shoosh | nightmare oo1

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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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Ooooh, look at me, I hawe fancy grape jelly blood! Eweryone should be drooling at my feet!

No one caaares, Eridan.

No, you're wrong. Eweryone cares, eweryone who is a somebody anyways.

So fuck off Ter. [HE IS IN TOO GOOD A MOOD, NOTHIN' GONNA BREAK HIS STRIDE~]

Oh my god, ahahahaha!!!

[Yeup, that's still a thing.]

Don't you dare talk to her like that, you pathetic bulgesucking shitstain.

What're you gonna do if I don't stop?

[Yep, he's giving a challenging grin, Karkat.]

[ you're walking a dangerous line, eridan. ]

You don't want to find out.

[ AND SUDDENLY ]

Best friend! Honk!

Gam, get out.

[back to karkat.]

I think I do. Bring it, Gutterblood. I hope you won't prowe as pathetic as you did in our first meet up since you'we come back.

I can take this away just as easily as I can agree to it, Eridan. The second you touch her is the second this ends.

Oh calm the fuck down, mutant. I don't plan on harmin' Ter. I hawe no reason to.

I'm going to hold you to that.

Go ahead, should I seal the deal with some juwenile grub pinkie swear? [It's obvious he isn't taking this too seriously.]

Ooooh, I am so wounded! Your words sting so, Eridan!

Have you ever considered that maaaybe he hates you so much because you killed two of our friends and blinded another? Maybe it is platonic! What would you do then?

Fuck. Off. I know you're blind, but I didn't think your auricular spongeclots were fucked too. Though, with that shrill woice a yours, I wouldn't be all too surprised if those were heawily damaged too. Hawin' to deal with that noise eweryday, yeesh.

Anyways, he already agreed, we're fuckin' kismesises, so get ower it. AND FUCK YOU, I didn't kill ANYONE.

If you are talking about the conversation you just had with him, I did not see any agreement. As for the killing, yes you did. You are a murderer, Eridan, or will be one soon enough. Be warned! I am keeping an eye on you.

Well, Ter, hate to break it to you, but you might not hawe seen it because you're fuckin' blind, but he did, I'll be generous and clarify that for you, since you seem to be hawin' issues. Mowin' on. No I didn't, I didn't kill Fef, I didn't kill Kan. I'd NEWER kill either a them, you're so full a shit Ter, same with Kar. You both are fuckin' dramawhores and it's pretty fuckin' disgustin'.

Oh, yes, let's keep bringing up the fact that I am blind, as if that will erase what you have done! Being unable to see does not mean that I am stupid. And as much as you hate Karkat, I was under the impression that you still accepted him as our leader! Why would he lie about this?

...

[That's a good question, he does have a little remnant of respect for Karkat that he had formed through their friendship they had before he came here, still knows Karkat isn't one to start senseless drama. Wouldn't accuse him of murder out of the blue--but...]

I didn't kill anyone, Ter. [There's a decidedly serious tone to his voice as he speaks. Because, he didn't, or more so, hasn't.]

But you will, Eridan. For Karkat and I, it has already happened.

...What do you expect me to say, do you honestly expect me to beliewe I'll kill Fef AND Kan? That's--...

[Goddamnit, he's so tired of hearing this shit.]

--That's the fuckin' last thing I'd ewer do. I fuckin' lowe Fef, Ter, Kan is my fuckin' friend--now moirail, why would I ewer? It doesn't make any goddamn fuckin' SENSE.

I am not sure how your mind works, Eridan! But you can understand why we don't trust you.

[She shrugs.]

Anyway, to be honest, I will be a bit disappointed if Karkat chooses you as his kismesis! He is way too good for you.

I wouldn't. Plain and fuckin' simple.

[A haughty snort.]

He's already agreed, whether you take it as such or not, he has. And I'm bein' magnanimous here in lowerin' myself to let him actually be considered my kismesis, so you're wrong. I'm too good for him.

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