[In the blink of an eye, his face goes from anxious to darkly serious. You touched a nerve there, Karkat.]
Okay. First of all: I care about Vriska. I don't appreciate the implications that I am not taking this seriously or that I agreed to this for shallow reasons. Because I didn't. Trust me, had you been here? I would have called you the night she asked me and asked you for help. Which is what I'm trying to do now, though I guess maybe I should have been more direct about it.
I want to be a good moirail. Yeah, I feel sort of bad that she had deeper feelings for me when I don't feel that way about her, but that's not why I agreed. I agreed because she needs me. That's the one thing I do understand after talking to her: Vriska. Needs. Me. But I'm not a troll, Karkat. I have never been one. So I don't know how moirails are supposed to actually, really feel about each other beyond "take care of each other". I have been trying my best to figure that out on my own, but there's only so much I can do on my own as a human.
[Once again, he runs a hand through his hair, taking a deep breath and trying to compose himself once more.]
If all you are going to do is yell at me and accuse me of trying to demean a concept that's still relatively new to me, then this conversation is over. I'll just see if I can get a hold of Nepeta and ask her for help.
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Okay. First of all: I care about Vriska. I don't appreciate the implications that I am not taking this seriously or that I agreed to this for shallow reasons. Because I didn't. Trust me, had you been here? I would have called you the night she asked me and asked you for help. Which is what I'm trying to do now, though I guess maybe I should have been more direct about it.
I want to be a good moirail. Yeah, I feel sort of bad that she had deeper feelings for me when I don't feel that way about her, but that's not why I agreed. I agreed because she needs me. That's the one thing I do understand after talking to her: Vriska. Needs. Me. But I'm not a troll, Karkat. I have never been one. So I don't know how moirails are supposed to actually, really feel about each other beyond "take care of each other". I have been trying my best to figure that out on my own, but there's only so much I can do on my own as a human.
[Once again, he runs a hand through his hair, taking a deep breath and trying to compose himself once more.]
If all you are going to do is yell at me and accuse me of trying to demean a concept that's still relatively new to me, then this conversation is over. I'll just see if I can get a hold of Nepeta and ask her for help.