Addendum to the anime headcanon thing, Karkat adores shojou romance but he HATES most shounen romances with an unjustified passion. He'll go on three-hour rants explaining the complexities of every relationship in Fruits Basket. He'll rave about how amazing the vacilitation between Risa and Otani is in Lovely Complex, or cry over Sawako's struggles in Kimi Ni Todoke, or scream at Dave when he makes fun of him for watching Maid Sama cause "A SHALLOW-BRAINED SLOP-GARGLING IMBECILE LIKE YOU COULD NEVER UNDERSTAND THE ARTISTIC MASTERY BEHIND THIS CLASSIC PIECE OF ROMANCE HISTORY."
But if you even suggest that he might like something like Nagatoro or Rent a Gf or Nisekoi he'll be downright OFFENDED. Not that he hasn't watched them, oh he's watched them, and he has pages of notes about how he thinks they're unsalvageable garbage that are an insult to analyze. He hates the whole self-insert mc thing because "I WOULD NOT FUCKING SAY THAT. NO ONE WOULD FUCKING SAY THAT, WHAT IS WRONG WITH HIM??"
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finally have enough motication to draw A Stereotypical Obby entity x reddoons XD
OMGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG OMGOMGOG yes. im lovign this obbyentity x reddoons art Ohmnyfd aawww awww thrye cute aawww .... "how can i make him stay" type sht #LOVERS
the short answer is yes i have and even desided to draw them
there is however, also the long answer
when i first saw them i was goin wild with how simmilar they look, red with sunglasses and black/gray asshole also their first interactions fit so perfectly with the driving eachother up the wall
but then i look a little closer and noticed that the similarities are mostly aesthetic
first, redd is generally pretty charismatic, friendly and overall a loyal dog vibes while dave just pretends to be cool but often ends up awkward or annoying and while he loves his friends has a hard time showing it
second, karkat is a shouty, mean asshole but he just cares so much about everyone even those who have hurt him, while ash definitely can get under peoples skin he has no problems back stabbing people im not saying he dosent care about anyone or anything but he is def much more egocentric and power hungry
after listing the differences between the individual characters i started wandering if maybe i was going about it the wrong way, whould it fit better with ash as dave and redd as karkat (probably controversial cos the looks dont much anymore)
as i said redd and karkat have similar loyalty and general likability but i also think the enjoyment of romance fits both of them so well (usually cos redd as a multiverse focused character (for me) is kinda hard to define)
now for ash and dave they appear cold and maybe even a bit antisocial, have a hard time getting close to people and even harder expressing genuine feelings and appreciation for others (once again its just my general interpretation of ash) i think this is a bit of a stretch for those two cos dave doesnt really have ambitions to be the main character and ash can often be defined by his god complex
either way the vibes of the relationship, role it plays for each character and the story also feels off for me(this part will sound really handwavy but bear with me)
a big part of swagdoons for me is the narrative idea that they are broken people in a fucked up world but they find eachorter and and it makes it more bearable but it doesnt solve anything besides their lonelyless, the love was there but id didnt change the outcome because they are too used to their old ways of being mean and misserable (most of the time they need to feel at least a little bit tragic/doomed) swagdoons fit well with the more realistic outlook of love being work and not something that solves all your problems
davekat on the other hand has a much more hopeful feel, how they kinda abandon their destinies, the idea of being the big hero who saves everone and kinda just play around and chill out, they basically live a happily ever after even befoure the end of the story (and that continues in hs2 and meat epilogue if i understad) for them love kinda did solve all/most issues
also i think that both pairs are really good at understanding eachother better then anyone else, even without talking its that swagdoons can see through eachother walls to understand without talking, very similar mentality, its obvious, it feels like breathing but davekat feels more like they worked hard to put down their walls and communicate clearly, yes after a few years the can read eachother but its mostly learned
and one last thing that i kinda said already is that swagdoons are multiversal, its a big part for me that they will meet in every single universe, they have to, they cant stay apart, and it doest matter if theyre lovers, friend, enemies or whatever else they just cant be indifferent to eachother whether it be by the will of the universe or against it ash and redd will alway, and i mean always, find eachother that is just the way they work
and its actually kinda funny considering hs canonically has a multiverse but i thing that the only part that matters for davekat is that they are together here and now
You know how kids are supposed to be exposed to some level of dirt and grime as they grow up so their immune systems can learn what's a deadly disease and what just causes some slight irritation? And if a kid grows up in a too clean environment they're likely to develop severe allergies or a hyper immune disorder?
I think the over sanitation of the internet is doing similar things to people's psyche.
No that ship with an age gap isn't the same as pedophilia, you're just having the moral equivalent to hay-fever.
i love c!tommy as a davekat child. he's really similar to dave from a lore + appearance standpoint but he acts so much like karkat it's actually crazy. i also think him being raised by a troll would make him clocking tntduo make so much sense, that's a textbook kismesis right there
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