#exposition
[ A bad dream. ] (Not actually posted, just some exposition.) You’ve watched him die before. In the heat of the battle, with the knowledge the game or Jane would bring him back, it didn’t make your heart seize. You always had failsafes. The risks were always calculated ten times over by you, miniscule. “Dirk?” Jake’s hand curled around your shoulder, squeezing tightly in a way that should be reassuring but barely reached you. “You know as good as any I haven’t the slightest clue how to gab at you in a way that’ll slap a plaster on this giant mess of broken pieces, but…” He trailed off. You weren’t ...Read more
[ == > Remember. ] [ Your friends backs face you. Youre on the ground, shades shattered and awkwardly squished against your face, and you can feel the hot ooze of blood from your nose. Theyre shielding you. Their weapons are drawn. Their silhouettes swim in your blurred vision, theyre big blobs of colors to you without the prescription lenses you wear but you know them anyway. Karkats growling. Jade, too, you think. Theres an impossibly massive presence just beyond them, the one who hit you so hard it immediately banished every thought in your head. The impact flung you back and against the ground and ...Read more
[ == > Remember ] [ its an old memory, one belonging to a version of you still laid out in a bed with cords and countless devices attached to him. Unaware. Never waking. But its your memory, too, and its finally come back to you. its blurred, each second dragging into the next and leaving a ghost image behind. The edges of your vision are dark. Your stomach hurts and you feel sick but its nothing on the splitting headache you have. it takes shifting your vision - a feat which nearly makes you sick again - to see black tufts of hair. Karkats carrying you. His nose is scrunched like when hes worried. He ...Read more
An excellent question from mechanicChariot with regards to matters of sovereignty. 8y virtue of cultural associ8tion, many presume I exist under the reign of 'Her Imperious Condescension,' 8ut such an assumption is misplaced. I come from the planet 8eforus, a world that, while structurally identical to Alternia, does not possess a green moon in its or8it, solely a pink one at that. 8eforus was not always the unified planet it is known for in comparison to its twin-sister. In earlier epochs, it resem8led a fractured assem8ly of warring factions, each led 8y influential trolls of varying colours vying f...Read more