Holiday Ghost Event: Road Less Traveled

[shnpc]

WHO: Everyone, affected and not
TONE: Not of this world
RATING: PG
WHEN: December 11th through 12th
WHERE: Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
WHAT: Due to visiting holiday ghosts, some students and staff find themselves living as they would have if something in their lives did or didn't happen. An alternate version who could be better or worse off!
NOTE: This signals the event start. Use any posting format you want, and feel free to post about this as well on the journals!

Comments

[candycrabapple]

We... Well we don't really talk, when people can see at least.

[He shuffles a little uncomfortably.]

And nothing's been 'fucking around' with my head or my memori- Stop that! Bloody hell!

[Starting to sound like his patience is thinning when it comes to yelling at him right now. Because lets face it, it's Karkat, no matter what kind of timeline he's been in, a long wick has never been in them.]

[mo_cara]

[The voice jerks him up short again, and he looks over his shoulder with cold, cold eyes, though there's curiosity there, too.]

Or what?

[candycrabapple]

Or...

[He squares his shoulders.]

Or nothing! Just stop it.

[mo_cara]

Daaaamn, motherfucker, you done grown some big brass ones on you.

[grins, suddenly, and slings the bat over his shoulder, sauntering over to Karkat again] So what're we doing instead?

[candycrabapple]

We? What we? Why should we be doing anything. I just want you to stop being a dick. It's what all Gryffinfor's are like.

[mo_cara]

Most Gryffindors are more on the being a motherfuckin' dick end of that wicked spectrum, bro. [grinning nastily]

[candycrabapple]

Wait? Are you really going to tell me that we're on the dick side? Really, because I really find that hard to believe.

[mo_cara]

Yeah, 'cause all that valor and shit makes you lot self righteous pricks. [matter-of-factly]

[candycrabapple]

[His eyebrow twitches and his crosses his arms defensively.]

Better than acting like a pack of mightier-than-thou, manipulative, and backstabbing jackals.

[mo_cara]

[grins, and there's an awful lot of teeth in it] I don't be knowing about 'better'. Just different.

[candycrabapple]

Having the moral high ground, generally means better. Because we wont do anything to get what we want. Unlike Slytherin who lie, cheat, and steal.

[He pouts at the teeth, trying to look like that doesn't seem freaky to him.]

[mo_cara]

Ah, now, my brother, that's being all motherfuckin' biased of you on what's better and what's not. Some other motherfuckers might be saying that acting like everything you do is right is worse than just doing what needs to be done, you hearing what I'm saying?

[candycrabapple]

You don't do 'what needs to be done' at the needless cost of others in any sense of the word from their dignity to their lives.

Hurting someone in the name of what needs to be done is still hurting someone and you shouldn't do it.

[mo_cara]

[sly look] What if it's to protect some motherfucker? Aurors and shit, or people in the war? Is that wrong?

[candycrabapple]

Good to know you aren't even listening. I said 'needless cost of others'. If someone's risking someone or a group of peoples lives or there isn't any other alternative then it can't be helped.

[mo_cara]

Yeah, but doing what needs doing ain't no needless cost to others, either. [breezily]

[candycrabapple]

[Karkat groans and rubs his face in irritation.]

If someone doesn't need to be killed for what needs to be done to get done, then they don't get killed, that is all I'm trying to say here, but even as you are now you're either just not getting it or saying it like that just to get on my nerves.

[mo_cara]

Well, aren't you a clever motherfucker. [slyly]

[candycrabapple]

[Raises an eyebrow]

Yeah well, they don't keep idiots in Gryffindor, for the most part anyway.

[mo_cara]

[busts up into his weird laughter, like Karkat has just told a really choice joke]

[candycrabapple]

Nothing I said was even remotely hilarious. What are you laughing for?

[mo_cara]

Motherfucker, everyone knows that's the storage bin for ALL the dumbasses! [sniggering] You're just all being one of them fine exceptions to the rules.