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I have a lot of Very Interpretive headcanon wrt Vriska and the hemospectrum. She doesn't give us very much impression at all on how she feels about it in canon, other than the quote I mentioned above about being vindicated by others of her color, and the "envia8le cerulean SWILL" comment she makes to Aradia.

Yes, you are basically correct. If she does have any hemospectrum bigotry, she keeps it internalized, and seems to mostly apply it to herself. She doesn't openly put any stock in it, and the only times she DOES talk about it, as you note, are when it applies to herself, and her social standing, and how she feels about herself etc. She doesn't seem to be all that fond of her standing on the hemospectrum, and yet at the same time sort of relies on it, or places herself in its frame of reference in a way that is important, at least to her justification of her own actions.

Vriska probably cares way, way more about the hemospectrum than she lets on. Her casual uses and mentions of it (like when she needles and prods Equius early on when they are discussing usurping the blue team) are not really a good indicator of how she seems to really feel about it. My personal feeling is that she feels very bound by her blood color and position on the hemospectrum, for reasons tied to her lusus and to Mindfang. It almost definitely plays into her whole "I can't seem weak ever" Thing. How big a deal it is for her, though, is definitely open to interpretation. It certainly is a thing, but she may not even be fully conscious of how much it is a thing to her, beyond the surface level that she openly acknowledges. But you can read a lot even into those two instances when she discusses it, if you so choose.

Imo, you definitely have the right idea about it! :)

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