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CG: WE BEAT THE GAME YOU ARE PLAYING AND CREATED YOUR UNIVERSE. CG: WE WERE GOING TO ENTER YOUR UNIVERSE AND RULE OVER IT. CG: LIKE TYRANTS. [...] EB: but to be quite honest, it doesn't sound like your intentions were all that great.
Old habits die hard. Karkat was raised in a space empire - so when he's handed a universe, thirteen years of propaganda are telling him that it's something to be conquered.
He's probably picturing a Second Alternian Empire, here - just on a larger scale, and with his team at the top. Well, at least he's not paying the hemospectrum any heed.
CG: YOU ACTUALLY WANT ME TO TROLL YOU? [...] EB: i just think it's kind of funny when you do it.
Karkat is getting destroyed here.
No wonder he kickstarted Project T - he needed a years-long trolling campaign, just to get back at John for this one conversation!
CG: I MEAN THAT IT SEEMS LIKE WE ARE CONNECTED IN SOME WAY, DON'T YOU THINK JOHN. [...] CG: LIKE OUR HATE FOR EACH OTHER IS SO STRONG IT MUST HAVE BEEN WRITTEN IN THE STARS. CG: YOU KNOW, THE ONES I FUCKING MADE FOR YOU.
If this really is kismesis flirtation, it's a lot more tame than I expected. I was imagining a much more toxic Karkat, one who's genuinely trying to hurt John's feelings, trying to generate the strong negative emotions that characterize the quadrant.
What we're getting, though, is a Karkat who is trying to communicate to John that he's important to him. What we're getting is - basically - a love poem, or something adjacent to one.
I think I understand kismesissitude a little better.
EB: hey, i don't have a problem with your weird sort of alien hate-love thing! EB: it is just that, uh… CG: WHAT EB: i am not a homosexual.
Hilariously, it sounds like John would, in fact, be open to a kismesissitude - but it has to be a straight kismesissitude.
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Quartieri Spagnoli - Napoli (Agosto 2023)