[ a good ten minutes go by in which karkat struggles to pull himself together. simply the word mutation on its own might have been easier to absorb -- he's met other mutants before -- but the continuation of by the system's standards, not human has him reeling.
he isn't sure whether he's supposed to be angry about the unintentional implication that he, karkat, isn't a troll, or if he's supposed to feel a grudging, unwilling sympathy, or a familiar, half-buried loneliness he hasn't dwelled on for months, now. this was not what he was expecting. this is not fair!
eventually, though, he manages collect himself enough to turn the tablet back on, and reconnect. ]
SO WHAT, EXACTLY, DOES THE SYSTEM DO WITH YOU, IF THERE ISN'T ANY INFRASTRUCTURE IN PLACE TO COPE WITH MUTANTS?
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he isn't sure whether he's supposed to be angry about the unintentional implication that he, karkat, isn't a troll, or if he's supposed to feel a grudging, unwilling sympathy, or a familiar, half-buried loneliness he hasn't dwelled on for months, now. this was not what he was expecting. this is not fair!
eventually, though, he manages collect himself enough to turn the tablet back on, and reconnect. ]
SO WHAT, EXACTLY, DOES THE SYSTEM DO WITH YOU, IF THERE ISN'T ANY INFRASTRUCTURE IN PLACE TO COPE WITH MUTANTS?