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KARKAT: DAVE, YOU DIDN'T EVEN READ THE MANUSCRIPT!

KARKAT: STOP TALKING OUT OF YOUR ASS AND TAKING SHIT COMPLETELY OUT OF CONTEXT.

DAVE: considering the morsels of spoilers youve given me

DAVE: im not sure context can save this

KARKAT: I KNEW I SHOULD HAVE KEPT MY BIG FUCKING MOUTH SHUT AND LET YOU READ IT.

KARKAT: THEN YOU'D KNOW HOW BEAUTIFUL YOUR STORY WAS AND INCREDIBLY VERY SYMPATHETIC.

DAVE: i dont know

DAVE: from what youve described to me youre easily the most admirable character up in that thang

KARKAT: WHAT, COMMANDER KARKAT?

KARKAT: NO, HE SUCKS. HE FUUUU-(friggin') SUCKS SO BAD.

KARKAT: JUST A TOTAL COWARD THAT COMPLAINS ABOUT EVERYTHING AND THEN WHEN HE FINALLY DOES SOMETHING, HE'S NOT EVEN IN THE STORY ANYMORE.

KARKAT: HE NEVER STOOD UP FOR WHAT HE WANTED.

DAVE: youre on crack bro commander karkat had integrity

KARKAT: HE WASN'T EVEN THE REAL LEADER OF HIS OWN REBELLION. HE ONLY STARTED WINNING CAUSE OF MEENAH.

DAVE: you need to stop talking shit on karkat thats my man

KARKAT: NOT IN THIS STORY HE ISN'T!

KARKAT: HONESTLY, THIS SHIT IS ALL MOOT BECAUSE IN THE END, THE TWO CHARACTERS THAT DID HAVE THE WORST LIFE EVER IN THE STORY WEREN'T EVEN EITHER OF US.

KARKAT: IT MAKES ME SAD. UP UNTIL THE VERY END, CALLIE WAS ADAMANT THEY SHOULD BARELY BE IN THE STORY.

KARKAT: AND THE ENDING THEY GAVE THEMSELVES, WRITING IT WAS LIKE A WAKING NIGHTMARE.

DAVE: obama bait them too?

KARKAT: NOT EXACTLY.

DAVE: i do kind of get it

DAVE: i mean who wants to even be in a story like that

DAVE: if you know its fucked better to not be in it at all

KARKAT: SORTA? YOU'LL GET IT WHEN YOU FINALLY READ IT, BUT THE WHOLE POINT IS THE EXTREME SELFISHNESS OF EVERYONE.

DAVE: so they actually painted themselves as the best person by martyring themselves into oblivion

KARKAT: YOU'D THINK SO, BUT THERE'S *LAYERS* TO WHAT THIS IS COMMENTING ON. UNDERSTANDING WHAT THE STORY IS ABOUT MUST MEAN THERE IS SOMETHING CRITICALLY SELFISH ABOUT EVEN THE MOST BENIGN CHOICES.

KARKAT: THERE'S FEW ACCEPTABLE REASONS FOR GIVING UP ON YOUR MOST IMPORTANT PERSON.

KARKAT: OR YOURSELF.

DAVE: aw

KARKAT: RIGHT?

KARKAT: NOW THAT IT'S FINISHED THEY MAY BE MORE OPEN TO YOU READING IT.

KARKAT: BUT BACK TO MY ORIGINAL POINT, THE ONLY OTHER PERSON ALLOWED TO COMPLAIN IS JADE.

KARKAT: WHO CAN *NEVER* SEE READ OR HEAR ABOUT ANY OF THIS.

KARKAT: WHATEVER FRIENDSHIP CALLIOPE AND HER HAVE BUILT OVER THESE THREE MONTHS WOULD MELT DOWN SO CATASTROPHICALLY IT'D CRASH THE SHIP, THOUGH NOT BEFORE SOCIALLY SHREDDING US TO SLOUGHED NUCLEAR MULCH.

DAVE: is it really that bad

KARKAT: IT'S JUST INCREDIBLY UNFLATTERING AND I CAN ALREADY TELL JADE WOULDN'T CARE ABOUT THE LITERARY WHY OF IT, JUST THAT HER SHIT GOT AIRED OUT THAT FLAGRANTLY. IT MAKES YOU FEEL GUILTY TO READ IT.

KARKAT: THAT REMINDS ME, WE STILL NEED TO APOLOGIZE TO HER.

DAVE: oh no worries thats been taken care of

KARKAT: WHAT???

KARKAT: I THOUGHT WE WERE SUPPOSED TO DO IT TOGETHER!