Personality: Karkat is impatient, crabby, rude, and constantly insulting. He is reluctant to admit his personal emotions… except when they’re negative, which seems to be all the time. He raaaaages. He becomes frustrated very easily, and even his most sincere advice often is presented as insults.
Over time, however, it’s revealed that he really does care about his friends, even if he’d never admit it. He seems to genuinely want to help out when people come to him for advice in their extremely complicated troll romances, and everything he does is out of an effort to make sure things turn out right for everyone. He is honestly and truly broken up over the deaths of several friends throughout the story, and often blames himself when things go wrong.
This does not stop him from blaming others when he thinks something’s their fault, though. His first interactions with Jade and John are particularly rude and insulting because he believes it’s their fault for all the problems that the kids and trolls have and will encounter over time. He does his best to reason with them over certain decisions he thinks were badly made, but Karkat’s version of reasoning is pretty much just insulting a person in the hopes that they’ll get so ashamed that they’ll just do what he says.
As the kind of sort of self-appointed leader (he claimed to be leader but was also sort of made leader by circumstances he wasn’t aware of), Karkat expects everyone to follow his orders without question, but considering he’s leading a bunch of trolls, it usually doesn’t happen without huge amounts of bickering and mutual insulting. Of all the trolls though, Karkat seems to be able to herd the group the best, despite the overwhelming clash of personalities that occurs on a regular basis. Karkat could be called ambitious, but really he just likes being in a position of authority so he can order people around and have an excuse for doing so.
When shit really hits the fan, though, Karkat tends to be hesitant to act, because really despite all his boasting and bragging and constant insulting, he’s kind of a crybaby. He balks at the sight of blood, freaks out when things go wrong, and when things get really bad, like mass-amounts-of-murder-bad, he goes into a blue screen of death and then flips out later.
OH he also has issues with relationships. He claims to hate everyone equally, but then he realizes that this really doesn’t work because… and this is me trying to explain without going too in depth with the extremely complicated trollmance business… but every troll needs an ultimate rival, kind of a rival soul mate, and Karkat hates everyone so he feels he’s set his standards too high for that special someone. For a while he thinks John is that person, then gives up because John just doesn’t get it, and then he goes and starts hating on his past and future selves in the Trollian memo boards. It’s pretty messed up. He also has trouble admitting his true feelings about people like Terezi, with whom he shares a growing mutual attraction. If Karkat had a Troll Facebook, his relationship status would be set to “it’s complicated.” But only if he was being honest with himself.
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Over time, however, it’s revealed that he really does care about his friends, even if he’d never admit it. He seems to genuinely want to help out when people come to him for advice in their extremely complicated troll romances, and everything he does is out of an effort to make sure things turn out right for everyone. He is honestly and truly broken up over the deaths of several friends throughout the story, and often blames himself when things go wrong.
This does not stop him from blaming others when he thinks something’s their fault, though. His first interactions with Jade and John are particularly rude and insulting because he believes it’s their fault for all the problems that the kids and trolls have and will encounter over time. He does his best to reason with them over certain decisions he thinks were badly made, but Karkat’s version of reasoning is pretty much just insulting a person in the hopes that they’ll get so ashamed that they’ll just do what he says.
As the kind of sort of self-appointed leader (he claimed to be leader but was also sort of made leader by circumstances he wasn’t aware of), Karkat expects everyone to follow his orders without question, but considering he’s leading a bunch of trolls, it usually doesn’t happen without huge amounts of bickering and mutual insulting. Of all the trolls though, Karkat seems to be able to herd the group the best, despite the overwhelming clash of personalities that occurs on a regular basis. Karkat could be called ambitious, but really he just likes being in a position of authority so he can order people around and have an excuse for doing so.
When shit really hits the fan, though, Karkat tends to be hesitant to act, because really despite all his boasting and bragging and constant insulting, he’s kind of a crybaby. He balks at the sight of blood, freaks out when things go wrong, and when things get really bad, like mass-amounts-of-murder-bad, he goes into a blue screen of death and then flips out later.
OH he also has issues with relationships. He claims to hate everyone equally, but then he realizes that this really doesn’t work because… and this is me trying to explain without going too in depth with the extremely complicated trollmance business… but every troll needs an ultimate rival, kind of a rival soul mate, and Karkat hates everyone so he feels he’s set his standards too high for that special someone. For a while he thinks John is that person, then gives up because John just doesn’t get it, and then he goes and starts hating on his past and future selves in the Trollian memo boards. It’s pretty messed up. He also has trouble admitting his true feelings about people like Terezi, with whom he shares a growing mutual attraction. If Karkat had a Troll Facebook, his relationship status would be set to “it’s complicated.” But only if he was being honest with himself.
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