>Kanaya: Panic

[chastesaw]

[Phone]

*Kanaya's voice sounds as precise and collected as ever... for the most part. If someone knows her very, very well they might be able to hear that she's speaking slightly faster than normal.* Hello, everybody

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[crusthatecean]

Okay, fuckholes, everyone hang up! I can't even believe I have to tell you not to listen in on what is obviously meant to be a private conversation.

Go watch the televisual projector for a while, I'm sure you can get your sick fix of rom drama there.

[chastesaw]

...excuse me, Karkat?

That seems rather inappropriate at a time like this.

[crusthatecean]

I wasn't talking to you, I just wanted to make sure none of those nosy fucks were still sniffing around on the line.

[chastesaw]

Isn't this line supposed to be secure?

[crusthatecean]

Anyone in the hive can still pick it up the way you set it. I'll show you how to make it secure later.

So what exactly happened with Lalonde? I need context.

[chastesaw]

I was acting rather oddly and not at all like myself following consumption of that human fruitbeverage. Rose Lalonde was ensuring that I would sit with her and not find myself running off into a troublesome situation, which looking back on it would prove to be very ironic.

We conversed at length and I began to find myself very fascinated by her. And then I kissed her. And then I absconded forthwith.

[crusthatecean]

Did she kiss you back?

[chastesaw]

It was a very quick kiss. A peck, perhaps.

But maybe.

[crusthatecean]

So at least she's not repulsed by the idea. That's something.

Have you talked to her since?

[chastesaw]

No, I haven't. It's entirely possible she would rather not speak to me ever again.

[crusthatecean]

Or it's entirely possible she feels awkward about it, too, and she doesn't know if you'll want to talk to you.

Look, I know you don't know how to feel about her and you didn't want this to happen, but it doesn't have to be a big deal. It's just a kiss. I've kissed a lot of people I didn't ever mean to kiss.

[chastesaw]

It was an unintended cross-species kiss to a girl I find more than a little troubling and occasionally in the realm of bothersome, while I was (and remain) completely and wholly unsure of my feelings on an entire plethora of matters that are all relevant to the situation at hand.

And I don't even know if she's gay or a lesbian. So I think I am well within my rights to consider this a deal approaching the "big" end of the spectrum.

But I will want to hear those stories at a later date regardless.

[crusthatecean]

Look, can I admit something to you? If you swear you will never tell anyone? Because it's sort of humiliating and I don't ever want to go into it again but maybe it will shed some light on the situation. I don't know.

[chastesaw]

Of course, Karkat. What is it?

[crusthatecean]

Okay, so, uh...my original intentions with respect to trolling the humans may not have been as strategically oriented as I let on.

It may have been more about a spectacularly ill-advised hate crush, and I may have been so transparent about it that...well, there's a reason why I had the human orientation rules explained to me.

The whole thing was just jaw droppingly stupid, I don't even think I really felt that way about him, but I was caught up in a baseless romantic notion, and...the point is, my efforts after that point in insisting no one pursue anything with any of the humans might have been largely influenced by my desire to distance myself from that particular encounter.

The truth is, there are some awkward aspects and plenty of room for cross-species misunderstandings, but overall their concept of redrom at least isn't that different from ours, it's probably not such a big deal.

[chastesaw]

*A pause.* Karkat, you're telling me that our entire interactions with the humans were birthed from your caliginous flirtations with one of the boys?

That's.

Well, to be perfectly honest, do you mind if I admit I find it somewhat amusing in retrospect?