Gotta tag thephilosopherconcubine and makarafamilyfetish for this one!

Okay so like after tonights upd8 everyone got all suspicious and whatnot because of how everyone was behaving. Terezi was much more submissive and uncertain about everything, Karkat completely zoned out and didn’t say a damn thing for FAR longer than he normally would, was acting way too compliant about everything, Dave (while he usually doesn’t care about much thats going on) just seemed a bit…off to me as well. And Vriska… Vriska seemed to also be a bit…off. She said things that aren’t normally things she would say or how she would say them. While she seemed to be more or less in character the whole time she was very…off! Like, it’s hard to explain but everyone was really different and way too compliant and literally just went along with everything Vriska said. No one had any objections to her being leader, no one questioned anything she did except Terezi but even then it was unsure and she quickly withdrew after a very short easy convincing from Vriska. This is making everyone very suspicious including me! Now I love Vriska, she’s my daughter, my precious 88y, but still I gotta admit somethings not right. Some people I’ve seen have mentioned the Gamzee thing, how the mentioning of him seemed to make Terezi uneasy and how every time he “honked” it was at just the right moment. Like right after he is mentioned he honks to show that he is in fact there. I’ve heard mentioned that some are believing that all this ooc stuff thats concerning people is actually a product of mind control. Not vriska’s completely obvious mind manipulation but that she’s using Gamzee’s chucklevoodoos to make everyone this way and make it so she has control over everything thats happening and gets to be the hero. But that would involve Vriska doing something to Gamzee would it not? This got me thinking, none of this makes sense at all. Then i remembered a post i saw a while ago about the Vriskagram upd8. They mentioned how in the upd8 every ancestor was present (count em)…….

EXCEPT FOR ARANEA! This got me thinking, “huh, I wonder where aranea is. Why wasn’t she there? Shouldn’t she be there if this is happening before all the shit that happened?????” And then I realized, Vriska is a powerful player what with her mind manipulation, but we all know that Vriskas powers can only go so far. She even said it herself! And back when she was dead and raising her pirate crew and doing the treasure map bullshit with Aranea and Meenah she said that Aranea was actually the one controlling everyone and Vriska only helped out a little (or rather she confessed this later to meenah while she got her hair did XD), Vriska can only control certain easily swayed individuals. Though its possible she got better over three years its not very likely considering Aranea only got as good as she is (which is amazing) after BILLIONS of sweeps! That being said its highly unlikely that Vriska is controlling Gamzee, someone she isn’t shown to be able to control in the past, to control everyone else on the meteor. But you know who can?

ARANEA!

Aranea has shown on numerous occasions to be able to control ANYONE and do just about anything! And not only that, y’all remember when she had Gamzee completely controlled? Only during that time did Gamzee constantly and exclusively respond in honks. Exactly what he’s doing now. And let’s get back to Vriskas personality being slightly off, intact lets go AAAAAAAAALL the way back to Vriskagram. In the pictures shown she was being happy and friendly and getting along with everyone and everything was great for everyone! When I saw that I was overjoyed at seeing my precious 88y all happy and enjoying being a teenager and having friends! But! Was that really Vriska? I mean, I know before she got clocked by John she had already started making decisions to better herself and not be such a bitch all the time and kill people, but she went through a SERIOUSLY dramatic change! Idk, maybe it was just her maturing and getting better like she said, I mean Vriska is typically the type to keep her word, but it just seems so sudden and dramatic. Not to mention the one panel where she third-wheels Kanaya and Rose looking over a book on quadrants.

Imo i wouldn’t peg Vriska to be THAT interested in a book on quadrants. You could say she just wanted to hang with Kanya and Rose and be friends but it look like all her attention was on the book. Pretty Aranea if you ask me. Then during the meeting in tonights upd8 Vriska seemed to be…idk…trying not to be ooc. You know? Like she was trying to act like Vriska without going overboard on it. She seemed to slip a couple times if you ask me then hurriedly come back from it.

Infact,the way she talked and the way she dealt with Terezi seemed a lot like the way Aranea would deal with it. Like, underhandedly manipulative, not trying to be overbearing and cause people to go against her, by being nice and passive-agressively “agreeing” so that other will agree with her.

It just seemed slightly more Aranea than Vriska to me and that got me thinking,

What if the Vriska in these past upd8s wasn’t Vriska? Remember, Aranea wasn’t shown at all with the rest of the dancestors, there’s no reason she shouldn’t be. So what if, Aranea somehow hijacked this session, posing as Vriska to fulfill this “plan” of hers that literally NO ONE knows the details about?