Unfamiliar Stability (Open)

[judge]

This was... well, it was unexpected.

The Judge regarded the apparently thriving city with some suspicion. It thronged with spectres and phantoms, ghosts of all kinds - but few of them seemed to be hostile. There were no Burnt, and the Elsen - or rather, humans, he supposed - seemed to carry on with a number of activities with relatively little distress. None of them had even exploded yet.

But what astonished him more was the sheer life of everything, despite the ghosts everywhere. The world was living and complete and whole in a way his had never been, not since the Queen had remade it. This one had never been crippled or destroyed, and in a single breath he switched from awe to deep envy and back.

Well... if he was to know things in this world, enough to guide, enough to make judgements - then he could hardly just stay and watch it. He had to go in, interact... and if that meant perusing the alleys and the rooftops, well, that was the easiest path available to him. He did his best to ignore the various ectoplasmic entities that drifted past, as they took no notice of him, and quite soon he had obtained himself a nice rooftop from which to watch both ghosts and people.

His puppeteer was rather useless at having anything happen - despite having arguably a much better position than in his own world. Typical. He brushed away the feeling of vague resentment from beyond the barrier that separated them and leaped down from the roof.

"For all this lieu appears so lively, it appears to be vacant in terms of interesting events," he began, only to twitch his tail with sudden curiosity as a few in the crowd around him, until now glad to ignore him as one cat amongst many, now stopped and turned to stare. There were questioning murmurs.

"Is something wrong?" he asked languidly, blissfully unaware of the simple fact that felines in this world were typically mute. Well, it's not as if such a fact mattered.

[Kankri Vantas]

"Excuse me, yes, 9ut 9f the way please."

[/b] Kankri said, as he pushed his way through the crowd. For whatever reason, Karkat had insisted on him leaving the apartment for a single weekend. Although Kankri couldn't understand why, he had taken a trip over to Amity Park, where he had gotten a hotel room to spend the weekend. While walking along the place, he had noticed the crowd gathering around the Judge. Assuming that this was some sort of odd human cat oppression, Kankri had decided to intervene and tell them about their numerous triggers. Kankri, after shoving his way through the crowd, stood in front of the Judge and outstretched his arms, assuming a protective, yet also ridiculously condescending pose.

"Hell9, yes, my name is Kankri Vantas. I've n9ticed h9w y9u're attacking this cat 9ut 9f s9me misguided 6elief that y9u must 9ppress cats. S9, I w9uld like t9 tell y9u exactly why this is wr9ng in a very 6rief manner. I w9uld like t9 start 6y saying that kn9w that several 9f y9u are used t9 the c9nstant 9ppressi9n that takes place in human s9ciety - and I rec9gnize that many 9f y9u have triggers 9f y9ur 9wn. S9, 6ef9re I 6egin, I w9uld like t9 p9int 9ut s9me 9f the numer9us triggers that I c9uld p9ssibly menti9n in my w9rds. Triggers include, but may n9t 6e limited t9, general 9ppressi9n, human shaming, feline shaming, human culture shaming and vari9us 9ther things which c9mment negatively 9n human s9ciety."

"N9w, t9 truly 6egin, I w9uld like t9 tell y9u exactly h9w and why y9ur 6ehavi9r is unacceptable. First things first - y9u pe9ple clearly d9n't understand h9w an9ther species functi9ns, n9r d9 y9u take the time t9 try t9 find 9ut a69ut it. Such 6ehavi9r is highly pr96lematic, and pr96lematic' isn't exactly a w9rd I use lightly. If y9u were t9 6e c9rrect in g9ing a69ut initiating c9nversation, y9u w9uld first try n9t t9 n9tice the 9ther party's species alt9gether - that way it is far easier t9 av9id certain harmful stere9types and p9tential triggers. It is a little kn9wn fact that triggers are 9ften directly related t9 9ne's species, including species such as cats, d9gs, tr9lls, humans, vari9us 9ther animals and many m9re. In fact, y9u c9uld say it happens t9 all species."

"S9, f9r 9ne thing, y9u have 9bvi9usly triggered this p99r pers9n 6y judging him 9r her 6y his appearance. Excuse my gender-neutral c9mment - I find it very difficult to differentiate gender in certain species, th9ugh I am w9rking 9n it s9 that I can av9id p9tential triggers. 6ut, t9 return t9 the t9pic at hand, I have to p9int 9ut y9ur 6latant disrespect f9r this pers9n - all 6ecause 9f species. I w9uld say shame 9n y9u f9r such an act, 6ut I'm hardly here t9 m9ck 9r 6erate y9u. Again, acti9ns like that c9uld 6e highly triggering. H9wever, I feel as th9ugh y9u sh9uld perhaps ap9l9gize f9r y9ur acti9ns."

As Kankri finished, the crowd stood in a shocked silence. Several of them had already left, not wanting to listen to Kankri's long-winded speech. Others stayed back, totally mesmerized by the strange person lecturing them for being confused about a talking cat.
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