[ karkat is having trouble fathoming how easy it is to get eridan to talk to him willingly and civilly. how simple it is, and how similar to their old exchanges when they were friends it is, serves to increase karkat's guilt. ]

Yeah, that's seriously out of line. But I keep telling you, he's a human. They don't get what moirallegiance is really like. All of their romance is concupiscent, I don't think the concept of a conciliatory romance is something they can comprehend. Like they're just broken, whatever it is in our heads that makes us want to pacify or mediate is missing for them.