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Anonymous asked you:

upd8 thoughts???

Well, I don’t see anything really new or serious. I already covered Tavros’s attitude in this post, how it may reflect role inversion, and Vriska seems about how I’d normally expect.

Though, since many of you guys seem to somehow be viewing disaster in this update, I guess I should clarify my thoughts on the matter…

thefinalwraith asked you:

Vriska appears to have finally lost her vital spark. Which is… a bummer. Maybe Doc Scratch considers empowering Jack Noir to be ‘good enough’? Or fuck it, the whole thing was a prank.

thefinalwraith asked you:

So is Vriska inverting things now as well, or is this just what being dead does to you?

I have a question, tfw: What comic have you been reading?!

Vriska seems nearly the same as ever. Perhaps disillusioned with serious, flustered relationship pursuits by being, well, two years dead, and busy getting things done while probably leading Tavros on to speed things up.

If she’d lost her vital spark completely:

VRISKA: Dammit, Tavros. You can’t 8e slacking off like that.
VRISKA: I told you, we aren’t fucking around anymore. This is serious 8usiness.

She wouldn’t be so busy, would she?

Vriska isn’t out of the game. She has a plan, and is using Tavros to help search for something. Something important. I have no doubt that she’s on a path to fulfill Doc Scratch’s prophecy of Vriska-wrought unfathomable destruction.

Furthermore…

contraplebicism asked you:

hey I’m not sure but I think the John-rose-vriska-kanaya shipping n-drangle’s wavelength just collapsed. john loses, he gets nothing. good day, sir. or so it would seem. vriska said it “didn’t work out” with the beta john, in any case.

That’s not quite the whole story when you think about it.

Here’s the quote again, as a reminder, though I’m speaking beyond the quote and not to it:

VRISKA: It was fine. For a while.
VRISKA: It didn’t really work out.
JOHN: oh.
VRISKA: We crossed paths every now and then after that.
VRISKA: Things stayed pretty friendly 8etween us.
VRISKA: Until he died.

She broke up with an age-locked John who basically would not have been able to grow up. Furthermore, she wouldn’t have been able to grow up much, either! Whereas - unlike beta John - our John has matured enough to realize Con Air was corny. That’s a big difference!

(And, though it’s splitting hairs, we aren’t presently aware which party wanted most to break up in their prior relationship, nor why.)

Anyway, none of that is too convincing or relevant. However, there’s a huge reason I can guarantee you that Vriska isn’t out of the romance game.

I’ll say it twice, the second time in large text, so you’ll remember it.

Vriska’s current relationship with Tavros is horrible, unhealthy, and will necessarily shatter.

Again!

Vriska’s current relationship with Tavros is horrible, unhealthy, and will necessarily shatter.

It’s inevitable!

The current state of things is clearly bringing out the worst in Tavros. (See the role inversion link at the top of this post, for instance.) Homestuck is not going to leave him in an eternity of this; that’s a hell he really didn’t earn!

So if the present situation is unsustainable, which ways can it go from here? Let’s itemize some possibilities for where Vriska will eventually end up.

Tavros undergoes severe, sudden character development, does a 180º, puts paid to the relationship… and decides to pair up with Vriska again anyway. (UNLIKELY! Recovery on Tavros’s part will almost certainly lead to a permanent break.)
Vriska and/or Tavros end up double-dead. (Why so much screentime, then? Just to cause unfathomable destruction and then kill them off??)
The relationship ending or being separated somehow, Vriska comes back into the picture somehow and pursues John and/or Jake. (BINGO!)

What Vriska and Tavros have right now is going to shatter brilliantly. Either offscreen, or possibly onscreen to some plot or character development effect. (Unfathomable destruction, for example?) And almost certainly thereafter, the romantic loose ends will seek healthier resolutions, with the plot of the story all too happy to oblige.

As to the “John-rose-vriska-kanaya shipping n-drangle”? That wavelength collapsed a little while ago, with a near - not absolute, but almost certain - confirmation of Rose/Kanaya recently. John’s side of things have become more complicated to make up for this, with the introduction of Roxy Lalonde to take Rose’s place in the competition with Vriska.

Hope that clears things up! No, I’m not quite sure where it’s going to go after that, from here. :)

2012-10-14