Just walked around talking to people in the flash again. I'm going to say it - poor Vriska. She's being reasonable and relatively friendly, if crazy and irritable, and everyone treats her like shit. As far is knowable, since the game began, she hasn't done anything antagonistic or otherwise harmful to anyone (except freaking out Tavros on day 1). She got killed by a vengeful robot ghost that everyone thinks is creepy anyway. And yet, every conversation with her is just a litany of how much they fear and loathe her.
Okay, yeah, she was a horrible bitch for years. But surely stepping up the plate once everyone's lives depend on each other, and relatively mellowing out, has to count for something, right?
Well, she did kind of threated to mind control Tavros into taking on some stairs if he didn't do it voluntarily. And she did have a few barbed comments about how the dead girl she killed was dead. I think people might fear her less if she
wasn't so frightening. See, for example, her chat with Nepeta. I'm going to go load up the flash myself and read it again and quote it here.
NEPETA: :33 < *Nepeta giggles at the spidergir's googly eye. She just can't s33m to get used to it!*
VRISKA: *Marquise Mindfang shares the innocent young catgirl's giggle, as she surreptitiously reaches for an orn8 dagger hidden in her 8oot!*
NEPETA: :33 < noooooo dont roleplay as mindfang! :((
NEPETA: :33 < you only do terrible things when you are her
NEPETA: :33 < why dont you pretend to be something cute for a change?
VRISKA: How about my spidersona? It's adora8le!
NEPETA: :33 < no its not! you only do terrible things as your spidersona too
NEPETA: :33 < i changed my mind, why dont we just not do any roleplaying instead
VRISKA: ::::(
Yeah, I think the problem is mainly that Vriska
hasn't really changed. She is, as always, an evil bitch with some serial killing tendencies and absolutely no people skills. Her interactions with the other trolls reflect this.
She's still badass, though.
I mean just listen to her leitmotif.