HOW DID I NOT NOTICE THIS UPDATE FOR THREE WHOLE MONTHS?
I am so, so sorry for not replying before now. (I blame college finals, and my own scatterbrained tendencies.)
As for the story itself...hmm. Now that we've seen Vriska's perspective, I'm starting to think that she's not the only one who could benefit from being forced to see the consequences of her actions. Aradia comes off as a lot less sympathetic when you consider how blithely she inflicted this kind of torture on Vriska (did she know that Vriska is empathic?), and there's also the fact that she denied Tavros aid that could allow him to walk again based entirely on her prejudice against blue-bloods, without considering what he might want. When you really think about it, the entirety of her involvement in the whole FLARP incident debacle and its followup just made things a whole lot worse than they might have been otherwise. I can't really see it happening right away, but maybe at some point in the future of the story (the aftermath of the present incident, maybe?) she might be confronted with just how much of the responsibility for how awful things got lies with her. Maybe a barbed lecture from Alonde?
In a more immediate sense, I did advocate for all four Kid!Trolls contacting Vriska at some point during her chapter, so I suggest that Jarlia be next.
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Date: 2013-01-24 11:58 pm (UTC)HOW DID I NOT NOTICE THIS UPDATE FOR THREE WHOLE MONTHS?
I am so, so sorry for not replying before now. (I blame college finals, and my own scatterbrained tendencies.)
As for the story itself...hmm. Now that we've seen Vriska's perspective, I'm starting to think that she's not the only one who could benefit from being forced to see the consequences of her actions. Aradia comes off as a lot less sympathetic when you consider how blithely she inflicted this kind of torture on Vriska (did she know that Vriska is empathic?), and there's also the fact that she denied Tavros aid that could allow him to walk again based entirely on her prejudice against blue-bloods, without considering what he might want. When you really think about it, the entirety of her involvement in the whole FLARP incident debacle and its followup just made things a whole lot worse than they might have been otherwise. I can't really see it happening right away, but maybe at some point in the future of the story (the aftermath of the present incident, maybe?) she might be confronted with just how much of the responsibility for how awful things got lies with her. Maybe a barbed lecture from Alonde?
In a more immediate sense, I did advocate for all four Kid!Trolls contacting Vriska at some point during her chapter, so I suggest that Jarlia be next.