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[sleeplessinalternia]

Who| Karkat + YOU, later Karkat + Signless
What| Karkat isn't dead anymore. He's trying to find Signless to clear up a few things. (Unfortunately, Signless is busy learning about Rome.)
Where| inside the Training Center
When| after Karkat dies during Week Seven
Warnings/Notes| hells of swearing

Karkat... isn't dead anymore. Which was weird, because he quite vividly remembers dying and he doesn't remember anyone resurrection kissing him (not that he knows if that kind of shit would even work outside the Medium.)

The point was, however, that if he isn't dead then neither is the Signless probably and that meant that Karkat actually has the chance to clear up a few important things with the older troll--especially about that unintentional shoosh-pap, but about their shared mutation too.

Unfortunately, Signless evidently isn't part of the same "district" that Karkat had been assigned to, so in order to find him Karkat is going to have to venture out into the Training Center's common area.

Comments

[shambler]

They might be two different species, not even going into one's alive and the other's a walking corpse, but the way Karkat says Terezi's name sends something familiar shivering up R's spine. He peers down at the troll, his face fighting its way into a smile behind his muzzle, rigor mortis be damned.

"That's...good. You should...ask her...out...?"

R can add Matchmaker to his list of possible jobs. Maybe he'll be better at it than Stand-Up Comedian or Zombie Apocalypse Survivor.

[sleeplessinalternia]

"Why would I want to do something like that?" Karkat asks defensively. Then he sighs. "I can't anyway. She's not here. I don't even know if she's still alive. Things were pretty crazy when they snatched me up."

[shambler]

The question is why wouldn't R - or that's how R saw it, anyway. Maybe it was a troll thing.

"That...sucks," R says, sympathizing. He resists the urge to slap a cold, heavy hand on Karkat's shoulder and give it a pat. "Maybe...you'll see her again? Then...ask."

R skates by the fact Karkat could be dead in a month, once the next Arena rolls around.

[sleeplessinalternia]

"Yeah," Karkat says. "Maybe." And then he'll be obligated to kill her in the arena. He's not sure if he wants Terezi here--though this whole resurrection thing does make it a little better.

He sighs. "Let's go find your stupid nooses."

Rope, rope, where is the rope?