You have grown since Equius first made you a pair of these metallic legs. Your shoulders have broadened, they aren't feminine like they were at 6 sweeps, the most of your torso is hardened muscle, you do your best to work out. You still wish to be a Cavalreaper, as you have since you were a wriggler, but since you got your robot legs you've really been training hard. That is probably the main reason for them having broken down like they did. They were still usable, but most of the time it had just become easier to roam around in your wheelchair. He tells you these are more flexible. That he is working on a stable, usable rocket boot feature. One that wouldn't send you flying out into nowhere. He mentions another feature or two that you would rather not think about, but eventually you will have to visit the subject because the prototype is installed in this model. He sweated a lot when he told you about it. You are not at all comfortable with that, but really you are not very comfortable with him in general, and by 'not very' you mean not at all.

Gamzee requested he make you new ones. He had him make the last ones too. He is always looking out for you. You are going to have to thank him the next time you see him. You are excited to thank him. Maybe he'll finally want to be your moirail. You are so pale for him it is absolutely ridiculous. He is your best bro. He supports you. You rap together, play together, sometimes you adventure together. The adventuring usually turns into you starting off in one direction and him following you until he spots something 'wicked' or 'miraculous' and the two of you stopping to examine it for hours. You don't mind. It's fun usually.

Equius finishes explaining how to use the new features pretty quickly. You stand up and stretch. You manage this surprisingly well. He gives you some underhanded compliments along the lines of "D-Decent for a lowb100d." while you prance around his hive avoiding eye contact with his muscle-beast paintings. You have to call them art around him. You are not big on that, they creep you out. A certain new feature to the legs were adapted from them. That pretty much freaks you out beyond all reason and almost makes you want to not wear them. Almost. You gush out thank yous to your mechanic. He goes off to get towels while you exit. It is convenient you are only a few lawnrings away from him. In fact you think the farthest friend or acquaintance you have is only about nine away from you. All of the convenience. It is yours.

Right now you are pretty pumped to get back to your hive and show off your shiny new limbs to Tinkerbull. He will be excited for you, as he was when you first got a new pair, when you started showing muscle-tone, when you shaved your fluffy muss of sheep-woof-beast hair into a nice clean Mohawk. You felt so cool all three of those times. The only other one who was even kind of excited for you every time was Gamzee, other trolls were happy, yes, but Gamzee was practically euphoric. That is, you think he was, he may have just felt the need to pick you up, spin you around, and allow the two of you to fall down into a pile.

Your lusus reacts as you much expected him to. You decide to check your trollian messages.

AG:Tavroooooooos

AG: ::::)

AG:Someone told me that you got a fresh new pair of legs toreasnore!

AG:You want to test those 8a8ies out?

AG:Of course you do who am I kidding

AG:Just meet me at the edge of the forest and we'll go adventuring!

AT:uH,,, i WAS GOING TO GO, uHH, tHANK gAMZEE ACTUALLY BUT, uH,,, i SUPPOSE i COULD DO THIS FIRST,,, mAYBE,

Your computer tings to alert you of another conversation.

AA:tavr0s

AA:i suggest y0u refrain fr0m j0ining her

AA:from adventuring with vriska that is

AT:hELLO, uH, aRADIA,,

AT:iTS A LITTLE, uH, cREEPY HOW YOU KNOW THIS STUFF,,

AT:bUT IM SURE IT, uH, WILL BE FINE,,, aCTUALLY,,

AA:i supp0se i cann0t st0p y0u

You'll be fine. You know you will. Vriska probably has something not so adventure-like planned, but you have Rufio convinced that you can take her, which means you are convinced you can take her if something bad happens. By convinced you mean you know you can take her. You can maneuver a lance with the best of them. You might be the best of them. Maybe. Then you really don't know any trolls that use lances in real life. Only in books and stuff. You don't think you could beat Pupa Pan in a round of strife, but then he can fly, so that's not really fair. Not to mention that he uses a dagger and you would not want to be fighting with him. You'd want him to fly you to the paradise planet and sprinkle special stardust into your face.

You captchalogue a few things you think you might need, which does include a Pupa Pan shirt and hat. She likes to Flarp, and even though you don't really do it much anymore, because of her really, you can play along a little. At least until it gets too serious. You're sure you can get away. It's not like you haven't practiced very long on these new legs or anything. Nothing bad can possibly happen. You'll just get some new fresh material for the Alternian slam poetry you do with Gamzee. You still really want him to be your moirail. You don't know why he doesn't want to, and by don't know you mean you have a theory. That is, he suggested sloppy make-outs once when you said you were going to come visit him, and sloppy make-outs suggest either red or black feelings, and seeing as that the two of you are bros flushed romance is the most obvious reason why he would turn down all of your many attempts at pale romance. That is ridiculous though. Why would he be red for you, he is a 'highb100d' for Jegus's sake.

You dismiss that thought once you reach the edge of the tree-line. You feel like something is watching you but you can't really see or hear anyone. You equip your lance.

Lets outline some basics of the au: The 12 trolls live closer together-They still talk with the humans, though now it is pretty much lateral time wise for everyone-The game has been put off for about 3 sweeps, and has not started yet-I think that's all you need to know? If something else comes it I'll put it in another note

Ahahaha It's only pbj right now if you squint really hard and even then it's one-sided pale and one-sided red.

Also. WHY YOU NO LISTEN TO GHOST ARADIA