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Published: 2012-01-15 22:07:33 +0000 UTC; Views: 585; Favourites: 8; Downloads: 6
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Description Karkat Vantas wasn't sure life could get much worse than it was now, standing on top of this garish carriage with some ignorant, fat Capitol animals lugging him and three other nitwits around, all donned in beautifully appealing mining gear.

This was the height of fashion, oh yes, would you just look at the stylish headlamp that weighed a fucking ton, perched atop his head like an overweight bird taking a shit in its nest. And the overalls, such a lovely shade of vomit, baggy and oversized, not to mention the coarse, itchy material it was fashioned from! While the entire Panem audience gawked, oh yes. Their stylists should have been awarded a medal.



He almost wished they were in the Games already, killing each other. Almost.



"Hey, cheer up, Karkat! It could be a lot worse, you know. Your face looks really funny when you scowl," came an upbeat, optimistic tone beside him.


"Shut the fuck up and stop bothering me before I toss you off this chariot and leave you at the mercy of the horse's hooves and the ground."


"You're so melodramatic at times," the tribute replied, not the least bit offended.



Karkat decided that he hated the other male tribute more than the entire Games itself.



"Stop talking to me."


"Nope!"


Karkat ignored him, then, instead turning his gaze to the darkening sky above. It was much easier to glare at then any of the sadistic fuckasses cheering in the audience or the other miserable excuses for human flesh crowded on the chariot with him. The sky didn't have a mouth streaming constant lines of chatter from it. It basically just left you the fuck alone if you left it alone, unless it got tired of your bullshit and pissed on you.



"You probably forgot my name, didn't you? Maybe that's why you don't want to talk, you're just embarrassed, right?"




God, he just wouldn't shut up.




"Well, that's okay. We all forget, sometimes. My name is--"


"I know," Karkat snapped, whipping his glare from the stars to the smiling face of the boy beside him. "God, we are going to fucking die in just a few short days, why the hell are you so fucking bent on us being friends? I don't even know who the fuck you are or whose vagina you came splattering out of or whatever dump you take up as a residence, and I don't care, so just shut the fuck up!"


"Call me Kryst," the boy said, without missing a beat, extending his hand.



Karkat looked at it as if it were a rancid hunk of rotting cow fat.


Kryst waited for Karkat to go on, but he never did, so he continued, hand still offered out to him.


"Twice as many of us this year, huh."


"Dear lord, the boy knows math!"


"We'd last longer if we were allies."


"If I say yes will you fuck off and leave me alone when I tell you to?"


"Maybe not every time you say it, since you tell me to fuck off every time I open my mouth. But I'll try to be less bothersome."


"... Alright, fine," Karkat agreed grudgingly, frowning at Kryst's hand a moment before shaking it quickly then wiping his hand off on the side of his overalls.



"Then it's a deal."



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"I'll have you know that this outfit you have me smothered in is actually quite hideous and I apologize if that might have hurt your feelings but it is quite the truth."


As Karkat was lowered from the chariot, he turned to look over at the District 8 tribute, who was speaking to her stylist in a clear, almost rushed voice that never seemed to have time for commas.


"That's not your place to say!" the stylist snarled, obviously offended. "What would you know, anyway? You're just an ignorant, stupid piece of--"


Karkat and Kryst exchanged glances as the two began to go at it, spewing verbal abuse so loudly that all the other tributes paused and glanced at them.



"That was not a very nice thing to say to someone and I insist that you apologize."

"I don't fucking owe your ass an apology!"

"Then perhaps you should know that I think you're quite a bit of a bitch yourself."


Towards the end, the stylist slapped the tribute, and as they began fighting, Peacekeepers rushed to break them up.



Karkat and Kryst exchanged glances again.


"You should have joined in," Kryst said. "They wouldn't have stood a chance at the profanity firing out from your mouth."



Karkat almost smiled.
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Comments: 15

Leormon [2012-03-19 10:55:09 +0000 UTC]

-thinks she can point out Vriska, and obviously Dirk and Rose- But that's it. Can't wait to finish~

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ArsenicSnap2 In reply to Leormon [2012-03-21 00:23:17 +0000 UTC]

haha oops yeah i should
probably post an update soon,,,, it's been so long

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lertiao [2012-01-16 17:34:01 +0000 UTC]

Yes, good.

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ArsenicSnap2 In reply to lertiao [2012-01-16 22:15:01 +0000 UTC]

:U

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Hitokiri-Shinzui [2012-01-16 02:28:11 +0000 UTC]

this is awesome~!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


oh my god, is there going to be all of the trolls? you maaaaay not have noticed, but Sollux is my favourite~!

i just loved the first chapter in Dave's POV, though, it was really striking~!

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ArsenicSnap2 In reply to Hitokiri-Shinzui [2012-01-16 05:20:54 +0000 UTC]

thanks :U!!!!!!!!!


and yes sollux will be mentioned on the very first day one,,,, though it's kinda sad so be prepared for that;;;;;; (sollux is one of my favorite trolls too ^^)

thank you!

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Hitokiri-Shinzui In reply to ArsenicSnap2 [2012-01-16 22:32:17 +0000 UTC]

ehehe, i can deal with sad~!!!

you're very welcome~!

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xMooWithMehx [2012-01-15 22:19:37 +0000 UTC]

I'm a bit curious as to who's who now

I'm guessing all of the trolls & kids will be involved?

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ArsenicSnap2 In reply to xMooWithMehx [2012-01-15 22:23:23 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, all of the trolls and all of the kids (including the Alpha kids), but the Sufferer is going to be the only Ancestor making an appearance as of now. There are twenty-two Homestuck characters total involved in the actual Games part, though some are going to start dying pretty quickly beginning with Day 1.

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xMooWithMehx In reply to ArsenicSnap2 [2012-01-15 22:36:42 +0000 UTC]

I'm really curious with how you're planning on killing them... It seems strange to think any would go down in the bloodbath but I guess some have to, i'm kind of jealous I didn't think of doing this in the first place xD

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ArsenicSnap2 In reply to xMooWithMehx [2012-01-15 22:43:25 +0000 UTC]

A lot of the deaths will mirror canon in some way (not to spoil too terribly much, but Aradia's death comes pretty early and involves Sollux and Vriska) and I'm not planning on anyone else Homestuck dying in the bloodbath, since there are still the other unnamed 26 people taking part in the Games, a lot of dying will happen but not necessarily anyone you know.

You should write another HGstuck, in a different Games XD I'd read it!

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xMooWithMehx In reply to ArsenicSnap2 [2012-01-15 22:54:00 +0000 UTC]

Oooh sounds good, and makes sense! Ahh I really can't wait to see what you do with it

I might give it a try at some point, I hope you don't think I'm just stealing your idea!! Because... I guess I technically am xD

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ArsenicSnap2 In reply to xMooWithMehx [2012-01-15 23:02:02 +0000 UTC]

XDD I'm sure it was someone else's idea before mine, and there's probably a fanfiction sneaking around that I can't find of it.

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xMooWithMehx In reply to ArsenicSnap2 [2012-01-15 23:07:11 +0000 UTC]

I guess so, but still I wouldn't want you to think I was going around stealing ideas off you xD
I'll probably forget/lose interest in writing this anyway

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ArsenicSnap2 In reply to xMooWithMehx [2012-01-15 23:16:44 +0000 UTC]

Ahh, alright XD

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