[ SECRET POST #2093 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2093 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[darkmanifest]

I don't know anything about Vriska, but if she's a significant character, well-rounded, active, with her own goals and motivations that are independent of Some Dude, then yeah, I think that's (fictional) girl power.

[(Anonymous)]

And she definitely is. The original commenter is right that Vriska's certainly not a strong force of good, but that doesn't have to be the point. I don't like Vriska as a person. If I knew her, I would hate her. She's undoubtedly an abuser and a murderer, despite her bond with John, despite her regret.
But as a character, she's fantastic. She's incredibly well-crafted and complex, and treads the lines between hero and villain while retaining her "humanity" (insofar as a member of a murderous alien race can be humane). It's very rare to see a female character given such depth. It would have been easy for Vriska to just be the ruiner, the evil, but she's given justifications, she doubts herself and has remorse, she feels trapped by her responsibilities...
I would honestly argue she's one of the best-written characters in fiction in terms of complexity. And it's great that a female character can give us that. That's girl power, not just girl heroism.

[(Anonymous)]

again, society tends to place women into two categories: weak or bitch. vriska does nothing to help this stereotype despite not being a damsel in distress character; she is objectively a "bitch" for her actions. so while she may not lean on any male character (though she is influenced by john), and while she is well-rounded as a character, despite being rather (subjectively) unlikable to other characters, she falls short of being a "girl power" because she still manages to portray a very prominent stereotype in media.