#i recently reread the scene where terezi meets aranea and wow vriska has mental health issues

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homestuck AU where vriska goes to therapy

#sasha #i recently reread the scene where terezi meets aranea and wow vriska has mental health issues #reading that scene again was just like ‘wow this kid genuinely thinks that horrific violence is a normal part of relating to other people’ #she literally blinds her best friend and then is like ‘now we’re even & can go back to normal! ::::)’ #she clearly enjoys being friends with terezi but she blinds her anyway because she doesn’t know any other way to interact with people #vriska serket my poor little meow meow with untreated NPD and ASPD #like it’s not just that she expects terezi to forgive her for that it’s that she is ready to forgive terezi #(not that i remember every detail of that whole revenge cycle so i’m not actually sure why she was mad at terezi) #like she just. very much thinks that violence is normal and doesn’t understand why other people don’t accept it the same way she does #all of alternian society is structured to encourage this but because she’s a highblood she relates to it differently than say sollux #the lower bloods have a sense of solidarity. they recognize that the system they live in isn’t fair because it disadvantages them #and terezi is just 1 tier lower than vriska but she has closer relationships with karkat and nepeta and iirc tavros and aradia #and probably has a better understanding of alternia’s legal system & therefore is in a better position to notice its flaws #vriska has a ‘friendship’ with tavros characterized by her tormenting him because she thinks that’s how life works #she thinks people need to toughen up and that she’s doing him a favor by being so rough #and i think tavros buys into that too to some degree #but like. she seriously thinks she’s being kind to him! she seriously thinks that she’s naturally better than him and her abuse is an act #of charity