oh god my HEART
Jul. 27th, 2015 07:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
edenfallingAugh. I think the 7/28 Homestuck update broke me.
*sobs helplessly over stupid alien teenagers*
More seriously, I love that Terezi's depression has become such a clear part of her character arc -- that it's real and painful and eats away at her underneath whatever face she shows the world. It's not purely situational, either, as the Game Over timeline initially led me to believe. It's just part of her, something that would have (and did) show up regardless of external events. The circumstances only determine how she expresses and deals with her depression.
And none of that makes her unfit to be a hero. Terezi isn't a hero because she's depressed, or in spite of being depressed. She's a hero, and she's depressed. That's it.
That's really powerful.
I also love that Terezi and Vriska's friendship gets so much narrative weight, to the point where a Flash animation about them made me cry harder than just about anything else in the whole huge and sprawling adventure. Well-done female friendships are so rare in action/adventure stories, and this one is just... it's epic. That's the only word.
They encourage each other to new heights of invention and skill. They are inseparable partners, until they fall out over a question of ethics. (NOT over a boy. I mean, Vriska's thing for Tavros is indirectly involved, but it's mostly about Aradia's death and Terezi's realization that she's overlooked and been party to crimes she'd kill anyone else for, and Vriska's sense of betrayal at what she sees as Terezi's abandonment and hypocrisy.) Terezi kills Vriska to save her remaining other friends, and then spends three years hating and hurting herself as (I think) conscious or subconscious punishment for her actions.
Terezi rewrites time to save her friend.
And now I'm looking back at GO!Vriska's actions in the dreambubbles and wondering how much of her attitude is related to her feelings about Terezi: that she screwed up enough to make her best friend kill her, that she wants to prove Terezi wrong and show that she can be a hero, that she doesn't have anyone around anymore to poke holes in her plans and tease her and give her that bedrock certainty that she is loved and wanted.
I don't know what's going to happen to them in the main timeline, but I am so glad that at least in one universe, at least in some form, they got a happy ending.
Together.
...
I'm going to read Terezi's monologue and watch the flash and cry again now. *grabs box of tissues in preparation*
*sobs helplessly over stupid alien teenagers*
More seriously, I love that Terezi's depression has become such a clear part of her character arc -- that it's real and painful and eats away at her underneath whatever face she shows the world. It's not purely situational, either, as the Game Over timeline initially led me to believe. It's just part of her, something that would have (and did) show up regardless of external events. The circumstances only determine how she expresses and deals with her depression.
And none of that makes her unfit to be a hero. Terezi isn't a hero because she's depressed, or in spite of being depressed. She's a hero, and she's depressed. That's it.
That's really powerful.
I also love that Terezi and Vriska's friendship gets so much narrative weight, to the point where a Flash animation about them made me cry harder than just about anything else in the whole huge and sprawling adventure. Well-done female friendships are so rare in action/adventure stories, and this one is just... it's epic. That's the only word.
They encourage each other to new heights of invention and skill. They are inseparable partners, until they fall out over a question of ethics. (NOT over a boy. I mean, Vriska's thing for Tavros is indirectly involved, but it's mostly about Aradia's death and Terezi's realization that she's overlooked and been party to crimes she'd kill anyone else for, and Vriska's sense of betrayal at what she sees as Terezi's abandonment and hypocrisy.) Terezi kills Vriska to save her remaining other friends, and then spends three years hating and hurting herself as (I think) conscious or subconscious punishment for her actions.
Terezi rewrites time to save her friend.
And now I'm looking back at GO!Vriska's actions in the dreambubbles and wondering how much of her attitude is related to her feelings about Terezi: that she screwed up enough to make her best friend kill her, that she wants to prove Terezi wrong and show that she can be a hero, that she doesn't have anyone around anymore to poke holes in her plans and tease her and give her that bedrock certainty that she is loved and wanted.
I don't know what's going to happen to them in the main timeline, but I am so glad that at least in one universe, at least in some form, they got a happy ending.
Together.
...
I'm going to read Terezi's monologue and watch the flash and cry again now. *grabs box of tissues in preparation*
