2022-08-24 7:18:29 ¶ ●

maybe someday I’ll steel myself to attempt to analyse friendsim in any real way; in the meantime, though, malo’s comment here has woken me up to the fact that “manifesting things you fear” is explicitly the purpose of Gamzee and the clown caste; so it follows that a Prince of Hope would “invert” the purpose of his aspect to do the very same thing.

so instead of thinking of the Land of Wrath and Angels’ angel population as having been manifested because Eridan didn’t believe in them, maybe we should think of them as something Eridan manifested because he was afraid of them… and then promptly instigated a one-man genocidal crusade against them. certainly this angle lines up with talk of genocide and racial paranoia that’s been floating around lately… particularly if you take into account Sollux’ assessment that the purpose of an angel is “two u2her iin the end”?