more fun from the commentary
>Very obvious callback panel to when Dave talked Jade into slapping herself in the face with her own dreambot. It was a clever trick by Dave. This is a little more direct, but I guess it was clever of Equius to leave the remote override chip in there. The fact that he's been able to directly control Vriska's arm all this time raises some questions, though. What else has he done with this ability? Do we even want to know?? What are the odds that on some level, she doesn't particularly mind the fact that he pulled this dubious shit on her during a medical crisis??? Do we want to know that either???? In any case, it's not too far off from what she herself has the ability to impose on some of her other friends. It wouldn't be a bad means of keeping her honest and preventing her from exploiting her own powers in creepy ways, if that's how he chose to use this leverage. Which it isn't, because he doesn't care.
>There are so many dimensions of creepiness to this, it's hard to keep track of them all. One detail worth cocking an eyebrow over is the "class upgrade" this represents for Aradia. Strangely, though Equius is attracted to her swill-blooded untouchable status, he does what he probably presumes is the sweeping romantic gesture of upgrading her to the same blood class as him, even though this gesture sort of neutralizes the very class divide he finds so intoxicatingly depraved. He may view this as a "sacrifice" he is making for her benefit. But what's probably even more creepy about this, when you think it through, is that as he was building this thing, the most logical and direct supply of indigo blood was probably his own body. He's essentially giving her a full-body blood transfusion using his own blood, so that she gets to experience the privilege of being his true equal. The creepiness js probably compounded by the fact that this robot surely doesn't need any blood inside it at all to function. It's strictly symbolic.
