Honestly? The problem was Gamzee. I know that sounds like I put a lot on him, but it was the truth. He was screwed up in the think-pan. When he was younger, he fried it with some of the stuff he used to eat and it didn't do him favors. When he got off the stuff, he just... changed.

He went hyper violent, hyper manipulative, and he had us all fooled. Karkat was his moirail in the old days, and he tried to help him, but when Gam flipped the script he was too much for anyone to handle. I actually feel bad, because he tried not to give up on him. Even longer than me... but it was too much. He was just... too much.

But, I mean take me and Vris. We'd try to tone it down, but we usually just ended up enabling each other's worst behavior. It's why we were terrible for each other that way. I think, to this day, that maybe we would have been better in a hateship. [She laughed.] But that's how it goes. When you're young you make silly choices.

[She blinked and laughed almost uproariously.]

Oh man... Uh... Naminé, seriously, we would have given you a run for your money. Those days are why I went bind, Vris lost an eye and an arm, Aradia ended up a ghost and Tavros got his legs broken. Trust me, we really would have had you working. It's a miracle we were still friends in the end.