it's like i'm looking in the mirror at someone else

[craaaaaaaazy8s.livejournal.com]

Characters: [OU] Vriska Serket and you!
Setting: Around the tower, wherever
Format: Starting with action but I'll match.
Summary: Vriska takes some time to look at her life and look at her choices.
Warnings: None!

[Vriska's taken to a skulking method of wandering around the tower, instead of the confident stride she boasted before Spidermom showed up. Now it feels like she's always hiding and always looking for her next victim, and really, that's what she's doing. Not that she'll ever admit that she's hiding from anything, because she's not! That's absolutely not why she's switched back to her old outfit with her wings always tucked away to keep from leaving trails around the tower that will lead to her. She's just doing a job, a job that no one wants, and that she was guilted into. She's starting to really resent Karkat for this, because it's digging her deeper into a hole that's going to be hard to crawl out of. Not to mention the countless hours she's spending with his lusus, getting used to her like it's her lusus.

She shakes her head, frowning as she continues through the hallways and up the stairs, pointedly avoiding the forest. Her direction has no aim, she's just wandering for the sake of relieving the restlessness that builds on the days between feeding. She'd fed her again yesterday - a troll of all people, her old kismesis at that - so now she had a couple of days of freedom from the task. But it's anything but. It's just another day of checking over her shoulder for anyone who might be watching her actions too closely. Really, she's becoming as paranoid as the other cerulean. This is just getting ridiculous. She feels like she's completely losing control of the situation, and it's driving her crazy.]

Comments

[craaaaaaaazy8s.livejournal.com]

Wow, you actually admitted it. Impressive. [Eyeroll.]

So where were you headed in such a hurry that you didn't even notice me?

[romcomedian.livejournal.com]

Its an occupational hazard.

[But that makes him smirk briefly for whatever reason before it fades.]

Nowhere. I was just walking. Got a lot on my mind.

[craaaaaaaazy8s.livejournal.com]

Uh huh. Whatever. You sure are good at avoiding the subject.

[She turns slightly to start walking again before she speaks again.]

I took Mindfang to see her.

[romcomedian.livejournal.com]

--you did what?!

[He pales suddenly and reaches out to catch her shoulder.]

Are you insane?

[craaaaaaaazy8s.livejournal.com]

[Maybe it wasn't such a good idea to tell him, or to have taken her there. But she'll stand by her decision.

She turns to face him again.]

I don't see what the big deal is. She had the same lusus.

[romcomedian.livejournal.com]

How do you know she won't go bragging about her? Or even that she won't rat us out?

[The residue of paranoia from the previous goings-on in the tower never quite faded.]

If we're talking about the same troll, she didn't exactly sound like she'd be alright with our methods.

[craaaaaaaazy8s.livejournal.com]

She's my ancestor! She wouldn't rat us out about it.

[Even though her ancestor seems different from how she pictured her, she won't just sit idly by and let someone insult her.]

Look, I know what I'm doing. She's the least of our worries.

[romcomedian.livejournal.com]

[Karkat is obviously not convinced, but he doesn't have the energy to argue the matter.]

Whatever. You better be right.

[craaaaaaaazy8s.livejournal.com]

Of course I'll be right! Wouldn't you trust your ancestor with it?

[romcomedian.livejournal.com]

No, I wouldn't.

[HEY, NOT TALKING ABOUT THAT, TURNING TO WALK AWAY.]

[craaaaaaaazy8s.livejournal.com]

[Wow nope? Following him!]

And why not?