towerofanimus | i'm counting back the number of the steps

Characters: John Egbert, Dave Strider, and anyone else who wants in.
Setting: Cafeteria! Saturday the 20th.
Format: Whatever goes.
Summary: Boys, candy, boys in pink skirts. John needs to get out more.
Warnings: Language, teenage boys being jerks to each other.

John was actually starting to get used to and almost enjoy his costume. The pants were a little tight but the jacket was actually sort of cool. He didn't pull the look off terribly well with his coke-bottle glasses, but thankfully he hadn't lost those to the costume since he sort of needed them to see. He had fallen into the habit of always having a candy cigarette in his mouth, to complete the look. He felt like maybe being in character would help his chances of getting candy.

So far it wasn't, really, but he had a good enough haul as it stood.

Currently, he was sitting at a table with his candy all strewn across it, sorting it and counting the individual pieces. He frowned.

"Why is it always banana laffy taffy? Banana is gross."

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John made a face. "Wow he's so weird. He bitches about how annoying I am and then is upset that you're not me. Trolls are confusing." A shrug. "He's pretty hilarious overall, though. Kinda like a really grouchy kitten."

"Well his name is KarKAT after all." He laughs a little, despite the fact that that joke was awful and likely done to death. "You're a popular guy though, apparently. Nearly everyone I spoke to on that day was hoping for either you or John Harley."

"Beep beep, meow." John squirmed a little, shrugging. "Well that's cool and all, but also kind of lame because they're totally undermining the cool dude that's sitting here next to me." He gave Jolal a pointed look.

He can't help but notice the squirming. Oh...right, in retrospect that was kind of an awkward thing to say wasn't it? He really needs to work on the 'thinking before speaking' thing.

"Mmm..." Oops time for a topic change again. "So who is Vriska? Aside from another troll. I don't think I've met her...just Karkat and two other girls whose names I never got. One of them had fairy wings and curly ram horns. The other had fangs like a vampire and one bent horn."

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Jolal was pretty good at the whole subject changing thing. But John didn't actually mind. He'd rather discuss trolls than his own state of popularity.

"Vriska's the one with the blue Scorpio symbol." He frowned. "...or, at least the one from my timeline's symbol is blue. She's got a spidery motif, and one horn like this," he held a hand up with a pointed finger, and the other with a curved c-shape. "And another like this," his hands moved to the other side of his head, one finger pointed and one finger of the other hooked over the edge. "I think the fairy with the ram horns is Aradia? She's all red? And I think the vampire one is Rose's friend, Kanaya."

"Mmm...yeah, haven't met her. Or any other version of her because I guess there a couple different iterations of them running around here as well. But yeah, the fairy one was...very red. She had a time symbol on her uh...shirt......thing." Just what the hell was that, exactly? "I haven't seen either of them around in a while though."

"Yeah, that's my timeline's Aradia, I'm pretty sure." Some kind of weird robe-thingie. Shrug. Fairies, man. John shrugged a little. "I don't know if I've actually met either of them, here or otherwise. I think Vriska and Karkat would be the only ones I'd recognize straight off the bat."

"How many of them are there to begin with? Excluding alternate universes and timelines here for a minute."

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"Oh, just in my timeline? Twelve, I think. They've all got symbols relating to the zodiac? Like how I'm an Aries. I think Aradia's the Aries troll, actually."

"Oh right...your birthday would be in April, wouldn't it?" He never really stopped to think about the fact that their birthdays are all wrong too...

"The thirteenth, yeah." He frowned for a moment. "Is yours in December like everybody else's?"

"December fourth, to be exact. Rose's is April thirteenth. Which would make sense, considering supposedly our difference had something to do with meteors or portals, I don't know exactly. Jade was the one in charge of figuring that part out. It just didn't exactly...click until just now."

"...That is so wacky, wow." He set his chin in his hand, staring blankly at the table for a moment and processing the information. "So was your session a rampant clusterfuck of stuff happening all in one day?"

"Mmm...well it was over the course of a day, yeah. But oddly enough, clusterfuck isn't the word I would use. Okay...maybe for the whole entry thing. Because that was stupidly complicated and it really should not have been that uncoordinated considering we had been planning playing that fucking game together for months."

He frowns. Dave and Jade, man. Dave and Jade. Totally all their faults, being elusive tools and breaking their discs. The nerve.

"But no, after that it was more or less smooth sailing. I mean, obviously the fun factor died once we learned about the whole doomed timeline thing. But that didn't really make it too terribly hectic."

At least, it didn't feel that way. Maybe it's because he had a whole slew of different emotions to deal with at the time.

"I mean a lot of ours was one day, too, but now Jade and I are just on this stinkin' ship forfreakin'ever. You could seriously not pay me to get on a boat at this point of my life." He scrubbed his hands backward through his hair and huffed a sigh.

i'm counting back the number of the steps

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