Sorry. I'm being completely obvious and dragging my issues around in humiliating fashion, I know. Selfish of me anyway. This just is not the kind of thing I was prepared for. I went to bed happy for the first time in over a sweep yesterday and then- fuck, maybe it was just a hallucination, a fever dream, I get a truly astonishing number of those because God doesn't know how to take fuck off for an answer.

[ She's so good and sweet, it's really unfair. Karkat can't fault Eridan or hate her one bit for this. It hurts, sure, but hurt is a fact of life for him. "Threshecutioner" ain't shorthand for "swapped the right to ever be happy," what a laugh. This girl, alien though she is, seems a pretty good sort. He bets they're good for each other. He wouldn't dream of interfering with any kind of relationship where Eridan had a better shot of being equal. It's not fair of him to any party involved to feel this way.

No one ever said Karkat Vantas was good at being the emotional martyr, though. No matter how many times this kind of thing happens, it always hurts. Every time. ]