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Does anyone remember this old Cartoon Network bumper, where the Powerpuff Girls help save Wonder Woman and Aquaman?
His friends seemed to have treated it in with a sort of don’t ask don’t tell kind of attitude. Like, Karkat’s blood color is wrong and mutant in troll society, but they didn’t want to hurt Karkat because of it, in anyway. Even beyond the obvious killing reaction that many could assume his friends wouldn’t do, none of them did anything at all, like demand he step down from being the leader or something. They didn’t try to change anything at all.
By the same token, though, they didn’t really comfort him about it. Besides Terezi, none of his friends talked about his blood to Karkat directly. No words of comfort, no ‘I don’t want to kill you’ or anything. It was like, as long as Karkat didn’t bring it up and kept hiding behind grey, nobody else wanted to bring it up and mess up whatever tenuous social order they had going.
Of course, a major factor in how this was handled probably had to do with how everyone found out. Karkat didn’t tell anyone his blood color directly, and kept pretending no one knew. The other trolls presumably found out by seeing dead alternate Karkats in dream bubbles during or immediately after the game. So not only was the timing really inconvenient (most of them weren’t going to bring something like blood color up in the middle of the apocalypse), but they didn’t actually see alpha Karkat bleeding. There was no defining moment of ‘hey Karkat’s bleeding, I can see his blood right there, guess I can’t just ignore it.’ They could ignore it, and they did.
I want to know what Karkat’s friends would have done if they found out some other way, like if Karkat told them (would he ever tell someone by choice) or if they saw him bleeding in person.
I think about this a fuck ton actually
the only character i can think of who would actually be a major ass about his blood would be eridan and maybe equius, though karkat was gamzees best friend so equius might choose to ignore it out of respect to gamzee.
Okay but lets illustrate how much white privileged is involved with this story. The weapons this little demon used to kill Grant Nelson were stolen from Walmart. She walked into Walmart, grabbed a machete and a knife, and then just casually walked out the door without anyone attempting to stop her. You get a box of tampons from Walmart and you don’t have it in a bag, they wanna check your receipt. Becky the Sociopath walked out unchecked with literal weapons.
Then she had time to wait outside for the uber this poor man drove to come pick her up. Then she got in his back seat and stabbed him multiple times, pushed him out onto the street, and stole the car. He was able to tell the police who stabbed him before he died. She then crashes the car and is found by the police hiding behind a tree covered in blood. The police try to gently coerce her into dropping her fucking blood covered knives and when she refuses do they shoot her eight times? Oh noooo Lizzy Borden gets tazed and brought in unharmed.
Like just think about the stories that have come out these past two weeks alone. The unarmed black teenager who were literally murdered based on vague suspicion and this girl actually kills someone and is still standing.
I am Silver Tongue, I am an artist. I have many characters and you can check out my art in the art tag. I occasionally practice witchcraft though I don't do anything too complicated. I am girl 2 and don't know what else to put here.
