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karkat vantas ([personal profile] shoosh) wrote2011-07-02 06:49 am

nightmare oo1

Warnings: surrealism?? blood, drowning.
Effects: anger, jealousy, peace, rage, revulsion, disgust, hurt, loneliness, pretty much the entire emotional rainbow.

The dream opens on an empty room. It's blindingly white and tiled; a bathroom, clearly. A shower on one side, sink on the other. The other wall is plain and empty. There isn't a door. The plain wall morphs silver, into a mirror, and the dreamer—Karkat—is forced to look at his own reflection. Only it isn't his reflection at all. The Karkat in the mirror stands slouched, cockily looking back at him. As details gradually fill themselves in, it's easy to tell the identity of the person in the mirror. A white shirt with red sleeves and messy, light hair. Dave Strider, clearly, and his image makes the entire dream warp red with unease. With a closed, grey fist, the mirror is smashed, the image of Dave's mocking smile reflected out as it shatters.

Glass hits the floor with a sharp sound, breaking time and time again as it does; a fine snow on the tiles at Karkat's feet. When he turns around, the entire back half of the room is gone, replaced with a dark, unending void. Standing before him is Terezi, a teal glow around her as an arm reaches out. She strokes Karkat's face with soft hands and gathers him up in a tight embrace. In his ear she hisses "1 4M TOO GOOD FOR YOU" and her body shatters—more glass, dark and teal and red and grey, adding to the mess at his feet.

Looking down, the image of Terezi and Dave holding hands is projected into the glass. They're talking and laughing and smiling and Terezi is leaning in, closer and closer, tilting Dave's head towards her. The image is ended by Karkat's heel through the fragments, sending them scattering like bugs. More shattering, more glass.

When he looks up, away from the spiderweb images shining through the glass on the floor, there's a silhouette of two people. The first is short and decidedly feminine, rocking on her heels. Her smile lights up the room in bright green, and she waves goodbye, walking off into the void.

"i don't really want to be friends anymore, sorry!" echos her voice, long after her body vanishes into shadow.

The other form grins with shark-like teeth, arm lashing out to grab Karkat by the collar. A wave of repulsion fills the room, purple-tinted and haunting. The figure leans in close, warm, rancid breath on Karkat's face.

"fuckin' mutant" is all that it breathes, in a wavey, male voice. The male form cackles, and tiny scratches start forming all over Karkat's body. The figure disappears, but the blood doesn't stop. The cuts are bleeding. And bleeding. And bleeding some more. The next thing Karkat's aware of is the walls of the bathroom reappearing, and the entire room filling up with bright, cherry red blood.

It fills his mouth and burns like liquid fire as in enters his lungs. The last thing he's aware of is his head going under.

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[ karkat wakes with a start, sweating and heart beating frantically in his chest. clenching his teeth, he runs a shaking hand through his hair. then, his eyes lock on the dreamberry, blinking innocently on the nightstand. he gives it, and in extension, the entire network, a very classy middle finger and shuts the thing off. ]

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[identity profile] arachnida.livejournal.com 2011-07-02 01:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe for you!

[identity profile] allies.livejournal.com 2011-07-02 01:51 pm (UTC)(link)
[ holding her tight. ]

It was just a dream, I'm okay.

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[identity profile] allies.livejournal.com 2011-07-02 01:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[ oops he really needs a better story for that. ]

It's not important.

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[identity profile] allies.livejournal.com 2011-07-02 01:57 pm (UTC)(link)
[ SFKL;DSF;JLS ]

I think I'll be okay.
Edited 2011-07-02 13:58 (UTC)

[identity profile] foretolds.livejournal.com 2011-07-02 02:23 pm (UTC)(link)
[She straightens a bit, her lips brushing against his neck.]

Are you sure?

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[identity profile] unhinges.livejournal.com 2011-07-02 03:08 pm (UTC)(link)
[ oh nooooo

he's watching

oh nooooooo

best friend

BEST FRIEND

:o(

sad clown troll
]

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[identity profile] forevveraglub.livejournal.com 2011-07-02 05:11 pm (UTC)(link)
[Well that was certainly interesting if not completely amusing.]

How flatterin' Kar, dreamin' about me and the like. Way to display your black affections for all a Somarium to see.

[identity profile] allies.livejournal.com 2011-07-02 07:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah. Don't worry about it.

[identity profile] foretolds.livejournal.com 2011-07-02 07:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Good!

[She pulls away to kiss him again, reaching up to tangle her fingers in his hair.]

[identity profile] allies.livejournal.com 2011-07-02 07:30 pm (UTC)(link)
[ this is karkat, again, not minding. though the flush is back (one day, he'll have control over it). it's less nerve-wracking than the first time, the second, the third; gradually he's getting used to it. the fact that they are matesprits and this is okay.

he presses a hand to the back of her neck, pulling her closer.
]

[identity profile] foretolds.livejournal.com 2011-07-02 07:39 pm (UTC)(link)
[Ooooh Mr. Vantas ooooh! Taking charge! Terezi presses close, her teeth sinking into his bottom lip experimentally.]

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[identity profile] riflekid.livejournal.com 2011-07-02 08:01 pm (UTC)(link)
It looks pretty important to me! It's all split and scraped!

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[identity profile] allies.livejournal.com 2011-07-02 08:38 pm (UTC)(link)
You're not rubbing anything on me. Fuck off, Strider.

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[identity profile] allies.livejournal.com 2011-07-02 08:50 pm (UTC)(link)
[ blearily, with a hand in his hair. he's too zoned out to understand what she's talking about. ]

Don't worry about it, it was just a dream.

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[identity profile] allies.livejournal.com 2011-07-02 08:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Why do you even care?

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[identity profile] allies.livejournal.com 2011-07-02 08:56 pm (UTC)(link)
... Forget about it. [ let's face it, he could've dreamed of worse things. ] I've got something I need to give you.

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[identity profile] unhinges.livejournal.com 2011-07-02 09:00 pm (UTC)(link)
[ blinks ]

What the motherfuck is it, invertebrother?

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[identity profile] allies.livejournal.com 2011-07-02 09:00 pm (UTC)(link)
[ not who he wants to hear from right after waking up, nope. ]

Don't flatter yourself, that could have been anybody.

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[identity profile] allies.livejournal.com 2011-07-02 09:03 pm (UTC)(link)
A shot. I was supposed to do it earlier, but the flood fucked me up.

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[identity profile] unhinges.livejournal.com 2011-07-02 09:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh maaan. A motherfuckin' shot? That's kind of all nice of you to motherfuckin' want to do this for me. Do I fuckin' need it?

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[identity profile] allies.livejournal.com 2011-07-02 09:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, you need it. It's important. You don't remember because it hasn't happened yet, but if you don't get this shot bad things will happen to the people around you.

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[identity profile] unhinges.livejournal.com 2011-07-02 09:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh motherfuckin' no. That'd be real troubling if I caused fuckin' people to get hurt. Honk.

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[identity profile] arachnida.livejournal.com 2011-07-02 10:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Because it bothers you, so there has to be an interesting story behind it!

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[identity profile] allies.livejournal.com 2011-07-02 10:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Like I'm going to tell you about it.

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[identity profile] allies.livejournal.com 2011-07-02 10:47 pm (UTC)(link)
You don't know the half of it. I'll come over now.

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