concoursec | hey flathead don't you get mean.

Character(s):

betwixttocks.

Location: Vriska's place. :> Wherever that is.

Rating: ...PG13 for trollspeak.

Open/Closed/Finished: Closed.

Summary: Karkat decides to take a leaderly check up on another member of his team-- even if she's older and now outranks him. In fact, especially because she's older and now outranks him.

He had honestly deliberated over the idea for a few hours, sitting on the floor in the corner he had deemed his own in the dorm he shared with Duo. Vriska was very obviously older, and John had said she was a SeeD. That meant he outranked her, and Karkat really didn't think he liked that at all. He didn't know shit about how the SeeD program even worked, and he probably wouldn't have even cared were it not for this tiny little detail.

He really wasn't sure he could handle the Scorpio outranking him.

And, maybe, if he were completely truthful with himself, he was just sort of morbidly fascinated with the entire thing. He could pass it off as gauging her to figure out how easy it would be to get to where she was and thus, surpass her, but he was honestly just curious. And maybe a little eager to be in the presence of his living teammates.

But of course he'd never fucking admit that.

It was late evening by the time he finally found her place, knocking roughly on the door and standing there, his hands shoved in his pockets and his shoulders hunched at a sharp angle. He was probably going to regret this.

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She sat on her couch, clad in shorts and a tank top, with an apple in her mouth and TV remote in hand. Honestly she never cared for TV, it just seemed like a waste of time, but it provided good background noise if nothing else. She kept her hair pulled back, the tips still wet from having taken a shower earlier. For someone of her kind it would have been strange and alien to be so tired after the sun had set, but after being here for a sweep (two years) she had adapted to the stupid sleep schedule everyone ran on here.

When she heard the knocks Vriska shut off the TV and pulled the apple from her mouth as she stood up. Opening the door she stared at her 'guest' and raised an eyebrow.

"Vantas."

He glowered at her from the doorstep, hating even more that she was taller than him. She sort of always had been, but now the difference was even more pronounced and it just grated his nerves like parmesan cheese. Shifting his weight, he frowned after a moment and raised an eyebrow slowly.

"Serket what the fuck are you wearing," he asked, rather plainly staring at Vriska's apparent lack of dress. Oh, um. Okay Vriska had grown up, and he was pretty sure that he never had and still very much did not want to see her in as little as she was wearing right then but, uh. You're not thirteen anymore, ma'am.

She narrowed her eyes at him, rolling the apple in her hand. "Is that what you came here for? Really?" She knew it wasn't, but if he was going to rag on her already then she would raise issue.

Leaning against the door frame she frowned. "These are my sleep clothes, if you absolutely muuuuuuuust know. I don't sleep during the day anymore, surprise sur-fucking-prise."

A huffed sigh and a roll of his eyes later, Karkat was glowering at her face again instead of looking elsewhere. "No," he insisted, folding his arms tightly over his chest and hunching his shoulders further. "I came here to talk to you, if that's all right with your new-found diurnal self."

She was sleeping at night, now? God, what had this place done to her. Was it going to do the same to the rest of them? Were they all going to wind up freaky day-dwellers like the humans? He couldn't decide what he thought of that. On one hand it might be easier overall, but on another that was sweeps upon sweeps of a nocturnal lifestyle to undo, and not all of them would adjust well. With it just being himself and Vriska and Nepeta he could probably handle it, Nepeta was liable to sleep during the day a lot anyway just because of her weird cat thing, but...

He shook his head to clear his thoughts. He didn't need to get into this right now.

"Shut up, Vantas." With other trolls being around now she was beginning to feel a little self-conscious about her sleep schedule. It wasn't normal by any means and she knew this, but it just felt even more out of place with the others here now.

Bluh. She moved out of the doorway to let him in, closing it behind him.

He was a little surprised by her subsequent telling him to shut up and then letting him in, but he slipped in the door and stood awkwardly in the entryway anyway. He took a moment to look around at Vriska's place of residence, took little away from the experience, and turned back to her.

"Be straight with me here, Vriska, what is this place going to do to Nepeta? I'm still responsible for her." Which wasn't a lie-- Nepeta was sort of like everyone's little sister, as far as Karkat was concerned. Even if his status as Leader was sort of moot here and Vriska was (even if he'd never admit it) probably more qualified since she was older and had been here longer, Karkat was still determined to at least make sure that one of them came out of this okay.

It may have had something to do with the fact that he was pretty sure she was in line to die as soon as Time Compression sent her home again.

She walked over to a chair and leaned against it, the apple in her hand being dug into by her nails. Uncaring of the slight mess she was making as she shaved away at the skin she took her time in answering Karkat's question.

"They're going to train you up to be fit and tidy soldiers. This is the military life, Vantas. Once you pass the exam and graduate you become a SeeD and they send you out on missions at every fucking chance and you get to deal with fucking people and it's all fluffbeasts and flowers around here." The apple's side was being successfully torn into by this point, but she stopped and folded her arms.

"... There's also the option of not going to school here."

His eyes narrowed slightly at her systematic destruction of the apple in her hand. He paid more attention to it than he did to the whole of her words, and clicked his tongue when she was done, tapping his foot absently.

"So why did you stay?"

A shrug. "I thought that since I'd be here I could stand to learn a thing or two more. It was just something to do while I was stuck here." And now it had become a lifestyle.

He shifted his weight slightly, nodding and shrugging his shoulders around in his clothes. Nothing about this uniform was comfortable. He scuffed his shoe idly against the floor and then looked back to Vriska from the floor.

"How long have you been here?" God he felt like some kind of drill sergeant. Or those stupid people that had interviewed him when he had first shown up.

She gave him a pointed stare and then smirked. "So curious< Vantas~. If you muuuuuuuust know I've been her for a sweep. It's not like it's a serket, anyways."

He rolled his eyes ceilingward and shook his head at her, slipping his hands into his pockets again. "They're perfectly legitimate questions," he explained. "I'm gathering information on this place from a source that has been here for a while. You just happen to unfortunately be more trustworthy than a bunch of nooksucking baboons I've never met, which isn't saying much for you or them."

hey flathead don't you get mean.

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