@zheyscrobs

C'mon you gotta give me a challenge! Vriska refutes this one herself!

"EB: why should i calm down when you just said you deliberately sabotaged all of us?
AG: Relaaaaaaaax.
AG: Listen, John.
AG: Regardless of what I did, he is already here.
AG: I know this consequence will 8e hard for you to accept, 8ut whenever you feel angry or confused a8out it, just repeat this to yourself.
AG: It should 8ecome your mantra!
AG: He is already here.
AG: Say it, John!
EB: but what does that mean!
AG: It means what it sounds like! He's already here!!!!!!!!
AG: Here in our session, trying to hunt us down! Man, this should 8e elementary to you 8y now.
AG: No matter what you or I or any of us did, Jack's here now. That's the reality!
AG: And if I didn't stop you, it wouldn't have changed the reality for us here. We'd still 8e hiding on this rock, and he'd still 8e out there, sniffing around for us.
AG: He wouldn't just disappear! That's not how this time stuff works.
AG: All that REALLY would have happened is I would have allowed you to do something you weren't supposed to do!
AG: You would have prototyped with your pretty 8lue doll, 8ecause of course deep down you know you are o8sessed with me.
AG: And then you and all your friends would exist in a splintered timeline. And you wouldn't even 8e a8le to talk to me anymore! ::::(" (pg. 2975)

But that's a pretty boring excuse. Just because something is required by the alpha timeline doesn't mean it's morally correct, so I'll give you a better one.

Even if Vriska didn't put John to sleep, Bec still would have prototyped himself. Bec decided to prototype himself not because of what Vriska did, but because he wanted to save Jade's life. He had to prototype himself so that he could blow up the meteor and buy Jade some more time.

Let's play this out.

--> Bec doesn't prototype himself, Jade dies, all hope is lost.

Vriska doesn't put John to sleep --> Bec allows the doll to be prototyped --> Bec prototypes himself second --> things play out same as alpha timeline

--> Bec doesn't allow the doll to be prototyped [teleports it away or smthn] --> things play out same as alpha timeline

All Vriska really did was make herself minorly involved in the process. Bec was getting prototyped no matter what happened. She didn't rly change the end result, just the path to get there.

*remember that kernels can be prototyped twice before entering the medium