#it's always a question of 'we aren't a hive mind yknow'

[anarchomitsumi]

stereotypes are shit because they're applied negatively by outsiders AND I hate it when ppl say galicians curse too much...but then i open my mouth and what comes out is me cago na puta que a pariu que fixo a guarra esta agora. se acepta y se asume.

[dersiterags]

Karkat Question thats been on my mind since pesterquest especially: how do you think it was like growing up as a Mutant blood and being so paranoid as not to get so much as a papercut or any form of injury that would show his blood color. Or even crying because trolls apparently cry the same color as their blood just more diluted.

Fbbdhsjshxb GOD IM SO HAPPY SOMEONE TOOK ME UP ON MY KARKAT ASK THING

(god ok sorry i typed and retyped this like 3 times bc i kept going off on tangents so this was the best way i was able to actually answer what you asked)

i think it was very emotionally taxing on him growing up on alternia. it could have been a lot worse if he had to actually leave his hive but bc of crabdad/the school-feeding system he probably never had to. he probably was always so paranoid of being found out that the anger facade/hemo-anonymity he puts out online became the safest way for him to emote anything without closing himself off completely from his society, especially since the troll race was shown to be a generally angry race to begin with this seemed to work for him. for worrying about the papercut part, i lean heavy into the trolls are bugs not mammals thing, so i prefer the thought that their skin is actually chitin, therefore papercuts probably aren't something he'd have to worry about.

i do think that his wanting to be such a good threshacutioner that the empress would simply have to make an exception is definitely a naiveté that we dont see a lot from him, but also, like all the other kids that are playing this game, he is that. a kid. even through his paranoia and knowledge of being culled on sight he wanted to believe he'd be so good, so impressive and integral they'd simply just forget about the fact he was a mutant blood. in. yknow. a society that ranks almost solely on the exact hue of ones blood. no biggie

finally the tears thing, i think that bc of how diluted they are, they could have passed for burgandy. i dont recall a scene of aradia crying to compare, but i do think its plausible, also would be why he seems to be better w the idea of crying when its tinted w the blood colour that could have him killed if it is one that could quickly be swept under the rug