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[There's a gray face taking up a lot of the viewscreen all of a sudden, unpainted and curious. The owner is poking a finger at various places on the device. Enough movement should reveal to anyone watching a familiar shirt and horns, though the latter are smaller than usual

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[Karkat catches the figure out of the corner of his eye as he runs past the window. He screeches to a halt and nearly bangs into the wall in a show of characteristic grace, then does a 180 and looks out of the window again. He pulls the hood he'd managed to scrouge down to try to hide the red-filled irises of his adult body, but even under that shadow, he could make out the shape of those horns.

Oh. Fuck. No.

He'd been hoping his moirail had been unaffected or at least affected the same goddamn way that he was.

After a brief internal struggle, he growls to himself and then opens the door to his croft. He stands framed in the doorway, towering over the tiny form of kid!Gamzee, and then...

... Clears his throat.]

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[Gamzee of course does the sort of thing any young troll in his position would do when faced with the sudden appearance of an adult of his species.

He gives a panicked cry and tries to scamper the fuck away.]

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[Yeeeeep he'd been afraid of that.

That's why he makes the best decision he possibly could in this situation, which was to chase him and try to pin him with a tackle.]

Gamzee for fuck's sake! It's Karkat, you shitnugget!

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[Little Gamzee doesn't know any Karkat. All he knows is that he's currently being pinned to the ground by an adult troll and will possibly be eaten.

He wriggles and flails as much as possible, at last attempting to sink his sharp little teeth into Karkat's arm.]

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[Karkat rips his arm away the moment he feels those sharp little teeth against his skin. The last thing he wants is a Gamzee who potentially (or almost certainly, if the lack of reaction to his name) doesn't know him to see the mutant blood on top of everything.

He tries to hold him at arm's length.]

No - fuck - stop struggling! I'm not going to kill you, or eat you, or kill your lusus, or - fuck, just stop flailing around like that!

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[Gamzee settles a little, still huffing and puffing and glaring but no longer trying to squirm out of the older troll's grip.

So what are you going to do with him then, adult?]

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[Okay, so he didn't think that through very well either. He peers at little Gamzee from under his hood, amazed against his own will at the way his friend looked when he was that young.

He sighs and loosens his grip, but still holds onto him.]

Look. You won't believe this - fuck, I barely believe this shit is happening again - but I'm only six sweeps old. Okay? This is a fucking curse from fuckers called 'fae'. You're affected too, except you regressed down the years and I...

[He sighs harshly.]

And I fucking hate time travel.

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[Karkat's words just left Gamzee confused. He isn't sure what the adult means by half of them. (Six sweeps? Really?) The little troll tilts his head, staring at the other wit a baffled look.

He's starting to feel a little silly for being afraid of him now, though. It doesn't look like he's in any danger of being eaten at all.]

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[Karkat catches that baffled look and groans. Why did his moirail have to be regressed to only a couple of sweeps after pupation? He could really use someone to talk to about this whole fucked up affair.]

You don't have a fucking clue what I'm talking about, right, Gamzee?

[It occurs to him that he'd given Gamzee his name. If that was the first time Gamzee had ever heard of a 'Karkat Vantas', did that mean that Karkat had just sewn the seed for them meeting and becomming friends?

Fuck's sake.

He really hated time travel.]

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[Gamzee shakes his head.

Wrigglers are fickle little things, though. He likes this older troll now, and he gives him a little smile in the hopes that the adult will carry him around a little while longer.]

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[He rolls his eyes. Figures.]

Okay. We're not on Alternia - you know, just incase you suddenly became fucking stupid as well as tiny. This is a place called 'Demeleier'. Alternatively, it's 'The Land of Fairies and Douchebags.' When you're older, you will get that reference.

[He ducks into the croft with Gamzee and closes the door. Here, he starts rummaging about for something of Gamzee's to show him. Unfortunately, it's not like he'd recognise it...]

There're pretty nasty motherfuckers around here who like to fuck with wrigglers. So stay close to me until we can get you to your lusus, okay?

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The old goat is here?

[Gamzee twists around to blink up at Karkat then. If this adult troll knew of a way to bring his lusus around, he'd like to know of it too.]

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[... Oh yeah. Gamzee's lusus was kind of neglectful, wasn't it? Karkat leaves himself a string of 'fuck yous' in his head for bringing it up.] Maybe. We can look.

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Nn.

[It's okay, Karkat. Gamzee doesn't expect much on that end anyway.

He gets a good grip on the other troll, little fingers clinging to his clothing.]

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[It's like babysitting the grubs all over again. He shudders at the memory, although Gamzee isn't being as... wriggly as twenty four excitable, newly-hatched trolls.]

Shit. Where do you even keep all your crap?

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Umm...

[Gamzee wants to be able to provide Karkat with an answer, but he doesn't have any clue. He doesn't remember being in this place before.

His older self doesn't keep much, and most is in his sylladex still. The best the other troll might find right now are a few scattered clown horns.]