Due to the trolls' quadrants , he has multiple interests in both humans and trolls alike. Karkat is one of the most shipped characters. There are works on AO3 and approximately works on fanfiction. Some of the more popular include:. Jump to: navigation , search.
Categories : Characters Homestuck Characters. Navigation menu Personal tools Create account Log in. John describes them as being "reverse anti-mutual friends". Later John states Karkat to be his favorite troll.
One of Karkat's first onscreen actions living up to his "carcinoGeneticist" title is the way he trolls John into changing his handle from ghostyTrickster [GT] to ectoBiologist [EB], thereby mutating the neat GCAT sequence made by all player chat handles. So far, Karkat and Rose have interacted very little.
They never spoke at all before meeting in person, and upon meeting Karkat treats her with his crabby and angry attitude. He does however seem to accept her as a potential leader in the first intermission.
He initially did not get along well with Dave , and rarely talked to him. Their only dialog before Act 6 was a memo when Karkat warned Dave and John about engaging in sloppy interspecies makeouts, though Dave's comments suggest that he had heard before about Karkat going to sleep. Upon actually meeting, they get along even worse, partially because they are competing over Terezi. In fact their relationship is so strained Karkat perceives Dave's actions as black advances at one point, stating that he is not interested in having Dave as a Kismesis.
By the third part of Openbound, the two even seem to interact relatively like Karkat did with Sollux, with Dave stating that many of their conversations are childish and embarrassing and that he's glad they are having this one in private.
This relates to Sollux and Karkat deleting a conversation they once had because they were so immature during it. Right before arriving in the new session in the GAME OVER timeline, Karkat expressed concern that he and Dave would no longer be "best bros" when Dave reunited with John , suggesting that they had become close friends after overcoming their conflict over Terezi.
In the retconned timeline, Dave and Karkat develop a much closer relationship during the meteor trip. They can be seen playing hopscotch and ring-around-the-rosie, holding hands, and Karkat can be seen playing Dave's turntables next to him.
Dave can be seen cuddling with Karkat while watching movies, and on the lilypad he describes having done so frequently. Notably they watched Good Luck Chuck due to Karkat's demonstrated affinity for Dane Cook mirroring Vriska's imprinting on Nic Cage , and in spite of Dave's professed distate for exactly that title. It was further proven by ipgd's Vine , in which Hussie himself directly confirms that Davekat is canon, and was mentioned on Twitter by Hussie as well although he sometimes jokes on Twitter.
They balance eachother out fairly well. In Act 7 when Dave arrives on the victory platform, Karkat gives him a hug and smiles, and on Earth C they have a picnic with Jade. Karkat's first interaction with humans, from the point of view of the reader, is with Jade and is the first narrative interaction between the trolls and the kids.
Jade's initial impression of Karkat is incredibly negative, especially after being caught in the middle of arguments between his past and future selves , but they eventually bond after he apologizes and helps her come to terms with being disgusted by her own past self's personality. In this same conversation, Karkat catches himself thinking of a rather odd image after watching Jade beat the shit out of her dream self in a callback to another beating that ended in sloppy makeouts.
Whether it is because of his typing error or the cause of it, this was not the end of Karkat's Freudian slips. Nepeta's reconstructed shipping wall portrays Jade as an auspistice for Karkat's past and future selves.
There have also been repeated implications of Future Karkat potentially having "pity" or "red feelings" towards her. Karkat met the Jack Noir of his session, also known as Spades Slick , when the latter attacked him on his planet. Jack was the first person to see his true blood color.
Karkat freaked out when Jack drew his blood and made a big fuss about his blood, much to Jack's confusion.
Jack was confused by Karkat's reaction but he understood that his blood apparently made him an outcast and felt bad for him. To make Karkat shut up he showed him his own blood color. When Karkat saw that they both have the same blood color, the two formed an alliance. Karkat became quite fond of him and somewhat looked up to him.
He also became quite defensive of him, such as when Terezi started criticizing him. Karkat didn't like the idea of exiling him at all but apparently still went through it in the end. It is unknown what their relationship is like after Jack was exiled and became Spades Slick. It's been speculated that the two were pitch for one another at some point, perhaps up to or during early parts of Act 5.
This is a concern Karkat hasn't expressed towards any of the other trolls at least, not outwardly , showcasing how much Sollux's friendship genuinely means to him. Whatever pitch feelings the two may or may not have harbored are never brought up in-comic, and their close relationship continues throughout Act 5. Karkat has wept over Sollux's dead and bloodied body no less than twice; upon finding Sollux KO'd, he is relieved, admitting that he couldn't handle watching his "good bro" get killed once again.
Though the two don't interact much beyond this point, it is implied that they still care for one another. It may be of note that Sollux and Dave share many similarities—such as their introductions, typing styles, dialogue, and general "coolkid" motifs—especially in regards to Karkat's antagonizing yet meaningful relationships with both of them.
Due to the abilities of Trollian , Karkat is able to commune with his past and future selves. When talking to past Karkat, he's reprimanding himself for his stupidity and reconsidering his actions. When Aranea escorts Jake to the dream bubbles , Karkat briefly talks with Terezi, telling her that he wouldn't mind hanging out with their Nepeta or several random other dead Nepetas instead of their dancestors, punctuating how unpleasant he finds their company.
This may be more applicable to most of the dead Alternian trolls, however, as Karkat genuinely still enjoys their company. Karkat and Kanaya are on very good terms, as Karkat is far less crabby with her than any other player.
They also both worked on making Bilious Slick , but were unable to find the last frog to perfect the genetic sequence of their Genesis Frog before fighting the Black King. Of all the trolls, Karkat seems to respect Kanaya the most, noting that she is the only sane one left to play when recruiting for the red team. He also trusts her more than the other trolls, confiding embarrassing facts about his denizen which he's never told anyone.
After Eridan killed Kanaya, Karkat became very upset and tried reviving her, but failed. Their relationship is changed after Gamzee's mental break: Kanaya considered auspisticizing for him and Karkat, which he rejected in favor of continuing his moiraillegiance with him, and Karkat was unnerved by her transformation into a rainbow drinker. Over the course of the Act 6 intermissions, he and Kanaya have grown apart.
In the first it is only Karkat's presence that keeps her from going to kill Gamzee, which she admits almost outright in the second. During the confrontation with a Condesce -controlled Jane , a fed up Kanaya defends a fear-struck Karkat after he was stabbed and returned to life.
After Karkat is killed by Gamzee she becomes enraged and slices him in half. In addition, it's shown they continue to be very close friends in the new timeline, with Karkat opening up to her more than almost anyone else onscreen even in the short time we see them together. During Hivebent, Karkat shows elements of a budding Matespritship with Terezi. Although he usually matches her aggressive flirtiness with bravado, he softens up when they get a moment to talk. Early in Hivebent, Karkat mentions to Terezi that one of his neighbors has recently been culled, and wonders if she would like to move in, although this is preceded by his usual disdain towards her current living conditions.
Unfortunately, Karkat's later actions confuse Terezi to the nature of their relationship, interpreting some of Karkat's behaviour as possible black advances, presumably the reason she describes their relation as complicated. Although they share an embrace after she is forced to kill Vriska to protect the lives of the remaining trolls, their relationship gets increasingly sour after they are joined by Rose and Dave.
Karkat is quite jealous of Dave's connection with Terezi, who now spends a lot of time with Dave. After realising that he had unwittingly been sending mixed signals of both black and red romance to Terezi, he asks Dave to share Terezi with him, which is normal according to troll romance novels under certain circumstances.
Dave refuses to even listen to his explanations. During A6I3 , Karkat runs into a sad Terezi with her dragon hood pulled over her face in a dream bubble. When he asks what is wrong, she claims that she's fine. When she tells him that she feels that she can't compare to her dancestor, Latula, Karkat immediately tells her that all of the dancestors are assholes. After doing so, he tells Terezi that covering herself up was completely unnecessary because she is beautiful and always knows how to have fun and that she's great the way she is.
He then tries to say he is not trying to rebuild their former matespritship and leaves, trying not to make Terezi feel even worse. He then refers to her as a friend, saying that he doesn't want his friends to feel bad about themselves. When he discovers she is no longer blind he is willing to listen to her feelings and is very understanding, offering advice and attempts at consolation. Vriska hate-flirts with Karkat on occasion, but is most likely just messing with him.
Karkat doesn't seem to hate Vriska, and post-Hivebent just wants her to not do something dangerous while he tries to figure things out. In the post-retcon timeline in which Vriska was not killed by Terezi, Karkat and Vriska still have a rather negative relationship: Vriska regularly belittles him and he seems to often insult her as well. Considering Equius's bigotry toward lowbloods and Karkat's mutant status, this is fairly understandable.
When they talk in Alterniabound , Equius wants Karkat to give him orders and it is implied that he gets aroused when Karkat gives him orders. Karkat responds by ordering Equius not to give him orders. At the very least, Karkat is later somewhat polite to Equius after mentioning his dead lusus, and even asks him to collaborate in putting down the murderously rampaging trolls, but he still finds him disturbing.
Originally, before Gamzee went insane, Gamzee considered Karkat to be his "best friend". Karkat once referred to him as the "worst best friend ever", since he was annoyed by everything Gamzee did.
Such good moirails, in fact, that Karkat was able to calm Gamzee down from his homicidal rage with some shooshes and paps and a hug. It is unclear whether this was a spur of the moment decision to act calm and pacifying, or it has something to do with his heritage and the Sufferer's peaceful doctrine suddenly coming to him.
It is possible that his title, Knight of Blood, refers to the hate and murder contained in a highblood's blood, which Karkat with his powers can pacify. Upon Sollux's half-death, he turns to Gamzee for consolation. As of A6I5, in a conversation with Dave it is revealed that Gamzee is no longer Karkat's moirail due to Gamzee's preoccupation with Caliborn and relative inattention to their relationship.
Karkat and Kanaya charge at Gamzee, but Karkat is stopped when Gamzee stabs Karkat twice in the chest, and drops him into the lava. Karkat seems to have also been good friends with Eridan, despite the latter's stated desire to kill all land dwellers. Such friendship could possibly be fueled by the fact Karkat is very good at giving advice on relationships, which Eridan needs constantly.
Karkat even speaks kindly to Eridan when it comes to his relationships in a memo. Eridan implies they also gossip about the other trolls' relationships, going so far as to say that he and the "assblood" had figured out Kanaya's intentions in her relationship with Vriska.
Their friendship also consists of helping each other emotionally multiple times. After Eridan turns on the trolls and kills Feferi and Kanaya, Karkat claims to have developed a hatred for him and swears to hunt him down and kill him, but never actually tries to accomplish this. While Karkat is ranting at Eridan for his "wand murder", Eridan offers to listen to Karkat's troubles and talk them out, despite being insulted and yelled at multiple times already. Karkat takes this as flirtation, though it was never proved to be hinting at Eridan waxing red for him or not, and he then proceeds to block Eridan from the memo.
In the new timeline where John prevented Terezi from killing Vriska, Karkat seems to have developed a friendship with WV who everyone refers to as "The Mayor" , similar to Dave's friendship with the mayor. He is seen conversing with the mayor about making a real life version of Can Town as an actual city and is annoyed when he finds that John and Jake are eavesdropping.
Main Page All Pages Community. Jailbreak Characters Locations Objects Concepts. Characters Locations. Characters Locations Objects Concepts. Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? Karkat Vantas. View source. History Talk Karkat drawn by Caliborn for Homosuck. Part of this is what makes Kanaya and Karkat so wonderful! But boiling it down to moirails takes away some of the impact i think we were supposed to get from them.
They are explicitly stated as being romantic, more akin to soulmates if we have to give an equivalent. Putting a character like this, who is a cannon lesbian, into a romantic quadrant with a man is erasure at best. If you still want to argue on that, why are you so eager to ship a man with her anyway.
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