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[alienates]

[ karkat is still kinda salty towards dirk so he does not share this internal dilemma ]

PRETTY SURE HE DOESN'T KNOW WHAT THAT EVEN MEANS BUT OK.
WHAT DO YOU WANT TO MAKE ANYWAY?

[gnasher]

i was talking to another troll from your planet, who said a harpoon would be a good idea, if i'm planning to do a lot of time underwater.

and i figured a big knife would be fine for being on land.

[alienates]

FEFERI OR KANAYA?
FEFERI IS THE SEA ONE SO. YOU CAN TELL THE DIFFERENCE BASED ON WHETHER OR NOT SHE'S MAKING FISH PUNS.

BUT NO THAT'S A GOOD PLAN?
I CAN'T REALLY IMAGINE YOU SHOOTING ANYTHING. NO OFFENSE.
OR FULL OFFENSE. I LITERALLY CANNOT PICTURE IT.

[gnasher]

kanaya. she came up to me out of nowhere and gave me a work out outfit, and advice i guess? she's really something.

i don't want to handle a gun, i'll leave that to the action movies. i'd end up shooting you or me or some passing baby birddog.

[alienates]

OH YEAH. SHE DOES THAT.
SHE'S INTO "FASHION" OR WHATEVER THE FUCK.
BUT YEAH KANAYA'S COOL, SHE'S MY BEST BRO.

DON'T SHOOT THE BABY BIRDDOGS PEOPLE WILL BE PISSED.

[gnasher]

you guys go way back?

i don't want to shoot any birddogs! they're weird looking, though, i don't get why people like them. those beaks look like they could peck your brains out.

[alienates]

YEAH. SHE'S ONE OF THE FEW FRIENDS I HAD FROM MY PLANET WHO'S STILL ALIVE.
ALTHOUGH I GUESS FEF'S ALIVE AGAIN AFTER SHE DIED??
WHATEVER.

THEY ARE APPARENTLY REMINISCENT OF WOOFBEASTS.
SO THAT MIGHT BE WHY.

[gnasher]

[???]

[that was an awfully casual way to talk about death]

sorry. i didn't mean to bring up a sore subject.

[his friends died? no wonder he's so high strung. rin can't imagine what it'd be like to lose anybody else, frankly (the first person left a huge enough hole in his life)]

[alienates]

[ if only that was the only reason he's like this. ]

IT'S ANOTHER ONE OF THOSE LONG AND COMPLICATED STORIES YOU PROBABLY DO NOT WANT TO HEAR ABOUT.
BUT IT'S OK, I'VE HAD TIME TO... SHIT, WHAT'S THE WORD YOU HUMANS USE?
MOURN.

[ karkat blames himself for each and every one of them. ]

BUT YEAH, KANAYA'S GREAT.

[gnasher]

[they don't have mourning on his planet? -- Rin supposes he should have been putting more context clues together, maybe. Kanaya knowing so much about weaponry, Karkat talking about the hostile local fauna, everyone needing to know how to fight -- of course there'd be casualties in a place like that]

if you ever wanted to talk about them, i wouldn't mind. don't decide what i want to hear, it's rude.

[point made, moving on]

do you think you could teach me to use whatever weapon loki can come up with for me?

[alienates]

[ he ignores the first point. karkat has no idea how he'd even begin to describe how badly the trolls fucked up? it's easier to just not explain homestuck. ]

SURE.
MY SPECIALTY IS SICKLES THOUGH SO.
FEFERI MIGHT BE BETTER FOR HARPOONING LESSONS BUT SHE'S HARD TO CATCH.

[gnasher]

did you just make a fish pun?

[alienates]

OH.
OH MY GOD.
DON'T TELL ANYONE I JUST DID THAT!!
WHAT THE FUCK, WHO HAVE I BECOME?
NEXT I'LL BE MAKING GODDAMN CAT PUNS.

[gnasher]

is one of you a cat troll.

[this... sounds cute...]

[alienates]

YEAH, NEPETA.

[ karkat manages to not mention that she is dead. ]

SHE WAS ALSO HEAVILY INTO ROLEPLAY SO ALL HER TEXTS WOULD BE LIKE
"PURRFECTLY LICKS PAWS WHILE MEOWING OBNOXIOUSLY FOR NO FUCKING REASON, TEE HEE!"

[gnasher]

[oh that's less cute]

yeah that's weird. don't do that.

[gnasher]

the worst one of my friends from back home does is use about thirty-six emojis to say stuff like "meet me at the beach."

[alienates]

DO YOU EVER DO ANYTHING THAT'S NOT SWIMMING RELATED?
BECAUSE IT SEEMS LIKE YOUR FRIENDS ARE THE SAME.

[gnasher]

i don't know what makoto's said about our town, but there's basically the ocean, our houses and schools, a bunch of sand, and one bar we're too young to go to. that's all.

but shut up, i like other sports, music, and skateboarding.

[alienates]

I'M NOT GOING TO JUDGE YOU FOR BEING MARRIED TO THE OCEAN.
I MEAN, I AM.
BUT NOT ANYMORE THAN I JUDGE EVERYONE ELSE.
SO IT'S THE NORMAL AMOUNT OF JUDGMENT.

[gnasher]

do you ever do anything that's not judgement related?

[gnasher]

i'm not the one who made a fish pun, either. are you just having complicated emotions about swimming and lashing out at me?

[like Rin does, every day of his life since birth]

[alienates]

NO!!
STOP TRYING TO TWIST THIS SITUATION AROUND.
WHO SAID THAT WAS EVEN A PUN ANYWAY?
IT WASN'T A PUN UNTIL YOU CALLED IT ONE.
IT WAS JUST A COMPLETE COINCIDENCE AND YOU KNOW IT BUT YOU TURNED IT INTO SOMETHING THAT IT'S NOT.

[gnasher]

wanna go swimming later?

[alienates]

FUCK YOU.
YOU'RE NOT FUNNY.