28 // [audio]

[shadowdive]

[The feed starts out with a bit of static, but it wears off soon enough with Vanitas talking.]

Out of Mt. Mortar, starting now.

[Off to the side, his tone goes sour.] Now, you're learning how to freaking swim, and we're taking the other route next time. You got that?

I don't see what the bulge fondling deal was. We made it out just fine!

You're learning how to swim. Deal with it.

So, essentially, what we have here is you not wanting to confront your fears so you're more or less attempting to force me to do what doesn't come fucking naturally to anyone indigo on down?

Don't know what you're talking about, and I'm not looking for a lesson this time. While you're here, you're human, and humans can freaking swim.

You don't know what I'm talking about... How about I shove you the merry fuck back in there and sit my Lapras in front of the goddamn exit? What then?

[There's dead silence for a moment, before the sound of a fist hitting a face. Yeahh. The network gets a few audio cues that tell of a fistfight going down, before the gear is dropped and it cuts out.]

Comments

ACTION

[papshooshing]

[ down he goes! holding his face and rolling around. ]

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!

ACTION

[shadowdive]

[It's a good thing he pulled a little bit of it, he's been called a brute rather frequently by Ventus. Cracking his knuckles then, Vanitas growls.]

Grow up and learn to swim. Maybe it'll save you if you go back to your world and someone throws you in a stupid lake, thinking you'll drown, and you can kick their face in once you get to shore.

ACTION

[papshooshing]

WHAT PART OF "MY WORLD IS FUCKING GONE" DID YOU NOT UNDERSTAND WHEN WE SPOKE ABOUT THIS EARLIER!?

[ oops. Karkat springs up and tackles Vanitas. ]

[audio]

[ex_aeroga402]

Betting I know who did the hitting.

[Sigh, Vanitas, so much violence. Probably only knows that sound because of him, too]

[audio]

[shadowdive]

You say that like he didn't fight back.

[Hi lightstuff.]

[audio]

[ex_aeroga402]

There wouldn't be retaliation if somebody didn't start it first, right?

[audio]

[usedshooshpap]

Betting you'd be right.

[audio]

[ex_aeroga402]

Sorry. Vanitas is uh...

[Just about everything he isn't, which means he's not the gentle sort]

Are you okay?

[audio]

[clawshot]

Are you alright?

[audio]

[shadowdive]

Yes. [SRY LINK.] Mountains suck. That's all.

[audio]

[clawshot]

They can be dangerous. It's sometimes necessary to travel them though.

[Voice]

[babel_hacker]

...Still alive over there?

[Voice]

[usedshooshpap]

Like something like that could do me in.

[Voice]

[babel_hacker]

I don't really think something like that can do anyone in.

...So you guys started brawling over swimming?

[Voice]

[shadowdive]

Yeah. Alive. [Crankiest ever, but alive.]

[Voice]

[babel_hacker]

I figured. You'd really have to try hard to die in this world.

[ video ]

[colorsofthewind]

Vanitas? Are you okay?

[ video ]

[usedshooshpap]

Hey! I was the one hitting the ground like a newborn hoofbeast over here!

[ video ]

[colorsofthewind]

Oh! I'm terribly sorry. You're not hurt, I hope?

[ video ]

[shadowdive]

[Concern for him is kind of strange still.]

... Yeah, I'm fine. [Still sounding a little huffy, but at least his tone has chilled.]

[video]

[fathersbeloved]

[ASDFGHJKLÑ]

Vanitas? Did you fall? Are you alright??

[video]

[shadowdive]

[Oh hi there Beato. He's got a few scratches on his low left cheek, close to his ear, but that's about it for wear and tear.]

No, I didn't fall. I'm fine. [He just looks disgruntled and annoyed.]

[video]

[usedshooshpap]

HE PUNCHED ME? WHY IS EVERYONE WORRIED ABOUT HIS FUCKING WELL BEING AND NOT MINE?

[video]

[will_to_burn]

[ And this would be Hikaru, nothing short of concerned because that sounded like a fist hitting a face and that was Vanitas and -- ]

Vanitas-kun! Vanitas-kun, are you okay?

[video]

[shadowdive]

Yeah, I'm fine. [lol I'm not the hurt one here. He looks slightly amused because there's been several asking if he is okay.]