towerofanimus | (no subject)

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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.]

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It absolutely is. The agenda is just in lowblood vernacular so that you cannot read it. And as you have always been so keen on telling me, the hour set aside for quadrants is very important to give attention to.

[You're not getting out of this, Karkat.]

[He gives her a Look.]

Alright, wise guy. You get one hour.

[WOW she actually looks sort of excited. The Look does not even faze her.]

And you will be honest?

[Karkat will be over here, checking his imaginary watch.]

Wow, look how fast the time goes. The hour started a minute ago. Tick tock, Maryam. I'm a busy motherfucker.

[jegus calm your tits, karkat, gosh]

I know that there are other things bothering you besides the events that occurred in the Veil. What are they? Specifically.

[She knows she has to be direct with her questions or he'll waste time dodging them.]

[He's only rushing her so he doesn't have to agree to that promise.]

Contrary to what you might believe, that's the thick of it. If you have to ask about anything else, then you don't need to know.

[His eyelids fall, and he suddenly looks very tired.]

[She's not even put off by the answer. She just...slumps a little. It always makes her sad somehow when Karkat gets that look on his face.

She glances down to his hands, and then back to his face, before gingerly reaching out to rest her hand on his forearm.]

But there is clearly something else bothering you, or you would not look so miserable right now.

Maybe.

[The scoff that he can't suppress in time suggests that its more than just one thing bothering him, but he doesn't have the shameglobes to admit it.]

Its nothing I can't handle.

If you can handle it, then why is it still a problem?

This is not a feelings jam if you do not tell me your feelings and the source of them, you know.

Some shit takes time to handle.

[He raises a finger to correct her.]

Quadrant hour, not feelings jam hour.

[She raises an eyebrow.]

So your troubles are quadrant-related, then?

[WHAT?]

Wow, that was not even close to being a thing I said.

Why would you bother to bring it up and narrow what can be discussed in the timeframe like that if you were not having quadrant troubles?

[She's looking at you like she knows you.]

The Romanculator does not have quadrant troubles.

Yes you do, or you would not so vehemently try to avoid them.

[Ugh, he's suddenly really uncomfortable.]

The object of quadrant hour is to focus on me counseling the other party, not the other way around.

And why does that have to be the case? Am I not allowed to offer you counsel when you are obviously going through emotional turmoil, which may or may not be related to the filling of your quadrants?

[Her hand -- which she has not bothered to remove from his arm -- tightens its grip just a little.]

[The tightening of her grip rewards her with a bit of a firm stare.]

You of all people ought to know by now that everyone else's quadrants are secondary to mine. I can get quadrants whenever I want.

[...half-truth, but whatever.]

[She stares right back.]

So how is your flushed quadrant faring?

[Wow, blunt???]

Wow, so we're really going to ignore that thing I said earlier?!

[STAY COOL, KEEP IT COOL.]

Yes.

[She is so beyond being intimidated.]

Wrong answer.

[He's...really uncomfortable and doesn't want to talk about this, wow?]

I think I am going to have to say that you do not have all of the answers.

[Okay, she'll move on to the next best thing for now.]

Why are you so against telling me? And do not say that there is nothing to tell, because otherwise you would not be dodging my questions.

Its a little more complicated than you seem to think it is.

[...oh he hadn't really meant to say that. Queue him attempting to abscond.]

[Oh nope you are not getting away like that.

Kanaya does the first thing that comes to mind to make him stay that isn't attacking him.

She stands and clumsily wraps her arms around him in the most inelegant hug ever. It was originally just supposed to be a grab to keep him in place, but it...kind of turned into a surprise hug, oops.

Welp now she doesn't really know what to say. So she just kinda stands there and awkwardly radiates pale feelings. And doesn't let go of him.]