Best friends?

Gamzee Makara

Gamzee Makara. Purple Blood. High blood. One of the last few subjugglators. Descendent of The Grand Highblood. These are all just basic facts about the miracle loving troll that everyone knows. But there's more to Gamzee than what meets the eye. Karkat Vantas for one, knows as much.

Karkat Vantas and Gamzee Makara have been best friends since....well....forever really. Or what felt like forever. His earliest memory in life, involved Karkat. He couldn't remember a day that didn't involve his shouty friend that he loved so dearly.

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Gamzee remembered when he was two sweeps old, he had finally learned how to properly spell and immediately jumped onto his husktop. He clicked a chatting application and checked who was online. Only one troll. his screen name was carcinoGeneticist, the text was grey, which was pretty odd. Didn't all trolls type in their blood color? Gamzee shrugged and clicked on the troll.

terminallyCapricious [TC] began trolling carcinoGeneticist [CG]

TC: hey there my grey texted brother or sister. Name's Gamzee Makara, yours? :o)

CG: Hello there...my name is Karkat Vantas. And i'd be referred to as a brother...

Gamzee liked this troll. Though he still wondered why he typed in grey instead of his respective blood color, so he decided to question him about it.

TC: that's a most miraculous name an all karbro, but I gotta all up an wonder why ya type in such a dull color. Ain't we usually supposed to type in our pretty hues?

CG: The color of my blood is no concern to anyone Gam.

Gamzee pursed his lips but shrugged and ceased questioning him about it. Over the course of the next sweep, the two became close friends. The talked each and everyday, learning everything about each other.

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Gamzee remembered when he was three sweeps old. He had just started to ingest sopor slime to fill the hole that his lusus had made. Karkat told him that eating that would never be good for him, but he did it anyway. The slime did next to nothing to him, the only things that changed so far were his typing style and his relaxation had increased.

Things changed for Karkat too.

Gamzee remembered the day that Karkat's life had changed so clearly. He remembered Karkat messaging him, he remembered deciding to take the long and risky road to Karkat's hive. Gamzee remembered not caring if he happened to run into a drone, he just wanted to help his friend. He remembered hoping his lusus would help him go that long way, but sadly it didn't happen, he grabbed a club and made his way to Karkat's hive.

Gamzee remembered finally finding Karkat's hive after hours of searching. He remembered being tired and hungry as he barely had the energy to knock on the door.

Unfortunately, Karkat's lusus had answered the door. The next thing Gamzee knew, a giant crab was screeching at him.

"I-I'm here for Karkat......." Gamzee asked his friend's lusus. The crab screeched, sounding slightly angry...or what Gamzee thought was angry. They young toll was honestly scared, he didn't know what else to say, and the fact that the crab lusus was clacking his claws together.

"Gamzee...?" A quiet voice said behind one of the crab's legs. Gamzee looked for a moment before spotting a partial part of his friend's body. Without hesitation, Gamzee dove between the legs of Karkat's lusus and tackled his friend with a great big bear hug. Crabdad, of course, instantly freaked out and yanked Gamzee off of Karkat, but Gamzee merely slid out of his shirt, therefore out of Crabdad's hold, and hugged Karkat once more.

"Hush up now brother, ain't got no time for sadness all up in this hive, shit ain't motherfuckin wicked, get what i'm saying?" Gamzee asked as he bumped their horns together, a palemate's sign of affection. Karkat was in complete and utter shock, all he could do was manage a small nod of the head as he hugged the highblood tightly.

After all of that was done, and Gamzee was sure that Karkat was fine, the young highblood made the long and dangerous journey back to his own hive.

Goatdad still hadn't come back.

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Gamzee remembered more recent things. He remembered constantly pale flirting with Karkat, and Karkat pale flirting with him. He remembered asking Karkat to be his pale mate, but he never accepted, but that never stopped the two from having feelings jams and doing normal palemate activities.

Gamzee remembered a time during the game, they were on Karkat's land, The Land Of Pulse And Haze, he remembered Karkat asking Gamzee if they were best friends, Gamzee instantly confirming it. He remembered Karkat being nervous, he was messing with the hem of his shirt and rubbing the sweat off the palms of his hands.

"Gamzee, what I'm about to tell you is a fucking secret, okay? I'm only telling you because you're my best friend. You can't tell anyone else, got it?" Gamzee had nodded of course, eager to see what his best friend was about to show him. Karkat took a deep breath and lifted his shirt, showing off his bandaged side. Gamzee tilted his head as Karkat began to slowly peel off the bandages. The second the bandage came off, a slow stream of candy red blood dripped down from the wound.

Gamzee's eyes widened, he's never seen such a bright...beautiful...miraculous color like that before. His usual dopey smiled widened as he stared in awe. Karkat was slightly flattered at Gamzee's happy staring, he hoped this would've been the reaction he got from his best friend.

"Shit brother, I all up an knew you were made a miracles. Now it just proves cause a the miracles flowing through those righteous veins a yours." Gamzee exclaimed, a grin on his face. Karkat's mouth twitched upward into a small smile, then it went back to it's usual frown. The red-blooded troll rolled his eyes and the two continued their little adventure about LOPAH.

From then on, the two seemed closer somehow. They seemed more like moirails than ever. Gamzee did everything in his power to protect Karkat's miracle blood from being revealed to the others. Even when they found out that Karkat was a "mutant", Gamzee protected Karkat. He didn't let any kind of monster harm his unofficial palemate.

When the Black King swatted Karkat away, Gamzee snapped and decapitated the King. A rain of blood showered everyone as they stood in shock at Gamzee's sudden violent, and effective, outburst. Gamzee merely helped Karkat back up onto his feet and plopped down on a lilypad to relax.

When monsters escaped their cages from the bottom of the meteor and threatened the safety of those on the meteor. Gamzee leapt to Karkat's side and destroyed any monster that came near him. Gamzee protected Karkat because to Gamzee, Karkat was the only miracle in all of paradox space.

But the slime supply quickly depleted, and Gamzee couldn't keep the loud, malicious voices in his broken think pan in check anymore. Yet he still fought them, he stayed in control of his actions as best as he could. For Karkat.

Unfortunately, he succumbed. The voices took over and Gamzee fell down a deep hole of murderous rampages and uncontrollable anger.

Gamzee couldn't protect Karkat from himself.