Okay, I can understand that.
Also, the entire bit with the Many Years Vriska Therapy is fascinating, because its two main effects seem to be:
- To turn Vriska into a different version of herself (since she deeply changes)
- To skip/compress/avoid character development and exploration through conflict, which is normally a main engine in storytelling
It's almost as if the Beyond Canon writers were looking for new academic rules of writing to transgress, after Hussie walked all over so many principles already (for example the general "Limit the number of characters and subplots" caution).
Read Alabaster here: https://mspfa.com/?s=236