#like... for real

(woobify: to turn a character that is canonically wrong or morally grey into a cute little guy you feel sorry for. (urban dictionary))

like... eridan is a killer. he kills people. and animals. and wants to murder all lowbloods... he's a violent high blood, and it's canon that highbloods are the most bloodthirsty of the trolls. like, moiraillegance exists so that highbloods don't go off the deep end and kill everything in sight when they go into one of their angry moods.

like, so angry their scleras turn red and they pretty much tear everything in their path apart. the only troll I can remember seeing actually go into a highblood fit is gamzee, and that's because he didn't have any friends to help calm him down.

now, it's a comic. and everyone is free to do what they want with their character interpretations! go wild, have fun! but I'm not gonna turn him into a tiny little guy who never did anything wrong ever.

eridan is a murderer, a genocidal rich snob who likes killing. he murdered two of his friends and tried to kill another. one of which came back to life and cut him in half right after.

eridan FLARPed (fatal live action roleplay) with vriska as his partner. do you think she didn't go around killing opponents willy-nilly? now, eridan was most likely definitely more discerning than she was when it came to FLARP killing, but you know he killed opponents while playing.

all trolls are violent and bloodthirsty, but especially highblooded ones. eridan IS a bloodthirsty guy, and it's okay to like characters like that!!! he's snobbish, rich, prejudiced against lowbloods, murderous, legit planned to flood the planet to kill all the lowbloods.

were the genocide plans probably mainly a call for help, in his own way? most likely: he was lonely and wanted someone to talk to. but in the game he still went around killing his planets denizens. I do agree a lot of the violence eridan committed against his friends was his own way of asking for help... but bruh... he still killed them. he's still violent.

vriska went on about how he was violent and powerful and not someone to trifle with, before they started the game. she got doomsday devices together for him! she knew he wasn't someone to fuck around with!

like?? did we read the same comic??? eridan isnt a wooby little baby, I'm sorry, thats canon.

but again. feel free to do what you want with your interpretations! I'm just... not gonna write him as a tiny baby. because that's not what he is, and frankly, I think he'd be offended by that idea of him.

(current, post end "canon" is not something I take into account because I hate it, death of the author, etc. etc.)

tl:dr; I keep seeing people woobify eridan and honestly? that aint it, not for me. he's prideful, snobbish, royal, murderous and bloodthirsty. these are all things eridan is very proud of.