Another submission for Karezi Week in July of 2016! Todayās theme was āCouchā.
I had a pretty difficult time with the previous ones, mostly because I think I was trying too hard to the point that it wasnāt easy and it was kind of difficult to get it going. This time I decided to try a brief cute snippet instead of something more complex, and it worked a lot better. Interestingly enough, I feel like I got a good handle on their relationship this time!
The couch was big, the couch was squishy, and the couch was quite possibly the most comfortable couch to have ever existed. Can Town had at least twenty. By astonishing coincidence more than half of all the young gods who had survived SBURB and itās variants (including the people who had been resurrected in the moment Can Town had existed, much to their bewilderment and Vriskaās frustrated disappointment at not dying a totally kickass death) had all alchemized incredibly nice cushions, chairs and other such things at various times.
In the beginning of Can Town, as they figured out which of their alchemized gear to recreate as the most useful and easily understood technologies, their IMPOSSIBLY NICE CUSHION technology had quickly become industry standard. (If they had industries. They didnāt yet.) Consequently, everyone had a couch, sofa, mattress or cocoon equally fitting the title of the most comfy thing in existence.
Terezi and Karkat had one sized up for their particular specifications. It was big enough for Terezi to sit in, and the cushions so soft that Karkat could just sit on them and start sinking in. In fact heād actually adopted the human customs of a mattress and used his couch cushions as a baseline for them. The problem was, Terezi worked out, that the cushions were so comfortably and squishy it was easy to slip when moving around on them if you werenāt careful.
She was being careful at the moment, but not with the media-shrine remote. It slipped from Tereziās hands as she did her best to scoot closer to Karkat without him noticing. She didnāt drop it on purpose but she was doing her best to squeeze up with him without actually looking like she was doing it and that would have been tricky enough with a troll roughly her size. Given the package of mutations that made Terezi who she was (and was apparently bundled up in the Pyrope package, based on her ancestorās own garb and teenage self), this generally would only have been a Peixes, maybe an especially large indigo or violet. Karkat, on the other hand, was small. So very, very small.
He was so small that it actually worried Terezi a lot just how startlingly small he really was. The first time sheād met him in person, it sincerely scared her that he was so small and built so frail, almost like what she now considered human levels of 'how have you even survived this longā. Thin limbs and blunt claws and a body so compact it was like he was constantly curling in on himself. Prickly hair still too soft to defend from bites. An armored skull, his nubby horns the largest of accumulated lumps (And on his ancestor, a crown of thorns) and that was probably the hardest point on him and still so miserably thin.
