LICENSE TO ILL

First, thank you for taking time to crit me. This has been coming up occasionally in comments and reblogs - particularly the bit about Feferi, and I’ve been trying to find a good method of addressing it. Your ask gives me a solid chance to handle it.

So, Feferi. The thing is, I agree with everyone! Feferi is absurdly strong. She carries whales and can jump through her gates like Equius. She’s actually my favorite troll, and I have a heavy dislike for when people paint her as a perfect princess or damsel in distress or a weakling. She isn’t. Here’s where my real failure lies, I think: Eridan is not a reliable narrator. The askblog is from Eridan’s point of view, and relies on Eridan’s memories and his interpretations of events. Eridan is a very dramatic troll, and sees things in a dramatic light. While Feferi could easily break those cuffs (scissors wouldn’t do anything if she couldn’t, that’d be some absurdly strong stuff,) Eridan sees the event as him being the big damn hero and Feferi being put in danger as a result of the careless land dwellers. In reality, she’d probably be laughing and twirling her wrists around while he yells at her to take this seriously because THIS IS WWHY THEYRE A THREAT FEF.

The problem is, I failed to make the distinction between narration and point of view clear. In an attempt to not go overboard and use a soft touch, I didn’t provide enough information. The end result is a lot of confused people asking why Feferi didn’t just pull her wrists apart. It’s a plot hole, and something that I need to be more mindful of in the future. While it doesn’t absolve me of any errors, I’m really new to this whole askblog thing - I’m kind of blindly punching my way through this metaphorical paper bag. I am glad that this did come to a head before I got further into the blog, however, if only so I can be more mindful to making sure all points of view and reality can be understood.

However, I have to disagree with your point that Eridan is less caring that what I portrayed. Looking at canon, if anything, Eridan cares too much. Eridan is a spoiled, selfish, angry, frustrated douchebag of a child. I will admit that all openly. However, his entire character arc revolves around his feelings for Feferi, and how he’s incapable of being able to stop caring. The thing keeping him from easily reaching his genocidal goal is he doesn’t want her to be sad. She’s the only one he extended his “join me and be safe” invitation to, not even KK got that, and Karkat was the one who actually offered to visit him. The child has a lot of things wrong with him, but being uncaring towards Feferi isn’t one of them.