> Be Future Aradia.
What.
What!
I'm immediately reminded of Jade's robot - but her circumstances probably don't apply here, since this is a soulbot, not a dreambot. Plus, Aradia doesn't even have a dream self. The only other thing which comes to mind is Sollux's ~ATH script, a virus which already claimed the life of one machine.
Could Aradia have been running some ~ATH code, trying to prevent the summoning of Lord English? If she was desperate enough to run an ~ATH program on her own CPU, just about anything could have happened.
Either way, her body has been destroyed - but we've seen her spirit persist without one. I highly doubt that this is where her story ends.
Anyway, Aradia's PoV is a dud. Vriska, then?
lmao, she really doesn't know.
VRISKA: That was some pretty sweet chainsaw work earlier. Pretty 8rutal, really! Didn't think you had it in you.
VRISKA: Hey, you weren't settling a score with him there 8y any chance?
KANAYA: What
VRISKA: I've got a pretty keen nose for revenge. Could it 8e that you had a thing for him and were upset when he went for me instead? Hmmmmmmmm?
KANAYA: Did He Really Go For You
KANAYA: Thats Not How I Remember It
I still hold to my assertion that Vriska doesn't lie to people - but, as demonstrated here, she lies to herself near-constantly.
ERIDAN: wwe used to havve a good thing goin remember our campaigns
ERIDAN: that shit wwas epic wwhere are you evven goin to find a rivvalry like that
VRISKA: It was fun, Eridan. While it lasted.
VRISKA: 8ut it ran its course! I don't know what else to tell you.
Pardon the pun, Eridan, but you're clearly small fry to this girl.
FEFERI: )(oly crap did I get you good! )(ey, Sollux! Did you catc)( any of t)(at?
FEFERI: A live one jumped rig)(t into my boat! A real suckerfis)(! Woo)(oo)(oo. )(ow do you like t)(at, spider)(ag! Sea dwellers represent!!!
VRISKA: That was…
VRISKA: Surprisingly nasty of you.
Holy hell, that was impressive. She baited Vriska into being nice, and the moment she saw a hint of vulnerability, she struck. Even Terezi hasn't managed a burn like that.
I've always been interested in characters who are good, but not nice. Feferi seems to take things one step further. She's good and she's nice, while still being a dick.
FEFERI: T)(anks. I )(ope I didn't jeopardize our friends)(ip wit)( t)(at little stunt! 38)
VRISKA: Friendship? I don't know if…
VRISKA: W8 a minute. Why you!!!!!!!! You almost got me AGAIN!
And she's almost two-for-two!
Please let these two hang out more. I want to see more of this Feferi, with a mean streak hidden just below the surface. It's so interesting.
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Vriska Serket, Aradia Megido
Act 5, page 2792
VRISKA: Hey dead girl! How's 8eing dead treating you?
ARADIA: c0uldnt i ask y0u the same thing
VRISKA: Yeah, sure! If you wanted to 8e technically inaccur8. It would still 8urn though, so touche!
ARADIA: its really weird that y0u keep antag0nizing me
ARADIA: i c0uld snap y0ur neck with a twitch
VRISKA: Yeah 8ut you won't!
ARADIA: 0k
ARADIA: what d0 y0u want
VRISKA: You saw the demon up close, right? You fought him! Or at least your doppelgangers did.
ARADIA: yes
VRISKA: What was he like!
ARADIA: ...
ARADIA: what d0 y0u want t0 kn0w specifically
VRISKA: Primarily I'm interested in your take on his weaknesses, tactical disadvantages, stuff like that.
ARADIA: 0_ _0
ARADIA: are y0u seri0usly intending t0 fight him
VRISKA: Wouldn't you like to know!!!!!!!!
ARADIA: n0t especially
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More confirmation that Vriska really did die - probably to Aradia - and is currently inhabiting her Dream Self. She's lucky she wasn't on Prospit when the Demon showed up, or she would have died for good.
ARADIA: its really weird that y0u keep antag0nizing me
ARADIA: i c0uld snap y0ur neck with a twitch
VRISKA: Yeah 8ut you won't!
You probably think that predestination will protect you, since Aradia won't violate it - but should you really trust your safety to the whims of the Alpha timeline?
I mean, it's already sanctioned the loss of your arm, your eye, and one of your lives. I don't think it likes you very much.
VRISKA: You saw the demon up close, right? You fought him! Or at least your doppelgangers did. [...]
VRISKA: What was he like! [...]
VRISKA: Primarily I'm interested in your take on his weaknesses, tactical disadvantages, stuff like that. [...]
ARADIA: are y0u seri0usly intending t0 fight him
Throwing hands with a First Guardian is suicide.
They're not just powerful, they're also blindingly fast, and if the Demon fought intelligently, it could teleport Vriska into a black hole before she could blink. She simply has no answer for a technique like that - not unless she's been holding back this whole time, and that definitely isn't Vriska's style.
Vriska could always cheat, though.
She may be overconfident, but she's not stupid. I have no doubt that she's fully aware that in a traditional battle, she's screwed - so if she's actually serious about killing the Demon, she must have something up her sleeve.
For example, she could:
Cause him to use up his energy reserves, which might not actually be infinite.
Send him aeons back in time. We know they can live for billions of years, but how about quadrillions?
Trick or manipulate him into destroying himself.
Separate him from his First Guardian powers. Perhaps the MEOW code can be erased from his genes?
A superintelligent First Guardian like Doc Scratch would see through most of these plans - but a superintelligent First Guardian would have already located the trolls. The Demon is apparently on a rampage, and his attacks don't seem to be all that calculated - so I suspect he's a creature of instinct, like Bec.
It's also possible that the Demon isn't actually a First Guardian, and is just using their powers somehow. This could be a good thing, since he might be less dangerous than the entities he's mimicking.
But it might also mean he's Lord English, and I have a horrible feeling that English is significantly more powerful than a First Guardian.
Either way - good luck, Vriska. Make sure your corpse falls somewhere Kernelsprite-accessible.
She might only play Chaotic Evil, but I do appreciate that Vriska's willing to roleplay with Nepeta.
NEPETA: :33 < i changed my mind, why dont we just not do any roleplaying instead
VRISKA: ::::(
Half of Vriska thinks she's better than everyone else, and the other half just wants to be included.
VRISKA: [...] I demand that you spend the next several hours mastering stairs. [...]
VRISKA: [...] Now hop to it, and don't think twice a8out it, or I'll know. We don't want to have to do it the hard way now, do we?
Kanaya is ten feet away, and she's pissed off enough as it is.
Vriska had better be careful, or she'll be buried under a Load Gaper Pile to match the Horn Pile across the hall.
I love that Vriska's quarters are just, inexplicably full of spider webs.
Like, where did she get them? Did she alchemize them for the aesthetic?
Who knew that something so terrible was stalking the depths of this laboratory?
This poor chess mutant didn't, that's for sure.
Wait.
Literally?
God damn. Well, she clearly wasn't kidding about having all the luck.
Vriska, the Thief of Light, steals favorable outcomes from her opponents, leaving unfavorable outcomes in their wake. Light represents luck - or, perhaps, good fortune.
I'm not sure how well that gels with Rose, though, since Jaspers didn't allude to luck when he was explaining her Quest. I'll have to go back over his speech.
...wait. I just realized something.
This really was an impossibly lucky roll! I was suspicious of it at the time, but so much else was going on that I forgot about it.
The probability of this outcome was less than 0.00001%, and Vriska still forced it into being. The ramifications of her being able to do this are staggering. Vriska can make miracles happen, and she's now the most cracked character in the entire comic.
She might actually have a shot at the Demon. This changes everything.
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