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[usedshooshpap]

[ Karkat is literally surrounded when he flips on the Gear. poor guy is a little rattled, Pokemon kind of all over him. swablu, some dragons, his Espeon... but seriously. looks like he is about to hyperventilate over here. taking deep, slow breathes to help calm. ]

What the...

[ and then he loses it. ]

MIGHTY TAINT CHAFTING FUCK IS GOING ON!?!?



(( ooc note: it's been a whole year canon-wise for Karkat. he's going to be a little disoriented at first. ))

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[usedshooshpap]

Helping someone out just because. Yeah, you don't see a reason not to, but even if I troll doesn't see a reason, they tend to make one anyway.

[explosivecombat]

Well, I don't believe in complete generosity, and somehow I doubt that most humans do, either; at least not really. I suppose that if you really need a reason, it's through some sort of unrecognized assumption that if you're ever in a similar situation, the other person will assist you somehow - or perhaps someone else will assist you, as a way of the world paying you back.

It's not anything most people voice, but it tends to be the reason, I think. It's just not one that most want to acknowledge, because they like to believe they're better than that.

[usedshooshpap]

And just what sort of situation would you get into that I would be able to help you with on a metaphysical level?

[explosivecombat]

Well, that was more of a general statement to explain why people act as they do; personally, I generally help people if they're of some sort of particular interest to me, or if I believe they have potential to become that way in the future. I don't waste my time on complete charity, but you've presented me with a good amount to think about in the past, and you've actually explained something to me before in a way that made more sense than anything that humans say about the same topic.

Consider it to be in return for that explanation, if nothing else.

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[ he's quiet for a moment. just... thinking. ]

Hey, Kimblee.

[explosivecombat]

What is it?

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You're a fucking enigma, you know that?

[ Karkat is going to get to the bottom of you, one of these days. ]

[explosivecombat]

[...he seems kind of amused by that, really.]

So I've been told, yes. But then, there are worse things to be, really.

[usedshooshpap]

Well you don't really expect a guy that blows shit up for shits and giggles to be mentally sound.

[explosivecombat]

Most consider me mad, in my world; I've never argued with them.

[usedshooshpap]

Like I said. I don't GET most humans.

[explosivecombat]

And what is it you aren't getting this time around, if I may?

[usedshooshpap]

No no. I just mean in general.

It's not like you're a subjuggulator or anything like that. Insanity isn't necessarily tied to hobbies.

[explosivecombat]

I'm...sorry, it's not like I'm a what?

[usedshooshpap]

Augh. A clown cultist that worships the Mirthful Messiahs.

[explosivecombat]

I see.

[...well

that's

...yep]

At any rate, humans don't always assess madness through one's actions, but rather by analyzing one's thoughts as well, particularly in regards to the general accepted standard of ethics and morality. As such, many of my thoughts would be considered heresy by most humans.

However, there's a difference between heresy and stupidity; appearing "sane" by human standards is all a matter of knowing what's acceptable and what isn't, and acting accordingly. It's study and self-control, nothing more.

[usedshooshpap]

Oh please. Knowing right from wrong and then deciding to do the "wrong" doesn't make anyone anything but a dick.

It wasn't the fact that Gamzee killed a fuck ton of us that made him crazy or even why he did it. Subjuggulators are whimsical fucktards anyway. What made him insane was the fact that he was pretty much blind with fucking rage and thought a puppet was talking to him.

That's insanity.

[explosivecombat]

[And again, that's seemed to amuse him.]

That's why I tend to refer to it as "heresy" rather than "insanity," when referring to my own assessment of myself. I won't deny that my thoughts are abnormal by everyone else's standards, but I'm not hallucinating or having meaningful conversations with the tea kettle, either.

It's more a difference in thought process, in my case, I think.

[usedshooshpap]

Yeah well... Take a number and get in the fucking line.

[explosivecombat]

It's not anything I care about either way, really; if others take up issue with it, then it matters very little to me in the end.

Although I do have to wonder what you plan on doing in regards to this "enigma" you're perceiving me as.

[usedshooshpap]

Who said I was planning on doing anything?

[explosivecombat]

Most aren't content to leave things like that alone.

[usedshooshpap]

Not human, remember?

[explosivecombat]

Perhaps, but you can't pretend that your thought processes are so completely foreign to ours that we can't possibly fathom how you work.

But I'll grant it either way.

[usedshooshpap]

Yes we can. Totally can.

Now, if you could only have some valuable words of potential wisdom for relationship woes.