♎ S33R: H4V3 4N 1NCR3D1BLY LONG D4Y

Dec 12, 2011 22:54

( 2235 stevens road; locked to bang shishigami and neophyte redglare )

[After having spent the better part of the week as a drone, Terezi Pyrope finally wakes up. She wakes up from her nightmares to a sharp gasp and an unfamiliar-smelling bedroom. She nearly falls off of her bed in an attempt to regain her bearings as she tries to pull everything ( Read more... )

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Phone chastesaw December 12 2011, 15:09:30 UTC
Oh, Terezi. It's very good to see you once more returned to your own self who does not happen to be panscrubbed.

If your lodging has changed, however, then I suppose nobody has received the package I distributed to your former residence.

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chastesaw December 13 2011, 07:35:13 UTC
No, not like--

--well yes, like Eridan. But I assure you the problem with Eridan's ensemble is not any one piece in particular; rather it is the entirety of it in concert that makes him look like, as you so elegantly put it, a "fucknig chunp." Scarves are in fact quite stylish and comfortable, worn by a great many sentient beings who are not murderous sea dwelling assholes.

*And now she's looping it gently around her neck and shoulders.* Isn't it warm?

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foretastes December 13 2011, 07:41:24 UTC
[Terezi tries to take the longer halves to shove them beneath her armpits. Attractive.]

Wow, all of that stuff you just said about fashion was so amazingly irrelevant to anything I care about, but thank you for the 'quite stylish and comfortable' scarf!

It is also warm, yes.

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chastesaw December 13 2011, 08:15:53 UTC
You are very welcome. I hope you enjoy it, and you are supposed to leave the long ends to dangle but really, it's your scarf so you can wear it however you like.

*And then her expression softens slightly, and the tone of her voice changes.* Terezi, how are you?

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foretastes December 13 2011, 17:17:43 UTC
[Terezi's expression changes, too, because she's not sure how much Kanaya knows.]

Fiiine! Why do you ask?

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chastesaw December 13 2011, 18:28:47 UTC
I ask because you've been through quite the experience lately. ...here as well as in the Veil.

I am endeavoring to spend as much time as possible away from my assigned hive now.

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foretastes December 15 2011, 12:16:36 UTC
So you know, then.

[she looks away.] Kanaya. Are you angry at me for killing her?

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chastesaw December 15 2011, 14:59:23 UTC
Hm? Terezi, angry for killing wh--

*Kanaya trails off. Even if that's a bit further than she is on the timeline, it's obvious, isn't it? Aradia had exploded, Feferi had been killed by Eridan, and Nepeta by Gamzee. There were only three of the girls left, and Terezi would only have needed to stop one of them - let alone ask if she was angry. For a moment, Kanaya allows that perhaps Terezi could be talking about Rose, but dismisses the idea, given their conversation during the mushroom incident.*

...Vriska. You killed Vriska, didn't you? *And is she angry? No, she's not. Terezi wouldn't have done it if it hadn't been necessary, after all - she was the Seer. And thanks to Vriska's God Tier powers, she couldn't have done it if it hadn't been just. So no, she isn't angry.

Just very profoundly sad.*

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foretastes December 16 2011, 15:04:34 UTC
Nobody else could have, Kanaya. It had to be me.

[She can taste Kanaya's sorrow, the sting of her pain, and her shoulders slump, but Terezi is still certain that she did what was done only because all other options had been exhausted.

She never wanted to kill Vriska.]

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chastesaw December 16 2011, 17:25:38 UTC
...I know.

I'm not angry, Terezi, though I... think you may be from slightly further on the timeline than I. *That confrontation with Eridan and Gamzee - had that been the last time she would see her former moirail alive? She wonders what the last words they exchanged would be, if they hadn't yet been said.*

And this isn't to suggest that you didn't have the utmost in good reasons - if not, you could not have succeeded - but. May I ask why it happened?

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foretastes December 17 2011, 12:41:00 UTC
If I had let her go, she would've gone through with her plan to face Jack Noir. That would have led to her showing him the path back to us.

You understand why I couldn't let that happen.

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chastesaw December 17 2011, 16:34:21 UTC
*So that's why. Vriska's vainglorious attempt to fight their nemesis would have gotten them all killed. Kanaya nods, slowly, not meeting Terezi's eyes.*

Yes. ...of course I do.

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foretastes December 18 2011, 10:31:35 UTC
It was one of us or all of us.

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chastesaw December 18 2011, 15:29:51 UTC
I am aware.

...do you regret it?

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