Character Notes: History: We’re first introduced to Karkat as a chat troll who pesters the kids, mostly Jade and John, verbally abusing them because of what they had (in his perspective) or would (in their perspective) do. Timelines are really screwed up in Homestuck. Through the magic of Trollian, the chat client the trolls use, Karkat can effectively troll backwards through the kids’ timeline, so that every successive conversation he has with John happens earlier and earlier in John’s life. It’s pretty confusing for John and extremely frustrating for Karkat, but Karkat is nothing if not stubborn, and refuses to stop. Also, Karkat sucks at trolling.
ANYWAY. Karkat is the leader of a group of twelve trolls total who played a game called SGRUB. They thought they were just playing a game, but really they were restoring the balance of light and dark in the universe and creating their own universe over which they were to rule as gods. BUUUUUUUUT that didn’t work out because of the Scratch, a rift which disrupted pretty much everything and took away the trolls’ chance at their ultimate reward.
This pissed them off ROYALLY. Well, mostly just Karkat because everything pisses off Karkat, and when they relocated to their secret awesome meteor base and started watching over the planet they had created, they discovered the ones responsible for the Scratch. It was the Homestuck kids; John, Jade, Dave, and Rose. Karkat immediately ordered his group of friends to troll the kids as RETRIBUTION for what they had done. Instead they ended up being a sort of set of guides for the kids on their misadventures through the same game the trolls themselves had played.
BUT the kids’ game was DOOMED because of various shenanigans that Karkat blamed on Jade and John but were really Vriska’s fault. In any case, Karkat does his best to guide the kids in a way that will hopefully avoid future problems, but Karkat’s rambling insults and backwards trolling really only confuse matters. He does manage to explain the situation pretty clearly to John, but since he is trolling backwards, John doesn’t really get the information he needs when he needs it. Also John is a derp, but we’ll save that for John’s app.
Karkat Vantas | Homestuck | Reserved | Part 2/???
History: We’re first introduced to Karkat as a chat troll who pesters the kids, mostly Jade and John, verbally abusing them because of what they had (in his perspective) or would (in their perspective) do. Timelines are really screwed up in Homestuck. Through the magic of Trollian, the chat client the trolls use, Karkat can effectively troll backwards through the kids’ timeline, so that every successive conversation he has with John happens earlier and earlier in John’s life. It’s pretty confusing for John and extremely frustrating for Karkat, but Karkat is nothing if not stubborn, and refuses to stop. Also, Karkat sucks at trolling.
ANYWAY. Karkat is the leader of a group of twelve trolls total who played a game called SGRUB. They thought they were just playing a game, but really they were restoring the balance of light and dark in the universe and creating their own universe over which they were to rule as gods. BUUUUUUUUT that didn’t work out because of the Scratch, a rift which disrupted pretty much everything and took away the trolls’ chance at their ultimate reward.
This pissed them off ROYALLY. Well, mostly just Karkat because everything pisses off Karkat, and when they relocated to their secret awesome meteor base and started watching over the planet they had created, they discovered the ones responsible for the Scratch. It was the Homestuck kids; John, Jade, Dave, and Rose. Karkat immediately ordered his group of friends to troll the kids as RETRIBUTION for what they had done. Instead they ended up being a sort of set of guides for the kids on their misadventures through the same game the trolls themselves had played.
BUT the kids’ game was DOOMED because of various shenanigans that Karkat blamed on Jade and John but were really Vriska’s fault. In any case, Karkat does his best to guide the kids in a way that will hopefully avoid future problems, but Karkat’s rambling insults and backwards trolling really only confuse matters. He does manage to explain the situation pretty clearly to John, but since he is trolling backwards, John doesn’t really get the information he needs when he needs it. Also John is a derp, but we’ll save that for John’s app.