lackingmilk:

Foolish and ignorant tier: only shipping DaveKat in the Black quadrant

Confused and oblivious tier: only shipping DaveKat in the Ashen quadrant

Stuck-in-2013 tier: only shipping DaveKat in the Pale quadrant

Admirable but still slightly ignorant tier: only shipping Davekat in the Red                                                                             quadrant

Intellectual god tier: realizing a major part of both characters’ development romantically is that for Karkat, he can’t keep his feelings in the quadrant system, and that Dave isn’t comfortable participating in the quadrant system (as shown when he cuts things off with Terezi for starting a black rom with Gamzee) and that their relationship most realistically would be monogamous, therefore shipping DaveKat in all four quadrants at once.