moiraileigances are largely presented as a caste based SHITTY system and thats the point, they are like queerplatonic relationships if you just remove them from the caste system. but if you do that then thats not at all what it is. its in essence, calm lowblood manages violent highblood, violent highblood protects calm lowblood, and these are very rarely what they seem, the only traditional one we see is karkat and gamzee, and that is shown to be INCREDIBLY unhealthy, kanaya and vriskas was also fairly traditional, but again, it was unhealthy, equius is more to kind of parody it, nepeta is someone who really doesnt need control, and equius despite being really obsessed with castes and control, is not physically violent, he’s pretty damn passive from everywhere we’ve seen. eridan and feferi is largely probably just originated out of mutual need, given that feferi needs to feed lusii to that big fuckin fish, and eridan was lonely, but anyways, this is again a parody of it, eridan kills lusii to help feferi, feferi calms eridan down, despite eridan being of the lower blood caste. vriska and terezi’s is healthy because its NOT a moirailegiance, its traditional for the lowblood to give more to the highblood, but vriska’s and terezi’s relationship seems to be one of mutual respect and benefit, and this has terezi feeling insecure(as shown in the leadup to terezi remem8er) that in their relationship vriska is helping terezi just as much as terezi helps her, which is not an orthodox pale relationship. by stupid and dumb moirailegiance standards, vriska’s probably giving way more than she needs to, so terezi feels like she’s not doing enough, they probably just consider it pale because either they arent ready for something more red, or its something in between that doesnt really fit on the quadrants too nicely.
moirailegiances are all flawed because its an extension of the very flawed caste system, its just kinda been turned into “really good friends” by the fanbase, its important to acknowledge that while thats a useful descriptor for those types of relationships, thats not at all what it is to alternia
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