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The Lilypad - Eight Hours Before the Creation of Earth C
VRISKA: UGH!
VRISKA: F8ck.
VRISKA: Just-
VRISKA: Ugh.
TEREZI: VR1SK4! STOP TRY1NG TO W4LK!
TEREZI: TH1S LOOKS R34LLY B4D.
TEREZI: STOP TRY1NG TO W4LK YOUR3 JUST HURT1NG YOURS3LF 3V3N MOR3
VRISKA: No shit!
VRISKA: I- ugh
VRISKA: *pant* *pant*
VRISKA: I just need a moment.
VRISKA: I will 8e in top shape for 8eating Lord English’s ass.
TEREZI: ...
TEREZI: 1 DONT TH1NK YOU W1LL?
TEREZI: YOU SHOULD R3ST
TEREZI: TH1S-
TEREZI: TH1S 1S NOT TH4T 1MPORT4NT
VRISKA: Not that important?
VRISKA: Pyrope, there literally is nothing more important than this!
VRISKA: We’re going to 8eat Lord English!
VRISKA: THE Lord English!
VRISKA: The dude who pretty much controlled the alpha timeline entirely for forever.
VRISKA: The man 8ehind the slaughter even!
VRISKA: I literally.
VRISKA: And I mean literally.
VRISKA: Not metaphorically literally.
VRISKA: And 8y that I mean metaphorically literally, just with a lot emphasis.
VRISKA: That I can’t w8 to 8eat the dude’s ass!
TEREZI: VR1SK4 SHUT UP!
TEREZI: STOP B31NG S1LLY
TEREZI: 4ND STOP MOV1NG SO MUCH, YOUR3 GO1NG TO OP3N YOUR WOUND
VRISKA: Hahahaha I can’t stop 8eing excited!
VRISKA: Like, ugh. Pyrope why are you acting so indifferent towards this?
VRISKA: We’re literally going to save the...
VRISKA: The everything that ever mattered!
TEREZI: H4H4H4 Y34H
TEREZI: ...
TEREZI: YOU JUST LOOK 1N 4 R34LLY B4D SH4P3
TEREZI: 1-
TEREZI: 1DK 1F TH1S 1S FOR YOU
TEREZI: M4YB3 YOU C4N S1T TH1S ON3 OUT?
TEREZI: 1TS NOT TH4T-
VRISKA: C’mon Pyrope!
VRISKA: It’s nothing.
VRISKA: Stop saying this stuff it’s getting really weird.
VRISKA: I suffered worse 8efore.
VRISKA: Remem8er when you 8lew up half my 8ody?
VRISKA: Good times.
TEREZI: ...
VRISKA: ........
VRISKA: Tough crowd.
VRISKA: Sorry, that was awkward.
VRISKA: Anyway .
VRISKA: Pyrope can you fetch me the eg8ert, 8ut girl slash jade the prequel
VRISKA: I can 8eat lord english like this, 8ut i’d rather 8e sure and not do it, like.
VRISKA: With my leg 8usted.
VRISKA: I think I heard she can heal people? she’s a life 8ound like feferi, 8ut we never actually saw what feferi could do so it sounds exciting to see her healing in action.
TEREZI: HM SH3S 4W4Y
TEREZI: 4ND 1M NOT SUR3 WH3R3 SH3 1S
TEREZI: 1TS GONN4 B3 H4RD TO F1ND H3R 4ND 1T WOULD T4K3 4WH1L3
TEREZI: W3 DON’T H4V3 MUCH T1M3, YOU SHOULD ST4Y S4F3 1TS F1N3
TEREZI: 1 TOLD YOU 1T’S NOT TH4T 1MPORT4NT
TEREZI: W3 DONT
TEREZI: W3 DONT H4V3 T1M3
TEREZI: L3TS JUST H4NG OUT 4ND-
VRISKA: Dave is right there tho?
VRISKA: Isn’t he the knight of time?
VRISKA: Can’t he just go 8ack in time and.
VRISKA: I don’t know.
VRISKA: Help?
TEREZI: TH1S 1SNT T1M3 FOR TH4T
VRISKA: For what?
TEREZI: FOR YOU 1LL T1M3D JOK3S
TEREZI: W3R3 S3R1OUS H3R3
VRISKA: 8ut, I’m not joking?
VRISKA: I’m completely serious too?
VRISKA: What are you talking about?
TEREZI: STOP JOK1NG
TEREZI: TH1S 1S S3R1OUS
VRISKA: hm.
VRISKA: What?
VRISKA: Pyrope you’re scaring me.
VRISKA: I’m not-
TEREZI: YOUR3 NOT F1GHT1NG LORD 3NGL1SH VR1SK4
TEREZI: YOUR3 W4Y TOO MUCH 1NJUR3D 4ND YOUR3 JUST GO1NG TO D13
VRIKSA: Well, then just-
TEREZI: NO “JUSTS”
TEREZI: NOT “BUTS”
TEREZI: YOUR3 1N NO COND1T1ON TO F1GHT
VRISKA: W8-
VRISKA: What are you even talking a8out.
VRISKA: Please just-
VRISKA: NO!!!!!!!!
VRISKA: PYROPE WHAT THE FUCK
VRISKA: YOU CAN JUST-
TEREZI: 1 4LR34DY S41D
TEREZI: NO “JUST” TH4T
VRISKA: 8ut.
VRISKA: The life girl can heal me!
VRISKA: Dave can literally time travel!
VRISKA: You don’t have to do this.
TEREZI: 1 DO
TEREZI: 1 QU1T3 L1T3R4LLY
TEREZI: QU1T3 L1T3R4LLY L1T3R4LLY
TEREZI: NOT M3T4PHOR1C4LLY L1T3R4LLY
TEREZI: H4V3
TEREZI: TO DO TH1S
VRISKA: You you-
VRISKA: What?
TEREZI: 1M SORRY
TEREZI: 1M R34LLY SORRY VR1SK4
TEREZI: BUT 1 H4V3 TO DO TH1S
TEREZI: 1TS WH4TS B3TT3R FOR 3V3RYON3 1N TH3 3ND
TEREZI: 1T W1LL B3 B3ST FOR YOU 1N TH3 3ND
VRISKA: W8 WH8T.
VRISKA: WHAT THE FUCK PYROP8.
VRISKA: WHAT ARE YOU DOING.
VRISKA: I’M S8PPOSED TO DO THIS.
VRISKA: I’M-I’M SUPP8SED TO KILL L8RD ENGLISH.
VRISKA: IM SUPPOSED TO 8E THE HERO.
VRISKA: YOU’RE-
VRISKA: YOU’RE NOT SUPPOSED TO GO.
VRISKA: YOU’RE NOT SUPPOSED TO LEAVE M8.
VRISKA: PLEASE PLEASE I.
VRISKA: I DIDN’T EVEN S88D GOOD8YE 8R.
VRISKA: HOW I FEEL.
VRISKA: OR ANYTH8NG.
VRISKA: UGH THIS FUCKING LEG.
VRISKA: JUST W8 PL8ASE.
VRISKA: DON’T LEAVE ME.
VRISKA: COME 88CK.
VRISKA: FUCK.
VRISKA: STOP FLYING AWAY. COME 8ACK.
VRISKA: AAAAAAAA.
VRISKA: FUCK YOU PYROP8.
VRISKA: FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK.
VRISKA: FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK FUCK YOU FUCK Y8U FUCK
VRISKA: AAAAAAAAAA8AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA8AAA8AAAAAAAAAA
VRISKA: PYYYYYYYYROOOOOOOOP8EEEEEEE
VRISKA: Please.
VRISKA: Please don’t leave.
VRISKA: I don’t want to lose you again.
Tel Megiddo - Seven Hours Before the Creation of Earth C
MEENAH: ey pyrope
MEENAH: good to see ya gurl
MEENAH: eh?
MEENAH: wheres fishka?
TEREZI: SH3S NOT COM1NG
TEREZI: 1M H3R3 1NST34D
TEREZI: SH3 W4SNT DO1NG W3LL
TEREZI: 1TS F1N3
TEREZI: 4ND 1M 3NOUGH FOR TH1S
MEENAH: le shrug
MEENAH: seain we getting a change of plans here
MEENAH: an additional marine to the squad
MEENAH: and i didnt ask most of the questions for these responses, but thats fin
MEENAH: thanks for all the info
MEENAH: i dont think i relly care tbh
KARKAT: TEREZI WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE.
KARKAT: YOU’RE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE HERE-
TEREZI: UGH 1T DO3ST M4TT3R
TEREZI: 1 PROM1S3 YOU 3V3RYTH1NG 1S F1N3
TEREZI: 3V3RYTH1NG 1S GONN4 B3 F1N3
TEREZI: STOP 4SK1NG
TEREZI: BY TH3 W4Y YOUR3 4SL33P R1GHT?
TEREZI: YOUR3 NOT 4CTU4LLY H3R3
TEREZI: YOUR3 F1N3 TH3R3 R1GHT?
KARKAT: YEAH.
KARKAT: I’M NOT SURE WHY I FELL ASLEEP.
KARKAT: I WASN’T EVEN FEELING THAT TIRED.
KARKAT: AND IT’S A LITTLE SUSPICIOUS HOW MANY THINGS YOU’RE JUST SAYING.
KARKAT: BUT IT’S FINE.
KARKAT: I’M JUST GONNA HANG OUT HERE AWHILE AND THEN WAKE UP.
KARKAT: IF YOU THINK ABOUT IT, MY ACTIONS HAVE NO CONSEQUENCES.
KARKAT: I CAN DO WHATEVER I WANT AND IF I GET HURT I WILL JUST WAKE UP BACK ON THE MEDIUM.
KARKAT: I CAN’T BE HURT IN ANY PSYCHOLOGICAL WAY.
KARKAT: ONLY EMOTIONAL ONES I GUESS.
MEENAH: lol true
MEENAH: wish that was me
MEENAH: imagine being above consequences
MEENAH: really wish i could just do whatever i want
MEENAH: and then wake up on some arbitrary planet
TEREZI: W3LL YOU C4N ST1LL HURT OTH3RS
TEREZI: SO 1TS MOR3 L1K3 YOU’R3 TH3 ONLY ON3 OUTS1D3 OF CONS3QU3NC3S
TEREZI: UNL3SS TH3 CONS3QU3NC3 1S GU1LT FROM HURT1NG SOM3ON3 3LS3
TEREZI: WH1CH NOT 3V3N YOU 4R3 4BOV3
TEREZI: SO YOUR POW3RS 4R3 NOT 3V3N TH4T STRONG
TEREZI: TH3 POW3R OF B31NG 4SL33P
KARKAT: HM...
MEENAH: ...
ARADIA: hey guys! im back
ARADIA: oh hey terezi!
ARADIA: its good to see you
TEREZI: Y34H H3Y 4R4D14
TEREZI: 1TS B33N 4WH1L3
TEREZI: HOW H4S TH3 GHOST-NOT-L1F3-BUT-H4NG1NG-OUT-W1TH-TH3M DO1NG TO YOU
ARADIA: its been ok!
ARADIA: not much to see honestly
ARADIA: i guess eternal stagnation gets boring after awhile
ARADIA: we should catch up someday
ARADIA: weird we barely ever chat
ARADIA: if we survive this, we should chat more
TEREZI: Y34H
TEREZI: 4R3 YOU H3R3 TO H3LP OUT ON TH3 3NGL1SH F1GHT?
ARADIA: yes!
ARADIA: i dont generally care about any new universes or whatever the others are working on
ARADIA: i enjoy watching, but i don’t think i want to involve myself with these matters tbh
ARADIA: id rather just be here to see the end of this one
TEREZI: 4ND TH3N?
ARADIA: and then?
TEREZI: WH4T 4R3 YOU DO1NG 4FT3R TH4T
TEREZI: 4FT3R TH3 3ND OF 3V3RYTH1NG
TEREZI: 4FT3R R34L1TY COM3S UNDON3 4ND R34SON COM3S TO 4N 3ND
TEREZI: WH4T W1LL YOU DO
ARADIA: hm...
ARADIA: i dont think i ever expected to live past sgrub to be honest
ARADIA: the idea of living past this is actually more terrifying than the comfort of oblivion
ARADIA: ...
TEREZI: W3LL TH3N ST4RT TH1NK1NG C4US3 NO ON3 H3R3 1S DY1NG 4S LONG 4S 1M 1N CH4RG3
TEREZI: 3V3RYTHING 1 JUST H34RD 1S 4 L1TTL3 H34RTBR34K1NG BUT 1 DONT H4V3 T1M3 TO COMFORT YOU
TEREZI: BUT YOU W1LL H4V3 TH3 R3ST OF YOUR L1F3 TO D34L W1TH 1T
TEREZI: C4US3 L1K3 1 S41D
TEREZI: W3R3 L1V1NG
MEENAH: ...
MEENAH: inspiring
MEENAH: but how can you be so sure?
KARKAT: YEAH.
KARKAT: WHY ARE YOU SO CONFIDENT ON THAT.
KARKAT: DID YOU GOT VISIONS?
KARKAT: VISIONS AND FORESIGHTS?
MEENAH: yeah like
MEENAH: fishka had a plan *and* was a codtier
MEENAH: what do you have...
MEENAH: i will think of a fish pun for you later
TEREZI: 1 JUST KNOW
TEREZI: 4ND 1 S4W 4ND 1 KNOW HOW TH1NGS 4R3 GONN4 GO
TEREZI: 1 PROM1S3 1TS F1N3 4ND TH1S 1S HOW TH1NGS SHOULD B3
TEREZI: ULT1M4T3LY 1TS GONN4 B3 F1N3
MEENAH: well i would be more confident if fishska was here!
MEENAH: always had a way with the whole thing of doing things and getting shit done
MEENAH: all the irons? the fire?
MEENAH: that shit was iconic
MEENAH: no shade
TEREZI: NO SH4DOWS T4K3N
TEREZI: SH3 JUST COULDNT COM3 SO 1M 1N H3R PL4C3
TEREZI: 1 H4V3 TH3 TR34SUR3 4ND 3V3N D4V3S HUM4N W3LSH SWORD
TEREZI: 1 M1GHT NOT H4V3 1RONS OR F1R3.
TEREZI: BUT 1 H4V3 4 PL4N TH4T 1S GOOD 3NOUGH
KARKAT: HOW DID YOU GOT DAVE’S SWORD?
TEREZI: H3 K1NDLY G4V3 TO M3 4FT3R 1 K1NDLY 4SK3D 1T
TEREZI: TH1S P4RT 1SNT 4 L13 4CTU4LLY
KARKAT: SOUNDS FAKE AND HUMAN HOMOSEXUAL.
KARKAT: BUT I GUESS HE DOESNT EVEN LIKE SWORDS IN THE FIRST PLACE.
KARKAT: LIKE HOW-
MEENAH: cool, i don’t care
MEENAH: anyway yeah i do that all time
MEENAH: kindly asking for things from others and having them give it to me
MEENAH: #justthiefthings
MEENAH: also how did fishska even got injured in the first place
TEREZI: SH3 F3LL TH3 ST41RS
KARKAT: YEAH DAVE SAID THAT HAPPENS TO HIM ALL THE TIME
TEREZI: SHUT UP 4BOUT D4V3
TEREZI: SH3 F3LL DOWN TH3 ST41RS 4ND D1DNT W4NT3D TO COM3
TEREZI: SH3 S41D 1 COULD DO TH1S 4ND 1T W4SNT 3V3N TH4T 1MPORT4NT 1N TH3 F1RST PL4C3
TEREZI: S41D SH3 W4NT3D TO S1T TH1S ON3 OUT
TEREZI: SH3 S41D 1T W4S F1N3 4ND TH4T SH3 WOULD T4K3 C4R3 OF H3R FOR ONC3 1N H3R L1F3
TEREZI: SH3 S41D SH3 LOV3D 4LL OF YOU 3V3N 1F SH3 N3V3R S4W YOU 4G41N
TEREZI: WH1CH 1S 4BSURD OF COURS3
TEREZI: OF COURS3 SH3 1S GONN4 S33 4LL OF US 4G41N
TEREZI: SO TH4T 1S COMPL3T3LY 1RR3L3V4NT
ARADIA: hm
ARADIA: doesnt feel like something she would say at all actually!
ARADIA: but what do i know. its been years since i had an actual talk with her
ARADIA: gog i should really catch up with my friends
ARADIA: but that really doesn’t sound like vriska!
MEENAH: yeah
MEENAH: and i have quite a few convos with her in the last few arbitrary measures of time
MEENAH: really doesnt feel like something she would say
TEREZI: W3LL
TEREZI: M4YB3 YOU JUST DONT KNOW H3R L1K3 1 DO
TEREZI: 1 KNOW WH4TS B3ST FOR H3R
TEREZI: 4ND UNFORTUN4T3LY 1TS TH1S
TEREZI: NOW 3NOUGH T4LK 1 H4V3 4N OR4NG3 DUD3 TO T4LK TO 4ND YOU H4V3 LORD 3NGL1SH ON YOUR B4CK
MEENAH: hm no? we dont-
MEENAH: flipping fuck
MEENAH: the bitch is here
Land of Tombs and Krypton - Eight Hours Before the Creation of Earth C
DIRK: Well, that happened.
DAVE: it sure did
DIRK: She’s your friend right? Shouldn’t you had said something?
DAVE: is that some tricky question?
DAVE: dont you see my shades?
DAVE: my surname is strider?
DAVE: do you think i can???
DAVE: give others emotional support?????
DIRK: Yeah, sorry.
DIRK: Juvenile mistake.
DIRK: I just think that if my friend Roxy was feeling like that I would really want to help her.
DAVE: wanting and being able to do something are different things
DAVE: would you be able to do it?
DIRK: ...
DIRK: I would sure try.
DIRK: As long as I know that my participation won't make her feel worse and that-
DIRK: You get it.
DAVE: also
DAVE: i dont think me and vriska are that close
DAVE: besides that was her moirail that just flew away
DAVE: like the person whos supposed to be doing the emotional support
DIRK: And speaking of her moirail.
DIRK: Wasn't she supposed to help us in the multi jack fight?
DAVE: yeah she did
DIRK: What?
DAVE: thats future terezi i will bring back after we win the fight
DAVE: spoilers sorry
DAVE: our current terezi is waiting in the site of our strife
DIRK: Dude.
DIRK: You know that makes you an accomplice right?
DIRK: You just directly helped her in the crime.
DIRK: Whatever she is even trying to do.
DIRK: When this Vriska girl finds out she is gonna be pissed.
DIRK: I don’t know her, but I feel like she’s gonna kill you
DAVE: she wont
DAVE: but lets hope she never finds out
DIRK: Yeah.
DIRK: ...
DIRK: Hey where's your sword?
DAVE: hm here?
DIRK: No.
DIRK: Your white sword
DIRK: The Welsh one.
DAVE: oh its right...
DAVE: its...
DAVE: not here
DIRK: I think your friend Terezi took it.
DAVE: SHE DID WH
DAVE: PYRO-
DAVE: no wait its in my fetch modus
DAVE: i think shes gonna ask it to me after the fight
DIRK: Are you gonna give it to her?
DAVE: possibly
DAVE: i dont even feel so attached to these swords
DAVE: i assume she will have a better use than me
DAVE: hey tz
DAVE: hows it going
DAVE: we just saw you
DAVE: future you
DAVE: do some stuff
TEREZI: WH4T
TEREZI: D4V3 1DK WH4T YOU 4R3 T4LK1NG 4BOUT
TEREZI: ...
TEREZI: NO
TEREZI: 1M LY1NG
TEREZI: 1 KNOW
TEREZI: 1 C4N 3XPL41N WH4T 1 D1D 4ND W1LL DO
TEREZI: 4LSO 1 W1LL GO STR41GHT TO TH3 PO1NT 4ND PR3 3MPT1V3LY 4SK FOR YOUR W3LSH SWORD
DAVE: why!
TEREZI: 1TS NOT L1K3 YOU’R3 GO1NG TO US3 1T 4FT3R TH1S
TEREZI: YOU DONT 3V3N L1K3 SWORDS
TEREZI: 1TS GONN4 B3 C0LL3CT1NG DUST 1N YOUR F3TCH MODUS
TEREZI: 1 KNOW FOR 4 F4CT YOU’R3 NOT GO1NG TO H4NG 1T 1N YOUR HYPOTH3T1C4L FUTUR3 HOUS3 OR 4NYTH1NG
TEREZI: 1 M34N
TEREZI: 1TS L1T3R4LLY P4RT OF YOUR TR4UM4
DAVE: i guess?
DAVE: its not false you just said it in a really weird way
DAVE: can you like
DAVE: not talk about my trauma like that?
TEREZI: SUR3
TEREZI: 4LSO 1 N33D TO 4SK YOU TO G1V3 M3 4 R1D3 B4CK TO TH3 P4ST 4FT3R TH3 F1GHT
TEREZI: 1 N33D TO H4V3 4 MOM3NT W1TH VR1SK4
TEREZI: M4YB3 MY L4ST ON3...
TEREZI: BUT 4SSUM3 YOU KNOW 4LL TH4T 4LR34DY
DAVE: yeah
DAVE: sure
DAVE: hm
DAVE: is everything ok?
TEREZI: NO
TEREZI: 1T M1GHT B3
TEREZI: L4T3R ON
TEREZI: W3 M1GHT B3 OK L4T3R
TEREZI: MUCH L4T3R
TEREZI: FOR NOW 1
TEREZI: 1 JUST N33D 4 MOM3NT TO T4LK TO H3R
TEREZI: MY L4ST MOM3NT FOR 4WH1L3
DAVE: dude
DAVE: wtf
DAVE: but ok
DIRK: Hm.
DIRK: I don’t mean to interrupt.
DIRK: Nor do I know you...
DIRK: Ma’am alien.
TEREZI: 1TS B3TT3R TH4T YOU DONT
DIRK: ...
DIRK: Ok.
DIRK: I just feel like you’re making a lot of very hard decisions so things will go your way.
TEREZI: YOU SP34K L1K3 YOU H4V3 3XP3R13NC3 ON TH3 SUBJ3CT
DIRK: Not much practical.
DIRK: But theoretical? Yeah.
DIRK: Do you ever just stand there and daydream how you could kill the dersitian royalty and finish the game already?
DAVE: no
TEREZI: SOM3T1M3S
DIRK: Yeah.
DIRK: I just had a lot of time to think in my void session.
DIRK: About everything.
DIRK: What I mean to say is.
DIRK: I’m not gonna stop you alien lady that refuses to be acknowledged.
DIRK: But remember this.
DIRK: Don’t hold back.
DIRK: Have no pity.
DIRK: Thus spoke Zarathustra.
TEREZI: 1 CH4NG3 MY M1ND
TEREZI: YOU’R3 CRYPT1C, 1 L1K3 YOU
TEREZI: 1 HOP3 YOU DON’T D13
DIRK: Same here.
DAVE: ...
DAVE: dude
DAVE: wtf
Land of Frost and Frogs - Seven Hours Before the Creation of Earth C
CALLIOPE: it’s an honor coUntess of pale plains and shining towers.
CALLIOPE: yoUr veil is so charming and yoUr war tactics are so spicy!
CALLIOPE: please tell me more of all yoUr strategies and methods for best overthrowing the brUtal oUtsiders that challenge yoUr abUndance.
CALLIOPE: and finally opening the opportUnity for yoUr nation state to grow and have an golden age of prosperity and artistic development
CALLIOPE: oh and please don’t spare a *single* detail.
CALLIOPE: tell me all the political drama, intrigUe and romance.
CALLIOPE: oh of coUrse! silly me.
CALLIOPE: my character is the serpentine oracle of the mayhemfUll lands.
CALLIOPE: her goals are to foresee and let it come to be the end of yoUr mesmerizing empire to ashes in the wind.
CALLIOPE: i imagine she woUld die by the end of 3 of 5, bUt come back in a blaze of glory by the start of the final act
CALLIOPE: so gorgeoUs and amazing and.
CALLIOPE: *relevant*.
CALLIOPE: if anything she is definitely relevant.
CALLIOPE: everyone cares aboUt her and-
VRISKA: Hmmmmmmmm.
CALLIOPE: oh excUse me, i’m getting ahead of myself.
VRISKA: Hmmmmmmmm. >::::(
CALLIOPE: no point in creating elaborate frontstory for my characters before the epic even begins right?
VRISKA: Ughhhhhhhh.
CALLIOPE: oh.
CALLIOPE: hm, vriska? that is yoUr name right?
CALLIOPE: woUld yoU like to play with Us?
CALLIOPE: yoU soUnd restless.
VRISKA: What?
VRISKA: No.
VRISKA: Definitely not.
VRISKA: I’m not a nerd.
CALLIOPE: are yoU not now?
CALLIOPE: i thoUght yoU were fond of roleplaying.
VRISKA: Yeah.
VRISKA: Cooler roleplaying though.
VRISKA: Cooler roleplaying for cool and radical girls.
VRISKA: And not roleplaying for 8a8ies.
CALLIOPE: ...
CALLIOPE: well and can yoU point oUt what do yoU dislike in oUr narrative?
CALLIOPE: we coUld make it so it better fit yoUr needs and yoU coUld join Us!
CALLIOPE: playing with foUr is mUch more fUn than with jUst three.
CALLIOPE: specially when one is asleep and the other can’t actUally speak in the way we can.
CALLIOPE: which end Up for me to do all the speaking. -U-
VRISKA: Yeah.
VRISKA: I heard your voice plenty already.
VRISKA: You sure have a way in coming up with things alone don’t you?
CALLIOPE: thank yoU for noticing! i really do.
VRISKA: It wasn’t a compliment.
VRISKA: Just means you’re used to 8eing a lonely..
CALLIOPE: yoU’re really straight to the point aren’t yoU.
CALLIOPE: bUt if yoU don’t want to join Us nor will yoU stop making all these noises, i can only invite you to exist in any of the other rooms in this lovely hoUse.
CALLIOPE: ...
VRISKA: What?
CALLIOPE: will yoU leave?
VRISKA: Hm, what?
CALLIOPE: either you play with Us, or jUst leave.
CALLIOPE: we can give yoU a hand if yoUr leg is hUrting too mUch.
...
Your name is Vriska and you’re not sure how to respond.
You did a really good job up until now to hide your leg pain and act like it’s no big deal.
You also did a really good job at not showing how much you wanted to join the roleplaying, but felt insecure to do so.
But now Calliope is giving you the L. Or rather it’s like she’s offering you two different L’s and both are equally bad. Each in one of her little scaly hands like she is green Morpheus offering to take you out of the Matrix.
Isn’t Morpheus a deity of sleep? Wasn't Calliope just sleeping/being dead just now? Isn’t there something there? Like-
CALLIOPE: vriska?
CALLIOPE: yoUr choice?
Ugh. Not time to think of that.
You take a deep breath and choose.
It’s not like you to overthink after all.
VRISKA: Fine.
VRISKA: I’m Marqu-
VRISKA: ........
VRISKA: No.
VRISKA: Not playing as her.
VRISKA: Let’s say Iiiiiiii’m...
VRISKA: The queen.
VRISKA: Is that fine?
CALLIOPE: :u
CALLIOPE: it is indeed fine!
CALLIOPE: if yoU feel like yoU’re capable of taking the responsibility of coUrse!
CALLIOPE: bUt yoU haven’t talked aboUt what yoU disliked in oUr scenario yet.
VRISKA: I guess your scenario is fine.
VRISKA: Now that I’m here that is, hahahahaha.
VRISKA: You talked a8out relevance well.
VRISKA: Try to keep up with Queen and Tyrant Regent of the hm-
VRISKA: The thing you said 8efore.
CALLIOPE: the pale plains and shining towers?
VRISKA: Yeah!
VRISKA: That’s of course a part of my kingdom.
VRISKA: 8e careful countess if you don’t want me to culturally dominate your territory.
VRISKA: The Queen is not merciful.
CALLIOPE: oh that she isn’t.
CALLIOPE: bUt does she have a name?
VRISKA: Hmmmmmmmm...
CALLIOPE: it’s fine! yoU can think of one later.
VRISKA: Oh thanks.
VRISKA: Thinking of names is... Kinda rough.
VRISKA: Not that it’s relevant in any way.
CALLIOPE: i feel that!
CALLIOPE: coming Up with a name for myself was not easy!
VRISKA: Hm, so the clown didn’t give you one?
CALLIOPE: oh, he did!
CALLIOPE: it was jUst-
CALLIOPE: not one that fit my gender yoU see.
VRISKA: ...
Did she?
Just implied she is trans?
You must have heard wrong. Of course you did, it would be ridiculous to think she is like you.
VRISKA: Yeah, lol. Juvenile mistake of his part.
CALLIOPE: well it wasn’t really a mistake per ce.
CALLIOPE: he didn’t expect for me to be a trans girl.
You mentally bring your metaphorical palm to your imaginary face.
Maybe you can still save this and conveniently ignore all that.
VRISKA: Haha lol good for you.
VRISKA: I’m l8ke.
VRISKA: Totally cis lol.
VRISKA: Haha I don’t properly understand all that lol.
CALLIOPE: oh it’s fine, we can go back to roleplaying!
VRISKA: Dope.
Nice.
Excellent work like always miss Serket.
You also smile even more because you just passed.
#Win.
JADE: oh hm.
JADE: i woke up
JADE: awhile ago.
JADE: i heard what you were talking about haha.
JADE: i’m too.
VRISKA: Haha, wh8t? Cis? Lol.
JADE: no silly!
JADE: im trans too
That wasn't a good save and you do another mental facepalm.
Of course you know she isn’t cis. You had a vantage point of her whole life and transition and the moment you realized she was trans you couldn't stop looking at her timeline and you started feeling weird and you started wondering if you could mind control humans and you learned that you put them to sleep and so you started putting her to sleep every moment you saw her for-
Absolutely no reason.
And absolutely no act of retaliation at all.
Gog you’re glad she can’t hear your thoughts.
JADE: haha yeah! im glad to know about it callie
JADE: its good to have others like you around
CALLIOPE: likewise jade!
CALLIOPE: it gets-
CALLIOPE: lonely. to not have anyone like yoU aroUnd.
CALLIOPE: i had roxy and watching her life and transition in my screen helped me figUre oUt a lot aboUt myself!
JADE: ohhhhh
JADE: roxy too?
JADE: id love to talk more to her about it!
JADE: gosh im so happy to finally meet everyone and be able to hang out
JADE: i just have so much to tell everyone!!
CALLIOPE: me too!!!!!
JADE: aaaaaaa!!!
CALLIOPE: aaaaaaaaaaa!!!!
VRISKA: ........
You would walk away if your leg wasn’t hurting as badly as it is.
So you just look away. Happy to be so close to others like you, but...
No, you can’t tell them so are you. They will hate you and retaliate and reject you and... Kill you!
Yeah that’s reasonable. They. Will. Kill you.
You’re not like them, you’re not cute or wearing a long dress like Jade.
Well so isn’t Calliope, but she’s different. She is proper and polite and delicate and nice. You already regret being dismissive to her. You’re a monster, you already hurt them and you wish you could just walk away, but your DAMN leg won’t let you. Flying isn’t an option either and you definitely can’t ask for help for them to help you go. You’d rather just die here.
JADE: -aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa oh.
JADE: you dont look well
JADE: do you want to talk about it?
VRISKA: What! Me?
VRISKA: No.
VRISKA: 8nd I’m perfectly fine to8.
VRISKA: If yo8 saw any t8ars it’s for grief over the fact that Pyr8pe stol8 my chance against Engl8sh.
VRISKA: Not anything else at all.
JADE: i didnt saw you cry at first you do are! gosh
JADE: its always so weird how trolls cry their blood color
JADE: but your soft blue one is almost a little cute?
VRISKA: !!!!!!!!
VRISKA: SHUT THE.
VRISKA: Shut up Harley and stop saying weird things.
VRISKA: That’s gross as f8ck.
You look away again, but Jade doesn’t let go.
JADE: whats up...
JADE: hmm
JADE: what was your name again?
VRISKA: WHAT!!!!!!!!
VRISKA: It’s Vriska obviously.
VRISKA: I thought you knew me?
JADE: not really
VRISKA: 8ut!
VRISKA: I know everything a88ut you?
VRISKA: Like.
VRISKA: I manipul8 your s8ssion.
VRISKA: I was 8ehind every part of th8 m8st important things that happened.
VRISKA: 8ec Noir? That was me.
JADE: ohhh yeah i do remember that
JADE: hehe so i guess i have you to thank for helping me fuse with my dog and achieve gxd powers.
JADE: thank you! vriska the girl i just met
Wow.
You thought she hated you.
You ruined her life pretty much.
This is not even like an Aradia situation where she doesn’t care. Jade just straight doesn’t know who you are.
You’re amazed.
All she knows about you is how you’re this girl with a hurt leg who is kinda dismissive.
Your mind wanders.
Neither of them really know who you even are, you can show them whoever you want to be.
They don’t have any pre existing expectations on you.
You can be anyone for them.
They don’t expect you to be a bad bitch, they really barely know you.
You can be anyone here, even yourself.
VRISKA: I’m-
VRISKA: Vriska Serket and-
VRISKA: *deep 8reath*
VRISKA: And I’m a trans girl too.
Tel Megiddo - Six Hours Before the Creation of Earth C
Cracked space above, hollow ground below, hundreds of ghosts leave relevance by Lord English’s claws. Meenah and Aradia keep their fights against the beast in desperate pleas for victory waiting for Nike’s blessing.
Victory, of course, means you opening the chest in the right arbitrary time to unleash the four heroes of light to beat the true final boss in a show of lights. A moment decades awaited for, a moment that if the amount of build up to it could be measured it would be colossal.
You are Terezi Pyrore and you feel like the arbitrary time to do so has come.
TEREZI: TH4NKS DUD3
TEREZI: 1 R34LLY N33D3D YOU N4RR4T1NG MY THOUGHTS
TEREZI: 1TS NOT L1K3 TH3 G1FT OF THOUGHT W4SNT G1V3N TO TROLLK1ND SO YOU DONT H4V3 TO L3T 3V3RYON3 KNOW WH4T YOUR3 TH1NK1NG OF
Oh, hey.
TEREZI: H3Y OR4NG3 DUD3, 1 C4N S33 YOU TH3R3
TEREZI: 1 M34NT TO S4Y YOU 4R3NT N3C3SS4RY H3R3 4NYMOR3
TEREZI: YOU C4N GO DO SOM3TH1NG 3LS3
TEREZI: YOUR M3T4PHOR1C4L SH1FT 1S OV3R 4ND YOU GO HOM3 TO YOUR M3T4PHOR1C4L W1F3 4ND W1F3 4ND W41T FOR YOUR UPCOM1NG M3T4PHOR1C4L M1N1MUM W4G3
Really?
Understandable.
But who’s picking up the work once I leave?
You?
TEREZI: YOU COULD S4Y SO
TEREZI: BUT TH4TS 1RR3L3V4NT
TEREZI: L1K3 4 LOT OF OTH3R 1RR3L3V4NT TH1NGS
TEREZI: W1TH 4LL K1NDN3SS YOU 4R3 NO LONG3R N3C3SS4RY 1N TH1S M3D1UM
TEREZI: TH3 S33R OF M1ND R3L34S3S YOU FROM YOUR POST
TEREZI: GO CR34TUR3 OF 1NK 4ND WORD FOR THOU 4RF FR33 L1K3 4 R3F3R3NC3 TO 4 C3RT41N QU3ST1ON4BL3 BOOK 4BOUT W1Z4RDS
Hm.
Ok, I guess?
Leaving this one for you then, you act like you know what you’re doing.
Vote Bernie.
TEREZI: 1 SUR3 W1LL
You are Terezi Pyrope and you are tired of this silliness.
So you open the chest and run, for you know already what will happen and you don’t take your chances to see the show. It’s pretty and all, but you’ve seen better.
The beast and everyone else sit still and await the hero's triumphant arrival.
The sky cracks and the black hole signals for the universe’s requiem.
The whole universe is ending.
But you don’t care.
It’s almost a motif at this point, an act of recurrence to a certain prince that in a way is inside that beast. The swords connect to his neck while he is busy watching the hero’s arrival.
Dreadful etiquette to use this moment of respect for the medium and dismissiveness of realism to better appreciate the craft, but you are quite literally blind so as far as you know nothing is happening.
You almost manage to cut his head off in a single swipe.
But you failed so pure annihilation leaks from his neck hole and mouth and he screams. He screams unlike the terrifying monster you see in front of you, but more akin a child that craves motherly love.
But you don’t care.
It has to be done.
You kick him into a more advantageous position and don’t fail this time. His head flies towards the black before the larger body and as you finally breathe again your ears hear the damage you caused.
You were so busy you didn’t even realize all the oh so legendary heroes were killed in waves of arbitrary destructive power. They were not relevant after all, but is there even a difference between death and not being relevant?
Meenah and Aradia, who seem to be the only ones alive/relevant left look at you.
MEENAH: holy...
ARADIA: wow
MEENAH: FUCK Y-EA)( W-E WON
MEENAH: )(-ELL Y-EA)(!
ARADIA: gog i really didnt expect this
MEENAH: did you expect we were going to what?
MEENAH: die?
ARADIA: yeah?
ARADIA: i thought it would die and stop existing
ARADIA: i really thought that was just what was going to happen
MEENAH: wow
MEENAH: are you ok?
ARADIA: i guess?
ARADIA: i mean i dont think so?
ARADIA: i didnt have much time to think about my feelings
ARADIA: i really just expected to die
ARADIA: im other situations i would even make a pun and move my eyebrows a lot while saying the word “time” but i dont feel like doing so
MEENAH: gee thats harsh
MEENAH: do you wanna talk about it?
ARADIA: maybe?
you look up and wait for the black hole to consume you.
but it refuses to.
hell refuses your entrance and instead tells you:
creature of wild desire, i deny you, i refuse you.
you have no place in the paradise of my creation.
TEREZI: FUCK OFF
TEREZI: JUST VOR3 US 4LR34DY
no.
you play with the narrative like you know what’s better for everyone.
TEREZI: JUST L1K3 YOU DO
yes, but which one of us is a giant black hole dream bubble?
gxd rejects you and throws you into the trash can of reality and relevance.
your sins against the medium will not go unpunished.
to think you can simply decide the fate of the world i must commend your dedication.
for a creature so dedicated as you i assume that to crawl your way out of hell won’t be so challenging.
“and thus icarus who dared to fly too close to the sun with searing wax on his back could only beg for another change as the ocean grew ever so closer.”
-alecia beth moore hart, more known by her artistic name: p!nk.
THE LILYPAD - FIVE MINUTES BEFORE THE CREATION OF EARTH C
VRISKA: We should w8 for Pyrope.
ROSE: Vriska we’ve been waiting for hours.
VRISKA: Well we should wait a few more hours!
VRISKA: We should wait more...
VRISKA: Until she’s here!
...
KARKAT: VRISKA.
VRISKA: She was there with you right Kar-
VRISKA: Vantas.
VRISKA: She was there?
VRISKA: You saw her right? where is she?
KARKAT: WELL YEAH, SHE LOOKED FINE.
KARKAT: BUT I GOT K.O.ED SOON AND WOKE UP.
KARKAT: I DIDN’T EVEN SAW HER UNLEASH HER SUPER SECRET WEAPON.
KARKAT: I HAVE BEEN WAITING TO SEE IT FOR SO LONG.
KARKAT: WHAT EVEN WAS THAT ANYWAY.
VRISKA: 8gh.
VRISKA: It do8sn’t matter!
VRISKA: YOU’RE USEL8SS.
VRISKA: Y8U FUCKING
VRISKA: YOU’R8 US8LESS YOU SHOULD HAD PUT M8R8 EFFORT AND KEPT HER SAFE.
VRISKA: YOU SHOULD HAD 8ROUGHT HER 8ACK Y8U SHOULD-
KANAYA: Im Sorry Vriska
KANAYA: But We Just Cant Wait Anymore
KANAYA: Shes Not Coming
KANAYA: You Have To Move On
EARTH C - 30 YEARS AFTER THE RETURN OF ITS CREATORS
But you didn’t.
VRISKA: Well, happy 8irthday kiddo.
KID: hehe thanks auntie.
VRISKA: Can I ask you a8out all the insane loot you got today?
KID: eh not much
KID: i didnt really want anything
VRISKA: Wow.
VRISKA: Seriously? I thought kids your age wanted everything.
KID: maybe
KID: but is there a difference between wanting everything and nothing?
VRISKA: Ugh, don’t get philosophical on me!
KID: autie pleeeeease
KID: i was joking
VRISKA: C’mon don’t wanna play games and watch stuff?
VRISKA: All your older cousins are playing Minecraft 2 or something.
VRISKA: Don’t you like that?
KID: i do!
KID: i’ve been just thinking
VRISKA: Oh don’t do *that*.
KID: please
KID: i’ve just been thinking about me and stuff
KID: i wanted to tell you cause
KID: im 13 now.
KID: but idk
KID: idk if i have a name i want yet?
KID: can i like? postpone the idea?
KID: choose one later?
KID: everyone gets their name at 13, but idk if i do
VRISKA: Hm.
VRISKA: May8e?
VRISKA: You shouldn’t 8e in such a hurry to choose your name.
VRISKA: We would usually get ours assigned 8y us 8y the powers that 8e.
VRISKA: 8ut we’re in peace here.
VRISKA: We’re happy.
VRISKA: You can take your time to decide who you want to 8e.
KID: yeah!
KID: just like you did.
VRISKA: Yeah...
KID: and i wanted to ask you
KID: about your life and the circumstances that made you to choose to be the person you are today
KID: spare no details!
VRISKA: Gee.
VRISKA: That's a lot.
VRISKA: 8ut i guess i could talk a8out.
VRISKA: Her.
VRISKA: We were unstoppa8le together.
VRISKA: We were gonna take over the world.
VRISKA: I-
VRISKA: I really miss her.
You look forward and long.
You think about the time you had together.
The time you didn’t
The fact that this doesn’t matter and you will move on and step into irrelevance just like the previous decades of your life.
VRISKA: Yeah now I will-
VRISKA: No.
VRISKA: I don’t think i can forget.
VRISKA: I never even knew what happened.
you will forget.
VRISKA: No.
you will move on.
VRISKA: I will not.
you will be forgotten. you aren’t relevant.
VRISKA: No.
VRISKA: What the heck, no.
VRISKA: I will.
VRISKA: I think I want to sing.
so be it.
may you enjoy the doomed fate you have thrown yourself into, dear aunt vriska .
[S] Vriska: Here we go Again.
SORRY 1T TOOK M3 SO LONG
TH3R3S 4 LOT 1 W4NT TO SH4R3 W1TH YOU, BUT TH1S 1S NOT TH3 T1M3
TH3 R1NG W1LL 4LW4YS PO1NTS TOW4RDS M3, 1TS 4LSO 4 K3Y TO WH3R3 1 4M
1N OTH3RS C1RCUMST4NC3S YOU WOULD F41L TO 3NT3R TH1S PL4C3, BUT W1TH TH4T YOU W1LL B3 4BL3 TO
DONT T4K3 LONG
1 W1LL B3 W41T1NG FOR YOU
-1C4RUS