* SUN BLESSED.

     Play nice.  Play nice.  Be civil.  You don’t need to strangle him every time he speaks to you.  That would be evil, and you are not evil.  Of course, of course, a perfect hero can repress the instinct to replicate the fateful scene of Cain and Abel..

     ❛   Tea.  I find that it eases my mind.  Why do you a——   ❜

     …in. in his tea?  Hot… Kool-Aid… in… his tea?  That he was drinking?  For a moment, it seems almost like Arjuna’s entire consciousness has began to buffer; like a lag in his system from sheer shock.  What…

                                                                                 ….THE HELL?

     ❛   Karna.  Look at me.   ❜     and the moment he does, a hellish mix of tea and Kool-Aid is splashed in his face.  Arjuna is leaving.  Goodbye.

☼  Karna holds no profound attachment to 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 , he is deeply grateful for them, and will keep them saved and treasured, but if the situation leads to him having to lend them away, he will do it without a blink of an eye. It´s something he may have been born with, but definitely something his adoptive parents brought onto him, that is, a charitative spirit. 

(An example of just how far this charitative and selfless spirit of his goes can be seen in the Mahabharata in how in one occasion he is a approached by an old beggar (who was actually the god Indra in disguise, and to add to this, Karna knew this) who asks him for his golden earing and armor, and Karna without even thinking it twice literally cuts the armor off his body (remember that this armor is fused to his body so he is pretty much skinning himself alive) and rips his earing from his ear and gives it away. wild. i know, AND LISTEN;; the armor and earing that was given to him as a blessing by Surya (the sun deity and Karna´s father) granted him a divine protection that made him kind of indestructible, and if i remember correctly, he was almost inmortal, so he basically just gave away this blessing to a random old beggar just because they asked. NOT TO ADD;; that one moment he gave away his golden teeth right as he was bleeding out and ready to die but i wont talk about that bc holy shit this is getting long aaaaaa)

☼   Karna doesn´t suffer from the 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐭 since he is the son of Surya (the sun deity), so he is pretty immune to heat! the flooffy cape he carries on his back? that´s actually a flaming cape according to (fate) Karna´s designers, and he feels no overwhelming heat from it. When it comes to cold places, he can handle it pretty well because of the heat concentrated inside his body, this also means he is a great cuddling buddy or walking heather if you get close enough to him!

☼   Adding to this topic, Karna doesn´t suffer from 𝐬𝐮𝐧𝐛𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐬 (and if he did, it can´t be worse than Surya having touched his skin when he was born, burning his skin black like charcoal since u know, he is the sun god)

☼   He gets very curious when servants have clear 𝐛𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐬 with other servants no matter if they are platonic or romantic! like let´s say; Artoria and her knights, Achilles and Chiron, etc etc.  just the fact that there are servants that have ties with each other and still carry them as servants is something fascinating to him. He is very drawn to the idea of also one day being able to form bonds with other servants or his master.

☼   Although he may not look like it most of the times, Karna actually enjoys having company! he may be silent but he does enjoy the presence of others around him! 

☼   In the Mahabharata, Karna tends to pray at mornings and 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐛𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐚 𝐫𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐝𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐩𝐫𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐫𝐬 , and he still carries this habit up in Chaldea! the difference is that now, even despite it not being morning, he will still try his best to be helpful.

☼   Although his hair is certainly white, if you get close to it, it almost has this translucent look to it and feels very soft to the touch.

@homebounddreamer: You said ‘Karna is a hero’  and I just couldn’t stop myself.

Karna! God… what can I say about Karna?

That he is a self-made man? That he is insanely sacrificial? That he is a man who stuck by his true brother? That he is an excellent friend? That he is a peerless warrior? That he is an embodiment of caste-based oppression (and he is included in the narrative to point this out)? That he was cheated into his death??? (Seriously, if the Gods hadn’t favoured the Pandavas… and Mahabharata isn’t written by the victors… it would be a wildly different story).

Without rehashing the entire Mahabharata, here are my reasons to love Karna:

1.       Dronacharya refused to take him as a student as he was not Kshatriya, aka of lower caste (oppression counter:1).

2.       So, Karna is like “fuck that I’ll go to your teacher and ask him to teach me” and goes to Parusharama. Now, Parashurama will take you as a student only if you are a Brahmin – an even higher caste (oppression counter: 2). So, Karna goes undercover as a Brahmin. The boy knows world ain’t fair and the oppressed must work around the rules set by the master class. Anyway… he learns and excels in warfare and archery.

3.       And the reason why he gets caught – is his selflessness!! Like Parashurama is sleeping on his lap. Indra is super jealous Karna will be better than his son, so he becomes a scorpion, and starts burrowing into Karna’s thighs while Paraashurama is sleeping on his lap (so, Karna will jerk up in pain, Parashurama will lose his sleep and with his infamous temper curse Karna). Only, Karna bears the pain, so as to not disturb his teacher’s pain – the scorpion digs through his thigh and comes out the other side – and Parashurama wakes and sees the copious amount of blood. Parashurama realises that Karna is not a Brahmin (as a Brahmin is not gonna tolerate that much pain for heroic ideals) and curses him for deceiving him (oppression counter: 3). And the curse is that he will forget all his knowledge when facing his most important enemy! Like dude… he literally let a scorpion burrow through his thighs so that you can get your beauty sleep, and you curse him? Because he is not the right caste?????

4.       Also in the tourney for the princes’ coming of age, Karna was NOT allowed to participate. In fact, he was publicly insulted (he was not a Kshatriya, how dare he presume to fight against Princes?). Truth is people knew, he was the only one who could probably beat Arjuna (the darling hero)! He was compared to a dog ffs! (oppression counter:4)

5.       Duryodhana (actual name Suyodhana, but since the story is written by victors, they changed it later) immediately offered Karna the kingdom of Anga, thus starting a friendship of the ages. Only, people still didn’t let him fight against Arjuna – because though he might be a King now, the truth of his blood and birth cannot be remedied (oppression counter: 5).

6.       Karna taking an oath that as a King that anyone who comes to his door and requests alms will not leave empty-handed – he was canonically the most generous!!!

7.       Listen, I love Draupadi (honestly, any woman who unbraids her hair, takes an oath and ties it back up only after washing her hair with her enemies’ blood is too iconic not to love). However, the girl was a casteist like the rest of them. Karna was able to wield the heavy bow and about to shoot, when Draupadi stated that she will not marry a sutaputra!! He maybe a king, but he is not the right caste, hence he cannot take part in the competition. (oppression counter: 6) And then she marries Arjuna for winning the competition, and says okay when she must to be the wife of his four brothers too!

At this point if he didn’t have a lifelong hatred of Arjuna – I’d be shocked.

8.       The friendship between Duryodhana and Karna is LEGEN-WAIT FOR IT-DARY. They invented bromance!

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