wait just cuz I’m stupid and not as some kind of gotcha- how do you think kismesis dynamics should work or like. in what ways do you feel like people misunderstand them ?? sorry this question might be shit
okay. This might be a long post cause I'm not very good at explaining things, and I tend to speak in very round-about and long-winded ways. Also, I'm using proper grammar and no TQ. That's how you know im smart, and correct. (Sarcasm.)
Alot of people shipping in the Homestuck fandom don't really regard any other quadrants other than flushed romance (Matespritship) and it's not necessarily a bad thing, but I think it speaks alot to how people just... don't really understand the other three quads.
Most of the experience I have seeing people treat kismesiship is as just another word for enemies to lovers, or worse, platonic hatred. I think people should treat characters in Homestuck (Specifically the trolls, I don't think this necessarily applies to the humans) casually hating eachother the same as them casually liking eachother. To trolls, "I love you" is just as intense as "I hate you" and the same for "like" and "dislike."
WHILE I don't want to be that guy who's all "Erm in canon they're friends!" Because, obviously. Fucking look at me. I brand myself as the Eridirk guy. They have absolutely zero canon on screen interraction-- the Eridan we see and the Dirk we see don't even know eachother exist.
I strongly believe everybody has a right to ship and interpret characters however they want. I would be an obtuse hypocrite if I said they couldn't. I just think the way people interpret Eridan's "Pitch Fishing" (MY term I made up. Do not steal. /j) as actual meaningful hatred is willfully misunderstanding Eridan's character. In [S] Kanaya: return to the core, Eridan was very obviously fighting Sollux as a cry for attention, or how I interpet it, as him trying to look "cool" and "strong" in front of Feferi. At the very least he wanted Feferi to assume the position as their auspistice, which would negate Eridan and Sollux from having a proper blackrom. I think Feferi was right in assuming Eridan was just fighting with him to push them out of their flush quadrant, to say the least.
We have two prominent characters displaying Eridan's pitch "type." Rose, and Vriska. Two cunning, snarky girls who perfectly oppose Eridan's over-the-top villain persona. Eridan wants someone who would respond to a villanous monolgue with one of their own. Not a gamer boy who codes all day and calls him a fish. Sollux gets under his nerves because he sees him as lesser. Eridan, pointedly, does not see Vriska or Rose as lesser. The whole POINT of the black quadrant is that you see your pitchmate as an equal, and if you don't, youre doing something wrong. The ideal kismesis hates their partner because they want to BETTER them. Not because they want to ruin them.
