Author commentary: Hmm, more fascinating mysteries. The nonlinear nature of the troll dialogue really sucks you in because of exchanges like this. Karkat wants to deliver a message to Jade...from Jade? Why does she tell him that, and when? What happens between now and then? It's maddening. Conversations from the future are always planting little seeds like this. We now know certain things need to happen, but we aren't sure exactly what they are, or under what circumstances they'll take place. A lot of the time I already knew what this stuff was, or I planned it out and left breadcrumbs like this in conversations for foreshadowing purposes. Other times, I didn't know exactly what something was, or precisely how it would happen, so it was like introducing a little puzzle for myself to solve along the way. I wonder if Karkat also thinks Aradia's robot body is stupid? Aradiabot is like...right there. In the same room with him, right now. That's her actual, physical body. Does he think it's stupid? Kind of ableist of him, since that's all she's got. Or maybe he's full of shit and just looking for any reason at all to give Jade a hard time.
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