NO SUPERHERO CODENAME AGAIN but religious tradition refers to him among other things as 'the Awakener' and if it was up to him he would call himself something like REAPHOOK or IRONCLAW Karkat is the heir of the Sufferer, essentially Troll Jesus, and as such is a political refugee from the tyrannical Alternian Empire. He has been in CONDOR custody since he was delivered to Earth by , because they don't want to wheel him out to lead their revolution while he is still a stubby teen, and they feel Earth is safer than space. CONDOR stuck Karkat with the West Coast Trailblazers because troll kids don't deal well with adults. Due to taking personal offence at the fact that he is surrounded by people with superpowers or INTENSE! combat abilities, Karkat has been training very hard since he's been with the Trailblazers, but he's still only a trainee rather than an active member.
YOU MAY HAVE HEARD OF THIS CHARACTER IF: You are a troll peace cultist (unlikely). LA denizens may have noticed him around if Alternians are a thing they notice, on account of they are not super common, but for the most part Karkat actively avoids other trolls because he's worried about how they'll react to his blood colour, which is showing in his irises by now. YOU MAY KNOW THIS CHARACTER IF: You are one of the trolls who escaped with him, or a CONDOR agent who's been involved in dealing with him, or are a member of the West Coast Trailblazers – in which case Karkat lives in the dorms at your base, eating really ill advised food combinations that he seems to think taste good, watching romance films on Netflix in an effort to "understand Earth culture", and generally being kind of rude despite the fact that he most likely super cares about a whole bunch of you guys by now. PLANS & IDEAS FOR THIS CHARACTER: I really want Karkat to have some ill advised crushes on people, whether that's crushes to develop in the future or crushes he already has. If you are open to this being a thing please let me know. I don't care if it's unrequited, I'm not looking for actual ships here (although I'm not ruling that out, either), I just want to assume he has at least a couple of stupid crushes on his sort-of-teammates. Also, I like to imagine that Karkat gets kidnapped slightly more than is average by, for example, people who want to lure the Trailblazers into some kind of trap, because being a small space alien with no powers makes him both conspicuous and easy to manhandle. THINGS YOU'D PREFER TO AVOID: Nope! ANYTHING ELSE: Having been on Earth for a year, speaking almost exclusively to people who don't speak Alternian, Karkat's English is pretty decent by now, but it's not perfect, and there are still words he doesn't understand. It probably took a while for it to get to this point, though, so anybody who's known him since he got there will remember him being completely fucking awful at it, and furious about how awful at it he was, for months.
KARKAT VANTAS
Karkat is the heir of the Sufferer, essentially Troll Jesus, and as such is a political refugee from the tyrannical Alternian Empire. He has been in CONDOR custody since he was delivered to Earth by , because they don't want to wheel him out to lead their revolution while he is still a stubby teen, and they feel Earth is safer than space. CONDOR stuck Karkat with the West Coast Trailblazers because troll kids don't deal well with adults. Due to taking personal offence at the fact that he is surrounded by people with superpowers or INTENSE! combat abilities, Karkat has been training very hard since he's been with the Trailblazers, but he's still only a trainee rather than an active member.
YOU MAY HAVE HEARD OF THIS CHARACTER IF: You are a troll peace cultist (unlikely). LA denizens may have noticed him around if Alternians are a thing they notice, on account of they are not super common, but for the most part Karkat actively avoids other trolls because he's worried about how they'll react to his blood colour, which is showing in his irises by now.
YOU MAY KNOW THIS CHARACTER IF: You are one of the trolls who escaped with him, or a CONDOR agent who's been involved in dealing with him, or are a member of the West Coast Trailblazers – in which case Karkat lives in the dorms at your base, eating really ill advised food combinations that he seems to think taste good, watching romance films on Netflix in an effort to "understand Earth culture", and generally being kind of rude despite the fact that he most likely super cares about a whole bunch of you guys by now.
PLANS & IDEAS FOR THIS CHARACTER: I really want Karkat to have some ill advised crushes on people, whether that's crushes to develop in the future or crushes he already has. If you are open to this being a thing please let me know. I don't care if it's unrequited, I'm not looking for actual ships here (although I'm not ruling that out, either), I just want to assume he has at least a couple of stupid crushes on his sort-of-teammates.
Also, I like to imagine that Karkat gets kidnapped slightly more than is average by, for example, people who want to lure the Trailblazers into some kind of trap, because being a small space alien with no powers makes him both conspicuous and easy to manhandle.
THINGS YOU'D PREFER TO AVOID: Nope!
ANYTHING ELSE: Having been on Earth for a year, speaking almost exclusively to people who don't speak Alternian, Karkat's English is pretty decent by now, but it's not perfect, and there are still words he doesn't understand. It probably took a while for it to get to this point, though, so anybody who's known him since he got there will remember him being completely fucking awful at it, and furious about how awful at it he was, for months.