[CLOSED/OPEN] No words can heal a broken heart

[chronomancer]

Characters: [AU1] Eridan Ampora & [AU1] Equius Zahhak; Eridan Ampora and YOU.
Setting: Meadow floor (closed/backdated to the January event), Floor 64 (open/current)
Format: Starting with action but I'll match you.
Summary: Two logs for the price of one, lmao so I don't flood the comm: closing up aged up shenanigans, Equius is displeased and Eridan is about to learn just how much. Also back in real time, Eridan finds a deliciously tempting slice of home.
Warnings: Violence and swearing for the Equius log. Eridan being actually honest and pathetic and stupid, for the open one.

[Closed: Meadow floor.]

[He wasn't tired so much as he was trying to hibernate. He wasn't entirely sure trolls, undead or otherwise, actually did the whole hibernation shtick, but he could at least try. Save up his energy. Make his last feeding last. He was pretty sure things didn't really work that way but he was lazy and this was a good enough excuse. So there he is, as long as he is, lying on his back and sunbathing in the meadow without a care in the world.

Not that he didn't have cares. He had a lot of them, actually. But if he started thinking about all of them he'd probably implode. Or go on a rampage. Or both. Really, it was for the best of everyone involved, if he just laid there, soaking up sunlight and carefully thinking of nothing in particular.]

[Open: Desert floor.]

[It's so familiar it hurts, really. The heat, the sand, the occasional blast of wind. It's probably a bad idea to head out, and given the last few terrible ideas he's indulged lately, mostly as a result of the experiment last month, Eridan resists the urge to go.

But he wants to, dear god, he wants to so bad.

He's curled up on the sandy floor, barely two steps off the staircase, staring aimlessly at the distance and quietly drowning in nostalgia. He's never really stopped to sit down and miss life before the Game... but now he does and the wave of homesickness is almost entirely too much to handle.]

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[chronomancer]

[Eridan is very much aware of what he's clinging to, except he's not sure how to proceed from here. The lack of added aggression only makes it worse, as he's not willing to be the one that escalates things. He's done being the one that causes everything to escalate and spin out of control. Except Karkat isn't really giving him a lead to follow right now. So he holds on, baring his teeth and looking up at the cerulean.]

Pay much attention to my face, hon?

[caliginous]

Enough to know I'd go blind if I bothered to look for too long.

[When he realizes Eridan isn't letting go, in addition to baring those fangs of his, he shakes his leg a little -- as if he were trying to kick off an annoying dog.]

Not to mention I'll have to make an extra laundry run, now that you've rub yourself all over my leg.

[chronomancer]

[Well, now he's really pulling on Karkat, trying to throw him off his feet.]

You say the sweetest things, Vantas.

[caliginous]

[The kicking already threw Karkat off balance, so when Eridan gives a tug, he eventually tumbles down with an angry flail and swear. Then he was covered in sand -- and also considerably angrier.]

You festering load of boiling shit--!

[He roars and flails briefly before he gains composure and kicks out considerably harder at Eridan, trying to either throw him off or hurt him enough that he'll want to let go.]

[chronomancer]

[He's in his element, Karkat, you're not. Eridan shifts his footing abruptly, taking the hit of that kick almost without flinching, just for the privilege of shoving his weight down onto Karkat.

Well that, and because as Karkat falls, one of Eridan's hands reaches out for his hair, tugging him closer so he can slam their mouths together. Fuck the mindgames and the snarking and the bitching and the fucking spades everywhere.]

[caliginous]

[Karkat, despite being the Thief of Heart, is mostly taken by surprise by the sudden smothering that Eridan bestows upon him. He chokes a little and then snarls behind the other troll's lips, mostly due to the fact that Eridan had somehow managed to get the jump on him like that.

He doesn't really want to be anywhere near those fangs when he can't get away, but pride overrides common sense as he sinks his spider-like fangs into the first piece of lip or tongue he can reach, attempting to grab at Eridan's horn to yank backward for maximum pain.

Its all he can really do -- struggling in the sand is not only to cover him more in the element, but also cause him to actively bury himself into a hole, thanks to Eridan's fat ass.]

[chronomancer]

[Bitch, you're just jealous your ass isn't anywhere near as fabulous as his is.

Eridan snarls a whine at the combination of rough horn pulling and fangs tearing at his lip, retaliating by sinking his claws into the nearest bits of Karkat he can find and shoving a knee and grinding it roughly up between Karkat's legs.

Motherfucking payback time, asshole.]

[caliginous]

[Karkat's angry swears are reduced to furious growls that stem from his chest, due to his inability to actually speak. All Eridan's antics cause is for the cerulean to squirm uncomfortably, freeing his other fist to throw it into the jadeblood's stomach repeatedly.

God help Eridan when Karkat remembers he's a psychic.]

[chronomancer]

[...he'll burn that bridge when he gets to it. For now, there's a couple months' worth of black frustration that has finally reached breaking point. Eridan grunts at the punches and instead sinks his claws deeper and shoves his knee harder in place, snarling quietly into Karkat's mouth.]

[caliginous]

[Karkat makes an indiscernible noise, unable to escape the claws or Eridan's knee fighting to fluster him. Eventually, he pulls his fangs free and tries to rip their mouths apart so he can throw his forehead into the other troll's in an attempt to gain some sort of leverage over Eridan's impossible lead.

He reaches for Eridan's wrists to try and throw him aside. He's fairly certain he feels blood dripping off his lips, but he can't tell who's it is.]

[chronomancer]

[Eridan pulls back, as Karkat releases him, laughing with a ghost of that dangerously deranged monster curled in it. The grip on his wrists tries to destabilize him, which makes him compensate by grinding somewhat further into Karkat. He barely dodges the headbutt, leering down at the cerulean with a thread of barely restrained madness.]

Fuck, I'd been meaning to do that for ages.

[caliginous]

[Karkat spits a glob of saliva and blood in Eridan's face, since he can't swallow it without being in danger of swallowing sand. He squirms again, trying to get more comfortable (which is basically impossible on a bed of sand with someone's knee in your crotch.]

Of course you have.

[He almost sounds smug, but its hard to be smug when you're so uncomfortable.]

[chronomancer]

[Eridan only smirks at that, ignoring the way spit and blood hit his cheek. He bares his teeth again, almost playfully.]

Always did think I'd be dead by this point.

[caliginous]

[Karkat snorts and relaxes for a second to give him the standard Vantas deadpan.]

You would be, except you cheated, Troll Edward Cullen.

[He doesn't bother to remind Eridan that Karkat himself has been a dead troll walking for the better part of two years. His sudden neutral expression gives a good hint at it, though.]

[chronomancer]

...see now, that's unfair. Because now I need to remind you that I'm still squishy and killable and not a bloodsucking undead abomination.

[Eridan shrugs very carefully.]

Kind of hoping to avoid that fate, really. It was fucking disgusting.

[caliginous]

Its not supposed to be pleasant.

[Pause.]

Get off me.

[chronomancer]

Yeah, that's the kicker, though. It was very pleasant.

[Eridan grins a little wryly, a little too sharply. He lets out a shuddering breath before he slowly pulls away.]

[caliginous]

[The slow movements were a bad idea, because Karkat seems to have remembered that he's a psychic and seeks to hold Eridan in place once he's just far away enough so that Karkat can move freely...

And the cerulean throws his knee straight through to Eridan's crotch once again, his fist swining upward to plow into the side of the jadeblood's head. Only then will he straighten up and shake the sand from his person, adjust his jacket and fix his tie.]

That there, what I just did, was also very pleasant.

[He flexes his fingers and his knuckles crack a little before he lets go of his hold on Eridan, continuing to fix his hair and other such messes now that he's back on two feet.]

[chronomancer]

[Eridan whined and snarled at the onslaught, though admittedly it was far less violent than he'd have expected. The comment, though, got to him. He cracked a very meanspirted laugh, the ghost of something feral curled in the back of it, and didn't bother to pick himself up from the ground.]

You can damn well kiss my nook, Karkat.

[caliginous]

You would enjoy that far too much.

[He flicks a hair-full of sand at the other troll. Yes, worse could have happened, but judging by the way Karkat was pointedly not looking at Eridan, he's keeping himself in check for...whatever reason.

Only Karkat knows how Karkat works, after all.]

[chronomancer]

Damn right I would.

[Eridan snorts, unfazed by the sand and instead kicking just a little in Karkat's general direction.]

[caliginous]

Keep dreaming, bulgegulper.

[Once Karkat is certain he's gotten all the grains of sand off his fingers, he checks his lip to see if its still bleeding. He really doesn't want to try and explain that to Kanaya.

Or Jin.

Or anyone, really.]

[chronomancer]

Bit pretentious of you, isn't it? To assume you've got a place in my dreams.

[Now he's just being a bitch for the sake of being a bitch.]

[caliginous]

[Karkat sporfles a little.]

Did you forget who you're talking to?

[That being Karkat Vantas, Thief of Heart, Empath, and Egotistical Douchebag Extraordinaire.]

[chronomancer]

How could I?

[Eridan smirked, revealing the fact there were faint traces of blue and jade staining his teeth.]

Still dealing with the fucking aftertaste.