Kraket Vantage, also known by his Trollian handle carcatGenetics, is one of the trolls harassing the humans, if not the only one actively doing so.
Biography[]
Pre-Session[]
Like the other trolls, Kraket was created through the process of ectobiology done by Vrasky Sekret
On Kraket's wiggling day, he killed and ate his crabdaddy. He also received some code from Sollecks, among which was a program that blew up the moonmoon. He took this anger out on various trolls, including his daddy Vrasky, who grounded him.
Kraket kidnapped by Petpeta
He then spoke with Petpeta, who suggested they roleplay. When he left to punish her, he was himself punished for leaving while grounded. Now kidnapped by Petpeta, he was locked away in her sex dungeon. After his shame was exposed to Terexi, Kraket was left broken and accepted his fate as a furry.
Petpeta was ordered to let Kraket play Sburb by Vrasky, but instead of letting him leave the dungeon, she went to use his hive instead. Kraket was then going to act as Petpeta's server player, although he ended up connecting to Terexi as she scared Petpeta out of his hive. Kraket enters the game with Equihorse as his server player while he is serving Terexi.
Session[]
Once he enters the Land of Bloob and Clouns he witnesses Ar8deadsprite's ascension to tier 2 sprite-hood . Jagk Nore crashes through the cage and cuts his foot off, rescuing from his shackles. Kraket un-furries and thanks Jagk who also slaughters Petpeta. This starts their relationship as moirailles. When Kraket sees that Jagk has red blood, he glues his wound shut and gives him a friendship bracelet.
In a few days, Kraket and Jagk travel to LOLAF to meet Papaya. Kraket gets severe burns on his arm and then accidentally gives the new universe Froge AIDS. He wallows in self-pity as Papaya berates him.
After Vrasky wins their session for them, Kraket joins the other trolls on their Victory Platform. Kraket has Jagk give up the Quen's Ring to Vrasky so they won't get in trouble.
Despite this, Vrasky still judges Kraket as extremely naughty. When she moves to punish Kraket, Jagk jumps to his defense. Vrasky has Equihorse punch him into exile. This infuriates Kraket, drawing on his Rage powers. He rebels against Vrasky, and he passes judgment on her. He accuses Vrasky of being abusive, uncaring, and hypocritical, murdering billions of trolls, giving unfair punishments, and being horribly violent. Goading on Vrasky like this eventually tricks her into revealing she ordered Petpeta to be murdered, which turns Equius against her, much to Kraket's pleasure. This snowballs as more trolls turn against Vrasky, and she is exiled from their session.
The new universe is created, but Kraket laments the cost of his friend Jagk. As he goes to open the door, Spdaes Sleck appears behind him, and they are reunited. But when he reaches for the door again, it has disappeared. Two demons show up and beat Kraket up.
Cyber Bullying[]
Once he has access to Trolian, Kraket goes through the lives of Jhon Ebgret, Rose Lalonde, and Hecka Jef from the moment they crashed into the earth as infants. He is enraged, as usual, by Jhon's childhood, witnessing him beat up Nanners, begin to build rollercoasters as he avoids Femorafreack, and begin his relationship with Dabe Stidrer. After going through Rose's timeline, he witnesses the moment of her enhancement, which confuses him, scrolling back and forth through her timeline to rewatch the nearly instantaneous physical transformation. After watching through Hecka's life, he quickly begins to develop a deep hate of him.
Kraket trolls Jhon Ebgret to tell him how dumb he is. While cyber bullying is against the law on Earth, the trolls are aliens so they don't have to obey Earth laws. These insults are enough to push Jhon's anger over the edge, which he releases by throwing a pick axe out his window, killing Swet Bro.
Kraket also trolls Hecka Jef, but Dabe finds these messages and replies instead. Kraket explains their motivation in harassing the humans when Hecka Jef interrupts to shout at Kraket, which Kraket takes for hate-flirting.
Kraket and a decapitated Dabros
Cahoots[]
As Kraket looked through more of the human's session, he realized that Rose was blameless and actually fighting Hecka Jef, who was more directly responsible. After killing Dabros for using his computer, he talks with Rose with and they go into cahoots.
Rose orders him to keep an eye on Hecka's timeline and warn her whenever he makes a move, which he does.
Personality and Traits[]
YOUR MAD BECAYSE YOUR KRAKET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Kraket appears to be as crabby as ever, but his level of insults have devolved from creative over-the-top expletives to Xbox Live level material. Like most corrupt characters, he also gives in almost immediately to anything that can be taken as flirting.
Kraket seems to parallel Jhon as an abusive daddy towards Dabros. He is also an unrepentant killer, just like Jhon.
Night of Rage[]
In CaNWC, Kraket's classpect is the Night of Rage, rather than the Knight of Blood.
The Knight is said to exploit its aspect by weaponizing it. It is said to be a warrior class. It is implied to be an active class, likely the pair to the Page, which works both theoretically and also seems to reflect a trend of them dealing with some personal insecurities. A reasonable interpretation then is as the "one who exploits their aspect, or who exploits through their aspect."
Rage is an aspect focused on rebellion. Rage players hate falsehoods, and work against systems they see as unjust or faulty. They frustrate and confuse people because they work against the status quo, which can be volatile and uncompromising, but also be revolutionary and fearless.
The Night of Rage then would be the "weaponizer of anger" or "one who exploits anger." They are a revolutionary who seeks to fight against what they see as an oppressive system. They direct their frustration out into more productive paths, and work to undermine and destroying their enemy.
This is clearly seen in Kraket, who is constantly mad about everything. Kraket speaks in all caps, and is often cartoonishly aggressive with people.
This also reflects Kraket's role in the story. When we are introduced to him, Kraket is leading the other trolls in trolling the humans, making their life miserable by harassing them on the internet. This is an outlet for his anger specifically for what he perceives as revenge against his enemies.
Kraket most clearly comes into his role however, when he leads the rebellion against Vrasky, the Rage symbol even appearing behind him briefly. While everyone else fears Vrasky, he leads the charge against her single-handedly to call out her abusive behavior, and positions their conversation well enough that she starts admitting to crimes that make the other trolls turn against her through their own anger.
Trivia[]
- Originally o used a slightly lighter grey for Kraket than Karkat, using #868686 instead of #626262. He switched over to Karkat's original typing color in his second appearance though.
- Kraket mirrors Jhon Ebgret. Not only do they each start on the anniversary of their creation, but they both have a murderous side, and are both daddies with other daddies. He also hid yams in his wall, rather than hams in his door.