going to link to this post by @bladekindeyewear  instead of reblogging because it’s good, but long af and only one little part of it really relevant to what i’m rambling about here, but anyway.

to quote the little part

There’s the issue of Vriska, who used the cueball for the longest time but was clearly exercising her role… however, do keep in mind that when the cueball exploded, (1) she lost some of her sight, (2) her luck flushed down the drain, and (3) her psyche and attitude declined to only facilitate and perpetuate this pessimistic unimportance she felt, just as Kanaya pointed out. Vriska wasn’t ghosting inversion, but it certainly took her from full exercise of her role down to a more diminished and unrealized low-point.

so i’m wondering if perhaps she might have undergone (however breifly) something like a genuine inversion after the explosion.  namely….

during the mobius double reacharound ([s] make her pay) itself, she blinds terezi.  which itself seems like it’s dipping into the powers of void itself - the destruction or obfuscation of information. and moreover, this exploitation ends up benefitting the team as a whole, much of terezi’s abilities and unique viewpoint comes from her blindness in some form or another, to the point that when terezi gets her eyes healed she becomes close to useless and very personally broken up.  also, during this vriska is acting surprisingly passively, she isn’t applying these effects to herself, but to other members of her team.

  also, something we see a lot although it’s never spelled out, but we see a lot of knights working with alternate versions of themselves and passing tasks through multiple versions of themselves to get tasks done.  whether that’s dave physically passing things between is physical time travelling selves, or karkat passing information and such through his past and future selves on his bulletin boards.  although vriska had been known previously to involve mind-controlled others in her activites before,  the number of connections involved in the double mobius reacharound is extraordinary even for her, she creates a veritable chain of temporary “vriskas” and passes orders own them to accomplish this information-blocking goal.

for the (brief) duration of the DMRA in [s] make her pay, vriska may be temporarily operating much like a Knight of Void.