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[thekidsare0kay]

Characters: Sollux Captor and YOU
Setting: Anywhere you like, he'll be walking down the stairs towards the cafeteria
Format: Any is fine; I'll follow your lead
Summary: Sollux is having some trouble recovering from his labyrinth punishment
Warning: Baw.

[Sollux spent the first day after being released from the labyrinth curled up on his sleeping rectangle. He didn't much respond to anything his roommates might have said to him, lost in his own brain, and confused.

The couple of days he spent as a Helmsman seemed like an eternity, and now that he's been released, he doesn't know what to do with himself. The memories of who he is seem like foreign invaders. Sollux. He's Sollux, right? Who is Sollux?

Hunger, and a vague knowledge that food doesn't come intravenously to him here finally drives him to his feet and out of the door.]

Comments

[papshooshing]

I was coming down here to eat anyway so... Sure?

[ Sollux. stop looking at him funny. ]

[thekidsare0kay]

[He nods and waits a bit, for Karkat to take the lead. Then frowns and starts off instead, grabbing Karkat's hand. He remembers who he is, damnit.]

What do you think of the tower tho far?

[papshooshing]

It sucks shame globes larger than the musclebeasts on Sweatquius' posters.

[ he would snatch back his hand, but whatever. Karkat had practically begged Sollux to stay, in his timeline. he had dragged the other off before too. no point in flailing around over this contact, even if Karkat had to wonder WHAT THE FUCK. ]

[thekidsare0kay]

[It wasn't intentional, exactly. It just felt better not to lose contact, as if Karkat might disappear if he let go and looked away]

Yeah, it sure doeth. I hate thith plathe. I'm sure I do. I've died before, and it thuckth really hard.

[papshooshing]

You're sure you do? What kind of indecisive answer is that?

[thekidsare0kay]

I don't know... [He looks away] If it'th real then I hate it. There'th thingth that are okay, though. But thith plathe doethn't really theem like it can be real.

[papshooshing]

Hate to tell you this, but we've been to a lot of places that couldn't be fucking real. But they are. Just like this is, good and bad.

[thekidsare0kay]

[He nods] Like the whole fucking game. How wath any of that real, theriouthly.

[papshooshing]

Yeah, exactly. I mean your land was FIRE AND BRAINS. How could any planet be like that?

[thekidsare0kay]

Yeah. [He grins] They were thquishy! Thtupid planet. It wathn't a bad planet, though. [He squeezes Karkat's hand] What wath yourth again?

[papshooshing]

[ this is so gay, holding hands like this. Karkat rolls his eyes. ]

Pulse and Haze. Fucking bright red planet with beating hearts.

[thekidsare0kay]

Weird fucking planet. Not too different from mine, in a way, though. Both of them had rednethh, and organth. [Yup, it's pretty gay.]

[papshooshing]

Can we not talk about pulsing orgrans right before we eat?

[thekidsare0kay]

Don't they make you hungry? [Grinning]

[papshooshing]

They make me want to toss your ass out the nearest window.

[thekidsare0kay]

Wow, weird reaction. [He squeezes Karkat's hand and starts for the stairs. So long as he's with Karkat, he's sure he'll feel more like himself]

[papshooshing]

It's been emotionally taxing the last few days, okay?