[This is why feelings are stupid and annoying to deal with: they spill everywhere, they make a mess, and they just complicate everything. He can't actually pretend he has none, and trying tends to lead to them leaking out the sides at the most inopportune moments, but it doesn't make being on the opposite side of the spill any more fun or comfortable. Not even if Karkat calls himself out on it.]

Okay?

[It's like being shown something private, soft, and vulnerable.]

I don't even know your issues.

[Just opening up, praying the world won't stab you for it.]

Don't really care to, either.

[It is every single thing he was told not to do, growing up.]

You want to do us both a favor, maybe stop projecting your expectations on me. I have my own feelings about this that got nothing to do with whatever kind of rad broship you had going down with regular Dave. And you just said you know it, so—stop being a dick about it? Not that hard, man.

[He says it like he's any better at not taking out his problems on other people.]