#ryuuasks

i’m not invested in his drama anymore. gotta keep my spoons to myself.

literally the definition of a moirallegience is is stabilizing an unstable partner. vriska being unstable is the entire point of their moirallegience, or at least half the point. 

vriska and terezi have had exactly one onscreen argument since vriska was retconned back into existence. it began with terezi voicing an objection to one of vriska’s decisions, quite loudly, because she thought vriska was in the wrong. vriska explained her reasoning for her actions, then conceded that terezi could do things her way if she really wanted. terezi agreed to go with vriska’s plan at least for now, partially because she at least somewhat agreed with vriska’s logic, and partially because she didn’t want to interact with a creepy clown who regularly abused her in another timeline. so i really don’t see any of what you’re saying here. 

“The core of why this relationship is bad is because of Vriska, who is now using that happiness and keeping her complacent.”

that’s another way of saying vriska is manipulating terezi. we just established that this isn’t what terezi looks like when she’s being manipulated, and there’s a lovely post on liada180′s tumblr which i can’t be arsed to find right now that explains in equal detail why this isn’t what vriska looks like when she’s manipulating someone. when vriska is manipulating someone, she doesn’t just keep quiet about it until the benefits come around - she gloats, before, during, and after.

yes, vriska is a huge 8itch still, but it IS possible for her to genuinely care for someone. she’s shown it many times - most often with john, but with others as well. 

per “complacency”, the argument they had about how to use the kernelsprites, it was an argument about terezi’s character arc of passing judgment on others, and vriska was right to (passive aggressively) point out that terezi was trying not to do that anymore. 

p sure ur using that word wrong but i don’t recall claiming credit for anyone else’s work? can you give me an example?

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PFFFFHAHAHAHAHA OKAY THANK U FOR THE CLARIFICATION

thanks! i first heard the idea from bramblepatch i think?? can't remember.

it's not a terribly canon-supported idea though. all the trolls look like what trolls look like, AND they're a perfectly diverse group with one of each caste. it makes more sense for the humans to be ethnically diverse as well, but sometimes i wonder if trolls' general familiarity with slime made karkat a slightly more competent ectobiologist than john. plus there was also that line in the narration where kanaya was remarking on rose's appearance when she first saw her, describing rose as having "skin as white as a ghost". so since race is such a touchy subject and also since four or even eight humans is not enough to embody every single racial grouping on planet earth (a bit difficult to do since there is obviously no actual lines between them, just a smooth gradient of color), i think it was creative of hussie to sidestep the issue altogether and let people imagine whatever they wanted. an inadvertent mutation for literally paper-white skin is just one of my more peculiar imaginings. ^_^

oh gosh thank u! probably the easiest way to get past the lack of grace (that has honestly been evident throughout most of the comic) is to remember what this would look like to an archival reader. everything from Game Over to now could be read in, like, a couple of hours. maybe even less. when looked at this way, you realize that there's not as much being retconned out as you think.

of course, there's no knowing what an alive Vriska would get up to on the meteor, but... now that i consider it, she COULD theoretically just do a lot of the same stuff she did while dead, since the meteor passes through dreambubbles so often. Tavrisprite is out, which means Jane must have prototyped something else, but apart from that, she could still wreak some serious havoc out in the void AND potentially develop the way she was meant to. assuming the two aren't mutually exclusive? ARGH let's just wait for the update that archival readers would already be reading by now without thinking all these complicated thoughts!