Karkat stares back at the troll. No, that's not Gamzee, that's not his facepaint, that's someone else's facepaint and fuck him he knows exactly whose. "Are-- are you some sort of pre-Grand Highblood, or something?" Then the pre-Highblood's question finally processes in his brain. "Wait-- do you know a troll who looks like me? Because-- I'm not him. We're, like, alternate universe counterparts."