Introduction: So I’ve been shipping this since I read Karkat’s first pesterlog. Was like “Oh maaaaan. This guy. I need this guy to talk to Dave, because that, my friends, would be an interesting conversation.” It just seemed like an interesting dynamic to observe and thus my otp became a crack ship and i cried (two characters who hadn’t even talked yet!). So I’m super happy with recent developments and I’ve been working on this here masterlist of sorts. This is gonna be an in-depth analysis starting with individual characters and ending with their relationship as a whole, plus every link for every moment they shared in-comic. Enjoy.
Karkat doesn’t understand this weird human food which is like carrots made even more disgusting because there’s like mayonnaise in there and what the fuck Dave humans are weird. Dave doesn’t really care but now it’s a Point. He has coleslaw sandwiches for lunch. Dinner is alphabet soup with a side of coleslaw. He switches Jane’s icing for coleslaw so they eat coleslaw cakes. He uses it as milk in his cereal. Every morning he stares Karkat straight in the eye and smirks as he spreads coleslaw on his toast, licking his lips and savouring every last mouthful. Karkat grinds his teeth so loudly Kanaya’s Mom Mode is mysteriously activated three houses down. He goes through seventeen petrichor scented candles a week to get rid of the stress. Dave can’t stop won’t stop and fills the fridge with coleslaw. Karkat comes down one morning and finds every item of food in the house replaced with it. He screams. Seismic shifts are felt universes away. Empires rise and fall. Dave laughs and wipes away a single coleslaw tear, laughing maniacally to himself as he looks up recipes for coleslaw chips. Karkat takes one look at his boyfriend’s internet history and moves out. They find Dave weeks later, curled up in his bedroom, watching reruns of the Thresh Prince of Belair and eating coleslaw out of an ice-cream tub.
This got two notes and I am really glad someone is finally seeing my genius because I still think this is the best thing I’ve ever written
this was going to be a 50-panel visual song for my detective AU (in which humans and trolls coexist on earth), but it’s been sitting on my computer for like a year and i’m never gonna finish it ´A`