Terezi Pyrope

I would say that I would love to taste a delicious pink monkey version of you, but I can't. I demand a refund. I didn't ask for them to take my superior skillset away.

[So oblivious to your plight.]

What's a Zubat? You can't just say these things and expect me to know! I'm not a complete expert of this place yet. I need a few days for that!

You don't remember? We met Aranea and Meenah and then the rough pink human arrived beat her up. There was some other stuff, but that's really the only thing important that happened. [Also, just the fact she was all up in Dirk's business.]

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There's really not much to see or taste, so don't go asking about any refunds yet.

[ okay... okay so it's pretty much from the same point in time. ]

A Zubat is a Pokébeast that is, shockingly, like a human bat. Winged mammal that flies at night with no real eyes so to speak? Except these little shits are pretty much everywhere at night and aren't that useful until the evolve into a Crobat. Josie is fucking massive. I can sit comfortably on her back and just fly from city to city.

[ that's right. he can fly. ]

I also hate to break it to you, but I've been here for half a sweep. It's been at least eight humans months since that's happened for me.

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I bet it would taste a lot more than nothing! Right now everything tastes so normal. I can't even enjoy my favorite color anymore. I think this place is trying to sabotage me from the beginning.

[Why do they exist then. What a stupid monster.]

You can fly.

Wait, what? [Time is not her aspect. She should not have to deal with this crap. This is why she stayed linear in the first place!] How long have you been here?

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Then you'll just have to be satisfied by the fact that my human eyes share the same hue as your favorite color and deal with it.

[ Karkat adores his Crobat. she is a friendly thing that HUGS EVERYONE with her massive wings. ]

But yes. Flying is entirely possible if you have the move for it and the best is big enough to carry you. I have a giant bat, a dragon bird, and a dragon that I can use. It's probably the best fucking thing about this place.

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I've been here a grand total of fifteen human months. Almost sixteen. I'd say about six months into this crazy journey, I fell into a coma and spent about a year on the meteor. Then I woke up back here...

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Karkatttttttt. You are my favorite cherry candy red tasting troll. It is you.

[She just cackles a bit, but she calms that down a bit.] That means I can teach Pyralspite how to fly when she grows up a bit.

You're growing up without us! I am offended. I thought we would get to grow old together on the shitty meteor hiding from Jack, but here you are, growing up without us!

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[ yeah yeah. favorite candy troll. he knows. and it's nice to hear. ]

Hey... This growing up is no walk around the lawn ring. Apparently humans have these growth spurts and holy shit does it make your bones ache.

...You should probably also ask Kanaya or Rose about the things that growing up as a human female entails. It's not all that pleasant either.

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That's stupid! Why are humans so weird.

[Oh god. Why would you set up Terezi to having to deal with that? Making her blind wasn't enough apparently.] How unpleasant is not all that pleasant?

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Why are you asking me? I've been saying the exact same thing like a broken record for over a year! And it never gets any better!

[ but guess who isn't answering that question. nope! Karkat remembers what Rose had been like just a few days ago.

shit is scary. ]

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Because they are kind of cool sometimes. When they aren't being completely weird. Sometimes I wonder what happened when we made their universe.

[Can you imagine that happening to Terezi? Yeah, you really don't want too. That's terrifying.]

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That is a question for the ages. A ninth wonder of the world, to be sure.

At least you've calmed down a little.

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I'm always calm! A law abiding troll such as myself is never not calm! I have to be calm for everyone's sake!

[Okay, no. She wasn't calm, but shut up. That's what.]

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It's okay to lose your shit. Think about it, without your ability to smell, you're blind for the first time in a long time with nothing to aid you. To complete this wonderfully disastrous brew concocted by the fates that have deemed it so to wave a middle prong in our faces and kick us like a young barkbeast, this is unfamiliar territory. No one knows fucking anything about this place in regards to what and why and how. Any sensible being would go a little shithive.

Even he best if us, which means you. No one is going to judge you or stamp your head for all to see and to raise your humiliation tiers into the vast unknown. And if they do?

I will punch them in the shame globes. I'll have to rip out their protein chute to replace the waste chute that will no longer seem to function properly after I'm through with 'em.

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They took the only thing that my Lusus left me! It should be a crime for what they did, but I can't even punish them because I don't know who "they" are! This is extremely disconcerting. [And Terezi hates it. She hates not having her ability to smell and taste like they should be.]

I appreciate the concern but I am sure I can do that myself! But if you really want too, I would not stop you. It would be so cruel to me to deny you of such a task.

Does that mean we won't know when we're allowed back? I mean, there was a lot happening!

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We have no clue who the fuck is behind this shit. Maybe it's the professors. Maybe Team goddamn Rocket. Neither one would surprise me at this rate. All we know is that going home is not a voluntary thing.

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Is there a point to all of this? It doesn't sound like there was any way to "win" and go home. At least in the session, we had a goal and we had a prize we could get by winning!

But tell me more about this Team Rocket. [Of course she wants to know.]

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John says the original point to the game was to catch all of the species and to beat the Elite Four after obtaining all of the badges. How much of that is true now? I have no fucking idea.

Team Rocket is a band of outlaws. No doubt you'll want to do something about that. There's a group dedicated to disrupting their plans and protecting others from them, since the local authorities seem inept at capturing the culprits. They have been responsible for destruction of public property on a massive scale, spreading a mutagenic disease, and theft of Pokémon.

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So we're basically just wasting time by doing this! [Wow, what a load of bull.]

You know me so well, Karkat! Of course I want to do something about it. Such actions like that deserve to be dealt with in a proper manner. I know proper manners that I'm sure not many others would partake in.

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I wouldn't call it a waste. Bet your little dragon friend would agree.

[ he likes his beasties, okay? ]

Talk to Riku if you want in on the group endeavors. He's been here for an entire sweep. Two human years. There's nothing about this place he doesn't know.

Whatever you do, just don't get caught, Terezi. You're very human now.

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I understand that, but we also have a lot to do back on the meteor! I was interested in what Meenah and Aranea have to say.

[She is quite attached to her dragon already, thankyouverymuch.]

I will keep that in mind, but I think I need a stronger team before I can just go out back to dealing with vile people again!

Don't worry, Karkat! I'm not stupid. [And she honestly doesn't think she can do much right now given her state anyways. She doesn't want to fuck up because she ran straight into something blind. Literally.]

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Yeah well... I wasn't.

[ Karkat pauses. wondering if he should say something that will make him seem sentimentally stupid. probably should just keep his trap shut while he's a head. but he can't. he is Karkat Vantas, after all. ]

You telling me not to worry isn't going to make me stop, you know.

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You don't want to go back do you?

[Not that back home was great and all, but she also can't really imagine not going back. But she also got the short end of all of this being stripped of what she needed for normally surviving. Living a world of complete darkness was actually really unsettling. She wanted to go back.]

I'll be careful. I don't really have a choice but to be careful.

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I...

[ he is struggling with that really. Karkat isn't sure he wants to go back. No benefit for him. He isn't really needed or anything. Well Dave says he is but that was an opinion more than fact. ]

I don't know if I do or don't. It's complicated.

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I'm useless here, Karkat. I can't do anything on my own right now! [She's already ran into a door for Pete's sake.]

Other than the prospect of having dragons like Pyralspite, what am I supposed to do? On the other hand, everyone seems to be here and we don't have to deal with the meteor or anything else that will happen.

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