HAPPY VALENTINES DAY

[caliginous]

Characters: Karkat Vantas (AU) and YOU
Setting: Everywhere! Specify plx
Format: First
Summary: Karkat ate chocolate.
Warnings: Coconut chocolate. There will be skeevy flirting in here, and probably some form of mind control or manipulation. Also murder. He will try and kill you when he's done. If you want a different chocolate, go ahead and specify in the subject.

[Karkat hadn't been feeling well all day.

Since he had made the mistake of getting breakfast, he hasn't been able to get the sweet taste of coconut and chocolate out of his mouth. If there was one thing Karkat hated, it was sweet foods. The taste on his tongue was making his skin crawl, making him feel much warmer than he rightfully should have felt.

Or maybe it was something else. Even the Thief of Heart wasn't quite sure what was disturbing him to the point that his fingers felt like the were tingling. The feeling was moving through his limbs as the day went on and he was strangely alert. Nerves. Had to be nerves. Considering who had just arrived in the Tower, it was no wonder really.

Either way, Karkat began to pick at his own lip with his spider-like fangs, tongue sliding across them in thought as he rounded the corner.]

Comments

that one floor

[scalemate]

[Sup, Karkat. Terezi has been worried about him since Feferi showed up, really, so she's a little relieved to find him relatively okay. He does seem sort of... Off? Nervous. That's it. She shoots him a grin anyway as she approaches.]

Where are you off to?

W O W

[caliginous]

[Karkat pauses when he hears Terezi's, a grin instinctively stretching along his face. Right. Terezi. He'd forgotten he had planned to visit her later today. He couldn't exactly remember why, but then he remembered that it wasn't really important.

His eyelids lower knowingly -- Terezi might recognize the expression.]

Actuuuually, I was just coming to find you.

ilu

[scalemate]

[She does, but she just tilts her head and raises her eyebrows.]

For what?

[caliginous]

Why do I need a reason? Aside from sharing your company, I mean.

[He slinks up to her casually, hands stuffed in his pockets.]

[scalemate]

[She giggles, planting her hands on her hips.]

I guess not.

floor 4 seems like a good place for this awful thing to happen

[gloomyapoplectic]

[Karkat wasn't the only one that had been dealing with the lingering taste of coconut and a strange needling feeling all day. Kanaya was quickly growing wary of even the food in the tower, but it wasn't as if she could just stop eating.

She felt weird, but she wasn't tired or anything, so she didn't want to go back to her respiteblock. She ended up on the lounge floor with the huge windows, curled up on one of the couches and willing the coconut and the itchy hands to go away, hopefully before she actually had to speak to anyone.]

[caliginous]

[Karkat had just gotten a quick snack in an attempt to rid the coconut taste from his mouth. It had done the trick, but the treat was still sweet and left him with a rather sour expression.

But that didn't stop him from spotting Kanaya as he was moving back to the dorm floors. So he stops and trots in, hands stuffed in his pockets.]

The hell are you doing down here by yourself? I thought we talked about this.

[gloomyapoplectic]

[Kanaya turns quickly at the sound of Karkat's voice. True, they had talked about this, but for some reason she just really didn't want company.

Or hadn't until Karkat got there, anyways. She definitely wants company now.

Instead of quailing at his reprimand, she turns to fold her arms on the back of the couch, resting her chin in them and smiling.]

I knew you would find me.

[A complete lie. But it doesn't feel like one, if he's prying; she says it like it's the perfectly natural thing to say in response to that.]

[caliginous]

[Karkat narrows one eye when he notices her expression. Interesting. But whatever.]

Yeah well. Don't take chances like that, alright? There's no point in it.

[The cerulean waltzes over to her without any real special gait in his step, looking down at her expectantly.]

[gloomyapoplectic]

[She continues smiling when he walks over, and when he stops, she absently reaches out with both hands to -- straighten his tie? Grab his tie under the pretense of straightening it, and subtly try to tug him down to her just a little.]

Sorry to worry you. I do hope that there is no punishment involved for my lapse in prudence.

[With her tendency to emphasize all of her words, the lower timbre of her voice as she says "punishment" isn't quite blatant, but it's such a strange choice on inflection for someone like Kanaya that he'll probably notice anyways.]

[ceruleanspid8r]

[Vriska's not normally one to take unsolicited gifts. Back home, confectionery gifts were usually a precursor to being horribly poisoned but she figured just one couldn't hurt. Perhaps they were a gift to make up for the Midnight Man bullshit.

Whatever the case, the upshot is that she's hopped up on cherry chocolate and looking for company. And then suddenly there's another troll rounding a corner and she can't help but grin]

You. I haven't met you before.

[caliginous]

[Karkat pauses when he hears that familiar voice, though its not attached to a body he is entirely familiar with. For a moment, his head tilts...but suddenly it doesn't matter. A skewed grin appears on his features, one that displays his spider-fangs without much trouble.

The cerulean adjusts his tie and offers a smart little shrug.]

You don't know what you've been missin'.

[ceruleanspid8r]

Is that right?

[Vriska doesn't meet too many other ceruleans. They're the ones usually brought to heel to act as grubsitters to the elite where she defers to no-one. Now she's intrigued - and right now, that's dangerous]

So what, you're going to schoolfeed me?

[caliginous]

Maybe I am. Better saddle up, sit your ass down and let me take you for a ride.

[Double pistols and a wink.]

[ceruleanspid8r]

My my, so forward. But sorry. The only one doing the driving around here is me.

[As she takes the tiniest step forward]

[shoosh]

[ only morons eat creepy chocolates from a tower that has tried to kill you multiple times. it's weird, unnatural and he doesn't trust a single one in the slightest.

harmless (lol) sweets aren't the only things he's dead set on avoiding, though, slinking through the corridors and floors just so nobody really knows where he is at any time.

which is also why he's beyond irritated when who should round the corner but one of the people he's avoiding! mega sweet, who the fuck has all the luck now???????? without a word he doesn't acknowledge karkat, doesn't look at him but through him, and roughly tries to shove past as angrily as possible because fuck that guy. ]

[caliginous]

[Unfortunately for Karkat, his doppelganger saw him ahead of time. So when he tries to push past him, Karkat will find a taloned hand sinking into his chest to halt movement entirely. If contact is made, the mutant will find himself being dragged back in front of a sneering cerulean, though the sneer quickly turns to a predatory grin.]

Well well. Long time no see, Vantas. How've you been adjusting?

[shoosh]

[ he honestly should have been expecting that. there's no way he would have let himself pass, in any universe; mutant to tyrian. he lips skin back over his teeth in what is most definitely not mock anger. ]

Fuck off, taintsmear, I'm busy.

[caliginous]

You ain't busy yet, bulgelicker.

[he'll make him busy shortly. unless karkat has the incentive to try and struggle away from him, the cerulean will turn to push him straight up into a wall, claws still tangled in his shirt.]

But I can fix that.

Room 1-12

[idkmybffsakuraiyuuto]

[Deneb probably won't notice Karkat come in. He's just recently awoken, and has been making his bed...and currently, he's hunting for his bear that he got at the start of the month. It seems he's misplaced the thing, though he can't recall doing so. He's carefully checking the room, while trying not to pry in others' belongings if he can avoid it - after all, invading others' personal space is rude!]

[caliginous]

[Karkat slides in, looking a little exhausted. Its been a busy day of flirting for him, in addition to attempted murder. He looks a little bruised and battered, no doubt from the several beatings he's already taken throughout the day.]

...hey.

[Oh look. Roommate.]

[idkmybffsakuraiyuuto]

[The word causes Deneb to stop looking under one of the beds and stand up before bowing slightly.] Hello, Karkat!

[Wait, wait - what the heck happened to him? Time to find out! Deneb goes to close the distance between them.] What happened to you? You look terrible - did you have a bad run-in with someone here?

do it

[prune]

[Feferi's fond of coconut. She's a vegetarian through-and-through, and she loves all kinds of fruit. So of course she's been snacking on chocolate.

It's probably not a good thing that she's been so quiet since her arrival.

When she runs into Karkat, she greets him with a smile. She does not have her culling fork with her. She's just Feferi, long since scrubbed free of blood, and she's facing the person whom she killed the last time she saw him.]

Karkat.

your wish is my command

[caliginous]

[For all of Karkat's posturing when they had last spoken, it doesn't seem that he's feeling all that aggressive today. Well, perhaps not in the way Feferi had been expecting. When he hears his name, he turns with a somewhat blank look on his face.]

Peixes...long time, no see.

[The blank look promptly turns to a predatory smirk. He hadn't yet collected his sickles since he had attacked Terezi, so his only weapons were sitting up on another level elsewhere.]

[prune]

I admit it. I'd been hoping to run into you.

[she slips closer, smiling serenely, eyes fixed intently upon him.]