STEADY he's a lot less tense now that Mitchell's back to normal, but he was still feeling guilty over not talking with Dawn since like. Before Dawn's heartgame. And then ignoring him after it too when he's actually been really worried about what other effects/changes might have been made inside Dawn. He's also been feeling kind of bad about himself not being able to help Dawn more/general uselessness feelings, since Guy was the one who cleaned most of the corruption away and Vriska was the one who came up with catapulting themselves into Dawn's true heart. It stirred up some of his so-far-dormant 'I am useless' feelings that he's been covering up by working extra hard for the team whenever he can. I'm also currently doing a thread where he's finally talking with Dawn again so it might change his general dawn-sad mood.

ON THE FLIP SIDE all of his dere has been getting poured into Konatsu, who he is... going on a magical sex room quest with once they get in contact with Kiriko. Konatsu is super his stabilizing figure right now and the person he goes to when he's frustrated or sad or. Anything.

IN CONCLUSION dawn-sad that may get fixed soon, but appearance of useless feelings has him settled in a neutral mood overall instead of the positive-neutral one he used to be in. :|a

HOW'S KING DOING I have been the worst teammate recently...