Prince of Heart- Well here we are. Not finished yet. Let's continue shall we?
"Yo," A voice spoke up from behind the Prince, startling Eridan and snapping him out of his sorrowful and regret-filled gaze at the floor. He perked up slowly, seeing the wide horizon of lava and debris from the extra planet crashed into the side of Dave's planet from what seemed like ages ago, though he had no clue how long he'd been on his knees at the edge of the platform for, and he slowly looked behind him to whoever spoke up. To his surprise, it was a face he'd only seen once before long ago, back at the dream bubble where he met the Jake and Roxy humans, the human male that had been there as well that Eridan never learned the name of. He wore an outfit Eridan had seen before, the God-Tier clothing being that of his own God-Tier self's he remembered seeing when healing up the Mayor. A set of baggy pantaloons that stopped at the knees, a shirt with baggy sleeves, and a crown set atop his gelled and styled head, all drenched in dark and light pink colours, with a pair of pointy shades hiding his eyes.
The boy floated a little before setting himself down, and Eridan sighed, "wwhat do you wwant?"
The boy shrugged his shoulders awfully limply, and monotonously replied, "Nothing really. I was just flying up through space when I see all this destruction around." The boy made his way beside the Prince, standing with his hands on his hips as he gazed along the lava filled coastline. "I guess I'm still kind of in shock at how much of a colossal failure I am."
"yeah wwell youre talkin to the wwrong guy if you wwant to not be a huge wwaste of space," Eridan snapped, turning his attention to the sea again.
"Shit, sounds like you had a bad day bro," he clicked, gesturing to the floor. "You mind if a fellow Prince sit down?"
"i honestly couldnt fuckin care less.," Eridan told him, shaking his hand in dismissal.
The shaded boy nodded his head solemnly, slowly sitting down and wrapping his arms around his legs next to the kneeling fish boy. The two sat in silence, looking out blankly over the orange, glowing sea below them, which seemed to stretch on for miles and miles.
The boy raised his hand and rubbed his eyes under his glasses, dishevelling them, but quickly rearranged them properly. "So, I guess I'm Dirk," the boy said, extending his hand stiffly to the Prince of Hope.
Eridan looked over at the hand, before turning his head back without shaking the boy's gesture. "eridan."
The boy pulled his hand away slowly, shaking his head lightly. "Well I guess it's good to meet you again. It's been a few months, huh?" Dirk sighed slowly. "I can't believe I… I came so late. Who was that chick that even teleported me away?"
"did she look like a beast?" Eridan asked solemnly.
"Oh shit, yeah. She looked like a God damned dog crossed with my ex-boyfriend and all condensed into a tall bucktooth lady. You know where sh-"
"i killed her," Eridan said bluntly, unflinching.
"Oh. Well I guess that's good, but with everything I got going on I still need to know what happened to everyone. You know where Jane is? Black hair all styled, glasses, very motherly voice?"
"she flew off somewhere. probably dead."
Dirk made a clicking sound, and continued, "Well what about Roxy? Short hair down to her shoulders with pink tips, pink ey-"
"disappeared. probably dead."
Dirk inhaled a frustrated breath of air. "Fair enough. And what about my ex, Jake? You met him with me a whi-"
"i killed him too."
Dirk whipped his head towards the fish Prince, mouth holding open slightly. "What? Why?"
"does it matter? i couldnt givve a shit if i tried. kill me beat me up do wwhatevver you fuckin wwant. i just cant care anymore after evverythin ivve done. evverythin thats happened."
Dirk closed his jaw, taking a deep breath and letting any emotion flow out with the singular breath, and looked out toward the destroyed planet collided into their current one. "So what about everyone else? Is anyone you know alive?"
Eridan shook his head and shrugged his shoulders. "i havvent seen any. ivve killed six people. fivve of them good people. i think there might be but i just… i dont really deservve to see them anymore."
Dirk nodded his head slowly and thoughtfully, and said, "Well I get it. Really, I do. Not to that extreme level, but I do. I alienated some of my friends, even the guy I lo-... was in a relationship with. And looking back… I was trying to protect them. Break them down enough so I could build them up again as heartless fighting machines, friendships and personalities be damned. I thought I could turn them into me. But I never realised that's not how people work. Even logically. They're intricate, varying, never the same. Some might be similar but… never the same. I guess it took Jake breaking up with me and my dumb AI self telling me off to realise how wrong I was. And now… I failed. Everything has come crashing down. Everything I actually unironically liked might be gone and it's all because I wasn't here in time. I failed. Failed everyone. Failed everything."
Dirk sighed, and Eridan finally looked over at him. "fuck. i mean… just fuck. life sucks. but… i kinda wwanna check if anyones alivve noww. i guess just to figure out wwhat the fuck im gonna do wwith myself noww."
"Yeah I… I'm going to be here. Tell my friends I said yo if you see them."
Eridan nodded, standing up slowly, gazing out one last time, then turned away and began to walk, hoping to find anyone. Anyone at all.