imagine karkat being mean to dirk like he’s mean to dave because karkat assumes all striders are tough and flippant and never give a shit what he thinks but actually dirk has never in his life had anyone actually yell at him so he actually and involuntarily and to everyone’s horror starts to cry
then he and karkat both flip straight off the handle and dissolve into a catastrophic trauma spiral of weepily baroque apologies
imagine
this better be canon
Oh no. This is everything I wanted.