[Nope, he's not going to shut up. Rather, there's a small smile as one carefully-worded question gives him exactly what he'd hoped: more answers.

Gosh, Karkat, you're always so helpfully informative.]

So you learn responsibility through keeping one's own lusus in line, even as your custodian is responsible for your upbringing. What a fascinatingly symbiotic relationship.

When you described a lusus naturae as a monster, I had wondered if perhaps there would be nothing to relate with between a troll and his or her custodian, but now I can see the word is being used more as a classification.

Do you miss your lusus, Karkat?