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[As the feed clicks on, it first fills with the scenery of Goldenrod, Eridan having chose to head there after the little Poke`Prom and all, but soon none other than the douche prince extraordinaire is taking up the feed.]

So I was thinkin' to myself, has anyone ewer considered huntin' these guys?

[A beat.]

The Poke`beasts I mean. They are beasts after all, and I ain't meanin' this non-wiolent catchin' bullshit. I mean, huntin' an' killin' 'em. A course, I'we fought more fearsome creatures back on Alternia, but ewen then they seem like some could be a real challenge to take down. Regardless a bein' frightfully inferior to Alternian subterranean fauna, but ewen if it doesn't equally compare, the challenge is the sport of it.

[Yep, Eridan is 100% serious.]

A course, from the looks a it eweryone is stuck on the notion a trainin' 'em and makin' 'em fight each other, an' that's sorta got its appeal, I mean, if you're a fuckin' grub an' such. I think poachin' 'em could prowe far more interestin' than this load a poppycock with the badges an' all. Just sayin'.

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[ Flat stare does 0 damage to Aradia! ...She gets a lot of those from other travel partners as is.

And she's clearly amused - or happy? - that he asked for any of them. ]

Karkat's is on the 21st or the 22nd of September; whichever day the equiunox falls on. And mine is March 25th! I thought that seemed nice.

And I think they just have a more celebratory culture! They have heaps of holidays, I still haven't even heard of them all. And, you know, their culture just requires and allows more general excitement and friendliness without violence, which is interesting if strange! I enjoy it, really. Parties have a lot of fun activities, although the Christmas ones involve a strange amount of dead plants.

Oh, and if you go to a party with Mom Lalonde, I advise you to avoid any punch you can't verify as being punch!

[ Because reasons. ]

[Dang Aradia, lower your defenses some so his stares can affect you!]

Is March 25th durin' your sign's perigee?

How... weird. I don't get the point a all that fake-ass friendliness. Like, what's the point of it?

...Dead plants? And punch?

[it's like she's trying to tell him things...]

[ That would require her to actually be bothered about the stares. Luckily, she's not! ]

Yeah, it is! That's why I picked it. Jake helped out!

And I don't think it's fake. At least, if I didn't want to be nice to someone, I wouldn't be. [ She just...generally tries to be nice because she wants to be. Hard to believe, right? ] If someone's doing it to be fake, that's their problem, not mine!

Yeah, there's a tree that you cut down and take inside and put presents under, and another one that's a wreath that you hang on doors and then another one they put in doorways that you have to kiss under if you get caught. There are a lot of dead plants involved in Christmas! It's very quaint.

And Mom spiked the punch! I believe that's how they put it. She put human soporifics in it.

[ Welcome to small talk 101, Eridan. ]

Any particular reason for the 25th?

[Not that he's interested or anything!]

Just seems like it would be, I mean, I know you're nice, and that's weird in itself... But to think so many of a race want to be genuinely nice and soft-skinned like that. Just seems fuckin' outlandish.

... They put gifts under a tree. Kiss under another plant, and just use one for decoration... Alright... So, I guess Christmas is kinda like 12th Perigee's Ewe or somethin'? Just, more dead plants and fuckin' strange.

[Ok, yeah he definitely will take this advice.]

Consider your adwice noted, then.

[SMALL TALK IS WEIRD, WHERE'S THE INSULTS??? THE BANTER??? THE DEATH THREATS?????]

Edited 2013-04-24 09:48 (UTC)

I just liked that number, really. So, whimsy?

Well, humans, particularly humans in this world, seem to have a wholly different cultural viewpoint than we did! It's nice, I think. I haven't met too many people who aren't!

Yes! It's sort of like that, and that's what I thought the equivalent was. I never celebrated it with anyone but my lusus, though, so it was...different. [ Exciting. ]

I like it here, rather.

I am well aware and disgusted by their cultural wiew point. I don't think it's nice at all... Well, I guess, except in the literal sense.

... Kinda glad I missed it, to be honest. I don't care about human festiwities in the slightest. Tell me it ain't anytime soon.

If I'm to be honest, I miss Alternia, but I know how pointless it is to miss home when it's nothin' but a dead planet now.

It's not like people being nice will kill you, Eridan!

Christmas? It's eight months off from now, I think. So not very soon, no!

It will never be entirely dead! Not so long as parts of it survive.

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