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Huh, I remember really liking Vriska. Maybe I am evil? Probably I am evil. Probably. 

(Definitely I am evil. Definitely.)

I mean.  She’s not necessarily unlikable?  (Especially since she mellows out a lot in A5A2, to the point that it can be startling to go back and look at how awful she is in many parts of A5A1.)  I liked her in some ways.

For me personally it’s that she has a number of traits that set me off, like her perception that she’s more of a “main character” than other people – that she’s more powerful and more important, her joys are truer and her sorrows more worthy of sympathetic tears, and that all these things are somehow connected.  The comic itself encourages this in uncritical readers, by making her a fairly central character, having her beat up on less central ones with legitimate failings (Tavros), and playing her dramatic scenes relatively straight (conversations late in A5A2).

I’ve usually preferred to read this as satirical, but at this point I’ve just had too much of Vriska, Vriska fans, and the various Vriskas of other fictional works and of the real world, to have much tolerance for her even when the narrative is presenting her in a bad light.  (She’s at center stage either way.)