[No, not going back to this? Goddammit, Karkat. But, no, okay. Don't close off like a clam, Dirk. One, sea puns are overrated. Two, you really need to work on being open with people. You've had lots of practice with the family. Try extending it.]
It's within my emotional range. I'm pretty confident I have the full spectrum of emotions available to average human beings. [He has distinct memories of getting very, very angry, and he's pretty sure the rest of his emotions.] I don't want to bog you down with the intricacies of human childhood development theory, but the basic idea is that if we don't socialize early, we can never really learn.
I don't know if the trolls operate similarly. The Condesce never handed humanity a guidebook to what aspects of her culture she was trying to impose on ours. [Which is why he's still really iffy on the concept of a subjuggulator. Because no one ever told him how legit that is.]
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It's within my emotional range. I'm pretty confident I have the full spectrum of emotions available to average human beings. [He has distinct memories of getting very, very angry, and he's pretty sure the rest of his emotions.] I don't want to bog you down with the intricacies of human childhood development theory, but the basic idea is that if we don't socialize early, we can never really learn.
I don't know if the trolls operate similarly. The Condesce never handed humanity a guidebook to what aspects of her culture she was trying to impose on ours. [Which is why he's still really iffy on the concept of a subjuggulator. Because no one ever told him how legit that is.]