Guess who's back!

[mannersmatter]

Who| De and/or Effie and/or Lottie and/or Katniss and/or other NPCS AND YOU.
What| Them around the city, doing things, meeting people.
Where| Mainly the Training Center, but any setting is good!
When| Around this week.
Warnings/Notes|

I made a thread with a tag for each character, so just tag in there! if you'd like any of my other NPCs besides Katniss, just PM or private plurk me so we can hash it out real quick.

Let me know if I can add anything, and I am down for minor assumptions/handwaving some things!

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Re: Katniss!

[sleeplessinalternia]

In his quest to learn how to read Human like Signless has already, Karkat has managed to procure an audiobook of a popular young adult novel (about the forbidden romance between a bat-muttation and a District girl) and is listening to it while attempting to read along as well.

He looks up to rest his eyes and there she is. Katniss. One of his two Hunger Games real life heroes.

He has no idea what to say to her.

[inciting]

Katniss walked in, and immediately kicked off the spiked stilettos Cinna had put her in. Pretty as they were, she still loathed them like nothing else.

She looked up to offer Signless a greeting, when she realized that that wasn't who was sitting on the couch.

"...are you a new Tribute?"

Weren't they suppose to tell her about that before hand?

[sleeplessinalternia]

"I've been here since the end of the arena," Karkat says, grateful for the question. "I'm not a Twelve, I'm a One, but the dickprince who murdered us is also in One so I've been staying up here with Signless."

[inciting]

Dickprince? She smirked at the phrase, before moving closer.

"I wouldn't want to spend much time in One either."

It probably wasn't the same atmosphere. Now that being a career didn't have the same meaning. But they'd still have career mentors, and she was sure those mentors hadn't let that attitude drop.

[sleeplessinalternia]

"The escort human's not so bad," Karkat says. "She doesn't have the cylindrical length of wood stuck up her spinal crevice that Effie does. But otherwise..." He shrugs. It had been better until Hyperion had got sent back, honestly.

[inciting]

That took a moment.

And then he got an out right laugh out of Katniss.

"Oh...wow, I don't think anyone's ever gotten to the heart of Effie Trinket as a human being so quickly."

[sleeplessinalternia]

Honestly, Effie kind of reminds him of Equius, only way less creepy and sweaty. And hopefully in possession of better taste because Karkat didn't care if naked musclebeasts were fine art, they were still stupid as fuck.

"At least she's not malicious, I guess. Just..." A highblood. "Effie."

[inciting]

Yeah, this kid really had her figured out.

Curious now, Katniss wandered over to the couch that Karkat was on, and found a place to lean against.

"She....I dunno. It's weird to think of Effie as a person, and not a Capitol sounding board. But...you get use to her."

[sleeplessinalternia]

"I've got used to a lot of worse assholes." Karkat was friends with worse people. (Even if--maybe especially if--they were people he wouldn't admit to their faces that he considered them friends.) "And she's letting me share Signless' block with him."

[inciting]

"She can surprise you that way." She had surprised Katniss more than once. "Are you and Signless related?"

She knew they were the same species, but the looked more alike then he did to any of the others. Then again, Katniss didn't know if that meant anything at all.

[sleeplessinalternia]

"He's my Ancestor and I'm his Descendant," Karkat explains, except, of course, that probably doesn't mean the same thing to a human because of their disgustingly creepy mammalian way of reproduction.

"That means the two of us have nearly the same genetics," he adds. "And that he'd contributed the genetic material to the mother grub that resulted in me being hatched." Except of course for ectobiology, but Karkat wasn't even going to try to explain that bullshit.

[inciting]

Katniss' brows knit together as she listened to his explanation. Human reproduction had never sounded particularly appealing, but compared to that...maybe she lucked out.

"So, yes, is what you're telling me?"