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Spider in the Garden [Open]

WHO| Vriska and you.
WHAT| Vriska heads to a nice quiet, shady place on the roof to pout about her death in the arena, having no friends, and basically feeling pretty shitty about her life.
WHEN| Soon after she gets out of the arena.
WHERE| The Rooftop
WARNINGS| Nothing right now.

This was the absolute worse. 'Oh these games would be fun!' Ha! That thought was pretty well beaten out of her by now. She had started with such high expectations that all just came crashing down around her. None of her brilliant plans worked out, like, at all. Well, expect for the All the Eights. She had gotten to do that so....... She'll count that as a win. Suck it Capital. She took all your precious eights! Better take note of her now!

But mostly what she had gotten out of it was pain and frustration. Oh! And the best part was she gets to do it allllllll over again. So fucking excited for that. Let do this shit! Ugh........ If she didn't need another reason to dislike this place.

Fuck, she acted like a major asshat when she first got here. Bitching all over the network with her tantrum. Regretting that a bit now. She was pretty sure that no one liked her. Plus her actions in the arena probably burnt down what shitty bridges she had with her 'friends' from her universe too. Just fucking perfect. There you are again. Poor lonely Vriska off by herself. Pity party, party of one!

Right now, she didn't want to be around others. But all the places in the tribute center was just too brightly lit for her and full of people. So she wondered her way to the rooftop where it was at least quiet. She found herself a nice little secluded bench under a vine covered canopy she curled up, holding a leg to her chest as she hugged it. Vriska lets out a long deep sigh resting her forehead against her knee and shut her eyes. She really wished she was back home, even if that meant going back to drift through endless dream bubbles. At least she had Meenah to talk to.

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"Not digging the scene downstairs?"

Mindy had similarly sought refuge on the roof. Normally she'd be training or at least be mingling with her fellow tributes, but thanks to the fucking quarantine Mindy couldn't take five paces without someone moving around. At this point she was sic of Avoxes and being psychoanalyzed and damn tired of even looking at the Capitol sleazeballs after seeing what happened to Starkiller.

Fucking games.

"Can't blame you. It's getting so you can;t even take a shit in peace."

Hearing that she was no longer alone Vriska lifted her head to see who interrupted her pissy baby time. She eyed the small girl, though in truth she was probably about the same age as she was. But she creaked a smirk, chuckling at her comment.

"Heh yeah, tell me about it. Waaaaaaaay too crowded. I really don't want to be around others right now." Then she huffed a sigh. "Plus, I don't think others want to be around me right now either........"

"Had a bad time in the Arena," Mindy said. "I would have kept watching, but after the business with some off my friends ripping each other to pieces, I tuned out for a bit. So what's your story?"

If she thought Mindy would judge her harshly, she'd be wrong- Mindy hadn't won her Arena with clean hands or a clean slate.

Vriska looked her over once more, her eyes narrowing. You know what? What the hell. She seemed willing to listen to her piss and moan. Why the hell not. Lets have another fucking story time. A small smirk appear on her face as she leans back on the bench, looking more relaxed than she did just a few moments before.

"You have noooooooo idea." Vriska snorted a bit. "I thought it was going to be fun. HA! Was I wrong. Its a lot harder than I first thought. All of my plans back fired. All of them. But color me unsurprised. I didn't even get to kill anyone in a fucking death game. How lame is that? Instead I was jerk around by a whole bunch of fruity assholes. Pretty sure my friends hate me even more now and want nothing to do with me. Kind of have been a huge bitch."

Mindy was glad that the girl was chilling out now. She had definitely seemed...well, like her earlier in the week. She had only just started to get out of her funk, but it hadn't been easy. She still felt mixed about some things.

She chuckled. "Aside from the bitchy part, that was me last arena, and I do this shit for a living! Not that I was hot about killing people I didn't know, but you do what you have to. But the Arena I won, I can tell you exactly how I got people to hate me. What did YOU do to deserve it?"

Wait a second, did she just say she had won? Now this sparked her interest. Along with the fact the girl mentioned she killed people for a living. Heh. Maybe it was her feeling the need to talk to someone but, she kind of like the girl already and her grin just widened more.

"You don't say. Well back where I'm from I don't have issues killing strangers. Did it all the time. It's just apart of life. Plus I had to feed my lusus or she would eat me so........ There's that too." She chuckled a bit at that. "Thats the thing! I didn't really do anything too horrible. Not compared to the other shit I've pulled back home. I made a pissy rant day one I was here. That didn't win me any friends. Then I got into a fight with my friend in the arena over his new bestie cause he's picking up some of Spineless's bad habits that are going to get him killed. Of course I also did mind-control him for a few days and made him be my lackey. That might have also helped out with that........ Mainly though I feel its just all carry over stuff from back home being dragged here. I mean, I come in and they just assume the worst about me. Granted, its not all bullshit. Look, first let me do something bad then you are allowed to be pissy at me. Thats how it works! Might as well do something twice as bad to make up for all the bitching."

This girl was definitely not fucking around. She sounded slightly cruel, and seemed t get people to serve her whims. Usually, this would anger her more, but it was hard to be pissed at someone she got on a certain level.

"I killed with reason, just, well, without mercy if you get my drift. You face off with killers and the mafia, you have zero time to be fucking around. Sounds like your rep and the way the Capitol works already colored you. Not that mind controlling anyone helped with that. Not that I don't get it. I betrayed a friend with good intentions, which was sort of dumb because up until now, I didn't really make friends. Too busy training my ass off."

Which she still did now, actually.

"I never claimed to be a good person. But you don't have to be good to do good things. I killed for reasons too. As I said before I had to feed my lusus other trolls." She paused a moment thinking to herself. "Do you even know what A lusus is? We trolls don't have it easy like you humans do. We get picked by guardians when we hatch. That is if we make it through the trails and wriggled out of the caves. Now picture this if you can. Mine was a huge, hungry spider."

Then she fell silent, letting it all sink it. But then she shrugged it off reaching up to place her hands behind her head.

"But yeah, the mind-control was a bitch move, I'll admit it. Might have gone a bit too far with that." The troll sighed to herself. "I've been betrayed before by friends. Noooooooot fun. Last time I was quite literally stabbed in the back."

"Good people are overrated. We have plenty of them around here. I don't think I even qualify as one because of what I do. I agree with what you said there, though not going to lie, you trolls sound like you have to deal with some major shit just to live. See, we humans just find out gods to obey in things, and if we like it enough we let it pretty much control all of our actions."

Yup, Mindy was perfect for talking up humanity.

"Yet to see anyone cool with having their mind controlled."

Vriska chuckled a bit at the girl shaking her head. “You don’t even know the half of it. I’m sure if you find Karkat he’ll loooooooove to clue you in.” She leans back more on the bench starting to feel a whole lot better than she did before. “You should see what I can do with my powers. I can do some pretty awesome things with it. Though my mind control doesn’t really work well on humans. Only really affects other trolls.”

She shrugs a bit to herself before turning to look at the girl straight on.

“Name’s Vriska.”

"You know, maybe I should go talk to more of the trolls," Mindy remarked. "I've never kept my distance or anything, I'm just usually off doing my own thing. I should probably not shrug off people in general. Your powers sounds pretty fucking sweet though. It's sort of a shame you can't use them on some humans, though they'd probably nerf them anyway if you could."

Mindy met the gaze. "Vriska. Nice. Mindy. Mindy Macready."

A wide grin appeared on her face hearing her powers being praised, feeling her ego swelling. Not many people appreciated her abilities. Granted, Mindy didn't know the full story and might be singing a different tone if she did. But Vriska just beamed, if not looking a bit smug, as she placed her hands behind her head.

"I know, my powers are pretty awesome. I can see why they took all my powers away. I have more than just the mind control." She appeared to be pleased with herself. "Mindy? Heh, nice to meet you. You're different from most humans I've run into. Think we'll get along fiiiiiiiine."

Mindy had no doubt that when someone had powers like that, they could abuse them. She also had no doubt that the girl had here, too. But that story was HER story, and so long as she didn't fuck with anyone she knew the wrong way, they could get along. Mindy could at least understand people who were like minded like her. It helped to have mutual understanding anyway.

"What else could you do? Mind control sounds hefty to begin with. As for me, well, I think most humans might agree I'm pretty out there to begin with, just ask around."

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