🪄 for so long i’d been thinking about gamzee as more similar to vriska and eridan (heavily groomed for violence but acting with about as much personal autonomy as someone can in their situations) but we have no proof he is ever Not mind controlled once he goes off sopor

🪄 for all we know gamzee is as culpable for killing equius and nepeta and karkat and terezi as sollux was for killing aradia, which, notably, everyone knows was vriska’s doing

🪄 and then equius is like! ah! the natural coming of age of a member of the high nobility!!

i’m gonna beat him to death with a shovel

this shit ain’t natural bozo

🪄 equius talking like that’s the natural process of maturation for a purpleblood. dude your kind friend has been taken over by the devil sorry. he probably agrees with u NOW because the demon is U! partially!!! and the demon is controlling his mind which is where opinions come from

🪄 and he gets judged sooo much worse than the other characters who get mind controlled!!

🪄 i’d already considered him groomed for the role but this is so much more severe. he’s not acting on social conditioning here (tho that does mask the literal demonic influence) bro is being puppets. the puppet is gamzee and lil cal is pulling his strings

🪄 the personal autonomy he exercised in killing all those bitches is unknowable but we know it isn’t 100% because once he looks in the puppets fucked up mind control eyes we never see him Not under the influence of someone’s mind control or another

🪄 absolutely seething over this

🦾 Thank you! I am still proud of it too

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