orangelemonart:

What she says: I’m fine.

What she means: Karkat has feelings from the moment he laid eyes on John. Every one of flustered fumbling rants at him were empirically a result of that hate at first sight, and then he slowly started to like him and actually enjoy talking to him, and the same with John turnways, who absolutely adored getting Karkat all worked up. They have the same typing quirk with one all caps and one lowercase. Their taste in movies were paralleled, and they both like Failure to Launch. They weren’t stuck together, they didn’t have to talk to each other, but they both wanted to, so much. Karkat couldn’t stop bringing himself to do that, and John slowly got more and more happy to hear from him every time. John threw a bucket at Karkat’s head with a joke about making out with him if they weren’t all smooched out by the time three years were up. John knew how Karkat felt. he thought about it. Karkat couldn’t get him off his mind and the first thing he did when he finally got to talk to him was address how NOT in love with him he was and admitted to thinking about it. Often. Zappy John was so delighted every time he popped to a Karkat point in time and was so excited by his little fits, where every other character is like ok he’ll stop eventually if we just ignore it where as John is TICKLED by it. They have paralleled quests. He’s everything he’s not. There’s so much more. There is so much more. Where is the resolution. I thought I had it at the end of Act 5 where Karkat said I don’t really hate you and I never did, I was always okay with you, but then he just went and admitted he was thinking about John. Romantically. These passed few years. And John is finally following up on the Jake thing questioning heterosexuality. It can’t end like this. I can’t have this dangled in front of my face for all these years only for left-field ships where people are just suddenly friends without that gradual conversational build up and then bam love interests suddenly be a thing, and obscuring any wrap up our two male leads could have possibly gotten for better or worse. Meet me in the pit, Andrew Hussie. Meet me in the pit.