On old games and new

[cuddlefishculling]

... Waiting around isn't going to )(elp anybody, you know.
It's better to just take t)(e PLUNG-E.

And we BOT)( know you want to go back, so just sucker it up and APP already! >38O

Comments

[photographic_carp]

wwell its wweird thinkin youre an alien
but you still seem like the feferi i knoww

[cuddlefishculling]

You're...
Well, more POLIT-E t)(an t)(e Eridan I know, )(a)(a! 38D
But I t)(ink you're t)(e same. I don't t)(ink we're all COMPL-ET-ELY different, after all!
It's just a c)(ange of skin and some going-away of t)(e gills!

[photographic_carp]

i guess youre right
youre definitely still acting like one of my best friends.

[cuddlefishculling]

I am!
Well, I guess I WAS.
I was your moirail for a really long time, too! But I guess you don't )(ave t)(at, since you're )(uman.
T)(at's weird to t)(ink aboat!

[photographic_carp]

"wwas"?
wwhat do you mean?

[cuddlefishculling]

... It's a long story.
We BOT)( screwed up is all I'm going to say! 38(
But at T)(IS point I t)(ink APOLOGIZING is going to be really )(ard. For )(IM more t)(an me because )(e's just a J-ERK, and at least I can S-E-E w)(en I've made a MISTAK-E -

Um, not YOU, t)(oug)(! Even t)(oug)( I'm talking about Eridan I guess )(e's not really YOU.

[photographic_carp]

[A look of horrible realization spread over his face.]

he hurt you and sol didnt he?

[cuddlefishculling]

T)(at's NOT w)(at I was talking about.

... But yea)(.
Actually, )(e killed us.
Later in t)(e timeline I'm from.

[photographic_carp]

oh god
so that dream wwas about your univverse

[Well Feferi, you better prepare for a tight hug because you're getting one whether you like it or not.]

i knoww it wwasnt really me who did it but im sorry.
im so sorry.

[cuddlefishculling]

[ Well, Eridan, you should maybe not be so surprised when Feferi lets out a squeaky glub and freezes up a little. ]

W)(at t)(e GLUB are you even -

[ Oh. Wait. This is a hug. Not an assassination attempt. So she very... hesitantly returns it. ]

It wasn't YOUR fault anywave! W)(at are you doing? 38)
I mean, not t)(at I don't APP-ERC)(IAT-E it! Even if you didn't DO it, it's nice to )(ear at least ON-E Eridan apologizing...
But it's okay, reely! Don't w)(erry aboat it!

[ Putting away the nervous fish puns now. ]

[photographic_carp]

i saww it all in a dream or at least i think i did.
i saww all of it but i couldnt stop it

[He's just going to cling to her for support.]

you an' sol are so precious to me noww. i wwould nevver do somethin like that.

[cuddlefishculling]

I know.
[ Pat pat pat. ]
... You s)(ouldn't feel BAD about t)(at!
You couldn't STOP it, but you didn't START it. So w)(at do you )(ave to feel GUILTY about?
It really doesn't MATT-ER.

[photographic_carp]

[Eridan loosens his grip a little realizing he's probably squeezing Feferi a little too much.]

i guess youre right
still
i think you wwould be shocked to see you, me an sol howw wwe are in our univverse.

[cuddlefishculling]

I probubbly would!
You guys don't get along well at ALL in mine.
Alt)(oug)( t)(ere are a LOT of reasons for t)(at.

W)(at are we like for you? I mean, you've said I'M pretty muc)( t)(e same, but w)(at about everyt)(ing else?
Do you know everyone I do? Like Kanaya and Aradia and Gamzee?

[photographic_carp]

sol and i dont exactly get along either but its wweird
its different from wwhen wwe first met
like our fightin and teasin is a matter of tradition rather than animosity.

an yeah i knoww everyone you just listed but i kneww you the longest
wwe wwere friends as kids

[cuddlefishculling]

T)(at's good! I wis)( you guys could get along in MY universe, too. It sounds like you guys are friends!
And, well, you're not really for me. 38(

T)(AT sounds t)(e same!
Wow, t)(is is REALLY weird. It's like we're being nostalgic, except.
We're t)(inking about t)(ings t)(at are a lot different.

[photographic_carp]

yeah
its kind of awwkwward to havve to tell you evverythin wwhen i feel like you knoww it already
like the fact that you, and sol and i are more than friends.

[So much blushing to be had here as he let Feferi catch on to what he was trying to say.]

I'M A BAD. COMMENT NOW WITH 100% MORE QUIRK

[cuddlefishculling]

Yea)(, I know w)(at you -
Wait, we filled t)(e as)(en quadrant?

...
Well, I can kind of see t)(at...
But I t)(oug)(t )(umans didn't )(ave quadrants!

[ And here she's just going to steal a leaf from Terezi's book - ]

38?

[photographic_carp]

ashen quadrant?
wwhat do you mean?

[He tilted his head.]

then again the sort of relationship wwe have isnt normal for humans but i dont wwant to say wwe have wwhatever you were talkin about wwithout knowwin wwhat it is first.

[cuddlefishculling]

It's like, um -
You know! Auspiticism!
I don't reely know )(ow to explain it. I guess t)(is is t)(e s)(rimplest. W)(en two trolls )(ate eac)( ot)(er but not t)(e rig)(t way or enoug)( to be kismeses, someone sometimes )(as to step in to keep t)(em FUNCTIONAL. Sometimes it's a case of stopping t)(em from KILLING eac)( ot)(er.
No offense, but if we've filled t)(e as)(en quadrant I kind of t)(ink t)(at it's t)(e latter kind! 38/
Alt)(oug)( I don't T)(INK I would be in t)(at quadrant wit)( Sollux, so...

[photographic_carp]

no i dont think its that then
wwell um

[gosh there is suddenly a lot of blushing going on here.]

do people or i guess uh trolls in this ashen thing um
do they
i mean
do they m-make lovve?

[That's the best you're getting out of him Fef, he's not going to have a good time explaining it any other way.]

[cuddlefishculling]

No, it's a conciliatory quadrant, sometimes t)(ere's kissing but not really any - um - t)(ings like - t)(at.

[ ERIDAN SHE'S ONLY SIX SWEEPS DON'T CORRUPT HER. ]

... We aren't all toget)(er, are we?

[photographic_carp]

[Oh course he didn't realize she was that young until just now, it was a good thing he was delicate about it anyway.]

yeah wwe are.

[cuddlefishculling]

[ Eridan you're so bad for the children. ]

O)(!

... Well!

[ Feferi has no real response to that. ]

[photographic_carp]

yeah uh it wworks but obvviously that didn't come up until wwe wwere of legal age

of course wwhen it comes time for that for you do wwhatevver makes you comfortable and happy.