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[ragesnake.livejournal.com]

[Standing in one of the hallways is a kind of funny looking kid. He's short and stocky with a ridiculous mop of inky black hair that looks like it hasn't been combed in weeks, but that's far from the strangest thing about him. Protruding from the mop of hair are a pair of orange-gradiented horns for starters, and the skin they protrude from is greyed and somewhat leathery. His eyes are yellow and his teeth are sharp and he... pretty much looks pissed off at everything.]

[Don't worry, that's normal.]

So let's pretend for half of a fucking miniscule human time measurement that I give one iota of a fuck about this place, and assume that I want to figure out where the fuck my dorm is.

[He glowers at the piece of paper in his hand.]

Would one of you useless pink monkeys like to point me in the direction of A201?

[[ooc; tags when i'm back from a thing.]]

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[fierybluebird]

[Arches an eyebrow, GENUINELY surprised. He's not used to angry kids settling down that easily and leads on.]

Just get here from another world I take it?

[ragesnake.livejournal.com]

[He's not settling, he's... tired, is a good word for it. You've yet to do anything outrightly inane, and you're offering to get him where he's trying to go where he can hopefully hole up and not have to deal with anyone in a relatively short, concise manner. As far as he's concerned, you're a mostly-tolerable human. Ish.]

Looks like it.

[The smalltalk he could do without.]

[fierybluebird]

[Oh well, smalltalk Marco makes for now, though he'll shut up if asked.]

So what was your world like?

[ragesnake.livejournal.com]

[It seems to be a human trait, to make smalltalk. Karkat rolls his eyes.]

Destroyed. We lived on a flying rock in space, waiting until we all got killed off by a cheating bastard created by a bunch of nooksuckingly retarded kids of your pathetic race. [See what I mean when I said he didn't settle? >_>;]

[fierybluebird]

[Eh, good enough. There's a difference between raging at him personally and raging at the world at large in Marco's opinion.]

My apologies then. Although, probably not my race. [Marco doesn't consider himself human.]

[ragesnake.livejournal.com]

Doesn't make a difference to me, you're not a troll. [Well that's not racist at all.]

[fierybluebird]

No, I'm not.

[Whatever, he's met plenty of fishmen who aren't big on humans or other species either. Which is part of why he dislikes being associated as just human.]

[ragesnake.livejournal.com]

[He rolls his eyes slightly and just lapses into terse silence. >_>; Sorry, Marco.]

[fierybluebird]

[He's dealt with worse. Karkat's not even trying to kill him yet. Lalala ambling along.]

I think I've met another troll here though. You might be able to find her.

[ragesnake.livejournal.com]

[Karkat's not much of a killer, really. Too young, maybe. Too human. He looks slightly alarmed at the mention of another troll, though.]

Wh-- what does she look like.

[fierybluebird]

[Marco's a pirate and his best friend used to rage and try to kill Marco's father several times a day. He's got a unique handle on raging kids.]

Horns, a lot like a cat actually. All cute and makes her words "purrrrrr-fect" things like that.

[ragesnake.livejournal.com]

[...that'd do it.]

[He sort of visibly sags in what is probably relief for a brief second, then recovers by rolling his eyes and shrugging his shoulders.] Nepeta.

[fierybluebird]

[Yup.]

Yeah that sounds like it. You're nakama then?

[ragesnake.livejournal.com]

Whatama?

[fierybluebird]

Traveling companion. Since your world was destroyed, even if you wouldn't normally be friends, you'd be nakama because it's a type of bond that forms even if you don't like someone, you'd protect them anyway.

[ragesnake.livejournal.com]

...we all knew each other before Alternia was destroyed anyway, that's a stupid saying. [Except it's true.]

[fierybluebird]

What's a stupid saying, nakama?

[ragesnake.livejournal.com]

Yes.

[fierybluebird]

[Shrugs.] It means more to some people than others. My nakama are my brothers in a way, so we're close, even worlds apart.

For some crews, it's just who they sail with. Them against the world. Since you don't like humans though, seems like that'd be a binding factor.

[ragesnake.livejournal.com]

[Karkat just sort of grumps, hunching his shoulders and shoving his hands in his pockets.] I wouldn't hate them to much if they weren't so inanely stupid and they didn't screw everything up.

[fierybluebird]

Eh, that's what nakama are for. [Shrugs.]

[ragesnake.livejournal.com]

Sure thing, bluebird.

[fierybluebird]

[Leads him up to the rooms, lalala.]

All right, here you go, eh.

[ragesnake.livejournal.com]

[He glances from the paperwork to the room numbers and frowns for a second, then nods.]

[It's about as much of a thanks as you'll get out of him.]

[fierybluebird]

[Nah, it's cool. He wasn't really expecting one. So he just waves the kid off.]