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IT WOULD HAVE BEEN LONGER, TOO, EXCEPT I AM LE TIRED
Terezi believes free will is A Thing.
This one is admittedly on super shaky ground due to the whole "you can't fight fate" predestined shenanigans the comic loves to throw at us, but a lot of the things she says and does point to a belief in at least some degree of autonomy amongst the players of Sburb/Sgrub.
Terezi is all about choice. It's in her words, it's in her actions, it's in her title. She doesn't just see the future; she sees the results of actions that lead to doomed timelines and figures out how to avoid them. The way she went about showing Dave why he wouldn't be able to hit god tier hinged on him choosing the outcome of the coin flip. He even went into the deal fully informed of what god tiering involved, unlike John, who actually thought naps were how you ascended and promptly got Aslan'd for it.
What sort of story would this be, with our Knight and Seer made to stay cadavers? Certainly not one the alpha timeline would allow.
And not one she'd allow either.
She doesn't kill Vriska just because it has to happen in the alpha timeline. She chooses to kill her. It is something she will not allow.
(Fun fact: the whole "lol karkat and terezi are dead now" updates seriously threw me for a loop, because up until that point, I had always thought Terezi would be the kind of person who would do what was necessary for the good of the team. Turns out, nope, I was right, that was just a doomed timeline, but wow, way to make me start questioning some of my characterization there.)
This sets her up in contrast to Vriska, who does things because they're supposed to happen. Why did she create Bec Noir? Yes, it was so that she could claim she had a hand in the hardest boss ever's rise to power and get the glory of killing him herself, but it was also because she saw that he existed in the first place.
It's a weird thing, because they're both choosing to do things because that's the way they have to go, but there's a subtle difference there (or at least I think so).
BLAH BLAH BLAH WORDS I'M GOING TO SLEEP NOW I might add more tomorrow
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