What about the future though?

floralmarsupial:

God I just keep thinking about Post-canon Karkat and like there are so many aus focused on all the kids having interspecies offspring but there’s almost no content concerning Karkat’s destiny in rebuilding an entire empire, that’s built off the values of compassion, and communication versus violence and fear and I’m just like why??? Not???

Like without Karkat echidna wouldn’t have even allowed the universe to be created let alone the troll species to repopulate?? Imagine having that responsibility. How seriously he would take that role.

Also I really need to look this up but what if the mother grub had to have slurry samples beforehand in order to make new trolls so instead of all the surviving trolls just putting in their own genetic material they genetically modified (using codes from their own and their dead friends blood) to make completely new trolls. And they make enough the first round just to cover the twelve bloods of the hemospectrum? And like Karkat has the foresight to recognize his new empire is going to need leaders after he’s gone so instead of setting up lusus for all these little wrigglers he ends up pulling a dolorosa on their ass and raises them all firsthand

Basically what I’m proposing is that Karkat ensures the success/longevity of his troll empire by spending the first 18 yrs of it being the best goddamn kindgarten teacher/crabdad possible and everyone else is like these kids cool uncles and aunts and the new troll empire ends up having some of the most balanced, emotionally healthy adult trolls the worlds ever seen lead it.