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karkat vantas ([personal profile] klawful) wrote in [community profile] deercountry2022-01-14 07:41 pm

I see your face in every crowd (Closed)

Who: Kyle Broflovski & Karkat Vantas
What: Shedding Ceremony stuff
When: Mid-Late January
Where: The Red/Other

Content Warnings: Explicit sexual content/phrases/jokes, themes of gender identity/trans/binaries, blood-based caste systems, mention of genocide/war/violence, body identity concepts, temporary/semi amnesia



(This time when Karkat sheds, he does so with grace and ease. He wakes up feeling like he has been this way most of his life, memories distorted both from home and from Trench, making for a cloudy mix. He goes about his day and remembers that he had somewhere to be. The Red. He was meeting someone special - a boy. A boy he apparently loved because he spent hours figuring out how to get ready. Karkat had an outfit that Madam Generosity had sent him, but the red accents felt jarring and wrong to this new Karkat. He felt the offense of misrepresented blood color and abandoning the outfit for something he picks out and pulls on.

If this boy was as important as he felt, then Karkat wanted to look nice. He ignores his female troll body as he feels he has ignored it since he was a child. There are very few visible differences. His chest plate was slightly raised. There was a bit more curve in his hips. Other than that, there were more obvious differences due to his Fuschia blood. Instead of pointy ears, he had fin-like ears on the sides of his head. His horns were a bit bigger, more pointed. He had Fuschia freckles scattered across his shoulders and across his face and ears. And instead of red eyes, Karkat's were now that vibrant, commanding pink. He was even taller - closer to 5'10 than Karkat's far smaller body. He was, as far as he was concerned, the first male fuschia blood to have existed. He didn't care if his body didn't quite agree with that, he knew he felt he was male in his soul, in his mind, so the details didn't matter. He would be the king of his race when it was time.

He decorates his horns with thin golden chains. He wears his golden tiara, complete with a 69 in its center. He keeps on his golden choker, also decorated properly, with matching golden cuffs around his wrists. He decorates his fins with golden cuffs and dangling chains. He paints golden glitter in a straight line down from a black mouth. There's effortless confidence in this Karkat that just simply didn't exist in the usual Karkat. He didn't slump over, but held himself regally. The outfit he wears makes it evident that he had none of Karkat's shyness when it came to exposing his body.

When he shows up to the Red, he waits inside where it's warmer, standing by the front, feeling only a curl of anxiety. He didn't know which boy he was waiting for. There were two in mind, but one felt more "right" than the other - the red one. He ignores stares sent his way and doesn't respond to idle chatter. He wanted to see Him first. Whoever he was waiting for.)
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[personal profile] kyley_b 2022-01-15 04:21 am (UTC)(link)
[The Red is a lot more fun than Kyle thought it would be. He's had a chance to talk to people he like, and to meet some new ones. Still, he's on the lookout for Karkat the entire time. He hopes he likes his outfit, and the fact that he took the time to style his curls. He feels good.

Kyle is scanning the entrance to the club when Karkat enters, and for a second he thinks it's a new troll and he'll have to tell his boyfriend in case he knows them. But then. No. The ears are different, and the height. But he's know the curve of that mouth anywhere, the perfect arch of his cheekbones. It's Karkat.

Kyle hurries over, realising that yes, this must be another shedding.]


Karkat?
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[personal profile] kyley_b 2022-01-15 04:45 am (UTC)(link)
[Kyle smiles and nods. It's definitely still Karkat, even if he can't recall everything. It's a strange feeling, and he supposes at least now he knows what it's like on the receiving end.] Yeah. You're my boyfriend. I'm Kyle Broflovski.

Your eyes look different. But you look beautiful. You wanna sit down? I can get you some water.
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[personal profile] kyley_b 2022-01-15 05:13 am (UTC)(link)
I do. Very well, I think.

[Kyle beams and leads Karkat towards some of the seating at the edge of the room. It's something else to see him move so confidently. He seats him before departing briefly to get them both some sparkling water.

Sitting back down, he looks at Karkat more carefully. His eyes are pink, he realises. And he has little pink freckles, which are adorable. Not baby pink, more of a fuchsia. Didn't Karkat say something about fuchsia...?

He can't quite remember.]


You can ask me anything. I know how weird it feels o sort of remember things. You helped me through it, too.
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[personal profile] kyley_b 2022-01-15 05:48 am (UTC)(link)
[Kyle laughs, but then he catches himself.]

Oh. OH! You're serious. No, uh, no. Not our subjects.

[He nods, blushing.] Yup. And, uhm. Moirails and kismesis too. We kinda cross the quadrants.
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[personal profile] kyley_b 2022-01-15 05:59 am (UTC)(link)
Sorry. But you DO inspire people!

You did, yeah. For which I'm eternally grateful, as you can imagine. And that's it exactly! You're a very forward-thinking troll.

[He leans in to kiss Karkat's cheek.] Gosh, your ears are different now. I like your freckles...

[Fuchsia. It suddenly clicks.]

...Karkat? Uhm. What's your bloodtype now?
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[personal profile] kyley_b 2022-01-15 06:09 am (UTC)(link)
Heh. I know. Some day. This place is just a little tricky due to there being like, practically gods walking around. Don't worry, I know you're capable. You're the most capable guy I know.

Sorry. Habit.

[Oh boy. How to approach this.] You were shorter, and your ears were pointy.

Well. Okay. This place changes your blood. Don't panic - you're still you! But like, everyone has weird blood. So I'm just warning you about that right now so you don't get surprised. But you're still you, okay? Still Karkat.

I love you a lot, dude. You don't have to do anything with that information, I just want you to know. I got your back no matter what.
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[personal profile] kyley_b 2022-01-15 06:33 am (UTC)(link)
You're not a piece of shit ruler.

We are, yeah. Lots of hand holding and crap. In public, I mean. We don't like, do sex stuff outside of the house. [Mostly.]

Yeah, yeah I guess so.

[Kyle relaxes.] Exactly. You are what you are. You're Karkat Vantas.

[Goddammit, how is he still so fucking precious?] Thank you.

Uhm. Not many. I don't enjoy it. I'm kinda more about figuring things out through compromise.
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[personal profile] kyley_b 2022-01-15 06:58 am (UTC)(link)
Well. This world is pretty weird, so. Give yourself a break. You did adopt the ruler of hell, that's a big deal.

[Yup, stil going to build him up even if he doesn't agree with the ruler plan.

Oh fuck. Kyle misses the ears, but that fin wiggle is adorable.]


I am, but I really do believe it. And I know part of you believes in fairness, in not just ruling over people because you think they're beneath you. The Karkat I know is a leader, but not a dictator.
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[personal profile] kyley_b 2022-01-15 07:29 am (UTC)(link)
It is. Hell is like, an eternal torture zone.

Welllll... that's not ALWAYS what you have to do, though.

[Oh. Oh shit. The immortal queens. THAT'S what Karkat had told him about.

Maybe he should avoid the whole signless conversation a bit longer.]


I know you're not weak.

Oh, you were hatched female?
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[personal profile] kyley_b 2022-01-15 07:43 am (UTC)(link)
Exactly.

Do you?

[Kyle watches Karkat carefully. This isn't exactly the sort of situation he can just trample all over, because Karkat doesn't know who he was before. It's a lot to take in.

At the question Kyle smiles.]


THAT sounds like the Karkat I know: you will not be defined by your blood caste. You're different, and it's beautiful.

No, it's not a problem. I love you no matter what. I might just need to be walked through some stuff.
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[personal profile] kyley_b 2022-01-15 07:53 am (UTC)(link)
Right. Only one rules st a time. Hm. But why do you want to rule? Like, deep down, what's the reason?

Because I'm really heavy handed with the compliments? Yeah, doesn't hurt, heh.

Right. Do females have tentabulges?

[He tries not to laugh.] Yes. We are. Frequently and with great enthusiasm.
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[personal profile] kyley_b 2022-01-15 08:09 am (UTC)(link)
[Kyle is beaming by the end of that speech. It's Karkat. Even in a near immortal born genocidal fuchsia blooded body, it was undeniably him.]

Would you change things to be more fair? The caste system, for example, is kinda bullshit.

[He squeezes that hand back.]

I do. As you've done for me.

It's not humiliating! People are totally jealous. [He has no idea if that's true.]
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[personal profile] kyley_b 2022-01-15 08:30 am (UTC)(link)
It really IS you. That's so amazing, no matter WHAT changes, you're just... you're my guy.

[He's so relieved.

...and those teeth are definitely even sharper. Kyle smiles back.]


It's fine by me.

[He closes the gap between them, lips gentle on Karkat's. Yes, it's still definitely him.]

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