Hours into the future but not many Gamzee and Karkat finally reunited with Eridan, Feferi and Sollux back at their campsite. The team began to take down their tents to set them up properly for the rainy season. Because of the fairly simple structure of the tents everyone was able to take care of their own private tents, before working together on the larger tents used for storage.

Be the guy sitting on sidelines watching.

You are now Gamzee and you think Karkat is probably an adult or close to being one, you're going to have to keep a close eye on him to see if he can do any of the other things adults are supposed to do. You are kind of disappointed and slightly relieved at the same time. On one hand you don't have an excuse to practice being a parent with him, but on the other hand he could choose to stay here if he wanted to. You briefly entertain some noise in your think pan on how you could convince a motherfucker that the village is the best place for him to be.

Well, they are here to learn about what ways of life is here. Maybe you could just, keep on real close during the first fishing season, show him the ups and downs. You could find out how grown up he is. And maybe he might be open to the idea of sticking around.

Be the idiot floundering with his feelings.

You are now Eridan and you have no idea how you feel. On one hand Feferi is literally the sweetest person you have ever met and you're pretty sure she could pass for an angel, but on the other hand Sollux gets you riled up pretty easily, at least in your head that's what it looks like. You can't stop staring at the both of them, even when you should be focusing on making sure these damn tents don't fall apart. Karkat jabs his elbow into your ribs. "Ow, what the fuck was that for!" you shout at him. "You almost hit me in the eye while you were absentmindedly scratching at your balls, you dumb piece of elephant shit!" he shouts back at you. "I wasn't scratching anything, fuck off." you reply. The next thing you know someone swats your behind while you were distracted. You whip around and see Sollux and Feferi giggling with each other. "Okay, which one of you did it?"

Be the bubbly woman.

You are now Feferi and you can't help yourself. You and Sollux decided to mess with Eridan a little bit. He always so… glubbing difficult. You wish he would loosen up more, you reel-ly want him to get along with Sollux. You know that Sollux can be as immature as Eridan is pretentious at times, but he's reel-ly smart and likes to have fun once in a while. Sometimes you wish you could combine them together to make the perfect man, but you have a feeling that something would go wrong, horri-bubbly wrong. Like their conflicting personalities could make a being with so much self-loathing and contempt it would put Karkat's wrath to shame. Hopefully you'll figure some-fin out.

Be the man with a plan.

You are now Sollux and putting up these tents are easy, so easy you were able to plot with Feferi and get away with swatting Eridan in the rear end. His face is priceless. It's honestly a nice break from all the camera work and listening to Eridan monologue about everything. You have a pretty good feeling that you could convince Eridan and Feferi to some kind of three-way relationship, Mituna said they were called polyamorous or something like that. You kind of like the idea of having two people a little more than you should. Maybe your obsession with twos is coming back, you'd really hate to go to therapy about "OCD" again.

After everyone finished with rebuilding the tents, the team went back to the tribe's village to interview the Elders about their face paint. What they explained was that after you were initiated as an adult you were free to paint your face in anyway relative to yourself. For example: The Serket bloodline was believed to be descended from spiders who were known for their unbeatable weaving skills. They could weave silk, stories, lies and sometimes dreams. The eldest Serket was known for painting her face to look like she has eight eyes and long fangs. They called her Mindfang, she is one of the best hunters in the tribe. The second eldest, Aranea, was very intelligent and very good at getting people to do what she wanted even if they weren't aware of it. She painted her face with the symbol for clear skies inverted. Most of the tribe see it as a warning not to cross her as she probably knows all your secrets. The youngest of the Serkets, Vriska became an adult two years ago and almost killed an elder, so far she likes to go back and forth from painting a spider on her face to painting stars caught in a spider web. A lot of people in the tribe change up their face paint every now and then, because no one is really the same person for long.

Interviews like these went on for a good three days, as everyone felt like sharing why they paint their face and how they make their paint out of a large variety of plants and sometimes clay. And of course it was during these interviews that Karkat realized something.

Be the adorabloodthirsty interrogator.

You are now Karkat and you just realized that Gamzee doesn't have to follow you around anymore. You decided that you would use the interrogation skills Terezi taught you while she was in Law school. You kind of missed your old friend. Back in middle school you used to be picked on by some soggy lampshade of a douche, until she kicked his ass. She taught you so many things over the years like self-defense and how to talk your way out of most situations. You get Eridan to help you translate your questions, he thought you wanted to do an interview. Same thing, slightly different outcomes. The first step in any interrogation is to remain calm, and act friendly. This is incredibly difficult for you considering how quick you are to stupidly lose your temper. Deep breath, it's not that big a deal.

You and Eridan approach him after the interview with the Nitrams, he had hands stuck together with what looked like sticky string. That fucking moron. You and Eridan start off by asking if he needs assistance to which he replies yes. You undo his hands and wipe off the residue with a tissue. You start asking questions that have nothing to do with what you want to know, like: What does he like to do in his free time? Why does he paint his face like a clown? What kind of food does he like? And so on.

He answers enthusiastically that he usually makes paint and come up with rhymes in his free time. His face paint is known as the happy face and he chooses that design because he likes to make people happy. There are generally three types of food in the village meat, vegetables, and sweets. His favorite would be dried meat.

Then you slowly touch on the subject of third Harvest. Eridan gives you a questioning look, but you just shrug it off nonchalantly. If Terezi was here she would be so proud of how well you're not exploding right now. You start with the question what kind of prank were you trying to pull off?

He explained that he thought it would be funny if someone from the tribe was walking around wearing outsiders clothing. You were the only one left alone and Tavros was pretty close to your size.

You decided to ask about how most punishments are received after third harvest.

He explains that half the time people receive punishment right after they have been caught, but the other half of the time pranksters run off and hide and are usually rounded up the next day to repent. Very few pranksters actually get away with their pranks.

You finally ask the question that's been waiting the whole time. If his punishment was to watch over you until you were better, then why is he still following you around when you're clearly back to full health?

He hesitates at first, you can't tell under the face paint, but from the way his ears are rapidly turning red, you guess that he's blushing. He looks away for a moment before responding that he wanted to get to know you better. He thought you were pretty interesting for an outsider.

You feel your own face blushing and you try to scowl to hide the smile that was trying to creep onto your face. You did not expect that, you weren't sure what you were expecting. You hear Eridan snickering at you from the side and give him an elbow jab to the ribs. You needed to think about this.


Author's note: Thank you for reading and reviewing. The next chapter might take more than a month to get out since I won't have any more breaks until the semester ends. Have a nice day.