Prince of Heart- God I love writing dialogue for Dave.

"wwhy not?" Eridan complained, kneeling down over a drawing he had made with a purple chalk on the floor of the computer room in the meteor.

"TH1S 1S 4 D3MOCR4CY, NOT 4 D1CT4TORSH1P!" Terezi argued, "W3 4LR34DY H4V3 4 POL1C3 FORC3!"

Eridan looked up and slumped his shoulders. "wwhat if an invvadin force comes to destroy our towwn!?"

Terezi stacked another can on top of a small stack of other cans she had made to resemble a hospital. "UNL3SS SOM3ON3 3LS3 M4K3S ON3, TH3RES NOTH1NG TO WORRY ABOUT, D1NGUS!"

Dave looked over at the two, pointing the cherry red chalk at Terezi. "fish-dude has a point. gotta protect those children T, they ain't able to shoot a gun with their little baby hands. or weird caterpillar legs. Still dont know what the fuck is up with your creepy troll babies, but you gotta have someone to protect the little bastards."

"W3LL 1T DO3SN'T M4TT3R WH4T 4NY OF US TH1NK, 1T'S TH3 M4YOR TH4T H4S F1N4L D3S1S1ON." Terezi turned to the mayor beside her, whom was working on a road connecting the residential district of Can Town to the industrial section. "WH4T DO YOU TH1NK M4YOR?"

The mayor looked up from his activity, placing the white chalk in his hand on the ground. He thought for a second, rubbing his hand on his black carapace face, before looking back at the group and giving them a thumbs up.

"well, cant disagree with what the mayor says T," Dave said, shrugging at Terezi. "do what you want fish-dude."

"evvery good govvernment has an intimidatin military presence, ter. really makes negotiatin with enemy forces havve that extra powwoww!"

Terezi huffed at them and went back to stacking cans to make buildings. Dave and the mayor went back to drawing the roads, while Eridan continued building up the model town's military force. Can Town had been a project the four of them had been eagerly creating ever since the Mayor had been revived by a dead god tiered Feferi. The experience had weirded Eridan out, as Eridan had met an alternate dead God Tiered version of himself, complete with an absolutely ridiculous outfit. Eventually the two hit it off, talking about how stupid the Prince outfit was, and he was whisked away all too soon. He certainly loved talking to himself. Of course it was just a little awkward meeting Feferi again, but apparently she had no memory of the situation because "she wasn't from his timeline."

Since the mayor had been resurrected, he had gotten straight to work in creating a model town using the group's food reserves. Dave and Terezi had nearly instantaneously begun helping him, Terezi lending her coloured chalks to make roads and such. Those two had been doing everything together ever since the meteor had started its journey, and when Eridan asked Dave why, he told Eridan that he "guessed they were a thing, but you can never tell with tz's psychotic brand of trademarked humour." End quote. Eridan almost felt as if he were intruding, but he never really did understand personal space.

Eventually, Eridan joined in with the two out of boredom and loneliness, since Terezi and Dave were the only two that still tolerated him on the meteor and weren't a lying wwitch. His main objective was to build up the towns military force using screws that he got from destroying the groups computers. Not that they needed them anymore. He'd built an already formidable force, one that could rival any other pathetic excuse for a can town.

Eridan swept his cape away, using his purple chalk to trace an outline of the border to the base, as Terezi scolded Dave behind him. "H3Y, TH1S W4S MY T3RR1TORY! G3T 4W4Y!"

Dave pushed her gently, "make me."

Terezi smiled deviously as she wrestled with Dave to grab his chalk away from him, though Dave gave a good fight. Terezi managed to push him down holding his arms out and dishevelling his glasses. She sat herself on his stomach, with one arm on his neck and the other wresting the chalk from his hand. Once she'd done that, she deciding to test her luck by snatching his glasses as well. Dave attempted to struggle, but Terezi had him completely pinned and unable to move.

"get off of me!" Dave chuckled.

Terezi looked him directly in his candy red eyes, and said with a smirk, "M4K3. M3."

Dave gave a mock gasp. "thats it, youve done it. prepare to be punched in the mouth, with MY mouth."

Eridan groaned as Terezi leaned into Dave, raised her hand up, and shoved Dave's glasses into his mouth. Dave spat out the glasses, and glared at Terezi.

"not cool, what does a guy have to do to get some smooches from a cute troll girl?" Dave groaned as Terezi got off him and sat next to him. Terezi poked her tongue out at him, and went back to building up the town.

Dave put his glasses back on, and looked over to Eridan. "yo fish-dude, any advice?"

"advvice on wwhat?" he answered.

"on getting troll babes. you ever date a girl like tz?"

Eridan thought for a second. "hmm… yes and no. i havve dated someone nearly as insane as ter, but it wwasnt a matespritship."

"1'M NOT 1NS4N3!" Terezi interrupted.

"quiet please." Eridan retorted. "i dont knoww wwhether you knoww of her, but i dated this girl before our session started named vvriska."

"oh yeah, that was the girl john had the hots for right?"

"i dont knoww. i think he did. but it wwas a more… caliginous relationship."

"oh so she was your kis-meister or whatever. didnt tz have something like that with her."

Terezi groaned, "BLUH, 1T W4SN'T L1K3 TH4T D4V3! HOW M4NY T1M3S H4V3 1 TOLD YOU TH4T?"

Dave shrugged, "how about you guys stop loving people four different ways. my backwards ass human brain cant handle that many options." He turned back to Eridan. "what were you saying?"

"wwe dated for a feww months, most of our dates invvolvved killin people on the high seas and takin their gear as our role-playing characters. unmerciful slaughterin certainly makes caliginous relationships get hot and heavvy. wwe made out three, maybe evven four times."

"oh snap, youre a regular ben stiller with all those girls hanging off you. youre a tree, and the girls are your faithful monkeys swinging on those branches like theres no god damn tomorrow."

"wwhat the fuck are you talkin about? whats a 'ben stiller?'"

"only the best worst actor to ever grace earth. so what the fuck happened between you and vriska that she went running into good old johns arms?"

"it wwas a long time ago. the obnoxiously cheerful blue texted human wwasnt the first one to grab her affection. but i dont actually knoww wwhat i did." Eridan sighed. "one day i contacted her wwith an offer of good ol murder, but she responded less… spiteful than usual. she just broke up with me, then and there. i tried talkin to her, but she just blocked me. she abandoned me. they all abandoned me. none of them cared, not really. fef left me as soon as wwe entered the game, for that loww blooded douche no less. i gavve her my all, i gave both of them my all, and they left me wwhen i needed them most! is it so bad of me to ask for someone to actually fuckin tolerate me?!" Eridan growled as he felt tears sting his eyes. "maybe thats wwhy i tried to kill all those land dwwellers vvriska, because the last time i trusted a land dwweller she broke my fuckin heart! if it wwasnt for kar, maybe i wwouldvve done it a long time ago! and hell, maybe youd still be alivve fef if you hadnt used me as a wway to feed your stupid pet and actually gavve a shit as my moirail!"

He found himself gently sobbing as he paused from his rant, his heavy breathing causing his chest to slowly move in and out. He jerked his head over to the others in the room, realising that he was crying in front of them. The mayor was continuing his drawing, while Terezi and Dave had stopped dead and were awkwardly listening to him.

The three stared at each other, before Terezi spoke up, "4R3 YOU… OK4Y?" Terezi crawled closer to him. "1 KN3W VR1SK4 B3TT3R TH4N 4NYON3. W3 C4N T4LK 4BOUT 1T, YOU KNOW."

Eridan lifted up his glasses and wiped the tears from his eyes. "i dont need to talk about anythin." Eridan jumped up, carefully navigated the military base of can town by holding his cape up, and stood on a transportalizer that sat in the corner of the room. He didn't even give them a wave as he teleported out of the room.