Looking back at homestuck and specifically Vriska
I think as a preteen at the time, I misinterpreted a lot about her character in seeing things in them that I saw and hated in myself. I'm afab, and I have a dominant personality, I get ahead of myself a lot and I can come off as bitchy.
I by no means consider Vriska someone redeemable now, but back then I think I projected my own feelings on them a lot the pressure of living up to family expectations, the wierd dark supposed family lore that I was incouraged to look up to, the getting ahead of myself and taking control in situations I really shouldn't have put my nose in then regretting it when it all crashed and burned.
I feel like a lot of afab characters with dominant personalities fall into this weird bully troupe that can be seen in quite a few things.
Vriska is the absolute worst case of the bully troupe, but it's been seen in a lot of media, especially within kids media in the 90s and 2000s. I think there's something bigger to be said about afab people with dominant personalities and how media portrayal is just reestablishing a sexist stereotype about afab individuals who take charge.
