Accurate Alterations

Karkat Vantas is a boy. Sort of. He is a she but now she is a he so technically the she is a he who is really a she being referred to as a he. That's how John explains it, anyways. But Karkat Vantas was born a girl, and now he has to live with it.

When people talk about being transgender, they mostly just talk about how they didn't really feel right about their bodies and their families' reactions to them feeling this way. They don't talk about the emotional pain that was borne with it, and Karkat can't imagine somebody going through this without feeling at least an ounce of it. It's impossible.

There will always be people who will try to change you. Who will be stubborn and still use female pronouns to describe you. Who will try to correct you, but you feel as if you have already been corrected. Karkat is sure he corrected himself the day he told his family he wanted to be a boy.

No, wait.

He doens't want to be a boy.

He is a boy.

But then there is complications added to everything. Years of bullying, emotional pain of rejections and loss, your own friends regarding you differently now. Not that Karkat had many to begin with.

And then there's Dave Strider. Dave freaking Strider, the boy who's always trying to act cool, who is way too calm, who always wears those stupid shades to cover up his face.

Dave Strider is the one who will help Karkat the most.

It started with a simple invitation over to his house to play video games, and it developed into a friendship unlike most.