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FELIZ NAVIDAD - MERRY CHRISTMAS

Que estas Navidades llenen a la familia de energía con amor, música y baile.

Let this Christmas energize the family with love, music and dance.

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Marina Shafir

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22.02 cat day!

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Happy birthday 🎂

[thewertsearch]

Hello.

No username, no text color - absolutely nothing to go on. This conversation doesn’t even start with a chat header, which would indicate whether he’s pestering Vriska or trolling her. 

Methinks this guy actually knows what he’s doing.

All the ways I've exploited you were meant to bring about the events that will take place this evening.

Whitetext may hide his identity, but he’s making no effort to hide what’s going on. He’s confident enough in his machinations to essentially taunt Vriska here, because the game ends today. 

Knowing this will provide context for the events in your near future, and will affect how you behave in response. These events will be just as important as those preceding it.

Just kidding - the game hasn’t ended. These taunts are just another way to move Vriska into position - and, again, he’s perfectly comfortable telling her this, because that, too, is part of his gambit. 

Who the hell is this guy? He’s using perfect syntax, implying he’s not a troll - but we know from Gamzee that trolls can suppress their quirks, so even that’s not a given. 

AG: You are just a petty douche with a 8ad temper who likes to pl8y g8mes, and all I did w8s humor you. I did exploit you, very thoroughly. It was easy. [...] Have I ever lost a game? AG: Don't ch8nge the su8ject!!!!!!!!

This is how you handle someone like Vriska. Unlike Aradia, she probably can’t be tricked into a state where she willingly gives up her agency, and would probably rebel out of principle if you tried.

So instead, you just piss her off. She’ll stop thinking clearly, and - provided you’ve got the right ideas into her head - her own natural inclinations will do your work for you. You’ll have your Aradia, even though she doesn't realize that’s what she is. 

AG: I'm going to log off in a 8ig huff and you have to promise not to use that nasty trick where you log me 8ack on out of petty douchey spite!

Yeah, it would really suck if someone violated your agency like that, wouldn’t it, Mindfang?

I no longer hold you accountable for any wrongdoing. In fact, I've given your transgression very little thought since the incident.

So Vriska actually did get one over on Mr Chessmaster over here.

...or, at least, he’s letting her think she did. This feels like the type of person who’d work on multiple levels like that.

If you acknowledge this amnesty and regard it as sincere, you may begin to find the odds falling in your favor again.

So he’s the reason for her bad luck? 

Maybe has some sort of power over probability. This feels like a guy who’s very familiar with the supernatural side of Alternia, and we don’t know the limits of troll powers yet. 

But of course it was your unpleasant, simplistic temperament that made you so easy to control. Vicious and predictable, like an insect. If you turn a swarm of wasps on a crowd, the outcome is certain.

Vriska might have a lot of irons in her web, but she really doesn’t seem hard to direct. Just convince her someone is ‘winning’ against her, and then get her mad enough to act on that knowledge.  

AG: Blech. What a sno8. You're worse than my meddley meddler meddlefriend. I wonder why they waste their camaraderie on you. I'll never understand it.

You want my honest answer, Whitetext? After everything that I’ve seen?

These kids are growing up in hell. But - and this is their one true solace - they’re growing up in hell together. 

Though the magnitude of the ensuing destruction resulting directly from your actions will be neither possible or necessary for you to fathom, there nevertheless ought to be a silver lining.

Vriska is going to cause a disaster, eh? Bit of a foregone conclusion, I think. Next you’ll be telling us that Karkat is going to yell at someone. 

What use is all that attitude against a guy who's never wrong?

Oh he isn’t, is he? 

Just like Aradia’s Visions? Just like Sollux’s Voices? Just like the Horrorterrors?

Are all of these ‘infallible’ sources really different entities, or is this just one guy with a lot of sockpuppets? 

Maybe you could stand to have some camaraderie wasted on you, even if it comes from a meddley meddler meddlefriend.

See? Even Vriska doesn’t need to face Alternia alone.   

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