[ As silly as it is.. Kanaya can't say she has a lot of experience in this kind of situation. Usually as a moirail she was called on to keep her eye on her partner. Only.. it was in an effort to keep someone like Vriska from killing everyone who pissed her off. Or just looked at her the wrong way. It was a tough job but someone had to do it.

Karkat isn't the same way. He's damaged, a lot like how Kanaya later realized Vriska was too, but in a different way. He never had a ton of confidence in himself, even when he wanted to be leader he also tried to give it up just as quickly. But this is different than all that. Things happened that Kanaya can't begin to really understand the pain it left on her friend.

So the best thing she can think to do right now is just put her arm around him, to hug the boy closer to her. ]

I'm relatively certain the Universe you were in must still exist. Therefore, in the grand scheme of things, it still matters. [ Does that help? She can only hope so. ]

That's not as easy to sum up as your story. I think it would be easiest to start at the point of saying we are all "Magi" who have magical powers that we are supposed to use to protect this city from Nightmares. Nightmares in this case being creatures that appear at night inside barrier not unlike dream bubbles.