
universal canon: karkat is always the big spoon
that one soulmate tattoo AU where what your soulmate thinks of you right at that moment is tattooed on your body, but it’s meteor davekat
but pre-retcon
the words are “stranger” until they see each other/talk to each other for the first time, but even after the words start moving, the boys are dumbasses and don’t figure it out for a while.
Karkat figures out it must be a human but not which one and Dave thinks it could be a troll but he isn’t sure. at first they get things like “loud”, “annoying”, “never shuts up wtf”, “scrawny”, “hilariously opinionated”, etc. and it’s just so predictable. it’s what everybody who’s ever disliked them said about them, it’s what they think about themselves when it’s late at night.
then the nature of the words shifts. they’re more like “underfed”, “maybe lonely”, “surprisingly funny”,
“I’m worried about him”,“somebody who’d understand”, “fucking attractive”, “strong”, “absolutely hilarious”, “if I could only bring one person to a deserted island”, and so on.
and they’re fairly sure they know who it is but what if they’re wrong and ruin their budding friendship???
its davekat, babeyyyyy! like. not only is it canon and nostalgic as hell but its got that whole 'love beyond quadrants' thing goin on

Will you give me your hand so I can pretend
I’m holding it for the first time?
Let’s do everything for the first time forever
And if forever you are my friend
I’ll never, ever feel unhappy again