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i will make this pretty later

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[alienates]

[ karkat is pretty aware that he could have handled that better. unfortunately, usually when he gets really mad about something, it's either ride it out until he gets occupied by something else. there are a few people who can just talk him out of it, but. well, dirk isn't one of them. ]

It seems like it. [ ... ] Fuck, I wasn't trying to act like I was better than them or that I could come up with a better plan. I just-- ugghhhh.

[terezias]

You were just asking questions like the concerned wiggler you are. I think that once they are not so angry, they will see that.

[A pause. She considers this.]

Well, unless they are very stupid.

[alienates]

They could, in fact, be very stupid.

[ that is indeed still on the table?? he won't rule it out. ]

Did you hear what Strider said?

[terezias]

I did.

[She hesitates--she really, really does not want to talk about everything that went down during Game Over. But for Karkat, she will try.]

I think he was projecting his feelings onto you. [ . . . ] There were many things, and people, to blame for what happened. I should have . . . well, that is not the point. I think most of us could have stopped some part of it by being better versions of ourselves. Maybe that is what we had to learn, by failing the way we did.

[alienates]

That, or he just knew exactly what would hurt if he hit it.

[ the problem with all of them sharing the same guilt over the same event is that it makes for an easy target. ]

I don't want to fuck this up like we did there.

[terezias]

[Silence, for one long moment.]

. . . I can't say for sure that we will not fuck this up. But--this time there is a plan, and we are all working towards it, and trying our best. Not arguing with one another and becoming addicted to shitty soft drinks. [A brief, humorless smile.] After what happened to everyone on the meteor, I didn't think me or my stupid powers would do much good. But I still should have tried. We should try now.

[alienates]

[ he almost wants to argue that she shouldn't blame herself, but he stops. they can fight over whose fault it was or wasn't forever. because no matter how many times they assure each other that it was both a shared responsibility as well as a string of events none of them could have predicted, they're going to quietly claim to be the one most as fault.

but telling her she shouldn't blame herself won't do any good, because it won't stop her from doing it. ]

Getting this right won't make up for our past fuck ups, but... it'll be nice to know create future ones.

[terezias]

Yeah.

[There's not much to say other than that. She pauses.]

. . . it will be good to get Jade out of there and get back to that silly island.

[alienates]

It is really important that we make her a peanut butter and spaghetti dish when we rescue her.

[ he does not. explain why. it just is? ]

[terezias]

[She laughs a little. Okay, Karkat, sure.]

Is the peanut butter a sauce?

[alienates]

It is apparently a type of spread, but I was basically challenged by her to make the two compatible. So that's what we're going to do.

[ that's not quite what happened, but it's what it felt like. ]

[terezias]

That will be hard to do when we are running around in the woods! But we will try our best.

[alienates]

Our lack of resources or use of a fully functional kitchen should not get in the way of our plans, Terezi. You should know this.

[terezias]

How are you going to boil the noodles, Karkat?

[alienates]

Obviously I will go find someone who has noodling boiling powers, Terezi.

[ because certainly, there is someone around with that magical skill. ]

[terezias]

That would be a very specific and not very useful power.

[alienates]

Except it would be the most useful thing on the goddamn planet to me right now, so I disagree.

[terezias]

We still have to break Jade out before we can cook her noodles. Using a hypothetical power which you have just assumed someone here has.

[alienates]

Well, we are most definitely going to do that, and then the three of us are going to have the best fucking noodles to have ever been brought into non-paradox space.

[terezias]

With peanut butter, which is a spread, not a sauce.

[alienates]

Oh, as if you could make something better, Pyrope.

[terezias]

I am merely relaying what you told me, Karkat!

[Though, maybe if you thinned it out . . . but with what? Water? The blood of your enemies?]

[alienates]

This is why we need to get creative. Cooking is an experience, Terezi, and only people with the skill can create a sauce out of a spread.

[terezias]

I am pretty sure you made that up on the spot! But all right.

[alienates]

[ he sits up. ]

Terezi, I am goddamn shocked that you do not trust me.