Dave sighed as he walked around his new house. Sure the game had been over for a while now, maybe three months at the least but that didn't mean things were great. No one was dying, but god he was really bored. Everyone was happy, like Rose was with Kanaya somewhere, probably drinking tea and making thousands of outfits with magic while having deep feelings jams. Maybe his teen mom was walking around with her green skeleton friend in the woods talking about… whatever those two talked about, hell Jade was probably hanging with John and getting pranked by him or whatever, Who really knew what was happening with these people.
But was Dave having a chill time with a friend that he found through the game? Nope, he really wasn't. He was walking around aimlessly in his new cylinder house while thinking only about how bored he was. Hell, he was so bored he considered looking for the clown locked in a fridge somewhere on this planet, it was only for a second but he considered it. He considered trying to look for his brother before realizing he was attempting to play soccer with Jade's alternate time grandpa somewhere by the woods. He was whittling down his options too far until he got to his last resort.
Dave would normally not do this out of fear of getting his face shredded by claws, but he was so bored he was about to do that with his own dull nails. He was going to try and wake up Karkat from one of his mid-day naps. Yes this was very stupid, especially saying throughout the game said troll hadn't slept much if at all from what Dave could tell. He knew this was a dick move, but extreme boredom calls for extreme idiocy.
Dave snuck towards Karkat's room where there were quiet clicks and purrs coming from inside. He stopped to admire how adorable Karkat snored, but after a literal second he quickly flung the door open, managing to be decently quiet. He peered inside.
Karkat was curled in the corner of his bed, a scratchy grey blanket was wrapped around him, making it so only his mop of raven hair and horns were visible along with one of his stubby grey legs that had launched itself out of the blanket cocoon he had made. Dave tried to suppress a laugh at how ridiculous he looked, trying to think of a good way to wake him without getting clawed to his talon like fingernails. He had seen what those things could do to though animal meat and he didn't want to know how they fared on his soft human skin. He looked around the room before spotting a small square of bubble wrap. He figured it was leftover packaging from some crappy movie the troll had ordered online, but now he was going to re-purpose that shit. Whoever said a Strider didn't care for the environment was fucking lying. The three big R's; reduce reuse and recycle for life.
Dave flash stepped to the side of Karkat's bed as quietly as he could, setting off a stray bike horn in the process. It didn't seem to bother Karkat, besides making him flinch a little but it sure as hell scared Dave. Said blond managed to calm himself down from his mini heart attack in a few seconds before hooking a slender finger under the seam of Karkat's blanket, pulling it back to expose the troll's pointed, grey ear. He got as close as he could to the sleeping figure, getting into place with his new found bubble wrap. Dave put the plastic square right by the alien's ear, quickly popping an array of the small air pockets. Karkat screeched, stumbling out of his tight grey nest while hissing at the human intruder to his right. Dave jumped back, falling on his ass while laughing said ass off. Karkat glared at him, managing to sit down on the bead as he worked of his own mini heart attack.
"Yeah, I get that a lot," Dave managed between his now dying chuckles. Karkat rolled his eyes.
"If I wasn't having such a terrible dream I would have attacked you. You're lucky, just remember that."
"Yeah, yeah okay. I'll constantly remember this day where on so I pulled off a better prank than Egbert and you spared my short godly life because you were having a little nightmare."
"Dave. Please remind me why we live together again when you do this to me every other god damn day?"
"Because someone has issues with being lonely and if he lived with his mom friend he would be subjected to my ecto-sister and said mom friend's sloppy make outs."
"Okay. Fair point."
