Land of Pulse and Haze

Land of Pulse and Haze
First Appearance
Player	Karkat Vantas
Game session(s)	A2
Music	Phaze and Blood ♫

The Land of Pulse and Haze (LOPAH) is Karkat Vantas's planet in the Medium. It is a land with oceans of candy red blood and skies shrouded in a lavender haze.

Concept and creation

The Land of Pulse and Haze's blood-covered surface relates to Karkat's mutant blood color and his title as the Knight of Blood; a "pulse" is the rhythm of blood flowing through someone's veins. Karkat believes that the presence of oceans of his own blood on the planet serves to taunt or punish him for his mutation; to "haze" someone can mean to test them by means of oppression and/or harassment.

Geography

Some of the planet's structures, as seen in [S] Make her pay.

Most of the Land of Pulse and Haze is covered by its crimson sea, with its land mass consisting primarily of small islands of jagged black rock which must be bridged artificially to traverse. Though Karkat's starting area is mostly barren save for these rock structures, some of the planet's islands have buildings carved into the rock, and medieval European-style ramparts and towers constructed from the same black stone can be found elsewhere on the planet. Many of these structures seem to be damaged or in ruins, and through the cracks in some of the towers can be seen throbbing red organs reminiscent of hearts. These organs pump more red fluid into the oceans below, presumably contributing to the "pulse" of the planet's name.

Habitation

It is unknown what kind of consorts or denizen inhabited the Land of Pulse and Haze, though when Karkat encountered his denizen, he thought it was “SUCH A NIGHTMARE” and yet “WEIRDLY SMALL??”.

Unlike many other planets, this planet's resident underlings do not appear to be composed of any of the materials that can be found on the planet's surface, and do not match any of Karkat's own associated colors either, instead coming in two different shades of green. It is worth noting, however, that Jade Harley's “DEAD SHUFFLE DRESS” requires forty units each of one black rock and one red liquid grist type, heavily resembling the materials found on the Land of Pulse and Haze.

History

Presumably, at some point "prior" to Karkat's arrival, the planet's denizen was prompted by Agents of Derse to start creating an army of underlings.

Karkat was the first to arrive on his planet, and quickly crafted a new weapon plus some other cool stuff. He soon collected a lot of grist from nearby imps, which his server player Terezi Pyrope subsequently spent giving his hive an “UGLY PAINTJOB” and moving his load gaper to the outside.

The Agent who would become Spades Slick later arrived on the planet in search of Karkat, who, after stabbing the Hero, he wished to work with in order to “OVERTHROW THE BLACK QUEEN”. Karkat and the agent traversed several of the planets in the game's progression together, including Terezi's Land of Thought and Flow and Gamzee Makara's Land of Tents and Mirth. At some point they returned to the Land of Pulse and Haze with Terezi.^{[citation needed]}

The planet was ultimately destroyed alongside the rest of the session's planets when the omnicidal Jack Noir of another session arrived.^{[citation needed]} It continued to appear in memories through the dream bubbles; an amalgamated memory version of LOPAH and Nepeta Leijon's Land of Little Cubes and Tea briefly appeared in Roxy: Sleepwalk; as Roxy sleepwalked through the bubble, she passed the ghosts of a god tier Karkat and a Nepeta in her dream self pajamas.^[image?]