[video]

[scorpiospider]

[For once, Vriska was sending a video out before the Dark Hour, so one could see her human face looking at the screen, carefully turned so only half her face was visible]

Lusus, Feferi, Kaoru... and anyone else I guess. Gonna beat up a lot of Shadows tonight. Meet me.

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video;

[cullscuttlefish]

Name your place and I'll be there.

video;

[scorpiospider]

[Vriska rattled it off, not her place but a meeting place for them all]

[Video]

[unknownrival]

Please be careful.

[Video]

[scorpiospider]

[At Issei's voice, she turned to the screen with wide, almost hopeful eyes, a clumsy bandaging attempt on her temple]

[Then she turned back, hiding her response] Why do you worry?

[Video]

[unknownrival]

Because that's what I do for people I care about.

[Video]

[scorpiospider]

I heard what you said, Issei. Have a chaaaaaaaange of heart?

[Video]

[unknownrival]

No, I haven't. You shouldn't have attacked her for such a stupid reason.

[Video]

[scorpiospider]

Damn it, Issei! If I didn't do that, I'd be the fucking laughingstock of the trolls! [Her voice was that too steady grind of someone trying not to break] It's not stupid. Defending your choices in your quadrants isn't stupid... and a troll auspitice would have just broken us up because I already have a kismesis!

[Video]

[unknownrival]

Nearly killing her is an overreaction to minor insults. I'd have rather she spat on me than you do that to her.

[Video]

[scorpiospider]

[This time she didn't turn back away when she looked back at the screen]

Gogdamnit, human, don't you get it? If I hadn't I could have lost Feferi!

[Video]

[unknownrival]

Someone can't bother you without you wanting to hate-make-out with them?

[hellburner]

I'll be there.

[Video]

[scorpiospider]

I would have lost her. Her respect, her... everything. It'd get out. That I let that kind of insult stand. That I was a coward. I'm not a coward, Issei! And I'm not her kismesis because I let people walk all over me!

[scorpiospider]

Good. Midnight, pinkie-lusus.

[Video]

[unknownrival]

There are ways to stand up to insults besides trying to kill people.

[hellburner]

Of course.

[Video]

[scorpiospider]

...

Issei? Take a moment. Remember who you're talking to is used to horns and fighting for her fucking life just to keep her guardian from eating her, not to mention to stay alive long enough to feed said guardian. That kind of insult? Perfectly fucking valid. As is the fact Feferi would have the right to dump my ass, and... you would too. If I hadn't done that. You'd have a perfectly valid troll reason to dump me.

[Video]

[unknownrival]

I wouldn't. You know that. I can be an auspitice or try to be one, but I can't be a troll.

[Video]

[scorpiospider]

Do you think I know that? I don't know how you think. All- all I know is I'm losing you and I hate it.

[Video]

[unknownrival]

Please don't hurt people just for my sake. It won't make me happy.

[Video]

[scorpiospider]

... why, Issei.

[Video]

[unknownrival]

Because I could never live with the guilt if you had killed her.

[Video]

[scorpiospider]

Guilt?

[The screen shook as she quickly turned it off, a text coming soon after]

[Text]

[scorpiospider]

Guilt over something you didn't do?

[Text]

[unknownrival]

Yes.