What’s the correct course of action when you are a child and a horrifying spider beast has taken it upon itself to nonstop scream into your mind, that it needs to be fed bodies or it will kill you instead? The utilitarian argument that you should just lay down and die, because that’s the course of action which harms the fewest people does very little to convince me personally. So: Was it morally wrong of Vriska to kill those innocents? I promise this isn’t a rhetorical question: Was it? Accusation 1: Feeding Kids to Spidermom Villain coding isn’t a defense by itself, the character being made to descent the spiral staircase of a gothic castle might well be a genuine monster and deserving of their stylistic treatment. We have at this point seen exceptions to the format for Sollux and Nepeta, but they were rather more overt, and didn’t have the misfortune of being quite as evil looking. It isn’t helped by the fact, that we learn this in her introductory page, the place where the hobbies go, the charming idiosyncrasies, not the obligations that make your life a living nightmare. Heroes aren’t introduced that way, the media-savvy reader well knows, and by the time we are told that Vriska habitually feeds children to her monstrous arachnid of a guardian, the villain coding has thoroughly worked its magic. She’s wearing an eye patch, because of course she is. Villain coding:Ī young girl, shrouded in shadow and framed by a spider web, grins deviously at her monitor, flashing razor-sharp fangs in the process. You know the work, you know what’s coming, here we go. I will try to handle each topic with care, but that doesn’t change the fact that we will be delving into some truly vile subject matter. If you are still here: The following are the content warnings for this discussion: death of children, abuse, murder, ablism, grooming, determinism, suicide, fascism, spider-vore, manipulation, self-loathing. I'd love to see you again in a few months after catching up, should you still be in the mood for some weapons grade unadulterated vriskourse. I'm sorry I can't help you, but all the media discussed is highly recommended. If you have not read homestuck and just want to know what the controversy is about: here's your chance to leave if you care about spoilers. Disclaimer though: it is impossible to discuss any of this without massive spoilers for the comic itself and minor spoilers for its adjacent works such as the paradox space comics and pesterquest. We'll go through all crimes Vriska has been charged with in the court of public opinion vaguely chronologically, and hopefully I can convince you that there is at least a lot more nuance to be had on the matter. The beliefs expressed in this essay are purely my own and so on and so forth, but I had yet to see a similar defense on YouTube so I figured I’d make one. Not exactly in the way that Kate, or anyone else for that matter would. A few people, perhaps most vocally the wonderful Kate Mitchell, writer of Vriska’s Pesterquest route, have however championed a position that is scarcely encountered in earnest unless you know where to look: The insistence that our girl genuinely, literally, did nothing wrong whatsoever, morally speaking, and that's the stance I am going to argue here. Much like the work she springs from, Vriska is a figure you either love or love to hate in equal measure, and even the folks who do have affection for the divisive heroine will usually concede that she did terrible things and/or is a bitch. Vriska Serket is a controversial character originating in the cult multimedia webfiction homestuck. Vriska did nothing wrong, and here′s why Watch the video-version here
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