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!

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[mo_cara]

[Everyone who knows Gamzee knows he has kind of an unpredictable temper. It's usually activated by someone slighting someone he cares about, though, and he'd gotten a lot better since his first year, when he'd actually bitten some other students and nearly got kicked out of the school. What he's not, is usually randomly destructive.

Which makes it really surprising to see him with a cricket bat, going to town on one of the suits of armor. The thick wood slams into the metal, making a terrible racket, as he rants, alternating between a dangerously quiet voice and a scream of what sounds like pure rage.]

You better GET THE FUCK OUT OF THERE, MOTHERFUCKER! [wham, wham!] Don't you even be thinking, DON'T YOU THINK, I didn't see you! MOTHERFUCKIN' BLASPHEMER! GET OUT GET OUT GET OUT! [wham, wham, WHAM!]

[candycrabapple]

[Karkat comes along the scene, himself someone not at all the same as his normal self. Frowning he starts to approach Gamzee, looking very unimpressed.]

Hey! Cut that out. It's school property and you know it.

[mo_cara]

[Gamzee whips his head up, an absolutely crazed expression on his face, his eyes slightly unfocused. He twirls the cricket bat in his hand the way someone might a juggling club, an act which takes a hell of a lot of strength and dexterity, but then, he looks a little thicker, somehow, under the robes. It's hard to tell, though.

Then his attention focuses sharply on Karkat, like the irising lens of a camera, and he cocks his head to one side. He likes Karkat, but the other boy is usually polite but kind of distant.]

What do you care, Vantas?

[candycrabapple]

[He swallows a little, some of his bluster gone, he was kind of expecting to be ignored as Gamzee seemed really caught up in destroying hand forged steel. He stops about 3 metres away from him, Karkat's always felt the need to get into peoples business to make sure they aren't getting themselves or other people hurt, however with Gamzee he actually feels the need to try. though when other people were around he was less than inclined to.]

I care, Makara. Because if you aren't caught and lose points for it. Everyone will get in trouble. And last I looked everyone including myself actually really like going to Hogsmead.

Just because it's Christmas and we get to go home for two weeks doesn't mean you can just be a massive typhoon of douchbaggery. Which even for you is a higher category than usual.

[His need to sooth, builds in the background. But his unease around the taller boy keeps him from acting on it. Like always.]

[mo_cara]

[The anger that boils up all over again at having someone insult him and tell him off is tempered by confusion. Karkat's never talked to him like this, even when he was annoyed with Gamzee. The redhead had always seemed slightly disturbed by the taller boy, which was a pretty common reaction, really. It bothered the Slytherin, for some reason he couldn't really pin down, but what could he do about it?

But what was this?]

Ain't nobody gonna get in trouble. [He took a few steps closer, chin tipped up as he looks down at Karkat.]

Why you even talking to me, motherfucker?

[candycrabapple]

They aren't? Why are you giving yourself up for doing it? Because I'm really not believing that one for a second.

[He watches him get closer, a small voice was trying to encourage Karkat to take the same steps back to keep him away. But something else in him just tells him to pull his shoulders back and not to be scared.]

Because you're being a dick right now. What's the point of destroying armour? Sure they're about as useful now as a catapult or dandelions. But this isn't your house, those aren't your things. It's called respect, you might want to try it out some time. It might blow your mind because you might actually enjoy it.

[mo_cara]

[Gamzee starts swinging the cricket back again in lazy circles, and it makes a slow 'whum, whum' sound in the air as he approaches Karkat. His expression is unusually thoughtful ... and dangerous. Eyes narrowed, lips thinned - it's not an expression the older boy has ever directed at the other boy before.]

There's a motherfucker INSIDE what had some SHIT TO SAY that can't be tolerated. And you ain't never said nothing before when I was being a dick. Why now?

[candycrabapple]

[His eyes lock onto the cricket bat, taking a step back cautiously.]

Of course I have. I've done it twice this term.

[When no one was around. of course.]

And what if it's just peeves. Acting like that's only going to encourage him.

[mo_cara]

It IS Peeves. [But his voice is dismissive now, as though that's all in the distant past. His gaze is focused, laser sharp, on Karkat now, focused in a way Gamzee can rarely manage.]

And no you ain't. Why are you speaking some vicious untruths to me, bro? That ain't right.

[candycrabapple]

Then if you ignore him, he goes away. Even I figured that much out, but then it's not really all hard you know.

I have too. "Vicious untruths" wow, when you want to make something over dramatic you really go all out don't you. The first time was the start of the year when you yelling at the one-eyed witch statue for stealing something, the other was two weeks ago when you were just looming around looking generally unpleasant and more than a little irritating. How many substances do you have to abuse to forget stuff like that. Sure it wasn't exactly thrilling or eye-poppingly memorable. But is still happened.

[Is really finding the gaze un-nerving but isn't really sure what's going to happen if he breaks the eye contact they have. So why tempt fate when you don't have to? Because Karkat certainly isn't.]
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[mo_cara]

[Something's wrong here.]

Did someone come up and all whack you upside the nugbone? I ain't never done those things and I don't put no wicked poisons all up in this body. It puts HOLES in your PAN. [whum, whum goes the cricket back and then it stops, pointed at Karkat, while Gamzee's eyes narrow to dark slits]

You been a lot of things, Vantas, but I ain't never known you to be no liar. [he finally breaks eye contact to look around] Got the suspicion there be some wicked magic at work.

[candycrabapple]

[As Gamzee speaks, Karkat starts to look confused at what he has to say, and taking a nervous step back as the cricket bat is pointed at him]

Yeah, something has to be up if you have a sensible idea that doesn't have to be deciphered...

[He rubs at his neck really trying to figure out what's happening.]

[doctorkishitani]

[Shinra's making his way towards the Great Hall when he catches sight of Gamzee doing something decidedly idiosyncratic, but that was to be expected. He quickens his pace, excitedly making his way over to the other boy.]

Hello Gamzee! I was hoping to run into... [He trails off, standing off to the side and watching Gamzee assault the suit of armour for a long moment. This was decidedly unusual. But perhaps it was best to avoid mentioning the sudden shift in mood for the time being.] Where did you find a cricket bat?

[mo_cara]

[Gamzee looks up from his assault on the armor, and his eyes light up when he sees Shinra.]

Babe! You know I always be up and bring this to school. [impatiently, as if that's of no importance] Come here and help me! That MOTHERFUCKIN' POLTERGEIST is all trying to hide from me in here, after he SPREAD SOME WICKED BLASPHEMIES about the clown!

AU kurloz is suicidal, clearly

[innocent_insanity]

[Cue the other Makara whom everyone knows to be mute. And a bit reluctant to be too physical with others.

Yet there he comes ambling down the hall and putting his arms around Gamzee's shoulders and resting his chin on the younger boy's head. He's not even trying to be annoying, he just figured this would catch Gamzee's attention fastest.]

Motherfucking bro, WHAT'S GOT YOU ALL UP AND FUCKING ENRAGED on this finest of FINE DAYS?

[mo_cara]

That BLASPHEMOUS MOTHERFUCKER! What thinks he can say what he wants and the GHOST THE FUCK AWAY! [He leans back into Kurloz as though this is totally normal, turning his head slightly to look at the older boy.]

We gots to be finding that spell, cefnder, to get him OUT- [Wait, huh? He turns fully around this time, in Kurloz's arms, and puts his hands around the other boy's head, pressing their foreheads together with a puzzled from.] How're you getting your throat box speakings on?

[innocent_insanity]

[Just blinks lazily when Gamzee turns and holds his head, smiling easily.]

What are you on this time, col ceathrar? [Chuckles, shaking his head.] You been FUCKING AROUND with them self-concocted WICKED ELIXIRS again?

[mo_cara]

[Gamzee frowns and narrows his eyes.] You know I ain't down with BURNING HOLES IN MY PAN with that shit, it's motherfuckin' poison. Why you asking me that?

[innocent_insanity]

[Scoffs.] Bro, WHERE'D YOU GET OFF ON TELLING THAT BULLSHIT? You were just brewing up and breathing in some KILLER FUMES just last night.

[mo_cara]

[lets go of Kurloz's head, stepping back and baring his upper row of teeth, like a dog] Don't you be SPINNING THEM WEBS from your protein chute, and don't you be calling me A MOTHERFUCKIN' LIAR.

[innocent_insanity]

[Blinks with confusion and holds his hands up in surrender.] Bro, CHILL THE FUCK OUT. What crawled up your waste chute and DIED TODAY? First you're being ALL SORTS OF MOTHERFUCKING ENRAGED at a dead fella, then you go on about SOME BROTHER GETTING HIS PIPES WORKING when they've been working fine, and now you're getting all sorts of underwearing shit TWISTED UP AROUND YOUR BULGE about them RECREATIONAL SPORTS of yours'??

Seriously motherfucker, WHAT THE FUCK?

[mo_cara]

[Gamzee raises the bat, holding it threateningly against his shoulder, eyes narrowed, and growls] Have you gone MOTHERFUCKIN' SHITHIVE MAGG-

[Then stops, cocks his head to one side, because his cousin is usually pretty straightforward and even keel, comparatively, and he's talking, which is all kinds of fucked up and weird. More fucking up than being told he does drugs or something.]

Some weird shit is going down.

[innocent_insanity]

[Eyes flick at the bat before lazily shrugging.]

You think?

[mo_cara]

You ain't supposed to be squawking words out your chute. [He lifts his hands, and signs gracefully] You're supposed to talk like this.

On account of them spells. [adds verbally] Did you get fixed?

[innocent_insanity]

[Stares bemusedly as Gamzee signs at him, mildly surprised the usually stoned boy is capable of it.]

Whazzat mean, bro? I did't know you could do that finger wiggling comunication... [frown] And what you gabbing about motherfucker? I sure as hell didn't need no fixing.