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First of all THANK YOU FOR ASKING!!! second, god. There's So Much to discuss and I don't want this to be too long so I'll share what initially comes to mind:

Terezi has an obsession with digging into the mind of another person and how it works, something that was partially born out of prudence due to the distance and lack of caregiving from her lusus. She wants to know how people tick, and how far she can reach into this. In my opinion, this is a reason why she's drawn towards people like Dave or Gamzee, due to how they frequently will play with outward personas. Karkat, on the other hand, is someone that she knows very, very well. We see how she plays him like a fiddle! And of course while she has a manipulative streak, at least to me, a lot of it comes across as her being genuinely comfortable with him in a way that it might be harder with others. She can mess and banter with him and find comfort in knowing how he'll react. And in a society where there's a chance that the state will cull if someone else doesn't, isn't that a form of freedom in of itself??

ALSO!! I think people can often neglect the Forbidden Love(tm) element of their dynamic. Terezi wants to be a legislacerator, a keeper of law and order in Alternia's empire. Karkat is marked as an aberration who will be executed or worse. And like sjfkldsfs obviously neither of them are stupid, both are very perceptive. And they're perceptive enough to know that the risks of their relationship entails, even just as a friendship. Terezi would be expected to turn him into the state, cull him herself, or risk punishment (death). It's implied that Terezi knew about his blood color, but gave him the space to be private despite her prodding anyway (perhaps to see what he was willing to open up about?)But here they are attracted to each other nonetheless!! The very act of love becomes a state of rebellion!!

alpha dave: yeah all cool i forgot i have to appear in court today anyway

alpha rose: Court?

alpha dave: yeah its a class action suit bc the prescreening of my new flick made a bunch of people go colorblind

alpha dave: open and shut tbh there was a disclaimer written at the bottom of every large coke so its their fault for not drinking fast enough

alpha rose: May I ask who your lawyer is?

alpha dave: youre lookin at him y/h

alpha dave: thats “your honor” were on nickname terms

alpha rose: I’m not in the interest of babying you. You know this. I do think it would be prudent to go over some notes and discuss options before you call any witnesses, let alone take the stand.

alpha dave: oh dw im on the stand now

alpha rose: Now? Now, now?

alpha dave: well i called for a recess

alpha rose: Did they say yes?

Dave: for legal reasons no

Rose: And also for non-legal reasons?

Rose: Was the colorblindness intentional?

Dave: for legal reasons no

Rose: And also for non-legal reasons?

Dave: dont tell the press but yeah just a happy accident not unlike our fucked up future doomed children

Rose: Lights of our afterlives.

Rose: Are you implying that you figuratively “wrapped up” your direction/editorial sense for preventative purposes and the whole breaking-cones-in-your-eyes thing was an unfortunate consequence of a figurative busted condom?

Dave: say busted again

Rose: Perhaps you double-bagged it, unawares that doing so increases the friction between layers and actually makes them more susceptible to undesired tears.

Dave: well im 34 so i know that thanks

Rose: I’m speaking figuratively, about movies. There’s also a metaphor we could draw regarding the necessary 3-month window between (STI) screenings.

Dave: i feel like there is a different conversation youre trying to have with me

Rose: I just worry. You received your sex education from a Texas public school.

Dave: i am the last dude who needs schooled on sex or do you not read the tabloids

Dave: youre speaking to time’s pimpdaddy master of the year

Rose: You once asked me if the tin of loose, assorted pills I carry in my purse was my Plan B.

Dave: yes and you told me they were altoids and i took one and cried for 4 hours we both remember this fondly i dont know why youre trying to sully the experience now

Rose: Tell me about all those poor innocent people you blinded.

Dave: look basically color works based on light right so if you can increase the surface area of the eye thats receiving light youd be able to see a wider array of colors more vibrantly right

Rose: That doesn’t sound right, but I don’t know enough about eyes to argue.

Dave: i invented the color superpurple

Dave: according to the most refined scientific instruments and the shrimp we used in the first experiments

Dave: but the human eye doesnt take in enough light to perceive it so we launched this hush hush chemical trial where viewers would be injected with a serum that made their retinas swell

Dave: and if we showed superpurple right after an off-color (lol) joke made people widen their eyes and we turned all the lights on in the theatre then theyd be able to see it

Rose: “It” being superpurple, a color which you invented. Intentionally. By moving the saturation slider all the way to the right in AfterEffects, I assume.

Dave: redact that

Dave: trade secret

Dave: its a political color its a big fuck you to the space tyrants oh you think youre sooo purple youre not even the purplest thing ive seen

Rose: And now it’s the only thing people can see.

Dave: yeah well now its actually a better political message

Dave: the apocalypse is unfolding on the basis of this arbitrary color-coded caste system itd all be solved if you couldnt see color

Dave: would be dope if the heiress actually watched my flicks and then was like oh shit wait since when is earth filled with highbloods? am i tripping?

Dave: theyre even purpler than me i guess we should leave these mfs alone peace

Dave: repeat for all planets in the universe boom mission accomplished extermination avoided intergalactic peace restored

Rose: This space diplomacy shit easy.

Dave: except i guess for any aliens that dont have blood but fuck you if you dont have blood thats some bug shit

Rose: Bugs have blood. They have a different form of circulatory system.

Dave: yeah youd know all about that you bloodsucker

Rose: One can dream.

Dave: too bad everyones gonna be dead before they get the whole message

Rose: Yes, if only there was a comparable system of discrimination equated to “basis of color” that present day humans without our gift of foresight could understand.

Rose: I’m turning the key in the ignition again and again in the theater of my mind, but the engine is only whirring and clicking.

Dave: could be the oil

Rose: Don’t pretend you know things about cars, least of all the cars in the theater of my mind.

Dave: could be the witchy dark sludge that you use instead of oil in your tentacled batmobile

Rose: There are formal caste systems still in place today in many parts of the world, and informal caste systems in all but name nearly every place else.

Rose: You could stand to make a practical comment on modern politics outside of juvenile flagrant offense that gets misappropriated by the groups you’re satirizing.

Dave: that is so rich coming from you and your 300-million-word tomes about white wizards fucking each other

Rose: If you’d read even one of my books, you’d know they’re intentionally aracial.

Dave: suuuuch a copout when have aracial characters ever done jackshit for anybody

Dave: and i have read one of your books

Dave: the collection of sonnets

Dave: you horny wench

Rose: That was published under a different pseudonym and doesn’t count. Not the least of which because you listened to the audiobook.

Rose: I doubt you’re capable of perceiving any text that isn’t red and forming a wall of barely-comprehensible, self-congratulatory drivel.

Dave: well now i know youve never watched any of my movies

misread the prompt so you have two congrats

No ship hate! <3

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