vriska is a really interesting character to me bc imo if she had had a safe, healthy childhood she could have been an unequivocally good character

in homestuck however she is forced, at a very young age, to choose between killing thousands of other trolls (to feed her lusus) or to die herself. and obviously she chose to save herself, and that’s why she’s such a bad person in-comic

she justified it to herself by convincing herself, on some level, that she was more important than those other trolls. she deserved to live more than them. she was destined to do great things.

and the reason she’s so self-important and constantly tries to be the centre of attention/make her own accomplishments greater, is that on some level she is still desperately trying to convince herself that she was right. because if it turns out that she isn’t The Most Important Person Ever Of All Time, she has to admit that she’s wrong/a bad person. and vriska doesn’t want to do that.