2020-09-27 15:46:54 ¶ ●

i suppose karkat’s aspiration toward being a executioner / threshecutioner i.e. the role of the person responsible for his ancestor’s destruction is probably some kind of symptom of self loathing?

and now that i point my focus all the way back at the introductory paragraphs, it occurs to me for the first time that the strange little comment in vriska’s introduction about being an “apocalypse buff” isn’t so strange at all! vriska’s interest in end of the world scenarios plays directly into her hero complex: she wants to be the one with the knowledge that makes her able to stop those end of the world scenarios. this is exactly why she strikes up the role of kismesis - the role of sworn enemy - with the genocidal eridan, who aims to act out some of these apocalypse scenarios. before lord english or jack noir, eridan was the character vriska built up to act as the villain to her ultimate hero moment.