and yeah!! his ancestor is called the signless/the sufferer and was this huge jesus analog, all preaching the good word of equality and not shitting on each other all the time, which he got formally executed for. a cult started up around him etc etc ~FAKE RELIGION STUFF~ and basically there was a "second signless" (karkat) foretold that would herald ~the end of the world~ (exactly what happened). the cult arranged everything so karkat (being a mutant and not having any infrastructure in place to deal with him) wouldn't be insta-executed, giving him a symbol and a caretaker and all of that.
the cancer symbol is pretty much the troll version of the cross and it's actually... forbidden... karkat walks around with a bigass forbidden cult symbol on his chest and no one ever points that out in canon, homestuck is stupid.
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and yeah!! his ancestor is called the signless/the sufferer and was this huge jesus analog, all preaching the good word of equality and not shitting on each other all the time, which he got formally executed for. a cult started up around him etc etc ~FAKE RELIGION STUFF~ and basically there was a "second signless" (karkat) foretold that would herald ~the end of the world~ (exactly what happened). the cult arranged everything so karkat (being a mutant and not having any infrastructure in place to deal with him) wouldn't be insta-executed, giving him a symbol and a caretaker and all of that.
the cancer symbol is pretty much the troll version of the cross and it's actually... forbidden... karkat walks around with a bigass forbidden cult symbol on his chest and no one ever points that out in canon, homestuck is stupid.