Once upon a time there was a small village surrounded by forest and in this village lived a boy that everyone simply called Red.

Muffled arguing can be heard coming from back stage. Rose rolls her eyes.

and in this village lived a boy that everyone simply called Red.

A boy stumbles onto stage, his skin is so pale he almost glows in the bright lighting and his hair is so light blonde it's almost white. He's wearing a pair of black skinny jeans, a plain red shirt, and red converse shoes with a long red hooded cape with the hood down over top of it all almost touching the ground as he swings around narrowing his red eyes off the stage in a vicious glare.

Red was a kind boy who cared deeply for

"Fuck you I didn't agree to this! Give me back my shades!"

Rose turns to narrow her eyes at the boy crossing her arms and giving a very mother like glare. "Dave this is for John you promised you'd help us with this."

"I said I'd make some sick beats! It could have been the most bad ass musical the world had ever seen. Sick beats shaking the audience dragging them into the story with some sweet ass raps being sung by the actors in the play. Man shit would be awesome as hell. Even Barack would want to see that! No one wants to see this. And give me back my shades!" Dave was practically pouting like a child as he crosses his arms glaring at Rose.

"Fine." Rose let out an over dramatic sigh. "We'll just give the part to someone else. I bet Karkat would lo-"

"No way! You can't replace this much swag with that rage-filled midget!" Dave ducks down dodging a shoe that comes flying from the right side of the screen towards the back of his head.

A shorter boy with messy brown hair being held down by a headset comes stomping onto stage. His black turtleneck sweater was slightly too big and made him seem even smaller as he stormed across the screen to stand in front of Dave, only reaching his chin. The two boys eyes connect into matching red glares. "Who the fuck you calling a rage-filled midget!"

Dave smirks down at the boy leaning over until his pale freckled nose is almost touching the other boy's tan button nose. "I only call them as I see them, short stuff. Maybe if you stopped letting out so much rage it'd build up inside of you and help you grow a few feet so you can at least reach the height of a 10 year old girl. Or perhaps you actually like being pocket sized."

Karkat lets out a howl of rage and tackles Dave. The two scuffle on stage a stream of taunts and cuss words filling the air.

Rose lets out an annoyed sigh and walks over to the fighting boys. She moves to stand behind them. "Dave, Karkat. If you do not stop this childish behavior immediately I will be forced to stop it myself."

Both boys stopped fighting, Dave has a fist-full of Karkat's hair in his left hand and Karkat has Dave's right wrist in his mouth. Two pairs of red eyes move to slowly look up at Rose. Dave slowly releases Karkat's hair as Karkat stops biting Dave and inches backwards off of the taller boy. Both boys have the decency to look ashamed.
"Now how about instead of bickering like a bunch of twelve year old girls we act our age, which is sixteen, just in case you may be in need of a reminder."
Both boys mumble out an apology.

"Good. Then shall we get back to the play without further incident?" Rose purrs.
Karkat stands up slowly re-adjusting his headset and shuffles across the stage to disappear behind the curtain.

Dave sulks a little just now realizing he's fallen for Rose's trap in accepting the position as Red. "I still want my shades back."

Rose rolls her eyes dramatically and turns to look off-stage at the left side of the screen. "Kanaya dear, I know it's not part of your wonderful costume but can you please give Dave back his shades so he can stop pouting like a child and we can get back to the play?"

A tall girl with perfectly styled black hair to her shoulders wearing a v-neck long sleeved black shirt with slight jade accents in the hemline and matching black pants walks onto the stage. Her makeup is all black and perfectly painted on as she smiles at Rose before turning to scowl down at Dave. "Dave you are ruining my perfect costume. Get off of the floor this instant."

Dave sighs and shoves himself up into standing brushing the dirt off of his costume as he turns to face Kanaya. She shakes her head and holds out a pair of aviator sunglasses.

Dave snatches up the sunglasses and puts them on visibly relaxing as the dark plastic covers his bright red eyes. Kanaya and Rose both give each other a knowing look before Kanaya leans over and places a kiss on Rose's cheek and sashays off stage.

Rose blushes lightly a black lipstick mark now gracing her cheekbone. She smiles and waves off-stage in the direction Kanaya walked off before turning to Dave. "Now can we continue the story Mr. Strider?"

Dave adjusts his cape and grins. "But of course Miss Lalonde."