#Knower rambles

[the-fourth-knower]

common trend

people disike a game that's well liked/popular, voice thier opinions

random mcdoofer sees the opinion

"OMG WHY ARE PEOPLE HATIN I THOUGHT Y'ALL LIKED THIS GAME?!"

harassment/arguing ensues

Repeat Ad Nauseam

might just be a twitter thing which is to be fair expected of that cesspit.

[faunandfloraas]

do you have an ult bias, ult biaswrecker, and/or ult "lives rent free in your head"? 🐨

I identify as bias fluid. Ignore all my posts and behaviours ☝️

[bizlybebo]

ss!ghostknife….

[arolesbianism]

Sorry guys I'm still on the lob corp oc grind. I have 50 of these fuckers and I need to brainstorm ideas for them lest I explode and die. Anyways today's nugget of the day is good ol Yum Meyer who is the lucky winner of getting to be my third nugget to get a district of origin. Bad news for her its district 23 but hey she's survived to 40 so far so I'd say she's doing well all things considered (she evidently is not but that's not my problem)

[the-fourth-knower]

for some clairfiation, there absolutely are Archie 'faifthful' as you term it who like Flynn's writing. And even then they do point out when they don't like some of his writing in the reboot. As well as when there's other factors like Archie's dubious editors and their whims.

For instance, the whole "Evil King Shadow" was the idea of one such editor. Another editor thought that it would be a great idea to have an expensive crossover that ended up killing not just Archie Sonic but ALSO the Mega Man and Sonic Boom comics.

as for how Flynn got into this "Savior" position? I honestly have no fucking idea. I think it's part "at least it's not Pontaff" hype that's carrying him right now, part people not seriously looking at his work OR conflating other writers' work with him (this one is a stretch i admit), and part "Sega bad, hire this man" mentality.

like Frontiers is fine but as far as I'm concerned it's still pretty similar to earlier games. it's certainly not a "peAk FicTiOn" game in my reckoning but I appreciate what it's going for.

Flynn stans are just as bad as Disney canon Star Wars youtuber shills.

I am so endlessly fucking baffled by the cult of personality that has sprung up around Flynn.

What did he DO? Why does everyone pretend to like him and think he's such a great writer??? They can't ALL have read Archie. And the ones who actually are Archie faithful seem pretty mixed about him - and they all seem to fucking hate the reboot which was largely his ship to helm.

It is so fucking bizarre to me how pretty much overnight Ian Flynn became the fandoms lord and savior when he has never written anything that wasn't stunningly average at it's absolute best, and the vast majority of it is straight up bad.

[vegasvagus]

What the fuck is a Bluey and why are so many people arguing over it???

[beatingdrumspouringwine]

Dionysos and Apples

Currently 3/4 of the way through a bottle of apple mead so excuse however rambly this gets!

I think apples are a perfect New England/northeast/place-where-apples-grow-abundantly equivalent to grapes, especially crabapples. There's something so Dionysian about them. You can eat them raw from the tree, brushing your lips fractions of an inch from a negligible dose of cyanide, calling back to the negligible dose of poison that comes with worshiping a mad and raving God. You can crush them into nonalcoholic cider, creating something safe for everyone. You can also turn them into alcoholic cider, or wine, or use them to flavor mead, and drink until you're lying dizzy on the ground with the taste of mountains and orchards on your tongue.

And don't even get me started on the trees (because I don't have many thoughts on them). They feed other animals besides humans, and yet seemingly still have plenty to spare. Their branches are solid, they tend to live for ages, and keep their leaves green and attached well through to the end of October (a minor miracle where I am).

And it all makes me think of Dionysos - that wild, raving God who still cares for everyone around Him so deeply. A God that could kill you with a high enough dose of Himself, but who holds you when worries grow to be too much. Sweet when He needs to be, but straightforward, too, and rarely hiding Himself. Ancient and revered, but young enough to be ever-fruiting. The last glimpse of the summer when all else has turned to autumn, but the first glimpse of spring when most things are still barely awake. Soft and covered in flowers one minute, and almost dangerously ragged the next, yet never changing at the core.

Anyways, any Greek-knowers out there want to come up with some apple-related epithets for Dionysos for me?

This post is brought to you by a full bottle of mead (it was my birthday, I promise y'all this isn't a regular thing I do), and the number 7 (because I like it).

[kaleschmidt]

thinking about this again. Naomi and Kale watch TabbyKat's Tech and Naomi helps Kale make his TKT oc which is friends with her TKT oc! It's a big wolf who is Best Friends with Dr. Bohltz + helps assist him ^_^

Rip Kale you would've loved making ocs

[the-fourth-knower]

"Villains should have an understandable/sympathetic motive" is well and good, but here's the most important part of that.

The villain should have an understandable motive from the villain's perspective. Whether it can be understandable by a reader is irrelevant - a villain's role in the story is to be a driving force. Whether they want revenge for something in the past no matter the costs, or they think they are the greatest and want to bulldoze orphanages to slap statues of themselves up in their place. If the motive makes sense for the villain and gels with their actions then that's a good villan motive.

This applies for other characters as well, not just villains.

[estonian-is-horrible]

Yes, but these are dialects and television is gradually wiping them out. Yes, too, many of Saagpakk's types can be grouped together and probably reduced by more than half, but... English is a relatively simple language, and I'm pretty sure we have more than 38 noun and verb types.

This herding the cats and bats of Estonian nouns and verbs into a nice uniform whole where once there never was looks more like a political or educational agenda than a reality in the field.

Estonian is what can also be described as an "esoteric language", a language which has essentially never needed to be learned by large number of adults (foreigners) and therefore never needed simplification, unlike English, Swahili and Mandarin. Its very essence, its richness, is its complexity. That's what makes it Estonian. You have to learn it as a child. It is rightfully known as a difficult language to learn, partly because Indo-Europeans are the "knowers" and partly because it's been left to its own devices for so long, uncontrolled and allowed to grow like ivy, as opposed to the cultivated gardens of, dare I say, "civilized languages". It truly is a people's language. And is there anything more alive than that? Just look at the damage the Académie Française has done to French...

But it is, as I said, a beautiful language too, with a fascinating cloud of variation that some of the more sanitized languages have pruned or weeded out, and an intricacy of inter-dialectal loan adding layers of nuance to its rich hoard of synonyms so vital to oral tradition.

Who knows, one day I might even learn it...

(A Very Brief Introduction to the Estonian Language, snippet 6)

- A Rambling Dictionary of Tallinn Street Names, page ix, © 2014 Simon Hamilton

(previous excerpts)

[jaffre]

catdad backstory rambles

so lonzo's dad, i'll just call him moroko, thats his original name and i haven't found anything better so far

born and raised in the weird ass welcome to my twisted mind cat themed blood cult or some shit that is the kuroda family. still unsure on the details, but what i do know is that the name kuroda is (for obvious reasons) infamous among magic knowers (takes place in a world where knowledge of magic is regulated)

he was born with natural magical abilities as anyone from the kuroda family does, but i imagine they're not at full power unless you actively nurture them (thus, the blood cult vibes mentioned above) so while he does have a long lifespan and ages slower (which is going to be weird for his wife) he's not quasi immortal like the rest of his family

which also explains why his own kids barely display any magical abilities and didn't get the cat genes (altho im considering one of the siblings did get it, just for fun) because he hasnt been taking care of his magical side at all

so between the 60s-70s, moroko leaves his family after stealing a considerable amount of money and flees japan. i imagine he just wants to get as far away as possible from there, so that's why he lands in europe. im too brain dead to do research on the geopolitical environment for japanese immigrants in europe in the 70s for my silly cat oc that takes place in a world that's basically just ours but magic is real, so idk how and when he finds his italian wife.

likely, he was traveling across europe and met her in italy. they fell in love and he was probably going to settle there, but then they decided to move to france instead

[antiv3nom]

FUCKING CALLED IT

"conney" thats jewelry bonney. it is. i know it to be true.

[bizlybebo]

ouuggiggh i’m going 2 sleep

[nobodywritingao3]

im waiting for my phone to charge so im gonna ramble about how the hanahaki will be handled in how to be a human being

hanahaki is a magical disease in this au. its pretty standard hanahaki: flowers in the lungsc until you cant breathe and you die. starts out as a mild cough with little petals and stuff and then grows into puking up blood and whole flowers

its a magical disease, so impostors and humans are both susceptible to the disease. but they have different bodies and cultures so its handled much differently

human understanding of hanahaki:

its called hanahaki disease

its the same flower for everyone who gets it. i wont describe what the flower looks like or anything because i dont want to get too deep into the language of flowers because thats not really what the focus is

the cause of hanahaki is not only unrequited love in this au, but deep lonliness. so if a person thinks they are truly unloved by everyone and that they dont have anyone to rely on, they are prone to developing the diseae

humans are aware of what its caused by

hanahaki disease is relatively rare because humans have built up robust support services and have a cultural awareness of the disease. its very rare for someone to hit such a rock bottom that they feel completely isolated

human bodies cant handle having hanahaki for a long time & if they have it for more than a few months, they will usually die unless they get the surgery (for context to non hanahaki knowers, the lore goes that if you have hanahaki you can save yourself by getting a surgery to remove the flowers but at the cost of removing the love you have for the person who gave you the flowers as well)

impostor understanding of hanahaki:

it isnt called hanahaki, thats the human term for it. ill come up with a name but itll probably be called plant cough or something adjacent

impostor flora looks different from human flora. when tommy starts coughing up flowers itll take him a minute to realize that theyre earth plants

impostors dont know what causes hanahaki disease. to them, its a mystery condition that randomly takes hold in their bodies. if a person develops hanahaki, they dont know how to treat it so they dont

hanahaki is incredibly common. people develop the condition constantly

impostor bodies are a lot tougher than human bodies, so when they develop hanahaki disease, they dont die. their lives are just as long as if they hadnt developed the condition at all

if an impostors develops hanahaki disease, its treated as a random occurence that they dont understand the cause of. its a lifelong condition for most people. sometimes hanahaki goes away on its own and they dont know why. developing hanahaki is just common bad luck.

there is no surgery to get it removed

so what does this mean for the story?

tommy develops hanahaki

he isnt coughing up impostor flowers, he is coughing up human flowers

he doesnt know why its earth flowers

hes like "aw man that sucks" and is in So Much Pain. but he knows he wont die

evetually the crew realizes he has hanahaki and they start panicking becuase they think he will die

they keep trying to tell him they love him but that just makes the problem worse because he thinks theyre lyinng

he doest understand why they are tellig him this because he doesnt know what hanahaki is caused by

just a bad time all around

rip in peace i think my phone is charged enough xoxo bye bye

[the-fourth-knower]

This whole thing reeks to me of "author gives zero shits bout these characters and is using them as pieces to tell the story they/the editor want"

early Archie has a big focus on cheap ggs and dumb plots for the sake of those gags - in fact if I recall right it's not until Penders shows up that you have attempts at more serious stories?

Either way the writers on it are largely out of touch with A LOT of things, and it carries over into the writing. It's honestly a wonder that the comic GOT a fanbase* - I think a lot of it SatAM kids who wanted a continuation of the stuff they watched. Which is understandable.

I get the sense that the writers going forward collectively decided to just. More or less memory nuke some of the things like the whole "Sonic goes on trial" shit. Which is honestly weird given Flynn usually loved his throwbacks - maybe I just am not aware of things.

but yeah does this retroactively make Sally going along with King Shadow make some narrative sense? Is it just a newly official writer at the time having to comply with editor demands? up to reader interpretation.

the comic's writing decisions do get BTFO by the games later lol, which haven't come about yet at the time (SA2 anyone). But then the writers just didn't bother with it because they were just there for paychecks. I doubt any of them really cared at the point you have Sonic being tried for shit. sort of an opposite problem of modern comic Sonic writers who are fans lol (fans of what and how much overlap up to interpretation).

*that said I think a lot of them came into LATER periods of the comic, and so shit like this fell into the memory dump.

I seriously cannot fucking get over this

I have NEVER seen ANYONE talk about this. In all the times people talk about Archie or Sally Acorn, I have NEVER seen this mentioned.

She has Sonic fucking ARRESTED for NO REASON, refuses to believe him when he says he's innocent, puts him on TRIAL for TREASON, and has him found GUILTY. For TREASON. THE PUNISHMENT FOR TREASON IS THE DEATH PENALTY.

There's no walking this back. Sally Acorn tried to have Sonic killed. For No fucking reason.

HOW

CAN ANYONE

LIKE

THIS FUCKING TYRANT?

[pesterloglog]

Karkat Vantas, Terezi Pyrope, Dave Strider, Aradia Megido, Rose Lalonde, Kanaya Maryam, Sollux Captor

Act 6, page 4352-4365

KARKAT: I WAS JOKING, GET THOSE FUCKING THINGS AWAY FROM ME

TEREZI: 1 4M SO SORRY YOU GUYS

TEREZI: W3 4R3 4CTU4LLY 4 LOT COOL3R TH4N TH1S!

DAVE: are you actually

TEREZI: ...

TEREZI: NO

TEREZI: NO W3 AR3 NOT

KARKAT: WHAT IS HAPPENING NOW

KARKAT: SOMEONE TELL ME WHAT'S GOING ON.

KARKAT: WHO'S THE LEADER NOW?

KARKAT: ARADIA ARE YOU THE LEADER NOW

KARKAT: OR IS IT ROSE "I HAVE AN IDEA, LET'S TAKE THE INVINCIBLE DEMON HEAD ON!" LALONDE.

KARKAT: I NEED TO KNOW WHO THE LEADER IS

KARKAT: I NEED TO KNOW IN WHOSE DIRECTION I MUST BEHAVE AS THE MOST PATHETICALLY USELESS SUBORDINATE I CAN BE.

KARKAT: QUICK, SOMEONE BOSS ME AROUND! I'M FUCKING INCOMPETENT AND RARING TO GO.

KARKAT: THAT'S WHAT YOU DO WHEN THERE'S A LEADER AROUND TRYING TO MAKE PLANS, RIGHT?

KARKAT: YOU DROP YOUR IQ HARDER THAN A PAIR OF HILARIOUSLY PLUMMETING PANTS, YOU CEASELESSLY RAMBLE ABOUT VAPID BULLSHIT, YOU RUN AROUND HIDING ALL OF YOUR WORLDLY POSSESSIONS IN TREASURE CHESTS, AND THEN EVERYONE STARTS MURDERING EACH OTHER.

KARKAT: IF THERE'S ANY OTHER EXPERIENCE CHARACTERIZING LEADERSHIP, IT'S ONE I SURE AS FUCK NEVER HAD!

KARKAT: SO I NEED TO KNOW WHO THE LEADER IS.

KARKAT: STRIDER, IS IT YOU???

TEREZI: 4444444UGH

ARADIA: karkat i dont know if anyone cares about formal ranks like that anymore

ARADIA: or if anyone ever did!

ARADIA: but for what its worth i suggest that from now on you all listen closely to the advice of our human guests

DAVE: wait

DAVE: really

ARADIA: yes!

ARADIA: no need to be so modest dave

ARADIA: tactically speaking a knight of time and a seer of light is a nearly unbeatable combination

DAVE: ok

DAVE: i dont really have any orders to give though

DAVE: except for karkat to shut the hell up because that horseshit is more obnoxious in person than i ever imagined

KARKAT: OH WOW, I WOULD OFFER A RETORT TO YOUR VICIOUS BARB, EXCEPT FOR THE FACT THAT UNLIKE EVERY ASSHOLE EVER, I CAN ACTUALLY FOLLOW ORDERS AND SHUT MY MOUTH!

KARKAT: CHECK IT OUT, "DOGG"

KARKAT: ......................................

ARADIA: yes you are off to an excellent start as a subordinate

ARADIA: keep doing that!

ARADIA: but dave dont worry if you do not have instructions for us

ARADIA: the knight of time is not necessarily the tactician

ARADIA: he is a powerful warrior class which exploits the flow of time as a weapon

ARADIA: rose is the one who must play the role of the strategist

ARADIA: the seer class knows her aspect comprehensively

ARADIA: as a knower of all fortune she can see the circuitous path that will lead to the most favorable outcome for everyone

ARADIA: personally i would defer to her judgment!

TEREZI: R34LLY? YOU C4N DO TH4T??

ROSE: Yes.

TEREZI: TH4T SOUNDS 4 LOT MOR3 US3FUL TH4N MY S33R POW3RS >:[

ROSE: Illumination of the road to victory for all is an asset considerably different from command over the outcomes of decisions made by individuals.

ROSE: How do you know your talents won't be critical in blazing this auspicious trail?

TEREZI: UM

TEREZI: 1 GU3SS 1 DONT

ROSE: That's because you're not me.

KANAYA: Okay Then What Do We Do

ROSE: Nothing yet.

ROSE: But reasonably soon, within a certain window, it will be time to leave.

ROSE: We will then pilot this meteor as fast as we can make it go in that exact direction.

SOLLUX: what's that way?

ROSE: Nothing whatsoever.

ROSE: As of now, that way lies darkness and uncertainty beyond description.

KANAYA: I See

KANAYA: Then Perhaps We Should Reserve The Infinite Darkness Plan For The Maybe Column For Now

KANAYA: I Think Im Even Willing To Let Dave Take A Crack At The Logistics Before We Commit To That Particular Maneuver Daring Though It Sounds

DAVE: aw yeah

DAVE: i got sicknasty logistics up my sleeve

DAVE: i just call them stics fyi which is how you know im way savvy about them

DAVE: most of the stics im fine tuning atm involve rap though i should warn you

DAVE: but dave what if that dope as hell plan falls through i can hear you ask

DAVE: plan b

DAVE: involves drawing some shitty cartoons

DAVE: and not giving a fuck about stuff

TEREZI: >8D

TEREZI: 1 H3R3BY S3COND TH1S COOL DUD3S R4D1C4L MOT1ON ON GROUNDS OF R1D1CULOUSLY D3C4D3NT 4TT1R3

KANAYA: Yes Im Willing To Humor Elaboration On This Rap Centric Plan And Its Apathy Based Contingencies

KANAYA: Even If Its Excessively Stupid

ROSE: Trust me, it is.

ROSE: Just as you should trust me that by the time we leave, if we leave exactly within the designated window and are able to travel at nearly the speed of light, the meteor will trace a route through the Furthest Ring which will topologically resolve as a straight line.

ROSE: It will lead us directly to the new session.

ROSE: For a brief moment, the sun will be visible from that session.

ROSE: And we will be riding the chartreuse coattails of its photons.

ARADIA: this is why you all needed an advanced seer!

ARADIA: i have become familiar with the ways of the fabric out here but even i couldnt chart a journey that long or complex

ROSE: That's because it's almost impossible to do so voluntarily.

ROSE: If we were to head right now in the session's true physical direction, it wouldn't be long before we found ourselves traveling in just the opposite direction.

ROSE: This is not even to speak of the chronological peculiarities. After traveling some distance, we could discover we were suddenly tailgating our own meteor from several days ago.

ROSE: If we are particularly unfortunate, we might even collide in an intersection of spacetime with a meteor piloted by our future selves.

ROSE: And if we looked closely at that meteor before impact, we might notice a very large dent in it, which it originally suffered during the very collision we were about to experience.

ROSE: It takes precision and timing to reach your destination out here, and most importantly, the grace of the gods themselves.

KARKAT: PPPFFUUUUUUUHHHHHHH......... WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEZE...

ROSE: Hm?

SOLLUX: kk, what the fuck?

SOLLUX: were you h0lding your breath that wh0le time?

KARKAT: YEAH

KARKAT: SO?

TEREZI: OH GOD, YOU DUMMY

TEREZI: YOU DONT 4CTU4LLY H4V3 TO HOLD YOUR BR34TH WH3N YOUR3 B31NG QU13T!

KARKAT: OK YEAH

KARKAT: I MEAN, OF COURSE IT SOUNDS OBVIOUS WHEN YOU PUT IT LIKE THAT

DAVE: hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

DAVE: rose i told you this dude is fucking incredible

KARKAT: STFU.

KARKAT: LOOK I'M JUST A LITTLE OUT OF PRACTICE AT STAYING QUIET FOR EXTENDED PERIODS OF TIME, OK?

TEREZI: H3 R34LLY 1S >:|

KARKAT: ANYWAY, WHATEVER, SO WHAT YOU'RE SAYING LALONDE IS

KARKAT: WE'RE GOING TO BE ON THIS HORRIBLE ROCK A GOOD WHILE LONGER TO GET TO THIS PARADISE SESSION OR WHATEVER IT IS?

ROSE: Yes.

KARKAT: AND SINCE WE PROBABLY AREN'T GOING TO FORCE SOLLUX'S BULLSHIT "HALF GHOST" OR WHATEVER TO POP HIMSELF AGAIN LIKE A PACKET OF NASTY FETID MUSTARD SO HE CAN SHOOT THIS THING INTO HYPERSPACE...

SOLLUX: hey man, come 0n. not c0ol.

KARKAT: I'M GUESSING THAT MEANS IT'LL TAKE CONSIDERABLY LONGER TO GET THERE THAN IT DID TO GET HERE?

ROSE: Yes.

KARKAT: I JUST KNEW IT

KARKAT: THIS IS MY WORST NIGHTMARE REALIZED

KARKAT: WHEN WE FIRST FLED TO THIS METEOR I HAD THIS WEIRD FEELING WE'D WIND UP SPENDING FOREVER AT THIS MISERABLE PLACE, ASSUMING WE ACTUALLY SURVIVED.

KARKAT: I'M ALMOST AFRAID TO ASK, HOW LONG IS THIS TRIP GOING TO TAKE?

KARKAT: PROBABLY SOME ABSOLUTELY PREPOSTEROUS AMOUNT OF TIME, LIKE THREE LONG MADDENING SWEEPS, RIGHT???

KARKAT: WOULDN'T THAT JUST BE SO COSMICALLY CONVENIENT AND PERFECT FOR EVERYBODY! ESPECIALLY FOR THE MOST IMPORTANT PURPOSE OF ALL, MY UNINTERRUPTED CONTINUUM OF PERSONAL AGONY!!!

KARKAT: THANK YOU, DARK GODS! THANK YOU SO FUCKING MUCH!!! YOU WIN THIS ROUND! YOU WIN ALL THE ROUNDS APPARENTLY!!!!! THERE ARE NO ROUNDS EVEN. THERE'S JUST YOUR SLIMY TENDRILS, OUR NAKED BODIES, AND EPOCHS OF MOLESTATION.

ROSE: Don't be ridiculous. It won't take nearly that long.

KARKAT: OH

ROSE: It'll only take about three years.

KARKAT: OK

KARKAT: THAT'S NOT SO BAD I GUESS.

KARKAT: WAIT, HOW LONG ARE YEARS SUPPOSED TO BE AGAIN?

KARKAT: WAS IT LIKE TWO WEEKS OR SOMETHING?

ROSE: Yes, two.

ROSE: And then fifty more.

KARKAT: FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK.

ARADIA: karkat go back to holding your breath!

ARADIA: this is going to be a wonderful adventure for everyone

ARADIA: im a bit jealous honestly!

ARADIA: or i would be if i wasnt having such a good time with my death fangirl thing :p

KANAYA: So

KANAYA: You Arent Coming Then

ARADIA: no

ARADIA: i still have important work to do here

TEREZI: 4WW >:[

ARADIA: but that doesnt rule out the possibility we could meet again in bubbles along your journey!

TEREZI: 1 HOP3 SO

SOLLUX: yeah, i think i'll hang behind here t0o, if that's 0k with you guys.

KARKAT: WAIT, WHAT?

KARKAT: NO COME ON, DON'T BE LIKE THAT

SOLLUX: be like what? a ghost??

SOLLUX: i d0n't think i belong with the living anym0re.

KARKAT: YOU'RE A *HALF* GHOST, ASSHOLE.

KARKAT: WHAT DOES THAT EVEN MEAN? HOW ARE YOU EVEN TAKING THIS IDIOTIC "HALF DEATH" SERIOUSLY IF YOU JUST GO HOG WILD AS A FUCKING WHOLE-GHOST, AND SAY STUPID SHIT LIKE, BLAH BLAH, I BELONG IN THE AFTERLIFE NOW LIKE A DUMBASS.

SOLLUX: kk, SORRY.

SOLLUX: i'm just d0ne with this crap, this insane adventure bullshit, it's nothing pers0nal.

SOLLUX: i just want to spend time with aa and chill 0ut and catch up with some 0f our dead buddies, is that 0k?

KARKAT: WHATEVER, FINE.

KARKAT: I'M GOING BACK TO NOT BREATHING AGAIN.

KARKAT: HHHHHHHHHHHHUUUUP.............

KANAYA: Maybe I Will Stay Here Too

ROSE: Why?

KANAYA: As Nice As It Sounds To Move On

KANAYA: I Dont Know If I Can Stand Three Of Your Human Years Of More Darkness

KANAYA: I Like This Sun Its Comforting In A Strange Way

KANAYA: Like Home

ROSE: But what if we need your help?

KANAYA: What Could I Possibly Do

KANAYA: Aside From Providing A Light Source As You Navigate The Dim Corridors

KANAYA: I Would Function As A Premium Escort To The Load Gaper And Thats About It

ARADIA: but kanaya you still have important work to finish too!

ARADIA: we cant ignore our duties

KANAYA: What Are You Talking About

ARADIA: our race is extinct remember

ARADIA: and after a few more casualties it is now hanging by a thread

ARADIA: your job was to see to the resurrection of our people

KANAYA: What Real Hope Is There For That

KANAYA: The Orb Was Destroyed

KANAYA: I Was Never Able To Duplicate It The Grist Cost Was Astronomical

ARADIA: theres always hope though!

ARADIA: you just never know and i dont think you should give up

KANAYA: Doesnt Rose Know

KANAYA: Cant You See The Path To Victory On This Matter

ROSE: It's hard to say.

ROSE: Does the repopulation of your species qualify as victory?

ROSE: These things aren't always clear cut. Some outcomes are for your own judgment.

ROSE: What outcome would you like the most?

KANAYA: I Would Like To Have The Orb Again And To Keep It Safe This Time

KANAYA: And I Guess To Not Be A Total Failure

ROSE: Ok.

ROSE: If you follow my advice, I can at least promise you will find yourself in the best position to determine whether that may come to pass.

KANAYA: ...

ROSE: Can you please come?

ROSE: Between the two of us, you with your inexplicably heretofore unmentioned phosphorescence, and I with my nigh-reflective traffic cone orange sun-sari, the meteor should never be too dark.

KARKAT: (sollux, oh my god is it me or is everybody already just fucking hitting on each other left and right? oh god i can't take sweeps of this shit, don't leave me alone here, please don't)

SOLLUX: ehehehehe.

KANAYA: Well

KANAYA: All Right

KANAYA: But Must We Really Leave So Soon

ROSE: It's soon or never. But not immediately.

ROSE: Even if the route were accessible right now, it would still behoove us to wait.

ROSE: There's correspondence from John yet to arrive.

DAVE: whoa really

ROSE: And after that, we have to wait for one final guest to appear.

ROSE: Then we ride like the solar wind. The race will be afoot.

KANAYA: Wait Another Visitor

KANAYA: Who

KARKAT: FUCK!

ROSE: Oh lord.

ROSE: Now what?

KARKAT: BRO, WHERE THE FUCK IS YOUR BODY

KARKAT: SOLLUX, WHERE DID YOUR BODY GO???

SOLLUX: hell if i kn0w.

ARADIA: oh nooo :(

KARKAT: WAIT A MINUTE.

KARKAT: WAIT JUST A FUCKING MINUTE, WHERE'S...

KARKAT: SHIT

KARKAT: VRISKA'S BODY IS GONE TOO!

DAVE: wait

DAVE: shes dead too

TEREZI: 3R...

DAVE: you guys are so messed up

KARKAT: WHERE ARE THEY?

KARKAT: DID ANYONE SEE WHAT HAPPENED??

KARKAT: DAMMIT, WHEN THE FUCK WILL I LEARN NOT TO TURN MY BACK ON THE BODIES.

KARKAT: HOLD ON

KARKAT: OH NO, WHERE'S GAMZEE

KANAYA: He Took Them

KANAYA: Look At The Trails

KARKAT: OHHHH FUCK

KARKAT: NO, FUCK NO, FUCK THAT CORPSE HOARDING SACK OF HORRIBLE GARBAGE.

DAVE: wait has the juggalo troll been giving you guys fits like this or something

DAVE: like this is a thing

DAVE: like a pattern

KARKAT: NICE GUESS SHIT HEAD!

DAVE: oh man one of you has got to sit me down and tell me what actually happened here it all just sounds fuckin amazing in sort of the stupidest way possible

DAVE: i mean like personal tragedies notwithstanding

KARKAT: YEAH, HE DOES THIS

KARKAT: HE SORT OF COLLECTS BODIES AND DECAPITATES THEM AND STUFF

KARKAT: STICKS THEM IN BIG SCIENCE JARS, FOR SOME REASON??

KANAYA: Im Pretty Sure He Kisses Them Too Sometimes

KARKAT: NO NO NO I'M NOT LISTENING TO SHIT LIKE THAT, I DIDN'T EVEN HEAR THAT.

KARKAT: IT'S LIKE

KARKAT: YOU KNOW HOW EVERY NOW AND THEN YOUR LUSUS WILL BRING SOME RANDOM ASS DEAD ANIMAL BACK TO YOUR HIVE FOR NO FUCKING REASON

KARKAT: AND THEY DON'T EVER STOP DOING THAT NO MATTER HOW MUCH YOU YELL

KARKAT: IT'S LIKE THAT, YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN

DAVE: not really

DAVE: oh wait

DAVE: against all odds i sorta do

DAVE: mine actually did do that once

KARKAT: YES, THERE YOU GO.

DAVE: when i was really young

DAVE: he made this stupid leather bib for me out of a goddamn horse

DAVE: for the ironies obviously

ROSE: Was that the one you mentioned had a pink heart on it?

DAVE: yeah

ROSE: Hmm.

DAVE: what

ROSE: It's just that with the clarity afforded by my new abilities, it occurred to me just now that dead horse was likely the beautiful pet pony my mother gave me recently.

ROSE: It was crushed to death by your newborn ass.

ROSE: You bastard.

DAVE: well shit

DAVE: thats a hell of a mystery no one thought was a mystery and didnt even really need solving

DAVE: but damn if it didnt just get solved so nice work

ROSE: Thanks.

KARKAT: KANAYA WHERE ARE YOU GOING?

KANAYA: Clown Hunting

KARKAT: OH NO...

KARKAT: ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT TO DO THAT?

KARKAT: I MEAN WHO EVEN REALLY CARES IF HE STOLE MORE BODIES.

KARKAT: HE CAN HAVE THEM FRANKLY, AS LONG AS IT KEEPS HIM OUT OF TROUBLE.

KARKAT: WE DON'T NEED TO HAVE A FUCKING CORPSE PARTY, SERIOUSLY, FUCK THAT DUMB IDEA.

KANAYA: ...

KARKAT: ALRIGHT IF YOU'RE REALLY GOING TO GO

KARKAT: JUST

KARKAT: BE CAREFUL

KARKAT: NO MORE POINTLESS BLOODSHED, OK? THAT'S AN ORDER!

KARKAT: WAIT FUCK

KARKAT: I'M NOT LEADER ANYMORE

KARKAT: ROSE CAN YOU ORDER HER TO DO THAT?

KARKAT: SAY WHAT I JUST SAID, REALLY ANGRILY

KARKAT: ASSUMING YOU CAN EVEN *BE* ANGRY.

ROSE: ...

KARKAT: WAIT

KARKAT: GUYS SOMETHING'S HAPPENING...

KARKAT: WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON NOW???

KARKAT: HOLY

KARKAT: FUCKING

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