[The grub makes a strange little trilling noise and twitches his ears. Karkat makes the same noise back, although it's a lot deeper in his adult troll voice. He's not really sure what the fuck he's doing, just that this feels natural, something he doesn't even have to think about. He knows a little bit about grub care and remembers being a grub himself, but this seems to come out of something far more primal.]

Well, fuck your human gender rules, we fucking made him, he's here and he certainly didn't fall from the fucking sky. He has your dumbass teeth.

[Karkat rolls the grub a little bit to show John his face. The similarity between its tiny fangs and John's retarded buck teeth is astounding. It wiggles all of its little legs and makes a noise that can't be anything other than a giggle. Karkat startles and stares at it. That is not a noise any of the grubs he's ever been stuck with made. They had squeaked and screeched and trilled and gurgled, but never giggled. Fuck, Karkat's pretty sure that Nepeta is the only troll he's ever met who giggles at all, and it was nowhere near that noise.]

Oh fuck that's so cute.

[Karkat's voice is a little strained, and he gently strokes the grub's head with the back of a finger.]