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As a Kanaya player, I agree with this entirely. Kanaya fucked up huge by behaving like a little immature brat in response to Vriska kissing Tavros. Vriska fucks up a lot of things, but this is one of the few circumstances that caused problems that she was involved in but, in no way whatsoever, at fault for. Vriska (even if she weren't as oblivious to other people's feelings as she is) had absolutely nothing t go on as to why Kanaya was treating her that way--hell, she had assumed Kanaya might have had a thing for Tavros, which, from anyone but Kanaya's perspective, was actually the more logical assumption. They were moirails, which is a platonic romance, which means Vriska had no reason to consider for even a moment that Kanaya wanted to mack on her.

Kanaya's passive-aggressive response to Vriska kissing Tavros also likely contributed to Vriska's death. As the more even-tempered member of the moirailship, it was her responsibility to keep Vriska under control and her passive-aggressive silent treatment and deliberate avoidance of Vriska kept her from really being there during the game or on the asteroid to keep Vriska from 1) killing Tavros or 2) trying to find and kill Jack. She may have snout-punched Vriska during the three-way highblood standoff, but she had been avoiding Vriska for so long that she had no way to anticipate Vriska's plan.

Kanaya is hands down my favorite troll. But she was 100% completely and entirely in the wrong concerning her treatment of Vriska AND (if taken from after Vriska's death) she would likely realize that and feel guilty. I cannot fathom her actually blaming Vriska for anything regarding this matter.

Having your best friend, moirail, and object of affection killed even possibly partially due to your selfish, passive-aggressive behavior should be enough of a wakeup call (read: a truckload of perspective hitting her in the face) for anyone--ESPECIALLY Kanaya--to realize you fucked up good. So, there is no way she would continue to blame Vriska; even if she were taken from BEFORE Vriska's death, I think that Kanaya would eventually realize her immature behavior, although it might require her to actually explain her feelings and reasons for behaving, which hearing it out loud would probably make her think 'Wow I Am A Little Shit'.

Also, she is a doormat (there is being selfless or generous and then there is being a doormat, the latter of which she is) which is also a flaw no one's mentioned yet. She's not a classy 'go with the flow, sacrificing herself for all the little dears' type person, but a doormat.

Don't get me wrong. As I said before, she is my favorite troll. Kanaya is a very classy lady, but much of it is superficial.

Also, remember she fights like a goddamned drugged up berserker. There is nothing classy about berserkers. Awesome, yes; classy, no.

Aaand this depth of understanding and willingness to embrace your character's flaws is why you're my favourite kanaya. :D

Thank you, Anon♥!

This is awesome and you're awesome.

I'll admit I'm a Kanaya player who didn't really get the Vriska thing at all until I actually played out a really fucked up reunion/argument with Vriska somewhere and I finally got it.

I think it may be a little more complicated than that. If their moirallegiance had been picture-perfect aside from Kanaya harboring an undisclosed flushed crush on Vriska, maybe it would've been entirely on her.

But the two of them would've been outrageously imbalanced and unhealthy. On Kanaya's end, you have her distraction due to conflicted feelings and the fact that she's nowhere near as even-tempered as she likes to consider herself, and that for both of these reasons she had no business being in this quadrant with Vriska. But you also have the fact that Vriska is egocentric and selfish where Kanaya is, as you said, a doormat. It would be fair to say that Vriska took advantage of Kanaya's feelings, as the anon below said, but I don't think it's as big a stretch to think she might have taken advantage of her nature, and not necessarily even consciously!

I think a fair amount of Kanaya's bitterness could have resulted from that, and it doesn't help that their conversation in Alterniabound seemed like the first Vriska had even attempted in weeks. None of this is to say she wasn't being immature and stupid about the whole thing, but it isn't so easily a situation one can pin down to just one of them. They were pretty much awful for each other as moirails.

That said, I definitely think Kanaya would consider herself responsible for Vriska's death, but I don't think she'd be quite self-aware or mature enough for it to suddenly click that she had been really awful and should suddenly stop. Even admitting her part of the blame to Vriska wouldn't be easy for her, but it would definitely complicate her feelings to being more than just a cold, bitter shoulder toward her.

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