💀 uwu
i’m getting emotional fucking whiplash. ok.
KARKAT IS SO FUCKING WEEEIIIRRDD. he’s weird! he’s a regressed brat baby shithead who never learned how to regulate his emotions and therefore he has to shove them onto strangers online, and while that’s fun, he’s just so mean. unnecessarily mean. aggressively mean! and this would be fine, but they’re so over it. it was cute at first until he directed his spite beam into their personal issues.
which is the thing! he expressed frustration with the fact that he knew nothing about them, and the moment they really opened up, he effectively went “HA, SUCKER!” and slapped those back at them like a wet fucking fish. it hurt in a lot of places, but mostly the pride. how dare he be so, so sweet to them one day, proclaiming that he enjoyed being around them(?) enough to be their friend, only to LITERALLY take it back the next day.
and on top of this, drag all of this unnecessarily drama into it. using dave as their mediator, even managing to get jim involved (which was just as much as their fault, but you know), and then being so stubborn about everything. he can’t even take a fraction of the heat he gives and it’s disappointing. he’s weak, what did they expect? someone who could keep up with their level of prospective spite? what a joke.
which is another thing in it of itself. they don’t want to be spiteful. they’re over feeling any type of way that isn’t completely neutral or friendly (in their own way) towards people at this point. they’ve exhausted all of those feelings with vriska. that’s why not taking karkat seriously for so long was so easy, because it’s just a joke, a game, until it wasn’t and he hurt them in a way that actually held weight. the thing about terezi is that i don’t think they generally do things out of spite (EXLCUDING VRISKA!!!!!!!!!!!). which is weird, because their native language is razor blades and knives, but they’d rather fuck with someone and be “mean” as a type of resource in order dig up information or just simply be entertained for a few conversations. karkat, however, makes them do things out of spite. they don’t even think fucking with him is that fun anymore, they’re just resentful.
lastly, they’re just like impressed with how right and yet how wrong he is about things. he’s right that they manipulated him, but he assumed there was malicious intent behind it. nope! he assumed that they were comparing him to their karkat because they wanted to desperately fill the karkat shaped hole in their karkat shaped heart. yes, but no! man this dude sucks. >:[ >:[ talking to him only ever upsets them at this point.
