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Howard Bassem ([personal profile] iselldrugstothecommunity) wrote in [community profile] thecapitol2013-05-29 08:37 pm

I'm Down Shouting Names at the Flickering Screen [Open]

WHO| Howard and anyone!
WHAT| Howard decides to get serious about the Games.
WHERE| Tribute Lounge
WHEN| Post-Arena
WARNINGS| Swearing.

There's been enough hiding. There's been enough moping. Howard knows that this feeling of motivation is fleeting, and that just means he has to cling to his productivity for as long as he can before it slips back into despair. Before he thinks about how he's going to die again. Before he wonders where Eponine is. Before he thinks about how she left him like his parents did. Before he cries.

So instead of feeling that, he's going to feel something else. He's going to feel entertained. And possibly, he'll learn something along the way; it's about time he forces himself to study. About time he moves past the squeamish feelings of seeing people he knows bleed and scream on the screen and actually starts taking notes on who to ally with and who to stab in the back, or, potentially, in the front.

He sits in a Tribute lounge with snacks, feet propped up on a glass coffee table, starving body covered in comfy clothes his stylists won't let him wear outside, a fluffy blue bathrobe and canvas cargo pants. His hand periodically moves from its path between bowl of snacks and his mouth to grab a cup of melted butter.

He doesn't care how tacky or unhealthy is it. He covers that bowl of popcorn in butter and plops down on the couch, munching away at it as he watches Wesker and Maximus attack each other.
sleeplessinalternia: (75 The very first stone)

[personal profile] sleeplessinalternia 2013-06-05 06:29 pm (UTC)(link)
"Karkat Vantas," he replies peevishly. "Call me Stubbs again and I'll shove that televisual setting control device down your ignorance shaft. Who the fuck are you?" Oh, and before he forgets. "Also, maybe I don't fucking know all your weird human slang."
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[personal profile] sleeplessinalternia 2013-06-06 01:32 am (UTC)(link)
"I'd rather not sound like a hoity toity blueblood," Karkat replies, irritably. "Anyway, it's not my fault if humans are too stupid to tell actual threats from conversational."
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[personal profile] sleeplessinalternia 2013-06-07 10:22 pm (UTC)(link)
"A troll with blue blood. Duh. It's in the name, moron." Karkat rolls his eyes. "I'm pretty sure we've explained this shit a couple times. Look, trolls are born with bunch of different blood colors. The cooler your blood color, the more important you are. And that was obviously a conversational threat. I didn't even raise my voice."
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[personal profile] sleeplessinalternia 2013-06-08 02:14 am (UTC)(link)
Oh. Well, that was good. Not that humans probably would know to care, but still. "So is this supposed to be one of the other arenas?"
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[personal profile] sleeplessinalternia 2013-06-09 04:26 am (UTC)(link)
Karkat nods. "Good strategy." He settles back into the torso receptacle. "Have you watched the first two or are you going backwards?"
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[personal profile] sleeplessinalternia 2013-06-09 11:13 pm (UTC)(link)
"I'd sort of heard something like that, yeah." It was why he was planning to get Signless a win next arena, just in case. "How do they decide who to bring back?"