February 2012
9 posts
==> Aradia: Land.
deathshandmaid:
She couldn’t help but laugh to express her amusement, and what a great feeling it was! The way it bubble brightly in her chest and left her feeling very near to breathless. His downtrodden appearance in the face of her rejection made her feel, not exactly bad, but maybe bad for him. She released the skull in her hand and caught it with her telekinesis so that it bobbed in the...
==> Aradia: Land.
deathshandmaid:
Aradia blinked up at him. He was still tall, still ominous in his looming and yet the way he held himself always seemed to take away from that. An amusing contradiction and very much like a puzzle she might find in the depths of her ruins. Glyphs written across cracked and vine-covered walls in nigh indicipherable ancient language.
With Equius she had tended to think it was...
==> Aradia: Land.
deathshandmaid:
Aradia turned at the sound of the door opening. A swirl of dark hair, phosphorescent wings, and tattered clothing following her abrupt motion. Her ready smile faltered only the slightest bit when she caught sight of who was to greet her, but it returned with full force in a millisecond. The feelings Equius’ presence invoked remained a messy knot in her chest, only amplified...
==> Aradia: Land.
deathshandmaid:
The dust stirred with every downbeat of her wings. A swirling eddy that caught at the tattered hem of her skirt just as much as it twisted the dirt around her. Her powers buoyed her almost more than the sweep of her gleaming red wings, and Aradia landed with only the faintest tap of her shoes against the ground.
Night was still settling across the land, washing the world out...
==> Drifting...
daggerlancekind:
Your reaction is, you think, the most comparable to a startled rabbit. The force and immediacy of his response was enough to send you wide-eyed and a little skittery, and you hardly realize you’re walking just as he told you to until sharp pain shoots up and down your spine and every part of you aches for how strongly your legs have just rebelled against you. The biometal hasn’t...
==> Drifting...
daggerlancekind:
You have been in Equius’s respiteblock for some time now. To be perfectly honest, it’s really starting to wear on you. You’ve had the husktop in your lap for a while, carefully avoiding the sore spot where the biometal merges with your legs – it’s still sore, when you push on it, but it isn’t so bad and at least you have legs again! – but Vriska gave you her advice an hour ago...
==> Drifting...
Your mind floats in what feels like the most gentle calm in existence. It glides slowly through the soft brush of clouds and finally settles down in a warm, fluffy bed. You are not sure if you are sleeping or day dreaming. Reality has bid you farewell for the moment and abandoned you in this sweet place. As you spread your arms wide and close your eyes, you hear the quiet pitter patter of feet...
==> Break the Silence
daggerlancekind:
You have been in Equius’s private block for altogether much longer than you had intended or, for that matter, could have possibly desired. It’s strange in there, filled with musclebeast posters and broken robots, smelling horrendously of things you never wanted to smell. It doesn’t help that your company is Equius, who quite frankly has always made you very nervous, even before...
==> Break the Silence
You do your best to ignore Nepeta’s frustrated glare through the silence. You know she wants you to move faster. Things take time. Besides, you aren’t entirely sure if you can bring yourself to recycle the data…you don’t think you can handle the sounds of them screaming. The imagined screams tear through your mind, causing you to squint. Thankfully, your shades mask your...
January 2012
9 posts
==> Read the Memo
You stare blankly at the memo before you. Your brow furrows as you consider a response. Sweaty fingers brush gently over the keys in deep contemplation of the words they should spell out. Then, you draw your hands back. No. You have no intention of replying to this memo. You have no desire to alert the others to your intentions, least of all Karkat, the self-proclaimed leader. It almost sickens...
==>Finish the Legs
daggerlancekind:
The biometal feels like it’s grinding a little inside, uncomfortable and still raw with fusing nerves, as you lift one of them and bend it. It doesn’t hurt, exactly, but it feels wrong, like it isn’t really part of you yet; you hope that will change, soon, but your hopes have never been very high for much about your life and you hardly expect that to become any less true now.
...
==>Finish the Legs
daggerlancekind:
The first thing you notice is that everything below your waist is heavy and that the feeling of biometal fusing with your nerves is still raw, dizzyingly painful and just generally awful. The second thing is that you are lying on the floor, flat on your back, and that’s probably for the best because it’s solid and cold and reminds you (along with the pain) that you are still...
==>Finish the Legs
daggerlancekind:
Tavros watched nervously as Equius fidgeted and measured, hands folded in his lap to keep them from wringing together again. It was like the other troll to be quiet, so he didn’t mind sitting there and waiting to make sure everything was as it should be; still, the decidedly sharp, lengthy object on the table was making his beatpump twist with concern for his own well-being.
It...
==>Finish the Legs
daggerlancekind:
That’s one hell of an invitation. Tavros cleared his throat and offered an awkward smile, wheeling past Equius and into the room. There wasn’t not really much of a place for him to actually be worked on, he noted inwardly, grimacing as he took a quick look around the respite block and immediately regretted it. His hands fidgetted awkwardly in his lap once he came to a...
==>Finish the Legs
daggerlancekind:
Tavros is a punctual sort of guy, especially when he’s been sitting around doing nothing but watching Vriska sleep for the last two hours, which was an exercise in both patience and his own willingness to disturb himself. She was both very pretty and very wild when she wasn’t snarling and laughing in his face, an odd sort of mixture that he wasn’t sure whether he liked or not....
==>Finish the Legs
You piece together the joints very carefully on your work table. You are sure you have made the legs at least close to the same length as Tavros’ real legs. You wouldn’t want to make him TOO tall. Or TOO short. Although you feel that short might suit him, you have done your best to remember the measurements used on the first set of legs in order to make these ones. You use a blowtorch...
==> Tavros: Seek the blueblood?
daggerlancekind:
He wouldn’t really use the word intimidating, if anyone asked him, but no one ever asked him so it wouldn’t ever matter. Tavros stuttered out a quiet ‘uhh’ and wrung his hands some more, thoroughly uneasy in this little section of the hive. Equius was clearly four steps ahead of him, so all he had to do was spit the words out, but…
“I think, if it’s okay with you, and...
==> Tavros: Seek the blueblood?
daggerlancekind:
Oh. Wow. He looked like…
Shit. He looked like shit. Tavros wrung his hands a little in his lap, brow furrowing. “Well. Uh. Wow, Equius, are you, uh. Are you okay?” He didn’t look okay. He didn’t look okay at all. Tavros wheeled quietly past, just barely making it through the doorway without squishing his own fingers against the door frame. This hive wasn’t made with...
==> Tavros: Seek the blueblood?
daggerlancekind:
Vriska was asleep for once in her life, blissfully, wonderfully asleep, and that meant Tavros was out from underneath her blue-tinted thumb for a couple hours. She didn’t sleep much, but he almost thought she was pretty when she did, because her face got a lot less mean and her hair went all over the place. She would definitely have been pretty if she didn’t sleep all flailed...
December 2011
34 posts
==> Descend
You sit and stare into your robot’s eyes. Their glassy red judgement cannot be fooled by the black shades that shield your mournful regret. You cast your gaze to the ground in hopes of some relief. There will never be relief for you. Your hands can only do harm. You raise them into your field of vision. These hands, which have never touched another being without dealing pain, are lonely...
==>Respond to the Sounds
milesofragesnake:
His moirail had been pulled away from him so forcefully it was almost cruel. The only thing that had seemed solid - even though he knew Gamzee was responsible, knew he was going to have to cull him himself because there was no way he could stop him from doing this again forever, even though he wanted to kick and scream and shout and hurt -
“What the taint-chafing FUCK do you...
==>Respond to the Sounds
You hold the bot steady as you hear Karkat’s voice carry through from outside. You look at Nepeta, who has disappeared. Again. You assume this only has to do with the glitch. You put down the bot you were going to test with her and open the door to your hive. You feel obligated to see what is wrong with Karkat, especially since you are still carrying out Nepeta’s wishes. You heave a...
==>Respond to memo.
milesofragesnake:
standandwatch:
[?CT]: D —> It appears that she is glitched
[?CT]: D —> She’s invisible
[?CT]: D —> Hrk
[?CT]: D —> That explains why she feels she is being ignored
[?CG]: INVISIBLE.
[?CG]: OK
[?CG]: WE’RE GOING TO NEED TO DO SOME INVESTIGATION INTO THAT.
[?CG]: TELL HER I SAY HELLO, I GUESS.
[?CG]: SPREAD THE WORD OR WHATEVER IT IS YOU WERE TRYING TO...
==>Respond to memo.
milesofragesnake:
standandwatch:
centaursTesticle [CT] RIGHT NOW opened memo on board ????.
CT: D —> Hello
CT: D —> Has anyone been able to see Nepeta
carcinoGeneticist [CG] AT ??:?? responded to memo.
[?CG]: WHAT? NO, I HAVEN’T.
[?CG]: ARE YOU TRYING TO TELL ME THAT YOU HAVE BEEN ABLE TO
[?CG]: BECAUSE THAT WOULD’VE BEEN A REALLY GREAT THING TO MENTION LITERALLY ANY...
==>Have a Talk with Nepeta
You return to your block after having cut up the meat for the others. You enjoyed your share, however, it stung a bit to know that you had killed this beast. At least he had not been slain in vain. At the very least, he was put to good use and therefore you should not feel bad about it. Still. You are hardly worth existing anymore. You feel quite loathsome. You hate what you have to do. You hate...
==>Return to the Hive
milesofragesnake:
There were a few, guilt-free seconds spent like that, where he’d finally figured out how to make his thinkpan stop churning without the assistance of alcohol and could just enjoy the warmth of having someone up against him. His fingers wound tight into the fabric beneath them, and his need to be anything but alone started to become overpowering-
And then it all came crashing...
==>Return to the Hive
You bring back a good three creatures in your captchalogue. You are extremely stressed right now and all you want to do is leave the meat and return to your room so that you can battle your robots. You enter the hive and close the door behind you and then you begin down the hallway. Or at least, you try to. Your path is blocked by two enamored trolls enthralled in the trances of love.
...
==>Equius vs. Wild Part 2
“Come on Equius! It’s right there!”
You kneel behind a large boulder. You narrow your eyes. Nepeta is right, the rather large beast is right in front of you. However, you can’t bring yourself to attack it. You watch it bend down to drink the water and then raise its neck once again. You frown and look down. Perhaps murdering this beautiful creature may be a simple act for...
==>Equius vs. Wild
You know what Karkat was going to say, however, you decide not to respond or lash back out at him. However strange it is, you seem to enjoy him telling you what to do. It feels good. Really good. You tend to your sweat with a new towel and then hang it around your neck. One towel should be enough for this mission. You prefer to call it a mission. Why? Because then you feel forced to kill these...
==> Karkat: Seek the sweaty dou-- uh, guy.
milesofragesnake:
Karkat grit his jaw hard, nodding once. It was thoroughly uncomfortable, just standing there and watching him for a solid two minutes before he even opened his mouth to say anything. He could respect thinking before you said shit, but this was just ridiculous. It was still a little concerning; he saw Equius’s eyes dart left again, his nearly imperceptible movements that hinted...
==> Karkat: Seek the sweaty dou-- uh, guy.
milesofragesnake:
God, that was unnerving, the way he’d just stare at people. Some things never changed. Karkat wasn’t entirely certain if he was glad for that or not. He had to pause to collect himself before he spoke, not exactly careful with his words but not trying to cause offense, either.
“We’re out of food,” he started, and then paused. “I know you don’t like killing animals or...
==> Karkat: Seek the sweaty dou-- uh, guy.
milesofragesnake:
That hour or so in the ablution trap had done Karkat quite a lot of good. He’d vomited twice into the load gaper, but that was okay; his hair was still damp from the water and he didn’t know how it ran, but that was okay too. The whole mess with Sollux was weighing heavily on his shoulders and between his aching head and rumbling stomach, he was very much not in the best of...
==> Create a Home
You have been unofficially banished to your own space. You settle down in it, doing your best to set it up like your hive. You begin first by removing robotic parts from your captchalogue and building a few robots. Soon, their pieces will be in a broken pile in the middle of your room. Next, you remove a couple of hoofbeast posters from your captchalogue and begin hanging them up on the wall. As...
==>Approach the Highblood's Hive
milesofragesnake:
It was a strange feeling that Karkat did not even remotely enjoy, watching Equius out of his peripheral vision. He tried not to make it clear that he could see as Equius stared into empty space, as he gritted his teeth and struggled through every word. He tried not to notice that Equius had raised his voice, like he was speaking over someone. He tried, but he failed, he knew...
==>Approach the Highblood's Hive
milesofragesnake:
Oh. Oh. Karkat reached up with his free hand to rub at one of his stinging eyes, ignoring their desperate cries to close and his legs’ screaming to rest. He had four hours to go. And now it looked like it was going to be four hours with this asshole, to boot. “Yeah, I know,” he grumbled beneath his breath, running the same hand through his hair before he returned to clutching...
==>Approach the Highblood's Hive
milesofragesnake:
Karkat felt his eyes roll so hard that he quite seriously thought that they might fall out of his skull. At least, thankfully, Equius had given up on trying to bitch him out. That was a blessing. It usually took longer than that, which… lent itself nicely to his story.
He looked over his shoulder at the aforementioned sweaty asshole, brow still wrinkled with confusion and...
==>Approach the Highblood's Hive
milesofragesnake:
He’s offended? He’s offended? Karkat barked out a harsh laugh that didn’t even turn up the corners of his mouth a little bit. “You can shove your propriety right back down your chitinous windhole and tamp it down hard with the sheer weight of all of the shits I do not give!” He felt himself wince as his arm twinged with agony again. Damn it. He clutched it harder to his chest,...
==>Approach the Highblood's Hive
milesofragesnake:
That had been an unmitigated disaster. Nothing had gone according to plan, not a single thing. He’d hoped shooshpaps and a little reason, maybe a bro hug, would have been enough. He was wrong. It was this fucking glitch, it was ruining everything and everyone and he was so sick of this bullshit. But it wasn’t just the glitch, because it was his fault too, his fault that he...
==>Approach the Highblood's Hive
You arrive at Gamzee’s hive, your eyes locked upon it. You felt your stomach turning inside you at the thought of what you were about to do. Associating so closely with someone like Karkat, someone with the lowest, filthiest sort of blood, was the last thing you ever hoped to do with your life. Still, as you peer over your shoulder at Nepeta standing there, you know that your life is not...
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— centaursTesticle [CT] is now an idle chum—
==> Almost There
You can see the highblood’s hive at the very edge of the horizon. For you, it will be just one STRONG jump away. But just as you lift your foot to carry out your commands, you pause. Yet again, you feel her arms wrap around you. You put your foot back on the ground beneath you and stand there in complete silence. You thought you had told her to stay at the hive. You don’t even look at...
You touch down on the ground and look at your surroundings. On the horizon, just barely within sight, lays the hive of the highblood Gamzee. You stare at it for a long while. How can you have come this far? How dare you think you can approach or even HOPE to approach the hive of the highblood? This is so insubordinate, so disrespectful. You are ashamed of yourself. You lower your head when you...
==> Enough. Depart Now.
Upon pulling yourself together, you notice that Nepeta is still seated near the door, smiling at you.
“Equius, its okay,” she says softly. “Find Karkitty.”
You drop the pieces on the floor and stand up with a nod. Before taking your leave, however, you are sure to procure a new towel. Your other one is stained in blue. Blue tears, blue blood. Once armed with a new...
==> Prepare for Departure
Just before you can take a step through the door, you hear a small squeak from Nepeta. You turn to her, wondering what she wants from you. Whatever it is, anything, you will do it for her. You use the towel around your neck to dab the sweat on your brow. You close the door again and walk over to her, sitting beside her. Her eyes are fixated upon yours, unmoving. You want to reach over to her and...
==> Awaken
niightmare2:
ii don’t know.
ii don’t have any an2wer2 eiither.
==> You are pretty annoyed even as you type the response. Your hands are cold and you sort of push the laptop a bit further away from your person. You glance up to Terezi and swallow a few times before messing around with the top of the laptop. Even though you have your coordinates, there’s no way you’re going to tell Equius...
OoC: Headcanons a work in progress
♐ Out of guilt for his failure to spare Nepeta from death, Equius wants to be the body guard of Karkat, or something to that effect. Karkat meant the most to Nepeta so he feels as though this will somehow alleviate his guilt. ♐ Another reason for his desire to do good for Karkat lies in his hallucinations. Equius often hears Nepeta speaking to him and touching him. He gets caught up in these...
==> Awaken
niightmare2:
==> When you see the first words, honestly, you aren’t impressed. Equius is lucky enough that you even feel like responding, let alone giving him the names of everyone who’s still around. You think for a second, trying to recall everyone you’ve run into.
gc, aa, kk, ca, tc, ag, me, you.
ii thiink 2ome of the human2 two.
tc ii2 pretty much on a homiiciidal rampage.
kk went...
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