#ough i love these dweebs

[lovelesskiaart]

Revenge kiss 😚💕

[thats-sir-dyke-to-you]

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[acearadiamegido]

Aradezi? Teradia? Anywho going for one less obvious.

ough its INCHRESTING….

lemme think

so this is a ship i admittedly have not put a lot of thought into, and don’t really ship like Actively? but every time i see content for it im like oh! yeah :) love that for them

-i can make it so stupid: they larp together. canonically. on the night vriska paralyzed tavros, aradia and terezi were off somewhere roleplaying their ocs at each other in a field somewhere and then they got so distracted by the presence of doc scratch in the distance that they didn’t notice tavros being thrown off a cliff

point is they are dweebs and above all, gamers

-compatible brand of freaks: when aradia god tiers and starts going on about corpse parties on the meteor, everyone is pretty uncomfortable about it. even sollux! but not terezi shes just like TH4TS FUCK1NG CUT3. K33P 1T UP GO CR4ZY GO STUP1D >:] and aradias like. *twirls hair* you think so? :)

we love to see it!!

-inherent eroticism of attempted actual murder: many have tried. but these two are the only ones who actually succeeded at killing vriska. plus like. idk! there’s an element in the whole revenge cycle of these two avenging each other. tavros being paralyzed doesn’t immediately spur terezi to kill vriska. she just says she’ll “handle” it. which like, maybe she WAS just ruminating on how to take her out, but I think at that point she may still have been harboring some hopes of reaching a resolution with vriska that didn’t involve more bloodshed. but then aradia is killed and she’s like damn it, okay. i guess we’re doing this.

then of course she gets blinded and all that and as much as that ends up being a positive for her life, aradia still has like. A LOT of rage in the way she eventually kills vriska. im sure it’s partially for tavros, i’m sure it’s partially for herself, but the last, most recent loose end from that whole debacle was terezi losing her eyesight. vriska had never really faced consequences for that. so she’s absolutely avenging terezi there too.

which also brings up that aradia is VERY much a character concerned with justice even if she is not as vocal about it as terezi, and not as concerned with like… the classification of people or their actions as ‘criminal’ or ‘evil.’ she just sees someone hurt one of her friends and thinks “well there are going to have to be consequences for that.” which i think terezi probably finds very fucking cool and sexy because it factually IS.

also this isn’t really prompted by anything on the bingo board i just also want to say that i think they would have some very complicated shit to get through re: vriska, and that this would be really interesting to explore. their shared acknowledgement that vriska did terrible shit that hurt both of them as well as the people they care about. the shared acknowledgement that she was, at one point, their friend. and then the conflict between terezi’s continued attachment to vriska despite it all, vs aradia’s like, very civil but ultimately 100% conditional acceptance of vriska’s continued bullshit in the dreambubbles. like. aradia will hang around to watch vriska burn herself out and terezi will try her damndest to get in there with a fire extinguisher even if it means getting burned herself. and they will both see what the other is doing, and understand it, and not interfere, but still feel a deep sadness about it anyway.

[acearadiamegido]

the ORIGINAL homestuck otp for me ofc we got a bingo

more detailed infodumping under the cut

-so first off i don’t have to do much to make it fucked up. the whole “sollux getting mind controlled into killing aradia” thing is already pretty fucked up. but idk i also think about how, like, at a certain point, aradia knew the game would destroy alternia, and decided she just wasn’t going to tell sollux, and encourage him to finish programming it anyway. and like obviously playing sgrub was the only way to save their friends and all that but still she could’ve like…. TOLD him this huge element of what he was doing. Not to mention that when he finally came around to participating she put him to sleep which a) made him get enough mind honey in his mouth that he blew up the roof of his apartment and killed his lusus and b) cost him enough time getting INTO the game that it probably contributed a lot to him dying in the vast glub. AND AGAIN she only really did any of this because she knew the alternative was a doomed timeline, but like. there’s some major betrayal of trust there! there’s like. this element of mirroring between vriska forcing sollux’s hand into hurting aradia, and fate/the timeline/the voices/etc forcing aradia to do some real sketchy shit to sollux, and BRO it makes me go fucking insane (which is another point on the bingo board lol)

-basically canon: i dont think this needs much more explanation. look at them. i guess i can also get into the “idk what their relationship is” thing tho like. they are CLEARLY… something. maybe its pale maybe its red but frankly neither of them seems like the kind of person that would consider it important to define it. they just, like. want to be together and be a part of each other’s lives and they don’t seem too picky about what that looks like as long as they’re together. and i eat that shit RIGHT up bro.

-this is also kind of the ethos for “theyre not dating but they’re married” like FRANKLY. i like to interpret them as like. idk simply being so damn comfy and domestic with each other at a certain point that it doesn’t actually occur to them to like… have a Discrete Conversation in which they determine that they are a couple. like maybe one or both of them intends to bring it up someday at the beginning but eventually they have just been so deeply entwined in each others’ lives that like. it would be weird to bring up since they’re basically already just married. they’re a unit. do not separate them. bonded pair. adopt together ONLY.

-i can make it so stupid: look. they are also really fucking funny together. literally just read their pesterlogs together and tell me they arent constantly arguing (recreationally not like. actually heated arguments) about dumb shit and teasing each other because they both DO dumb shit. they are utter dweebs. aradia says shit like “i think your outfit looks quite spiffy” unironically. sollux has his own goddamn custom emotes for when he makes bad puns. i love them

-thematically delicious: its about being doomed. its about loss of agency. its about being sacrificed for the greater good over and over and then one day freeing yourself from the cycle. its about being one of the few who live to the end of the story but only because you decided to leave the story. OUGH.

-the inherent eroticism of attempted murder: i think people forget that when terezi originally decided to kill vriska to avenge aradia’s death, sollux was the one she enlisted to trace doc scratch’s typewriter. he was like, involved in that murder attempt. it didnt work of course but like dude fully intended to help kill vriska. arasol is “tried to kill vriska” solidarity

- theyre sweet/the devotion: bro sollux didnt go on the meteor with karkat kanaya and terezi because he wanted to reconnect with aradia. karkat kanaya and terezi are like. arguably the dude’s best fucking friends. he just exploded his whole brain out of his face to save them and then he sees aradia and is like well. i think thats enough self-sacrifice for one day. maybe i will actually just relax now. LIKE COME ON!!!!! they are out there for potentially eternity floating thru the bubbles, which are inherently transient and impermanent, and there is no truly stable place for them to anchor except each other like god DAMN dude. i am mentally unwell about it.

anyway this is what happens when you think about 2 characters holding hands for like, 11-12 years straight.