[It's a while later when Karkat gets back to the conversation. Thanks to Gamzee he wound up taking a walk so he could calm down, and the outdoor background shows in his reply. Unlike Percy, though, he's not at the beach.]
And just because you can do something unusual for most humans does not mean it's a god that's involved.
[His tone is easier than it was before, for all his stubbornness is obviously unchanged.]
Blackrom isn't outright important at this moment, but I might as well give the explanation now so you I don't have to deal with any stupid ideas about it from you in the future.
Unlike human romance, troll romance is divided into four quadrants by a set of categories. Firstly, all romance is either red or black. Red romance is focused on the positive emotions, namely pity and all forms thereof, and black romance is focused on the negative, in other words hate.
Romances is secondarily divided into concupiscent and conciliatory types. Concupiscent romance is the kind devoted to procreation, whereas conciliatory romance is comparatively platonic and focused more on keeping the appropriate target or targets for the quadrant from being stupid, causing unnecessary harm, or both.
Starting with redrom, the concupiscent version is matespritship. Two partners in this relationship are called matesprits, and said to have flushed feelings, with the whole symbolized by a red heart. Obviously, feelings are positive and mating fondness is felt, and as a whole it's more closely analogous to human romance than any other quadrant.
Conciliatory redrom is called moirallegiance, comprised of two moirails with pale feelings, symbolized by a pink diamond. Trolls are basically a bunch of ravenous douchetards predisposed towards violence and fuck-awful tempers, meaning that unless we keep each other in line, shit hits the thresher and more people die than strictly need to do so. Typically one partner is more dangerous and reckless than the other, cooler-headed one, but ideally both balance out the personality of the other. Instead of looking at the other troll and seeing an absolute trainwreck who's better off culled, you see someone worthy of pity, you want to learn what's up with them, and basically talk feelings or drag them away from your own moronicism as befits the situation.
Concupiscent blackrom, then, is kismesissitude. Two kismesises, caliginous, black spade. The simple explanation is that it's like matespritship but with hate. The actual worthwhile explanation is that this person doesn't just piss you off or make you mad, and it's not just the regular hate a pain in your ass would get. This is the kind of hate that's worth something: something for a rivalry, but more than that, an arch rivalry. This is your biggest enemy, your greatest foe, and the hate between you makes you want to better yourself so you can better drive in every flaw and failure they have, and then make out about it.
Lastly, conciliatory blackrom is auspisticism, in which one auspistice mediates - auspisticizes - between two other trolls in a dangerous relationship. Ashen is the adjective, grey club is the symbol. Obviously, it's the only quadrant with three trolls. Do note that you do not have an auspistice for your kismesissitude; they're separate quadrants, and to have an auspistice come in swings it out of caliginous territory into the ashen. Namely this happens when the two forming a full relationship would either be of greater harm to each other or their surroundings than good, and is highly integral in preventing black infidelity.
Furthermore, there are also cases where trolls don't just hold the feelings of one quadrants, but two. Say for example Troll A feels flushed for Troll B, but Troll B is deep in hate for Troll A. Rather than give up, the two might enter a relationship anyway and vacillate from matespritship to kismesissitude and back as suits the situation. There can be more than two, I mean, I've read some books where things get complicated and there's chains of trolls vacillating back and forth in a stable sort of quadrant foursquare, but that kind of thing understandable takes more effort to maintain so as to prevent everyone from getting fed up and killing each other.
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And just because you can do something unusual for most humans does not mean it's a god that's involved.
[His tone is easier than it was before, for all his stubbornness is obviously unchanged.]
Blackrom isn't outright important at this moment, but I might as well give the explanation now so you I don't have to deal with any stupid ideas about it from you in the future.
Unlike human romance, troll romance is divided into four quadrants by a set of categories. Firstly, all romance is either red or black. Red romance is focused on the positive emotions, namely pity and all forms thereof, and black romance is focused on the negative, in other words hate.
Romances is secondarily divided into concupiscent and conciliatory types. Concupiscent romance is the kind devoted to procreation, whereas conciliatory romance is comparatively platonic and focused more on keeping the appropriate target or targets for the quadrant from being stupid, causing unnecessary harm, or both.
Starting with redrom, the concupiscent version is matespritship. Two partners in this relationship are called matesprits, and said to have flushed feelings, with the whole symbolized by a red heart. Obviously, feelings are positive and mating fondness is felt, and as a whole it's more closely analogous to human romance than any other quadrant.
Conciliatory redrom is called moirallegiance, comprised of two moirails with pale feelings, symbolized by a pink diamond. Trolls are basically a bunch of ravenous douchetards predisposed towards violence and fuck-awful tempers, meaning that unless we keep each other in line, shit hits the thresher and more people die than strictly need to do so. Typically one partner is more dangerous and reckless than the other, cooler-headed one, but ideally both balance out the personality of the other. Instead of looking at the other troll and seeing an absolute trainwreck who's better off culled, you see someone worthy of pity, you want to learn what's up with them, and basically talk feelings or drag them away from your own moronicism as befits the situation.
Concupiscent blackrom, then, is kismesissitude. Two kismesises, caliginous, black spade. The simple explanation is that it's like matespritship but with hate. The actual worthwhile explanation is that this person doesn't just piss you off or make you mad, and it's not just the regular hate a pain in your ass would get. This is the kind of hate that's worth something: something for a rivalry, but more than that, an arch rivalry. This is your biggest enemy, your greatest foe, and the hate between you makes you want to better yourself so you can better drive in every flaw and failure they have, and then make out about it.
Lastly, conciliatory blackrom is auspisticism, in which one auspistice mediates - auspisticizes - between two other trolls in a dangerous relationship. Ashen is the adjective, grey club is the symbol. Obviously, it's the only quadrant with three trolls. Do note that you do not have an auspistice for your kismesissitude; they're separate quadrants, and to have an auspistice come in swings it out of caliginous territory into the ashen. Namely this happens when the two forming a full relationship would either be of greater harm to each other or their surroundings than good, and is highly integral in preventing black infidelity.
Furthermore, there are also cases where trolls don't just hold the feelings of one quadrants, but two. Say for example Troll A feels flushed for Troll B, but Troll B is deep in hate for Troll A. Rather than give up, the two might enter a relationship anyway and vacillate from matespritship to kismesissitude and back as suits the situation. There can be more than two, I mean, I've read some books where things get complicated and there's chains of trolls vacillating back and forth in a stable sort of quadrant foursquare, but that kind of thing understandable takes more effort to maintain so as to prevent everyone from getting fed up and killing each other.
Do you follow me?