I hate Vriska
Feb. 17th, 2019 03:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
failure_artistI just don't like Vriska. It's not because I can't handle female characters doing bad things. It's not that I am ignoring she came from an abusive situation. I hate her because the character has been given so many indulgences by her creator and fandom.
Her arc could have gone better. When Vriska was first introduced, she'd been shunned by her peer group for crippling one of their own. There was the question if she could ever make up for her crimes. Time and time again she failed. Yet in the end, despite still being horrible, she was the hero of the day.
In fact, it was because she was an abusive bully she was considered a hero. Rose's alcoholism was solved by a hand swat and some nagging. Terezi was too busy in her deadening relationship with Vriska to be in any deadening relationships with boys. Gamzee was treated like a slave and then put through a torture that gets worse the more you think about it and only Dave cared and only briefly because god Gamzee is a murderer! Jake got told he was useless but it's okay because the traumatized boy was too uppity. Vriska had a huge battle plan and it worked perfectly and she went out like a big damn martyr. Terezi still waits for Vriska. Vriska won, while her doppleganger who kinda improved lost.
Vriska is now a symbol of a lesbian rebel rather than a very flawed character. Even though most of her story arc she was focused on male romantic interests her popular ships are all female and those interests are all considered faked. Her bullying of Tavros takes on a different focus. She was forced by a lesbophobic society to be interested in such a basic boy. She's the victim. But she eventually broke free and dated Terezi. Sure, canonly Alternian society doesn't care about sexual orientation but it is a satisfying narrative. Even though I don't like Vriska, I like the troll being bisexual like me, so it irks me when people apply comphet (already a problematic term for humans) onto trolls. I actually wavered in making this post when I found out Word of God says Vriska did have a crush on Equius. Still, that doesn't erase everything.
I hate Vriska/Terezi, even though I have written it. Yet that was years back, before the ship became what it is today. The two are connected by a Red String of Fate but they are a terrible couple. Terezi isn't much happier with Vriska being alive than with Vriska being dead because she still feels guilty about almost killing her. Vriska cruelly uses this fact. It's a depressing relationship. Yet it seems to be the most popular f/f after the perennial rosemary. It's been sanitized.
She's not even a rebel in her own universe. Bluebloods are supposed to be mean and use people and that's what she did all her life. She never changed. She just got rewarded.
Her arc could have gone better. When Vriska was first introduced, she'd been shunned by her peer group for crippling one of their own. There was the question if she could ever make up for her crimes. Time and time again she failed. Yet in the end, despite still being horrible, she was the hero of the day.
In fact, it was because she was an abusive bully she was considered a hero. Rose's alcoholism was solved by a hand swat and some nagging. Terezi was too busy in her deadening relationship with Vriska to be in any deadening relationships with boys. Gamzee was treated like a slave and then put through a torture that gets worse the more you think about it and only Dave cared and only briefly because god Gamzee is a murderer! Jake got told he was useless but it's okay because the traumatized boy was too uppity. Vriska had a huge battle plan and it worked perfectly and she went out like a big damn martyr. Terezi still waits for Vriska. Vriska won, while her doppleganger who kinda improved lost.
Vriska is now a symbol of a lesbian rebel rather than a very flawed character. Even though most of her story arc she was focused on male romantic interests her popular ships are all female and those interests are all considered faked. Her bullying of Tavros takes on a different focus. She was forced by a lesbophobic society to be interested in such a basic boy. She's the victim. But she eventually broke free and dated Terezi. Sure, canonly Alternian society doesn't care about sexual orientation but it is a satisfying narrative. Even though I don't like Vriska, I like the troll being bisexual like me, so it irks me when people apply comphet (already a problematic term for humans) onto trolls. I actually wavered in making this post when I found out Word of God says Vriska did have a crush on Equius. Still, that doesn't erase everything.
I hate Vriska/Terezi, even though I have written it. Yet that was years back, before the ship became what it is today. The two are connected by a Red String of Fate but they are a terrible couple. Terezi isn't much happier with Vriska being alive than with Vriska being dead because she still feels guilty about almost killing her. Vriska cruelly uses this fact. It's a depressing relationship. Yet it seems to be the most popular f/f after the perennial rosemary. It's been sanitized.
She's not even a rebel in her own universe. Bluebloods are supposed to be mean and use people and that's what she did all her life. She never changed. She just got rewarded.
