dukeofriven:

roachpatrol:

traceexcalibur:

consider this: Terezi seeming most sad and vulnerable when around Vriska is not because Vriska is causing this, but because she actually feels comfortable letting her facade down around Vriska

consider this: vriska actively destroys her victims’s sense of self-worth in order to control them and mold them into who she wants them to be— and to get them to treat her like she wants them to treat her— and this is a pattern you can observe in her interactions with other characters from the very beginning. at no point does she actually legitimize anyone else’s emotions: the only correct emotions are the ones she has, and she harasses people pretty much to the exact degree they disagree with her. 

i wouldn’t be surprised if terezi does let her facade down around vriska. and does let vriska see her sorrow and vulnerability. vriska is a difficult person to hide things from, because hey, she can read your mind. this is in no way an actually healthy situation though, because vriska in no way respects what she sees there. 

having a violent mind-controlling narcissist in your pale quadrant sounds like exactly the kind of situation that would take a kind, thoughtful, insecure, depressed teenager struggling with guilt and existential dread and hollow them the fuck out. you know. like how spiders do.  

Never forget that Terezi prefaces her last conversation with Vriska by saying “I know you’d never say this to my face but I know you think less of me for having emotional connections to things.”