I love the way you call it art

[verymuchalive]

Characters: OU Aradia and OPEN
Setting: Art Gallery floor
Format: Starts in action, but will follow either
Summary: Aradia's taking in a little of the tower's version of culture
Warnings: Grim art? But otherwise not much yet.

[Up until now, Aradia hasn't really spent much time perusing the art gallery that appeared when the tower grew a few floors. Today she's decided to rectify that.

And so she wanders aimlessly about the floor, looking at the various artworks on display and lingering in front of those that catch her eye. Probably one of the more morbid ones, but she seems far more fascinated than she does horrified.

Pester her?]

Comments

[verymuchalive]

I don't know, I think some of them seem to be doing well for being so utterly different to what we would consider to be the Alpha.

[scalemate]

Here, at least! But I know a few of their timelines are doomed for sure.

[Not that she is... Particularly happy about this.]

[verymuchalive]

[She frowns a little]

How do you know that?

[scalemate]

[She shrugs, trying to appear nonchalant.]

Karkat told me.

[verymuchalive]

Karkat? Wait, not our Karkat, he wouldn't know. There's another one here?

[scalemate]

[She blinks, looking a little surprised at that response, then nods.]

A cerulean one! He's been here for a long time.

[verymuchalive]

Oh! I think I've heard mention of him...he wouldn't happen to be from the same world as the jade Eridan?

[scalemate]

Yes! That one! They had to scratch their session, he said.

[verymuchalive]

Really? That's terrible! Did he say what went wrong?

[scalemate]

A lot of the things that went wrong for us, I guess! Their Jack was crazy, too, and then a few of them snapped.

[verymuchalive]

Hmm. Well even so, six sweeps is a long time for an offshoot to be sustained. And wouldn't Eridan have known if it was an offshoot rather than a second alpha?

[scalemate]

[She shrugs.]

Maybe. But almost all of them died.

[verymuchalive]

Oh.

[She pauses a moment to consider this]

Maybe...maybe it's both. Maybe there are two alphas but the trolls here are from an offshoot of that one.