SOMETIMES YOU JUST GET INTO A SHIFT AND HAVE AN ABSOLUTELY RIDICULOUS WIGGLER-LEVEL DIALOGUE WITH YOUR *MUFFLED NOISES OF UNCERTAINTY BECAUSE GOD ONLY KNOWS* AND THAT’S VALID
so last night... I had gone to the beach, felt great, and was lying around icing my back. I decided to close my eyes and chill (literally), and I just... felt like I was in the right mindset for recalling stuff? So I decided, rather than pushing for a specific kin or memory set, to just breath, relax, let myself fall into it, and let the memories come to me.
Thus discovering a new kin in the process. I was hoping for something pre-existing but I guess that works too huh? *shrugs* anyways....
-I started out in a house. Not a hive, a house. There was a window open to let sunlight in, normal sunlight, but it bugged me having that open. After orienting myself (the conscious part of me was unsure of who I was, where I was etc.) I went over to the window and shut it, pulling down the blinds (they were those cheap pulldown blinds that roll or unroll based on tension). I took a glance down at the hand I pulled it with - grey, with yellow nails, and a mark - mole? wart? dark freckle? - on top of the hand, to the right of my thumb. My hands were a little sturdier looking than my irl ones - a different build, like fire hands perhaps, and a little more meat on them. Of course, my hands irl are bony af so this doesn’t mean my hands were super pudgy in the memory, just didn’t look so stiff and rigid.
-So I knew I was a troll, and based on the thick grey sweater sleeve that rested on my wrist I was certain this was a Karkat memory.
-I was gonna leave the room, go somewhere else in the otherwise dark house, when I heard a voice call my name - “Karkat” I rushed over to the source of the voice just as Dave came into the doorway, and I threw my arms around him into a big ole hug. I remember looking up at him and asking what he wanted, he said nothing and I snorted and asked sarcastically what he was even calling my name for. I didn’t let go though, still had him in a big hug.
-He told me something, something conversational like “hey did you know ---?” I just kinda grunted in response, still cuddling him. Whatever he was telling me was about someone we knew like ‘you know so and so did/does fill in the blank’ or whatever. I can’t remember now bc I waited too long to write anything down like a douche.
-a thought had occurred to me, based on something from longer ago irl, and I kinda frowned and pulled away a bit, saying, to myself or out loud “why the fuck are you so thin???” The Dave I was hugging was like a beanpole, tall and thin. And honestly I feel like it was my own conscious thoughts getting something muddled up, but it still struck me as strange. Likely answer is I was misremembering Dave as thin but when I tried to picture other body types it wasn’t coming to me.
-Whatever it was the memory carried on a bit before we parted and I went back towards the kitchen, which was super dark other than *another* open window, which I grumbled testily about and shut, unable to figure out why Dave always left the darn things open.
-I felt the memory faltering so I decided to switch - I had the strong impression this house was set in Earth C, but did this mean we beat the game? Or was it an au of some sort? So I tried to hop to an earlier memory, and was confronted with Lord English, who was fucking big and honestly kinda terrifying.... and scaley. /:<B I remember the bright flashing lights and red desert-like background, and I feel like there was.... something? behind him? If I had to guess it was his sarcophagus but idk if he showed up in that during the fight. I also remember being at the front of a crowd, I had the impression there were others on either side of me but tbh I was too transfixed with fear at the giant lumbering green hulk that had showed up.
-something jolted me back into focus, and in panic I launched myself at him, scythes ready. He grabbed me when I got close enough though, in those big old claws of his, and basically crushed my skull. Since it was my dreamself I woke up unharmed but still in a big panic.
-this jolted me to my next memory, fighting the Felt (they were a gross itchy fabric, living up to their felt name and reference to being pool table elements. It was rough and scratchy and I hated it.) I recall glancing over and seeing Jake being overwhelmed, but I couldn’t do anything about it, I was so distracted by the lucky one getting in my face and way. It was frustrating!
-I got pretty upset fighting that one damn leprechaun, frustrated and feeling so useless for being unable to fight him, which is what led to angry tears. But I eventually figured something out and got him under control, and when I saw the way he was looking at me I snapped at him to shove it bc I didn’t do that shit. My quadrants were already occupied anyways and I wasn’t looking for anything more. (*coughcoughDavecoughcough*)
-I have a brief memory of after the battles, when I met up with Dave again - I tried to play it cool, since our thing was weird, but he just beckoned me over and I threw my arms around him in a big hug again. I once again thought to myself that he was super fucking thin, before things just sorta petered off there.
-I paid more attention to details this time, partially bc I thought I was gonna have to talk to my mom about stuff this weekend so I wanted to be able to say I was able to pinpoint specific details. I had a good sense of visuals overall this time too.
Personally speaking I was a short and stout Karkat, my hair was messy and my sweater oversized by a considerable margin. Dave was tall and pretty thin as evidenced by my astute observation skills during the memory walk, african/mixed w a bleached poof of hair on top.
Lord English was exactly canon, I just saw him with more realism. I correctly noticed which side his gold tooth was on (Im dyslexic so my own memory could have flipped it, but nope! it was right! Leprechauns were green n felty, as described previously. Jake was built strong and muscular, taller than me at least, and had rich dark brown skin? at the distance I saw him at though I couldn’t be sure of his features so idk what his exact race was.
