#silverfoxx18

 Written by Alice, for Kate (aka @silverfoxx18 )

     Foreword

Hello Kate! I know you’re a good friend of Kayla’s and shit and I heard about how you have a bit of a shitty time most of the time so I thought I’d make you something to brighten up your christmas!!! I don’t do too much dabbling in writing fics (but might do more after this!) so hopefully this isn’t absolute trash (I’m better at poetry I swear). I hope your christmas was good! I know that depending on people's families it can be really good or really trash. So many of my friends have to face homophobic, discriminatory or just plain mean families around this time of year so I hope yours wasn’t to much of an ass to you. I really hope you enjoy this. I put a lot of time and effort into this and when I started writing it I just couldn’t stop (My god I can’t believe I wrote this much shit in 2 days). I hope you got some nice things to brighten up your life and I hope this is one of them! Merry Christmas!!!!

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“WHY DOES THE FURTHEST RING HAVE TO BE SO BORING.” Karkat complained. They were a bit over halfway through their first year in their long ass journey to the new session and Karkat and Dave were sitting on the roof of the lab, looking out into the darkness surrounding them.

“THERE ISN’T EVEN FUCKING STARS.” He added.

“yeah” Dave replied, standing up “why did we come up here again?”. “BECAUSE THERE WASN’T ANYTHING INTERESTING ELSEWHERE AND I THOUGHT ‘HEY MAYBE THE ROOF HAS SOMETHING TO OFFER’. I WAS OBVIOUSLY FUCKING WRONG THOUGH” he answered, gesturing to the rest of the open roof which contained jack shit.

“well im heading to the computer lab. you coming?” Dave stated as he started making his way towards the stairs. Karkat got up and followed along. It’s not like there's anything he’d stay up there for anyway.

“I WISH THIS PLACE DIDN’T HAVE SO MANY FUCKING STAIRCASES.” they had finally made it to the computer lab after walking up and down multiple flights of stairs, whoever designed the lab really didn’t think about convenience. When they transportalized in they were assaulted with a menagerie of garlands, lights and other christmas decor. “WHAT’S THIS SHIT?” Karkat asked, confused “IS IT ALREADY NEARING 12TH PERIGEE’S EVE?”.

“12th perigeese eve? these are christmas decorations karkat” Dave replied.

“Yeah Karkat. I have no clue what you’re talking about but the 25th of December is always Christmas day.” Rose added, stepping down off of a ladder propped against the wall “We alchemized all these decorations from random things in the lab so I think we did pretty good, right Kanaya?”.

“Yes, It Was Very Challenging To Find Items To Alchemize An Evergreen Out Of.” Kanaya replied.

The room was decorated head to toe with various set pieces and decorations. the upper parts of the walls were lined with garlands and multicolour lights intertwined to brighten up the drab greys of the lab. Draped across the desks and tables were long lengths of cloth in various reds, greens and whites and amongst the normal clutter of the lab the potted plants had been decorated with lights and small bows. In the far corner was a big christmas tree about the height of the room which had been decorated with long pieces of fabric draped top to bottom and ornaments made from an assortment of items ranging from a fluthulu doll, a ninja star, a smuppet, a bottle of faygo, a scalemate hung by a noose and amongst other things a Thresh Prince of Bel-Air DVD.

“WELL I’M SORRY I DON’T KEEP TRACK OF THE TIME. IT’S NOT LIKE IT’S USEFUL TO KEEP TRACK OF HOW LONG WE’VE BEEN ON THIS ROCK ANYWAY.” Karkat answered annoyingly whilst walking over to the tree. he sat down and started sifting through the presents underneath. He picked up the one addressed to him from Vriska and shook it lightly.

“can you not wait till the 25th karkat?” Dave asked in an insufferable manner.

“NO. I’M JUST MAKING SURE VRISKA DIDN’T GIVE ME A FUCKING DOOMSDAY DEVICE OR SOMETHING. I’D RATHER NOT TAKE MY CHANCES.” After examining it thoroughly he put it down. He still wasn’t sure what it was but doubted he’d figure it out anytime soon. “WELL THIS IS ALRIGHT… I GUESS” Karkat replied, truly taking in all the decorations. He never really liked to decorate for holidays, let alone 12th perigee’s eve, and they were kind of suffocating to him.

“do we have any old christmas movies to watch?” Dave asked Rose, walking over.

“I took a look around but this is the troll meteor so there wasn’t just a random copy of Its A Wonderful Life lying around. We tried to alchemize some using blank discs and christmas items but it didn’t work.” Rose replied, a little defeated. Then she perked up a little bit “But Kanaya did find these 12th Perigee’s Eve romcoms in Karkat’s room.” she added pointing to the desk. Dave walked over and picked up these four cased movies all with titles in text so small you’d need a telescope to read it. They all seemed pretty fucking shitty but Dave shrugged and thought he’d maybe give them a go. At least he could watch them ironically right?

“So are you guys going to help decorate?” Rose inquired, shifting Dave’s attention away from the stack of shitty romcoms.

“DON’T TELL ME YOU’RE DECORATING THE ENTIRE FUCKING LAB” Karkat replied, annoyed that he’d have to look at all these blinding decorations everywhere if he was right.

“Well we were only going to decorate the main rooms but if you want us to we can do the whole lab.” Rose replied in a sly manner. “FUCK NO PLEASE AND THANK YOU.” He answered, just as annoyed as before.

And so Kanaya, Rose and Dave decorated the lab while Karkat sat on his ass bitching about the decorations. He’d spout the occasional ‘YOU’RE DOING IT WRONG LET ME FIX IT’ and decorate for a bit but most of the time he just sat around as people hung garlands, tapestries, wreaths and other wall hangings along with the occasional tree. Good thing they have a fuck ton of grist. When everything had a Christmas look the three kids sat down in the ectobiology lab, exhausted.

“so.. do either of you guys want to watch the shitty perrigeese eve romcoms with me?” Dave asked.

“I think I’ll pass Dave. I’m not really willing to endure endless hours of poor Alternian romantic comedies today.” Rose answered, getting up “I’ve got to go and continue working on my tome anyway.”

“Yes I’m Sorry Dave But I’m Also Not Prepared To Endure Alternia’s Vibrant Film Culture Today.” Kanaya added, also getting up.

“Sorry Dave, see you later.” Rose said.

Then the two of them walked off leaving Dave alone in the lab, staring up at the big tubes filled with chess pieces which now had various garlands and lights wrapping around them.

“ARE YOU GUYS DONE DECORATING YET? I’M REALLY BORED.” Karkat asked, well more like yelled, as he entered the lab. He noticed Dave sitting in the middle, inquiring “WHERE DID THE OTHER TWO GO?”.

“they left, you want to watch these shitty perigeese eve romcoms?” Asked Dave, standing up and adjusting his shades. Rose had given him a nice Santa hat which matched the colour of his god tier pajamas and his hair, while messy, looked rather good.

“THANKS FOR FUCKING GOING INTO MY ROOM WITHOUT ASKING. BUT SURE I GUESS, IT BEEN AWHILE SINCE I WATCHED THEM.” Karkat replied “AND ITS PERIGEE’S NOT PERIGEESE. WE’RE TROLLS NOT FUCKING BIRDS”.

And so Dave and Karkat retreated to the nearest room with a couch and a Tv and turned on their first ridiculously long named romcom. Dave dims the lights and sits down next to Karkat, a bowl of popcorn in hand. The title of the movie flashes on the screen briefly and then the movie begins and then troll Nic cage appears on screen in his high rise office in Floor Street, Felt city.

“fucking hell. TROLL nicolas cage. you’ve got to be kidding me. What was the name of this.” Dave muttered annoyed.

He picked up the case and squinted to read the first few words of the title ‘A Familial Troll Nic Cage On 12th Perigee’s Eve Wishes To Go 6 Sweeps In The Past To Reverse Past…’ He sighed

“Maybe Troll Nic Cage isn’t as bad as normal Nic Cage” he hoped.

He was completely fucking wrong, Troll Nic Cage was just as bad.

The movie wasn’t too interesting. He’d seen it a couple times already so it wasn’t like it was anything new and while he enjoyed seeing it again it wasn’t as good as his first time through. He took a look at Dave who was sitting next to him on the couch. He seemed pretty entertained although it was probably not because the movie was amazing and captivating. Most likely Dave is just internally laughing at how dumb it is. Karkat’s cheeks flared up as he realised that he had just been staring at Dave for a couple minutes flat, just taking him in. His cheeks were on fire and his heart rate picked up a little bit. He questioned why he was so hot and why he was suddenly really nervous but decided to shrug it off and just focus on the movie again.

Karkat’s eyes started to get heavy. He slowly started to doze in and out, missing small chunks of the movie. Eventually Karkat just fell asleep, motionless on the couch next to Dave except for some small inhales and exhales. Dave kind of just kept watching and left Karkat sleeping there. “he looks pretty peaceful” Dave thought to himself.

Then Karkat moved and cuddled up close to Dave, lying his head on his lap, and everything suddenly got really awkward. Dave’s heart rate shot up and he was blushing really hard. He thought that Karkat was really cute and all but it was really fast and unexpected. He really didn’t know what to do and was torn between getting up or staying there. Slowly he just put his arm around Karkat, his heart jumping from his chest, and relaxed.

Slowly Dave fell asleep and joined Karkat in the dream bubbles. The two of them just laid there cuddling on the couch in their sleep.

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Several hours later Karkat woke up, his eyes still heavy. He didn’t really remember what happened last night. It all blended together once he started falling asleep.

“SO WHAT HAPPENED LAST NIGHT?” Karkat thought to himself. He went over what happened the previous night right up to when he fell asleep. Then he realized that he was sleeping on Dave’s lap and sprung up abruptly, blushing furiously.

“whats wrong karkat?” Dave mumbled quietly, waking up from his deep sleep to Karkat staring at him.

It was silent for a minute, then Karkat asked “WHY WERE WE CUDDLING?”

“well you cuddled up to me so…” Dave replied, seeming indifferent to the situation.

Karkat blushed furiously “I DOUBT THAT.”

“well you did”

“FUCK.”

Karkat couldn’t stop blushing. “WHY THE FUCK DID I CUDDLE UP TO *DAVE* OF ALL PEOPLE” He thought to himself. “I DON’T EVEN REALLY LIKE DAVE. HE’S A NICE GUY AND HE LOOKS GOOD AND HE’S HILARIOUS BUT- FUCK I’VE GOT A CRUSH ON DAVE DON’T I.” And in that moment Karkat internally 2x facepalmed at his own idiocy and realized that he’d been fucking chasing Dave for the past half sweep.

It was awkwardly silent for way too long until Dave prompted “want to watch another movie? we’ve still got 3 left.”

“SURE.” Karkat replied nervously. He didn’t know why he was so nervous. He does this all the time with Dave and yet suddenly he’s so anxious.

Dave got up and grabbed the second romcom from the stack, ejected The Familial Troll and put the new disc in. The long ass title flashed on screen as always and Dave went to sit down.

Karkat had no clue what to do. He kinda just sat there, while the movie played, having an internal conflict in his head. Eventually he decided that he’d just schooch in closer to Dave and try to watch the movie. He then proceeded to schooch over so fucking conspicuously that it’s a wonder how he even does anything at all.

Then, Dave draped his arm over Karkat’s shoulders and pulled him in.

Karkat’s heart was beating furiously. It was so unexpected and he was freaking out on the inside. He was stuck in the moment wondering why Dave did that and then he settled down. He wanted to enjoy this moment as much as he could.

They sat there cuddling for what seemed like forever, watching movies. The third romcom they watched was great and they laughed and laughed. They got to their last movie in the stack and then once that was done there would be nothing left to watch. It was pretty sad having their time together end with them just running out of movies.

Credits rolled on their last movie and Karkat got up, he had barely moved in the last six hours and nearly fell over getting up off the couch.

“do you have a crush on me karkat?” Dave asked suddenly.

“UMM.. YES.”

“want to do this again sometime?”

“SURE. I’D LOVE TO”

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“Hey Vriska? Have you seen Dave around? I wanted to ask him something.” Rose asked as Vriska entered the computer lab

“Yeah I saw them. They were in the other room watching romcoms.” Vriska replied, walking over and jumping onto the couch.

“Do you think it’d be okay if I bothered him for a bit?”

1. I randomly start dancing and sometimes don’t even notice till I’m being stared at

2. I color my hair all the time and don’t give a fuck what people think about it

3. I will make an awesome mom

4. I have a cute face

5. I look good in dresses

-RAGE-

Aspect Description: The aspect of Rage is representative of negative emotions in relation to the player it often means a blinding rage, often a rage player will be the physically strongest player in the game, this may not be a good thing. A rage player’s greatest weapon is their rage mode, a state in which they only hit ‘critical hits’ this mode could also be very dangerous to the other players in the session. The aspect of rage refers also to only one possible path in the session, thus blinding them to all other paths, unlike other aspect which often will endorse multiple paths. This is the one aspect that guarantees the player losing sanity at one point. There are only three classes where the rage aspect is a positive thing.

Literal: The manipulation of rage.

Metaphorical: Emotion

Rational: Power

theres so many more rooting for me to die though

i just know it

so many people outside of tumblr

ive made 7 marks and i still havent drawn blood

Dear Silverfoxx, 

That certainly has the makings for some fun black flirting. Flirting does not make you this person’s kismesis- a Kismesissitude is commitment. There is no harm in a little antagonistic flirting. But if this becomes a more frequent thing, a more heated thing, then it may be time to discuss relationship intent. If this evolves into a heated rivalry and a desire to antagonize this other person, you may be creeping into the pitch quadrant. When you sit at your computer, anxiously awaiting this person’s retort to something particularly nasty you said, then you will know that you are starting to feel the pangs of love-hate.