Ah, comparing Armsmaster to Vriska, that’s the stuff that makes this liveblog worth reading…
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Tag: Homestuck
krixwell-liveblogs: TROLL CALL! A bit of context for my non-Homestuck readers: As a promo and way of maintaining hype for Hiveswap: Act 2, What Pumpkin spent a while publishing weekly “troll call” posts presenting new characters in cards like the one I made for Armmaster above. In them, there was a running gag that characters would […]
TROLL CALL!
I want to clarify that I do not actually believe Armsmaster to be based on Vriska Serket in any way, but damn the amount of parallels is getting ridiculous.
End of Interlude 11d
Oh, Colin.
That was another fun ride! We got to meet Mannequin, who has an interesting backstory and a kind of whimsical body that… actually doesn’t have anything to do with the main focus of his tinker power. It seems like, in theory, almost any tinker might be able to do something like what he did, if they were mad enough to do it.
Honestly more interesting than Mannequin himself, though, was Vriska, our POV character for the day. We didn’t really learn much new about him, really, though we got reinforcement of the idea that he isn’t all about his reputation. He does try to help people. Maybe the focus on reputation came second, after some time as a bigshot hero?
On top of an awesome but insanely stupid display of his reckless, wrathful side against an enemy who claimed they were alike, we also got some delicious development for the Dragonmaster ship. I’m a little disappointed that we didn’t get to see Vriska’s reaction to Dragon revealing her true nature, but I recognize that ending the chapter like that is good writing. For now, I’ll trust Vriska to be good enough that it went over better than Dragon had feared.
So yeah! That was fun. See you next time!
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…potential romantic relationship with a character associated with drAGONS MISTER COLIN SERKET YOU COME BACK HERE RIGHT NOW AND EXPLAIN YOURSELF–
I swear if we learn that Colin is a Scorpio…
And yes, Vriska is associated with the color of Armmaster’s armor, too.
“It’s alright,” he said.
“Your new eye doesn’t work. I think I know what’s wrong with it, and I can get you something that will work, I just need time.”
Vriska didn’t get a cybernetic eye along with her robot arm, though another character who lost an arm and an eye (I told you, it’s a thing) did.
…Well. Technically it was probably just a piece of red glass, but who cares about details like that.
“You have better things to be doing.” He coughed and regretted it as pain ripped through his throat with the movement of the muscles.
…fair. I don’t think efficiency is her primary objective here, though.
His stomach felt strange. He started to speak, cleared his throat, then said, “I think I could pull off an eye patch.”
…you know what, I’m not even gonna say it at this point. Here, have a picture instead:
But yeah, Armmaster with an eyepatch actually sounds pretty cool. Yarr!
“Your heart stopped nine times on the operating table,” Dragon said, “A lesser man wouldn’t have made it.”
Wow. DETERMINATION.
Turns out Armmaster is both Vriska and Frisk.
The villain withdrew the hand, then punched the blade into Colin’s stomach. Once, twice, three times.
And to think, he didn’t come to kill you.
Oh, Colin.
Dragon’s scream came from every speaker in the room.
Yeeeah, this is the last thing she wants to happen.
A slash of the blade caught Colin across the face, blinding him in one eye and tearing through the bridge of his nose.
Wait, did he just take on another Vriska trait?
Losing an arm and an eye is a thing in Homestuck, and Vriska, whom I’ve previously compared Armmaster to, even in this very chapter, is one of the characters it happens to.
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