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Karkat Vantas | Homestuck | Reserved
NAME: Kate
JOURNAL:
E-MAIL: out.of.our.sleeves@gmail.com
CONTACT INFO:
CHARACTERS PLAYED: N/A
character.
CHARACTER NAME: Karkat Vantas
SERIES: series
CANON POINT: Post forced dick drawing with Dave circa Act 6, Intermission 2.
APPEARANCE: someone get this kid some braces
DESIRED CLASS & REASONING: Flick Reaper, if possible! Karkat has the most experience using scythes as a weapon, and while I'm sure he'd think he'd be a bad ass at any of the more tank style classes, passing out every time he gives someone a paper cut will get old.
PREVIOUSLY IN HOLYRELIC: N/A
PERSONALITY: You've all met a guy like this. One who is a giant jackass yet for some reason people still tend to gravitate to him anyway, usually out of some deprived and misguided sense of pity. Or maybe they just think his impotent rage is hilarious and worth watching the train wreck of him attempting to socialize with people in which case you'd probably be right. ANYWAY my point is this: the impression most get when first dealing with this guy is that he is a giant douche. His first line of dialog in the series is word for word, "HI AGAIN, IDIOT" and it only gets worse from there.
He's cantankerous (best word ever amiright), quarrelsome and decidedly difficult to get along with because he finds a way to get snappish at just about anything anyone says. Seriously, this guy could find a way to misconstrue your innocent comment about the weather and would proceed to berate you for remarking on such a worthless and trivial subject in the first place with some unnecessarily long winded metaphor that actually makes no sense. Along with this stunning inability to communicate his displeasure with anyone normally, Karkat also manages to be simultaneously crude and imaginative in his cursing. Seriously, don't get him started, he won't shut up.
Karkat isn't a very patient troll, either. He quickly tires of explaining things to his friends and the human kids, even getting to the point where he immediately refuses to answer certain questions because he's explained it already. Some of it can be attributed to time shenanigans, after all you'd get tired of having the same conversation over and over too, but a lot of it is simply because he doesn't have a lot of patience.
That isn't to say he is always crabby, or totally unreasonable. He has been shown to have normal conversations, usually when the situation calls for him to be more serious and share whatever knowledge he has on a subject. He's even shown reflecting on a past verbal sparring match with himself, admitting fault and deciding to step away from the argument. It's just a matter of getting him to focus on something that doesn't involve berating a character. This guy is the king of TL;DR and frequently bores his friends with explanations that would be better off being kept simple. If nothing else, he likes the sound of his own voice.
Despite his hideous outward attitude, Karkat is definitely the more caring and concerned of the trolls. He expresses a willingness to listen to the numerous problems of his friends, even needling them and prying when they aren't necessarily forthcoming about what's bothering them, offers romantic advice and generally guides them in attempt to keep them from all murdering each other horribly, even though all of them drive him various degrees of "batshit up the belfry." Its only when he gets too wrapped up in his own shit that he ends up failing horribly, as seen with Gamzee and his honking murder spree.
Its worth noting a lot of Karkat's bluster and argumentative personality is a weak attempt to cover up his own insecurities. Really weak. Seriously, even a blind troll girl can see through his transparent act. He believes he's got the makings of greatness in him but simultaneously hates himself and doubts his ability to lead. As of late, he has given up the leader reigns, no longer eagerly trying to distinguish himself as a special snowflake amongst his friends but still wants to tell others what to do, as seen with Dave and how their sharing Terezi as a compromise is going to work. Spoiler: it didn't work.
Some of this self doubt is because of his compassion-caring isn't the state of norm for trolls and he's pretty much the odd man out on a planet full of these retards-but there's also the matter of his blood color; a bright, mutant red. In the troll caste-based system, his blood ranks lower than lowest on the ladder and had the right people known about it, he would've been culled for simply existing. As a result, he's incredibly careful and paranoid about keeping his blood color a secret for most of canon, even from his friends. They do eventually find out and accept him but Karkat still hasn't completely accepted this part of himself, at least not in public. Having conversations with a past/future version of himself to make reading logs easier and try to reassure himself he is not in fact as neurotic as he truly is, sure. But he still defaults to the anonymity of gray when speaking with his friends.
It should be noted that Karkat isn't the best at dealing with things when they go wrong. He can't stand the sight of blood, even if it isn't his own. That isn't to say he is nonviolent or a pacifist. He's shown fighting imps throughout the events of Alterniabound, pulling no punches. The difference being that imps don't explode in a torrential downpour of blood. Also they occasionally do things like attack you. The thing is, he tends to be useless when people start getting their murder on or his friends start dying. He stands by and watches with his mouth hanging open when Eridan murders Kanaya and Feferi, and he basically has a mental breakdown when he thinks Sollux is dead (the first time, since this dude dies a lot) as a result of his inaction. He's not a horrible leader, considering he managed to get his entire team through their campaign alive, but he takes his mistakes very hard.
Karkat is also a secret romantic and has an intense love of romance comedies. Usually really bad ones. As a result, he considers himself something of an expert on troll romance and willing engages others in explanations about quadrants, which really no one but himself seems to give a shit about. Ironically, he's probably the worst at actually talking about or showing his *~feelings,~* at least the ones not related to anger. While he is aware that Nepeta has a one sided red crush on him, he is intent on avoiding the issue until it is too late to address. It also takes most of the sgrub campaign for him to admit to feeling something for Terezi, and he spends some of his time afterwards sending her incredibly mixed signals.
samples.
FIRST-PERSON SAMPLE: [ There is a trick to dealing with temporal displacement, or whatever the fuck you call it when you were in one place and suddenly wake up in another. That's generally not to panic while putting on your thinking cap and figuring out what the heck happened, or you know, calmly asking those around you for help. Unfortunately, Karkat doesn't really do calm or rational when shit goes wrong.
Probably because sleep isn't a luxury afforded to Karkat on the best of days, even before Jack's destruction of Prospit and Derse. He'd spent the entire SGRUB campaign awake, not once taking a break to get some much needed rest. He probably wouldn't have even slept afterwards, had Kanaya, Tavros, Equius and the others not had a lapse of sanity so grand (debatable, since he doubted any of them had two working brain cells to rub together most days) that clearly the solution to enabling Tavros to walk again was to chainsaw the lower half of his body off and grant him a pair of robolegs, all while he was standing innocently by. Unprepared for the flood of orange-brown blood coming his way.
Fucking idiots, the lot of them. It had been a wonder any of them had survived their time in the game, one of Gamzee's retarded miracles that would remain unexplained. It still hadn't been enough to save them. He hadn't done enough.
Needless to say, waking up with a group of unfamiliar, unconscious bodies in a room he'd never seen before was a blaring exhortation horn to his think pan that something had gone horribly, inexplicably wrong. Well, wronger than things were previously. He takes deep, gasping breaths in a useless attempt to keep his cool but the moment someone else is awake, he's rushing over to them to get some answers.
Poor sap.]
YOU. YES, YOU, THE SLACK JAWED, DROOLING BUFFOON WHOSE SNORES COULD LEVEL A SMALL CITY, DON'T EVEN FUCKING PRETEND I COULD POSSIBLY BE TALKING TO ANYONE ELSE. YOU'RE THE ONLY ONE THAT'S AWAKE, DUMB SHIT.
YOU.
YOU'RE GOING TO TELL ME WHAT THE FUCK WE'RE DOING HERE, WHY WE'RE IN THESE RIDICULOUS OUTFITS, AND WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED TO EVERY LAST ONE OF MY BARELY TOLERABLE FORCED TRAVELING COMPANIONS OR I'M GOING TO FLIP MY SHIT. I WILL FLIP MY SHIT SO WELL AND SO LONG THAT IT WILL BE CHARRED TO A GRILLED PERFECTION, AND JUST WHEN YOU THINK IT CAN'T POSSIBLY GET ANY BETTER, I WILL COVER IT WITH THE MAYO OF EXQUISITE BATSHITTERY AND FORCE IT DOWN YOUR GAPING FEED CHUTE-
[Any time you wanna cut in would be good.]
THIRD-PERSON SAMPLE: Shopping for supplies wasn't something required during the SGRUB campaign. Probably because the majority of their group had been blood thirsty and slightly batshit insane. Boonbucks had become something of a joke-he'd scattered his to the majority of the treasure chests lurking on the meteor back home post completion of the game, with no intention or desire to use them again-or items the more bizarre of his friends had hoarded like a fucking fire-breathing reptilian-beast, guarding its make believe treasure from, human jegus forbid, anyone who actually gave enough of a shit to stumble down into its lair and take anything. So, money had been something of a useless collector's item back home, but finding out the opposite applied here had been interesting and incredibly vexing, especially when buying bullshit like armor that didn't suck was becoming a necessity.
It had admittedly taken him a while to save up enough of the Gold, lots of pointless level grinding and monster throwing but Karkat was pretty sure he had the reasonable funds to afford what he needed as he made his way to the marketplace, alone, perusing some of the items as he went. Most of it was standard video game crap; potions and topical agents used for status ailments, items to replenish mana, the works. Things he'd already obsessively stocked up on; he'd seen enough dying on the meteor, it wasn't something he wanted a repeat of. Sure, the responsibility of making sure no one murdered each other horribly had been firmly pushed onto Lalonde or Strider or whoever in the fuck wanted it, he didn't care, but... Well, it wasn't like he was trying to undermine them! Just be prepared! That was a totally normal and unleaderly thing to do.
No. No, no, no. He didn't have to justify that to himself. A shittier leader had never been hatched, much less escaped the brooding caverns and he was simply not cut out for this shit. Fuck that, there was no motive behind it and he resolved to keep from dwelling on it as he stomped his way up to the poor, unfortunate NPC running the armory. "Take my fucking money and give me what I want!"
ACCEPTED
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