatever, because I'm the descendant of their god damn prophet, alright.

[he kind of makes it a point to get that out quickly.]

[nitrodamus]

[Sollux just keeps staring, though it's not out of cluelessness. He's letting that sudden proclamation sink in.]

[He clenches his fingers into fists.]

And you're just bring this up now?

[10thingsihateaboutme]

[karkat looks earnestly surprised, and only a little bit guilty.]

... Yeah, well it's not the kind of thing you just bring up in casual conversation.

[nitrodamus]

[He stands up at the table, glaring at him, his fists on its surface.]

And what the fuck about anything I've been doing here has been casual? Was it the invasive surgery or the seed-fucking suicidal depression?!

[10thingsihateaboutme]

[leans back, defensive]

Oh right, because filling you in on this irrelevant bullshit was at the forefront of my fucking cogitation filter when I was freaking the fuck out about whether you were going to die, wow, how could I have been so inconsiderate as not to regale you with some uninteresting historical trivia instead of trying to convince you not to flip your nook blistered shit in crowded public spaces!

[nitrodamus]

I don't know, maybe commiserating or some shit! Maybe making it feel like I wasn't the only one who was a fucking freak!

[10thingsihateaboutme]

Okay, dude, no offence, but if I was dealing with the shit you are dealing with and some jackass came up to me all like "well I'm sorry about your heinous torture but it turns out my ancestor was some historically significant seditious pacifist" and thought that was in any way relevant I'd be kind of fucking insulted.

[nitrodamus]

I've been here for like a whole fucking perigee you nook-mangler! No time, right? Just like there wasn't any fucking time to tell me you were a mutant the entire trip here even though that was the reason you were leaving in the first place! How fucking irrelevant!

[10thingsihateaboutme]

[his ears fold back a little at that, threatened] What – my blood is none of your fucking business, okay –

[nitrodamus]

Yeah, because you have the fucking leisure to hide it!

[10thingsihateaboutme]

SO?? You would too if it was this!

[nitrodamus]

Not from YOU!

[YELLING]

[10thingsihateaboutme]

Why the FUCK NOT??

[count down until someone flips this table]

[nitrodamus]

Because we were a TEAM!

[And this is where he tears up from getting emotional, it was inevitable.]

We were supposed to be doing this TOGETHER!

[10thingsihateaboutme]

[god FUCKING damnit]

Oh yeah, what a fucking amazing idea, tell your team you don't deserve to be alive, that'll really fucking boost morale, why the hell didn't I think of that!!

[nitrodamus]

If you didn't deserve to be alive it would be because you're so fucking STUPID YOU PIECE OF SHIT!

[10thingsihateaboutme]

Fuck you!!! Fuck you, you don't know shit! You're so messed up about the fact you don't have any powers now and you think everybody's out to fucking get you, that's what I was like all the goddamn time back on Alternia! Literally fucking anybody could have found out and slaughtered me and I didn't want it to be someone I actually fucking – [snarls!] fuck, fuck this, fuck you, I'm fucking – 

[stumbles on a chair in his haste to STORM OUT. THWARTED]

[nitrodamus]

[Sollux doesn't move to pursue him, but instead he just keeps yelling, getting more and more emotionally compromised.]

Anybody could kill anyone for fucking anything on Alternia! We're fucking lowbloods you dunce, no one even gives a shit about how low you can go! It's all the same beastshit! That's why we fucking left!

[10thingsihateaboutme]

[turns around, bristling]

It's not the fucking same, you crater panned shit smear – I would have slaughtered a god damn Imperial legion to be a fucking lowblood, you have no fucking idea –

[nitrodamus]

Why don't you fucking trust me?!

[screech]

[10thingsihateaboutme]

I didn't trust anyone! What the fuck is your problem??

[nitrodamus]

I trusted you!

[10thingsihateaboutme]

I trusted you with other stuff, holy fuck, I didn't tell anybody about this shit, okay, why is this such a big goddamn deal?

[nitrodamus]

Because you thought I would fucking kill you!

[10thingsihateaboutme]

I thought any rational fucking troll would kill me! I was going to tell everyone, okay, I was just trying to – fuck – to prove I could do something worth shit first so that maybe you wouldn't all think I was garbage when you found out!