His conclusion is taking a little longer processing in his mind than it typically might have, making him squint just a little harder, stare just a little bit longer. Dead sure is a certainty considering the aura she's surrounded by but, uh. It's more the person beneath the aura that has him perplexed. It's probably normal for his mind to be offering up reason after reason that this surely can't be who he thinks it is, as the reasons increase in number they also increase in incredulity, till Karkat shuts them out in favor of the white noise of shock currently buzzing between his ears.
And then, like an elastic band snapping, Karkat is on his feet. He's standing on the seats, he's brandishing a finger and he's looking at Aradia like he's just seen a ghost and is somehow elated by that experience -- mostly because that's exactly what's happening to him. ]
I fucking knew it! [ That funny familiar feeling he'd had in certain parts of town, that weird residual cold, memory of sounds like lingering deja vu... it all makes sense now that the cause is staring him right in the face. Well, not literally, but Karkat is sure, he's certain, there's no mistaking it... ] Aradia!
don't even worry about it!
His conclusion is taking a little longer processing in his mind than it typically might have, making him squint just a little harder, stare just a little bit longer. Dead sure is a certainty considering the aura she's surrounded by but, uh. It's more the person beneath the aura that has him perplexed. It's probably normal for his mind to be offering up reason after reason that this surely can't be who he thinks it is, as the reasons increase in number they also increase in incredulity, till Karkat shuts them out in favor of the white noise of shock currently buzzing between his ears.
And then, like an elastic band snapping, Karkat is on his feet. He's standing on the seats, he's brandishing a finger and he's looking at Aradia like he's just seen a ghost and is somehow elated by that experience -- mostly because that's exactly what's happening to him. ]
I fucking knew it! [ That funny familiar feeling he'd had in certain parts of town, that weird residual cold, memory of sounds like lingering deja vu... it all makes sense now that the cause is staring him right in the face. Well, not literally, but Karkat is sure, he's certain, there's no mistaking it... ] Aradia!