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[The feed will click on, but it's mostly showing a brick wall of an alleyway at the moment. It's moving pretty erratically like Draco's trying to fix something and he's working with his hands. Granted, it's not like he actually knows how to make things work and he has no idea how to use muggle tools, so it's mostly just a lot of banging around until he finally caves to address the city at large.]

Now that that's over...[That is to say, if you want to talk to him about what happened with Thiazi and the corrupted, don't. He's not up for it at the moment save for a few close people.] I might actually need help with something. Only if you understand methods of mechanics.

[Give him a moment to flip the camera to reveal a motorcycle that a friend left to him. Said-motorcycle looks as though someone took a baseball bat to it. It's dented, one of the mirrors is missing and the front wheel is removed from the bike all together, propped up to the side somewhere.] How the hell do I put this back together?

Additionally...[And then he stops. Nah, he's not going to bother mentioning anything about the shop, or about people from home, or anything that's happened in the last few weeks. He's going to stay off of the radar as much as possible in terms of those topics.] Well, never mind. That's it. [And with another bang as he fruitlessly tries to hammer out the dents, the bracelet clicks off. Draco seems to have a talent for ignoring anything he wants to.]

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We spoke, here. She had been alive long after that point. She appeared confused about her motives then.

Do you suppose they weren't entirely her own then?

I have surmised that this might be involved. However, it is impossible to verify and if that was, the matter is to my knowledge rectified sufficiently without my handling of the issue.

[Translation: Yeah, probably my fault, my bad. I've already had a talk with her about it, but we still have no clue. Probably doesn't matter anymore anyway.]

I see. [A brief pause.] You might be one of the more level-headed trolls I've met thus far. I'm almost impressed.

... Nepeta helps. I also have ways of coping with my bouts of rage that are not problematized, as I can simply replace furniture.

Wait, the cat troll? How does she help?

She is my moirail. She helps to papp the worst of my rage. It keeps my baser instincts at a controlled level.

Why can't you do that yourself? [Moirail. Sollux had used the word in reference to Draco and Jade, but it hadn't made sense.]

It's in the nature of our species to be biologically blessed with potent rage, particularly the nobility of our ranks. A Moirailship is a part of the relationships that we use to help direct and manage our society.

That...sounds really stupid and hardly what I'd call a blessing. What happens if you don't have a moirail?

If one's lusus raised them correctly, simply anger management issues that they cope with maturely. If not.

...

You are familiar with the troll named Gamzee, yes?

Erm. Not particularly, no. Why?

He is simply a good example of a troll with nobody doing an effective job of keeping his rage papped who was raised improperly. It... was not pretty.

So who failed their job?

His never present lusus primarily. Karkat erred as well, though very few of us realized the danger. He'd self medicated himself with sopor until his think pan was little more than mush. We didn't realize that his rage had never subsided. It may have been the only thing that survived chemical degradation of the think pan.

Surprised he's still alive then.

That may be attributed to a combination of his raw power, what cunning remained behind and the potency of his wrath. It's hard to say. I know only that he was... dangerous when we met.

But surely there's someone more powerful than him, isn't there?

Amongst those available at the time, there was not, or rather it was debatable, and those who may have been were unavailable.

Where were they then?

One had detonated the metallic chassie I had fashioned for her and would not return until after it was not possible to stop the Highblood. Two of the others were too busy trying to kill each other and plot about each other, and the one who the Sea-Dweller killed who survived ended up addressing his folly.

It was... basically a no-win scenario.

...what the hell is the point of you bothering to try and play the game together if all you're doing is killing each other?

An excellent question. I would answer the subject, but I'm dead. Aradia might be able to answer you if she arrives.

Isn't she dead again, too?

She died again, or rather lost connection to the robot I crafted for her to live in, but came back into existence. She... appears to have many selves, and several have died over the cosmos, but more than this I can't clearly state.

Honestly, she's confusing on the best of days.

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