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Date & Time: 5/12, day
Location: EVERYWHERE. Around the apartments, around the Hold, NIK IS GONNA FIND YOU.
Characters: Nikolai/Cherkesov/Maletski (

thleepy) + you???
Summary: Dumb android baby is havin' some maaaaad hallucinations over here. And is therefore busy rolling around screaming and crying and crashing into walls.
Warnings: idk Maletski and his obnoxious self might show up...

It'd started two days ago. It'd started with a bad feeling, at first, the sort that he'd gotten used to back home -- that something was always watching. Something that did not wish him well.

Only this time, it had stopped watching, and gone on to hunting.

Nik had fled his room as soon as he'd heard his window crack open. He'd launched himself off his bed and landed running, and he'd kept running until he crashed into the front door. A few moments wasted fumbling to get it open-- a few moments too many. After kicking the door open, he'd glanced over his shoulder just in time to see one of the Masked emerging out into the hallway, all strange and misshapen and twisted. And turning towards him.

Nikolai hasn't bothered looking behind him since.

[ ooc: FEEL FREE TO JUST RUN INTO NIK ANYWHERE. And he'll probably even be pounding on apartment doors of complete strangers and demanding to be let in. Or he'll just burst RIGHT ON IN uninvited, if the door's unlocked :'C

ALSO WILL MATCH TAG FORMAT B) ]

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[ Little by little, Nik's terror starts to dissolve into -- well, confusion, at first. That was a lot of words that his panicked mind hadn't been prepared to process. But when he started to actually listen that confusion, too, slowly gave away. This time into awe.

Nik's eyes go wide at Eridan's finishing show of science. ]

You... you beat the Masked.... You are very strong!

[ Nik steps away from the door, and gives it a fearful look. ]

So... so if I stay with you, you'll keep them away, right? Right?

Wwait, wwhat?

[He's taken aback for a moment, then shakes his head.]

I wwasn't offerin' some kinda invvitation for you to stay here kid, I'm just sayin' calm the fuck dowwn an' stop botherin' me.

You can't stay here, wwe don't got enough room. Plus I don't really wwanna put up wwith you for that long either.

[ The look Nik gives Eridan is very unhappy now. Could his eyes get any bigger? Yes. Yes, they could. ]

But I can't go! If I go out there I'll die. And I won't stay forever, I-- I won't even stay that long, I promise, I'll be... I'll be quiet....

Please?

[URRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH WHATHASHEDONEWHYWONTTHISKIDGOAWAY]

Don't touch my stuff.

An' keep your mouth shut, got it?

[ Nik practically glows. All right, Nik's eyes do actually glow a little. ]

Thank you... thank you mister. I won't touch anything. Promise!

...Can I sleep in your room?

No.

[Flatly as possible.]

You keep your wweird little robo-self an' your freaky glowwin' eyes out here. Wwe got a couch, go crazy wwith that.

[ The lights of Nik's eyes go right out. ]

But I won't be safe on the couch! They'll come in through the window and then I'll die before you get there!

[Good god, what has he agreed to.]

...fine.

Take the bed. I'll stay out here.

[ Nik breathes in deep. And out again. And in again. Like he's meditating very hard.

But in the end, he finds Eridan's answer acceptable. ]

Okay.... but you promise to guard the door, right? Promise?

Yes, yes, yes, a thousand fuckin' times yes! No matter howw many times you ask I'm not gonna say anythin' that ain't that, so for the lovve of god, just go in wwould you?

[A huff.]

It'll be fine. I don't sleep, so nothin' is gonna catch me off guard. Okay?

[ Nik jumps a little at the outburst, and backs away towards Eridan's room. Far enough to get to the door. Far enough to get behind the door, even. But he pokes his head out from behind to stare at Eridan, looking slightly anxious.

But his anxiety soon turns into suspicion. He squints. ]

B...but why don't you sleep? Are you a robot troll?

No, I just...

[No big deal just horrific nightmares if he doesn't sleep in his weird troll bed cocoon.

Which he doesn't have.]

I just don't. Wwho cares.

[ SQUINTY FROWN, though he does shrink behind the door a little more. ] I care, mister! Is it okay if you don't sleep? Everyone else I know has to sleep. Even some of the robots.

I'm fine. Don't I look fine? I'vve only slept once since I got here an' I'm fine.

[First day he got here, and in his opinion, the last time he's making that mistake again.]

Evverythin' is fine. Stop askin'.

[ Nik all but disappears behind the door. ]

Okay... if you say so.... [ So long as he doesn't fall asleep when any of the Masked come in, anyway.

The door closes. A lock clicks. Then it unclicks, and the door opens again. Nik sticks his head out to whisper. ]

Thank you, Mister Eridan! I won't touch any of your things, I promised.

I'm holdin' you to that.

[He just keeps staring at the door, standing and arms folded, because quite frankly after all of this he just keeps expecting the kid to never shut up.]

[ Nik gives Eridan a wide-eyed look, wondering if that means that he's not allowed to actually sleep in the bed. The bed belongs to Eridan, right? So he shouldn't touch that. Should he sleep in the floor then? Or does the floor belongs to Eridan too? Oh.

Well, he'll... figure this out somehow.... ]

Okay! I promise.

[ And with that, the door shuts. The lock clicks and unclicks a couple more times, like maybe Nik wants to talk to Eridan some more -- or maybe he's just having trouble figuring out whether he's locking the door properly or not.

Regardless, the door does not open again. ]

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ERIDAN... SCREECHES.............

HIS EGOTISM STAT IS 99

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OH GOD I COMPLETELY FORGOT IM SORRY just...if you dont wanna keep goin its cool............

NAW IT'S COOL, DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT, and yes WE CAN WRAP THIS UP B)

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