archetypalboner:

The thing that really gets me about Vriska and Terezi’s relationship

is that Terezi is so, so aware of Vriska’s vulnerability. Terezi knows that girl, she knows all the complexities and contradictions of her. 

and thats why, when it comes right down to it and she gets it into her head she might have to have to kill her, she starts picturing her as this hilarious caricature of evil 

remember this?

because terezi is too damn smart and insightful for her own good, so she goes out of her way to willfully ignore everything she knows about vriska 

because that’s how you’r supposed to think about your opposition in Alternia culture

you aren’t suppose to love people even when they put you in danger

you aren’t supposed to value whatever feelings you might have about other people over your own survival, so you just supress and ignore them

especially if they’re complicated, like her feelings about vriska clearly are. Complicated feelings just slow you down

So Terezi, because she is very, very, very good at doing what needs to be done (remember this is the kid who raised herself in a tree with no lusus on frickin Alternia) psyches herself into forgetting every complicated understanding she and vriska ever had of one another, and she does what she has to do

but then, of course, afterward she knows perfectly well what happened and the extent to which she is responsible

and ugh

my heart