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

[audio]

[usedshooshpap]

How can you tell that? You've only talked to me once, idiot.

[audio]

[ex_aeroga402]

Heh, that's what he always calls me.

I've been talking to him, too. He might know me better than I know him, but I can still tell things like that, because friends're new for him. And I know what that part's like.

[audio]

[usedshooshpap]

I don't think I'll ever understand you derp types. Accepting anyone as a friend. Looking out for others regardless of your own fucking safety...

[audio]

[ex_aeroga402]

I'm not doing anything that hasn't already been done for me.

[audio]

[usedshooshpap]

This is the moment were I call you a dork again, right?

[audio]

[ex_aeroga402]

Pretty much, but idiot doesn't bug me anymore if you like it better.

[audio]

[usedshooshpap]

How about fuckface? Does that work?

[audio]

[ex_aeroga402]

...Think that one might be a bit much for me.

[It smells like foul language, hrm]

[audio]

[usedshooshpap]

Yeah and?

[audio]

[ex_aeroga402]

Would you want to be called Cutiekins? Because it'd be like that.

[Disney doesn't do cursing. Exception? Vanitas]

[audio]

[usedshooshpap]

You call me cute and I'll rip out your lookstubs with a rusty spoon.

[audio]

[ex_aeroga402]

I wouldn't try to hurt you, but I wouldn't like being called what you suggested any better.

[audio]

[usedshooshpap]

You don't even know what it means. It could be very flattering!

[audio]

[ex_aeroga402]

It's language Master didn't permit, I know it's not good.

[audio]

[usedshooshpap]

Wow. What stick was crammed up his ass?

[audio]

[ex_aeroga402]

Master Eraqus is like a father to me. He had a lot of rules, but he taught me well.

[audio]

[usedshooshpap]

Affectionate sap, aren't you?

[audio]

[ex_aeroga402]

Don't you have family?

[audio]

[usedshooshpap]

No.

[audio]

[ex_aeroga402]

[Note to self: adopt grumpy mc Karkat]

Friends can be family too. That's the kind of family I've got, including people I only met because of this place.

[audio]

[usedshooshpap]

We don't have families at all, moron. Trolls have a custodian, a monstrous beast that matches our blood color, to raise them. Things like fathers. Mothers. Siblings. Shit like that doesn't exist for us.

[audio]

[ex_aeroga402]

[Trolls? Well, he's met fairies, why not?]

That doesn't mean you can't have any.

[audio]

[usedshooshpap]

Might mean it's a thing that's not really compatible with us.

[audio]

[ex_aeroga402]

You don't know until you give something a chance.

[audio]

[usedshooshpap]

You trying to get at something here? Why push something on me that I don't even get?