On a meteor made long after Earth and Alternia were destroyed, and everything started to slow, the chaos of the game resolved into the creation of a new universe. In this period of time in this new universe, in this specific timeline, a troll named Sollux Captor is, at the moment, sitting and quietly staring at his husktop. At this moment, unknown to all of his other friends, he wasn't feeling his best, and for some reason unknown to him, he just slowly started to get less and less satisfied with still living, even depressed nowadays. He didn't tell anyone that he felt depressed though, and for now just hid it from everyone. He would usually be coding or trolling one of his comrades at the moment, but thankfully after so long of him ignoring their attempts at interacting with him, almost all ignored him nowadays. Of course, almost all, and there was a singular one that seemed to always pester him more than all the others had done, and was bugging him even now actually. Eridan Ampora, a quite obnoxious seadweller in Sollux's mind, never ceased to be there to try to continuously nag at him or poke at his last nerve.
Eridan, on the other note actually, was quite curious of what was going on with Sollux at the moment. He had noticed after a bit of observation that Sollux was becoming more and more unattached to his 'friend' group, and also starting to seem less affected by your constant pestering of what the whole problem could be. He was suspicious that it might be something that was extremely important, or just plain out personal, or even a dark secret, which means that he had to figure out what it was. He was even more suspicious that something was going on between him and just their friends in general. Even Karkat, who seemed to be his best friend, was being blown off even in his rants at Sollux. Though it may or may not be very pointless, Eridan decided that he would message Sollux about it once again. He started to cease talking to him a lot, but once in a blue moon when he did start up a conversation and earn a few replies from the yellowblood. It was all luck, but he would finally get another conversation out of Sollux.
'-caligulasAquarium [CA] started trolling twinArmageddons [TA]-
CA: sollux i knoww you are there
CA: answwer me for once dammit this is not a game
CA: if you dont answwer i wwill spam your chat
TA: what do you want eriidan
CA: i wwanna talk for once because you havve been actin really wweird lately
TA: 2o what maybe ii dont wanna talk to you iif you havent figured that out by now, really, you are fuckiing annoyiing
CA: i havve but i chose not to acknowwledge that fact
CA: especially since i knoww that evveryone else wwont bother you
TA: ...'
Eridan was right and Sollux knew that he was. Everyone stopped harassing him recently. Maybe Eridan could be alright company. Possibly. Then again, it might end up badly if he is even more annoying in the flesh. He thought over it for a second. It was a slightly large risk for Sollux at the moment, and Eridan might not even come over. So, Sollux decided to risk it and just stealthily ask him if he wanted to come over to his hive.
'TA: the real rea2on that you are bugging me ii2 becau2e you are bored
CA: not entirely
TA: ye2 entirely
CA: so wwhat, it's fun to harass you
TA: wow don't I feel flattered on that fact
CA: you should be
TA: ii wa2 goiing to iinviite you over but now ii think im in too much 2hocked to do 2o now
CA: hey wwait a minute that isn't fair
TA: well maybe ii make the rule2
CA: wwell maybe I break your rules anywways and am gonna come over even if you don't wwant me to, how about that
TA: my door is locked a2 well, ju2t by the way
CA: oh come on, let me come over it wwill be fun'
Sollux hesitated, then replied:
'TA: fiine whatever
CA: okay then unlock the door cause I already wwalked here and am outside'