[Images: asks from @witchofshade and @ilovebees420​, respectively. The first reads: “How bout Vriska?” The second reads: “if you’re still doing the wand asks, how about vriska??” End image description.]
I’m really excited about this one and at the same time, really daunted. Vriska’s a hard character for me to pin down.
Vriska: fir and Basilisk horn, 8 inches, slightly springy.
Eight inches is very short for a wand. Unfortunately, Vriska’s theme is so prevalent that it would be factually wrong to give her anything else. Should be 14 or 15 for her personality, but a wand under 9 inches can indicate something lacking in character, too, so maybe that’s okay.
Interestingly: “Salazar Slytherin owned a wand of his own making, made of snakewood and with a Basilisk horn core. The wand had the distinction of being able to 'sleep' when so instructed, an ability taught to it by Slytherin himself.” Basilisk horn is not a conventional wand core, and would not be given to a character who wasn’t influenced by clear outside circumstances like blatant author favoritism. Vriska is the most Slytherin Homestuck character.
Basilisk venom is a Horcrux destroyer; it can kill the unkillable.
This is the wand of someone who makes her own fate. Or who, perhaps, inherits it; someone who seeks a destiny that they shouldn’t and who is destined to succeed.
Fir demands focus, surety, and compete unwillingness to be swayed. Change is intolerable. Self-doubt is intolerable. This wand would exacerbate an already troubled Vriska, and push her the same way she tries to push Tavros and the rest of her team. It would be the kind of forceful, unwillingness to bend that makes it impossible for her to stop and consider others or question her methods until her death, and that means two things: 1) it takes until she is (Vriska) for her to learn emotional health and temperance, and 2) she will win.
Springy not because she is changeable, but because she is in some backwards, unhealthy way, a problem-solver.
