Karkat Vantas

Karkat Vantas is one of the main characters of the popular webcomic Homestuck, and a character in the Chaos RP controlled by DarkAlex06. He is a part of the Troll species. Karkat was born a mutant, and is presumably the last of his kind. He is also the Knight of Blood.

His associated zodiac sign is Cancer, known as the Sign of the Signless.

Early life
Karkat was born as a mutant, due to his candy red blood, which he inherited from his ancestor. He was thus forced to live a life of solitude, hiding his existence from the drones that frequently patrolled the area, as if he was found, he would be killed.

Homestuck
Karkat was one of the 12 players of the video game Sgrub, which he played along with his friends. He would become the self-proclaimed 'leader' of the group, and try to keep everyone together, with little to no success.

During the game, he was responsible, along with Kanaya, for the frog breeding which would eventually culminate in the creation of the new universe. However, Karkat ended up rushing through the process, thus unknowingly giving the new universe cancer, which would become known as Bec Noir.

After winning the game, Bec Noir appears and destroyed the trolls' exit into the new universe, which would also happen to be the humans' universe. Karkat and the others were forced to retreat to a nearby meteor, which they would use to contact the new universe.

Karkat immediately begins to troll the kids of the universe, primarily contacting Jade and John, even gaining a one-sided crush on the both of them, although he quickly drops this after he begins to form a bond with the both of them.

When Gamzee suddenly went on a killing rampage upon becoming sopor, Karkat ran away, believing he is now stuck in a doomed timeline after witnessing Kanaya's death, due to her contacting him from the future despite being dead, although she is revived later on and turned into a vampire.

Eventually, however, Gamzee is stopped, and Karkat and the surviving trolls end up meeting Dave and Rose, Aradia and Sollux then pushing the meteor away from the clutches of Bec Noir. They spend 3 years on the meteor, with Karkat eventually ending up in a romantic relationship with Dave, despite their massive differences.

Upon arriving at the other universe, Karkat and Kanaya team up in order to get the Genesis Frog (which would be used to create the new universe). After Kanaya successfully achieves it, she knocks Karkat out to protect him from threats, and thus he ends up in the dream bubbles, where he becomes a part of the ghost army planning to defeat Lord English, although he wakes up afterward.

Karkat ends up defeating Clover, and he ends up reuniting with Dave. The players have successfully won the game, and have now been given access to their own universe.

In the Knitterverse
However, Karkat's happy ending doesn't last long as he is sent inside the Knitterverse along with Dave and Dirk.

They spend quite some time inside the Knitterverse, getting an apartment and exploring some of it's parts. Eventually, Dirk decides to head off on his own, leaving Dave and Karkat to fend for themselves and search for the Needles, with little success.

At some point, however, while taking a so-called nap, they end up in some sort of void, along with Roxy and Hachi. However, not long after, Hachi and Roxy both dissapear, Roxy telling the both of them to meet her at the river clearing. They then wake up.

They then meet up with Roxy.

Personality
Karkat is an incredibly crabby troll. He spends most of his time insulting and ranting about his friends, is rarely shown smiling, can be incredibly rude and impatient, and is ruthlessly ambitious and will grasp at any opportunity for power. Despite this, however, his behavior does make him a great leader, and he is respected by many of his friends for his leadership status.

Despite this, however, he is shown deeply caring about his friends' well being, having a bit of a softer side, often worrying about his relationship with them, fearing that something might happen to them due to constant paranoia, or them not wanting to be friends with him anymore. His insecurity over his blood colour and general upbringing is presumably what causes his crabby nature.

He is a very big fan of romance (including romantic movies and romcoms), computer viruses, and sickles.

On his own

 * Sickle Profiency: Karkat is very good with using different kinds of sickles, capable of using a wide variety of them very easily.
 * Bond Empowerment: A natural Blood player ability. Karkat becomes more powerful due to his close connections with other people, although this ability is uncontrollable and he cannot control whenever this happens.
 * Blood Manipulation: Thanks to his status as a Blood player, Karkat is capable of manipulating blood in different ways. A Knight of Blood is one who equips themselves with blood so that they can protect it. This allows Karkat to utilize hemokinesis in the ways listed below.
 * Haemokinetic Constructs: Karkat is capable of using literal blood or bonds to create different kinds of weapons or tools to help in combat. As Karkat has not ascended to God Tier, however, he is incapable of using this ability to it's full potential.

Equipment

 * Fetch Modus: A set of cards that operate like an inventory system, which allows Karkat to store objects and later take them out again.
 * Strife Deck: Similar to the Fetch Modus, a Strife Deck is a set of cards that operates similarly to a 'Weapon' slot in RPG games.
 * Sicklekind: Karkat's primary Strife Specibus is sicklekind, meaning he can use any kind of sickle.
 * Sickle: A regular sickle. The most lethal members of troll society, the threshecutioners, are known to use these kinds of sickles.
 * Homes Smell Ya Later: His most used sickle. According to Karkat, it is not that powerful, but it's one of his most trustworthy weapons.
 * Regisickle: A completely black sickle. Not much else to say about it.
 * Clawsickle: Resembling a large red crab's claw, this sickle was found by Karkat on his planet during the game. It is a pretty big sickle, so it is presumably his most hard-hitting weapon.

Trivia

 * His theme is "CRUSTacean" by James Roach.
 * His birthday would be June 12th in Earth years, which, ironically, would make him a Gemini and not a Cancer.
 * While Karkat is portrayed as 21 years old towards the end of Homestuck, this Karkat is taken from right after the Ultimate Reward, meaning that he is 16 years old.
 * Karkat is portrayed as the "King of Swords" on the official Homestuck tarot card deck.
 * On the VS Battles Wiki, Karkat is depicted as being 9-A.