Look I was all for John kicking Caliborn’s ass, or at least fighting him. Much like in the way Jake was attacking Meenah.
But yeah I almost forgot that this was the horrific evil terror child that grows up to be a horrific evil terror man. His anime drawings distacted me from the fact that Caliborn is super capable at fighting and death.
So John is going to have a hardass time fighting Caliborn, if he doesn’t poof away first.
Yeah, I want to talk about this. I feel like I need to talk about this before I can move on.
Because, even with a fucking GUN, Caliborn and John’s fight seems completely childish compared to everything else that fucking happened.
Damn this hurts.
I wished that Kanaya finally getting revenge on Gamzee by slicing him with her chainsaw was satisfying. I wished it was. But it got hampered by the fact that KARKAT DIED! Like! WHY!? His anger wanted to get vengeance on Gamzee first, but instead it lead to his death. Being stabbed then burned to lava.
And a Life Player can only revive a person once, so unless they find another Life Player, he’s out.
Not like that matters because the currently Life Player they have now is also dead too. Jane got fucking stabbed in her sleep. By Dirk’s Sword. Jake got stabbed trying to protect Jane. By Dirk’s Sword. They had both a Heroic and Just death because of Dirk’s Weapon, who was only trying to protect them.
And Jake’s life at this point was
Become a Trickster
Died on his death bed
meet his grandma
get captured by his grandma
threatened into a force boytoy sex slave marriage with his mind-controlled friend
meet ghost spider chick who he was crushing on
who them proceed to give him a power boost against his will who took away any ability to process himself
killed by Jane
woke up to just watch a clown beat someone up
only to die trying to protect Jane
And fucking Dave got stabbed too. By Jack Noir. Like his brother. They both died in a sword-fight with Jack Noir. Only this time it’s worse because Dave was trying to protect Jade so his death was heroic.
I think the worst part about that death was that it didn’t need to happen. They didn’t need to fight. They could have been on the same side easily, but the dog’s protective instincts too over.
But Jack carrying Jade to her bed like before when she died. He didn’t even know that she was still alive, he just saw her dead body again.
Then Kanaya just got Blasted with those Sollux death-light beams. So she got obliterated and turned to ash like a vampire in sunlight.
Which lead Rose to snap and try to attack Ferrari, which that ended with her being stabbed. Just like how her Alpha-version died.
And Aranea fucking snapped by this point because she just fucking played herself. Trying to kill Jane, she kills Jake. Meaning that EVERYTHING she had done to everyone here was pointless. Moot. And I guess she hadn’t dealt with loss because her first instinct is to Destroy The Entire Planet With Another Planet! Like, THERE WERE PEOPLE THERE!! She was also going to bring in a second planet if Ferrari didn’t deflect it with the last planet.
So those two managed to just destroy every planet that the kids had.
And as Rose tried to attack so did Terezi, and look at the differences between our two antagonists. Ferrari just yeeted her trident into Rose, in a total Meenah move. But Aranea I would argue was even worse. She controlled Terezi to stab herself. That’s horrific.
And over all, the abuse that Terezi went through at this point is horrible.
attacked and destroyed by gamzee
had her cane be the one to stab/kill karkat
Got blasted away while Kanaya was stuck with the full force
So basically, she was there and present for each of the deaths of her friends, got affected by them. Try to avenge herself against Aranea, only to self-stab herself.
Roxy managed to drag Rose away, so at least those two are together once Rose revives.
Ferrari and Aranea are now all on it, and good luck to that. I don’t care.
I mean, I care for the point of the story. But it is like villain v. villain right now. I don’t care who wins, because I want to be rooting for the heroes here.
And the only way that I can see out of this is either John or Terezi.
Terezi is the Seer of Mind. She is able to see possible paths into the future right? Well, maybe it can work in reverse. This Terezi could push her experiences/memories back into a past self. I know her computer is fucking important! I’ve been seeing it 6 times already so I know that has to come into play. This has to be it! Why else would Hussie tease us with Terezi’s laptop without actually showing us?
Or John can help out too. He is Beyond Everyone, and outside the story. He can make changes that is needed (or unneeded). And it seems like his zapping abilities is taking longer and longer to zap away. So what if he zaps to Terezi in the past in her Hive before the game and let her know what is going on. Terezi knew John’s name, I didn’t forget that. I thought it was because they all spied on the kids but it could be that John did zap himself into the past.
I’m currently favoring the Terezi route, but I am not going to rule out the John path either. I can’t afford to.
