Sketches + Commentary: Best Laid Plans pt 2
Added 2020-10-22 19:17:08 +0000 UTC
Oh yes, time for more intense Vriska/Vriska action. And by that I mean one Vriska is sort of condescendingly competent while the other looks on in simultaneously excited and disquieted awe.
I think Iβve gone on about this before, but I canβt get over how fucking weird this must be for Vrissy. A different--arguably better, depending on whose viewpoint youβre taking--version of yourself running around, taking charge, doing all of the things that youβve sort of pretended youβve been doing for your whole life. Being a βbad girlβ and a βrebelβ.
This is a very common Vriska theme. Thereβs a lot of them running around, and all of them are superlative in a way, depending on your opinion of what that means. Do you want your Vriska out of the game, or in play? Do you want her unbent, or broken? Do you want the personality without the competence? Do you want her to be talented but toothless?
Vriska has always been a very clear-cut study in the destruction of reader expectation. When we read adventure stories, we expect the good guys to triumph, and the bad guys to be punished. And we expect the good guys to be, well. Good. If not nice, then at the very least kind and morally upright. Vriska is not any of those things, really. And we can get in an argument about whether thatβs her fault or not--for the purposes of whatever the fuck Iβm doing here (what am I doing here?) it doesnβt really matter. The fact is that when we read a story, we expect the hero to be brave and true. We expect them to have the moral high ground. We donβt expect them to throw absolutely everything out except the desire to win, like people do in Real Life. βCause often in Real Life, lying and cheating and scheming in order to win...is usually how people win. Itβs depressing, but itβs often true.
Anyway, I donβt know what I was talking about.
Uh. Vriskas. Other selves. This good art! We wanted to do a visual heavy chapter, because sometimes you gotta. A picture is worth a thousand words, but donβt tell anyone I told you that because Iβm a writer.
See you next time!
Comments
So much running around. Almost like an episode of Doctor Who. :P Still though, this is the Vriska who never experienced Aranea. She's still the kid who got groomed by Doc Scratch and is acting out the fantasy of being Mindfang. And she can accomplish much, for sure. But it's just a waiting game until someone else gets hurt.
Tinokel
2020-10-22 19:26:31 +0000 UTCThose three panels at the end of this update were magnificent.
Madame Hardy
2020-10-22 19:23:19 +0000 UTCoh and also junes house blew up but vriska is more important π
greedlikes
2020-10-22 19:18:52 +0000 UTC
