okay but now i’m thinking about your fic, and your personal crafting interests. so imagine roxy learning how better to control materializing perfectly generic objects, and horuss turning them into works of art. to the point where he’s basically teaching her how to create something out of nothing. they’re both void players so i think they see the potential in a lot of things, but i think horuss is really scared of failing that potential and roxy is really scared of what happens if she doesn’t try (see: horuss’s clinical lack of self-confidence, and roxy’s stubbornness in rescuing every carapace she could even if it would get her murderdead). so really roxy and horuss are exchanging crafts back and forth a lot. (and sometimes the crafts get technical-oriented, like machines. and sometimes the crafts are real sexy.)
I REALLY LOVE KARKAT/ROSE. I REALLY REALLY LOVE KARKAT/ROSE. they’re both basically like the therapist role for their group of friends (rose with dave and even john and jade, karkat with eridan and gamzee and basically anyone who asks for advice among the alternian trolls). them dancing around each other with their feelings and snark would happen, sure. but then they would be the ones asking each other for advice, and lamenting that they’re the ones that everyone goes to for advice. and once both of them admit that they really don’t know what they’re doing but just faking it the best, those defenses kind of fall. rose teaches karkat how to knit as a sort of fidget slash anger-management tool. also i imagine they like to dance together, a lot. karkat and ballet and/or gymnastics, huge headcanon, rose probably also moves the same way with her needles. i’d imagine karkat would also be really good pale for her, because he was moirails with gamzee and rose went grimdark and i just think he’d understand her really well. imagine karkat pouring out all his love and compassion all over rose and rose pushing it away because she’s just baffled that he’s so honest with his affection. imagine rose getting better at expressing her affections, not just indirectly but directly, through words and actions, because she knows karkat needs it, and he’s so rough and abrasive that she has to be persistent with it for him to accept it. (also, they switch in bed a lot. they like bdsm dynamics because they’re emotions and catharsis with sex. and sometimes one of them just needs to sub more than the other, or one of them wants to drive the other nuts. if they’re not having a scene/session the kind of sex they’re having is like, hours long and tantric and eye contact and deliberate touch and interlocked bodies.)
