mayfield_rpg | ♎ S33R: R34D TH3 HOROSCOP3S

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It's Terezi and my auricular sponge clots are still frothing teal from all of those alarms, and I guess everyone is still in a big panic about it but I just wanted to let everyone know that Dave Strider- hard cherry candy red Dave, not delicious orange creamsicle Dave- is gone. Back to... to our universe, I guess, and I mean, I just-...

[Terezi actually sounds pretty miserable about it. ]

I bet he will be back soon. I mean, that's just like a coolkid, to get himself panscrubbed ironically. He will be back in a few days, won't he, I just know it, he's going to swagger on in and be like 'Hey, TZ, hey, everything's totally cool and I was just seeing what it was like to be a drone for a while.' Yeah, that's what's going to happen. Blargh. I think I am going to give him a good hard drubbing the moment he snaps out of it. He's leaving me hanging and-

[Her voice shrinks.] ...Anyway, um. That's all.

Oh, except, by the way, can I ask if there are any people out there who were born between the human calendar dates of... September 24th to October 23rd? [She sounds a little bit hopeful, curious.] Let me know!

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I discovered this thing! [She seems to perk up a little bit, although she still sounds a bit tired. There's some rustling on her end of the line.] It's called 'the zodiac'! Humans have this wheel of 12 signs based on the stars in the sky and the way they're laid out and... There's a machine that dispenses something called a 'horoscope'. That's how I figured it out. I don't know how we didn't ever learn about this sooner!

[She gives a huff.] I'm going too fast, but it's pretty exciting! They're our signs, if you haven't figured that out yet. All 12- they're ours. And they're all based on real star patterns. We really did have an influence on this universe. Apparently all humans born on this planet fall under one of our signs. Amazing, isn't it!

The machine's at the comic shop. But I found a book on the zodiac, too! Here, for example, I'm going to read about my sign. It's called 'Libra'. [She pauses for a moment to lick the paper.] 'Diplomatic and urbane, romantic and charming'- hahaha- 'Easygoing and sociable, idealistic and peaceable'... They're all qualities that are supposed to represent our signs, I think! Naturally I am incredibly sociable and romantic and diplomatic and peaceable so this is all one hundred percent absolutely undeniably true.

But the coolest part is, [she takes a breath-] the coolest part is that my sign represents the scales. Equality and justice. And the rest of the signs, are, um, well, you'll see! I think it's all kind of amazing. You should go to the comic shop if you want to see! It's just... I guess even here, it's kind of encouraging to know that we had an impact on things. Somehow.

( action; the comic shop )

[Terezi, dressed in tribute to a certain coolkid, is standing before a rusty machine mounted to the wall. It has a number of different options on it, and after inserting $0.05, it dispenses small tubes of paper containing horoscope information. Terezi is basically choking the thing with nickels and stuffing a bunch in her pockets. She has a lot of Libras and Cancers. Once she amasses enough, she sits down on the curb of the sidewalk and begins sketching on the ground in chalk.]

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I'll be there soon!

[You'll soon hear jingling. Aradia is carrying a bag of coins along with an empty book bag on her bag. What really catches the eye though is the lusus at her side. Guess who got their lusus back?] I hope my female lusus unit doesn't get mad that I left my school things on my bed. I needed the bag!

[Terezi perks up when she smells Aradia and-- what's that? she'd never met Aradia's lusus before, only spotted her now and then at the end of some FLARP games, but there's no mistaking it. Aradia's lusus smells a lot like her.]

Oh... Haha, you got your lusus- wow! [there's a very, very small tinge of wistfulness to Terezi's voice, but she brightens considerably, and it disappears just as fast.] I am sure it will be fine. We have a good reason, after all.

Yeah! I was surprised when I woke up and my lusus was sleeping at the foot of my bed! I hope all the trolls get their lusus. I want to see yours when yours appears! [Because Aradia is sure that Terezi will get hers back.]

I brought some coins too, in case. How does this machine work anyways? [She's looking at it excitedly. This is so cool. SO COOL. The coolest.]

[Terezi offers a wan smile at the first part; she's not certain her lusus will ever show up. it just doesn't seem to her like a thing fate ever meant to be, but she keeps it to herself.]

You stick it in and pull on the metal tab thing and it'll throw up a piece of paper. See this?

[She feels around blindly until she touches 'Aries', March 21st to April 20th.]

This is yours- 'the Ram'.

[Aradia will believe for her! And then when it happens, everyone is happy!

She has her hands balled into fists in excitement. Oh this machine is awesome. And it's so cute that their signs are part of this horoscope thing.]

How cute! Ram horns look like mine, right? I saw them in one of my books for the education system once. I think that's delightful. You think my horoscope will be good or bad? It would be so terrible if it chose one more like me when I was dead. I'd be so disappointed.

No, it is a good thing, I think! I had a look before. Read it!

Adventurous and energetic
Pioneering and courageous
Enthusiastic and confident
Dynamic and quick-witted

Oh! Oh that does sound like me! I'm adventurous and energetic. [Squeal. Can she keep it? She can keep it right? She'll show it to her not!mom Martha and everything.]

Yes! I don't know anyone as enthusiastic as you either. [it's true now that Aradia's alive again.]

I'm sure someone is as enthusiastic as me! [That is a lie. You get excited over things like corpse parties for Gog's sake Aradia.]

This is so cool! It sounds like our horoscopes sound like us. [Except, you know...Gamzee.]

[Aradia wins the award for most enthusiastic ever.]

And they line up with the stars. We have our own constellations!

[Everything excites her. She can't help it. Human things are so interesting!]

Oh! Do you think we should have everyone watch the starts sometime? I bet we'd have a lot of fun looking at them together and figuring out who's is what.

Oh, yes! I know Karkat will probably call it stupid but I will drag him along.

It won't be stupid! And everyone can join and it'll be fun!

I think that's what we need! A lot of fun.

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