DreamSMP AgeRegression (Co-Written)

"How Awkward.."

Shorter than recent ones, does include some author crack. We've had some rougher sailing in this book as of recent, but for a little bit at least we're in smooth sailing waters.

Little! Karl Cg! Sapnap

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Karl was running around his room with a large smile and gathering his things together, you see, he had just ended a stream where he spoke allot on lore and managed to not slip at all. So, that being said, he was very proud of himself and started putting all his little items layed out on his bed so he could slip into a younger headspace and just have fun, he lived alone now and didn't expect any sort of company, so, why not? He didn't realize the surprise of what was about to come

Sapnap hummed softly, brushing a hand through his hair before knocking on Karl's door. They had arranged a visit, and Sapnap agreed to meet him at this time, as his stream would be over. He didn't expect to be met with a little, but there's always surprises, Eh?

Karl got startled slightly by the knocking but ran downstairs anyway. It wasn't until he touched the door handle that he realized he had arranged a visit with sapnap; who not only didn't know about his little space, but also just got there from the airport, in which they had planned for a week long visit, and karl had all good littlespace stuff scattered over the house, it wasn't even just in his room. Karl slowly took a deep breath, before he opened the door with the most nervous, excited, anxiety filled smile, ever. "Sapnap! It's so good to see you!"

Sapnap raised an eyebrow at the other, not questioning the outfit. He figured he probably wanted to be comfy during the long stream or something. "You okay dude?" He asked, voice filled with concern.

Karl swallowed, chuckling softly, "oh I'm fine, come on in," karl was honestly at a rather shallow state of mind, he wasn't little, but wasn't fully big. He wasn't quite in a inbetween as he didn't have a ringing in his ears or a headache, it was almost like his mind was currently suppressed into nothing momentarily, almost thoughtless.

Sapnap gave him a questioning glance, but stepped inside nonetheless. He was confused by the presence of a few stuffed animals and fluffy pastel pillows scattered around. "Do you babysit or something?" He asked with a raised eyebrow

Karl rubbed the back of his neck when sapnap asked this, avoiding eye contact, "that's close enough, c'mon, let's go put your stuff in your room, yeah?" Karl took one of sapnap's bags and began up the stairs with a large grin once more, mainly hoping sapnap didn't glance in karl's room, "if you wanna get settled I could clean up the house.." karl wondered if sapnap even heard him with how quiet he was, but had shrugged it off quickly as he opened the guest room door

Sapnap shrugged. "Don't worry about it, I'm used to it. You try living with a speedrunning god sometime, there's stuff just about everywhere." He said with a chuckle, following Karl.

Karl laughed a bit at the statement, quickly speaking once again, "well, I'll try to at least clean up the living room a bit, feel free to do whatever, I feel bad letting there be so much mess," karl was about to walk away then gave sapnap a quick hug, "couldn't give you a hug when you had your hands full either," karl was slowly seeping into littlespace, but stayed strong, unaware of how close he truly was while suppressing the coping mechanism.

Sapnap gave him a gentle smile, hugging the other back. "Alright, I'm gonna get in something comfier then I'll come help." He said with a smile, unaware of his friends situation.

Karl let go then shrugged, "well, know you don't have to if you don't want to, always appreciated but really, I'ma go get started!" Karl didn't give the other a moment to respond before he ran down the stairs, literally chucking what he didn't want sapnap to see in a toat across the room out of pure panic of not wanting the other to know.

Sapnap was confused by this, even more confused when he heard things being chucked into something. He went in the guest bedroom, closing the door behind him. He slipped out of his jeans and into sweatpants, seaming that good enough before he went downstairs, seeing Karl working away in the living room. He willingly joined him, rearranged pillows and cushions, setting aside the more childish stuff as it seemed like what Karl was doing, before he picked up an adult paci. "Uh, Karl-?" He said kinda awkwardly.

Karl was tossing things across the room still, not yet looking over, "yeah sapnap?" He asked this, right before he looked over, only to go pale when he saw what sapnap was holding, biting down on his tounge as his pupils got smaller; in other words, gear washed over him, as he found himself almost dropping what was in his hands. He didn't know what to say, unable to think of what as he decided to try and think, causing himself to stop suppressing, which meant he was more likely to slip, the only ounce of luck on his side being that he didn't always regress when he panicked

"I'm not gonna judge your or anything, but can you like explain-?" Sapnap asked awkwardly, rubbing the back of his neck as he watched the other panic, unsure of what was happening.

Karl slowly nodded, tossing the thing he was holding over to the tote for the hell of it before speaking, ,"well, um, I guess, I uhh... I use a coping mechanism called littlespace?" Karl had no clue where he was going with what he was saying before he said it and; it showed. He decided to just say it because, why not? He could lose sapnap as a friend but he didn't think about that, why not.

Sapnap's face quickly changed to one of realization, and then to a soft smile. He sat down on the couch, patting the spot next to him. "Why don't you come sit down? We've been working for awhile anyways." Now that the awkward behaviour made sense, he knew how to help so that's what he's going to do.

Karl got a little confused by sapnap's immediate change of character and wondered if he knew what little space was. His curiousity quickly got the best of him, so he walked over and sat next to sapnap, sitting criss cross despite being on the cushion, making himself feel smaller then he was, honestly getting a quiet giggle out of him

Sapnap smiled softly. Luckily the paci he picked up had one of the plastic covers on it, so he took it off before holding it in front of Karl, a silent invitation for the other to slip and let himself relax.

Karl slowly reached out his hand then moved the paci to his mouth, carefully putting his lips around it as he slipped, finally having his head calm and Seam less blank, making him all around happier.

Sapnap cooed softly, gently playing with the other's hair. "What cartoons do you like, bubs?"

Karl's eyes lit up as he slowly moved his paci from his mouth so he could speak, "a’venture twime?"(adventure time) he said this, some what of a question as the words left his mouth instead of an answer while he smiled at the other

Sapnap chuckled softly, of course the time traveller would like adventure time. "Then adventure time it is!" he said with excitement, playing into the boys antics. He grabbed the remote, turning on the first episode of adventure time, mindlessly playing with the other's hair gently.

Karl quickly got excited and started watching, going closer to sapnap with a happy smile, mumbling the theme song as the episode started and watching without a thought behind his eyes

Sapnap smiled. And just like that the boy was entertained for hours, simply watching adventure time, with snack and drink breaks as well.

Author crack:

the next day

Karl was sitting in the living room, then... "SAPNAP! I CAN'T REMEMBER IF IM ON EPISODE ELEVEN OR TWELVE OF SEASON TEN!"

Then Sapnaps just like

"WEREN'T YOU IN SEASON 9?!"

"HONK YOU'RE RIGHT- BUT WHICH EPISODE!?- SHIWIHSHK MY NAIL POLISH SPILT"

"HOW DID WE GO FROM ADVENTURE TIME TO NAIL POLISH?!"

"HONK!"

When I'm writing alone: considers over 1k words long

When I'm writing with someone: considers it short.

Makes sense-