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Characters: Terezi and you!
Setting: Dormitory hallways
Format: Action to start, but I'll match!
Summary: Clearly the giant, plain white walls of the tower make the best canvas.
Warnings: Nope

[Terezi has made a horrible mess of the hallway. There's multicolored pieces of chalk strewn all over the floor, and smears of chalk covering her hands and clothes and... mouth? But Terezi is intent on the wall, which she's drawn a giant, lopsided dragon on in bright red chalk. She's standing on her tiptoes to add the top of its wing.

Underneath the dragon are smaller pictures: An orange, winged boy that is clearly Davesprite, a similar looking boy in red, most of the trolls in the tower in their corresponding blood colors, and a strange, monstrous thing surrounded by nooses.]

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Don't. Fucking. Do it.

[--whoops, grabbed, promptly unsure and trying to pull his hands away.]

[She smiles.]

Quit wiggling! I wanted to talk to you.

You can do that without covering me in chalk, can't you?

Nope!

[She wipes the chalk from her hands off on the back of her pants, then throws her arms around him in a tight hug.]

[NOOOOOOOO--oh.

She's....hugging him?]

Uh, not that I don't mind, but--what's the deal here?

I'm thanking you! For helping me and for... Stealing my pain, or whatever it is you did.

Oh.

[...thanking....him...such a foreign idea, he doesn't know what to do with it.]

Don't mention it, I guess.

[She lets go and steps back.]

How does that work exactly, anyway?

I can pretty much take any tangible feeling or emotion from anyone or enhance them in others.

[Pause]

Seriously though, don't mention it. I got a reputation to keep, y'know.

[Seems like a pretty useful ability. She doesn't say as much, though.]

Yes, sir!

[She picks up the blue chalk again and offers it to him.]

Draw with me.

[Hesitating.]

Hnn...fine.

[But not before removing his jacket and getting it away from the crime scene. At least she gave him the blue chalk.]

[Beaming!]

Draw me!

[Terezi might be relieved to find that Karkat is not much of a better artist than she is. But he tries -- he even thieves the red chalk from her to color in her glasses.]

There.

[She's still grinning.]

You are almost as good as me!

[Then she steals his blue chalk to draw his lusus - a blob with a grumpy face and eight tangled legs.]

[The rendition of the spider actually makes him scoff a little.]

You forgot her fangs. Other than that, pretty good.

[She scoffs right back and adds the fangs, though she misses and they're about an inch away from the spider's head. Oops.]

[Casually shaking his head.]

Better.

[She elbows him gently, then draws another Sollux. It's her Sollux, though, in yellow with bicolored glasses.]

[Quietly watching without comment, though he subconsciously chews on the inside of his lip. Instead, he'll wipe the blue residue chalk off his fingers on a blank part of the wall.]

[She taps the blank spot beside her drawing and turns to him.]

Draw yours.

[He looks at Terezi uncertainly (uncomfortably? hard to tell) before tentatively picking up a piece of magenta chalk and doing as he's asked. He hesitates when he has to draw his expression -- and opts for something friendlier.

Then he copies the same drawing with a much angrier expression and simply drops the chalk back in the pile with the rest.]

[She pauses, studying the drawing for a moment, but doesn't ask. Next, she draws Nepeta in green, and waits for his rendition again.]

[He can't quite find the correct shade, so he picks up the pink chalk and mimics her with much greater ease.]

[She giggles, leaning forward to sniff his Nepeta.]

Nepeta is a seadweller?

Her and Sollux, yeah. She was next in line for Empress.