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thewertsearch · 2 years

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Of course he's right. Not much point in living with all these moaning spooks just to spite some guy you don't give a shit about. But how to go about it? Can't control her. It can be difficult to manipulate the mind of the psychically gifted.

Not only does Vriska struggle with strong-willed trolls, she also has problems manipulating her fellow psionics.

Tavros doesn't seem to be an issue, so maybe his powers are more run-of-the-mill than Aradia’s - or maybe he’s just so weak-willed that his psionics alone can’t save him.

How about this guy? Unfortunately, you can only control him about half the time.

Aw, fuck. That’s pretty much the worst person she could have control over - but if Sollux isn’t psychically gifted, who is?

Maybe the strength of his psionics fluctuate with his mood. It would be very on-brand if he was only overpowered every second day.

AG: I've got a message for you from your 8oyfriend. AG: He's outside your hive right now!

Oh my god, are you serious?

This is the cruelest way you could possibly confirm a ship!

FUCK!

AG: Arrivederci, Megido. arachnidsGrip [AG] ceased trolling apocalypseArisen [AA]

Honestly, this is worse than Tavros.

Whitetext may have been pulling the strings, but using Sollux as the murder weapon was Vriska’s idea. She even took the time to ‘warn’ Aradia, relinquishing the element of surprise, just so she could twist the knife a little. Vriska wanted this to hurt.

Sollux doesn’t even know! He watched Aradia turn into a shell of herself, without ever knowing that he was the last thing she ever saw. It was kind, I think, for Aradia not to tell him - and Vriska’s reasons for keeping quiet were her own.

I think we can call it. My theory that Vriska’s control is limited - that she can only make people do what they already wanted to do - is as dead as poor Aradia. Vriska can make people do whatever she wants.

Show me the new enemy.

I just want to talk.

#2245 #homestuck liveblog #full liveblog #act 5 #s21

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pollstuck · 1 year

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-- ectoBiologist [EB] began pestering arachnidsGrip [AG] --

EB: hey vriska! EB: ok, i still cannot find my nanna up here, so now i am just installing this game. EB: what are you up to? AG: Zoosmell! What the hell. There are so many things wrong with what you just said. AG: First of all, who told you you could just hassle me without warning like this? That's not how this works! EB: why not? you guys do it all the time. AG: Yes, 8ecause we are trolling you! Those are the rules. We get to 8ug you any time we feel like, and you have to sit there and t8ke it like a chump. EB: bluh... AG: I am too 8usy to 8e fielding your nonsense at the drop of one of your a8surd human hats. I have a ridiculous num8er of irons in the fire. You will speak to me only when I am ready to contact you, is that clear???????? EB: that's dumb. i'm going to talk to you whenever i want! AG: Secondly, I am very pissed off that you figured out my name. EB: well, i didn't know it was your name for sure until you just told me now. EB: so, haha. AG: Dammit! AG: Who told you? EB: heheh, i am not telling.

#homestuck #pollstuck #john egbert #vriska serket #4/13 #413

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knives-blue · 10 months

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AG: Arrivederci, Megido. arachnidsGrip [AG] ceased trolling apocalypseArisen [AA]

#glenns art #homestuck #sollux captor #aradia megido #arrivederci megido

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ask-caligulas-aquarium · 7 months

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arachnidsGrip has entered the chat:

AG: Ahoy there, m8!

>CA: hello there vvris

>CA: how are ya?

#eridan ampora #homestuck eridan #hs eridan #homestuck

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jadedharleys · 2 months

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wrote some terezi angst that started as a vent but became a wholeass pesterlog. enjoy.

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fanonical · 8 months

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No worries! Take ur time

did a bunch of work on this today! i’m cutting out the story stuff between but i’m not editing the dialogues at all, so you’ll have to read through stuff that doesn’t seem as important (like Karkat helping his friends with relationship drama) but trust me, that stuff that seems irrelevant actually props up the stuff you’re interested in.

i will also say, when rereading through these conversations it became apparent that Karkat often uses a lot of language that isn’t appropriate any more (he has a particular fondness for calling his friends “retarded”) but I need to stress that part of this is for us to get a taste for what a not-nice friend Karkat is (even if his heart is in the right place deep DEEP down). a self-obsessed self-loathing selfcest spiral only works with a ridiculously flawed character, and Karkat is primed and ready as a terrible person to hate-love himself.

also, the way the time-travelling chat client works is that it displays who is from what time period by adding “future” “past” or “present” to their usernames. so Karkat, whose username is carcinoGenetecist becomes “past carcinoGenetecist” or “PCG”. Another example is that a future version of Vriska (arachnidsGrip or “AG”) would be referred to as “future arachnidsGrip” or “FAG”. Obviously this is sort of an unfortunate acronym, but the cultural norm on the Trolls’ planet (Alternia) is that everybody is bisexual, so homophobia doesn’t exist…. but they DO make a joke about Vriska being so awful that “FAG” might cosmically come to mean something really offensive. it’s a pretty funny joke, but i wanted a warning because, yknow, homophobic slurs.

these are your content warnings for these conversations i’m editing together! there will also be a lot of arguing & swearing, and all of the trolls are kind of annoying to read because they talk in an obtuse way, but i’m sure that’ll be fine if you know as much about Homestuck as you seem to

this should be finished today or tomorrow :)

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pesterloglog · 4 months

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Terezi Pyrope

Act 6, page 7939-7949

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#homestuck #terezi pyrope #homestuck act 6 #page 7939 #page 7940 #page 7941 #page 7942 #page 7943 #page 7944 #page 7945 #page 7946 #page 7947 #page 7948 #page 7949 #homestuck act 6 act 6 #homestuck act 6 act 6 intermission 5

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bracketsoffear · 11 months

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Vriska propaganda since Aranea didn't make it:

Her animal motif is arcachnids, especially spiders. Most of her quirks are general arachnid ones — her Trollian handle is arachnidsGrip, she has eight pupils in one eye, and when typing she used "8" to replace the letter "b" and sounds similar to "eight", as well as repeating letters or punctuation marks eight times for emphasis. She was also raised by a spider the size of a house, who forced her to bring a constant food supply of other trolls or be eaten herself.

Vriska's biggest boast is the number of irons she has in the fire, pies in which she has fingers, and euphemistic representations of the number and complexity of her schemes. It's now apparent that she doesn't really care if any of these irons conflict, provided they are irons and she has them in the fire. While she sees herself as a great manipulator, it seems that she is often manipulated herself, as clearly evidenced in Doc Scratch's final conversation with her. Although she would loathe to admit it, she envies Terezi a great deal because of Terezi's ability to manipulate people without the use of psychic abilities. This could be a possible motivator for Vriska, as she attempts to trick, deceive and backstab nearly every other troll - perhaps as a way to prove herself in Terezi's view or even in her own. When another troll calls her out on using mind powers, she either denies it to the point of absurdity or throws a tantrum. She is perpetually striving to be a manipulator in ways that terrorize and traumatize those closest to her, but always failing to escape the control of those who dominate her life, whether they be the dead ancestor hanging over her head or Doc Scratch using her for his own apocalyptic goals.

Vriska grew up idolizing her ancestor Mindfang, a pirate notable for a) owning slaves, including a mind-controlled sex slave, and b) being created from the wishes of Aranea (her pre-Scratch counterpart and Vriska's dancestor) to be the main character in her life. Vriska similarly wanted to emulate Mindfang and be the protagonist of her story, which set off the cycle of revenge. Vriska, acting as Tavros' guide during a FLARP session, manipulated him into jumping off a cliff with the help of her mind-control powers, intending for him to grow wings like his ancestor The Summoner (who Pupa Pan is based on). The Summoner was Mindfang's lover, and Vriska wants to turn Tavros into the next Summoner to fulfill her dream, regardless of his agency or wellbeing:

Transcript:

AG: Tavros, have I mentioned how cute you look in that plucky little outfit? AG: Why if I didn't know 8etter, I'd say I was playing with Pupa Pan himself! AG: Isn't that what you want, Tavros? To 8e like Pupa? AG: Of course you do! What 8oy wouldn't want to 8e like Pupa! So dashing and 8rave. AG: He is everything you are not! AG: For one thing, he can flyyyyyyyy. AG: Do you want to flyyyyyyyy, Tavros? AG: Have you ever tried to fly? I 8et you haven't! AG: How a8out we take to the skies, Pupa! AG: Hahahaha, oh you like that idea, Pupa? Yes, you do. I can feel it in your simple, mallea8le 8rain. AG: You want to fly so 8ad!

Tavros, unsurprisingly, does not grow wings and instead ends up paraplegic. Aradia sics ghosts on Vriska in revenge, so Vriska mind-controlled Sollux (who is strongly implied to have had romantic feelings for Aradia) into murdering her. Then Terezi tells Doc Scratch that Vriska has a Magic Cue Ball that Mindfang had stolen from him, so he blows it up and maims her. Vriska responds with a Psychic Double Reacharound (https://www.homestuck.com/story/2578)--mind controlling Tavros to force him to use his animal communion powers on Terezi's lusus (parent), making the lusus psychically compel her daughter into staring at the deadly sun and burning her eyes out.

During SGRUB, she continues to try and force Tavros into a relationship, using Pupa Pan as a rather transparent way to try and appeal to him and wanting him to stop being "useless" (read: paralyzed and timid, partially because of her abuse).

When that fails, she just forces herself on him and uses her psionics again to try and make him have red feelings (the closest thing trolls have to human romance) for her. It obviously doesn't work out, and she gives up in disgust.

While they're able to work together in the near future, she falls back on her usual controlling bullshit when he tries to revive her with a kiss (SGRUB is weird), forcing him to take her to her Quest Bed so she can go God Tier and lashing out at him when he can't bring himself to mercy kill her.

Here, she's using mind control to compel Tavros to write out her messages.

And still trying to make romance happen between them.

She tries to play on his desire to prove himself...

And takes it really poorly when he refuses to obey her.

That brown blood he's being forced to write in now--it's Tavros' own blood.

After Jack Noir destroys the Trolls' victory door and traps them on the meteor, Vriska starts mentoring John. She uses him as a pawn in her rivalry with Terezi and a pseudo-replacement for Tavros. Her manipulations are most evident when she psychically knocks him out and leaves him in a burning lake of oil to force him to unlock his powers:

Note how she immediately switches from "answer me now, I'm the most important thing to pay attention to" to "I wasn't impatient at all."

Then she spins endangering John as a good thing to help him become a hero--which she specifically wants to get credit for--and invokes his interests to get him to play along (similar to the Pupa Pan thing, only more successful.)

And here's the big reveal: Vriska stopped John from prototyping hte doll that would've neutralized Jack Noir, allowing Bec to prototype himself and give Jack godly powers. She also turns out to have set up Bec's creation and caused Jade's supposed narcolepsy (by using her powers on Jade throughout her entire life) as part of this scheme. Vriska deliberately engineered the empowerment of the unstoppable universe-murdering monster Jack Noir because she wants to be the one who kills him. She created the epic final boss battle for her to epically defeat, so she could be the hero of the story.

And here's her ultimatum for John: figure out the Windy Thing to save himself--and thus become even cooler and stronger than her, the strongest of them all--and he'll be worth her time...or die trying.

And when John does accomplish the Windy Thing, here's what she says:

He's her new Tavros--but unlike "some loser," he's just as powerful and bold as she wanted him to be, so he wins her favor.

Vriska is trying to be responsible for as much as possible, so that her ultimate (planned) victory over the demon will be that much greater and everyone will accept her. This includes being responsible for Jack getting prototyped with Bec, Bec being created in the first place, and John going god-tier because she wants to make the ultimate hero and villain. She deliberately inserts herself into as many conflicts as possible on account of her self-aggrandizing nature and obsessive need to be the center of attention, even when she's actively harming herself and everyone else by doing so.

The Aspect of Light in Homestuck is heavily implied to be related to narrative relevance--Aranea tries to "heal" her Light by making herself the one who saves the day, while the Zahhaks (who possess the opposing aspect of Void) end up largely irrelevant to the grander story. As the Thief of Light, Vriska's role is to take away narrative importance for her own benefit--she "steals the spotlight," so to speak. This ties into The Web as "The Story Spinner": she is hellbent on being in charge of and the most important character in the story, setting in motion a great number of schemes and chain reactions (even ones that blow up in her face) just so she can be in control and be important. She absolutely has to make things about her to get recognition from other people and often behaves like she deserves attention no matter how she acts and performs actions to draw attention, even complaining when she feels like she's not being given top priority; as with the rest of said flaws, it does absolutely nothing for her but actually push people away from her, making her lonelier, unhappier, and more unstable, and therefore more vulnerable to bad influences.

She has to spin the story to her advantage so she can be as strong and powerful and invincible as Mindfang, because it's the only way she knows how to cope with the helpless terror of her childhood living in fear of a spider's bottomless hunger and endless cruelty. In fact, when her pre-retcon self (who died and ended up doing a lot of self-reflection and development) sees that Aranea is doing the same kind of bullshit by trying to make herself the hero (at the risk of dooming the entire timeline), she admits that both she and Aranea have the same issues with obsessive egomania and trying to do the "right thing" for all the wrong reasons. She wants to be a puppetmaster and ends up trapped in a web of her own making. While pre-retcon Vriska eventually lets go of her need for power and control and ends up much happier for it, post-retcon Vriska never gets the same character development and takes away exactly the wrong lesson--that her fussing and bugging and meddling and pulling everyone's strings is actually the best outcome, and she was right all along to see herself as the main character. She gets to be the hero by taking out Lord English, but at the cost of apparently being sucked into the black hole with him (we're ignoring the Epilogues here). By taking forceful command of everyone around her with her usual bossiness and mind control, she traps herself in the shadow of Aranea/Mindfang and the narrative web she's desperate to be at the center of, and thus is left behind while everyone else escapes the story and moves on with their lives.

She's soooo pathetic and soooooo awful. Vote for her right now.

#asks #character propaganda #long post #web poll

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galacticcosmologist · 6 months

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gallowsCalibrator [GC] began trolling arachnidsGrip [AG] GC: H3Y GC: W4NN3 SP1R4L 1NTO COD3P3ND3NCY?

#homestuck #hs #homestuck incorrect quotes #hs incorrect quotes #terezi pyrope #vriska serket #vrisrezi

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CURRENT HOST: Dualscar Vantas

We are the Silly Billy system! We are a fictive-heavy system with a variety of sources, but this blog is for the Homestuck fictives!

We will occasionally post sprite edits, which most of us love doing! They’re very fun and we wouldn’t be opposed if someone requested some from us!

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thewertsearch · 2 years

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AT: aG JUST JUMPED ME OFF A CLIFF, AT: wITH MY BRAIN, [...] CG: HEY ASSHOLE, STOP PLAYING GAMES FOR GIRLS.

Karkat, if there weren't bigger fish to fry, I'd be so mad at you right now.

Ok, I think you’re about to redeem yourself. We need some of that classic Karkat rage!

AG: Can I join your team? CG: YES I'M GLAD YOU ASKED, BECAUSE THERE IS A WIDE OPEN SLOT FOR THE MOST VILE BACKSTABBING SOCIOPATH WHO EVER LIVED.

So, the elephant in the room here, of course, is: why are any of these people friends with AG?

This isn’t so much a question of why they’d ‘excuse’ her behavior. They were raised in a dystopia, and taught that violence - in the name of Alternian glory, of course - is a virtue. It’s worth noting that Karkat hates her specifically for her manipulative tendencies - he doesn’t bring up her violence at all.

No, my question is much more practical. Why would you *ever* be friends with someone who can control your mind?

CG: WE WILL NEVER BE FRIENDS, MORON. AG: Not even h8 friends? CG: NO. MORE LIKE TWITCHY EYED PROJECTILE VOMITING IN UTTER DISGUST FRIENDS, WHILE I PERFORATE MY BONE BULGE WITH A CULLING FORK. AG: Yessssssss. I'll take it!

Something that’s pretty funny about AG is that despite her caustic personality, her dialogue is actually really fun to read. She’s really enthusiastic, and always puts 100% of her effort into everything she does.

If she’d been one of the Act 4 trolls, she’d have been one of my favorites - and I don’t think I’ve have ever recovered from The Tavros Scene, when it finally arrived.

AG: Yes, Aradia and I have an arrangement. We will 8e co-leaders.

Right, so Aradia’s hatred obviously makes a lot more sense now. Even in her current state, she remembers what AG did.

Even if nothing matters, she cares about her friends.

CG: JUST DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT USING YOUR MIND CONTROL TRICKS ON MY PLAYERS. CG: REMEMBER YOUR TRUCE?

Well, that’s helpful.

I doubt she’d make a deal like that unless she absolutely had to. Who could back AG into a corner like that?

AG: Anyway, I can't control just any8ody. They've got to 8e impressssssssiona8le. Like you!

She’s a lot more limited than I thought, then. That’s a bit of a relief - I think it locks her out of all the psychic trolls, sans Tavros. If I were to hazard a guess...

She can control Tavros, Gamzee, Karkat and Nepeta.

She can’t control Sollux, Aradia or GA, and there’s no way in a million years that she could control Terezi.

AG: I find your mind totally unpalata8le to 8rowse. Looking into your 8rain is like pawing through a smelly dumpster. AG: Full of 8roken glass and razor 8lades!

Her mind control has already proven itself a dangerous tool, but let’s not forget that she can also read minds - and she doesn’t mention any restrictions for this one.

This means she has access to Sollux’s visions, Aradia’s Voices, and whatever source of intel GA is pulling from. This girl is so dangerous!

CG: I'VE GOT THE BETTER SCOURGE SISTER ON MY TEAM AND IF YOU BREAK YOUR TRUCE YOU'LL HAVE TO ANSWER TO HER. CG: THE FUNNY THING IS SHE WAS ALWAYS WAY BETTER THAN YOU EVEN WITHOUT ANY POWERS.

Terezi could back AG into a corner like that.

I should have guessed. She’s kind of AG’s perfect opponent, since like Karkat says, she has a similar schtick, but no powers to rely on. I have no doubt that she’s a better manipulator.

carcinoGeneticist [CG] ceased trolling arachnidsGrip [AG] carcinoGeneticist [CG] began trolling arachnidsGrip [AG] AG: Oh, 8ack so soon! Did your thum8 slip on the 8utton???????? AG: I guess you can't get enough of me. AG: ::::) CG: YOU MADE ME DO THAT.

Why would you ever be friends with someone who can control your mind remotely?

Well, you might want to read that question again. It kind of answers itself.

#2177 #homestuck liveblog #full liveblog #act 5 #s12

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