quite simply: i read homestuck in highschool and for better or for worse thats the kinda character I was into at the time. i was also at one point very insistent that pale erikar could.. not fix him but at least could have avoided some things lol

why do i still consider him a fav now is certainly in part nostalgia based fondness. i have an erigrub plush i half-jokingly refer to as my son. i also think the fandom has simmered long enough that we have started to see more interesting takes on all the characters really. the story has become a playground where we can dig as deep as we want in the sandbox and wear whatever lenses in our goggles that we so please. Well its always been that but people have become far more willing to engage in that since the main comic ended. put that boy into Situations and read way too deeply into them