#eridan <> karkat btw

[caligvlasaqvarivm]

prince and prince friendship. this is my vision

[soudakuwunmoment]

bald!

[eridan-amporaa]

march + artstyle tesing

[violetprincesss]

Eridan fans rise up please 🙏

[sk3llyr4yr4t]

Goofi eridan 2

[thatonefandomjumper]

Oh no, it’s Homestuck. Quick! Run while you still can!

(Click for better quality)

[sssaturnsnake]

my friend is making me read homestuck which means i need to cope with the fact that i’m reading homestuck (no spoilers pls i’m like, on the cusp of page 3000 rn)

[foxlorre]

Fuck you *swaps your blood*

[archersartcorner]

Woke up with super pale EriSolKat on the mind so I churned this out real quick. Love them :)

[chocolaminity]

guess how much I had to stop reading just to stand up and drink water when reading the new Early June chapter

[princeslimey]

all my everything’s ok au sprite edits so far!

[davepetasprite]

ave maryam

[fr0ntstuck]

AG: Missing my kismesis moment lmao

[bolasmasivas]

wake up babe new pfps just dropped !!!!

sorry .

[meraki-sunset]

Digging files in my computer i found the equivalent to the 4 fused kids, Jase, Dahn, Rany and Jark, but with the trolls. thay would have weird mixed bloods, but for them it would be normal

I guess the events of their game would be similar, but with some stuff overlaping. Like instead of Eridan killing Feferi for being with Sollux and Karkat seeing it all. Erisee and Vrieri have a heated argument about their quadrants wich results in a fight in wich Karlux gets injured trying to intervine and Vrieta escapes badly injured instead of Kanaya being killed by Eridan and reviving, and Terezi inverstigating the bodies in the way, Teraya would get killed by Erisee in the crossfire, revive and go looking for both Erisee and Vrieri, thinking they'll both doom the timeline if she doesn't stop their killing spree. instead of gamzee killing Nepeta and Aradia self destructing to ascend to godtier. Erisee kills Araeta and that's how she ascends. Vrieta finds Tavius and kills him, not only for the same reasons Vriska killed Tavros, but to get back to Erisee for attacking her, because she knows he has feelings for him. So now, Tavius is dead, Vrieta is confronted by Erisee who killed Araeta in the way there, Karlux is looking for them frantically, Teraya gets there and kicks Erisee of a cliff, Vrieta dies from her injuries, Karlux gets there at the same time as Araeta ascended, so really only two of them died, just in time for Dahn and Jase to arrive, to travel with them to the new session.

The end🌻

This is dumb

This are the fused kids btw

[caligvlasaqvarivm]

Just read your eridan essay. I left a lot of words in the tags (sorry about that btw. I'm @kitkat-not-karkat, those were my tags) and I just. Holy fucking shit man.

THANK YOU FOR PUTTING IT INTO WORDS. Like. Genuinely. Thank you.

That said, do you have any ideas on why Eridan might specifically flirt as a sort of default response sometimes? (I really hope I'm not misremembering that, the fandom bastardizes the poor guy to be Cronus 2.0-)

I have my own personal speculation here, but I'd love to see your take on it!

I think it's a few things all working in tandem, and I think you definitely nailed at least most of it! I do agree that a huge part of his fixation on romance is the fact that a romantic partner is "supposed" to stick around, and Eridan is simply desperate for attention and friendship.

There are a lot of people who idealize relationships and believe that they're the "fix" or "solution" to their emotional problems, and Eridan's obsession with blackrom in particular (where the caligulas part of his trolltag comes from) definitely has shades of that. A kismesistude is an outlet for violent urges, as well as a romantic interest who ideally doesn't ghost you or leave you alone (cough Vriska cough), and one of the two concupiscent quadrants that needs to be filled so you don't get culled.

An interesting thing is constantly being implied within the comic, which is that moirallegiance is actually kind of the most important quadrant for trolls, but their culture has de-emphasized it in favor of the two breeding-related quads. After all, since adult trolls don't have to raise their own young, what Karkat calls "mating fondness" is biologically much less imperative to their species compared to the quadrant that keeps volatile trolls from going berserk and killing people.

Moirallegiance is always treated with a sort of mysticism - it's called "magical" by the narration in relation to Kanaya and Vriska's moirallegiance while that's still extant, it's the only quadrant described as "soul mates," and in contrast to "mating fondness," Karkat mentions the "mystical forces governing moirallegiance." Moirails - Equius and Nepeta being confirmed, but I genuinely believe that that's what Feferi and Sollux would have resolved to in that hypothetical golden ending - are also the quad that spends the most time together, rather than the two concupiscents. The initial description of the pale quadrant even outright says that the attraction is "instinctive." There's something magical and destiny-laden in a moirallegiance that just isn't there to the same extent in the other three quads.

But in Alternian society, kindness, guilt, and the other kinds of things you'd share with a moirail are considered weakness, especially for highbloods. When Feferi is breaking up with him, Eridan flips out the hardest at the implication that she felt the need to take care of him, insisting that he was perfectly fine. I think this is the reason, in addition to the painful breakup, that Eridan never pursues pale relationships, even though a moirail is what he desperately needs. Instead, he pursues the much more societally acceptible pitch quadrant, which can serve a similar purpose of discharging some of his pent-up aggression.

Moreover, his flirting isn't nearly as relentless as people think it is, although he IS both really stubborn AND really socially inept, which makes it difficult both to get a "no" through his brain, AND to make it stick. Another part of it is that he's operating at very little self-awareness, which means he'll often be doing something without consciously realizing it. Also, he's desperate as hell, and has basically no ability to differentiate good and bad attention. This leads to a pretty messy cocktail that basically means:

He'll hit on anyone at least once (desperation), with the exception of people it would be really weird to hit on, for example, their dancestors, who are way older than them.

If a rejection is not made excruciatingly clear, he probably won't register it as a rejection (dumbassery).

Nearly any attention he gets might be misinterpreted as flirting, even after a rejection is made (desperation, also, can't differentiate between good and bad attention).

Even after a rejection is made and he logically understands it and outright says he respects it, he might still act in a flirtatious way unconsciously (zero self awareness).

Because he will hit on anyone at least once, and is constantly making things weird and leaping to "romance?" even when there's no flirtatious intent, people kind of assume he's always hitting on them, even when he isn't.

His emotions always running at a fever pitch, and the lack of self-awareness he cultivates in order to help deal with his horrible cognitive dissonance, mean that even HE'S not sure about his real feelings. He's always feeling SOMETHING very, very intensely (it's the trauma and anxiety), which he mistakes for true caliginous hatred, or fevered flushed intent. Unlike Cronus, who's basically just trying to get some action, Eridan genuinely feels something for people, and his extreme lack of emotional intelligence means he has no idea how to parse his own tempestuous emotions. He always leaps to feverish concupiscent attraction because that's just how intense his emotions run at any given moment.

#4 is happening to Feferi and Sollux, IMO, while Rose never properly rejected him, so he still thinks they have a chance, and the same happened with Vriska when she started ghosting him post-kismesistude. #5 can be seen in his last memo with Karkat, where Karkat starts to wonder if past!Eridan was redflirting with him by inviting him to LOWAA, even as Eridan himself has no idea what the fuck Karkat is talking about.

Thing is, he DOES actually accept rejections once he gets them through his thick skull, which sets him apart from Cronus, who gets rejected, knows it, and keeps going. It's just... Eridan's messy. His emotions are all over the place, and too big for his stupid body, so he's always making things weird and intense.

I blame his lusus, personally. In a previous post, I talk about how a huge factor in his inability to identify negative attention is because he's basically being emotionally neglected. This has also led to his desperation for attention in general. When combined with the trauma from all the murdering and the pressure society puts on him to fit into a certain mold, it leads to some pretty explosive emotional ourbursts, of which his intense, insistent, and downright uncomfortable flirting is a major facet, but also, only a facet.