[Being out amongst people still puts him on edge, even after sweeps of being in a place where more than half of the population shared his mutant blood color. Although to them it wasn't strange or mutant at all.]
[...and sorry, Nep, you're not subtle about your crush in the least, and you're crushing on the Master of Quadrant Rants. He's pretty aware, he just hasn't really figured out what to do about it. He spent so much of his life pining for someone that would never really pay him the mind he wanted her to, and being mostly without her here anyway, that he'd just sort of given up on the Quadrant system.]
[It never really stopped him from explaining it to ignorant humans or people that would listen, and he still believed in it like John had once believed in Nicolas Cage, but it felt sort of like something of his past. When he was six sweeps, Quadrants mattered. Now? Not so much.]
[Her chipper attitude was... well, slowly chipping away at Karkat's walls, though, with a single tiny nail and a toy hammer. She'd made a good amount of progress over the years.]
[His ears flick back a little in surprise when he's pretty much assaulted with the smell of delicious, and he turns an abrupt, startled expression on her.]
Nepeta did you drag me out here for a dinner date? [Well that was a bold question.]
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[...and sorry, Nep, you're not subtle about your crush in the least, and you're crushing on the Master of Quadrant Rants. He's pretty aware, he just hasn't really figured out what to do about it. He spent so much of his life pining for someone that would never really pay him the mind he wanted her to, and being mostly without her here anyway, that he'd just sort of given up on the Quadrant system.]
[It never really stopped him from explaining it to ignorant humans or people that would listen, and he still believed in it like John had once believed in Nicolas Cage, but it felt sort of like something of his past. When he was six sweeps, Quadrants mattered. Now? Not so much.]
[Her chipper attitude was... well, slowly chipping away at Karkat's walls, though, with a single tiny nail and a toy hammer. She'd made a good amount of progress over the years.]
[His ears flick back a little in surprise when he's pretty much assaulted with the smell of delicious, and he turns an abrupt, startled expression on her.]
Nepeta did you drag me out here for a dinner date? [Well that was a bold question.]