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IC INFORMATION
NAME: Karkat Vantas
AGE: 7.4 solar sweeps (16 years old)
CANON: Homestuck
CANON POINT: Right before John opens the door to accept their reward at the end of the series.
CANON INFORMATION: wiki link
PERSONALITY:
It is 2016 and I have to explain Homestuck. Anyway. Karkat at first glance: The two words that immediately come to mind when describing Karkat are loud and angry. His zodiac sign is cancer, which is typically portrayed as one of the moodier signs and Karkat 100% represents that. Karkat seems to be stuck in a permanent bad mood; he rarely smiles, he's always yelling at people and insulting them, and he frequently throws what everyone calls a tantrum. He is very aggressive and stubborn to the point where sometimes it's like talking to a brick wall because he has a tendency to refuse to see other people's points because he is, obviously, right and everyone else is wrong the end. He claims to hate everything and everyone to the point were he frequently viciously insults his best friends, although no one really takes him seriously because why would you take an internet troll seriously. Whenever he argues, he has a tendency of using logic that does not actually make sense but he will not back down even when you call him out on it.
His hatred even applies to himself. Using trollian, the chat client the trolls prefer, the trolls can actually speak to everyone's past and future selves (if you are wondering if this is a terrible idea, spoilers, it is and using this feature majorly bites Karkat in the ass). Karkat repeatedly gets into arguments with his past and future selves using the client, to the point where he actually thinks that he might be his own kismesis. This is more or less played for laughs and all of the other characters think it's hilarious, even though the strong implication there is that he uh. Hates himself? So that's a thing, and the story does go more into that aspect of himself later on.
The thing is, it's not like Karkat is actually always angry. One of his problems is that he just literally has no inside voice, so he's is permanently stuck talking really goddamn loudly. Whenever he whispers, he's just talking at a normal speaking volume. Even more, just the way he talks comes out as aggressive even when he isn't trying to be. Karkat might be patiently explaining something to someone, but just from the way he talks he'd end up accidentally insulting whoever he's talking to without actually meaning to. It's like a weird reflex. He also talks a lot, to the point where if he's quiet for any prolonged period of time people start to get worried. He can be very long winded and will go on and on about topics that no one else particularly cares about until someone finds a way to shut him up or derail the topic into something else.
Despite this very gruff and asshole-y exterior, Karkat is actually pretty sensitive. Every time he has an argument with Sollux, for example, he immediately asks if they're still friends after. This seems to be played for laughs at first, except he then does the same thing with Dave when they're approaching the new session. Karkat asks him if Dave will still be his friend even after they reunite with John and the others. He frequently questions his position as a leader until he eventually just completely throws away the title, claiming that he was never any good at it and that he messed it all up. He basically has very little self-esteem and this is where the whole self-hatred thing ties in. He also tends to freak out heavily over things to the point where he seems to actually be having genuine panic attacks.
Some of his insecurities also lies with his fighting ability. Karkat can definitely hold his own, which is a necessity to live on a planet like Alternia and to win his game session. However, he is definitely not the strongest fighter of the group. He even admits to Terezi that he believes that the game give him an easy denizen (think of them as a personal boss fight for each player) to beat because it pitied him. Karkat is stronger than what he gives himself credit for, as he was able to bring down a character whose power is extreme luck (as in, it should have been impossible for anyone to even be able to touch that character because of how lucky he was).
Another thing he is extremely self-conscious about is his blood color. Trolls hierarchy is based off of the hemospectrum, which is based off of their blood color. Fuschia is the highest on the ladder, representing royalty, and the lowest is a burgundy red. Karkat, however, has very bright red blood, similar to humans. It's actually a mutation and Karkat has basically decided to take this secret with him to the grave (other people find out, of course). It's why he types in gray font, unlike all the other trolls who use their blood color as their font choice.
His whole relationship with blood is complicated, which is interesting because his official title is the Knight of Blood. Karkat never actually figures out what his aspect means, so we the audience don't know what the heck blood powers actually are. At first, Karkat believes that it signifies some sort of great warrior class, but he throws that theory away. He actually hates the sight of blood, which is unfortunate because the planet that Sgrub gave him is literally covered in oceans of blood. He assumes this was done to mock him. Another example of this dislike of blood is when Kanaya chainsaws Tavros' legs on (it was for a good cause) and Karkat is the only one who reacts negatively to it. As in, he faints while all the other trolls are just lol whatever over the ordeal.
In general though, Karkat is typically a very private person even outside of the whole blood color thing. In the dream bubbles, he keeps his room locked to make sure others can't snoop around his memories. Karkat also freaks out when John starts questioning whether or not he and Dave are dating, not wanting to discuss his personal business in front of others. Sometimes it's hard to tell that he's like this though, since he has zero problems trying to insert himself into other people's affairs and likes to give his opinion on everything.
He also cares very deeply about his friends. That may seem like how people would obviously feel towards their buddies, but honestly a lot of the trolls (both the beta and alpha versions) can be sort of not stellar towards each other. Other trolls have done very cruel and harsh things to their friends, ranging from making the souls of the dead haunt each other to straight up murder. And even though these actions are something that you'd normally never consider to do to a friend, in troll society it seems to be more or less normal. They might regret their actions afterwards, but it's still something they're used to. But then there's Karkat, who openly weeps over his friends and panic when they die. From what we've seen of the trolls, he seems to react more... well, humanly, to these types of situations, even though he is used to how trolls deal with things.
So, even though he believes that he did a bad job of being a leader, he's actually pretty good at it? Karkat managed to get all of the trolls to work together towards a common goal which is a lot harder than it sounds. He and Jade orchestrate the plan to get the humans and trolls to join up together, which would have gone smoothly if certain trolls didn't suddenly decide they want to start a murder spree. He blames himself for all of that happening, even though it was out of his control. However, he immediately attempted to alert the trolls' past selves to warn them of the problem, but no one pays his warnings any mind. This is partly because the characters who Karkat warns them about (Gamzee and Eridan) aren't ones that anyone has ever taken seriously, so no one believed that they would actually be a real threat.
Kanaya's denizen, Echidna, is basically in charge of giving players the instructions to create their new universe. In the trolls' case, she also gives them the ability to start their species up again because of their very specific way of breeding. However, one of the stipulations she sets out to give Kanaya the means to do so is to make sure Karkat survives the game. Why? Because Echidna believes that Karkat is the one who has to lead the trolls in their new universe in order for their race can thrive again. Karkat thinks this is bullshit since, again, he no longer has any belief that he is a good leader but. If the gigantic god monster thinks otherwise, then come on dude.
Karkat also tends to actually Take Things Seriously. Whenever there is some sort of crisis, no matter how much of a non-crisis it actually is, Karkat wants to be prepared for it. When the meteor is about to reach the session of the alpha humans, for example, Karkat is the only one concerned about the fact that their team isn't ready for their arrival and over the problem of none of them knowing how they are going to actually stop the meteor from colliding with the planet. He always tries to get things done in an organized fashion, which doesn't always work? Like sometimes his plans are just bad or everyone else just do not care enough to listen. But at least he tries, I guess?
Like stated earlier, Karkat is ridiculously stubborn. When the trolls' dream selves are killed off by Jack Noir, the trolls begin to experience really horrifying dreams and Karkat decides that they should just never sleep again! And he does actually stay awake for a really long time, even though literally no one else listens to him because they are all aware that forcing yourself to stay awake is not a good idea. In fact, he barely sleeps at all for an entire month. This stubbornness also makes it really difficult for him to apologize to others. Every time he tries, he ends up twisting it in a way where it ends up not being an apology because he assigns blame to others, including his past and future selves. This also contributes to him getting into fights over the stupidest things because he is incapable of backing down from a challenge even when no one has actually issued a challenge.
He's really awkward and has a terrible tendency of always sticking his foot in his mouth. For example, he gets a black crush on John after stalking him through trollian. The conversation he has with John consists of Karkat really terribly hitting on him, John telling Karkat that he is not a homosexual, and it's just so embarrassing that Karkat begins the whole "let's troll the humans backwards in time instead of forwards like normal people would do" just because he is so mortified about the whole encounter. It's also implied that he gets some type of crush on Jade; it's never confirmed, but he also does very embarrassing Freudian slips towards her that are similar to the ones he made with John. Basically he is a mess.
Karkat loves watching shitty romantic comedies, and he is really into romance. Like if you get him started on the topic of troll romance, he will never stop talking about it until you regret ever asking. His sort of obsession with this shows that he's kind of a romantic, even though he seems to prefer the analytical aspect of the whole deal over than emotional bits. It might explain why he gets crushes on people so easily though, as the idea of filling his quadrants is very important to him (obviously it's important to the other trolls too, as they are all teenagers, but seriously Karkat does not know how to shut up about this).
Anyway, so, his three years on the meteor has mellowed him out somewhat. He's still... everything that's been stated above, but he is less hostile now. He has calmed down enough that when he throws a tantrum it's referred to as a "vintage shitfit" by Dave. He doesn't really go out of his way to be a gigantic asshole like he did before so he won't purposely start trolling someone just for the sake of trolling them. If he's going to be extremely rude and aggressive at someone, it's most likely either going to be because he has a reason for not liking them or it's on... accident... again.
In summary Karkat is just a shouty troll who needs to learn how to relax.
ABILITIES:
• He can "hack" and do "coding" and please note the quotation marks because he's actually very bad at it.
• His sylladex, which is basically like a video game inventory system except needlessly complicated because Homestuck.
• His strife specibus, sicklekind. It's literally just his preferred weapon to use.
• He can fight! He can't do any of the fancy magical stuff other characters can, but. He can stab things very well.
• He has unspecified powers as a Knight of Blood, but he never figured that out so. Vague shrug. Just letting you know that they are a thing that exist even if we have no idea what they specifically do. He may actually be able to remember his previous incarnations, because his ancestor was able to so and his ancestor is his alternate universe self, although it's uncertain if that's because of his mutant blood or his powers as a Knight of Blood. Maybe both. VAGUE SHRUG.
INVENTORY:
• Sicklekind, and the three different sickles that he switches between.
• His sylladex which is honestly most likely filled with uselss junk because everyone in Homestuck fills their sylladexes with useless junk.
• A wristband communication device that looks like a purple crab. It's only really useful to people who have the pesterchum/trollian chat clients.
MEMORY ALTERATION: He's just going to think this is the new universe they created when they beat the session.
SAMPLE: here
NAME: Karkat Vantas
AGE: 7.4 solar sweeps (16 years old)
CANON: Homestuck
CANON POINT: Right before John opens the door to accept their reward at the end of the series.
CANON INFORMATION: wiki link
PERSONALITY:
It is 2016 and I have to explain Homestuck. Anyway. Karkat at first glance: The two words that immediately come to mind when describing Karkat are loud and angry. His zodiac sign is cancer, which is typically portrayed as one of the moodier signs and Karkat 100% represents that. Karkat seems to be stuck in a permanent bad mood; he rarely smiles, he's always yelling at people and insulting them, and he frequently throws what everyone calls a tantrum. He is very aggressive and stubborn to the point where sometimes it's like talking to a brick wall because he has a tendency to refuse to see other people's points because he is, obviously, right and everyone else is wrong the end. He claims to hate everything and everyone to the point were he frequently viciously insults his best friends, although no one really takes him seriously because why would you take an internet troll seriously. Whenever he argues, he has a tendency of using logic that does not actually make sense but he will not back down even when you call him out on it.
His hatred even applies to himself. Using trollian, the chat client the trolls prefer, the trolls can actually speak to everyone's past and future selves (if you are wondering if this is a terrible idea, spoilers, it is and using this feature majorly bites Karkat in the ass). Karkat repeatedly gets into arguments with his past and future selves using the client, to the point where he actually thinks that he might be his own kismesis. This is more or less played for laughs and all of the other characters think it's hilarious, even though the strong implication there is that he uh. Hates himself? So that's a thing, and the story does go more into that aspect of himself later on.
The thing is, it's not like Karkat is actually always angry. One of his problems is that he just literally has no inside voice, so he's is permanently stuck talking really goddamn loudly. Whenever he whispers, he's just talking at a normal speaking volume. Even more, just the way he talks comes out as aggressive even when he isn't trying to be. Karkat might be patiently explaining something to someone, but just from the way he talks he'd end up accidentally insulting whoever he's talking to without actually meaning to. It's like a weird reflex. He also talks a lot, to the point where if he's quiet for any prolonged period of time people start to get worried. He can be very long winded and will go on and on about topics that no one else particularly cares about until someone finds a way to shut him up or derail the topic into something else.
Despite this very gruff and asshole-y exterior, Karkat is actually pretty sensitive. Every time he has an argument with Sollux, for example, he immediately asks if they're still friends after. This seems to be played for laughs at first, except he then does the same thing with Dave when they're approaching the new session. Karkat asks him if Dave will still be his friend even after they reunite with John and the others. He frequently questions his position as a leader until he eventually just completely throws away the title, claiming that he was never any good at it and that he messed it all up. He basically has very little self-esteem and this is where the whole self-hatred thing ties in. He also tends to freak out heavily over things to the point where he seems to actually be having genuine panic attacks.
Some of his insecurities also lies with his fighting ability. Karkat can definitely hold his own, which is a necessity to live on a planet like Alternia and to win his game session. However, he is definitely not the strongest fighter of the group. He even admits to Terezi that he believes that the game give him an easy denizen (think of them as a personal boss fight for each player) to beat because it pitied him. Karkat is stronger than what he gives himself credit for, as he was able to bring down a character whose power is extreme luck (as in, it should have been impossible for anyone to even be able to touch that character because of how lucky he was).
Another thing he is extremely self-conscious about is his blood color. Trolls hierarchy is based off of the hemospectrum, which is based off of their blood color. Fuschia is the highest on the ladder, representing royalty, and the lowest is a burgundy red. Karkat, however, has very bright red blood, similar to humans. It's actually a mutation and Karkat has basically decided to take this secret with him to the grave (other people find out, of course). It's why he types in gray font, unlike all the other trolls who use their blood color as their font choice.
His whole relationship with blood is complicated, which is interesting because his official title is the Knight of Blood. Karkat never actually figures out what his aspect means, so we the audience don't know what the heck blood powers actually are. At first, Karkat believes that it signifies some sort of great warrior class, but he throws that theory away. He actually hates the sight of blood, which is unfortunate because the planet that Sgrub gave him is literally covered in oceans of blood. He assumes this was done to mock him. Another example of this dislike of blood is when Kanaya chainsaws Tavros' legs on (it was for a good cause) and Karkat is the only one who reacts negatively to it. As in, he faints while all the other trolls are just lol whatever over the ordeal.
In general though, Karkat is typically a very private person even outside of the whole blood color thing. In the dream bubbles, he keeps his room locked to make sure others can't snoop around his memories. Karkat also freaks out when John starts questioning whether or not he and Dave are dating, not wanting to discuss his personal business in front of others. Sometimes it's hard to tell that he's like this though, since he has zero problems trying to insert himself into other people's affairs and likes to give his opinion on everything.
He also cares very deeply about his friends. That may seem like how people would obviously feel towards their buddies, but honestly a lot of the trolls (both the beta and alpha versions) can be sort of not stellar towards each other. Other trolls have done very cruel and harsh things to their friends, ranging from making the souls of the dead haunt each other to straight up murder. And even though these actions are something that you'd normally never consider to do to a friend, in troll society it seems to be more or less normal. They might regret their actions afterwards, but it's still something they're used to. But then there's Karkat, who openly weeps over his friends and panic when they die. From what we've seen of the trolls, he seems to react more... well, humanly, to these types of situations, even though he is used to how trolls deal with things.
So, even though he believes that he did a bad job of being a leader, he's actually pretty good at it? Karkat managed to get all of the trolls to work together towards a common goal which is a lot harder than it sounds. He and Jade orchestrate the plan to get the humans and trolls to join up together, which would have gone smoothly if certain trolls didn't suddenly decide they want to start a murder spree. He blames himself for all of that happening, even though it was out of his control. However, he immediately attempted to alert the trolls' past selves to warn them of the problem, but no one pays his warnings any mind. This is partly because the characters who Karkat warns them about (Gamzee and Eridan) aren't ones that anyone has ever taken seriously, so no one believed that they would actually be a real threat.
Kanaya's denizen, Echidna, is basically in charge of giving players the instructions to create their new universe. In the trolls' case, she also gives them the ability to start their species up again because of their very specific way of breeding. However, one of the stipulations she sets out to give Kanaya the means to do so is to make sure Karkat survives the game. Why? Because Echidna believes that Karkat is the one who has to lead the trolls in their new universe in order for their race can thrive again. Karkat thinks this is bullshit since, again, he no longer has any belief that he is a good leader but. If the gigantic god monster thinks otherwise, then come on dude.
Karkat also tends to actually Take Things Seriously. Whenever there is some sort of crisis, no matter how much of a non-crisis it actually is, Karkat wants to be prepared for it. When the meteor is about to reach the session of the alpha humans, for example, Karkat is the only one concerned about the fact that their team isn't ready for their arrival and over the problem of none of them knowing how they are going to actually stop the meteor from colliding with the planet. He always tries to get things done in an organized fashion, which doesn't always work? Like sometimes his plans are just bad or everyone else just do not care enough to listen. But at least he tries, I guess?
Like stated earlier, Karkat is ridiculously stubborn. When the trolls' dream selves are killed off by Jack Noir, the trolls begin to experience really horrifying dreams and Karkat decides that they should just never sleep again! And he does actually stay awake for a really long time, even though literally no one else listens to him because they are all aware that forcing yourself to stay awake is not a good idea. In fact, he barely sleeps at all for an entire month. This stubbornness also makes it really difficult for him to apologize to others. Every time he tries, he ends up twisting it in a way where it ends up not being an apology because he assigns blame to others, including his past and future selves. This also contributes to him getting into fights over the stupidest things because he is incapable of backing down from a challenge even when no one has actually issued a challenge.
He's really awkward and has a terrible tendency of always sticking his foot in his mouth. For example, he gets a black crush on John after stalking him through trollian. The conversation he has with John consists of Karkat really terribly hitting on him, John telling Karkat that he is not a homosexual, and it's just so embarrassing that Karkat begins the whole "let's troll the humans backwards in time instead of forwards like normal people would do" just because he is so mortified about the whole encounter. It's also implied that he gets some type of crush on Jade; it's never confirmed, but he also does very embarrassing Freudian slips towards her that are similar to the ones he made with John. Basically he is a mess.
Karkat loves watching shitty romantic comedies, and he is really into romance. Like if you get him started on the topic of troll romance, he will never stop talking about it until you regret ever asking. His sort of obsession with this shows that he's kind of a romantic, even though he seems to prefer the analytical aspect of the whole deal over than emotional bits. It might explain why he gets crushes on people so easily though, as the idea of filling his quadrants is very important to him (obviously it's important to the other trolls too, as they are all teenagers, but seriously Karkat does not know how to shut up about this).
Anyway, so, his three years on the meteor has mellowed him out somewhat. He's still... everything that's been stated above, but he is less hostile now. He has calmed down enough that when he throws a tantrum it's referred to as a "vintage shitfit" by Dave. He doesn't really go out of his way to be a gigantic asshole like he did before so he won't purposely start trolling someone just for the sake of trolling them. If he's going to be extremely rude and aggressive at someone, it's most likely either going to be because he has a reason for not liking them or it's on... accident... again.
In summary Karkat is just a shouty troll who needs to learn how to relax.
ABILITIES:
• He can "hack" and do "coding" and please note the quotation marks because he's actually very bad at it.
• His sylladex, which is basically like a video game inventory system except needlessly complicated because Homestuck.
• His strife specibus, sicklekind. It's literally just his preferred weapon to use.
• He can fight! He can't do any of the fancy magical stuff other characters can, but. He can stab things very well.
• He has unspecified powers as a Knight of Blood, but he never figured that out so. Vague shrug. Just letting you know that they are a thing that exist even if we have no idea what they specifically do. He may actually be able to remember his previous incarnations, because his ancestor was able to so and his ancestor is his alternate universe self, although it's uncertain if that's because of his mutant blood or his powers as a Knight of Blood. Maybe both. VAGUE SHRUG.
INVENTORY:
• Sicklekind, and the three different sickles that he switches between.
• His sylladex which is honestly most likely filled with uselss junk because everyone in Homestuck fills their sylladexes with useless junk.
• A wristband communication device that looks like a purple crab. It's only really useful to people who have the pesterchum/trollian chat clients.
MEMORY ALTERATION: He's just going to think this is the new universe they created when they beat the session.
SAMPLE: here