Sen

by marathemara

By the beginning of Act 5 Act 2, the reader is pretty well acquainted with both John and Karkat. We’ve seen how they’re different, but we’ve also been barraged with thematic similarities. Hussie seems determined to present Karkat as “Troll John,” from their introduction pages, in which they both love bad movies and are bad at programming, to their combative relationships with their guardians, to descriptions of them as “our human hero” and “our troll hero”. And before they finally meet for the first time from Karkat’s perspective, you’ve spent ages reading only about Karkat and not at all about John. So you’d be forgiven for thinking they were similar people.

Soldier, Poet, King

They’re on their way to Jade’s house btw.

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