[It made more sense in his own head, okay. A grumble rolls around the back of Karkat's throat to hear Psii call out how rational it is. How does he put it? He does know the humans don't really care. Most trolls don't either. Signless, yes, is flagrant about it as it gets here, and the two hardly look unalike. There's been times when he's bled around other people and nothing's come of it; when his murder was broadcast on the network, he more had to worry about people causing chaos by going after his killer than anything over his blood.]

[It does sound stupid when put that way.]

[He turns his back to the Psiioniic. While a mark that he trusts him not to harm him, for trolls, it's more that he doesn't want to look at him.]

It's an ingrained response. Just because I'm not dead for it doesn't mean I like to talk about it or have people go, "oh hey, Karkat, your eyes sure aren't the color they usually are!" And words like that would bring up stupid questions I don't want to answer, because you may not have noticed, cheery fun time chat jamboree is not the association I'd pick for them.