sleeplessinalternia: (25 Spend life fighting for your sanity)
Karkat Vantas ([personal profile] sleeplessinalternia) wrote in [community profile] thecapitol2014-03-07 08:28 pm

lord have mercy

Who| Karkat and OPEN
What| After nearly half a sweep a year away, Karkat's back in the tribute tower. He's not happy about it.
Where| D1 suite, elsewhere in tribute tower, in the capitol itself
When| Week 6 and beyond
Warnings/Notes| I'll be putting up some prompts in the comments for the three locations, but otherwise feel free to make your own wildcard prompt! JSYK, Karkat has been revived a week or so after he died (roughly concurrent to when Kankri got resurrected from his) and looks roughly a year older than he was last time anybody saw him. As for warnings... there will be language, probably references to Karkat's death and a little bit of Homestuck spoilers.



Familiar overhead block surface.

Karkat blinks his occular orbs in dismay. He-- he fucking knows this place. Memories come flooding back. Panem. He's in fucking Panem. Held captive by the fucking Capitol humans. Here he was, half-a-sweep older, and now, now, he knew what a fucking travesty that really was.

"We made you," he mutters under his breath. "You should be worshipping us, not fucking turning us into reality television."

There's a paper container of mixed goods next to him on the resting platform. Karkat shakes it out onto the thermal retention fabric. A bottle of what proved to be some kind of artificial scent. A hat in the shape of a gelatinous sea creature. Rubber bouncing spheres in the shapes of his, Signless, and Kankri's heads. A pendant with an enameled picture of a hamburger on it. Gummy candies in the shape of hamburgers. A black shirt with the word DEAD written in his own blood color. A toy figure of himself whose head came off when you squeezed it.

Karkat stares down at the assorted goods. "What the fucking fuck?"
saveswithsong: (mad)

Re: D1 Suite

[personal profile] saveswithsong 2014-03-27 04:36 am (UTC)(link)
Rat caught Karkat's wrist in his fingers. His grip was hard, nearly enough to bruise. "Your voice is annoying." He snapped the book shut, and the rat seemed to take that as his cue to move up onto his shoulder. He released his wrist and stood up to head back toward his room.
saveswithsong: (city lights)

Re: D1 Suite

[personal profile] saveswithsong 2014-03-27 06:45 am (UTC)(link)
An insult like that is hardly worth responding to. He walked around his chair without a further word and headed for his room.