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ur post are so cool can you talk abt vrisrezi Please i wanna know ypur thoughs abt them
GODDDDD where do i even begin. they're so horrifically tragic because in order for vriska to remain recognizably vriska she Must act in a way which will always doom their relationship regardless of if she means to or not. like the reason ghost terezi and (vriska) are able to actually be happy together is because (vriska) has given up on her desire for relevance which is something that the "main" vriska can never do because once she does that she ceases to have anything driving her as a character. when any fictional character resolves their arc they are no longer interesting to an audience bc CONFLICT is what keeps a story going and that character no longer has as much conflict going on. obviously it's not always so cut and dry but we've all watched a show where a character's arc finished neatly several seasons before the show itself ended so for the rest of it they were just kind of There without anything meaningful to contribute. anyway vriska's entire motivation is narrative attention and the resolution to this would be her realizing that she values other things/relationships more which is exactly what (vriska) does. but because the narrative needs the primary vriska to drive the plot she will never be able to settle for less in the way that (vriska) does. and terezi is doomed to always chase after her bc that's the main conflict of HER arc. and even when she's not literally pursuing her she's always going to be haunted by vriska. i think the way hs proper ended with terezi in a kind of schrodinger's cat situation wrt her search for vriska was incredibly compelling (one must imagine terezi pyrope happy etc etc) but that being said im very interested to see what hs2 ends up doing with the two of them. ive said before that i think terezi is very close to the thematic center of post canon and im really interested to see where vriska will end up fitting into that.
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