moveslikestrider | [Video] Backdated to Monday.

[The gear clicks on to show someone’s shoes at first. They’re black with steel over the front and one of them taps in a slow rhythm.]

-I’d have been cool with like white, or blue, or some funky color that had to do with the rainbow but attacking my head with neon? Really??

[The view swings up to the familiar rounded shades and flat expression of one Dave Strider. There’s just one noteable difference. His hair is neon pink. There is blaring and then there’s eye searing and from the way he huffs and offers the gear to someone else, he’s not impressed. ~~He will get you back for this.~~]

[The new face on the screen doesn’t seem any more excited about this, neon green hair falling into her eyes and framing her face. Rose wears an equally flat expression and her eyes glance sideways at her brother.]

Pink isn’t that bad. I mean, compare it to this green? I don’t even have anything that matches this. I’m going to be a walking color clash until I manage to purchase some new clothes. Pink goes well with red though, so I don’t see what you’re complaining about.

Except that I do. I can’t believe this.

[She knows exactly who is responsible. After all, who else could it possibly be? Who was close enough to the two of them to manage to prank them both on the same day? Who would even dare to prank the Strilondes like this other than John?

No one, that’s right.

Rose sets the gear back, so that both siblings can be admired in all of their neon glory.]

[Dave sighs and cards a hand through his hair but, that foot hasn’t stopped tapping. Oh he knows exactly who is responsible. There will be prank war over this. Suddenly, his whole demeanor shifts and he smirks. He covers the gear, but you hear one last thing from him.]

-idea about this.

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You Put A Great Deal Of Thought Into Your Palette Choices For Your Pranks

I Have Never Had The Need To Describe My Horns Before
They Were Horns
One Of Them Had A Fork At The Top
I

One Moment

[Eventually a picture comes through of a quick sketch of her horns.]

i could hardly call myself a pranking master if i half-assed this stuff.
sometimes the little details make all the difference.

oh i see! they suit you, they have a sort of simple elegance to them.
though i can see how those might be hard to make them in emote form.
(:C
no that looks really dumb and also backwards.
it just looks like a sad face with a unibrow.

Perhaps If There Was Some Way To Reverse The C
Although That Would Probably Take Enough Time To Negate The Supposed Time Saved By Simply Using An Emote To Convey Emotions Rather Than Words

Perhaps I Am Simply Not Meant To Use Them

yeeeah it probably would. is something like that even possible?
oh well, ultimately it's whatever you want to do!

though aradia uses them without making her horns.
how would she even do that like...
@ouo@
holy crap i'm not sure which looks dumber, that or the sad unibrow face.
i'm just going to stop now.

I Dont Know
This Is Your Alphabet
You Would Be The Expert On How To Manipulate It

That Is Somewhat Cute
Although I Doubt She Would Bother
She Seems To Have Embraced Humanity At Times

It Doesnt Look That Dumb

well yeah if you were actually writing it that would be easy!
but i don't know if there's a way to manipulate text like that.
probably not on a less advanced machine like this.
wait so trolls have a different alphabet?
how has nobody mentioned that to me in all this time?
i just figured we somehow had the same alphabet as us since you always wrote in english.

are you saying you don't enjoy it, kanaya? i mean i don't blame you for wanting to stay a troll.
but being human isn't really such a bad thing is it?
though i am biased since it is all i have ever been.

Would It Really Make Sense For Two Divirgent Species In Separate Universes To Have The Same Language
I Have Never Given It Much Thought Honestly
But It Doesnt Really Make Sense At All

It Is Not That I Dislike Being Human
Not Precisely
But
I Miss My Horns
I Miss Not Feeling Like A Slight Breeze Might Be Able To Injure This Soft Thin Skin
And I Miss My Rainbow Drinker Speed And Strength

nah but then again, you guys created our universe, right?
when you look at it that way, the idea doesn't seem so strange. because you had something of an impact, right?
you seem to have influenced our zodiac, at least.

that's understandable. but give us some credit, our skin isn't that flimsy!
jeez, do trolls have like armor skin or something? because it seems like it's always our bones or our skin that's soft in comparison to yours.
who knows, maybe one day they will figure out a way to change everyone who isn't human back.
i mean there has to be a reason they do it in the first place, so maybe there is a way to undo it.

I Suppose It Is Possible
I Had Never Given The Connection Between Our Signs And Your Zodiac Much Consideration

It Is Thicker I Believe
Sturdier At Least
I Am Not Certain Precisely How To Describe It You Are Just
Weaker
But You Do Not Spend Your Lives Killing Each Other Quite As Efficiently As We Do So Perhaps It Doesnt Matter

Do You Really Believe They Will Find A Way To Fix It
You Have Been Here For
A Sweep
I Think

Has Anyone Even Tried

i can't say i have really looked into it all that deeply myself.
but i do know the symbols are the same, at least.
maybe there's more to it, who knows. astrology was never really my thing.
i would rather look at the stars than try to tell my future with them.

typically, no we do not spend our whole lives killing each other.
which, ngl i am kind of glad for.

uhh...i think a sweep, yeah. 1 sweep = 2 years or somewhere around that, right?
next month makes 2 and a half years for me.
i don't know that anybody has tried but then again most people here are human to begin with.
but i do think it might be possible.
in fact, it has happened once before! but it was a temporary thing and there was a lot more to it than non-humans regaining their original forms.
it only lasted for a couple of days, but last november something really weird happened.
a bunch of people just showed up out of nowhere but were gone in a matter of days. what made it especially strange though, was the fact that they didn't show up in new bark.
some people got their powers back, and like i said, some non-humans changed back. karkat was one of them.
the whole thing was really...strange. nobody seems to have any idea how or why it happened but it hasn't happened since.

Im Not Surprised
You Have Never Struck Me As Someone Particularly Inclined To Believe In Destiny

Well Trolls Require Additional Defenses Due To Our Predilection For Slaughtering Each Other

Hmm
So Even If It Does Happen Again And I Were To Be Changed Back Into My Old Self
It Is Unlikely I Would Remain That Way
I Cannot Decide If That Would Be Better
Or Worse

hey i didn't say anything about not believing in destiny!
though i don't think we are 100% bound by it, if that makes sense. it's not some force that's completely iron-clad and unchangeable, in my opinion.
i think we have just as much an impact on our destinies as destiny has on us.
but that's beside the point.
the point is: fortune telling based on the position of clusters of arbitrary connect-the-random-balls-of-space-gas when you were born is just kind of silly.
fun to read, i guess, but not really something i would actually take seriously.
what is a constellation even like...how drunk were the ancient greeks who looked up at the sky and went "damn that sure looks like a dog right there."
spoilers, old dude: it looks nothing like a dog.

if it happens randomly like that then yes, in all likelihood it wouldn't last.
but if somebody could figure out what caused the anomaly in the first place, then it might be possible to figure out a way to make it permanent.
that was my point.

Perhaps They Simply Were Aware Of Some Bit Of Information You Are Not
Not That I am Endorsing Them Of Course
But Sufficiently Advanced Science Is Indistinguishable From Magic
I Cant Really Speak To The Shapes Though
We Were More Involved In Conquering The Universe Than Making Pictures Out Of It

Perhaps We Could
But If We Could Manage That Step It Is Quite Likely We Would Also Have Determined A Way To Return Home

eh. science is pretty cool but magic is definitely better.
but ok then, you need to go find a star chart.
and then next time you have nothing better to do at night, go out on one of the routes and go constellation hunting.
or well, technically it doesn't have to be one of the routes. you just get a clearer view out there because there's no lights from civilization.
you tell me whether or not you think they actually look like what they are supposed to look like.

maybe? idk i can't say i want to go home so i really don't care much about that part.
but it would be cool if everybody could at least be returned to normal.