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[caliginous]

Characters: Karkat Vantas (AU) and YOU
Setting: Across the tower! Mark in the subject line, please!
Format: Action to start, but I'll follow.
Summary: Karkat has been awfully quiet lately, and hasn't quiet been seeking out others. How unusual.
Warnings: TBA

[Karkat has just had too many things on his mind. Staying out of trouble, trying not to make more people furious with him, dodging mealtimes to instead feed Spidermom. The attack on the tower had sated her slightly, but it hadn't helped his psyche any. The visions of Imperial Drones on top of more copies of Spidermom were a little too much for him.

He was still sick to his nutrition sack over the whole thing. If those drones had been real, then he would have been leaving Kanaya to them. What kind of shitty friend was he?

Oh wait. That kind of answered the question. So wherever he happens to be, Karkat will be propped against a wall, staring down at his shoes with an everpresent frown of thought.]

Comments

[caliginous]

[He combs it out of her eyes with his hand and snickers a little.]

Problem?

[scalemate]

[Ffff.]

Of course not!

[caliginous]

[Karkat combs her bangs back in front of her face and busies himself with trying to dig a rubber band or something out of his jacket.

When he finally finds two, he gives her two ridiculous pigtails.]

[scalemate]

[Oh no.]

Done?

[caliginous]

It ain't perfect, but it'll do.

[scalemate]

[She reaches up to feel her hair and...

Oh. Welp.]

Perfect! I love it!

[caliginous]

[He scoffs softly.]

You better. You ruined a perfectly good comb.

[scalemate]

[She laughs.]

It was worth it!

[caliginous]

[He places the comb with the bent teeth in Terezi's hand and moves to sit back down on the couch.]

Thank me later.

[scalemate]

[She grins.]

Now it's my turn!

[caliginous]

Hey now, I never agreed to that.

[scalemate]

[She scoots closer.]

So?

[caliginous]

So you are not touching my hair.

[scalemate]

Don't you trust me?

[caliginous]

I don't trust anyone with the hair.

[scalemate]

[Wow she is rolling her eyes so hard.]

[caliginous]

Nothing personal.

[...subconsciously combing a hand through his hair.]

[scalemate]

Of course not. You wouldn't want anything to ruin your perfect appearance, would you?

[Sarcasm?]

[caliginous]

[He doesn't answer right away, because he detects that hint of sincerity under the veil of sarcasm.

So he responds in kind.]

Its only slightly less shallow than that, but sure.

[scalemate]

[She smirks, pulling the rubber bands out of her hair.]

How is it less shallow than that?

[caliginous]

Maybe I'm just fond enough of the image I'm wearing.

[He glances down at her and raises an eyebrow.]

[scalemate]

[She raises her eyebrows back.]

Should you be?

[caliginous]

Probably not.

[Shrug.]

[scalemate]

[Now she's giggling.]

Jeeez, where did all that confidence go?

[caliginous]

[He scoffs and reaches up to poke under her chin.]

It hasn't gone anyplace, Pyrope.