His Prince

No one expected this. No one expected Equius to be in a red relationship with Karkat of all trolls. And no one expected them to be as happy as they were.

It all started with a nervous a blueblood shakily writing out a note. He wrote in his quirk just so Karkat would know exactly who it was from. He was sweating, he was sweating a lot. He kept dabbing himself with his towel to try to keep the sweat from dripping down onto the paper, he wanted this note to be perfect. A few broken pencils and towels drenched in sweat later, Equius finished writing. He neatly folded the note in half and stuck it in a bouquet of flowers that Nepeta picked out. A mixture of red and blue roses, he hoped Karkat's insecurity over his blood colour had eased up and he thought of this as a kind statement and not a mocking one. With that, the indigo blooded troll handed over the bouquet of flowers that he had stuck in a beautiful vase he had made and handed it over to his moirail to deliver.

One hour passed and Equius had gotten no response.

Two hours passed and still, nothing. The blue blood was starting to get worried. What if Karkat simply disregarded the gift entirely? What if thought this was some sort of sick joke? All these thoughts buzzed around Equius' thinkpan and they made him more anxious by the second.

Meanwhile, after a long and honestly exhausting day spent with Sollux arguing about various movies and each other's coding skills Karkat was finally making his way back to his hive. He practically tripped over the present planted right on his doorstep. Carefully, Karkat picked up the vase with the roses and looked at them in curiosity. Who could've sent these? They were blue and red so maybe Sollux? Those were his favourite colors after all. Then again Sollux would just bring these to him in person instead of leaving them on his doorstep like a wiggler. And he had just seen Sollux. How could he have of brought them? Oh look, a note.

The confused cancer troll gingerly took the note from its place in the bouquet. He flipped the note open, clutching the bouquet to his chest and read what was written on the inside.

"D--> lowb100d's are red, highb100d's are b100. I have a flush crush, and it must be you."

It wasn't exactly Karkat's idea of romance but it was enough to create a slight red blush spread across the troll's cheeks. Karkat didn't really know what to think, he had been harbouring a sort of small flush crush for the muscular troll but he always just assumed that Equius wouldn't think anything of him other than the mutant who was their leader in the monstrosity of the game they had narrowly won.

Karkat read and reread the note, standing on his porch with an idiotic grin on his face. He had to tell someone of this amazing piece of news. Karkat quickly hurried into his hive, still clutching the flowers to his chest and the note in his hand, even when he plopped down on his cushioned spinny chair he didn't let the flowers go. Even as he spent the next hour chatting with his moirail, Gamzee, he didn't let the flowers leave his grasp.

Three hours officially went by and Equius was a nervous wreck. Nepeta kept trying to console him, telling him that Karkat didn't disregard the gift and that he would surely talk to him soon. Equius couldn't take it anymore, he quickly jumped onto trollian, trying to come up with something to say to the grey-texted troll. Equius' shade covered eyes glanced over at the names of his friends, seeing that two were online: Karkat and Gamzee. This caused a slight pang of pain to shoot through the indigo blood's blood pusher. Was Karkat ranting to Gamzee over how much of a moron he was? Were the two currently mocking his note? Equius couldn't take it anymore. He clicked on Karkat's troll handle and began anxiously chatting.

An hour and a lot of typing later, Equius had gained a matesprit.

He didn't know how he managed to accomplish this but he was happy he did. He explained to Karkat his feelings and everything about the hot-tempered troll that he found endearing. Karkat was the more silent one in this conversation. It was nice for Karkat to hear, or more read, all the reasons why Equius fell flushed for him. Karkat also admitted that he had held some secret flushed feelings towards the highblood for some time now.