Ashen Attack [CLOSED]

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WHO: Kanaya and Eridan
WHAT: Auspisticism at its xenoromantic finest.
WHERE: A-011
WHEN: On the day of the later "Somebody's back..." threads, before "Technical difficulties".
WARNING(S): Annoying aliens, one an ardent and arsenic-tongued admiral, the other astonishinly articulate, and whatever they're addressing their angst as now.

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[wwrathofangels]

Yes, that was cackling. If she were to enter the room at this very moment, she would find a certain fishtroll rolling on the floor back and forth, clutching his communicator to his chest, and laughing victoriously. Occasionally he lets out a, "YES! YES YES YES! HELL FUCKIN' YES!"

Mostly, though, it's just the cackling.

Up until he hears the knocking.

FUCK. Okay, getting up and quickly neatening himself and running over to the door to open it and, "Kan, if it wweren't the entirely an' wwholly wwrong quadrant I wwould fuckin' kiss you right noww come in you said it wwas wery important right?" Pretend that sentence had some semblance of grammar.

[wwrathofangels]

Oh, Kanaya. You are glubbing talking to the wrong troll if you would prefer such examples. "...Then wwhy the fuck couldn't you hawe just said stomach in the first place?!" He will never understand lowblood terms, nor will he understand her preference for them when her blood is such a rich and lovely shade of jade. "An' yeah, a course we're in this for the long term. Howwewer long that is, at any rate, considerin' I don't exactly plan on stayin' in this place."

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Glubbing? Not yet. "Well, stomach implies nothing at all. The term alimentary sac clearly denotes an organ containing material and involved in digestion." She tsks. "Exactly. We do want to go home, don't we? And I assume Rea'd like the same."

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"Kan, I'm not some idiot lowwblood I think I can figure out from contextual placin' wwhether you mean the stomach as in the digestiwe organ or the stomach as in the area a the torso that said organ is situated in." He huffs. Never mind that he apparently is not smart enough to figure out the rather obtuse terms she prefers.

"Anywways, a course wwe wwant to go home an' so does Rea I'm shore but she said 'cause she died she couldn't and then she tried blamin' all a that on me ewen though obwiously someone else culled her first. I just... she's so... golglÛB!"

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She lets the little windfall of bigotry and stupidity pass with little more than a particularly harsh glare. Dammit, in her entire life experience until the past month these terms genuinely have invariably been clearer and more intuitive, not characteristic of esoteric alien qualities!

"She thought that death would prevent her from going home?" This is much more interesting. "Well, I certainly haven't heard the same explanation twice on how we got here. Or what the consequences of death actually are. But in my opinion any conviction that we can't go home after dying is completely irrational. As long as we're alive in some way and some form of our homeworld exists in paradox space, I can't fathom how there couldn't be some sort of means by which we could return there."

[wwrathofangels]

At least the one thing he can't fault humans for is that they don't deliberately obfuscate their language to the point of being incomprehensible without having internet access to look up the terms they use.

"Yeah that's exactly wwhat she thought though I didn't really catch wwhy but I think it has somethin' to do wwith the 'respawwn' or wwhatewer it's called?" He shoves his glasses back up on his nose as he considers this. "But if wwe're not goin' back to our homewworld, just some form a it, is it really returnin' home?" Not that he wouldn't leap at the chance to return to Alternia -one still the existant homeworld of the Empire- and forget SGRUB ever happened.

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The loss of the intricate sociolinguistic chronicles concerning why exactly the troll population at large considered expositional noun phrases so much more ordinary and logical than nouns given functional meaning removed from the literal by three or four separate shifts is one of the many, many tragedies of Alternia's destruction.

"I don't know. It seems impossible to get solid answers on anything here. What I don't comprehend is how we've even arrived at all. Something's missing. All this had to be arranged, somehow." She brings a tense hand up to her face to hold back her frustration. "The entire situation borders on absurd; though on the heels of SGRUB I suppose that's not a word to throw around lightly."