Homesuck: Vriska Rising

[Bard The 5th LW]

Some updates on the game, apparently.

[Flarecobra]

Vriska doing what she does best: Getting punched in the face.

[Solid Snake]

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...God hates me
God hates me
God hates me
God hates me
God hates *me*
God hates me
God hates me
I knew it
I knew Andrew would
I knew this entire pathetic story
Was his excuse to
Fuck with me
Destroy my hopes and dreams
Build up a universe of possibilities
In which the evil are killed
And the characters I like are alive
But no
NO
No
She is the important one
She's the most important
Literally have to fuck up the entire timestream
Just to save her
Not Tavros
Not Equius
Not Nepeta
Not any of the characters I liked
No
Vriska
Vriska the malignant abusive meanie
Vriska the nightmare
She is the one who must live
She has always been the piece
She is the one who Andrew created just to haunt me
To destroy my hopes and dreams of justice
To destroy every vision I have of a decent world that is worth living in
No
No No No
NO NO NO NO
No No No
Snake never gets what he wants
The universe operates on the sole assumption that Snake must suffer
That is why Ohio State will lose tomorrow
That is why the Patriots will lose next week
That is why my career will continually implode and collapse on itself
That is why Mitt Romney will win the 2016 elections
And that is why Republicans will fuck over the economy
That's why every woman I attempt to date ends up shattering me and treating me like shit
Treating me like Vriska treats people
This is the inevitable byproduct of a world that continually seeks to hurt Snake
This was inevitable
I should have seen it coming
I did see it coming
But I kept reading, like an eager dog, desperate to be proven wrong
Desperate to find something, anything I could label 'hope'
Hope for change, hope for progression
Hope for a future, free of pain
Hope for tomorrow, hope for goodness
Hope for prosperity, hope of triumph against evil
Terezi one of my favorite characters
One of my favorite decent trolls
Likable
I thought she was likable
Her only plan to save everyone
Was simply to revive her with the mere hope she would resolve everything through sheer existence
That was her plan!!!
That was her role!!!!!!
That was everyone's role!!!!!!!!!!
The entire thing was a charade
Meant to prove simply that Vriska was the essential missing ingredient
Preventing the humans and trolls from achieving a modicum of success
Now Vriska is alive
Now my least favorite is alive
But that is the way it always goes
That is the outcome that is always preordained
This outcome was merely to be expected
This outcome was written before I was even born
God hates me
God hates me
God hates me
God hates me
God hates me
God hates me
God hates me
God hates me
God. Hates. Me.
God
Hates
Me
God
Hates
ME
UUUUGGGGGHHHHH
God hates me
Andrew Hussie hates me
Andrew must be bros with God
The two are conspiring
They hate me
They must be stopped
I have to stop them
It's not right
It's not right
It's not right
It's NOT RIGHT
Homestuck is a piece of shit webcomic
I hate it and everyone who got me into it
I hate I hate I hate I hate I hate I hate
I hate I hate I hate
Homesuck it sucks it sucks IT SUCKS
Hate hate hate hate hate
Hate hate hate hate hate hate hate
Broken broken broken broken broken
Broken broken broken broken
Broken
Broken
Brok
en

[/all systems offline: profound mental error occurred in Snake.exe]
*system reboot required*
~*processing*~

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...So hey guys wasssssup?

Hahaha not much here I am quite well. The weather today was quite pleasant and tomorrow is looking peachy too. Those were dashing football games on earlier today, keen displays of skill by all players!!!

Oh by golly, it looks like Homestuck the best webcomic ever has updated again, right on schedule! Oh look at this, quite clever writing! Oh and I see, the goal all along was to revive Vriska! Oh Vriska, you kooky pirate you, you've been missed. Now that Vriska is back I'm sure she will save the day and bring this webcomic to quite the satisfactory conclusion!!! I am very much looking forward to reading it!!!!! I also quite hope there are several scenes in which John and Terezi and even Tavros' dead spirit collectively forgive her. Of course, forgiving her would imply that Vriska had done anything wrong in the first place, silly me, of course that isn't true!!! It will be very touching and an altogether delightful experience to read. Oh, and delightful for all my friends who love Vriska too!!!! POS must be so very thrilled, and now I am thrilled for him!!!!! Do you know what else will be delightful? When Roxy and John lose all their memories of their times together and their efforts to bring about this desired outcome, enabling John and Vriska to become the couple Homestuck always deserved!! You know what's silly? There was a time long before Vriska was introduced where I genuinely believed characters like Dave and Rose and Karkat and Jade were more important than her. Boy, Andrew sure did prove that suspicion wrong!!! And Vriska's completely unearned luck-stealing powers aren't Mary Sue at all, but instead well-deserved character development!!!! Why I really do feel she's earned her role as the main character of this story and the one character who nothing could happen without through her impeccable leadership skills and her remarkable values.

Vriska Vriska Vriska Vriska...why, even the name truly sounds like the very best name ever concocted by an author with esteemed literary skills! It flows so effortlessly off the tongue!!!! I am just so very grateful to be here in the year 2015, reading this webcomic I've invested so much time into with all of you, enjoying year after year of twist and turn that leads to the great Vriska's return into the spotlight!!!!! I look forward to reading the well-reasoned and appropriate justification as to why Vriska deserved this honor through sheer virtue of Andrew Hussie liking her more than anyone else and writing the story to satisfy his whims. His whims are just so perfectly realized though, no one could ever doubt his mad skills as an author and an artist, I am so very happy everyone!!!!!! Happy as could be!!!!!!!!!!!! To live in such a perfect world where such wonderful things could happen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Premmy]

I swear, I enjoy Vriska being terrible only half as much as I enjoy your hatred of her, Snake

[Loyal]

I would like to formally retract and apologize for my statement, Snake. My blind optimism has gotten the better of me once again.

[Amake]

I feel like my blind optimism has allowed me to enjoy every moment of this comic, and lately even more so. The romance, the sad stuff, Terezi's mysterious plan, and even these storytellers who I can't really remember who, when and where they are, if you want my opinion, it's really neat. Like I'll allow that this
(Swapped to spare Snake's feelings)
is a massively cheesy and shamelessly self-indulgent image, framing Vriska as both the spider at the center of the web and the focal point of the superdestruction of superspace, I mean, at this point I'm assuming Hussie is making fun of himself for getting so carried away with his character. But I'm unironically loving it as much as I love Con Air. And also, below these metatextual shenanigans, there's a really simple and sweet love story being told between two characters who, let's face it, have aged enough and been dead long enough since we used to read about them that we can't make any assumptions about who they are based on their past actions.

Feels like a fresh start for them, alone in this beautiful world that's about to be murdered. And the rest of the comic is sort of like that. I think Hussie is writing poetry in a visual, narrative language all of his own. I'm not saying it's flawless, but it's fascinating, as it was from the beginning, to see something so unlike everything else.

Maybe I'm just looking at it like the delay in updates doesn't matter.

[Bard The 5th LW]

With the whole spiel about the mystery person being SUPER LUCKY GUYS I feel like there's still going to have to be some twist we don't see coming because the description makes it sound so obviously like Vriska that there's no way it is her.

[mauve]

Originally Posted by Bard The 5th LW

With the whole spiel about the mystery person being SUPER LUCKY GUYS I feel like there's still going to have to be some twist we don't see coming because the description makes it sound so obviously like Vriska that there's no way it is her.

Mindfang.

[Bard The 5th LW]

Or Charles Barkley.

[rpgdemon]

Originally Posted by Bard The 5th LW

With the whole spiel about the mystery person being SUPER LUCKY GUYS I feel like there's still going to have to be some twist we don't see coming because the description makes it sound so obviously like Vriska that there's no way it is her.

Yeah, I figure there's absolutely no way that it's going to be Vriska.

Remember, John also was supposed to be dead when the story started.