Consolation

ghastlygaster:

[✱ THEY’RE FUCKIN DEAD YOU KILLED THEM naw they’re fine just kidding.]

[✱ They’re both passed out in a pile. The sector itself.. seems to be a loss, unfortunately.]

* [ … Oh. Shit. ]

* [If the sector’s gone – that was their only way to stay here -]

* [Their projection – hands and body both – vanish Really suddenly. Pop! Bye, kiddo. They’ll send an anon over to keep the pair company for when they wake up and hopefully help them find a new sector to call home.]

Consolation

ghastlygaster:

[✱ Do not squish this baby! It doesn’t have anywhere to go when squished, and just wails in pain.

But, in other news: the code seems fairly straightforward to edit and separate, even if Remorse is mixed in there pretty deeply. The sector code just seems to be tacked on at the end.]

* [THEY’RE BEING SUPER GENTLE!!!! like squishing a dog’s face or something. Soft hands.]

* [That’s a fuckin godsend, though, THANK YOU… They’re quick to get everything sorted on the practice side, and once that’s done, they wait till right after that green magic resets the corruption to implement the new code and save over the fucky mess. Hopefully this doesn’t get ticked back…?]

Consolation

ghastlygaster:

[✱ Big wet-bread-slug don’t care if you’re tired. But it seems to work, at least. It roars angrily and starts to bite at Runi’s fingers.]

* [Bite all you want bud!!!! It ain’t making a Single Dent.]

* [With that handled, they plop themselves back down and get back to work, squishing the beast very gently in their Huge Hands. it’s like a stress ball…. a real angry, real soft and slimy stress ball.]

Consolation

ghastlygaster:

flapsinhands:

* [AW CMON. BINCH??? That hand gets REAL BIG and they kinda just. try…. to squish it down….. please stay here,]

* { i can’t work on this if you’re going to keep moving around. }

* [They know that the beast likely won’t understand, but. hey. It’s A Little Frustrating.]

[✱ binch u wanna go,]

[✱ The squishing is successful.

Maybe a little too successful.

Because, with just enough pressure, the beast splits and oozes grossly between Runi’s fingers, like if you took a slug and gave it the physical properties of wet bread. After splitting, it slides away and reconnects seamlessly.]

* [Mother Fucker.]

* [They heave a sigh, a quiet “i don’t get PAID for this bullshit,” and summon another hand – this time looking to trap the big slug in a sealed off hand-cage.]

* [Please???? Work?? They’re so tired.]

Consolation

ghastlygaster:

[✱ Which would be all fine and good on a normal day.

Except, well. Despite the Anti-Fuck-Off coding, it seems those regular green-magic resets are strong enough to undo it. The creature makes an irritated little snarl of a sound before starting, to, well. Fuck off.]

* [AW CMON. BINCH??? That hand gets REAL BIG and they kinda just. try…. to squish it down….. please stay here,]

* { i can’t work on this if you’re going to keep moving around. }

* [They know that the beast likely won’t understand, but. hey. It’s A Little Frustrating.]

Consolation

ghastlygaster:

[✱ Corruption is slowly overtaking its code, garbling variables and making them unreadable.. before that crackle of green magic shows itself again, and it’s all back to normal.

The beast breathes heavily, trembling a little before it lets out another weak, anguished roar. No doubt it’s in a great deal of physical pain, on top of the emotional distress..]

* [WELL. That decision sure is made. They take a breath before slapping a few lines of code in there to essentially freeze the beast up – at least enough to keep it from fucking off – and then they copy the uncorrupted code into another window to work on it. This… Is going to take a lot of work, but they need to get them! Unfused.]

* [As they work, a hand reaches up to pat alll the way at the top of it’s head. Gotta love floating hands.]

* { i’ll get this sorted out, don’t worry…. it’ll be okay. }

Consolation

ghastlygaster:

[✱ Its appearance seems standard enough. Big ugly slug with big ugly teeth, with.. white eyes? Though, they’re shaped oddly and not identical at all. The chasm that was its mouth was pitch-black, with no trace of any of the greyfaces that had been eaten.

Oddly, it seems Runi has full access to every piece of the beast’s code. Obviously, there are bits that prove this mostly is Contempt, but… Remorse’s code is in here, too. Along with timeline tags and zone variables.

….

This isn’t just Contempt and Remorse.

It’s their entire sector, amalgamated into this ferocious, emotional hellbeast.]

* [Good fuckin lord above. Well…. That explains a couple things at least! They let out a low breath as this realization hits them, giving the beast another pat.]

* { …. Welcome to the club, i guess. }

* [Shitty joke? Shitty joke. But they sure can relate to this whole…. “i am my house” deal going on.]

* [They aren’t too sure what to do moving forwards, though…. Unfusing them could be disastrous, and so could leaving them like this. For now they’re going to just keep to trying to keep the creature calm, and focused on them.]

Consolation

ghastlygaster:

[✱ Congrats, u have touched one (1) tooth.

The roaring continues, each one shorter than the last before it just.. devolves into loud, growled sobs. Well, at least Runi could get a better look at it now that it wasn’t hellbent on trying to eat them.]

* [A tooth is better than nothing!!!! They keep their hand there, patting gently.]

* [Once it calms some, they Do make a point to try and inspect…. Beyond just looking the poor thing over, they pop a code window up too. Time to figure out what the High Heckin Hell is going on here, or at least try to.]