NO WORRIES MAN I was just honestly curious how everyone else is doing things like birthdays and parents, I didn't give it a proper read your wips are safe with me.

yes indeed he is, I don't know if you're familiar with Buffy at all but Giles is basically Accidental Dad to a band of variously difficult people. he has literally parented worse. they can not talk about feelings together and be stupidly heroic in bad situations and Giles will just roll his eyes at most of Karkat's life but never actually leave, it'll be great.

you can even convince him to unironically watch terrible movies if he's really, really bored.