#i never see q’s beauty marks talked about in relation to ksq which makes me ☹️🫶

[calamitydaze]

On the OTHER HAND after a rough day you get Karl who curls into your lap like a dog, produces a pen from his pocket, and starts doodling over your arms. He likes to draw on all Sapnap's battle/training scars in particular to turn his biceps into a canvas, each scar bruise and mark becoming its own character with intense lore of how they relate to each other and Karl getting giddy whenever a new one pops up for the excuse to kiss over it and then draw a new cat face over the marred skin and add it to the family (so at least Sapnap doesn't have to worry about his scarring making him ugly, not that that was much of a worry in the first place). Sapnap doesn't really pay it mind but it entertains Karl and he loves the attention so he lets it be even if they wash off with every shower.

Q doesn't get such fluffy things- he's too busy and self conscious. instead he rolls up the sleeves of his dress shirts to reveal little vines and flowers etched onto the skin. he takes extra care not to get them wet or wash them off so they last there as long as possible. he considers getting them tattooed but Karl likes making different designs every time and the soft press of ballpoint is too soothing to give up, so he leaves his skin blank for him.

on a particular night, Karl kindly asks him if he can play connect-the-dots with his beauty marks lining his face. quackity refuses to let him do it in pen so he has to borrow eyeliner from Tina and convince q he'll wash it right off after if he doesn't like it. and as q lays on his back and Karl straddles his lap like that one meme of the two girls doing makeup ,he squirms and makes jokes to brush off his nerves, and it's just a silly drawing, why is he nervous (because he doesn't like being scrutinized so much. his looks were half of what he had going for him, and stupid fucking techno had to fuck up his nice face-). but when Karl rolls off him and gets him a mirror, there are little constellations dotting his cheeks and nose over each mole, forming little abstract shapes and swirls and stars and flowers. and along his scar is a detailed vine pattern to frame it, as if the scar were merely a crack in an ivy covered wall that made it all the prettier. when Karl sees q is going to cry (quackity doesn't- he doesn't want it getting it smudged, so by god he tries not to) he offers to let quackity do the same to him. quackity draws a dick on his cheek to fuck with him and pretends he doesn't linger on his own reflection from then on with a faint smile, even when the drawings are long gone.

this got out of hand im so sorry im not sorry lmao get fucked

MELTS oh this is so adorable i love when ckarl is a natural born storyteller and can see the beauty and meaning in anything, and it never comes easier than with the people he loves most! and the fact that csap just fondly puts up with it but it means absolutely everything to cq that they still find him pretty and worthy of their attention i cry