PERSONAL OVERFLOW FOR RECOLLÉ

[windeity]

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[alienates]

As far as I know, that's outside of my skill set.

[ he highly doubts he will suddenly gain that power. ]

But there are a lot of people here who are getting really absurd fucking powers. Even if they might not want specifically us, maybe there are other Retrospec users they'd be interested in exploiting?

[windeity]

It could explain why more people come on the app every couple of months. Waking us up in batches so they can test and see what skills we may be getting back. Putting it that way it's still not fair because then we're stuck with all of this anyway whether we want it or not.

[He shakes his head.] I know you know all of this, it's just...stupid. Like more than our usual level of stupid.

[alienates]

Dude, at least we were able to actually do something about our usual level of stupid. [ ... ] I mean, not like a lot of the shit we did helped or in some cases, made it worse, but it didn't feel like we were screaming into the void?

[windeity]

...I don't know. There are some things we did that helped. Do you remember how things ended up at all? Like. Do frogs mean anything to you?

[alienates]

Not yet, but please elaborate so that they will because I really need to remember the context for this one.

[ frogs. ]

[windeity]

Our universe is a frog. The new one. I saw it, it started out as a tadpole and then just...[He makes a "zoom" motion with his hand.] The last universe was a frog, too. And people have to breed them for whatever reason. I guess special frogs are required.

[alienates]

[ it's almost mindblowing that, a year ago, karkat would have laughed at john's face if he was told this statement. and now he's seriously considering it. ]

Well, why the fuck not? I'm sure it makes sense somehow.

[ no ]

[windeity]

That's pretty much what I said when I found out, too. It makes a stupid amount of sense and I sort of hate it.

[alienates]

It actually pisses me off more that we are so accepting of this shit than the actual shit itself. Does that makes sense?

[windeity]

Yeah. It means they got into our heads and normalized so much of this that we can't even really be mad or anything about whatever happens next. Like okay, sure, if someone tried explaining this to me months ago it would be stupid. This was explained to me months ago, but now it's like "oh yeah that definitely makes sense." Kind of like troll-human marriages and stuff.

[alienates]

[ first of all he hadn't regained that conversation yet and i hate that i'm gonna have to put one in for it now ]

Troll-human marriages.

[ he is... he is pretty certain that he was the one who probably brought this up and he hates that he knows he's going to be right. ]

[windeity]

You...don't remember anything about those, do you? You know, never mind! We do not have to talk about the quadrants or like. Any of that. We can definitely ignore that because that is absolutely irrelevant here.

[alienates]

No. It is too late for that, tell me.

[ HE KNOWS HE'S GOING TO HATE THIS ]

[windeity]

Before we start, do the words "Fruity Rumpus Asshole Factory" mean anything to you?

[alienates]

Oh my god it was a memo.

[ he sounds horrified. ]

[windeity]

I mean. Yes. But do you remember what it was about? I am not sure I am qualified to talk about red romance and black romance and your weird troll culture but I can try.

[alienates]

I don't remember that exact conversation but I remember enough memos that...

[ a pause. he knows that this will be terrible. ]

[windeity]

Okay so. Don't get mad! I think it's kind of funny now so there is no reason to be mad about it! Haha. [Oh boy.] There were a lot of human and troll romantic shenanigans flying around, I think, and you were trying to tell me and Dave not to listen to Terezi and Vriska even though they were hitting on us, and I think maybe you were hitting on me, too? Even though I think you were maybe dating Terezi?

[Kill him.] But um! You also created a shipping chart for me, Dave, Rose and Jade. Actually I think you were going to explain quadrants and then you just started yelling at me about Vriska.

[alienates]

[ do you ever decide to do something and then immediately regret it? never before has karkat regretted agreeing to something as much as he regrets agreeing for john to tell him about this. he knew it would probably be terrible but

this is some next level terrible. ]

Hey. Egbert. Would you mind getting your giant hammer out and just smacking me across the fucking face with it.

[windeity]

[What if he just starts laughing instead? Sorry, Karkat.]

It's funny! You have to admit it's kind of funny to think about now, right? [John probably didn't think it was that funny back then but whatever.]

[alienates]

I'm the one who has to live with this! Can you imagine being me, knowing that you made a ship chart for people! Oh my fuck, what if I start making them here?

[ he sounds so horrified.

and also intrigued. ]

[windeity]

...[Oh no. That is a hard thing to picture and an even harder thing not to picture now that he knows about it.]

I mean I guess that is pretty terrible, yeah, but who would you even put on your ship chart in this lifetime?

[alienates]

[ he has to... think about it... ]

Fuck, I don't know. Yu and Yosuke? They're already dating though.

[windeity]

Wait they are? [...huh. Guess that makes some sense even if he never thought of it.] You can't just keep two people on a shipping chart. That's the point of a chart? There are supposed to be multiple people. [...] Forget that I'm encouraging this.

[alienates]

[ whoops sorry yu ]

No, no, it's too goddamn late now. You are an accomplice in this. I am cosigning your name on this chart and it's in permanent ink, John. There is absolutely no going back now.