by marathemara

Vriska and Eridan’s relationship makes a fun and ridiculous story. Let’s start at the beginning, when they began FLARPing together, raiding sunken ships, finding hidden treasure, killing other trolls to feed Vriska’s lusus and killing lusii to feed Feferi’s. Somewhere along the way, Vriska discovered Mindfang’s journal and decided that she wanted to be just as awesome as her ancestor. And part of living out this fantasy was having a torrid affair with the descendant of Orphaner Dualscar. So she created a kismesissitude.



But hate-dating Eridan wasn’t all slain monsters and buried treasure, because Eridan is more annoying than hate-able. (I’d call him pathetic, but that’s the wrong quadrant.) Eventually, not even Vriska’s determination to live like her ancestor could let her keep ignoring Eridan’s wet-blanket-ness. She broke up with him because he would never live up to her fantasy. But breaking up with him also fulfilled part of that fantasy, in that Mindfang and Dualscar’s kismesissitude came to an abrupt and violent end. Breaking up with Eridan gave Vriska the nice, tidy happy ending she wanted.

Things weren’t so tidy for Eridan. Being the legendary Orphaner Dualscar and having “Mindfang” as a kismesis made him feel important. And that kept his whiny passive-aggressiveness in check. Once Vriska stopped playing the game, Eridan became desperate to get back that feeling of being somebody. Never mind that he’s already a member of the nobility, and therefore somebody by definition. First he tries to get Vriska back into his life by asking her to make him a doomsday device.

Then, once he’s given up on Vriska, he starts looking for an auspistice. And then he tries making his red relationship with Feferi concupiscent. And then he tries to provoke Rose into blackrom. And then he decides he needs a magic wand to impress people. And we all know how that ended. It just goes to show that “happily ever after” for one person may not be the end of the story for everyone else.