Terezi Pyrope doesn't know how she feels. Her flushed feelings for her ex-matesprit, Gamzee, suddenly turned black. She tried what the humans called "dating" with Aradia, but that didn't even last two months. No matter who was her matesprit, she never stayed flushed; her feelings always turned black. Even for the Dave human, her longest-lasting relationship of six months. Now she has flushed feelings for someone else. Someone she is good friends with, trusts, and feels safe around. She never tells that someone. She is too shy and has low self-esteem. She just knows that she'd be rejected. She and that someone had kissed once for a dare. While the troll she had kissed acted like it was just a joke, cussing and yelling as always, she was quiet and brooding about her feelings for him. Then she came to a conclusion: Terezi Pyrope is flushed for Karkat Vantas.

It really doesn't help when Karkat flirts with her occasionally. She's asked the humans John, Rose, and Jade for advice, but they only told her to tell Karkat. She can't tell him that she's flushed for him! So Terezi consults Nepeta for some professional advice. But all that cat-loving, FLARP-addicted troll does is draw Terezi and Karkat kissing on her shipping wall, with "OTP" written all around it. The blind troll stomps away, her grey cheeks speckled with teal. It's a nightmare for Terezi when Nepeta comes up with a ship name and puts it on the shipping wall. "Karezi." Word leaks that Karezi is a thing. Karkat finds out the next day. He starts trolling her.

carcinoGeneticist [CG] began trolling gallowsCallibrator [GC] at 11:39

CG: JOHN HUMAN SAYS THAT JADE HUMAN TOLD HIM THAT ROSE HUMAN SAYS THAT… YOU KNOW WHAT ILL GET TO THE POINT NEPETA CAME UP WITH KAREZI… YOU KNOW ABOUT THIS?

Terezi inhales deeply when she gets the message. She decides to play dumb.

GC: NO 1 H4V3NT WH4T 1S 1T

CG: WELL NEPETA AND ALL THE OTHER FUCKS THINK WERE PAILING AND SHIT AND KAREZI IS WHAT THEY CALL THAT ASSWIPE OF AN IDEA

GC: 1 S33

CG: NO YOU SMELL AND TASTE YOU DUMB SHIT

GC: W3LL 3XCUS3 M3 FOR TRY1NG NOT TO FOCUS ON TH3 F4CT TH4T 1M NOT FUCK1NG NORM4L YOU NUBHORN3D R3DBLOOD3D FR34K

Terezi regrets her angry comment as soon as she sends it. She knows what she has to do to fix it.

GC: 1M SORRY K4RKL3S 1 SHOULDNT H4V3 S41D TH4T 1M JUST FLUSH3D FOR YOU 4ND 1 TRY TO B3 NORM4L FOR YOU BUT 1 C4NT WH3N 1 T4ST3 4ND SM3LL WORDS 4ND COLORS. BY3 K4RK4T 1T W4S N1C3 KNOW1NG YOU

gallowsCallibrator [GC] ceased trolling carcinoGeneticist at 11:48

Terezi runs out of her dwelling, watered-down teal tears streaming down her face. She sprints through the trees, slamming into everything in her path; everything's the same color. She can smell her teal blood oozing out of millions of cuts in her grey flesh. Terezi is only thinking of one thing: Find the Hanging Tree.

She doesn't hear the voices calling her name. Her friends looking for her never even registers in her brain. When the trolls find her, she is hanging from a tree, a noose tight around her broken neck.

Terezi Pyrope has found the hanging tree.