Waking up in the strange room wasn’t the thing that set Karkat Vantas into a panic. Granted, waking up on some cushioned rectangle instead of in the peaceful sopor slime within his recuperacoon was strange, but it wasn’t the first time he woke up in some strange place. Nor was it the strange scent in the room, or the faint mugginess he felt that
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"Oh I'm sorry, I guess I missed the welcoming party that must have been thrown when they were handing out buckets to people. I was far too distracted to go up and take my turn with making the introductions, what with being knocked out and brought here against my will." He wasn't entirely sure he had been knocked out, but since he didn't remember what happened between falling asleep and waking up here, it was the only conclusion he could draw.
But what threw him off even more was how... relaxed this other person was, despite the early-morning grumpiness. How could he be so calm? Wasn't he distressed by the situation? Did he not see the bucket??
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"Aww... don't worry! You didn't miss anything! I'll be your welcoming party! How about a nice to meet you hug?" he snickered and spread his arms out... and after a moment, coiled his tail around the handle of the bucket beside his bed (he'd used it to carry a few things to his room the prior night and just kinda left it there) "I'm such a nice guy I'll even let you have my bucket since you seem to want one soooo bad."
Not knowing the object was probably undesirable he actually intended to just play a little game of, 'pull the thing away as soon as it's reached for'.
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"Get that fucking thing away from me, you nooksucking shitstain!!" he yelled, his voice raising a few octaves in desperation. "Do you even know what you're holding, you ignorant douche?!"
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"What's wrong? It's just a harmless lil bucket!" he laughed, swinging the seemingly innocent household object closer and closer to the other teen... just to see what other great reactions he'd get of course!
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Zidane paused. Okay yeah, wow. That was a little more extreme a reaction then he'd been expecting.
"Seriously, what's the issue? It's just a bucket. Nothing dangerous in it," hands on his hips, he held it upside down and shook it, nothing came out, "I mean if you walloped someone over the head with it then yeah, it'd probably hurt. But I ain't planning on doing that."
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"It's indecent, that's what's the issue!" Karkat snapped, averting his gaze as the bucket was held up and shaken upside down. "Seriously, don't you know anything?? How else do you think they collect your genetic material?!"
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"Wait wait wait... I think one of us here has some serious misconceptions about what a bucket is used for," he waved his arms and finally set the apparently offensive object down. And there was something suspicious about what he said too. Genetic material...? He couldn't possibly mean? Nah. Not like Zidane was familiar with the word, oh he'd heard his overly scientific sister mention the term in reference to the process of creating a new Genome... but he kinda didn't pay much attention to that. Too many complicated words. But still. There was NO way a bucket was involved with that, "And possibly some misconceptions about how the birds and bees work too,"
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"No, you know what? Fuck you for being so ignorant. Use your goddamn think pan to figure it out because I don't see why I need to explain this for a third fucking time to someone." he said. "And I don't see how featherbeasts and yellow-and-black buzz-grubs have anything to do with this situation, unless it's some other convoluted human metaphor that of course makes no goddamn sense."
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