Application: Karkat Vantas
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How old are you IRL?
19 years of age
What character are you applying for?
Karkat Vantas
Why are you interested in this character?
Karkat has always been my main muse in homestuck even if he wasn't the first character I tried out. I really love how complex he is as a character but I'm also strongly aware of what his flaws are. He's my favorite character, and the one I click best with. I can honestly say that out of all the fandoms I've been in, I've never gravitated so heavily to a single character before him.
What is your personal interpretation of this character? How would you describe their personality?
It's kinda hard to describe Karkat's personality without going into a ton of excess 'what if' situations. In humanstuck, I'd imagine him to be slightly less hostile than his troll counterpart, and a little more open. He's still grumpy, and he's still pretty blunt and comes off as majorly rude. He can be quite the jerk at times, almost even bordering the line of hostility without directly threatening anyone. And depending on his mood and the general attitude of the other person, it can get pretty heated. He's not unwilling to speak his mind at all, and is, in general, pretty outspoken and outgoing about his thoughts. He's not afraid to speak out against things he finds unfair. And sometimes he has the tendency to kinda come off with this 'better than you' sort of vibe to his wording. He likes to imagine himself as pretty smart, or at least having a good deal of common sense. He can also be incredibly rebellious, and at times, really dislikes being told what to do. He can be pretty impatient too, rushing through things he doesn't deem as important.
On the other hand of things, Karkat is incredibly nonviolent, and it's rare that he actually threatens people, even at his most rage induced moments. He can act pretty hostile and unkind, but overall, he's also an open person. He's capable of accepting all kinds of viewpoints and personalities into his life, it just takes him a while to open up to certain kinds. He can be a little naive, sometimes expecting good out of people when it's just not there, and he does try and help those he considers friends. He's pretty damned passionate about things he considers important, and he's not afraid to speak out about them and other forms of injustice. He's also a loyal friend, willing and more to go out on a limb for them if they need his help. He tends to be stupidly forgiving towards those close to him, so long as they seem genuinely sorry about bad things they'd done in the past.
Karkat doesn't take very well to people who feel fake to him, though all in all, he tends to have more of a trusting nature than his attitude suggests. He tends to gravitate towards movies and forms of media and entertainment that focus on interpersonal relationships, namely comedies and romances and especially those mixed together. He likes online multiplayer games, even if he gets incredibly upset over them. Karkat also enjoys computer program coding, though he's kinda terrible at that too. Even though he doesn't seem much like it, Karkat also does honestly enjoy spending time with his friends, going out and doing things. He doesn't like sitting still for too long, and he tends to hate being alone or having nothing to do. He likes to keep himself moving. In either a physical or mental stance.
Karkat also suffers from severe insomnia. He often needs to take sleep medication just to be able to lay down and pass out. Doctors aren't really sure what the cause of it is, he just simply can't sleep normally.
What would be your character’s major or occupation? It’s fine to be undecided, and you can change it later if you like!
Karkat's switched his goals quite a few times. At some points, he went through wanting to be the president, a computer programmer, to a game designer, to a marriage counselor. However, right now, his goals are more aligned towards medical science or nursing. He entertained the idea of being a doctor for a while, but he's well aware that he couldn't handle cutting people up like that and performing major surgery, he gets squeamish super easily. Overall, he's still perfectly willing to change and explore new ideas and opportunities. Karkat currently has a side job apart from college, working at a little coffee shop that's only managed to fuel his addiction to caffeine even more.
Give a physical description of your character.
Karkat is five foot five, weighing about one hundred and thirty to one hundred and thirty-five pounds. He has very light brown hair, skin more on the pale side due to his habits of sticking indoors rather than going outside and playing sports, and very dark brownish grey eyes. He tends to keep active, even if he doesn't explore outside very often, so he's more on the fit side, and he also jogs every now and then to encourage staying in healthy patterns. He's not muscular, but he also doesn't have much flab on him.
Give an example post of your character in this AU.
Karkat was one of the very few people who fit into the category of morning person, perhaps because most of the times he just flat out didn't sleep. It wasn't much of a problem, nothing that a few shots of coffee for his over caffeinated heart couldn't fix. He trudged downstairs after spending the night online, only letting one faint yawn loose as he started up the coffee maker. As it began to spew that delicious brown substance into the vat, he diverted his attention to getting out flavoring and sweeteners and some milk, mixing them in a large, portable coffee bottle, kinda like a water bottle only it was made for coffee, big whoop. He waited until the vat was full, and then he pulled it off the coffee maker and poured it into the cup until the cup was full. A quick stirring, and then he wrapped his fingers around the cup and brought it up to his lips, sighing as he felt it heating up his frozen, stiff fingers.
Even the smell alone was making him feel more awake. But it took the rest of the vat of coffee and the remains of his sweetener supply to get him out of his state of grogginess. A quick shower, and a change of clothes, and he was heading out of the apartment building, making sure to lock his room behind him as he headed downstairs and stepped into chill morning air. He scrunched up his nose in distaste, huddling into his jacket a little as if he could retreat away from the cold, but it wasn't that bad, just enough to cause slight irritation was all. He sniffled a little, but didn't let the chill stop him for long. Eventually he continued on his way, heading down the streets, and towards college. God he wish he had a car to make this trip shorter.