captaincrapster:

This took way longer than it should have, and it’s pretty self-evident, so I won’t explain much.

They’re all stuck at a military compound not far from the coast. For the sake of getting to draw cool looking hills and creepy valleys later on, I’m saying Blackstar Canyon some 40 miles south of Los Angeles (notorious for odd/suspicious activity, supposed military training grounds, aliens, ghosts, squatters, etc.). Karkat’s regularly subjected to testing due to his unnatural genetic structure/blood, and though he used to pull quite the with-all-due-respect-sir Bitch Fit, he’s become complacent about it now. They’re all separated from each other, for the most part, unless they’ve been on good behavior.

Terezi is in correspondence with Dave (illegal and on the DL), but otherwise, rarely sees others. No pun intended.

Sollux and Aradia used to work as a team on Alternia. They were the first to discover the virus and successfully implemented a “cure”. Obviously, the endgame was to fix things with their own species, but somehow the disease was spread to humankind.