TAVROS: hOW HAVE YOU BEEN? VRISKA: Ok. Dead mostly. TAVROS: yES, mE TOO, VRISKA: Yeah. VRISKA: Hey, sorry a8out that 8y the way.
this conversation is absolutely amazing ad i’m going to quote only parts of it
but the parts before that were GREAT too (vriska preening at the idea tavros liked being her!!!)
but look at that actually meant apology! i mean it’s still very matter of fact for something way above unacceptable, but it’s sincere!!!
plus look at how they both remember it:
TAVROS: nO, i MEAN, iT WAS PRETTY MUCH MY FAULT, i THINK, TAVROS: i ATTACKED YOU WITH MY BOGUS SELF ESTEEM, aND i PAID THE ULTIMATE PRICE, VRISKA: No, you idiot! That's not what happened at all. I sta88ed you through the chest 8ecause I was 8eing a huge 8itch!
they’ve basically switched opinions :D
i mean they kinda are both right? vriska was obviously in the wrong in many ways but looking at how terezi beat herself up over was there another option, i realized that tavros’ reasons for attacking vriska were a lot less solid than hers
tavros was ‘i suppose you’re bad guy. so i should stop you’ which!! go tavros!! stand up for yourself!! but also what she was going to do now was just go and fight bec noir so,, the not villainous part of her plan. just as catastrophic, of course, but tavros didn’t know that. it was about justice/retaliation. the thing of course is that tavros is owed a lot of retaliation on vriska so....
but it’s still not tavros’ fault - vriska herself recognized that she had plenty of other ways to counter him without killing him. he did go at her with bogus self-esteem, and that's what angered her; that he suddenly here going at her now of all time. (still not his fault. sooner or later he was going to rebel against her and he had a right too. and still didn’t deserve to be killed (though we could ask ourselves if vriska at that point deserved to be killed. like. really? maybe let’s not talk about ‘deserving’ about kids’ life))
but vriska was being a huge bitch and stabbed him through the chest because she was angry and she could.
anyway there’s still a very good exchange coming:
VRISKA: Ugh, stop 8eing so stupid. That's so stupid! TAVROS: nO, yOU'RE STUPID,
:D











