Official Pale Gamkar Month Blog!

You wake up on his doorstep, and immediately dive into the bushes. 

This is bad. This is a very bad situation you are in right now, and you are absolutely panicking and that is not good also. You force yourself to take a deep breath. Hyperventilating will not help your moirail any, Karkat, and if you breathe too loud the guards might hear you. Right. That’s it - just slink on over across this row of cells, peek in to check there’s no one in them, and move on to the next. 

You are a good subjugglator-in-training. You are the best, in fact, if your ancestor is to be believed - he’s not one for favouritism, so you’re inclined to think of his praise as credible. You kill everyone messily on your training missions, you’re clever enough to know when you’re getting underfoot, and you’ve even sniffed out the odd rebel or two for him to execute. The Grand Highblood is very fond of you indeed. 

You and Karkat have been dead long enough to get used to it. You’re from one of the timelines that ended stupidly - everyone either messed up and died in preventable ways or were forced to wait for the end in a session that was wasting away. At least you followed Karkat almost right away, into the enemy battle that was a bit too much for the two of you at your levels. At least it wasn’t any of your friends who caused it.

The thing about the passage of time is that, if some god-like being or other really wants you to meet someone, there are enough convenient coincidences in the world to manage it even if you are the kind of surly asshole who couldn’t make a friend if his life depended on it.

It is three in the goddamned morning, and you are nowhere near ready for your exam tomorrow. Fuckdamnit. You sigh and settle your head in your hands, scritching anxiously at your temples. You’re tired enough that you won’t be retaining any information, no matter how hard you try, but there isn’t anything to do but try and study anyway. You yawn and stretch, preparing for another round of staring at walls of text, and then someone taps you on the shoulder. 

“Okay, let’s repeat that again for those in the cheap seats. Why the fuck am I standing next to a hospital bed to talk to you?” You cross your arms and scowl down at your idiotic best friend. 

Another day at the counter of this tiny coffee shop, and you think you might explode. There’s nothing wrong with the shop itself - cozy little thing, warm lights and delicious aroma - or most of the patrons. People here tend to keep to themselves, and you have no trouble handing them their drinks in silence because you get paid either way, and niceties are exhausting.

After the game ends, you refuse to face what’s happened. Everything’s kind of blurry, on what you did wrong and what you didn’t do, or what you did that wasn’t wrong, and no one else seems to know for sure either. You don’t want to face any more questions, any more disgusted looks, any more wondering if all that is your fault - so you run away instead. 

He’s there in the dorm room already when you get there, but even though he looks up and sees you, he doesn’t make any sort of greeting. It’s just as well, you suppose, because after getting everything together to move in you’re tired to your bones and hurting for something to take the edge off your mind. 

No. No, no, no. This isn’t happening. This isn’t happening to you, to Gamzee, to the two of you right now. Not here, in the middle of the highway, out in the open when you weren’t expecting it and you’d been so close to safety, to happiness. 

“Okay,” Terezi says, knife-grin already widening, “I bet you a cherry smoothie that you can’t… go make friends with Makara!”

You show up at his door one day, and he looks at you and asks you who you are, and it breaks you open. 

And let me tell you, this month has been amazing. The influx of pale gamkar that happened has been one of the greatest experiences in my fandom life!

Thank you so much to everyone that participated! Even if you were only able to do one or two days, it was because of you that this month was so awesome! :D

APRIL WAS A BUSY MONTH FOR A LOT OF PEOPLE THOUGH.

As it turns out, April was for many a time for exams, and for others a rough month in general. I know there’s a lot of people who were excited for Gamkar Month and were just simply not able to do it for one reason or another.

After a bit of thought, I’ve decided that (if you’d like) you can still try to do the list and I’ll keep reblogging them as official contributions until the end of May. I hope this is good news to people!

Once again, thank you so much to everyone that’s made something to make this month such a success!

<3