Leaning in to get a closer look Dave sees the scars marring the skin around their eyes still a faint yellow in color and the odd look of their two-toned eyes, almost as if there was a film covering them distorting the colors. Their horns, still small, curl forwards completing a single loop before ending in a sharp point and upon a second glance you notice a second set of horns curling back nearly hidden by their mess of has to be honest they are fucking adorable. Maybe raising a grub won't be so bad?
He holds out a hand to the grub allowing them to sniff at it before running a finger down their back. As He does so they chirr sweetly giving a happy sigh at the attention. Before Dave knows it, he's fallen in love with them.
"Hey dumbass" Karkat nudges him to get his attention before handing him the grub.
His arms come up to cradle them on instinct as he suddenly has this small fragile being squirming against him. The still un-named grub sniffs around a bit startled at the change before settling down deciding that he is an acceptable replacement for Karkat. Mostly focused on the grub he distantly acknowledges Karkat getting up to call Kanaya asking her to come give the grub a check up.
If Dave wasn't the knight of time and inherently tuned into its very existence he would say that time slipped away from him as it was and hour felt like a minute as he stares down at the grub as they dozed off in his arms. Before he knew it Kanaya was walking into the living room with Karkat and Rose trailing behind.
"Hello Dave" Greets Kanaya "Lets have a little look at the dear, could you place them on the table for me?"
He gently sets them down onto the coffee table in front of him as Kanaya primly kneels onto the floor. She reaches for the grub tilting their round face looking at their eyes and the scaring.
"Oh my, the scarring and the discolored eyes indicates blindness I'm not sure how severe though, you'll have to keep an eye on that. As you can see," she points to their heterochromatic eyes then gently moves their hair out of the way showing two separate sets of horns. "The little one's eyes and horns indicates psionics." As their hair was stroked the grub sparked a bit startled at the touch. "Oh my! Thankfully it appears that there was no psionic overload,"
Karkat having probably already suspected or known Sprout, as Dave's decided to call the grub for now, to be a psionic sighed in relief. Apparently an overload is bad. Good to know. He's kind of hovering at this point worried what wold come out of Kanaya's mouth next. Offering up his hand to Sprout the grub buried the face into him chirping. Kanaya smiles knowingly at Dave.
"Now from their size I'd say they're about a pedigree old though they do seem to be a bit underweight. If you plan to keep the grub-"
"YES!" Both Dave and Karkat interrupt her firmly. She simply smiles at the two and nods to Rose who pulls out paperwork and a pen from somewhere handing it to Karkat.
"Alright, you'll be wanting to feed them mostly ground or cubed meats lightly cooked, cluckbeast eggs, and some high sugar fruits. Make sure to feed them many small meals to get their weight up, I'll come back to check them in a week. Now they might need more food depending on how active they are with their psionics but as a rule of prong if they still seem hungry after eating a meal just give some more fruits."
By the time she finishes her speech Karkat's finished filling in the paperwork that was handed to him all that was needed seemed to be Dave's signature. As he pulls his hand away from Sprout they cry and attempt to follow his hand. Heart breaking, he picks them back up cradling them carefully as he signs the paperwork where needed.
"Awesome that's done, so Sprout's ours now?" he asks.
"Sprout? What the fuck Dave?" Karkat splutters.
"Sorry I couldn't keep calling them The Grub in my head so for now Sprout."
Rose smirks, "Yes Dave, Karkat congratulations at becoming parents. You're the first out of all of us."