The stars didn ' t align very well . That ' s the only reason . Nothing else matters . But in the end , it doesn ' t even matter . Auerdem Mmmmh Bockwurst und Krautsalat . <| sep |> What do you specifically do when the cars are on track ? <| sep |> No , you ' re right we didn ' t get solid confirmation There ' s nothing to confirm for sure that it didn ' t happen , but it was strongly hinted to be so or at least , that ' s how I interpreted it . Vriskagram shows , for example , how Gamzee attempts to spadeshit on Terezi , but then she just pushes him away with Vriska ' s help , which I interpreted as she didn ' t even let this relationship start , largely thanks to Vriska ' s influence . I mean , we ' re clearly shown her declining Gamzee ' s advances you could say it ' s her breaking up with him but I think it ' s somewhat of a stretch . Gamzee might ' ve been an issue , but seemingly only a terribly minor one , and nothing that ' d leave much to overcome . As for the alcoholism the way I interpreted it is that she did apparently start getting into it , but Vriska didn ' t let it get anywhere which is shown in Vriskagram as Rose getting drunk on some beverage and Vriska slapping it out of her hands . It ' s true that this wasn ' t confirmed for certain either , but I do think this seems to strongly hint that Vriska simply didn ' t let these things turn into major problems in the first place . Which is super awesome of Vriska , by the way . Basically , the way I see it , we were led to believe that Vriska made sure nobody fucked up in the first place she didn ' t allow any major problems to be created , and so nobody had to solve said problems . Which is indeed awesome of her , yeah , but it still doesn ' t mean everyone overcame their preretcon issues , which means that the potential character development didn ' t happen . I ' m starting to feel bad about this , lol . I do feel pretty strongly about this as a flaw , but only as a really minor flaw . They ' ve all had plenty of character development throughout the entirety of Homestuck . I simply felt a tinge of regret for the erasure of all that was being built up in the preretcon timeline 3 yearsjourney thing , but it ' s not such a big deal , and I feel weird defending this theory with such huge walls of text . I do certainly get your points , too , though . I hope you ' re right . If they really did overcome those problems , though , then I wish we ' d have gotten some more solid confirmation of that . Because right now it just really feels like a stretch to say that they might have , because Vriskagram does seem to strongly hint in the direction of Vriska ' s awesomeness repelled any such problems at the doorstep .