http://forcingrins.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] forcingrins.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] towerofanimus2011-11-28 04:59 pm

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Characters: [livejournal.com profile] forcingrins and you
Setting: dormitories/random hallways
Format: starting with brackets but I'll match to whatever!
Summary: The Neophyte wakes up and 1NV3ST1G4T3S.
Warnings: none yet

[It's jarring, to have a thousand hands dragging you toward a gallows and an unjust fate one second and to be paralyzed on a flat (albeit somewhat soft) surface the next. Jarring and, if she's being honest with herself, terrifying. Horrifying. She forces herself to breath as the seconds tick by because it's all she can do, and after a thirty-second long eternity she's free. She practically jumps out of the bed but her assailants are gone, as is the courtblock and all of its inhabitants.

Instead she's wearing unfamiliar clothes and is lacking in the accessories that make her feel herself--her glasses are gone, leaving her yellow-teal eyes naked. So is her cane, and her gloves. Her boots. The chain with the forbidden symbol that she wears close to her heart. A cursory examination of the room leads her to the letters at her bedside and, even better, the chest at the foot of her bed, where she is relieved to find all of those items she was missing and more. Before she leaves the room she'll dress in attire that is proper for a legislacerator and poke around the living space she's found herself in.]


[And once she's done in her room she'll venture out, appropriately dressed and even more appropriately cautious, exploring her new environment while she tries to decide whether she believes the contents of the letters or not. It can be unwise to interrupt a legislacerator's investigation, but in this case a little interruption might be beneficial to her work.]

[identity profile] romcomedian.livejournal.com 2011-11-29 09:40 pm (UTC)(link)
[Karkat was tired. After nearly a week of feeding spidermom on top of Kanaya's appearance in the tower and tending to Terezi, there's really not much energy left in the young troll. He'd just finished changing out of the suit he used to feed his lusus, now once again dressed to the eights nines as per usual.

He doesn't even notice Redglare as he wanders out and down the hall, one hand running through his hair in an attempt to pull himself together. This tower was so ridiculously draining. What with the other Karkat wandering around on top of Signless in addition to the Vriska confusion, it was only a matter of time before some other version of him appeared.]

[identity profile] romcomedian.livejournal.com 2011-11-29 11:07 pm (UTC)(link)
[He barely stops the flinch, having missed her the first time when he walked by. The Tower had made him much flinchier as a whole, and that wasn't even counting the incidents before he arrived.

So he turns around...and stops dead to stare. Adult. Adult troll. Adult troll that looks strangely like another troll he knows in a weird outfit.

He can't even speak. He's simply left staring.]


Uh.

[identity profile] romcomedian.livejournal.com 2011-11-29 11:55 pm (UTC)(link)
[He holds his hands up a bit nervously, backing away because ADULT TROLL INTERROGATING HIM.]

Who wants to know?

[identity profile] romcomedian.livejournal.com 2011-11-30 01:33 am (UTC)(link)
[There's a full three second pause where he considers answering or running.

Finally:]


Yeah. It is. What about it?

[identity profile] romcomedian.livejournal.com 2011-11-30 01:57 am (UTC)(link)
In a good way or a bad way?

[Still kind of unsure over here.]

[identity profile] romcomedian.livejournal.com 2011-11-30 02:49 am (UTC)(link)
That doesn't answer my question.

[He's tensing again. The flight instinct is kicking in. Depending on her answer, he may or may not bolt.]

somehow i lost this tag and plurk reminded me of it

[identity profile] romcomedian.livejournal.com 2011-12-03 08:17 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah well. Its mine. So its kind of a typical thing, y'know?

[He has no idea what any of this means. It doesn't even make sense from what he knows of the alternate timeline he's most familiar with. Karkat had never mentioned anything about a forbidden symbol.]

[identity profile] romcomedian.livejournal.com 2011-12-03 03:34 pm (UTC)(link)
We're probably not talking about the same Alternia. Its a pretty common thing.

[His eyelids lower a little. Explaining this is always so exhausting.]

You're probably looking for the other Karkat.

[identity profile] romcomedian.livejournal.com 2011-12-08 08:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah. And before you ask, I have no idea.