alienates | RECOLLE OVERFLOW

[ continued from here ]

Pretty sure that's what most people say before they get frostbite.

[ yeah, that's a helpful addition.

he suddenly starts to just... shuffle awkwardly, trying to get around her in the hope that will??? help??? ]

If we work together, it won't happen!

[ She sounds determined, as if repeating that mantra will make it come true, as if Karkat will accept this spirit of the holiday season. As he shuffles, she watches the garland carefully for the moment its hold ever so slightly slips. The moment she sees a little slack, she tugs her shoe and sock free.

Well, that doesn't.... completely help them out, but it means she's safer from frostbite. ]

Great, so at this rate we'll be free by New Year's. Good work team.

[ honestly there are worse people to be stuck to and he actually likes chiyo, so he is not complaining as much as he could be.

which is saying a lot considering he's still complaining. ]

[ It's too bad Chiyo isn't able to register Karkat's different degrees of complaining, but she's not deterred. Not yet, anyway. ]

Hold on. I might have something in my bag that can help!

[ She rifles through messenger bag. Stylus, nope. Pen, nope. Double-sided tape definitely won't help.... ] Or maybe we can call someone to bring us something sh— Aha! I knew it!

[ She brandishes a pair of pinking shears. ]

You just carry those around with you, because...?

[ he hopes it's not for like, stabbing.

there are definitely other uses but his mind immediately goes to stabs. ]

Oh! I don't always carry them around. I've been scrapbooking a lot lately and making collages for gifts! So when I have some free time, I can just...

[ She makes snipping motions with her hand that's not holding the scissors.

She carefully starts cutting the garland. Carefully because she doesn't know if the garland will suddenly attack... She can never be too sure in these Retrospec days. ]</small

[ they do seem to be snipping, while simultaneously giving some trouble. some of the garland keeps wrapping around the hand she's cutting with, but the pieces she is snipping at seem to be getting undone. ]

I thought only old people scrapbook.

[ They are going to die before they get free. Chiyo's alarmed when she notices the garland wrapping around her hand (in defense, it seems), but she can't stop midway in her task. She'll have to worry about this new trap after she's done. One task at a time, or she'll just get into a frenzied panic. ]

It's not just an old people thing.... I think it's fun, and it's rewarding to record all the things you and your friends do? I can make cute decorations and use cute stickers, too. Have you tried it before?

[ That's a you should try it if you haven't question. ]

No.

[ that's it, that's his answer.

but no, he does (eventually) elaborate. ]

I am not exactly the artistic type, Chiyo.

You don't have to be! It's more about feelings and what you'd like to note about a picture or your memories. You don't need to dress it up with a lot of stickers and fancy paper, if that's not what you want.

[ She snips through the garland she was working on, but that doesn't count for the garland that's wrapped around her hand while she was working. She stares at the new problem for a second. ]

We might get frostbite before we get free.

If we do then we can win the world record of stupidest fucking reason to get frostbite, at least. They would probably make a TV special about us.

[ he is just going to... reach over and try to get that shit untangled from her hand because it's just making this harder. ]

I don't know if I want to be known for that... Thanks, Karkat.

[ Chiyo will wait until he frees her before she tries hacking away at the garland again. Accidentally cutting him would be the worst thing. ]

We should be known for being free and having fun.

What are you, a Woodstock performer? I can think of at least four other things that would be better to be known for.

[ why just four, who knows. ]

[ That is not how she'd expect anyone to describe her, so that makes her pause. ]

I can think of four, too, but tell me yours?

[ Chiyo wants to know. ]

[ he starts to count them off with his fingers, although considering he's still stuck it's more difficult than it should be. ]

Eating the most gingerbread cookies in the span of five minutes, being really rich, not having to deal with Retrospec bullshit, and being the first person to punch the sun and live.

... Why do you want to punch the sun?

[ What did it do to you, Karkat?

Chiyo bites her lip. Almost there to freeing Karkat...! ]

What the fuck has the sun ever done for me?

[ besides allow them all to live on this planet. ]

It makes life brighter and warmer and happier! It makes things easier to see, and sunrises and sunsets are really, really pretty!

[ There's no science here. ]

[ this thread just got funny considering they lose the sun ]

It also gives you skin cancer.

[ Karkat's crabbiness blocked out the sun. ]

That's what sunblock is for! The sun makes plants grow!

The sun's a fickle bitch.

[ he's arguing for the sake of arguing at this point. ]

Maybe.... that's because we revolve around the sun and not the other way around?

[ This is not the point Chiyo should pick up and go with. ]

Oh, so just because life as we know it depends entirely on its position, it has to act all high and mighty?

[ the sun isn't sentient. ]

It... It can't help its place in the sky, and it's a star, so... yes?

[ What kind of argument is this ]

No! There are thousands-- no, goddamn millions of brighter, cooler stars out there! The sun isn't special. It should be fucking ashamed of itself for how much it flaunts its UV rays around as if it created the concept of habitual life.

[ i don't know ]

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