I've always wondered what's going on with these four post-getting-killed-on-the-meteor. I think it was a good thing for the narrative that they got killed off where they did, but it's still kind of sad they got relegated to basically background extras in the latter half of the story. The fact that they got doomed to irrelevance without as much development as the rest of the cast gave me a real soft spot for them, and I want to see more done with all four of them. So, here's a place to discuss your thoughts and opinions, and just kind of chat about them.
I don't think Eridan lacked development whatsoever. He got an entire arc, just with the caveat that it happened in the background. Did the arc result in him going crazy / grimdark and trying to kill everyone? Yes! But it was a satisfying arc nonetheless.
@retroautomaton that's true, he definitely developed, just kind of in a bad direction. still, it's weird that we just never see him again aside from occasional glimpses in ghost crowds and the like, two pages erisol is relevant
Nepeta and Feferi fell in love with each other and are married. Eridan and Equius have gone onto 浄土、the Buddhist Pure Land.
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equius and nepeta got development through their sprite counterparts, but feferi and eridan were really aggressively sidelined, especially feferi, who was replaced by meenah and to a lesser extent, jane. it's almost like hussie wants everyone to forget feferi exists. it's hard, being a character with a typing quirk hussie hates writing. it's hard and nobody understands.
nepeta moved into my basement they're always hotboxing that shit
i think the throughline with these four is that they don't develop, at least not in the way you hope they will. you want equius to stop being so concerned with his place on the hemospectrum, instead he allows and takes pleasure in gamzee strangling him. you want nepeta to stop being so naive and impulsive, instead she runs in to defend equius with no plans and gets killed. you want eridan to get over feferi and feferi to not have to worry about eridan anymore, instead eridan goes crazy with obsession and kills feferi. and the fact we barely see them again after this makes it hit so much harder, the idea that these four are just sort of permanently at their lowest points after dying, at least as far as we can tell.
nepeta gets to be a part of davepetasprite^2, who is content with themself and their past struggles, and they're the one to kill lord english. dave was only able to embrace his destiny to fight lord english when he turned part nepeta, who is ironically a shipping obsessed, green blooded, cringy teen girl, the exact kind of person caliborn hates most