♉5 - video

[bullieve]

[ Tavros is not feeling festive or interested in capturing beasts. he has not felt like this for several days. and after spending these several days by himself, thinking Deep Thoughts, he has finally emerged to speak on the communicator regarding them, opting for video despite how much harder actually talking is versus typing. he just gives the

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Voice;

[8etterl8]

What brought this on all of a sudden.

[She doesn't like the sound of this.]

Voice;

[bullieve]

It was just a thing that Karkat said, when I talked to him, uhh, when he first arrived here for what is now the second time, that I know of. But, uhh, it's not really sudden, because that was awhile ago, and, I've been thinking about it a lot, which hasn't really done a thing that's good or useful.

Re: Voice;

[to8egr8]

[Of course it was something Karkat said. It was probably similar to what he had told her as well. Fan-fucking-tastic. The question was, how much did Karkat tell him.]

What all did he tell you exactly?

Voice;

[bullieve]

[ he just doesn't mention that he's pretty sure he heard Vriska slip up once, too. |: ]

Well, the thing was that I said hello to him, and he said something about dead people running around, and, also explained that a number of us were possibly not alive, in the same subject as the first part of what I just said, but, uhh, he didn't say who, or how. And also Sollux said that someone went crazy one time, and also I found out that Eridan is one of the dead trolls that was mentioned, and I'm just, uhh, kind of concerned, because I think I might be one of them also, but I really hope not.

[ ...yeah, so he kind of blew up a little there. he's just so distressed by this thought. ]

Voice; 1/2

[to8egr8]

[There's silence for a while.]

Voice;

[to8egr8]

[Long enough that it seems like she might have hung up. Eventually though she decides to pretty much ignore it.]

Does it matter? I mean, it's not like you're dead here, right?

Voice;

[bullieve]

[ he is actually pretty surprised when she says something, and takes a moment, just a short one, of his own before replying. ]

Yes, I guess that's true. Just, I don't know, uhh, it sort of makes me feel sad, in a way, that maybe, this is all the time I have, if that's a way that I can phrase it so that it articulates the things that I'm feeling in a clear way. And also the others that, possibly, have the same fate, or worse, since, I don't actually know the details of what that is.

Voice;

[to8egr8]

[Surprisingly she knows exactly how he's feeling for once. She's been feeling the same since her talk with Karkat.]

Yeah, well you'll just have to make the most of it then! Don't back down from anything!

Voice;

[bullieve]

That's a thing that I would hopefully try to accomplish in any situation, even if being not alive, uhh, in a premature way, were a thing that I was ultimately possibly facing. But I probably still wouldn't be better at doing that.

Voice;

[to8egr8]

Puh-leeeeeeeese. When did you ever make the most of a situation? I can't think of one time, and you had plenty of chances. You've got to change that here! You want to do something, you do it!

Voice;

[bullieve]

Have to, is that a thing that you're saying in a way that sounds crucial, because it's true, the thing about me also being dead, back where we're from and, uhh, not this place?

[ there, he came right out and said it. in his roundabout way, anyway. ]

Voice;

[to8egr8]

[A beat.]

Didn't we just decide that wasn't important!

Voice;

[bullieve]

No, although, it was sort of suggested, I guess.

Voice;

[8etterl8]

It's not important! I'm deciding that right now. Do you reeeeeeeeally need to know? It's not going to change anything one way or another!

Voice;

[bullieve]

But, that's the thing is that it is, I think, going to change a lot of things regarding how I look at stuff, since, what it could effectively be is the last time that I ever get to look at it! The stuff, that I mentioned, I mean, which is a general time for, uhh, basically anything...

Voice;

[to8egr8]

[There's a long silence as Vriska contemplates how to answer this.]

You could just assume you are, and then hey, if you're alive when you go back, bam! Nice surprise.

[Yeah, she's avoiding the answer. 'Hey I killed you' just doesn't have the right ring to it.]