i think it is worth noting for sure that Aradia is explicitly wearing someone else’s symbol around her neck, and that person has no qualms about seeing Aradia as subservient to her

suffice to say uh, this page https://www.homestuck.com/story/3507 of homestuck

really reads a whole lot stronger now that certain narrative events have unfolded in homesquared

“And so not knowing, I take her will, 8ut leave enough of it to enjoy her response. Her hands are in my service 8ut they still shake. They unfasten the first 8utton at my jacket’s waist, clumsily. I have masked the line 8etween my puppeteering and her volition exquisitely, and her uncertainty over her own control fuels her fear. She unfastens the second 8utton, and 8etween the second and third, I make a casual remark to Dualscar, continuing our convers8tion. He does not respond.



I look again at the face of my slave, imagining for a moment her mind is not an unguarded port to her every dread. I imagine I cannot feel her conviction that it’s not merely a matter of whether she will 8e put to the irons, 8ut how hot they will 8e if she fails to please. Poor thing. Her horns make attractive shapes and pair themselves pleasantly amidst her violent snarls of hair. Her fingers, which I have lost track of, to my surprise have come 8etween the petticoat and my skin. The heat of her touch tells me the likely range for the color of her 8lood. I wouldn’t have guessed it to look at her, not with her sign stripped. Her mouth opens slightly and I squint. Ah! Razor sharp, and none missing. Perfect. How disappointing it is to find quivering lips hiding dull teeth. I pause to consider. What will her fear 8ecome if I choose to show her mercy later? And even, in days, kindness? Will this 8e the red dalliance that 8ecomes fully flushed? Love demands my cunning just as my raids. If it is to 8e, she will never understand how thoroughly she was manipul8ted, her 8ody, her mind, her devotion.”



I am, very suspicious that Alt!Calliope, someone we know is fighting for control over the narrative with Dirk, is going to do something along the same page, bend people to her wills but subtly enough that they themselves are not sure where the manipulation lies

just like Dirk with Rose, just like Mindfang and the Dolorosa

really though, as bad as Dirk is in Homesquared, even he didn’t go as far as Mindfang, this passage is way worse and way more explicit.

Callie says shes fighting against those who subsume others wills, but so far her actions and behaviors aren’t yet shown to be much different. Anyone who controls the narrative, controls others

and before, she said she would rule without interfering and therefore that makes her the only moral person who can control the narrative, that was her whole argument for why she was opposed to Dirk, for why only her could oppose Dirk

but here she is, interfering and being a character

being the narration only works when you are removed from being the character

gonna say the true moral of the story will continue to be, NOBODY should be the narrator