==== BE GAMZEE
Gamzee really needed his moirail right now. He's not good at dealing with situations like the one he's stuck in right now. He's way more about fight and flight than sit and talk about your feelings, but Karkat is good at the second one so... He can help Gamzee through this problem can't he?
Though he would much rather just gather everyone into a giant hug and relax, one other side of him would rather murder anyone who makes him uncomfortable and gives him feelings he can't understand.
Gamzee doesn't really remember what caused this switch in his thinkpan's workings, but he's not good at thinking too hard about it either.
Since the fight on the roof, and Karkat's first shooshpap, Gamzee has been hiding in the vents of the meteor, avoiding any kind of interaction with any of the other trolls, and the humans who arrived recently.
Terezi found him after a while, however, and attempted to force justice and punishments on him for his two murders. But she found that she could not kill Gamzee, despite how much she wanted to, and they fell into a dangerous sort of kismesistitude, where Gamzee could lean toward his more violent tendencies to hurt her while she fought back and injured him as much as possible.
But lately Gamzee has gotten tired of this back and forth.
She doesn't want Karkat to know about the kismestitude, so keeps all their activity secret in the vents, but Gamzee is tired of hiding. It's gotten stuffy and annoying hiding all the time.
Mostly in order to piss off Terezi, he went looking for Dave, who he had proposed kismestitude towards a long time ago. He drew back old memories of how furious he was when Dave purposefully antagonized his religion, and it was easy enough to start a fight.
Even if he wasn't the god tier Gamzee of this timeline, he is still the strongest troll out of all of them, and had nearly killed Dave without even trying.
Upsetting Karkat wasn't his goal, and niether was his stirrings of pity for the weak god tier'd human.
Gamzee was confused and irritated and he needed. His. Moirail.
He had long ago stored in the back of his mind the locations of all the trolls' chosen respiteblocks, and found Karkat's particular one without any problem.
Once he got there, Gamzee was shocked and disturbed to find that Karkat's door had been not only knocked down but nearly shattered into pieces inside his room.
He went inside, and discovered that Karkat was nowhere to be found inside.
Gamzee let out a snarl of fear for the safety of his pale buddy and left the room sniffing for his scent in the hall. He learned this sort of thing offhandedly from Terezi, since the vents were so dark and his night vision not THAT good.
Karkat was still close, he could sense it.
He took a dew more steps down the hall and stopped at another door. He could smell his moirail clear as day was behind this weak metal hunk.
With a loud and vicious HONK of promised retribution for whoever had harmed his moirail, Gamzee smashed through the door with his bare fists.
Karkat jolted awake, eyes flashing open in fear as he rolled over to face the door with wide eyes.
The first thing Gamzee saw beyond the red haze of HERO MODE, was Dave motherfucking Strider holding Karkat in his arms, and without a practical brain pulse to be had, Gamzee jumped into thoughtless, instinctual action.
He grabbed Karkat by the scruff of his neck and pulled him close to his own body, whilst also snatching Strider's neck and dragging him off the bed. Dave, who was awake and flipping his shit, grabbed onto the troll's wrist and tried to pry his fingers from around his throat frantically, to no avail. He squeaked, "What the fuck?"
Gamzee HONKED loudly again and tossed Dave into the wall. Dave slid down after letting out a choked cough of pain, to sit on his ass and grab at his side.
"Gamzee! Stop!" Karkat pushed about, trying to get free of the larger troll's arms and to go help Dave in any way possible, mainly to protect him.
Gamzee gathered Karkat further into himself and growled loudly.
Dave just groaned, "Not...ow, again..."
"Gamzee, stop it! Come on!" He tried to get away again. He tried to pry the arms off of him and to push off. Gamzee refrained from going anywhere near Dave, but refused to let Karkat go. He continued gnashing his pointy teeth and glaring daggers at the Strider.
"GAMZEE! STOP!" Karkat shouted, glaring angrily at the clown troll as he gripped onto his wrist that was holding about him tightly.
"RELAX LITTLE BROTHER THE DANGER HAS PASSED" "i saw your motherfucking door bashed in and came at once to help you"
"THERE IS NO DANGER! THE ONLY DANGER. HERE. IS. YOU!" Karkat spat out.
Dave rubbed at his side and rolled his eyes.
Gamzee moved his dark violet eyes to look at his struggling pale bro. "HUH"
"God dammit I gotta find another room again..." Dave mumbles.
"He was fucking helping me when no one else would!" Karkat said sternly, referring to Dave. "He literally forced his way into my room to help me when I was too ignorant to try to accept help!"
Gamzee narrows his eyes in disbelief and mild confusion.
"He was the one who helped me and opened up, not kept hidden and avoided everyone else!" He pushed at Gamzee's hands angrily.
Gamzee frowns spectacularly. "but karkat im your moirail"
"You WERE," Dave specifies.
Gamzee growls at him again, sparks practically flying from his eyes.
"I am your moirail." He nearly shouts. "You aren't mine..." He says lowly, finally pushing free of Gamzee's arms and glaring at him as he stood between the clown and Dave.
Gamzee's lip corners fall further.
"You're the world's shittiest moirail, dude, all you do is cause problems for everyone," Dave grunts, pushing himself up via the wall.
Gamzee's nose twitches but he keeps his eyes on Karkat. "I THOUGHT WE WERE SUPPOSED TO BE EACH OTHERS" "i thought we were best friends"
"Well you should have thought about how I felt when you weren't there. Especially when I needed you!" He scowled. "Sometimes I wonder what goes through your thinkpan all the time. Do you just think about yourself? Not anyone else? Because that is what I am getting from the kind of behavior you are showing me constantly. You just come and go as you please! Never when I want you here! You come and go whenever you want, collecting what you need and leaving without paying me back! How do you fucking think that makes me feel?!"
Gamzee swallows visibly and looks down. "I DIDNT FUCKING KNOW YOU WERE MOULTING KARKAT"
"Because you are hardly ever here... What do you even do when you are in those vents? Do you play with the bodies you've killed? Do you think of all the fun times you had killing them?"
Gamzee's eyebrows smash together and he glances side to side before taking a step back, obviously uncomfortable with the subject matter. "i..no"
Karkat stares at Gamzee, mixed with fear of what he's saying and what he wants to say and anger at all that had happened. He eventually gives a small growl, glaring at his...ex-moirail. "Get out..." He says lowly, nearly threateningly.
Gamzee shakes his head slowly. "NO BROTHER WE HAVE TO TALK ABOUT SOME SHIT THATS..." "thats why im here" "I DIDNT WANT TO MAKE YOU SO UPSET BRO I ONLY WANT YOU EVER TO BE HAPPY" "help me out here"
"You can make me happy now by leaving! I don't want to see your face right now, you only cause me pain. Just... leave..." Karkat glances to the ground off to the side sadly.
Gamzee shudders and makes a pitiful whimpering noise.
"I said get out!" Karkat shouts, glaring angrily at Gamzee, tears forming in his eyes even as he bared his teeth.
"You heard the lady," Dave steps forward to stand next to Karkat, presenting them as a unified front against the indigo troll.
Gamzee sniffs and wipes at his own face before shuffling toward the door. "who am i all up and 'sposed to talk to about my feelings now..." he sighs.
Dave rolls his eyes once the clown is gone, "Fucking doors around here can't keep out shit."
Karkat stares at the door for a moment longer before taking in a shaky breath and freezing up, trying not to break down.
Dave curls his arm around Karkat's waist and tugs him gently closer, "Hey."
He shakes slightly, looking at Dave's face in slight shock of what just happened, even as the tears start to fall from his eyes and down his cheeks.
"Hey, no, don't do that," Dave's hands gently pap at Karkat's dampening cheeks. "It's alright. It was just a little breakup, you'll get over it. You're a strong independent troll who don't need no moirail."
Karkat blinks, trying to stop the flow of the red tinted liquid as he took in another breath before letting it out slowly and just pressing his face to Dave's shoulder, not caring if he cried on his skin at all.
Dave's fine with that. "At least I'm not wearing a shirt, cause if I got pink stains all over it that'd be lame." He curls his arms around Karkat and hugs him. "Hey. It's not like anyone died. This time. You guys...can still be friends?" He's so confused.
Karkat slowly shakes his head. "If- if you aren't in a relationship with him you are most likely... his enemy..." he managed to pull out of his mouth as he held tightly to Dave, though in doing so sort of made him feel bad because it still felt sort of like redrom cheating, even if he wasn't properly Gamzee's moirail he could feel at least a bit attached still.
"No way he adores you, did you even see his face when you dumped him? He was gonna piss blood."
"He's gonna be mad and will try to take it out on something... or someone..." He blinked a few times and clutched Dave tighter. "He's gonna blame you, oh shit, he's gonna try and take it out on you...!" Karkat's voice wavers in fear, fear for Dave.
Dave sighs, "Okay well if he does I'll just kick his ass. I kind of learned how he fights before and I've been thinking about it pretty much nonstop. I'm pretty sure I can fight him now."
"I don't want you to fight him..." Karkat says, sounding like a grub pouting at not getting its way.
Dave laughs at him and kisses the top of his head, "Yeah I don't wanna fight him again either, to be honest. I'm sure he can just go take out his pissy attitude on Terezi if they're in hatelove or whatever."
Karkat pauses, blinks some tears out of his eyes, and slowly nods. He had sort of suspected that would happen... eventually, but, that in itself still hurts. He shook violently again and closed his eyes, failing to stop the tears.
Dave waits a minute, and then says quietly, "Well now that you're awake we can go get started on that date thing if you want... Might make you feel less shitty."
He takes in a breath and lets it out slowly, another and then nods nervously. "I- I guess it might help..." He admits, pulling back enough to look at Dave properly as he forced a small smile on his face, blinking his still tear riddled eyes to clear them
"Do your tears actually taste good like Terezi says?" Dave asks suddenly, looking at Karkat's eyes.
Karkat scowls, but his eyes are smiling. "You better not lick me..." He says softly.
Dave leans closer threateningly. "Vantas you gotta know by now that if you tell me not to do something I'll be all over doing it."
"And you gotta know that when I said I would bite you I will bite you." He returned, but his mouth shifted into a small smile.
"I know, you demonstrated that ability already," Dave scrunches his nose. His eyes are still locked on the bright red dribbles at the edges of Karkat's eyes.
"You had better not..." He says, looking at Daves shade-covered face daringly.
Dave grins, "You're not good at this." He kisses Karkat's cheek just close enough to his eye to make him squirm.
Karkat shifts and presses his teeth warningly to Dave's own cheek, but his eyes seemed playful in their expression. "I am not joking..." He sing songs.
"You're adorable," Dave picks him up off the ground and holds him close.
He blinks in surprise before smiling a bit wider. "You better not start that again!" He warns, pressing a small kiss at Dave's jaw line to stop himself from chuckling.
"I'm not sorry. Don't hate because you're adorable and people point it out."
"Note, only you point it out." Karkat replies.
"Just me?" Dave raises an eyebrow over his shades in disbelief. "Not buying that."
"Have you ever heard any of the others call me adorable? No. Because they don't." He moves his head to be right in front of Dave's face.
Dave snickers. "Uh yeah. Rezi. Kanaya a few times. John said it once. Ditto Jade."
Karkat huffs in irritation. "And how did I react to them calling me that?" He asks, raising an eyebrow at him.
"You got mad." (:
"And now?"
"You're still mad." (:
He rolls his eyes. "No, I am not screaming my head off at you am I?" He smiles a bit wider.
"No," Dave sets him back down. "Hey but speaking of the bucktoothed weirdo, didn't you have some weird crush on John before? I remember from the memo you CC'd us in."
Karkat scowls and leans back from Dave. "What mood are you trying to set here? An awkward one? Cause I think that is the way it is heading in at the moment."
Dave grins wider. "You know I love to make things uncomfortable for you."
"Oh come on..." He pushes back from Dave with a very small smile on his face, he can't seem to stop smiling. Despite how upset he was a minute ago, Dave's already distracted him.
"So c'mon tell me what the heck did you like about him? I wanna know what went wrong with your taste."
Karkat gives Dave an 'are you kidding me' look with his eyes before putting his thumb and forefinger together and tracing them over his lips, effectually sealing them if there was a zipper there.
Dave's eyes widen behind his glasses just as his grin does, "No, you aren't gonna hide information from me." He grabs Karkat again and picks him up as high as he can off the ground, ignoring the pain in his side. "I'm not putting you down till you spill."
Karkat smiles, teeth barely seen behind his slightly parted lips as he shakes his head roughly with a small chuckle.
"Tell me. Tellllll meeee." Dave shakes him gently.
He chuckles louder and grins, shaking his head even more. He doesn't even know why he is happy about this kind of thing, its just because it's Dave.
Dave is frustrated, "Ughh." He grabs for his sword and shifts his grip to Karkat's sweater behind his neck. He stabs the sword into the wall and hangs Karkat on the handle by his stretchy lumpy sweater.
Karkat looses his smile and frowns at Dave, folding his arms over his chest irritably and glaring at the blonde.
Dave mirrors his position.
"You're gonna tell me or I'm not letting you down. I'll actually leave. I'll go hang out in the library for an hour or so and leave you here."
Karkat rolls his eyes and shakes his head, lifting his hand up and 'unzipping' his mouth. "Then in advance, fuck you." He says before 'zipping' his lips back up together.
"Alright have it your way," Dave walks away and grabs his shirt, which Kanaya had returned to him whole, and she'd kindly stitched up the cuts in the fabric. "I'll be back later," Dave shrugs the shirt on. "Don't go anywhere. Just hang out."
Karkat stares at Dave, entirely unamused by this situation. He gives him both fingers and a scowl.
Dave returns them but with a smile attached. He walks out of the room with a salute.