"It's not that simple. Trolls have friendship too, it'd be stupid if we didn't. It's something more, different--sure, you call people out in friendship, but the rest of black relationships? If friends did that I'd be worried they were lying to themselves. And just because you pity someone it doesn't make the friendship go away? Without the friendship there's just animosity and then you're vacillating between flushed and black without proper flushed in the first place." Didn't you say you didn't want a lecture, Dave? Sorry, man. "Look, I know it's complicated when it's not what you're used to, but you just said all the feelings are based in friendship. Most of the quadrants are. Even in black, you have to find something admirable or else it's just platonic hate." He's picking up steam. "Rose understands it more than any other human I've spoken to but even she still needs to work on it. I'll never understand shoving all those feelings on one person. It's too much. As for pale... Gamzee didn't kill me not because we were friends, but because we were moirails. It's different? And compounded? I could go on." Please, no. Also: were moirails. He's a bit of a grumpy gus about that.
Troll dentures: "they're not dentures if you still have your teeth, idiot." A beat. "Aren't there things you put on top of your teeth? 'Grillz?'" With more finger quotes and an emphasis on the z. "Is that all you think we do with our teeth?" It's all they do with their teeth. (No.)
"Yes. Grillz are what we put on top of our teeth, in order to keep people out of our faces. You can bling them out, and they like, keep unwanted kissin' from occurring. Sometimes we also refer to them as braces, but that's somethin' only low-class humans do." How many wrong things does Karkat know about humans by now. Let's not speculate. "So you've seriously never felt all those feelings for one person? One person all the quadrants? And then just gone "nah it's fine I'm just vacillating" only the vacillation never happened?"
"Huh." Karkat knows so many wrong things about humans that it's kind of sad. Cease this mockery of helpfulness. Or don't, because it's hilarious. "I was going to ask how much unwanted kissing was happening for it to be necessary, then I remembered..." with a vague wave of his hand. Everyone kissing everyone being unwanted to YOU isn't the same as someone kissing you unwanted, Karkat.
"No," he finally says after a moment's thought, though he sounds a little protests-too-much all over again. "It just doesn't work that way. We're fundamentally different but that doesn't make the concept of putting one person in all quadrants at once any less stupid to me. Black and red can only work as vacillating because the violence inherent in black would be disturbing in a red romance. If someone were to feel all quadrants at once it means that some of them aren't deep enough to be real."
This is what happens when you're stuck on a meteor with only Dave Strider and Rose Lalonde to tell you about humanity. They cannot be trusted not to make shit up simply for the sake of making shit up. It is basically a hobby for the two of them for some godforsaken reason?? And Dave is trying to grasp the troll quadrant system (kind of) but he ends up just shrugging. "I don't think that's true? I man, maybe for y'all, but don't let yourself be alien racist about our "flushed" romances. It's...basically a bunch of different feelings that cluminate in "I really fuckin' love you", and that means a mix of all your bullshit and some of our own?"
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Troll dentures: "they're not dentures if you still have your teeth, idiot." A beat. "Aren't there things you put on top of your teeth? 'Grillz?'" With more finger quotes and an emphasis on the z. "Is that all you think we do with our teeth?" It's all they do with their teeth. (No.)
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"No," he finally says after a moment's thought, though he sounds a little protests-too-much all over again. "It just doesn't work that way. We're fundamentally different but that doesn't make the concept of putting one person in all quadrants at once any less stupid to me. Black and red can only work as vacillating because the violence inherent in black would be disturbing in a red romance. If someone were to feel all quadrants at once it means that some of them aren't deep enough to be real."
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