End For Real

And Thus it has ended. For real this time.

And…wow Vrisky Business. That just tore into my heart right there.

Vriska just losing herself into her pain, into her life that she is forced to have with her Spider that can turn on her at any given time, into the fact that her friends seem to have a better life and seem to overcome any challenge in a better way than her. Just, there was just so much raw emotion to unpack here.

How she kept trying to be useful by cleaning up her own blood after herself. How she was just taking the arm instead of asking Equius to build her a new one, because she had to do it herself. That it was only possible if she did it herself.

I know that there is a lot of Controversy around Vriska, the Vriscorse I think it’s called. How some people are either on the “she’s good” or “she’s bad” camp. It actually reminds me a lot like the Odyssey, in a way.

Really it came from this article talking about a new translation of the Odyssey, that I read on tumblr a long while ago. How other translators would cast judgement on Odysseus since the starting line. But this new version, it called him “complicated”. And I think that sort of sums up my feelings on Vriska. 

She’s Complicated.

There is no clear-cut way to perfectly sort her as either good or evil. She has done bad things, but she still cares for her friends. She tries to be good and useful, but is forced to kill since a young age. She is just…complex, and I think this comic does a good way of showing it.