towerofanimus | MEANWHILE, IN THE VERY RECENT PAST

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MEANWHILE, IN THE VERY RECENT PAST

Characters: THE DUDES OF ROOM 1-14, and I guess whoever passes by? :|a
Setting: Room 1-14, before this thread on the network.
Format: Prose, but we can action if you guys want! Whatever works bros.
Summary: Minato is such a lucky guy to have such wonderful roomies.
Warnings: Language, idk what else. WE SHALL SEE.

After falling down a flight of stairs with an unconscious Sollux in tow, Karkat could only assume he'd knocked himself out on the landing. Even worse, when he finally woke up, he couldn't move. Had he managed to fucking paralyze himself in the fall? Because that would be just wonderful.

Wait, no. After those dreadful minutes of sleep paralysis, his eyelids finally obeyed him enough to open and reveal--SURPRISE--a gray ceiling. He sat up slowly hands digging into the soft padded thing he was laying on. What the hell was he doing on a human bed? A glance to the rest of the room assured him that he wasn't alone, if the sound of breathing hadn't already given that away.

This wasn't the troll's hideout on the Veil. Things were too clean, too tidy. No random piles of useless shit as far as he could see. There hadn't been a room like this, either, not that he remembered.

So, where was this? Did Jack arrive and stick them in some random place instead of kill them? Seemed highly unlikely, considering the bastard's glee for killing.

"Fuck, does this mean I'm dead?" He looked at his hands, as if they held the answer to his questions, unsurprisingly finding no such thing.

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[ ... Seems like another one's been kidnapped here. He's seen weirder than Karkat, so Minato isn't particularly fazed.

In fact, if he is, he's not showing any sign of it. His headphones remain on, and he's sitting on the edge of the bed. As if to answer Karkat, he replies coolly: ]

... No, you're not.

[ It was probably something closer to "kidnapped," he surmised. ]

Prussia wasn't in much better state, having a moment of listening to what was going on around him while he was still innerly panicking about the fact that he couldn't move from the sleep paralysis. After a moment he pulled himself up to a sitting position and ran a hand through his hair, and rubbed at the kink that was in his neck. Not bothering to look at any one else in the room he rubbed his face.

"If you're dead then I am too. Did I sleep on a brick or something?"

[Karkat turns to the speaker, having momentarily forgotten he wasn't exactly the only one who could hear himself speak. He eyes him, frown plastered on his face.

A human. Blech.]

Then what?

[ Part of him felt like saying "then you're alive," but he refrained from it. He'd be nice. He had no reason to be mean to this guy yet. In fact, he very rarely saw reason to be unkind to anyone unnecessarily outside of SEES. ]

... There should be a letter in your things that "explains" how you've been taken here, and that your world has been destroyed.

[ His tone is neutral, but it's obvious he doesn't buy the whole thing. ]

Karkat hadn't really expected a reply to his musing, but he got one anyway. He turned to look over at the white haired man who'd spoken, snarling toothily. From the looks of him, he must've been a much older human than any of the four he'd had contact with.

The man had a strange device around his neck, and it only then occurred to Karkat that there was a weight around his own. He reached up to touch the tubes filled with a strange orange liquid--it wasn't his blood filtering through them, at least-- and then slid his fingers behind the metal to tug.

"If by 'brick' you're talking about these fucking collars around our necks, then I'd say yeah, you probably did," he snarled out, still fussing with the collar.

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"Collar?" Gilbert touched his own neck feeling the slightly warm plastic before swearing venomously in several languages including two that had been long forgotten to humans. "What the fuck?" He turned and looked at the person beside him and blinked before gesturing at the troll. "WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS?!"

[Dave is just lying in bed for several minutes before his fingers twitch and his red eyes open up. He immediately sits up, rubbing his head and adjusting the shades on his face.]

Damnit Rose!!! That was my goddamn mission!!

[He pauses a moment and looks around in confusion. Wait, what the hell, this wasn't Derse. He was still in his Derse pajamas, but he'd woken up on a bed... and there were others in here? Uuuhh...]

Wait, who the fuck are you people? Where am I?? Oh god I'm dead aren't I. This is the shitty afterlife, isn't it.

[ Minato is pretty unbothered, just listening to his headphones. He does hear Dave, but he's got a friend and team mate who's got a foul mouth, so he simply blinks at Dave, sitting on the end of his own bed. ]

... You're alive.

[ How is it that Karkat and he both came to the same conclusion? Anyway. ]

It's closer to being kidnapped.

Minato seemed to be the only one who hadn't, in fact, just woken up here out of the other three. Rather, he'd been sitting on his own bed this time, listening to his headphones, with his eyes shut. After hearing Karkat and the others, he hadn't quite expected to suddenly have roommates.

But he was fine with that. He was fine with most things. After all, though he had no way to know how to leave this place yet, he wasn't planning on sticking around the moment he could get back to his team, because he didn't buy this whole 'your world is dead' story very much. He sits up on the edge of his bed, turning the volume down slightly on his mp3 player.

"They're not exactly the world's most comfortable beds, no."

Though that was just his minor opinion, he had slept on worse.

Kidnapped... Uhh, kidnapped by who? Who in their right mind would kidnap me even if they could? I was in the middle of trying to save all of existence from extermination. You know, kind of important stuff.

[He rubs the back of his neck when his fingers touch metal.]

What...

[Collar. Okay where did that come from...]

Ugh... okay, so humans. Humans, humans, what are humans doing here? I thought I was one of the last humans left.

Prussia looked over at the other guy in his room, raising an eyebrow at how unaffected the guy seemed to be by their current progression of events.

"Are you stoned or something?"

[His face falls at that last bit, and he can't help but laugh at how stupid that is.]

Destroyed? Well they're a little fucking late for that. My planet was destroyed a long time ago.

[Fucking hilarious.]

The troll gave Gilbert a deadpan look when he couldn't find a way to remove the collar, only to be met with his outburst.

"What the fuck is what, fuckass?" He rolled his eyes and glanced elsewhere, eyes catching the trunk at the foot of his bed.

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[God. Fuck. No. Not that voice. Anyone but this fuckass. Karkat facepalms at his luck for apparently waking up in a weird place with Dave fucking Strider.]

Shitty afterlife doesn't even begin to describe what I think this is right now, Strider.

[He drolls out, voice at a growl that might've been from being quieter than he usually is. He knows Dave won't recognize him, or his voice, but he sure as fuck recognizes Dave.]

[ ... Sounds a little too much like SEES to him. Big damn hero, huh? Either way, he's really not all that bothered. ]

I have no idea. I arrived here the same way a few nights ago.

[ He also was doing something important, but you know. ]

There should be a letter in your things explaining this, and another explaining the tower.

... Excuse me? Did this guy really just say that? Minato blinks once or twice before replying with an even tone.

"No, I'm not."

He didn't take those kinds of drugs. In fact, he was just a very relaxed person at best. That was just how he was. A leader was like that. Ignoring Prussia's rudeness, he goes on to add something.

"You might want to check your things for two letters. Apparently we've been saved or something."

He doesn't buy it, but hey, you know.

"What the fuck are you, dipshit."he gestured again not comprehending the fact that there was a troll standing in front of him. Personally it reminded him of something Japan thought up in one of his weird videogames.

"Is that fucking candy corn on your head?"

Gilbert took a moment pulling open the two letters and scanning them quickly with crimson eyes before snorting. "Bit late on that, I was dissolved nearly 60 years ago you'd think they would've notified me in a bit more of a timely fashion the asses." he grumbled to himself.

"I call bullshit of being so called saved, if we were saved I wouldn't be rooming with three other dudes."

[ ... Nonchalant shrug goes here. ]

Then they're probably using that as a cover. It would be odd to think that being saved would fit for everyone here.

[ Though this was more a theory and a vain hope his friends were okay than anything else. ]

... Dissolved? This confused Minato somewhat. This man was talking as though something had happened to him prior to this by sixty years, but he didn't look all that old. Perhaps he wasn't a normal human? It was certainly possible.

"... The arrangements weren't any of our choices. I only arrived here a few days ago, myself."

He supposes he'll save asking what this man meant by that for later. Sometimes it was best not to let one's curiosity get the better of them.

"I doubt they would have notified us for something like this. It is technically against our will."

Oh... oh good god it's one of you things... Jegus, you guys do look totally fucked up.

So which one of my endless amount of alien stalkers are you?

"Yea, 'against our will' is becoming a common phrase to me. Just the fact that I'm wearing a collar pisses me off. I'm not a fucking pet, I'm a goddamn empire!" Tugs a bit more on the collar, trying to get it off, more or less rolling around on his bed.

"This just proves that I'm in purgatory, fucking knew Southern Italy cursed me. Fucking little catholic." Grumbling away to himself as he tugs on the collar before giving up once his neck started to hurt.

"This is bullshit."

... Empire? Well, maybe changing the subject somewhat would be for the best. Especially away from their... ah, arrangements. Minato didn't want to dwell on the collars particularly, either, as they reminded him of a lot of horrible experiments he'd tried to suppress. The memories were definitely threatening him with the thought of these collars and being stuck in this tower.

He didn't want to... dwell on it. So he turns to look at Prussia properly, removing a headphone quietly.

"I... doubt you've been cursed. I'm here as well, and so are they," he says, quietly motioning to Karkat and Dave. He doubted it had anything to do with this man's luck or a curse as to why they were here. In fact, he heavily suspected this was a well thought-out kidnapping.

"... My name is Minato, by the way. I didn't catch yours."

"Tch, I'm Prussia, human name is Gilbert Weillschmidt." he grumbled and sat up on his bed, looking around before settling on a loud cheeping noise coming from the trunk at the end of his bed.

"Shit, gilbird!" he scrambled over the end of his bed, pulling the trunk open before scooping the fuzzy yellow chick into his hands. "How did you get in there?" he pet the little bird before settling it in his hair and looking back at Minato.

"Well, we're here, anyone know what there is to do?"

[As much as Karkat should be thanking his stars (ha-fucking-ha) that this human isn't as obnoxious as the ones he knows, he still doesn't show any sign of liking him.]

God fucking damn it, whoever had this indescribably shithive idea needs to send me back before the universe shits all over itself again.

[He had things to do damn it!]

"I could ask the same of you, fuckass!" He might not have been extremely threatening, with how short he was and how silly his nubby little horns were, but he could probably do some damage to normal human.

"I'm a troll, now shut the fuck up-- no. No. NO. You did not just insult my horns!" Let him show you his snarls and rage now.

[executing a single facepalm combo]

I can tell you're even more charming in person. Excuse me while I express my deep and moving appreciation for you basically insulting my very appearance. [There is absolutely no appreciation to be found here.]

I'm the "alien stalker" [air quotation marks] that doesn't understand why he's waking up in a room with a smug shitstain like you.

How the flying grubfuck are even here right now?

Minato watches this occur with a mild amount of honest curiosity. So he had a pet. ... This man had just claimed--no, outright stated, in fact, that he was a piece of land, as if it were glaringly obvious? Well, not wanting to dwell on how odd he found this topic, Minato decided that now that they knew one another and if they were going to be roommates, he might as well get to know this person. And that would start with continuing to speak with them, he supposed.

What could it hurt?

"... There's a large library and a maze, but it's full of dangerous animals from what I've gathered. They seem to also ask some of us to do jobs for them here, but they're very demanding and dangerous. As far as I'm aware, we'll probably have to make our own entertainment."

It was simple fact at this point that he was an easily pleased person. He'd been spending a lot of time in the library and talking to others, as well as generally people-watching, so it wasn't hard for him to be placated as well as pick up information.

"I'm a motherfucking kingdom and nation" Makes a move like come-at-me-bro and gives Karkat a grin. It's a good thing Gilbert can take more abuse than the average human and its extremely and nearly impossible to kill him.

"Maybe I did, whatchya gonna do about it?"

[ Karkat had things to do, huh? He could respect that. He was certainly no one's savior except that of his 'family,' but all the same... ]

... The moment I find a way to send us all back, you'll be the first to know.

[ ... It's obvious, though his words are even, you can tell by the small narrowing of his eyes and his honest tone that Minato is truly determined to not only do that, exactly, but means every single word with entire sincerity. ]

"Fun." Gilbert grumbled but was too distracted by digging around in his trunk for what he hand in there. A moment later he stood up with a large hat with a proud red and while series of plumes coming off the back of it.
"Awesome, I have my old uniforms!" Any previous discussion was ignored after that as he dug around for his treasures. Which mostly consisted of alcohol and weapons.

Minato isn't really bothered. He'll let the conversation go as it will, after all. Interruption was never particularly his style, and that seemed to make Gilbert happy, didn't it? He had no reason to interject.

Though he is, admittedly, curious as to what sort of history Prussia had. Though he wasn't sure if now was the proper time to ask about it.

"They were able to give us some of our things on short notice, it would seem."

It was better than nothing, since he would have admittedly been bothered had he not had his Evoker and things.

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MEANWHILE, IN THE VERY RECENT PAST

Man I am just TOO lazy today for prose

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lmaolmao I have these days

... yep this relationship is off to a swimming start

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ayuuup

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of course he'd wake up with the shades on

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Well of course

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crying at how hideously late these tags are...

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/tags 10 days later sob

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psshaaaw I love backtagging. Besides. >> LJ was down...

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