2023-10-15 3:34:52 ¶ ●

never picked up on the revolutionary overtones of Vriska finishing off her parasitic lusus with a “Guillotine de Marquise” before… which is a little ironic given that we later find out the guillotine has that name not because it was used on a marquise but belonged to a marquise. so it’s a particularly heavy handed example of Vriska literally LARPing as a renegade.

Hussie’s commentary on the spider execution scene specifically wonders if it’s “reasonable to ask: did [Mindfang] have to guillotine her own spider mom too? Maybe it’s becoming a Serket family tradition”, seemingly having forgotten that Mindfang’s lusus was swallowed whole by a dragon. but Mindfang’s life did end on a revolutionary chapter, so perhaps the core of this assumption isn’t totally worth throwing out…?