The Nature Of Tricksters

==> Be Karkat

You are Karkat, and you are in the Gym with John and Gamzee. Tart, your weird as fuck trickster, is on the bleachers as far away as possible from Gamzee. The pink John just hanging onto your back. This is the main reason you hang out with Gamzee, his mere presence scares all tricksters in the vicinity. On top of your trickster leaving, most others are silent or generally leave people alone.

John was just staring at his blond version stupidly and ignoring any sort of conversation with Gamzee. You raise an eyebrow at him cause you didn't find this shit out of the ordinary, why the fuck would he be so fascinated with some version of anyone hanging onto someone else?

He flushed a dark red before returning to the conversation he was having with Gamzee.

Mr. Ampora called your class together and everyone was taken outside, not that you had to do anything. You pulled your phone out of your pocket to see a message from one of your few friends.

Surprising, given you usually message her first.

-- grimAuxiliatrix [GA] started pestering carcinoGeneticist [CG] at 11:26 --

GA: Um, Karkat? I Think I'm Having Some Relationship Problems.

CG: WHAT KIND OF PROBLEMS

CG: LAST TIME I CHECKED YOU WEREN'T IN A RELATIONSHIP

GA: That Would Be The Problem.

CG: WHAT THE FUCK DOES THAT MEAN!?

GA: I May Or May Not Have Someone That Has Caught My Eye.

CG: WHO IS IT

GA: Um, I Guess That's A Bit Of An Embarrassing Subject? Her Name Is Rose...

CG: YOU MEAN JOHN'S DIMWITTED BEST FRIEND'S SISTER?

GA: Yes That's Her.

CG: SO TELL HER

GA: I Can't Just Tell Her!

CG: WHY NOT?

GA: I...

GA: I Will Talk To You Next Period.

GA: I Have A Test.

-- grimAuxiliatrix [GA] has ceased pestering carcinoGeneticist [CG] at 11:39 --

You put your phone away and entertain yourself by watching the pink John float around, trying to get away from the messy redhead as he follows the actual John. You had drifted away from their group so Tart is back to pester you.

You like to believe you have a good personality, it's just this guy who keeps yelling in your ears that makes you so grumpy.

"Hey!" He presses himself into your back, you wonder how no one else pays any of these creatures any mind, honestly they're hard to ignore when they keep bumping into you.

"Hey! Don't ignore me!" Your voice was screaming right by your ear and you tried to ignore him. "You're ignoring me aren't you!?" You mutter a quick "No, I'm not" under your breath to satisfy him.

"Oh! Ok then!! Gamzee has left you for John you know! Your only use is a short distraction!"

"Oh no it's not, Gamzee and I are friends and it'll stay that way. Any other shitty theories you wanna spill outta that fucked up candy brain of yours?"

A few people stared at you, but you're used to being that weird kid who talks to himself. Tart floated around to your front and your vision was completely filled with this candy corn version of you with horns. His arms draped around your shoulders and you could feel his sleeves on the backs of your calves. "Oh I have so many more! I'll spare you for now though!"

"Thank you, now will you move so I can see where the other two went?"

His head moved to the side just enough to see the pink kid start flying towards you. "Why do you look so freaked out?" Tart was still yelling into your ear and you managed a "Fucking John" Before you were smashed into and knocked over by the flying pink mass.

"Karkat!?" John jogged over to help you up, and you would take his hand if it wasn't for the fact that Tart's sleeves were successfully tying you up underneath both him and the pink Egbert. "What the hell?"

"You're asking me? I don't fucking know why your goddamned stupid ass pink self decided to barrel into me!" He just stood there slack jawed looking at you cursing and squirming trying to get out of your not so real prison.

"Oh! My apologies! Hee Hee! I didn't expect to kill you!" John's bubbly voice responded from your chest.

"What the fuck did you think was going to happen!?"

"Well! I expected to go right through you!"

John shifted awkwardly, "You... Can see him?"

"Fuck yea I can Egbert, this giggly shit is somehow more annoying than you! It's hard as fuck to not notice him!"

A short pause, "No can do John! I'm stuck actually!"

"Um, I'm sorry about that Karkat... Why are both of you stuck? I doubt he'll actually tell me." John continued to shift awkwardly in place, watching you closely. "Well, cause Tart got his stupidly long as all fuck sleeves caught around us."

The pink John gives you the biggest grin as John just looks at you incredulously.

"Who?"

"The only fucking thing that has twelve foot sleeves and looks like a giant ass candy corn!?"

"Karkat?"

"What the everloving hell do you want!?"

"I don't see a candy corn person with long sleeves..."

"You really gonna pull that shit?"

"He really can't see me Kitkat!!"

Your voice called from above you and the sleeves around you tightened as he tried to sit up.

"God damn it Tart do not sit up!"

"Mercy! Mercy! It's so tight!"