Karkat shrugs emphatically. "Then that puts you a step above me! I still don't know why these people like seeing me flail around and drip emotions like a cognitively incompetent living melodrama. I'm just glad they do, because it helps me, and I guess the fans get what they want from that in turn."

His gaze lowers from her to his menu again, this time to study it more seriously instead of the excuse to block her from sight it served as earlier.

"Gritta's a good name. Most of these human ones I can never figure out how to spell without asking, and they have too many letters or too few. There's no sense to them."