[mingle post!]

[cavedwellers]

Boy Valentine's Day was sure an adventure, wasn't it? Gosh, it's a good thing all that's over with.

Have a mingle post! If you're starting a new thread, mention where you are in the subject line. Tag each other, hang out, do whatevs.

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Re: [in the cave, near Tav's recuperacoon]

[bythehorns]

[you can't help wincing at mention of Gamzee, and you sort of duck your head a little as if you could hide behind your half-assembled pile or possibly behind your own shoulders. you have a terrible sinking feeling that he won't even be mad at you for having done that, um, thing, that you did. and that might just make it worse.]

Um, not, lately....

Re: [in the cave, near Tav's recuperacoon]

[faygoandpie]

[You're not sure what the fuck you missed but considering the motherfucking mopey faces littering the cave like feathery assholes litter the beach, you're considering yourself all up and fucking lucky as shit.]

Shit, there some motherfucking long faces around, it's like being surrounded by musclebeasts. If my bro Equius were here, he would need all the motherfucking towels.

[you eye your moirail and matesprit, looking all sad and shit. Makes your sponge squeeze itself motherfucking dry.]

What all up and happened, brothers?

[bythehorns]

Oh, um, hello, there you are, I was, missing you, um, a lot.

[shifting from one metal foot to the other]

There was, um, a party, that you missed....

[faygoandpie]

Well gogdamn, ain't that a bitch? I was having a motherfucking party of my own, just me and my pies, but I wish I'd all up and known about this one!

[Tavbro seems all up and a little nervous!]

Did you have a good fucking time, little bro?

[bythehorns]

I did, and yet, I think I wish, I had had, a little less of one, because, I did a couple of things, that now, i wish, I hadn't done, but I can't, exactly, take them back.

And I think, I would like, a hug, but maybe, you should know, what happened, first, so you can, be mad at me, if you want to.

[faygoandpie]

Shit, bro.

[even though he wanted you to wait, you scoop him up anyway.]

Ain't nothing going make me mad enough to not want to fucking hug you.

[bythehorns]

E-even if, I was, a really horrible matesprit?

[faygoandpie]

Well even if you were horrible, I'd still want to wrap my arms all up and around you. But I don't think you were all up and that bad, Tavbro.

[he's shaking and you rub your arms up and down his back.]

[bythehorns]

[you have to tell him. you can't just let him be nice to you when he doesn't know.]

W-while I was, at the party, I, um, I let, a few people, pet my horns, and then, um, with one of them, um, I did, more than that.

[okay you are working up to actually telling him.]

[faygoandpie]

[Your hand slows on his back as you process this info, eyes going faraway for a moment.]

What all did you motherfucking do, bro?

Re: [in the cave, near Tav's recuperacoon]

[pincerattack]

Horrible decisions happened. If I had access to Trollian right now, I would be melting my past self's face off with the superheated temperatures of my verbal burns right this second. Because without a face, I might not have made those terrible decisions.

Re: [in the cave, near Tav's recuperacoon]

[faygoandpie]

I don't think that's all up and necessary, bro! You sure wouldn't look motherfucking right without a face!

[you pap him on the head gently because if anyone needed a good papping, it's this motherfucker right here.]

Re: [in the cave, near Tav's recuperacoon]

[pincerattack]

That's the point, then both the humans would have run away screaming instead of sticking their tongues in my tragically unharmed facegash.

[you let yourself get papped without slapping his hand away, because you are that upset.]

Re: [in the cave, near Tav's recuperacoon]

[faygoandpie]

Why don't you all up and want their tongues in your facegash, bro? Sounds pretty fucking sweet to me.

[You go ahead and curling your hand around the back of his neck, pulling him closer because you're all up and pretty sure he's going to get harsh as fuck over that sentiment.]

[pincerattack]

Well, one of them was okay. The other one wasn't even in a quadrant, which is sick, everybody knows that. And for all I know, I went and completely fucked up my brand new flushed quadrant doing it! It wasn't fucking sweet at all.

[well okay, it was pretty sweet. the guilt sure as hell isn't, though. especially because you sort of have no idea if John is still talking to you or not.]

[faygoandpie]

[you laugh against his forehead.]

Bro, it's going to be all motherfucking right. There ain't nothing wrong with all up and trying a motherfucker out before deciding you want them in a quadrant. And before getting worked the fuck up over your flushed quadrant, maybe you should have a little feelings jam about it.

[pincerattack]

[you're glad someone is laughing, because you're this close to adding yet another volume in the saga of Karkat Vantas, biggest fucking crygrub to ever walk the face of Alternia.]

Humans have stupid ideas about that! There's no point! He's just going to say some stupid shit like 'well gee, Karkat, I guess we're not boyfriendmateleadersprits or whatever the fuck after all! Because this is my life.

Re: [in the cave, near Tav's recuperacoon]

[pincerattack]

[you stop hacking at your stupid fucking sylladex for a minute and wilt a little more. you'd really been hoping Tavros knew, because at least Gamzee doesn't judge your stupid kismesis of a past self the way you do.]

Oh. I. [you pause-- do you really want to admit this?] I was hoping he'd be willing to have one of his stupid feelings jams. For his own good. [right, his. that sounds believable, right? and not at all like 'oh gog so I pailed a human who wasn't in any of my quadrants and it was absolutely filthy and now I want to crawl into a hole and die of embarrassment.']

[bythehorns]

Oh, um, that, I'm, sure that, he would, always, be happy, to do that.

And h-he is, lucky that, he has, a moirail, who cares so much, about him.

[pincerattack]

Okay, I have to admit: I legitimately do not understand how you do not have a moirail, considering you hemorrhage pitiability like I do failure.

[bythehorns]

[you are trying to keep it together. you really are. you are failing.]

I-I was t-trying to, find one, but, I was, stupid about it, and, he doesn't, feel like that, about me, a-at all.

[pincerattack]

[you mentally scroll through the list of possible people Tavros could have been trying to form a moirallegiance with-- he was on that FLARP team with Aradia, but he said he. Gamzee's his matesprit, it obviously was not Vriska in any universe ever with or without definite gender pronouns added to the equation, you obviously aren't the troll in question, and nobody else in the group really talked to him that much, that you knew of. As for the humans, Harley would have been a possibility if not for the he, again. Which means someone here, and--

--oh, you're an idiot. It's obvious when you think about it.]

Wait, you mean that robot who's so pale for you strangers and grubs and rocks and hoofbeasts can tell?

[bythehorns]

I thought he was, but, we talked about it, and, he said, he doesn't pity me.

A-after, I already, confessed to, feeling pale, for him. So, I feel, pretty stupid, about all that, now.

[pincerattack]

Wait, what? Who the fuck programmed that robot's emotional chip, Equius? That doesn't even make sense, he totally is. I'm an expert on that quadrant, at least.

Why do you feel stupid? He's the one who's powered on so much blinding radioactive ignorance that he can't recognize a classic pale romance at first sight when he should be in one!

[bythehorns]

W-well it is, very nice of you, to say things like that, to me, and I appreciate, that you are trying, to make me feel better, even though, I don't deserve it, at all, since I was, actually, I should have, stopped talking, by now.