terezi enjoyer, gamzee enthusiast

there's nothing inherently wrong with the post itself. it only makes the claim that bro was a human, and ergo, manipulative and human in his abuse of dave, rather than a one-note evil monster, making dave's feelings about the abuse likely that much harder to process.

that's a true and fair thing to say. but i personally feel that it kind of ignores the context of why "one-note evil monster" bro has slowly risen in popularity:

that being that for 90% of this fandom's history, people fucking loved bro strider. they adored him. they thought he was the coolest, funniest motherfucking guardian to ever exist. 90% of the fandom were young teens who didn't pick up on the abuse-- or if they did, they'd idolize, romanticize, and famously even fetishize it (like let's not pretend that stridercest wasn't around every corner)

@davekatweek day three: DOMESTIC whats more domestic than getting FRIGGIN MARRIEDDDD

Miracle Child Chapter 64: Where You Are and If You're Safe

Wildvine sighs, and comes and crouches down next to him. “It’s time an’ past to be gone home, Little Capricorn,” she says gently. “You’ll feel better for havin’ slept.” “Don’t fucking patronize me. Get enough of that shit off of the big guy,” Gamzee mumbles. “I ain’t a wiggler.”

i felt a little bad for drawing these guys and their ancestors in awful and terrible situations recently, so i took a break for a second and drew them having fun and being friends.

before murderstuck, gamzee has no idea that he is a clown. sure, he anoints his face with greasepaint, rides a unicycle, and juggles, but these are serious religious sacraments to him. and, sure, sometimes he trips on his giant floppy shoes and lands face first in a pie, but that's just being blessed with a miracle, because he was just thinking about pie. and, sure, sometimes his friends say things like "HEY ASSHOLE. CLOWN ASSHOLE. YOU WORSHIP A CLOWN RELIGXON. FOR CLOWNS." to him, but he's too zonked on sopor slime to extract any meaning from it.

when gamzee sees the ICP miracles video, he's too sober to dismiss it as a mere coincidence; for once, he gets the joke, and realises that he was the butt of the joke the whole time. he understands that every time he fell face first in a pie, it was the work of an unsen riddler. he grasps that he is, in a cosmic sense, a clown, and hates it.

the next time the curtain rises and hussie says "everyone look! he's about to do something stupid!" gamzee goes shithive maggots and starts mauling his friends and fondling corpses; every time hussie says "don't worry, folks, he can't hear us making fun of him! everyone point and laugh!" gamzee gets angrier. that's what the "are you next?" bit is about - gamzee is aware of, and hates, the audience.

when the murder spree is over, gamzee's beatific grin returns; no longer a look of blank ignorance, but a knowing smirk. he's successfully ruined his character forever - no one wants to see him and no one thinks he's funny. hussie seems to say: jesus you are such a shitty clown. and gamzee's impassive face seems to say: i know.