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A troll with a love of games of all kinds, particularly live-action roleplay and gambling, to such a sociopathic extreme that few trolls trust her.
In Sburb, she is the
She has allocated her [[Weapon of Choice|STRIFE SPECIBUS]] with the [[The Gambler|DICEKIND]] [[Confusion Fu|ABSTRATUS]].
For a brief period of time later in the story she became [[Homestuck
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<code>{{color|#004183|repeating characters 8 tiiiiiiiimes. She also uses smilies that have four pairs of eyes for a total of 8. :::;)}}</code
<code>{{color|#004183|Handwrites Ms as}} [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s{{=}}6&p{{=}}004270 scorpio signs].</code> }}
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** And she certainly gives him a fight, but that sequence was ultimately Terezi's vision of what would happen, and she killed Vriska. Who did die rather anticlimatically
* [[Angrish]]: She tends to go a little bit crazy with the eights when flustered:
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{{color|#004183|AG: TRY AND ST8P ME FROM DO8NG B8D THINGS????????}} }}
** {{color|#004183|KILL ME KILL ME K8LL ME K8LL M8 K8LL M8}}
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** [[Arc Number]]: 4+1+3=8.
* [[Arachnid Appearance and Attire]]
* [[Back
** If Vriska's corpse getting prototyped works at all like Dream Jade's corpse getting prototyped, she just came back a second time. [[We Hardly Knew Ye|VERY briefly.]]
*** This now seems to be her new mission, with a reluctant Tavros in tow.
* [[Badass Boast]]: {{color|#004183| Save your 8reath, page. I 8n't dead just yet.}}
* [[Base Breaker]]: Done [[Invoked Trope|intentionally]] and with an [[Teasing Creator|incredible degree of success]]. The character has been portrayed [[Mary Sue|in several places on the Mary Sue spectrum]] both with and without irony, crossed the [[Moral Event Horizon
** As of more recent updates, fandom has accepted her more as she's revealed she's not really all that evil to begin with, and was mostly overcompensating the entire time. It helps that several of the other characters like Eridan, Jack, and Gamzee have been unrepentant murderers solely in it for fun and revenge.
* [[Big Yes]]: [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004096 Yeah!!!!!!!!]
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* [[Character Development]]: Her murder of Tavros both causes her to feel terrible and makes her realize how immature she's been.
** Later she states that when all is said and done she would like to live like a human and would stop killing.
* [[Chewing the Scenery]]: Her octupling of letters isn't just an orthographic tic but because she's a liiiiiiiittle bit overdramaaaaaaaatic.
* [[Chronic Backstabbing Disorder]]: Since her introduction, she has backstabbed or planned to backstab virtually everyone she's spoken with. The other trolls, by now, mostly either refuse to associate with her or keep her at arms length, though this hasn't stopped her from trying anyway.
* [[Cluster F-Bomb]]:
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{{color|#004183|AG: Fuck the 8lue team, fuck your conniving, fuck Equius's dou8ledealing and the stupid muscle8east he rode in on, and fuck you for s8ving my life.}}
{{color|#004183|AG: FUUUUUUUUCK YOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUU!!!!!!!!}} }}
* [[Complexity Addiction]]: Vriska's biggest boast is the number of irons she has in the fire, pies in which she has fingers, and euphemistic representations of the number and complexity of her schemes. It is beginning to become apparent that she doesn't care if any of these irons ''conflict'', provided they are irons and she has them in the fire.
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* [[Confusion Fu]]: [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004099 "Rolling the dice will execute a wide range of highly unpredictable attacks."]
* [[Cool Sword]]: As a part of her Ancestral Awakening attack.
* [[Creator's Pet]]: Played with. Besides being done quite deliberately ([[Word of God|Hussie has said she was meant to be a]] [[Base Breaker]]), she seems to be the troll the story focuses on, but she [[Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain|still fails a lot]]. That, and a lot of her "overpowered deeds" are, in the view of the fandom, [[Tropes Are Not Bad|still]] [[Magnificent Bastard|quite]] [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|awesome]]. And that's not even getting into her rather complex backstory...
** If she was before, she's certainly not now, given that she's been dead for a ''long'' time and has had effectively zero plot relevance since. And then when John - the last character to have genuine affection for her - reflects on her one in-universe year later he admits that while everything with her seemed very important at the time, in retrospect she's just some crazy troll girl who was kinda into him for one day a year ago, though he's still interested in talking to her.
*** And then Hussie proposed to her.
* [[Cyborg]]: Had a [[Artificial Limbs|robot arm]].
* [[Defeat Means Friendship]]: [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=005443 with Kanaya]. With a side of [[Ship Tease]].
* [[Demoted to Extra]]: Says to Tavros she's not going to let this happen to her.
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{{color|#004183| VRISKA: We can't let them toy with us, then just sweep us under the carpet like that. I'm not going to let our relevance 8e marginalized anymore, Tavros.}} }}
* [[Deuteragonist]]: More so than Karkat, although he is officially the main troll protagonist.
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* [[Dramatic Irony|Dramaaaaaaaatic Irony]]: After she dies and goes to the dreambubbles, she finally meets John and goes on a "not-d8", but it's the alternate-John that was killed by Terezi and he doesn't know who she is.
* [[Driven to Villainy]]: She had to become a mass murderer to keep her lusus from eating her.
* [[Duel to
** She ''might, by a hair's breadth,'' have actually suceeded with Bec Noir, but she never got the chance because it would've meant the deaths of the surviving trolls and Terezi wouldn't allow it.
* [[Dying Alone]]: Although Terezi and Karkat are there, they leave her bleeding out on the floor.
* [[Early-Bird Cameo]]: [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=003615 Lower right corner.] Why, hello there, Vriska!
* [[Everything's Better
* [[Evil Cannot Comprehend Good]]: She takes it in stride that people will want to do horrible things to her in return for her own machinations. But she haaaaaaaates when people try to be nice to her.
* [[Evil Hand]]: [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004123 Equius reminds her who built her replacement arm.]
* [[Evil Laugh]]: After she made Tavros jump off a cliff:
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{{color|#004183|AG: Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!}}
{{color|#004183|AG: Haaaaaaaahaaaaaaaahaaaaaaaahaaaaaaaahaaaaaaaahaaaaaaaahaaaaaaaahaaaaaaaa!}} }}
* [[Extra Eyes]]: Or rather, extra pupils. She used to have seven in one of her eyes, which was lost when Doc Scratch's Magic Cue Ball blew up in her face. Vriska herself [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004137 considered] this to be seven eyes rather than a single eye with seven pupils. Her extra eyes return after she reaches God Tier.
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* [[Eye Take]]: [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=005422 Gives one with Gamzee] in surprise to...[[Crowning Moment of Funny|someone]] [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|walking.]]
* [[Fairy Tale Motifs]]: Just like in the tale of the Scorpion and the Frog, she finds herself abusing her friends even when it's directly against her best interests.
* [[Famous Ancestor]]: Marquis Spinneret Mindfang was apparently a real troll.
* [[Fashionable Asymmetry]]: One real arm, one robotic arm. One eye covered, one eye not. Two different funky looking horns.
** Even before she lost her arm and eye and again now that she's been replaced by her Dreamself, she has the two different horns and also two [[Mismatched Eyes|very different]] eyes, as one has 7 pupils and the other only has one.
* [[Faux Affably Evil]]: Andrew can make even the worst person enjoyable to watch. As can be seen from her cool drawing.
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* [[Foe Yay]]: {{color|#004183| Tavros, have I mentioned how cute you look in that plucky little outfit?}}
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** Karkat definitely assumes this when she brings up her "special kind of hate" for Tavros. But he notes that it'd never work out because Tavros doesn't have the right mindset to [[Slap Slap Kiss|hate anyone]].
*** [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004280 And indeed it doesn't.]
* [[Fusion Dance]]: As a result of Gamzee chucking her and Tavros' dead bodies into Jane's unprototyped kernelsprite.
* [[The Gambling Addict]]: Can't get enough of games with high stakes, such as Flarp, so naturally she would play Sgrub, which has [[The End of the World
** Not to mention the high stakes involved in trying to outwit an omnipotent godlike being using his own scrying tool.
*** Or manipulating an entire timeline so she can vanquish an unbeatable foe.
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* [[Hair Flip]]: In Alterniabound. [[Large Ham|Constantly]].
* [[Heart Is an Awesome Power]]: Can manipulate luck to a ridiculous extent.
* [[
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{{color|#004183| AG: And I won't have to worry a8out 8eing the 8est anymore, or proving what a ruthless killer I can 8e.}}
{{color|#004183| AG: May8e I can try out whatever is supposed to 8e normal for a human. Who knows, it might not 8e as 8oring as it sounds!}} }}
** In Terezi's defense, letting Vriska go off to defeat Jack would have led to the death of all the other remaining Trolls, Terezi included. So, self-defense [[
* [[Hellish Pupils]]
* [[Inverted Trope|Villainous]] [[Heroic Second Wind|Second Wind]]: Getting up ''immediately'' after having her arm and eye blown off, executing a (possibly strenuous) double-proxy mind control, ''while'' bleeding out of the stump of her limb? The only thing keeping that from being a [[Determinator]] moment is that it never shows if she collapsed from her injuries afterwards.
** She didn't collapse afterwards, if [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=006667 Terezi's memory] is anything to go by- [[Jerkass|she went out of her way]] [[Kick the Dog|to do some gloating]].
** Also she mind-jacks Tavros to speak with him by [[Couldn't Find a Pen|writing messages with her blood]], telling him to take her to her Quest Bed.
* [[Hero
* [[Hypocritical Humor]]: Includes complaining about manipulating people's body parts, fussing about Kanaya's meddling with her meddling, and best of all -
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** ...Says the girl with [[Eyepatch of Power|one eye]] and [[Artificial Limbs|one arm]], who [http://mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004044 doesn't even seem to grasp how the game works.]
*** ...And then it turns out she's a member of the same team.
* [[I Know You Know I Know]]: Loves this, her entire relationship with Terezi is basically built by this. Terezi as the Seer of Mind ultimately knew more and killed Vriska to save the rest of the trolls from Jack.
* [[Incoming Ham]]
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{{color|#004183| AG: oooooooo}}
{{color|#004183| AG: oooooooo}}
{{color|#004183| AG: oooooooo}}
{{color|#004183| AG: oooooooo}}
{{color|#004183| AG: oooooooo}}
{{color|#004183| AG: oooooooo}}
{{color|#004183| AG: oooooooohn!}} }}
* [[Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain]]: Well most of her schemes seem to be failures and she is at least somewhat [[Base Breaker|sympathetic]]. Ends up being a subversion, in that she is not anywhere near ineffectual when it counts. She falls more into [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]] rather than evil as well.
* [[In Love
* [[Irony]]: Firmly believes in luck and its power to alter situations. She ''herself'' is extremely predictable.
** Also, the Scorpio troll is stabbed to death. A double whammy when you consider how she herself kills Tavros and John.
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* [[Jerkass]]: Overconfident to a fault, and loves to play up her abilities, regard herself as the best, and generally taunt most of the other people she knows.
* [[Jerkass Facade]]: However, she is trying too hard, and it shows. Karkat calls it "pretender's hate" among [http://mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004196 other things.]
* [[Jerk
* [[Kick the Dog]]: Subverted: Her use of her powers to put people to sleep at first seems like meaningless antagonism, but [[You Can't Fight Fate|she's preserving the nature of the alpha timeline.]]
** Although it doesn't stop her from being a jerk about it
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** Stabs and kills Tavros and ends up [[Irony|stabbed and killed herself.]]
** Jack breaking her clock just before it may or may not have determined whether her death was just or heroic, thus killing her regardless of whether fate would get a chance to decide. As Terezi would put it: ST8P
* [[Leitmotif]]: Spider's Claw, which is later remixed with [[Tear Jerker|Theme]] to make her [https://web.archive.org/web/20130922122126/http://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/vriskas-theme walkaround theme].
* [[Light Is Not Good]]: Her title is the Thief of Light.
* [[Liquid Assets]]: Her powers as the Thief of Light allow her to steal luck. Because apparently, "fortune is the essence of light".
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* [[Manipulative Bastard]]: Or at least she likes to think so. Without her VISION EIGHTFOLD or mind-control powers, she can't really do much more than annoy people. She ultimately turns out to be a much bigger example than anyone could have anticipated
* [[Meaningful Name]]: Serket is the goddess of healing stings and bites who originally was the deification of the scorpion.
** Vriska, or rather, Vṛścika(वृष्चिक) is the name of Scorpio in Sanskrit. [[Spell My Name
* [[Melee a Trois]]: All set to happen with Eridan and Gamzee, and then promptly subverted when rainbow drinker Kanaya shows up.
* [[Mismatched Eyes]]: Not in color, but in the number of ''pupils'' they have. (Vriska actually considers this to be 7 eyes rather than one eye with 7 pupils, which is how it appears.)
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** Also with John
* [[Overdrawn At the Blood Bank]]: Doc Scratch's cueball did a number on her account. Aradia's thrashing? No way she's still in the black after that.
* [[Parody Sue]]: [[Invoked Trope|Invoked with]] her roleplaying character Marquise Spinneret Mindfang. Named after her ancestor.
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** Vriska's self-image is a [http://www.formspring.me/andrewhussie/q/1836318576 metafictional commentary]{{Dead link}} on the concept of a Mary Sue; she's a prettier, smarter, and stronger than everyone else (at least in her own head), she never suffers any negative consequences, and she [[Self-Insert Fic|inserts herself]] into situations to try to be the driving force behind every plot development.
*** In classic Mary Sue style, she breaks one of the setting's "rules", by being a blue-blood who's nonetheless a powerful psychic.
*** As mentioned above, she's not so much a straight Mary Sue as a [[Deconstruction]] of the idea of one. Later in the story she even delves into [[Anti-Sue]] most especially with John being okay with her mentioning her serial killer past and the fact that she ''just'' killed Tavros.
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* [[Ragdoll Physics]]: After [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=005428 Kanaya clocks her,] she [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=005429 slides across the floor,] with the physics visually implied.
* [[Replacement Love Interest]]: John. When she fails to turn Tavros into the same kind of hero that his ancestor became that her ancestor fell in love with, she turns her attentions on John and falls for him as he rises to her challenge. The shadow of her failure with Tavros hangs over all of their conversations, such as when John thanks her instead of being mad at her for getting him killed to ascend to God Tier.
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AG: 8ut see, you really get it. That's why you're special.]]
{{color|#0715cd|EB: shruuuuuuuug!}}
{{color|#004183|AG: <33333333}} }}
* [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]]: Karkat gives her [
* [[Self-Made Orphan]]: There is an avalanche outside her home. Her lusus is pinned underneath. Might as well [[Mercy Kill|put her out of her misery.]]
* [[Serial Killer]]: Has personally killed so many trolls she literally cannot remember how many she's killed.
* [[Ship Tease]]: With virtually everyone she talks to. Especially John, whose outfit for a time was exactly like Vriska's.
* [[Shrug of God]]: Andrew decided to leave it to the reader to decide whether Vriska's death was genuinely just, or whether Slick broke the clock and killed her.
** And regardless of the ambiguity, Andrew himself apparently leans towards the interpretation that Vriska's death was just. In the split second before Slick broke the clock, the pendulum clearly swung towards just, though [[Word of God]] is always the above, probably to avoid another [[Base Breaker]].
* [[Sink or Swim Mentor]]: For Tavros. Does something similar to John also.
* [[Slap Slap Kiss]]: She wants to do this with Tavros oh so much. He's too afraid of her to do anything about it.
* [[Slasher Smile]]: Tavros challenges her to a [[Duel to
* [[Smug Snake]]: She talks herself up like the best troll there is, but she can't really manipulate anyone without resorting to mind control.
* [[Snow Means Death]]: [http://mspaintadventures.com/scratch.php?s=6&p=005785 Right here.]
* [[Stable Time Loop]]: Granted there are a lot of these in Homestuck, but a mention should go to the one Vriska perpetuates: After the troll's session is destroyed by a demon from another universe, she decides to help create said demon.
* [[Stalker Shrine]]: Once again, to [[Nicolas Cage]].
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*** Very inconsistent too; in the same conversation where she mentions being so upset about murdering Tavros, she dismisses her gleeful murder of Aradia and her thousands of murders of innocent trolls as being irrelevant.
* [[Token Evil Teammate]]: While many of the trolls wouldn't be good people by human standards, Vriska is almost certainly the meanest of them all. Or was. Comparatively, she's only moderately evil now, if at all.
* [[Training
* [[Treasure Room]]: What kind of [[Pirate|Petticoat Seagrift]] would she be without at least one [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004258 LOOT STRONGHOLD]?
* [[Tricked-Out Time]]: Vriska's solution to handling the demon, given how its existence is protected by a [[Stable Time Loop]], and that any deviation will result in [[Time Crash|temporal erasure.]] That said, her methods are [[Glory Hound|still]] [[Byronic Hero|questionable]] [[The Unfettered|at best.]]
* [[Trope Overdosed]]: As a [[Invoked Trope|deliberate exercise]] in messing with the fandom's heads, she is rapidly gathering [[Running Gag|all the tropes. All of them.]]
** She's the only ''Homestuck'' character and one of the few on TV Tropes as a whole to have her own character page.
* [[Troubling Unchildlike Behavior]]: She's a thirteen year old serial killer, and most likely has been at it for years. But, someone's gotta [[Horror Hunger|feed her lusus]]. Probably the root of a lot of her issues.
* [[Tsundere]]: With Tavros, BIG TIME. He is too terrified of the tsun to see the dere
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* [[Ungrateful Bastard]]: '''[http://mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004176 Yes.]'''
** [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004104 Not to mention:]
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* [[Unreliable Expositor]]: At on point it was speculated that the trolls failed in their session because they failed to learn the values the game was trying to teach them (friendship, bravery, etc.) [http://mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=005368 Then in this conversation], Vriska says the trolls failed because they didn't learn 'troll'' values (killing each other). Vriska's belief was then called in question when [http://mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=005953 it was revealed] that troll values were instilled in them by Lord English and his minions. It is later stated that players can be corrupted from their true purpose by an outside influence, suggesting that Vriska was wrong (as troll society itself was corrupted from it's original nature).
* [[The Vamp]]: To an extent; she displays romantic interest in Tavros, Kanaya, and John (and possibly blackrom for Terezi as well) within the span of an hour or two towards the end of the countdown. Her interactions don't end well for Tavros or Kanaya at all, dubiously so for John, and Terezi killed her. Subverted in part though in that she's not shown to be especially attractive or genuinely evil.
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** [http://mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004964 "The only thing left to do now is prepare to kill [the demon] myself, and save everyone's ungrateful asses."] Which she failed to do.
*** Part of the reason Vriska receives a lot of hate is because to many her intentions are not well enough.
* [[Western Zodiac]]: Scorpio.
* [[Wide Eyes and Shrunken Irises]]: [[Crowning Moment of Funny|Right]] [[Didn't See That Coming|friggin]] [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=005426 here.]
* [[Write Who You Know]]: Part of Vriska's character is her fake persona of being a [[Large Ham]] when she's really quite subdued. [[Andrew Hussie]] is quite the ham online, yet at cons and in person he's a soft spoken guy.
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