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Your name is NEPETA LEIJON and although being alive is PAWSITIVELY FANTASTIC, you would DEFURNATELY be much happier if your MOIRAIL was here WITH YOU. -- Affiliated with Niyantrana

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WELL THAT'S A FUCKING SURPRISE.

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"WHAT? NO THAT CAN’T BE RIGHT. LET ME SEE THAT."

Karkat grabbed the piece of paper out of Nepeta’s hands paws and looked at it closer.

Yup, she was right. Commoner precinct, apartment complex 1 room 6. 

"OH. WELL I GUESS WE’RE LIVING TOGETHER THEN…"

He wasn’t upset. At least it was someone he knew, rather than a stranger.

And they got along ok. 

It was just sort of a shock. He wasn’t expecting her to even be here, let alone living in the same block as him.

"WELL, ARE YOU ALL MOVED IN? DID THEY TAKE YOUR CLAWS TOO?"

The least he could do was make small talk. He didn’t want to make her feel unwelcome. 

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Nepeta just about resisted the urge to roll her eyes as Karkat snatched the paper. She hadn’t expected him to take her word, really, very few trolls were that trusting, but still! Rude! Equius would have been having a fit.

Still, it was quite nice to know that Karkat hadn’t changed much in the time she’d been dead.

She grinned brightly. “It’ll be fun! I purromise, I am so good at fun.” Probably not the kind of things Karkat would find fun, but it was the thought that counted.

Her grin turned sheepish, and she suddenly found her shoes incredibly interesting. “Ms Leijon offurs her apawlogies and confesses she was mostly being furry curious about her hivemate.” Role playing as a defence? She had no idea where that notion could have come from! She cleared her throat slightly, looking up from her shoes. “But ummm. I don’t really have anything to move in?”

She pulled a face. “Unfurtunately!” She pulled one of the plastic replacements she’d been given from a pocket. “I got these, though. I could purrobably hunt with them if it wasn’t too big.”

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WELL THAT'S A FUCKING SURPRISE.

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"WELL YEAH, OF COURSE IT’S FUCKING GAMZEE’S FAULT. HE’S THE ONE WHO-"

Karkat stopped himself. It probably wasn’t a smart idea to bring up what had happened on the meteor. 

Wait, did she just offer him tea in his own room? No that couldn’t be right.

That reminded him. Nepeta was in his apartment. The initial shock of seeing her alive had sidetracked him.

"ANYWAY, WHY ARE YOU IN MY BLOCK?"

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Nepeta snickered, far from kindly. That Gamzee was Paradox Space's reigning champion of being the worst person was something everyone had been able to agree on, even the humans in the Alpha session. "He's the worst! Even Ampurra and Sollicks could agree on that."

She gasped, hands once again flying to her face. "This is your block!?" She dropped her hands to rummage through one of her pockets, triumphantly holding up the slip of paper with her assigned address on after finally finding it.

"Its mine too! Sea?" This was so exciting! She'd never shared a hive with anyone but her lusus before. Well, except on the meteor, technically, but she was refusing to count that.

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you bet your ass i can

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WELL THAT'S A FUCKING SURPRISE.

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Karkat was still standing dead in his tracks at the door.

First Eridan and now Nepeta, too?

And why the ever loving fuck is she in my room?

He had just recovered from the shock of the seadweller showing up. This was too much.

"YOU’RE ALIVE…"

Smooth, Karkat.

It hadn’t helped that he had actually missed Nepeta. Especially after meeting Nice and having her call him “karkitty” as a joke. As much as he was annoyed with the human, he stuck around mostly because of how much she had reminded him of the troll now bouncing before him.

"WAIT. HOLD THE FUCK UP. *KARCATFISH*?”

Well, he guessed that she and Feferi had probably spent some time together in the dream bubbles. He hadn’t ever really seen either of them anyway.

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Nepeta finally managed to stop bouncing, though her excitement at seeing Karkat again hadn't died down any, figuring she could at least pretend to act like a normal troll. "Appurrently! I'm not shore how, but I am furry much alive."

Honestly, she couldn't exactly say she cared how she'd been brought back. Being dead hadn't been all that bad, all things considered, but it was nice to be able to feel her heartbeat again.

"Ummm. Are you going to come in? I could purrobably make some tea or something." That is, if her mysterious hivemate had tea. She hadn't had a chance to poke around the nutrition block yet. Still, it would be rude to not offer!

She stifled a laugh in her hands, completely covering her face. "I'm sorry! I can't help it. It's Fefurry's fault!" She paused, lowering her hands just enough to peek out from behind her fingers. "Actually, I suppaws it's more Gamzee's fault? It's purrety complickated!"

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WELL THAT'S A FUCKING SURPRISE.

Karkat had had a pretty uneventful day. He went to the shopping district to get some food, practiced with his sickle in the slums, and walked around the 2nd district, taking mental notes of anything he could make use of.

He had just gotten back to his apartment building and took out his key to unlock the door when something felt out of place. It might have been his imagination, but he could’ve sworn he had made sure to lock the door when he left. He probably simply forgot to. He wasn’t completely used to having to lock doors yet. 

Hopefully nobody had taken the opportunity to take any of his (not valuable) possessions in his absence.

Cautiously, Karkat opened the unlocked door and stopped dead in his tracks when he saw what was inside.

No, not what. 

WHO.

"NEPETA?!"

[adorabeastly]

Finding her new home had been a particularly delicious piece of cake for a huntress as skilled as Nepeta. The inside of her home was almost disappointing compared to the rest of the city. What was interesting was that the apartment was clearly being lived in. The only sensible thing was to investigate. By which, of course, she meant rifle through her new hivemates things and stick her keen feline snout where it quite possibly didn't belong. 

She was halfway through thoroughly investigating the main block when she heard the door open, immediately hopping to her feet and turning with a bright grin. Only for her grin to be instantly replaced by a look of deep surprise.

"Karkat?"

She very nearly gave in to the temptation to tacklepounce him, instead settling for clapping both hands to her cheeks and bouncing on the spot. She'd missed him! A lot!

"Karcatfish!!" The fish puns were a side effect of being in one skin with Feferi and the absolute last thing she needed right now. "I mean-- hi!"

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Efurrything catpuns so much||intro

A moment ago Nepeta had been leaving Vriska’s pirate crew with Sollux and Feferi, and then she had woken up in a hospital with a very odd human talking to her. Or, at her, more accurately. She'd been too busy being surprised to find herself out of the bubbles to do anything but politely pretend to listen.

She almost didn't believe she could be out of the bubbles, but all of her senses were telling her that this wasn’t just a memory of a place, and a good huntress always listened to her senses. Even if what they were telling her didn’t make any sense. And she would have had to have been a complete moron to ignore the renewed beat of her bloodpusher. 

With that settled, all that was left was for her to figure out where she actually was, and possibly where her friends were. Which would probably be easier said than done, but she wouldn’t find out anything just sitting around. She stretched, shoving her newly acquired map and awful plasticy replacement claws into a pocket before marching off in search of someone to question.

It wasn’t long before she spotted someone not far away, and practically bounded over, coat and tail streaming behind her and a broad smile on her face.

"Hello! I’m furry sorry to bother you, but could you pawsibly tell me where this is? I’m purretty lost!"

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AC: :33 < *ac uses one of her mouths to lick the fresh blood off her paws* AC: :33 < *and the other one to blow you a kiss!*

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Nepeta Leijon

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Wait so you think Eridan <3 John could be a thing?

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Karkat and Nepeta (@adorabeastly)

It was nice actually to see your friends- your not dead friends- again. Hanging out with dead people hadn’t exactly gotten boring but it had gotten to be something NORMAL and in your opinion- hanging out with dead trolls should never be normal. Death wasn’t funny, even if you were able to TALK to dead trolls it was still traumatic and rather upsetting.

You had to pull a grimace at this point as you remember a comment you’d made upon finding the dead dancestors. What had you said? Right, you would prefer to hang out with dead trolls like Nepeta rather than these guys. Kanaya had told you that Nepeta was here but you weren’t really sure what you were going to say to her. Sorry? Sorry for what though? You hadn’t killed her. Sorry for being a shit leader? Something like that maybe, you really didn’t know but you’d seen most of the other trolls here- you could not ignore her.

And if she was like Eridan who had died then she was (somehow) alive so maybe that might make things better? You were just kidding yourself now, but you had to find her. It took you a while ind you, you didn’t know which island she was on and walking around this place wasn’t easy but eventually you spotted a blue hat with horns poking out of it.

“NEPETA?”

You don’t know why you asked it as a question- probably because you didn’t know what you were ACTUALLY going to say, but it was a way to get her attention at least.

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It had taken a while, but Nepeta was finally starting to think she’d gotten used to being in Pandora. She still missed her moirail horribly, but considering she’d seen some other trolls around, she was sure he’d wind up here sooner or later. She missed her other friends a whole lot too, even the ones she hadn’t spoken to all that much. Really, the only person she didn’t miss at all was Gamzee, for obvious reasons.

The islands were interesting, at least. Tenebris was filled with interesting animals to hunt, and Lumen almost reminded her of the Land of Little Cubes and Tea with how bright and cheery it was. She'd taken to just wandering, partly in hopes of running in to her friends and partly because being alive was great!! And she couldn't possibly just sit in her hive and mope. Moping never got anything done. Even if she had to admit there were times she'd just sat and stared sadly at her OTP on her shipping wall.

One thing she definitely wasn't expecting on her latest walk was a very familiar voice calling out to her. She turned sharply, her tail swishing behind her, hands flying to her face when she spotted her nubby horned friend.

"Karcat!?" He was here!? How come she didn't know!! It didn't matter; she was much too excited at seeing him to care. Excited enough that all Equius' lessons about boundaries and proper conduct for her bloodcaste flew straight out of the window, and she flung herself at Karkat with an excited squeal, hugging him tightly. "Eeeeeeeee!! Oh my gosh I missed mew so much!!"

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Recollections {Nepeta/Kanaya}

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“An Adult Like Karkat?” She would ask, the raise of an eyebrow following. At this point it honestly sounded like they were in some form of afterlife— taking into consderation that when they lived on Alternia in the past, adults were banished to war or something akin to that she thought. Still, it raised concerns. On the quickest and unlikeliest of assumptions, it could be possible that the one of whom she was talking about was an ancestor. Back when relations between her and Vriska were better, the thief would often brag about Mindfang and her exploits.

“I’m Sure You’ll See Him Soon.” Trying to provide the simplest of reassurances. “He’s Never Too Far From You.” A quick nod to accentuate this fact, a sincere smile accompanying. It was true however, fairly sure that even in the dreambubbles; they were still together. The next topic of conversation brought some worry as how to explain it. Not that it was hard, but it was a touchy to relive the events. “Well. Quite A Few Things Occurred After Your Death. To Explain It At Once May Take Awhile. Are You Sure You Wish To Know?” She asked, undoubtedly the answer would probably be yes at this point, however.

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Nepeta gave a confident nod at the question, the confidence however slightly ruined by the embarrassed smile that followed. "Ms Leijon confesses to being more than a little confused on the matter!" She'd had more pressing concerns! Like finding herself in a strange place without her moirail or anyone she recognised. "He looked like Karcat, and he was furry nice, but defurnately not Karcat." Oh goodness, she really was terrible at explaining things.

Her grin brightened again, slightly hopeful. Considering she'd met both an adult and Kanaya, her moirail being brought here wasn't impossible. "I hope so!" She felt slightly guilty about asking Kanaya to explain what had happened to everyone. As far as she knew, after all, Kanaya had stayed dead and who even knew what might have happened with Gamzee. But she was curious! And more than a little worried, if she was entirely honest. "Well, um. Do mew know if Karcat is alright? And Terezi?"

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Known a lot of Leo’s who do this thing where they just…

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nepeta bby

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Purretty Pawful (open | Crona)

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Crona was surprised at how well she took everything and, well, a little envious. He wished he could simply laugh off whatever was troubling him and move on to happier things. It took a lot of effort just to crack something of a smile, whereas he had yet to see this girl not smile for more than 30 seconds. As she continued on, the pinkette finally caught onto her strange speech patterns— she was making cat puns, much like Maka and Soul’s roommate. That… made things easier to comprehend, at least.

“Um, y-yeah, I was,” Crona answered, twirling a strand of pink hair round his finger. “I think that most, if not all, of the people here were p-pulled away from their homes…”

The girl’s face suddenly lit up and her grin widened even further, and Crona briefly wondered if he had said something silly. Instead of dwelling much on it, he just angled his gaze to the ground as he listened to her speak, somewhat embarrassed. It was much easier to talk to people if he wasn’t looking at them.

“Well… d-does he… look like— look like you?”

The swordsman thought it was a necessary question to ask as he made a vague gesture towards her. He had never seen any other gray-skinned people with horns before, so if her friend did possess those features, then he was no help.

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Nepeta couldn’t help the stab of sympathy at the human’s words, especially not with how sad he looked as he spoke! It wasn’t pity— the fact she knew some trolls who thought any feeling any amount of sympathy for someone practically meant you were paler than milk for them just showed how completely inept all her friends were.

At least she’d had some experience being pulled into strange worlds! Her home was completely gone, after all, and until recently she thought she’d be trapped in the dreambubbles forever. “But that’s awful!” She meant it! She hadn’t even used the obvious pun! No wonder the human looked so sad."...I'm sorry." It was probably worthless, but there wasn't much else she could offer.

She gave a small giggle in response to his question, automatically picturing her silly moirail pretending to be her. She abandoned the image quickly in favour of answering, though, considering what had happened last time she got him to roleplay.

"Not really! I mean, he's a troll, like me, but his horns are dumb and not like mine at all. And he broke one, and he's a big muscly idiot." She couldn't have sounded fonder if shed tried. Her smile took on just the slightest hint of sadness. "And mew haven't seen him, have mew?"

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Purretty Pawful (open | Sufferer)

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The Sufferer scratched the back of his head- you’d think after an entire lifetime of cat puns, he would be able not to accidentally copy them. But no, no matter how many times he heard a cat pun he still accidentally slipped up and repeated them. The Disciple probably would have laughed at this troll and this troll looked like she wanted to.

The cat puns just reminded him more of the Disciple. But this troll was obviously not here- not even her when she was younger. So maybe this troll was from the future- like Karkat and Kanaya were, did that make her the Disciple’s descendant?

Whatever the case, the Sufferer could ask that later. Right now he was just trying to wrap his thoughts around what the troll had said.

“I’M SORRY BUT YOU DON’T *LOOK* VERY DEAD. ARE YOU SURE? I MEAN I TRUST YOUR JUDGEMENT ON THE MATTER, BUT YOU *DO* LOOK RATHER ALIVE.”

The Sufferer responded in a confused manner. She really didn’t look dead but then again, the Sufferer had thought HE was dead when he’d wound up here. And who was to say he wasn’t? He’d decided through a logical thought process that he wasn’t dead but maybe he’d been wrong all this time. Maybe everyone here was dead and this was the afterlife- oh this was too confusing.

And the confusion did not stop there either.

“I THINK WE’RE HAVING A PROBLEM IN THIS DISCUSSION ABOUT THE PLANET BECAUSE I DON’T ACTUALLY KNOW WHAT A DREAM BUBBLE IS. WOULD YOU MIND EXPLAINING IT IN A LITTLE MORE DETAIL PLEASE?”

There was no point responding that no, this was a planet, if the Sufferer did not know what a dream bubble was in the first place. After all, maybe this troll was right.

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Nepeta blinked, tilting her head to the side curiously. She didn’t look dead? But surely she did. She’d managed to alter her image in the bubbles so that she wasn’t still covered in the wounds that had killed her, but she definitely still had the dead eyes. Or… she thought she had.

“I don’t?” She paused for a moment, then simply shrugged. “That’s purretty strange, but I’m defurnately dead.” She gave the adult a bright smile, to show she wasn’t at all upset about it. Living without her moirail would have been far worse than Gamzee beating her to death, she just knew it.

She gave a small, slightly embarrassed chuckle. Apparently the bubbles were hard to explain even if you were good with the temporal nonsense of time and space the game loved so much. She’d been much more concerned with people. Still, the adult was trying to help her so it was only fair she try to return the favour. “Um. Well, they’re bubbles! But not the fun popping kind that are fun to chase. They’re made of memories and exist in the Furthest Ring and the horrorterrors made them fur Fefurry! And… I’m furry bad at explaining.”

It was still strange how much the adult looked like Karkat, but Nepeta had seen more than her fair share of strange sights during the game. Like the humans! Or meeting her dancestor, even if it had only been for the smallest of moments thanks to Vwiskers and Feffurry’s dancestor. Oh! Was that who this troll was? But he seemed much less talky than the one she’d seen during the fun ghost party that apparently hadn’t been a party at all.

There was only one way to find out, right? Besides, she’d been awfully rude not introducing herself yet. Equius was going to be furious! ”Oh! My name's Nepeta, by the way. Nepeta Leijon. It's furry nice to meet mew!"

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Jun found himself a little uneasy at her answer. Of course a lot of people he had met here were just plain insane, out of their mind. What did they take him for? He nibbled on his lower lip and tried to look over the other once more. She actually looked quite small, and she kind of resembled a kitten. Maybe it was best to actually try to get along, instead of spouting things that might get him in trouble later. He tried to smile to show he meant well.

Wow, what a disaster.

“That’s…nice. What’s your name?”

[adorabeastly]

Nepeta gave a small giggle, her usual feline smile finding it's way back. She hadn't really expected her ruse to work, even if it was technically true that she and her friends had created humanity and had been supposed to rule over them. Oh well. She'd at least managed to make him look a little nervous for a little bit, even if she did feel a little bad about it. It wasn't his fault he'd never seen a troll before, after all.

"I'm just kitten you, silly." She paused, frowning slightly. That hadn't been a particularly good pun, had it? "Hehe, kidding, sorry. And I'm Nepeta! It is furry nice to meet mew!"

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Nightmares {Open | Nepeta}

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Madoka knew she shouldn’t be surprised to hear that the other girl was separated from her friends. After all, no one seemed to have come from Pandora originally, so they had to have been split up from their connections. Still, it seemed like the girl might have divided from them even before coming to the islands.

What was it that caused some people to be chosen and not others? Madoka hadn’t thought about it much, but she wished there was someone to ask. 

It always took Madoka a minute to remember to shake hands- confusion over customs was hardly the strangest part about Pandora, but she still was occasionally caught off guard. “My name’s Madoka Kaname.”

Smiling, she continued, “Thank you so much for talking to me…I actually do really feel better now. I hope we can both make things right with our friends soon!”

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Nepeta couldn't help but grin as Madoka thanked her, happy she'd been able to help even slightly. She liked helping people! It was probably not a healthy thing for a troll to like, but she didn't mind. She could defend herself if she needed to. Besides, in this place, surrounded by humans, it was probably a very good thing! She'd hate to be stuck like some of her more testy friends.

"We will!" She promised, absolutely sure of herself. "I am an expurrt at this kind of thing, you have no idea." Even if some developments had taken her completely by surprise, a good huntress never focused on her mistakes!

She continued to kick her legs for a few more moments, before swinging to her feet and spinning back to face Madoka in a whirl of coat and tail. Her own nightmares were far from forgotten, but just a handshake had reminded her quite clearly that humans didn't have the advantage of having quite warm blood to fend off the cold nights. Or a warm coat!

"Mew can't do anything if you fureeze to death, though! We should go somewhere warmer befur that happens, hmm?"