#2244

mesela;

I'm asking what you intend to do about it. AG: I don't know, I guess I will just curl into a little 8all and cry and hope they go aw8y! AG: Is that what you want to hear you sick f8ck???????? Aren't you going to kill her?

It’s very telling, I think, that murder isn’t Vriska’s first recourse. 

I mean, you’d certainly expect it to be, wouldn’t you? That’s just another day at the office for her. I don’t get the sense she’s especially good friends with Aradia, either. And yet, she’s reluctant to kill her, for reasons that aren’t yet clear. 

It really makes you think. Vriska is infamous among her friend group for doing all sorts of nasty things to the other trolls - but now that we’re seeing one of those nasty things, we’re seeing that she was goaded into it. 

Just how many of Vriska’s transgressions were actually her idea? 

AG: Ok, so why don't YOU kill her! 8e my guest! Wow, thanks for offering. Wh8t a pal! That's not how I work. AG: Oh really, well you seemed pretty excited a8out killing Tavros too.

We only saw one side of this conversation. 

I’d bet a million Boonbucks that if we’d got a look at Vriska’s screen at the time, we’d have seen a conversation very like the one currently taking place. It’s not just Alternia that turned Vriska into what she is.

AG: Yeah ok, you getting off on talking a girl into killing her 8uddies sure is important! AG: Los8r. Again, I didn't talk you into anything, nor am I doing so now. You were, and are, going to do this regardless.

This argument is nonsense.

Say we learned the world was fully deterministic. We’d still hold people accountable for their actions, wouldn’t we?  

Like, if a precognitive murdered someone, and their argument was that ‘the murder was always going to happen’, would we really just let them walk free? 

What if you did let them walk free, and they went on to murder more people? Are you not even going to try to stop them?