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homeiswherethestuckis:

HEY WHO WANTS TO HEAR AN OLD CONCEPT I HAD THAT I DID NOTHING WITH

ALRIGHT THAT’S GOOD ENOUGH FOR ME HERE WE GO:

Karkat has deuternopia (a form of red/green color blindness) because of his mutation and doesn’t realize it for the first couple sweeps of his life. He lives under the impression that he’s somewhere on the greener scale of the hemospectrum (but his lusus still manages to keep him safe indoors and out of sight most of the time).

He gets a pesterchum and picks a text color that he thinks is close to his blood, and a couple hours in to having access to the internet he meets Kanaya, who contacts him because she’s excited to meet another jadeblood.

So they get to talking and they become fast friends, talking about books and movies and other things that they both like. Eventually, Kanaya invites Karkat over to her hive for a playdate. Karkat’s excited and agrees immediately even though his lusus continues to screech about it.

So Karkat gets there and he meets Kanaya in person and she’s really nice and just as great in person as she is online. She puts on a marathon of troll pretty little liars and asks if he wants to help her sew some stuff (she wants to make him a little gift for when he leaves but she doesn’t have the time to do it by herself) and he agrees wholeheartedly. Karkat gets to work, but his hands are clumsy and he pricks a finger with the needle by mistake.

Kanaya’s about to help immediately, but then she sees the color of his blood and is shocked because it’s not jade green, it’s…impossibly red. And it’s clear from Karkat’s confused look back at her that he doesn’t know what she’s looking at.

So Kanaya is really confused but starts looking for a bandaid and asks him what color he thinks his blood is.

So Karkat says: green??? Obviously??

And Kanaya has to tell him that it’s….not green. It’s red. A bad shade of red. She doesn’t want to say mutant red but it’s pretty clear that’s what she means. And Karkat is just thrown for a loop because this whole time he thought he had green blood and he was on the spectrum but now he’s got red blood that’s nowhere near it??? Holy fuck???

So while he’s at Kanaya’s she helps him change his text color on pesterchum to grey because he’s worried if he does it himself he’ll get the color wrong again and he clearly can’t use green anymore. And before he leaves he asks Kanaya if she could possibly make him some new clothes? Like a sweater with the real sign in grey instead? So Kanaya says yeah, of course she can do that.

And she does, she makes him six of them, tge same sweater with the sign in grey. And she doesn’t tell a soul about Karkat’s blood color or even considers culling him because even though the circumstances of how they met all turned out to be wrong they’re still friends.

The End.