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Oh, also, about Bec’s prototyping – I was fumbling horribly with tumblr’s reply interface a few days ago to try to respond to your posts about it, but the gist is that no one has ever explained to me why we know he would have jumped into the kernelsprite w/o Vriska’s intervention.  That’s not the way the event looks superficially when you watch the flash (it looks like a response to John dropping the blue girl), it’s not the way Vriska apparently interpreted it, and I’m missing whatever the extra information is that leads people to distrust the way things appear.

Alright, let’s assume for a moment that Bec’s actions were indeed a response to John dropping the blue girl.

If Bec would have been fine with just the blue girl being prototyped, then that means he either:

• Knew Jade needed a sprite guide, or
• Knew the battlefield needed another prototyping.

So…  were his actions a hurried response to needing to prototype something, when it looked like nothing was going to be?

It doesn’t look that way.

A kernelsprite is most receptive to dead, doomed, or damaged items, gravitates toward them.  Bec could have thrown any of the ones in the room in and been on his way.

Instead, watch what he did:  He intentionally tossed all other prototyping options in the room into SPACE, and then forced his way into the sprite (which would have resisted his entry)!

This clearly indicates that Bec wanted to be in that sprite, as opposed to other options.  He wasn’t acting because Jade needed a sprite, or because the Battlefield needed a prototyping.  Why the showy discarding of all other prototyping fodder, then?

Bec needed something, present or future, out of being a sprite, whether it was the laser he barked at the meteor, the protection his feelings gave Jade from Jack, or the fusion into Jade’s later god-tier form.  (Maybe even to kill himself, if being a First Guardian is painful!)  There’s no reason he would have cleared the room and contributed his living self to the sprite that way, otherwise.

The only remaining argument you can make is that “if the blue doll were prototyped, Jade’s dreamself couldn’t have been revived if he jumped in, so he wouldn’t have”.  But if Bec really knew enough to foresee Jade’s dreamself revival and want to facilitate it, then he could have pulled a GCat and kept John from prototyping anything but him!  If the blue doll was really such an acceptable option for prototyping, it doesn’t explain why he didn’t just toss the blue doll in himself.

And if he was too dumb to know he could, then would a blue doll already in the sprite really have kept him from forcing his way in???

The argument that Bec would have done anything but force himself into the kernel really falls apart when you examine the individual alternatives.  It’s POSSIBLE that some obscure combination of doggy dumbness and intuitive kernel insight would have had him prototyping himself only because the blue doll wasn’t there, but it’s a real stretch to assume that much into his capabilities and motives when literally every other plausible alternative has him jumping in anyway.

As for the fact that Vriska parsed out that this would work… it really doesn’t help.  Remember when she was first introducing herself to John, and discerning the temporal cause of her conversations re: John dicking around so much instead of doing things?  She was wrong.  Remember when she said getting DD to create Bec would keep Bec from being able to kill dersian agents?  She was very wrong.  And let’s not mention her wrong deduction that going against each other instead of teaming up was the way they should have played!  Vriska has a track record of being absolutely wrong, here.

And since every logical indication seems to point to Bec jumping in anyway, it’s not a stretch in the slightest to assume she was wrong here, too.

If you think about it:

Knowing this will provide context for the events in your near future, and will affect how you behave in response. 

The big reason that Vriska misinterpreted things so badly is because Doc told her she’d bring about unfathomable destruction.

So obviously, if she tries to with Bec Noir, she must be the one responsible, right?  And if she goes and kills him, that’ll absolve her kinda, right?

Now, if Vriska comes back, she’ll think herself clear of both Doc’s prophecies of destruction and his bets as to her death.

2012-4-21