Homesuck: Vriska Rising

[POS Industries]

I'm pretty sure anyone can be in multiple pale relationships, since they're essentially just varying degrees of friendship. And even if they couldn't Kanaya wasn't anyone's auspistice at the moment, so that wouldn't have been a conflict anyway.

Karkat's not making stupid plans that wouldn't have worked just to hate himself, he's blaming himself for the actions of others, because it's easier to blame himself for failing his friends than it is to blame his friends for failing themselves.

[Art of Hilt]

Originally Posted by POS Industries

I'm pretty sure anyone can be in multiple pale relationships, since they're essentially just varying degrees of friendship. And even if they couldn't Kanaya wasn't anyone's auspistice at the moment, so that wouldn't have been a conflict anyway.

Nah man all quadrants are monogamous, that's like, their thing.

http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004305

But if there was one theme to be hammered through his thick skull, it would be the trolls' cultural preoccupation with romantic destiny. Yes, the romantic landscape is rife with false starts and miscues and infidelities, red and black. But every troll believes strongly that each quadrant holds one and only one true pairing for them, and it is just a matter of time before the grid is filled with auspicious matchups through the mysterious channels of TROLL SERENDIPITY.

In short, their belief is that for each quadrant there exists a pair or triad of trolls somewhere in the cosmos that were...

And then the next page is about a couple of trolls who were MADE FOR EACH OTHER but for the pale quadrant but the whole point is that they take all the quadrants' fidelity super serious due to this belief, regardless of how much sex is or isn't in them.

Trollmance!!! Pretty much just a dude making it up as he goes along 25% of the time.

[Loyal]

Originally Posted by Art of Hilt

I mean, it's not like Kanaya can be in two auspiticisms at the same time, can she?

Kanaya's entire schtick is being the village two wheel device of the conciliatory quadrants. It's caused her no end of grief trying to keep up with it all in the past. Also, a romantic landscape "rife" with, among other things, infidelity, is by definition not necessarily monogamous. The final destination of ideal sexual maturity may have one and only one partner in each quadrant, but as has been established repeatedly through this comic, these trolls are kids, and quite a long distance yet from growing up.

e: In particular, Karkat and Kanaya have been more-or-less moirails since forever despite also tending to, respectively, Gamzee and Vriska. The ashen quadrant is relatively unexplored because almost all on-screen blackrom up to this point has been handled by characters that aren't actually trolls.

[Locke cole]

I think someone can bean auspice while at the same time being the target of another auspice. It's not like it's likely that a troll will go "If they continue this relationship, it will be utter chaos. But I can't step in, because they're already breaking up someone else's ill-conceived relationship."

[Art of Hilt]

Originally Posted by Loyal

Kanaya's entire schtick is being the village two wheel device of the conciliatory quadrants.

Right!
A two wheel device.
Ie a SLUT.
Kanaya's a SLUT.
A PROBLEM WOMAN.
If Jay-Z enumerated the issues of which his lifestyle is fraught, Kanaya being up in his business would NOT be among them!

Man Karkat being off-handed with auspicitze is just one possibility anyhow, I'm not married to it. The alternatives are perfectly fine too.

[Arcanum]

I am just astounded that you're all still arguing about the nuances of troll romance. I never thought I would say this but, can I have Aranea come back and lecture me on leprechaun romance so I don't have to hear you guys?

[Locke cole]

Upd8.

Karkat Marx

[Art of Hilt]

These Caliborn segments are criminally short.

[Revising Ocelot]

Look behind you, a three-headed Cherub!

[Flarecobra]

We need art of that spike.