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Setting: Room 2-08, backdated to immediately after Ψiioniic's intro post thread with Mao
Format: Prose please, I suck at action tags
Summary: Signless is going to have a long, tough job to put his friend back together - AGAIN.
Warnings: probably lots of swearing, and mention of torture & abuse

Ψiioniic was still half doubled over in shock and pain as Signless hustled him into the room with their names on the door. 'Overlord' Mao was left out in the hall, and part of Ψiioniic's freak-out had a lot to do with the thought of potential punishments he might be suffering the next time he met the strange alien.

The rest of the freak-out was very much focused on the troll right in front of him. "You're dead," he gasped, choking on his tears. "You're dead, I thaw you die."

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Aradia seemed fond of Sollux, which made Ψiioniic happy in an obscure way. He wanted his Descendant to be happy, and to have a much better life that he had. It almost made up for everything he'd been through.

"Yeah, 'Thollukth," he agreed, rolling his eyes at Signless. "He hasn't conquered hith lisp as well as I have, yet. It'll come eventually."

"I don't think his ancestor was a mutant-blooded freak who went around getting visions and trying to change the world," Signless said wryly, resting his arm on one bent knee. "Since his ancestor was a blue-blood, he wasn't in danger of getting culled just for existing. He was probably raised by a regular lusus, not a troll. I really doubt his ancestor was much like me. But he's a good kid, so that's fine."

He grinned at Psiioniic. "Maybe you two should go get thome ithe-cream, then," he teased. "Since you can leave the room."

She laughed again, somewhere between surprised and pleased by the familiarity of their banter. They were more like their descendants than they probably realized, and it would be fun to see how they'd react if and when they figured it out.

"You have a point, I guess- though really Karkat is still a lot like our Karkat for the most part. A little... calmer though." At least, from what she'd experienced so far. "You're right though- they're good guys, both of them."

She rached out then, prodding Signless on the shoulder playfully, hoping she wasn't overstepping any boundaries.

"You can come along too if you want! It's really very nice despite the fact that all the stars eventually die out," she offered, leaning forward a bit. "Besides, doesn't staying in these rooms all the time get boring?"

"Yeah, you should come SS, it'th really cool," Ψiioniic agreed, his eyes lighting up. Well, more than they were always lit.

He wanted to show Signless the beauty of space; maybe he could explain a little better to his friend why not everything about being a Helmsman was torture.

Why there was even a part of him that desperately wanted to go back, and it wasn't entirely due to his conditioning telling him that he was away from his post.

Signless didn't mind the prod, and was definitely tempted by the offer. He leaned back a bit, eyeing Psiioniic. It wasn't that he didn't want to come, but he did want to give the former slave the opportunity to go places independently, without feeling like he needed to drag Signless around with him all the time. If he were only asking because he was afraid to go alone, Signless wasn't going to take the offer.

But from the smile, he didn't think that was the situation. He drew a breath and smiled back. "Yeah, let's go. It's boring in here, anyway."

"Yay!"

She gave a little bob of delight in midair, arms thrown into the air as she settled down onto the floor properly and held out a hand to whoever wanted to take it.

"This'll be great! How much ice cream do you think we can carry up there?" A giggle and her nose twitched slightly with her laughter. "Hopefully not more than we can eat before it melts...!"

"I can carry ath much as you want," Ψiioniic pointed out with a smile that almost matched hers, though it was shyer. He let a bit of blue and red electricity crackle from hand to hand, demonstrating what he meant.

"You'd probably benefit from eating everything you can carry, too," Signless grumped, scooting off the bed and standing up. "You're like a fucking twig. And considering how skinny you were before, that's saying something."

"Well then I guess we'll just have to see how much of what we can carry we can eat then, huh?"

She clapped her hands cheerfully and turned to head for the door, keeping her remarks about how much they acted like their descendants to herself.

"Then let's go! I've been meaning to try a few new flavors anyway..!"

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