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Character name: Vriska Serket
Fandom: Homestuck
Timeline: Post-death.
Age: Six Solar Sweeps (13 years)
~*Magical*~ abilities and strengths: First of all, Vriska is somewhat of a mutant, even in her own Alien culture. Bearing eight pupils (one in one eye, seven in the other), her eyes give her the ability to mind control people to do her will! However. This only works on the 'weak willed' or 'impressionable'. Some characters are impervious to it and some can even sense it in their heads. It's been alluded that she also can read minds, but this is so downplayed in the canon I'm only going to mention it, but never use it as a part of her abilities. It's only been mentioned twice in a supermassive webcomic where she maintained a main character status-- I'm guessing she doesn't use it to her advantage often. The mind control, however, she does. Vriska can also use her eyes to 'steal luck' from other people, being the Thief of Light. This makes her even more powerful, because her main weapon is based on gambling risk.
Secondly, Vriska is about the same power level (that term ugh) of a super-grinded end-of-RPG level character. In fact, she's the character the player would probably grind the most, ascending her to God Tier, which means she's unkillable unless she's corrupt and her being slain is just, or they die a heroic death. Given that Vriska is corrupt and has done many evil things and, in the narrative sense, is worthy of being put down, she is quite killable. However, she's powerful. One roll of her flourite octet (her dice that usually accompany games like Dungeons & Dragons, etc, that function as her weapon), magically goes through a roulette that pick a move that can devastate an opponent. Given her last roll, would she have the chance to do it, her last move would have been fairly powerful.
Of the less character-oriented abilities, Vriska is somewhat of a game abstraction herself. She can only 'pick up' items in the sense of 'adding them to one's inventory', which in this case is called a Sylladex. While with most RPG characters this is handwaved and not acknowledged through the fourth wall as a game abstraction, in Homestuck it very much is, to the notion that the main character himself didn't understand the phrase 'pick up' and characters have to be very cautious when taking items, as some Sylladex's are routinely horrible and effectively useless.
Vriska can also fly and bears a pretty pair of blue wings on her back, but only when she wants to. It seems characters with the designated 'God Tier' outfits can switch out of them at will, like... gaming costume swaps. Moving along!
How would they use their abilities?: To get ahead and for her own personal gain.
I wish I could pretty this section up, and say she has a few personal barriers, but no. Vriska doesn't allow people to stop her when it's in the way of what she wants. Sometimes she'll back off, but only when it's to her advantage. If she can steal from the richest NPCs and buy her way to the top, she will. If she can mind control someone into filling out her paperwork, she will. If she can have any flippant damn reason that's to her advantage, she will use her powers in full! There are a few people exempt-- John Egbert, the series protagonists, and the people who aren't susceptible to her powers due to having a strong will that's not easy to manipulate. Vriska, due to canon developments as of late, won't be killing on a whim when it used to be just fine for her to do so-- in fact, she'll shy away from it unless it's a prolonged revenge cycle that she's either grown bored of and its reached its peak and she's ready to try to win it. This, however, is mostly due to confusion on her part thanks to a human, of all things, teaching her how to act more human.
She will not hold back beating someone senseless if she is provoked into doing so. She won't stop from humiliating someone if it's within her power to do so and they didn't so much provoke her as they did annoy her or she finds them hilaaaaaaaarious. She's just that kind of character.
Appearance: Vriska, by word of canon creator, does not look entirely different from the average 13 year old human being, despite a few big differences. Same build and such, though she has rather messily kept black hair, fangs, two horns (one shaped in a pincer claw, one with a little hook on the end) that are shaded in colors of orange, and completely gray skin that pigments when blood is most concentrated (blushing and such). They have naturally gray irises that fill in with their blood pigment as they get older, and are implied to have completely different biology from human, but a lot of that could just be troll words, as they tend to have completely different words for things that humans have. So we don't know how entirely different their biology is. If the fact that Vriska started as a grub is any indication, and not a baby, and was birthed from a giant grub... then yeah the biology thing might be a big mystery. Who knows!
Background/Personality: Let me take a deep breath here. Vriska's story begins long before her own existence. Sure, she was created by a friend of hers paradox cloning her and sending her back in time, but another troll sharing her blood went back in time as well.
Let's clear up even more things before we move on, as there's going to be a lot of describing to do. Vriska hails from the planet of Alternia, which has met its imminent doom by meteors by now, and that's sadly a canon thing. The population of Alternia is the troll race, the human-looking-but-different appearance I described earlier. The race is extremely primal and violent, as newborns face Darwinism just to get out of the cave they were born in, find a monstrous creature called a Lusus to help raise them and in time give trolls a monster to raise 'like a zookeeper'. The then young trolls would build their hive utilizing robots who would follow their instruction. As young kids, they would be able to build whatever they wanted-- as Vriska built herself a castle at that age, but later regretted it because there was so much space and it made living in there desolate. When troll children would reach a certain age (measured in sweeps, as opposed to years), they would join the adult trolls in their conquest of the galaxy, in spaceships off the planets. As such, present-day Alternia, as it would be, is inhabited by mostly children.
Moving along. That other troll sharing her blood? Her ancestor, Marquise Spinneret Mindfang, a troll pirate, for more humanizing words, with a fleet of Gamblignants and was generally a criminal to all. She was notorious for a lot of things, writing her adventure that would find its way into a treasure in the form of a diary, for the young Vriska to find and read. Mindfang wrote about all sorts of things, from writing softcore troll porn, losing her vision eightfold just like Vriska would eventually come to do, to having a rivalry with the notorious exacter-of-justice Neophyte Redglare, the ancestor of a character named Terezi we will get into later. Mindfang was successful in killing Redglare at Mindfang's own trial, going on to seek out the boy predestined to kill her... the ancestor of Tavros Nitram. That's where Mindfang's story ends, and Vriska's begins.
Not many trolls had as many irons in the fire as Vriska. With the foursquare of love that trolls call matesprites (love), kismesis (potent rivalry), moirail (platonic soulmate), and auspistice (a menage a trois of one troll mediating between two trolls)-- Vriska had already found herself a kismesis by the name of Eridan, who, surprise, had an ancestor who was the kismesis of Mindfang. Together, the two of them FLARPed (live action roleplay of a more intense variety-- there's very little distinction between it being a game and actual adventuring). With this, Vriska lived up to the piracy life of her ancestor and idol, and also fulfilled one very important purpose. Vriska had a lusus (monster mombeast) that was a giant spider, and needed to be fed regularly. Losers of Vriska's campaigns would be mind controlled into throwing themselves into the web, and Eridan would take their lusii as spoils for another purpose. Vriska grew stronger and stronger, and by troll definition, the constant murder of other trolls was acceptable and expected of her.
Eventually, Vriska came to play a game side by side with Terezi Pyrope as Team Scourge, ridding the world of 'evil trolls' in Terezi's eyes, although Vriska would come to prove she hunted ones that were off limits to Terezi. The two of them would play against Team Charge, consisting of Aradia Megido and Tavros Nitram... the boy whose ancestor killed her (but shhh in the story we don't know that yet!). Vriska's absurd fascination with Tavros lead her to occupy both Aradia and Terezi somehow while she cornered Tavros on a ledge. Tavros was a firm lover of the Pupa Pan mythology (Peter Pan for us), and Vriska mocked him, asking if he wanted to fly like Pupa, and then making him jump off the ledge, paralyzing him from the waist down.
Like spider, like daughter. Vriska incapacitated her prey before starting to devour.
But Vriska's brutal treatment of Tavros wouldn't go unchecked. A chain of revenge started with Aradia, who could speak to the voices of the dead, calling the victims of Vriska to go and haunt her. Vriska was then easily manipulated by a mysterious man named Doc Scratch into exacting revenge (that she probably might have done anyway) on Aradia, by mind-controlling Aradia's possible love interest into murdering her. So, crippling a friend, murdering another. Terezi's lust for justice was certainly inherited from her ancestor, and using only the subtlest manipulation on the mysterious gentleman, Doc Scratch, a relic of his in Vriska's possession that allowed her to further cheat on her games became known to him, and in his rage, he made it explode in her face, taking off her arm and her most prized eye.
But Vriska's revenge doesn't stop there. RIGHT AFTER her arm got blown off and her precious eye taken from her, she stood up and mind controlled Tavros, who could commune with animals, to mind control Terezi's unhatched lusus into influencing Terezi to walk out into the sunlight, which on Alternia is blazing, scorching and unforgiving, (causing most activity on Alternia to be done at night) and made her stare up into it, blinding her permanently. The cycle of revenge doesn't quite stop there, but it does go on pause until present day.
Another break in actual character history to describe something. SGRUB is a game. It's a game about chess, destruction of worlds, and creation of universes, but first and foremost, it is designed as a video game and is 'played' as such. Players must craft sprites that guide them through the perils they will face in the Insipisphere, a place their hive is transported shortly before a meteor strikes. Yes, the instance of playing SGRUB invokes the end of the world. The chain of twelve trolls playing it all got in and jumped into the fray almost immediately. The game is essentially: The black pieces of chess vs. the white. Protect Skaia, the center of the Incipisphere, from the meteors that are thrown at it by the order of the Black King, called the Reckoning, before time runs out. Defeat the Black King, and win. No, saving your planet isn't your reward. Creating an entire universe for you to lord over as you will, is. Also, propagating your own existence and the existence of the ancestors. But that's a messy subject and hardly related to Vriska at all.
On the night the game would be played, Vriska had just as many irons in the fire as anyone, being contacted by the mysterious Doc Scratch for some last-minute heckling, talking to her Moirail, sort of, Kanaya Maryam, who hassled Vriska to the point of Vriska 'thinking it's flattering, she guessed she didn't mind'. And... talking to Aradia. Remember, the girl she killed? Somehow she's still kicking enough to keep the game going and keep a perfect session of twelve players. The truth is, she's a ghost. But we don't know that yet and it's supposed to be very shocking, so shhhh. Vriska had some irons in the fire with her next door neighbor, Equius. Part of Vriska wanted to make amends with Aradia-- in a flippant and facetious way, as she was prone to do. She would be delivering the gift that Equius made, but Equius double-crossed her and delivered it himself. This is pretty standard for trolls, and kicked Vriska out of the chain as she planned. Cahoots!
Sometime later, Vriska had to mercy kill her own lusus. After furiously dealing out rage at Aradia for not caring about anything, about how she was supposed to deliver the present and how it was supposed to be HER apology gift and how Aradia didn't give a damn about any of it, being that Vriska killed her and crippled her friend, in addition to being dead putting a damper on having much of any emotions at all, Vriska ragequit, giving Aradia the biggest fuck you ever.
Shenanigans later, Vriska became Tavros' server player. The server can manipulate the area around the client player. Vriska charmingly shook Tavros' wheelchair, demanding he apologize for being a cripple after building his house up to be only equipped with stairs. Kanaya, in her moirailish ways, auspistice'd between them and made Vriska behave, making Tavros a rocket chair he could easily move in. Hmph. But that wasn't where Vriska's plans end-- indeed, from start to finish, they never stop. Vriska got Tavros to enter one of his gates, leading her to her respective 'planet' (which SBURB gives to each player, surrounding Skaia), and crash into her hive. Vriska, dressed up as Tinkerbell, sat up excitedly and played along, even though she knew nothing about Pupa Pan. She decided to try giving him 'happy thoughts'. By that, she lifted him up-- unable to go anywhere or move away from her, and kissed him.
He didn't react with anything but terror. Vriska expected hate for doing so much to him! For earning his ire at every turn! She wanted his hate or his love, but he could give her neither. Tavros was just incapable of hate and couldn't love a girl who had done such monstrous things to him. Vriska then gave up, unknowing that Kanaya had been in love with her and witnessed the whole kiss, and became heartbroken. Did she want something her ancestor might have had? Wh knew. The two of them proceeded to explore her planet for treasure, the Land of Maps and Treasure, actually-- until Vriska's revenge cycle boomed in at full blast. Aradia, now in a robot body provided by Equius, came to take her revenge for being murdered by Vriska by murdering her. After smashing her into a few buildings telekinetic-ally out of rage, upon seeing Tavros' face, Aradia dropped Vriska and teleported away.
Tavros tried to kiss Vriska-- (Players in SGRUB have a second life in the form of a dreamself. If kissed, they wake up and gain their second life.)-- but she mind controlled him into stopping. She had another plan, and made him write out her message to him in her own blood about where to go and where to take her-- as she was fading fast. Turns out there's a nice little gimmick in SGRUB-- once you've climbed your echeladder (or gone level 99), you can go even higher by becoming God Tier. There is a certain method to it, though; you must die on your quest bed, which is essentially a rock sacrificial slab. At that, your dream self becomes your real self and you have mad wicked powers. Anyway, In her own blood until his hand went raw writing hers and turned into his brown blood, she wrote for him to kill her. It was his final chance to prove his ancestry, to prove that she might have had something to see in him. His last chance to kill her, and despite all of her orders, and all that she had done to him... Tavros could not strike the final blow, flying away from her quest bed in tears.
But then, Vriska ascended to the God Tiers, making her the most powerful player (as we think) amongst them all, up until they defeat the Black King and win-- her strike being the luckiest roll of her dice at the final moment-- just barely defeating an overpowered black king. The spoils were all theirs. The universe promised to them, just out of the hand of their leader-- until a demon showed up and sliced the door to the new universe in half, Aradia saving the trolls and sending them to the lab in a veil of meteors along with another version of herself (it's complicated) to wait for death from this mysterious beast that appeared from nowhere.
It turns out that four kids from the universe they were about to win had broken their game in a way that could not be unbroken, and sent the monster into their session via a scratch. The trolls were definitely not happy about this-- four squishy human chumps had all doomed them to death. So the trolls, being trolls, trolled the kids throughout their timeline as their chat client allowed them to pick timelines to view the kids at-- some even watching them from infancy to adulthood.
Vriska's irons were still quite hot. As a matter of fact, she's responsible for the monster that came into their session and would threaten their lives within twelvehours, or the meteors colliding with something would.
Really?
Vriska, all along, responsible for the monster that was Jack Noir? I could go into how, but the fact is she did it. She manipulated the humans from their timeline into making it happen. She befriended the main character, John Egbert, as he went along. Why? Because Jack Noir was the Extra Stage Boss. The ultimate thing to fight and win against, and Vriska, ideally teaming with John as she helped make him into God Tier as well, would defeat him. Vriska idealized making John into the perfect hero-- something Tavros ultimately wasn't for her. Tavros was in her past-- but not so much that he didn't learn of Vriska's meddling into dooming them all, upon then, finally deciding to kill Vriska. Vriska laughed and lazily accepted his challenge, not putting much stock into it and putting more into building John.
As she got to know John, though, little bits of Vriska changed. Certainly not all the way, but as she learned of human life, how less violent their culture was, what a cute... squishy human John was, she started to warm up to him. Also, John is responsible for Vriska falling head over heels in matesprite love with Nic Cage. You read that absolutely right. She put posters all up over her secret room and drew herself on the girls that Cage happened to be mackin' on. It's all right here and easily the most touching scene in the series.
Anyway.
Tavros? Confrontation? Right. Tavros confronted her with naught but a lance, but when he finally charged, Vriska looked... displeased. She ripped the lance from his hand and shoved it through his chest, throwing him off a broken platform behind her, finally killing Tavros. The revenge chain? You remember that, right? It starts again when Terezi uncovers the bodies, and uncovers MORE bodies and blood (killed by Eridan), and chalks it up to Vriska going on a murder spree. Vriska then goes to have a three-off duel against Eridan and Gamzee, who, as the Bard of Rage and no longer under the influence of sopor slime, sobered up and immediately became a psychotic killer on Vriska's level-- being the one who dealt the strongest blow to the black king. Anyway, the duel ends when Kanaya, turned into a vampire/rainbow drinker, charges into the duel, kicks Gamzee where the sun doesn't shine off a cliff, breaks the wand she made for Eridan that he used to kill her, and chainsaws him in half. Oh, and punches Vriska straight in the kisser. This... display of brute force made Vriska temporarily flushed, but it didn't seem to last long.
She had contacted John before, talking about how killing Tavros didn't fulfill her at all. How it would have been expected of her on her planet to kill him for less, for doing what he did. John gave her a human's point of view and once again, parts of Vriska cracked away, not quite in remorse, but in the ideal of a better life. A less bloody life, and this nerdy kid was telling her all about it. He kind of gave her hope or something, just a nice feeling. Apparently she thought a lot about it, in her last words to him, she empathized that she wanted to go on a date with him, and watch Nic Cage movies with him.
Now, in another timeline, Vriska would have confronted Terezi, flown away in a glittery trail of God Tier dust, let Jack follow her trail back to the hideout and murder the rest of the trolls, and Vriska would finally have the duel she always wanted with the monster Noir. But that timeline was not to be.
Vriska was stabbed in the back by Terezi, and subsequently...
A picture says a thousand words. Because I'm already at the 4,000 word mark on this app, and frankly I'm starting to feel awful for you guys reading this. Onto personality!
Vriska, first and foremost, is unforgivable. Why? Because she died. Normally this would make a poor argument, but she was god tier, and her slaying was marked as 'just' in the eyes of the game-- that meant she was truly marked as a villain in the game's eyes and was easily slain by being stabbed in the back. Now, does unforgivable and possibly irredeemable mean unchangable? No. In her very last moments of life, Vriska expressed genuine enthusiasm without a dark twist, a machination, an iron in the fire. She just had a crush on John and wanted to hang out with him-- do a human date. John, the pluckiest, nicest guy in the world, had shown her a life that didn't involve HAVING to murder into the point where it bred into habit, and was expected in her world. Would that necessarily change her? Certainly, with John around, Vriska would keep her habits in check, as I said before, but not halted. Vriska is still quite, quite mean.
Even more complicated, Vriska isn't just 'mean'. She's shades of mean. She's projective mean, taunting other people for things that are her doing, trying to make Tavros apologize for his crippling, blaming Aradia for the apathy she had because Vriska killed her. She's straight up cruel and when revenge comes to her mind, she doesn't think twice. Though now that she's died, she may halt, old habits die hard with this girl. She threatened to kill John months before the game even happened, before her personality got a bit of a turnaround. She heckled Terezi in a competition with their respective human boys, though Terezi showed remorse for watching Dave die in a machination of her own, Vriska was perfectly content in letting John die to reach the god tiers-- hell, John was content with it too. No one seemed to care.
If it wasn't implied in her history enough, Vriska is all about competition and getting the upper hand. She helped create the demon Bec Noir to be what he was in order to have a final, victorious fight against him, boasting all of that confidence. Vriska was empowered not only by herself, but by following the steps of her ancestor to a T, even following her relationships until that glamor of being Mindfang slowly faded away when she realized she wasn't Mindfang and Tavros wasn't destined to kill her and Eridan was frankly just a wimp. While Vriska said that Tavros did too little, too late, the same can be said of Vriska herself. She learned too little of humanity too late.
Vriska, for all of her prevalence in the story, is regarded by two main characters, one omniscient, as simple and easy to manipulate. Karkat referred to her as just another psycho, a troll caegar a dozen, and run of the mill. Doc Scratch referred to her simple, impulsive mind as being easy to manipulate along the path, and quite easily a waste of his talents. This is true. Vriska might be a good manipulator herself, but she's trumped by Terezi and Doc Scratch, and has to rely on her powers more often than not to truly manipulate the scenario. Her forceful presence in the story is practically of her own doing-- she is always making something happen, whether by being manipulated by others or doing the manipulating herself. She believed luck, the thing she gambled with her whole life, was everything. She gave herself rotten luck and believed it was her own-- instead, Kanaya suggested that might have just been her perception. Terezi hinted all along that luck would not save Vriska in the end, and indeed, it did not.
Other easy things to note is that Vriska is just a bit draaaaaaaamatic. Everything she does, she does with her in her mind as the hero, as the protagonist, as the best thing ever. She has quite an ego! The reason she built up John so much at first was because she'd be responsible for him being so great. And then she warmed up to him as a person, and so on. She's a villain and a bit of a misunderstood kid, but all the bad she's done still trumps the good-- going back to the fact that she's dead. Vriska is facetious, enjoys laughter at the expense of others, expects others to fall in line with her plan and flips out when they don't, is disliked by every single troll, even the one that used to love her. Vriska claimed Tavros was too little, too late, but in the end, to reiterate, the same thing did her in.
Vriska is not quite a villain any more, but she's not quite good or just, either. From this point on, it depends on where the Thor takes her.
She puts strong emphasis on 8eing as awesome as possible, even if it means streeeeeeeetching things out a little 8it, or puttin8 8s whe8e they d8n't 8elong phonetically when she's upset.
Have you read up on how the game works?: Mooching, money-making, stealing, and FlamingFerret is the plug-in! ::::)
1st person sample: arachnidsGrip [AG] began trolling theThor
AG: Hello, Thor. This is a god speaking.
AG: Not your god, may8e. 8ut I could 8e if you wanted me to. :::;)
AG: Plus stealing one of Karkat's lines would 8e like scraping the 8ottom of losertalk and frankly I don't give enough fucks to go 8ack through his em8arrassing self-memos to dredge up some tired insult.
AG: 8ecause unlike, him, I am a friend!
AG: With 8enefits.
AG: 8enefits for me, 8enefits maaaaaaaay8e for you. It all depends on how well you help me out!
AG: Do you know a dorky kid in a 8lue hood? Yes? Get him over here.
AG: I don't really care a8out any of the rest, 8ut if you see a troll with red glasses, extend a mighty fuck you in her direction 8efore she has any chance to say 1 TOLD YOU SO
AG: I feel a little green just typing that. Yuck!
AG: Why would Terezi type in the color of 8ile if she loves font colors so much????????
AG: There's a font color-switcher for a reason, dum8ass. Why don't you go 8e special like your 8oyfriends and 8e only the fruitiest of reds?
AG: Oops.
AG: Did I get off track? Sorry. Really! I mean it, sorry.
AG: 8ut I'd like to hear from a John Eg8ert.
AG: Other trolls can contact me if they're ready to apologize for their stupid timing with everything ever! You guys suck.
AG: < / 33333333
AG: That's how much you suck. A whole line, right through my heart.
AG: Literally. ::::/
AG: What. Really? None of you have anything to say?
AG: Fine. Then I'll go looking myself.
AG: L8r, Thor8ores.
arachnidsGrip [AG] ceased trolling theThor
3rd person sample: She was buying time. Ordering around a Vogon to get the special papers that were required for gods and not 'trolls with fairy wings'-- Vriska was incredibly particular about that, as she tapped her pen against the table with the tenacity of a particularly sick drum solo, except there was nothing fun or pretendy about it. She was dead-- or she had been, for a very short while, and her very carefully constructed house of cards (the metaphor was so dirty, what with playing cards being pornography on Alternia, but she couldn't think of a better way to word it) came crashing down and now those idiots had to deal with something that would doom them all. They killed their best bet. That was their loss.
She yelled at the alien shuffling back to her desk-- this was a god form? That was not a god form. Come back with one in parchment and give her a featherbeast quill with blue ink and maybe she'd consider signing. A little nudge with the mind allowed her to send the overworked fool on her way. Not death. No dreambubble. No white eyes. Her irises, all eight of them, scoped out the ship nicely. It was like the armada ships, but less suited for war. Probably where she would have gone if SGRUB hadn't messed everything up, or if she had even the slightest chance of filling her quadrants with the mess of people she was forced to share air with. Some of them were okay. She didn't mind being hassled by them, she guessed, but the hint hadn't gone over her head that they didn't want to be hassled by her. Whatever. Greener pastures.
Or more metallic ones, as she tapped her red boots on the floor. Everything seemed to be a nervous twitch. Terezi finished the chain. Luck didn't save her. Her only solace was that luck would never save them, either. It was a filthy, ill-blooded solace, but one nonetheless. Then they could be dead together on this mystery refugee ship-- ooh, the parchment was lined with gold. She dipped the quill she was presented with in the ink and began to write, in the Alternian she'd practiced to look exactly like Mindfang's. Old and archaic and nice, but as she went down the parchment (it was a very long one, probably about twelve feet, stretching to the floor), she lost more and more of her handwriting to sloppy yeses and nos, and describing herself in detail again and again until the top of the form became unrecognizable from the bottom, but she didn't care. Her sloppy 13 year old handwriting was just fine, just adequate, just whatever. Take the piece of paper and go.
She'd have her own block and have to build her way up. She reasoned she had the option of stealing and jumping up steps at a time the escalator of progress unlike its slow pace upward as the normals stood still. Maybe there was room for another competition in her heart, for growing up. Maybe she didn't care if that replaced Jack fucking Noir for all she gave a damn. Maybe there was another way to win this thing she called an existence, and maybe she could be the best at it. Fly into the sun without her wings ever melting. Weave her intricate web one more time, somewhere where the light would hit it. Cobwebs in corners were so stereotypical. When the light hit a perfectly woven one-- and being the Thief of Light, she would know-- it shone like a work of art instead of a work of manipulation and a trap.
Fly on in, and make yourself at home.
Being lost in the comparison, she didn't realize another 'God Form 11, Parchment Format' was being returned to her, the vogon in charge saying her last form was invalid, as her b's were 8's and the system just couldn't process it. Fill out everything again, and then fill out the troll forms, then the resurrected refugee forms, then--
She couldn't tear the thing in half fast enough, saying simply, "Just give me the damn troll papers."
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IC:
Character name: Vriska Serket
Fandom: Homestuck
Timeline: Post-death.
Age: Six Solar Sweeps (13 years)
~*Magical*~ abilities and strengths: First of all, Vriska is somewhat of a mutant, even in her own Alien culture. Bearing eight pupils (one in one eye, seven in the other), her eyes give her the ability to mind control people to do her will! However. This only works on the 'weak willed' or 'impressionable'. Some characters are impervious to it and some can even sense it in their heads. It's been alluded that she also can read minds, but this is so downplayed in the canon I'm only going to mention it, but never use it as a part of her abilities. It's only been mentioned twice in a supermassive webcomic where she maintained a main character status-- I'm guessing she doesn't use it to her advantage often. The mind control, however, she does. Vriska can also use her eyes to 'steal luck' from other people, being the Thief of Light. This makes her even more powerful, because her main weapon is based on gambling risk.
Secondly, Vriska is about the same power level (that term ugh) of a super-grinded end-of-RPG level character. In fact, she's the character the player would probably grind the most, ascending her to God Tier, which means she's unkillable unless she's corrupt and her being slain is just, or they die a heroic death. Given that Vriska is corrupt and has done many evil things and, in the narrative sense, is worthy of being put down, she is quite killable. However, she's powerful. One roll of her flourite octet (her dice that usually accompany games like Dungeons & Dragons, etc, that function as her weapon), magically goes through a roulette that pick a move that can devastate an opponent. Given her last roll, would she have the chance to do it, her last move would have been fairly powerful.
Of the less character-oriented abilities, Vriska is somewhat of a game abstraction herself. She can only 'pick up' items in the sense of 'adding them to one's inventory', which in this case is called a Sylladex. While with most RPG characters this is handwaved and not acknowledged through the fourth wall as a game abstraction, in Homestuck it very much is, to the notion that the main character himself didn't understand the phrase 'pick up' and characters have to be very cautious when taking items, as some Sylladex's are routinely horrible and effectively useless.
Vriska can also fly and bears a pretty pair of blue wings on her back, but only when she wants to. It seems characters with the designated 'God Tier' outfits can switch out of them at will, like... gaming costume swaps. Moving along!
How would they use their abilities?: To get ahead and for her own personal gain.
I wish I could pretty this section up, and say she has a few personal barriers, but no. Vriska doesn't allow people to stop her when it's in the way of what she wants. Sometimes she'll back off, but only when it's to her advantage. If she can steal from the richest NPCs and buy her way to the top, she will. If she can mind control someone into filling out her paperwork, she will. If she can have any flippant damn reason that's to her advantage, she will use her powers in full! There are a few people exempt-- John Egbert, the series protagonists, and the people who aren't susceptible to her powers due to having a strong will that's not easy to manipulate. Vriska, due to canon developments as of late, won't be killing on a whim when it used to be just fine for her to do so-- in fact, she'll shy away from it unless it's a prolonged revenge cycle that she's either grown bored of and its reached its peak and she's ready to try to win it. This, however, is mostly due to confusion on her part thanks to a human, of all things, teaching her how to act more human.
She will not hold back beating someone senseless if she is provoked into doing so. She won't stop from humiliating someone if it's within her power to do so and they didn't so much provoke her as they did annoy her or she finds them hilaaaaaaaarious. She's just that kind of character.
Appearance: Vriska, by word of canon creator, does not look entirely different from the average 13 year old human being, despite a few big differences. Same build and such, though she has rather messily kept black hair, fangs, two horns (one shaped in a pincer claw, one with a little hook on the end) that are shaded in colors of orange, and completely gray skin that pigments when blood is most concentrated (blushing and such). They have naturally gray irises that fill in with their blood pigment as they get older, and are implied to have completely different biology from human, but a lot of that could just be troll words, as they tend to have completely different words for things that humans have. So we don't know how entirely different their biology is. If the fact that Vriska started as a grub is any indication, and not a baby, and was birthed from a giant grub... then yeah the biology thing might be a big mystery. Who knows!
Background/Personality: Let me take a deep breath here. Vriska's story begins long before her own existence. Sure, she was created by a friend of hers paradox cloning her and sending her back in time, but another troll sharing her blood went back in time as well.
Let's clear up even more things before we move on, as there's going to be a lot of describing to do. Vriska hails from the planet of Alternia, which has met its imminent doom by meteors by now, and that's sadly a canon thing. The population of Alternia is the troll race, the human-looking-but-different appearance I described earlier. The race is extremely primal and violent, as newborns face Darwinism just to get out of the cave they were born in, find a monstrous creature called a Lusus to help raise them and in time give trolls a monster to raise 'like a zookeeper'. The then young trolls would build their hive utilizing robots who would follow their instruction. As young kids, they would be able to build whatever they wanted-- as Vriska built herself a castle at that age, but later regretted it because there was so much space and it made living in there desolate. When troll children would reach a certain age (measured in sweeps, as opposed to years), they would join the adult trolls in their conquest of the galaxy, in spaceships off the planets. As such, present-day Alternia, as it would be, is inhabited by mostly children.
Moving along. That other troll sharing her blood? Her ancestor, Marquise Spinneret Mindfang, a troll pirate, for more humanizing words, with a fleet of Gamblignants and was generally a criminal to all. She was notorious for a lot of things, writing her adventure that would find its way into a treasure in the form of a diary, for the young Vriska to find and read. Mindfang wrote about all sorts of things, from writing softcore troll porn, losing her vision eightfold just like Vriska would eventually come to do, to having a rivalry with the notorious exacter-of-justice Neophyte Redglare, the ancestor of a character named Terezi we will get into later. Mindfang was successful in killing Redglare at Mindfang's own trial, going on to seek out the boy predestined to kill her... the ancestor of Tavros Nitram. That's where Mindfang's story ends, and Vriska's begins.
Not many trolls had as many irons in the fire as Vriska. With the foursquare of love that trolls call matesprites (love), kismesis (potent rivalry), moirail (platonic soulmate), and auspistice (a menage a trois of one troll mediating between two trolls)-- Vriska had already found herself a kismesis by the name of Eridan, who, surprise, had an ancestor who was the kismesis of Mindfang. Together, the two of them FLARPed (live action roleplay of a more intense variety-- there's very little distinction between it being a game and actual adventuring). With this, Vriska lived up to the piracy life of her ancestor and idol, and also fulfilled one very important purpose. Vriska had a lusus (monster mombeast) that was a giant spider, and needed to be fed regularly. Losers of Vriska's campaigns would be mind controlled into throwing themselves into the web, and Eridan would take their lusii as spoils for another purpose. Vriska grew stronger and stronger, and by troll definition, the constant murder of other trolls was acceptable and expected of her.
Eventually, Vriska came to play a game side by side with Terezi Pyrope as Team Scourge, ridding the world of 'evil trolls' in Terezi's eyes, although Vriska would come to prove she hunted ones that were off limits to Terezi. The two of them would play against Team Charge, consisting of Aradia Megido and Tavros Nitram... the boy whose ancestor killed her (but shhh in the story we don't know that yet!). Vriska's absurd fascination with Tavros lead her to occupy both Aradia and Terezi somehow while she cornered Tavros on a ledge. Tavros was a firm lover of the Pupa Pan mythology (Peter Pan for us), and Vriska mocked him, asking if he wanted to fly like Pupa, and then making him jump off the ledge, paralyzing him from the waist down.
Like spider, like daughter. Vriska incapacitated her prey before starting to devour.
But Vriska's brutal treatment of Tavros wouldn't go unchecked. A chain of revenge started with Aradia, who could speak to the voices of the dead, calling the victims of Vriska to go and haunt her. Vriska was then easily manipulated by a mysterious man named Doc Scratch into exacting revenge (that she probably might have done anyway) on Aradia, by mind-controlling Aradia's possible love interest into murdering her. So, crippling a friend, murdering another. Terezi's lust for justice was certainly inherited from her ancestor, and using only the subtlest manipulation on the mysterious gentleman, Doc Scratch, a relic of his in Vriska's possession that allowed her to further cheat on her games became known to him, and in his rage, he made it explode in her face, taking off her arm and her most prized eye.
But Vriska's revenge doesn't stop there. RIGHT AFTER her arm got blown off and her precious eye taken from her, she stood up and mind controlled Tavros, who could commune with animals, to mind control Terezi's unhatched lusus into influencing Terezi to walk out into the sunlight, which on Alternia is blazing, scorching and unforgiving, (causing most activity on Alternia to be done at night) and made her stare up into it, blinding her permanently. The cycle of revenge doesn't quite stop there, but it does go on pause until present day.
Another break in actual character history to describe something. SGRUB is a game. It's a game about chess, destruction of worlds, and creation of universes, but first and foremost, it is designed as a video game and is 'played' as such. Players must craft sprites that guide them through the perils they will face in the Insipisphere, a place their hive is transported shortly before a meteor strikes. Yes, the instance of playing SGRUB invokes the end of the world. The chain of twelve trolls playing it all got in and jumped into the fray almost immediately. The game is essentially: The black pieces of chess vs. the white. Protect Skaia, the center of the Incipisphere, from the meteors that are thrown at it by the order of the Black King, called the Reckoning, before time runs out. Defeat the Black King, and win. No, saving your planet isn't your reward. Creating an entire universe for you to lord over as you will, is. Also, propagating your own existence and the existence of the ancestors. But that's a messy subject and hardly related to Vriska at all.
On the night the game would be played, Vriska had just as many irons in the fire as anyone, being contacted by the mysterious Doc Scratch for some last-minute heckling, talking to her Moirail, sort of, Kanaya Maryam, who hassled Vriska to the point of Vriska 'thinking it's flattering, she guessed she didn't mind'. And... talking to Aradia. Remember, the girl she killed? Somehow she's still kicking enough to keep the game going and keep a perfect session of twelve players. The truth is, she's a ghost. But we don't know that yet and it's supposed to be very shocking, so shhhh. Vriska had some irons in the fire with her next door neighbor, Equius. Part of Vriska wanted to make amends with Aradia-- in a flippant and facetious way, as she was prone to do. She would be delivering the gift that Equius made, but Equius double-crossed her and delivered it himself. This is pretty standard for trolls, and kicked Vriska out of the chain as she planned. Cahoots!
Sometime later, Vriska had to mercy kill her own lusus. After furiously dealing out rage at Aradia for not caring about anything, about how she was supposed to deliver the present and how it was supposed to be HER apology gift and how Aradia didn't give a damn about any of it, being that Vriska killed her and crippled her friend, in addition to being dead putting a damper on having much of any emotions at all, Vriska ragequit, giving Aradia the biggest fuck you ever.
Shenanigans later, Vriska became Tavros' server player. The server can manipulate the area around the client player. Vriska charmingly shook Tavros' wheelchair, demanding he apologize for being a cripple after building his house up to be only equipped with stairs. Kanaya, in her moirailish ways, auspistice'd between them and made Vriska behave, making Tavros a rocket chair he could easily move in. Hmph. But that wasn't where Vriska's plans end-- indeed, from start to finish, they never stop. Vriska got Tavros to enter one of his gates, leading her to her respective 'planet' (which SBURB gives to each player, surrounding Skaia), and crash into her hive. Vriska, dressed up as Tinkerbell, sat up excitedly and played along, even though she knew nothing about Pupa Pan. She decided to try giving him 'happy thoughts'. By that, she lifted him up-- unable to go anywhere or move away from her, and kissed him.
He didn't react with anything but terror. Vriska expected hate for doing so much to him! For earning his ire at every turn! She wanted his hate or his love, but he could give her neither. Tavros was just incapable of hate and couldn't love a girl who had done such monstrous things to him. Vriska then gave up, unknowing that Kanaya had been in love with her and witnessed the whole kiss, and became heartbroken. Did she want something her ancestor might have had? Wh knew. The two of them proceeded to explore her planet for treasure, the Land of Maps and Treasure, actually-- until Vriska's revenge cycle boomed in at full blast. Aradia, now in a robot body provided by Equius, came to take her revenge for being murdered by Vriska by murdering her. After smashing her into a few buildings telekinetic-ally out of rage, upon seeing Tavros' face, Aradia dropped Vriska and teleported away.
Tavros tried to kiss Vriska-- (Players in SGRUB have a second life in the form of a dreamself. If kissed, they wake up and gain their second life.)-- but she mind controlled him into stopping. She had another plan, and made him write out her message to him in her own blood about where to go and where to take her-- as she was fading fast. Turns out there's a nice little gimmick in SGRUB-- once you've climbed your echeladder (or gone level 99), you can go even higher by becoming God Tier. There is a certain method to it, though; you must die on your quest bed, which is essentially a rock sacrificial slab. At that, your dream self becomes your real self and you have mad wicked powers. Anyway, In her own blood until his hand went raw writing hers and turned into his brown blood, she wrote for him to kill her. It was his final chance to prove his ancestry, to prove that she might have had something to see in him. His last chance to kill her, and despite all of her orders, and all that she had done to him... Tavros could not strike the final blow, flying away from her quest bed in tears.
But then, Vriska ascended to the God Tiers, making her the most powerful player (as we think) amongst them all, up until they defeat the Black King and win-- her strike being the luckiest roll of her dice at the final moment-- just barely defeating an overpowered black king. The spoils were all theirs. The universe promised to them, just out of the hand of their leader-- until a demon showed up and sliced the door to the new universe in half, Aradia saving the trolls and sending them to the lab in a veil of meteors along with another version of herself (it's complicated) to wait for death from this mysterious beast that appeared from nowhere.
It turns out that four kids from the universe they were about to win had broken their game in a way that could not be unbroken, and sent the monster into their session via a scratch. The trolls were definitely not happy about this-- four squishy human chumps had all doomed them to death. So the trolls, being trolls, trolled the kids throughout their timeline as their chat client allowed them to pick timelines to view the kids at-- some even watching them from infancy to adulthood.
Vriska's irons were still quite hot. As a matter of fact, she's responsible for the monster that came into their session and would threaten their lives within twelvehours, or the meteors colliding with something would.
Really?
Vriska, all along, responsible for the monster that was Jack Noir? I could go into how, but the fact is she did it. She manipulated the humans from their timeline into making it happen. She befriended the main character, John Egbert, as he went along. Why? Because Jack Noir was the Extra Stage Boss. The ultimate thing to fight and win against, and Vriska, ideally teaming with John as she helped make him into God Tier as well, would defeat him. Vriska idealized making John into the perfect hero-- something Tavros ultimately wasn't for her. Tavros was in her past-- but not so much that he didn't learn of Vriska's meddling into dooming them all, upon then, finally deciding to kill Vriska. Vriska laughed and lazily accepted his challenge, not putting much stock into it and putting more into building John.
As she got to know John, though, little bits of Vriska changed. Certainly not all the way, but as she learned of human life, how less violent their culture was, what a cute... squishy human John was, she started to warm up to him. Also, John is responsible for Vriska falling head over heels in matesprite love with Nic Cage. You read that absolutely right. She put posters all up over her secret room and drew herself on the girls that Cage happened to be mackin' on. It's all right here and easily the most touching scene in the series.
Anyway.
Tavros? Confrontation? Right. Tavros confronted her with naught but a lance, but when he finally charged, Vriska looked... displeased. She ripped the lance from his hand and shoved it through his chest, throwing him off a broken platform behind her, finally killing Tavros. The revenge chain? You remember that, right? It starts again when Terezi uncovers the bodies, and uncovers MORE bodies and blood (killed by Eridan), and chalks it up to Vriska going on a murder spree. Vriska then goes to have a three-off duel against Eridan and Gamzee, who, as the Bard of Rage and no longer under the influence of sopor slime, sobered up and immediately became a psychotic killer on Vriska's level-- being the one who dealt the strongest blow to the black king. Anyway, the duel ends when Kanaya, turned into a vampire/rainbow drinker, charges into the duel, kicks Gamzee where the sun doesn't shine off a cliff, breaks the wand she made for Eridan that he used to kill her, and chainsaws him in half. Oh, and punches Vriska straight in the kisser. This... display of brute force made Vriska temporarily flushed, but it didn't seem to last long.
She had contacted John before, talking about how killing Tavros didn't fulfill her at all. How it would have been expected of her on her planet to kill him for less, for doing what he did. John gave her a human's point of view and once again, parts of Vriska cracked away, not quite in remorse, but in the ideal of a better life. A less bloody life, and this nerdy kid was telling her all about it. He kind of gave her hope or something, just a nice feeling. Apparently she thought a lot about it, in her last words to him, she empathized that she wanted to go on a date with him, and watch Nic Cage movies with him.
Now, in another timeline, Vriska would have confronted Terezi, flown away in a glittery trail of God Tier dust, let Jack follow her trail back to the hideout and murder the rest of the trolls, and Vriska would finally have the duel she always wanted with the monster Noir. But that timeline was not to be.
Vriska was stabbed in the back by Terezi, and subsequently...
A picture says a thousand words. Because I'm already at the 4,000 word mark on this app, and frankly I'm starting to feel awful for you guys reading this. Onto personality!
Vriska, first and foremost, is unforgivable. Why? Because she died. Normally this would make a poor argument, but she was god tier, and her slaying was marked as 'just' in the eyes of the game-- that meant she was truly marked as a villain in the game's eyes and was easily slain by being stabbed in the back. Now, does unforgivable and possibly irredeemable mean unchangable? No. In her very last moments of life, Vriska expressed genuine enthusiasm without a dark twist, a machination, an iron in the fire. She just had a crush on John and wanted to hang out with him-- do a human date. John, the pluckiest, nicest guy in the world, had shown her a life that didn't involve HAVING to murder into the point where it bred into habit, and was expected in her world. Would that necessarily change her? Certainly, with John around, Vriska would keep her habits in check, as I said before, but not halted. Vriska is still quite, quite mean.
Even more complicated, Vriska isn't just 'mean'. She's shades of mean. She's projective mean, taunting other people for things that are her doing, trying to make Tavros apologize for his crippling, blaming Aradia for the apathy she had because Vriska killed her. She's straight up cruel and when revenge comes to her mind, she doesn't think twice. Though now that she's died, she may halt, old habits die hard with this girl. She threatened to kill John months before the game even happened, before her personality got a bit of a turnaround. She heckled Terezi in a competition with their respective human boys, though Terezi showed remorse for watching Dave die in a machination of her own, Vriska was perfectly content in letting John die to reach the god tiers-- hell, John was content with it too. No one seemed to care.
If it wasn't implied in her history enough, Vriska is all about competition and getting the upper hand. She helped create the demon Bec Noir to be what he was in order to have a final, victorious fight against him, boasting all of that confidence. Vriska was empowered not only by herself, but by following the steps of her ancestor to a T, even following her relationships until that glamor of being Mindfang slowly faded away when she realized she wasn't Mindfang and Tavros wasn't destined to kill her and Eridan was frankly just a wimp. While Vriska said that Tavros did too little, too late, the same can be said of Vriska herself. She learned too little of humanity too late.
Vriska, for all of her prevalence in the story, is regarded by two main characters, one omniscient, as simple and easy to manipulate. Karkat referred to her as just another psycho, a troll caegar a dozen, and run of the mill. Doc Scratch referred to her simple, impulsive mind as being easy to manipulate along the path, and quite easily a waste of his talents. This is true. Vriska might be a good manipulator herself, but she's trumped by Terezi and Doc Scratch, and has to rely on her powers more often than not to truly manipulate the scenario. Her forceful presence in the story is practically of her own doing-- she is always making something happen, whether by being manipulated by others or doing the manipulating herself. She believed luck, the thing she gambled with her whole life, was everything. She gave herself rotten luck and believed it was her own-- instead, Kanaya suggested that might have just been her perception. Terezi hinted all along that luck would not save Vriska in the end, and indeed, it did not.
Other easy things to note is that Vriska is just a bit draaaaaaaamatic. Everything she does, she does with her in her mind as the hero, as the protagonist, as the best thing ever. She has quite an ego! The reason she built up John so much at first was because she'd be responsible for him being so great. And then she warmed up to him as a person, and so on. She's a villain and a bit of a misunderstood kid, but all the bad she's done still trumps the good-- going back to the fact that she's dead. Vriska is facetious, enjoys laughter at the expense of others, expects others to fall in line with her plan and flips out when they don't, is disliked by every single troll, even the one that used to love her. Vriska claimed Tavros was too little, too late, but in the end, to reiterate, the same thing did her in.
Vriska is not quite a villain any more, but she's not quite good or just, either. From this point on, it depends on where the Thor takes her.
She puts strong emphasis on 8eing as awesome as possible, even if it means streeeeeeeetching things out a little 8it, or puttin8 8s whe8e they d8n't 8elong phonetically when she's upset.
Have you read up on how the game works?: Mooching, money-making, stealing, and FlamingFerret is the plug-in! ::::)
1st person sample: arachnidsGrip [AG] began trolling theThor
AG: Hello, Thor. This is a god speaking.
AG: Not your god, may8e. 8ut I could 8e if you wanted me to. :::;)
AG: Plus stealing one of Karkat's lines would 8e like scraping the 8ottom of losertalk and frankly I don't give enough fucks to go 8ack through his em8arrassing self-memos to dredge up some tired insult.
AG: 8ecause unlike, him, I am a friend!
AG: With 8enefits.
AG: 8enefits for me, 8enefits maaaaaaaay8e for you. It all depends on how well you help me out!
AG: Do you know a dorky kid in a 8lue hood? Yes? Get him over here.
AG: I don't really care a8out any of the rest, 8ut if you see a troll with red glasses, extend a mighty fuck you in her direction 8efore she has any chance to say 1 TOLD YOU SO
AG: I feel a little green just typing that. Yuck!
AG: Why would Terezi type in the color of 8ile if she loves font colors so much????????
AG: There's a font color-switcher for a reason, dum8ass. Why don't you go 8e special like your 8oyfriends and 8e only the fruitiest of reds?
AG: Oops.
AG: Did I get off track? Sorry. Really! I mean it, sorry.
AG: 8ut I'd like to hear from a John Eg8ert.
AG: Other trolls can contact me if they're ready to apologize for their stupid timing with everything ever! You guys suck.
AG: < / 33333333
AG: That's how much you suck. A whole line, right through my heart.
AG: Literally. ::::/
AG: What. Really? None of you have anything to say?
AG: Fine. Then I'll go looking myself.
AG: L8r, Thor8ores.
arachnidsGrip [AG] ceased trolling theThor
3rd person sample: She was buying time. Ordering around a Vogon to get the special papers that were required for gods and not 'trolls with fairy wings'-- Vriska was incredibly particular about that, as she tapped her pen against the table with the tenacity of a particularly sick drum solo, except there was nothing fun or pretendy about it. She was dead-- or she had been, for a very short while, and her very carefully constructed house of cards (the metaphor was so dirty, what with playing cards being pornography on Alternia, but she couldn't think of a better way to word it) came crashing down and now those idiots had to deal with something that would doom them all. They killed their best bet. That was their loss.
She yelled at the alien shuffling back to her desk-- this was a god form? That was not a god form. Come back with one in parchment and give her a featherbeast quill with blue ink and maybe she'd consider signing. A little nudge with the mind allowed her to send the overworked fool on her way. Not death. No dreambubble. No white eyes. Her irises, all eight of them, scoped out the ship nicely. It was like the armada ships, but less suited for war. Probably where she would have gone if SGRUB hadn't messed everything up, or if she had even the slightest chance of filling her quadrants with the mess of people she was forced to share air with. Some of them were okay. She didn't mind being hassled by them, she guessed, but the hint hadn't gone over her head that they didn't want to be hassled by her. Whatever. Greener pastures.
Or more metallic ones, as she tapped her red boots on the floor. Everything seemed to be a nervous twitch. Terezi finished the chain. Luck didn't save her. Her only solace was that luck would never save them, either. It was a filthy, ill-blooded solace, but one nonetheless. Then they could be dead together on this mystery refugee ship-- ooh, the parchment was lined with gold. She dipped the quill she was presented with in the ink and began to write, in the Alternian she'd practiced to look exactly like Mindfang's. Old and archaic and nice, but as she went down the parchment (it was a very long one, probably about twelve feet, stretching to the floor), she lost more and more of her handwriting to sloppy yeses and nos, and describing herself in detail again and again until the top of the form became unrecognizable from the bottom, but she didn't care. Her sloppy 13 year old handwriting was just fine, just adequate, just whatever. Take the piece of paper and go.
She'd have her own block and have to build her way up. She reasoned she had the option of stealing and jumping up steps at a time the escalator of progress unlike its slow pace upward as the normals stood still. Maybe there was room for another competition in her heart, for growing up. Maybe she didn't care if that replaced Jack fucking Noir for all she gave a damn. Maybe there was another way to win this thing she called an existence, and maybe she could be the best at it. Fly into the sun without her wings ever melting. Weave her intricate web one more time, somewhere where the light would hit it. Cobwebs in corners were so stereotypical. When the light hit a perfectly woven one-- and being the Thief of Light, she would know-- it shone like a work of art instead of a work of manipulation and a trap.
Fly on in, and make yourself at home.
Being lost in the comparison, she didn't realize another 'God Form 11, Parchment Format' was being returned to her, the vogon in charge saying her last form was invalid, as her b's were 8's and the system just couldn't process it. Fill out everything again, and then fill out the troll forms, then the resurrected refugee forms, then--
She couldn't tear the thing in half fast enough, saying simply, "Just give me the damn troll papers."
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