Anime Character

Guys, I'm sorry for the title, I cant change it. I meant to type comic but I guess I had anime stuck in my head after the waifu mention

Originally posted by in on 2/25/22, updated on 4/4/22.

Trust me I KNOW this sounds ridiculous and if it wasn’t happening to me I wouldn’t believe it either.

So I work in childcare and recently we enrolled a new baby named Vriska.

Now we are encouraged to build a rapport with the parents and to talk about them about shared interests whenever possible, so I often talk to some parents about nerdy things or others about fashion and make up etc.

When I meet the mother for a pick up I told her how cool it was that her child was named Vriska (even though I personally don’t think it’s cool to name your children after your fandoms but I wasn’t about to say that) and told her that I also loved Homestuck thinking it would be a quick way to build rapport.

The mother looked genuinely confused and asked me what Homestuck was so I told her it was a comic and one of the characters was called Vriska but sensing the awkward air I quickly said “oh nevermind! It’s probably a coincidence don’t mind me haha!” but I was confused because I’m sure the name Vriska didn’t exist before Homestuck. She proceeded to tell me that Vriska was a cute original name her husband came up with from the word ‘Vrishchika’ which is Hindi for Scorpio but that’s also straight up Homestuck Vriska’s name origin. Apparently he went so far as to create a fake paper trail of his research and showed her books and sites on the word Vrishchika so she’d believe him without looking into it.

She’s one of those crystals and astrology types, and was gushing about how thoughtful he was because he’s not into her beliefs and that he thinks they’re stupid so it was such a sweet gesture for him to go into so much trouble researching a name that aligned with her beliefs and I’m just nodding along politely because I’m internally losing my mind.

Long story short she came back to pull baby Vriska out of the program because she’s moving in with her parents and personally thanked me because she googled Vriska and got her now ex to fess up the whole truth and basically that he REALLY loved character Vriska and that she didn’t know about it because that love was of the uuuuh ‘waifu’ love rather then the ‘I relate to this character’ love so as you can imagine she was furious and decided to leave her husband for lying to her, among other things.

I’m honestly guilt ridden that I directly shattered a marriage and now baby Vriska will suffer because of this, which is why I think I could be the a-hole, I don’t know the whole story, maybe he’s a really good father? But I also think maybe I’m not the a-hole because who wants a husband who quite frankly sounds manipulative and insane.

I’m torn over this because my friends think I did the mother a favour but my family and coworkers can’t believe I broke a marriage over a simple name.

So reddit, what’s my verdict?

So my original post was removed by the moderators for breaking rule 7 and not having interpersonal conflict. That’s my bad and I apologise for not fully understanding but I got a really big response and the comments really helped me so I thought I would make an update post for those curious.

Since I can’t update on the group I thought I’d make the update here for anyone curious enough to click on my profile

First of all, got a lot of ‘this is fake’ comments and once again all I can say is buddy I WISH this was fake haha

The mother came back today to finalise things. I can safely say that Baby Vriska is no longer Vriska. The mum was able to apply for a change of name as she was less then 12 months old and because she went to court and had a lot of evidence in her favour it went smoothly enough. She also told me he did know that she would eventually realise the truth but had researched the 12 month rule in changing your babies name and apparently his plan was just hoping to wait out the time limit, it would be to late to apply after a year, and with covid and them not seeing anyone because they isolated strictly his plan was honestly working until I came along.

Vriska is now named Artemis because she still wanted a Scorpio based name because she wanted to ‘take back power’ after what her ex did to her (he HATES the new name btw) Plus apparently she had been calling Artemis “Vrissy” this whole time and she’s transitioned into calling her Missy. Hopefully Missy will stick because while naming your kids after mythology is more accepted I still think the kid’ll be bullied, idk not my place to judge.

So she and baby Artemis are going well, living with the her parents while she’s still sorting out the divorce. She’s also aiming for full custody and from the sound of it she’s confident she’s going to get it and I’m happy about that since as the mother stressed it wasn’t the name that caused the divorce it was the lying and manipulation. She didn’t safe after she realised the lengths he could go to get his way.

This was one wild ride I’m gonna go lay down.

Straight to the point, which character in anime do you guys think is just ‘that guy’, that one guy who’s too badass. One I’d go with is Yami Yugi (Atem). Drippy asf and excited me every time he was on screen.