Fridgestuck: Vriska Serket (Facts/Theories)

By very popular demand (no pressure there)! Why is Vriska spider and scorpion themed? Why is she a Light player? Why is the Octet made of fluorite? Find out in this episode!
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[@theKobaltPossum]

I like the idea that when Vriska turns all her vowels into 8s, she gets a southern accent.

[@UraniumCoffee]

Nice to start getting some episodes for more minor characters

[@LaureledEevees]

LOL

[@thespiderinthecorner720]

wOw

[@CrowCoded]

I...

[@UraniumCoffee]

@@CrowCoded :::;)

[@epicgamer-ny4fj]

@@UraniumCoffee I forget, what character uses that symbol? It seems important but I cant remeber it

[@Mel-0n]

Ah, yes, sans homestuck

[@ashikjaman1940]

Don’t insult Sans like that

[@olympus6856]

He is a Sansation

[@drakath5727]

Indeed, not to be confused with Halloween Hack Sans or Earthbound Sans (because there is a difference thanks to a certain theory... e.e)

[@enderwalkgang]

That song is Aradia’s theme.

[@Mel-0n]

@@enderwalkgang who was talking about megalovania

[@nathanbrown8680]

On shoes: Vriska is a thief, an active class. Rose is a seer, a passive class. Aranea is a sylph, also passive. BKE thought that every aspect has two shoe colors given to active and passive classes respectively, mostly based on light god tier shoe colors.

[@butlerkitty]

oh this is a good theory

[@aleksabanjevic8316]

Not sure if this is true, I think eriden and cronus have the same shoe color, even tho prince and Bard are one of the few canonical passive active opposites

[@tabbender1232]

If Vriska hadn't "created" Bec Noir the trolls would have ruled over the kids universe, society would have been very different there and most likely things like The Condesce infiltrating humanity wouldn't have happened. There would definitely be some kind of unclosed time loop, which would have resulted in a doomed timeline. Of course that's ignoring the fact that Bec Noir showed up before Vriska decided to do anything.

[@lounowell4171]

Thankyou, just scrolled down to post exactly this

[@cgoose500]

Remember how Aranea switched the story to a doomed timeline and then everyone died and John retconed stuff based on the doomed timeline? What do you think the alpha timeline was actually like?

[@jacketofdiamonds]

I think Aranea did actually successfully Sylph-of-Light that into the alpha timeline as part of her plan, forcing paradox space/fate/God/whatever to give John the power to rewrite the alpha timeline.

[@cgoose500]

@@jacketofdiamonds I meant the original alpha timeline before Aranea replaced it What would that have been like

[@jacketofdiamonds]

​@@cgoose500 Actually, maybe it was always the alpha timeline. John being forced to retcon everything by Game Over also brought back Vriska, who put Jade to sleep and led the charge to take down Jane. If Jane and Jade had been on the Condesce's side in the Collide battle, Jade wouldn't have been corralling the dogs, but more importantly, Jane probably wouldn't have been willing to heal the various deaths. So maybe Aranea was always meant to change the timeline in the weird way that everything in Homestuck retroactively causes itself to happen.

[@puddel9079]

@@jacketofdiamonds Aranea never intended to fix things by accidentally going on a suicide mission. She *had* planned on dooming as many timelines as possible; in essence, take a sledgehammer to as many transformer boxes until something breaks. She really didn't know what she was doing or what it may have entailed. P.S.: As for the "alpha" timeline, LE's version, I prefer to refer to that as the "False Alpha Timeline." Inevitably it would recreate the same scenario ad infinitum.

[@lordbuss]

The original alpha-timeline can be what BKEW described in all his theories, Trickster Vriska stealing the light of the green sun, LE possessing Jake , all things working by classical narrative arcs, all foreshadowing and checkovs guns fulfilled (and the retcon could be a meta explanation for why the foreshadowing was not fulfilled). Although LE also probably wins, because everything was orchestrated by him (partially through Doc Scratch), and he is already in a perfect situation to win, the only thing that changed was the retcon. There is also "altstuck", which i think is based on this premise.

[@nickienot1997]

John Cosco's wish for a vriska fridgestuck finally came true

[@queenaraphel7154]

Wait so this show has gone on for this long and there hasn't been a Vriska episode until now... We've been ignoring a character that has ALL OF THE RELEVANCE!!!!

[@michaelliggett1622]

If I remember due to off hands comments she made in previous videos. She has her own problems with vriska

[@LaureledEevees]

Just a little reminder (in case you missed any update videos in the last month or two) that new Fridgestuck episodes will premiere every even month of 2020, usually on the 13th. Odd numbered months will have videos about Homestuck and other fandoms, they just won't be Fridgestucks. :D

[@genericlurker5778]

Fun fact! Fluorite crystals naturally form in the shape of a d8. Use this information to your advantage by creating your own dice/weapon of probable distruction.

[@RandomDNA4137]

LaureledEevees Happy Valentines Day.

[@mojonoahgamer5647]

Homestuck^2 update 2/14

[@leggyalyssa9000]

1M ST1LL W41T1NG FOR MY G1RL *V R 4 S K 4* TO COM3 BACK FROM TH3 W4R

[@tooth6676]

is that a terepy refrence

[@lordbuss]

Vaska, without R.

[@Kendakki]

@@tooth6676 T E R E P I

[@halleycapra]

terepy pipes and her friends karat ross and d

[@fran-mg]

Vriska could also reference the card game known as Briscola (in other places known as Brisca). It could relate to luck, something commonly associated with the Light aspect.

[@nefstrider2179]

Ah, yes, Komaeda Serket from Sans Undertale.

[@AlexMcMund]

Sometimes I wonder if Hussie really that much of a genius he was able to so SO many intertwining references and allusions into all his characters or if he just got stupidly lucky. It's really hard to tell with him...

[@lordbuss]

Most of them are luck, but he is genius in his ability to cultivate this kind of luck, and make intentional things based on accidental connections.

[@w1tchysounds207]

The blue John fact killed me. Im typing from my grave as we speak

[@nathanematherne]

I think the shoe color tells us whether the player's class is passive or active. Seer and Sylph are passive classes, while Thief is an active class. In other words, those with "cool" colors (i.e. blue, cyan, green, etc.) are passive classes, while those with "hot" colors (i.e. red, orange, yellow, etc.) are active classes.

[@aritimena]

I think Vriska has said before that red is her favorite color (something she shares with Terezi) and that she wears red shoes cause she thinks it's lucky

[@marleythekid8320]

TZ's favorite is red too.

[@JohnVance]

I’d forgotten just how unbelievably amazing After Us is.

[@TartiMaarti]

I was unreasonably excited for this ep, I’ve never clicked so fast

[@chromeCommodore]

"Vriska" is also similar to the croatian word "vrisak" meaning "screech"

[@-kenik9629]

Yep, the Light aspect is about information, meaning, and luck, specifically the reduction of unwanted probabilities. Light is also about the information you recieve, as each particle of light from a distant star travels countless miles only to meet its end either in your eye, or against any random rock. Void is about distraction, unimportance, and proficency( that is where skill renders luck meaningless). Void is also intuition I guess? Knowledge had without any kind of direct information. I love the opposing aspect thing for exactly how much it helps to understand the squerrelier aspects.

[@Ustar]

This is, by far, one of the best fridgestuck videos you've ever done! i had no idea about serket the goddess, for example

[@drakath5727]

So Vriska rolls Blue Johns.

[@rickyinfinite5229]

Around 10:30 That’s a gre8t character writing, like Scorpio + 8th sign = a person who’s vindictive, jealous, chaotic plus prone to LOVE and OBSESSION(especially to number. 8)

[@VainGuardian]

finally.... thank you for feeding me

[@StepperBox]

Ah Vriska, the character I both love and hate at the same time.

[@rarestpepe3815]

Yes! Hell Yes! Hell F*cking Yes! What? Someone had to do this Meme.

[@gingermaniac5484]

How does hussy do it? Everything is so well organized and connected.. damn..

[@masterfernando7518]

Yes! Thank you for coming back! Thank you!

[@masterfernando7518]

Please do a hiveswap.

[@florianricquart4114]

I don't see why you say that light is in Hope's domain. You show Jake's Hope Sphere, but considering Aranea, the Sylph (one who creates) of Light, caused it to happen by forccefully healing Jake, it's quite possible that the light of the sphere comes from the Light player

[@Pixaurora]

when you said "blue john" i yelled "WHAT" at my screen, i was expecting it to be called octet or something

[@tr0ylol]

3:30 16,777,216 is also the exact amount of colors a computer displays

[@khiarastales2091]

I enjoyed your video so much. Thank you for explaining interesting facts/trivias about Vriska. Especially her name's origins. Vrishchika sounds beautiful and kinda cute. (Those are also where my Indian/middle-east humanstuck Vriska headcanon came from)

[@RobbyTheRogue]

surprised you didn't mention her Lusus at all, was looking forward to a comparison between her duties to feed Spider-mom trolls and Feferi's duties to fed Giant Squid thing Lusus...as well as Eridan's personality giving he had to take over Feferi's duties.

[@tman3778]

I've been waiting for this episode for so long, thank you.

[@benzur3503]

Just 5 more seconds and it would’ve been 18 minutes long ::::(

[@sahrynasreddin3671]

lmao i yapped a bit when i saw a vriska fridgestuck!!! u killed me w/ the last fact haha, bravo maestro!

[@LordZadrenoss]

of course, considering all she went through, I'd call the Dolorosa being killed to be merciful, considering that Duelscar, for all his dirty vileness, ultimately put her out of her misery.

[@NemFX]

Rufioh turned over in his sleep. His big stupid horns impaling her by accident. The only way a Nitram can kill.

[@roondar6141]

Vriska was always destined to make Bec Noir, if she hasn’t we would be viewing a doomed timeline where everyone dies, she really didn’t have a choice especially with Trollian letting her basically see into the future.

[@inorexablechaos1139]

Actually, John was about to add a harlequin missing the opposite arm from the one he had prototypes into Jade’s Kernelsprite. If Vriska hadn’t interrupted, it’d be impossible to use the rings because their arms would both vanish when they put it on, which would make a doomed timeline with a literally impossible boss.

[@mp-lily7908]

Blue John fluorite is named for "bleu jaune", French for "blue yellow"(the colours of its stripes) :D

[@4daikon149]

oh my god vaska

[@ihavekalashnikovyoudomath9275]

Favorite Vriska ships, go! Mine is John as a Matesprite, and Terezi as a Moirail(and John and Terezi as Kismesis, but that's besides the point).

[@elcalabozodelandroide2]

he esperado tanto por esto

[@kanari9368]

WE BEEN WAITING FOR HERR (i think only me :((()

[@SpellSpammer64]

THANK YOU SO MUCH I love vriska

[@ArtClaws0]

I want to say Dualscar dump her or ghosted her. Other than that the rest was great.

[@ricejenkins4973]

The sheer amount of references and perfect connections in this one character alone is so startlingly high that i need to tell myself that it was mostly accidental before I drop writing for good.

[@starfik2948]

I really loves your videos. Because of them I started reading Homestuck, and also I love! This whole proces of character analyzation. It's amazing and very inspiring! ❤️❤️

[@dietben9309]

Maybe the reason why she’s lucky is because the Warhammer 40k Orks believe that Blue is a lucky color

[@Co27Enigma]

I arrived one year too late. This exists, at least.

[@puddel9079]

Vriska never suffers consequences for her actions? Excuse me?

[@tirox8834]

Yeah, it's not like she lost her arm and some of her eyes, had almost everyone hate her, got beaten to a pulp and bled to death to then get revived again only to get stabbed to death by her best friend and die for good to then date a version of John who then got killed by LE, merge with the person she bullied, get another partner only to then be dumped for not being evil enough and then to top it all of got bullied by another version of herself and got forgotten by everyone and lost all relevance in the story. And the new vriska got hit in the head by the sky and got sucked into a black hole before she could witness the conclusion to all her hard work and then got plopped out in what must be her worst nightmare, the least cannon/relevant part of paradox space. Oh, and then she got fucked by a clown. That all happened. But yaknow. No consequences or anything.

[@puddel9079]

@@tirox8834 I mean, her friends (starting out) weren't just hateful (underhanded and openly) toward her, they were scared of her. Except Eridan, he was too focused on himself to appear scared or hateful around Vriska. Guess that's why she tolerated him...

[@tA-ts1hw]

God i love vriska

[@MaxEverywhereSystem]

*_IT’S BEEN 3000 YEARS_*

[@MindfangTheArachnid]

Really late but a reason why vriska might also wear glasses is because spiders have relatively poor eyesight

[@atomykebonpyre]

Somebody make me a fluorite octet out of real fluorite.

[@lunarlite6294]

Did you know that breaking a leg is a figure of speech to tell someone good luck. So Vriska just wanted to grant Tavros good luck.

[@YeetSpace]

The one dislike is from Vriska

[@tiildeath]

notably 8 is also a lucky number in chinese culture!!! which ties in with light as an aspect with strong ties to luck, and of course with vriska having 'aaaaaaaall the luck.'

[@lordbuss]

12:40 And also of a powergamer in RPG. 13:30 Not really. The universe already had cancer, and Vriska's actions didn't really cause the rise of Bec Noir, because Bec would prototype himself in any case. So putting John to sleep means the kernel can be prototyped by dream-Jade, so she could save everyone in Cascade. 14:16 But also importance and knowledge, both as the character knowing things, and the character wants to be known. As a Thief of Light, Vriska takes the importance from everyone, literally steals the spotlight, and wants everyone to know this. Light is also relevance and agency, and she steals relevance and agency from others, literally mindcontrolling them and deciding what should they do.

[@dancinglamb9001]

The johnvris is strong with this episode

[@CrowCoded]

It should be noted that Vriska's line are the only fucking trolls to have boobs and I find that fucking funny and iconic.

[@maty._.5056]

My bad for not making this question in the q&a but could you consider updating your videos in one big video taking into consideration pesterquest and homestuck²?

[@noravargas7653]

Now THIS, is something to get exited over

[@FunkMcLovin]

Have you seen the Vriskumentary?

[@suspiciousde862]

While the Beta Kids definitely could’ve won, it was also apparent that the Battlefield had a tumor in it due to Karkat essentially giving Billious Slick (AKA the Beta Kids’ universe) _cancer_

[@Kendakki]

The most important character in homestuck

[@Blocky_Frog]

1:10 “the milky way” (shows andromeda)

[@clownsdontbite7385]

Very much enjoyed.

[@SalemsRising]

Vriska really wanted a piece of that Blue John

[@liamlalonde594]

this is so cool! :3

[@ThatCatWithoutAHat]

"Did Mindfang wanted to date The Summoner because of his dragon?" The real reason: 8itches love wings

[@tidecovill6718]

Vriska also means scream lol

[@0whatman]

light still has literal light haha

[@kimbatai]

Now for the Lalondes. Why are they last though?

[@8bitalien647]

well john cosco it happened it really happened

[@CrimCrim]

Finally, the episode of my Patron troll! I honestly am not a fan of Vriska/Aranea/Mindfang being my patron trolls

[@alecciarosewater7438]

Vriska Sekret, School Teacher

[@Joniness]

I’m a little bit bothered by calling the scene with mindfang and the jade blood “dubious consent” but this is a good video nonetheless

[@Palepetal]

Yeah, it's Mindfang straight up rapes the female slave. She's raped multiple slaves before her.

[@a-bird-lover]

the zodiac quiz said I'm a true scorpio... I'm becoming knockoff vriska :/

[@xever862]

... and apparently the extended zodiac said I am a light player... Totally obsessed about homestuck and looking around for shit to discover.... I guess it is fitting then

[@davestrider2766]

She liveeeeees

[@tabbender1232]

FINALLY

[@elextrano7597]

Hell yea!

[@june9914]

Does that make nic cage also a breath player coz she got infatuated with him when watching tough street maverick with nothing two lose?

[@Space12289]

Not only vriska but also gamzee make the kids not win the game they both make jack has the ring

[@yori4434]

whoa, nice! ^^

[@justanothergoth6544]

Finally.

[@ankapirachu426]

Finally

[@TigirlakaLaserwolf6]

Hell yea 8oiiiiiiii It's time for the most interesting and second-most fucked up character!!!!!!!!

[@cjthrasher5603]

Can we talk about homestuck 2

[@tooth6676]

no

[@nepetaleijon1017]

SpiderTroll time

[@spinnorsomething]

This is great and all but... I need someone to research horrorterrors..

[@dr.ongobongo5448]

Pirate time

[@chrysalismacosmist165]

Fluorite also has 8 letters.

[@sussy3778]

*Insert Obrigatory Fat Vriska joke*

[@radwolf76]

Why haven't you done a Fridgestuck^2 for Vrissy Maryam-Lalonde yet?! (Just kidding, we'll get there all in good time.) One Vriska theory that I've seen suggested that wasn't covered here was that her character may have draw some inspiration from 1980s video game journalist and reviewer Scorpia, who wrote for Computer Gaming World after she rose to fame as the moderator of online service CompuServe's gaming fourm. She was a zealous videogamer, and did not suffer poorly made games lightly, being sure to give them scathing reviews in her monthly magazine column.

[@TruxUtor]

Rose/Roxy plz!! ♡

[@raikkappa23]

VRSIAKA??

[@iguessmynamesriya7658]

Vriska is the worst, I cant be convinced otherwise