“Vris did the sane amount of bad stuff as men”
Alright, let’s go to the three worst characters (flaws and actions-wise) and consider what’s been told to us here.)
GAMZEE MAKARA:
- Was possessed by Lil Cal and forced to murder Equius, who was one of his friends, and Nepeta, another one of his friends.
- Went crazy due to the feral desires and urges of his purpleblood state which he had been suppressing purposefully for years by basically poisoning himself to keep his friends safe.
- Was abusive towards Terezi pre-retcon but then in the retcon was instead shoved into a fridge- an isolated and confined space- for the duration of not only the game, but also the duration of Earth C’s EXISTENCE, which is a pretty intense punishment. (Vriska is the one who does this, by the way!)
- Parented the Cherub egg and aided Caliborn, likely still under future Caliborn’s influence via Lil Cal but that’s admittedly up to interpretation.
ERIDAN AMPORA:
- Wanted landweller genocide (admittedly, AWFUL) due to his status and his following of the caste system, which was likely pressured onto him for a very long time.
- Was cast aside by his own moirail who didn’t bother to try and help him through ANY of his problems, and was borderline neglected by the one quadrant he could have really used. Probably was pushed to believing the bullshit “moirail-zoned” shit because of it.
- Was likely traumatized by the angels in his land, and nobody had any empathy for him because he was kind of generally a douchebag most of the time.
- Killed Feferi, wounded Sollux and temporarily killed Kanaya as well as destroyed the Matriorb and was killed in response to it.
VRISKA SERKET:
- Killed hundreds upon hundreds of trolls via flarping to feed her abusive lusus.
- For some reason, attempted to kill Tavros, her friend at the time, and wound up crippling him instead.
- She then spends most of her time emotionally and psychologically torturing and manipulating Tavros via ableist language and making him believe she’s just trying to “help” him, which she clearly is not.
- Kills Aradia after she is tortured by the souls of trolls SHE KILLED.
- Blinds Terezi after Terezi tells Doc she’s cheating and gets her arm blown off and eye as well. LET ME REMIND YOU THAT SHE ONLY TOLD DOC THAT VRISKA WAS CHEATING! VRISKA WAS STILL THE ONE RESPONSIBLE FOR CHOOSING TO CHEAT AN ALL POWERFUL BEING IN THE FIRST PLACE.
- Then continues to use exceedingly ableist language against Terezi and Tavros, who she MADE DISABLED, and practically torments them on a daily basis.
- Has zero care for Kanaya’s feelings, who is trying to help her when she’s down on luck.
- Continues to torture Tavros during the game, forces him to climb stairs OUT OF HIS WHEELCHAIR and eventually forces herself onto him and almost uses mind control to make him love her back (which is assault, mind you.) ((admittedly she does not go through with this))
- Puts the entire group in danger by creating Bec Noir (you forget about that?) so that she can play hero and be the big savior
- Post death, continues to fucking torture Tavros, using him to do shit for her and ordering him around near constantly in what is clearly an abusive relationship until he has enough of her shit and leaves
- Ends up fucking abusing HER OWN DAMN SELF via (Vriska) and calls her weak for being happy, which is a good look on how Vriska feels about happiness and joy being a weakness
- Bullies Jake to the point of tears for no reason other than to make sure he knows he’s useless
There’s more. Point is, it has nothing to fucking do with gender.
I hate Eridan and Gamzee’s actions but I firmly believe they’re more open for a redemption arc than Vriska. I should mention to you that some of my favorite god damn homestuck characters are Kanaya, Roxy, Porrim, Jade and Calliope who are all WELL-WRITTEN PROTAGONIST WOMEN
Vriska is a villain who deserved to pay for what she did- end of story.