Volts is a weird case. It's also a reminder of just what a clusterfuck Team Vade is. Once you're there, you seem to be there for life. Almost everyone who has told us about Vade who did not backslide and re-join Team Vade is just as much of a broken fucked-up mess as she is. Tanukurin, bless her, finally moved beyond that, but she went through a fuckton to get there and arguably will never fully be rid of the damage Vade did.
It's horrifying just how much of a spidernest Vade's supporters are. They are, to a man, Tumblr Genderspecials with made-up genders and made-up medical conditions. Amidst them you have mexed-up kids who are essentially victims, like Tanku was (and what Tanku did involving our beloved CatBisquick was pretty fucked up), a painful reminder of just how fucking dangerous Vade's mindset can be.
Vade's lost tons of supporters to our offensive, and indeed, most of Team Vade abandoned her. But we must always bear in mind what else is involved with Vade's madness, and why her allies cling to her so hard. At her apex, Vade was feared. She was powerful. Even when she was in decline, she had these. And then the Farms took that all away.
Even though Vade is nowhere near as feared as she once was, the damage she inflicted is still there, on the communities she tromped through. Volts is a casualty, though originally we just thought she was a mere target of harassment and wasn't involved until she got dragged into it. I don't know what happened to cause the downward spiral and drive her into Vade's arms, whether it was a combination of IRL shit and pervasive Tumblr-brand SJ, but whatever it was, it must have been rough. It's difficult to conceive of somebody just flip-flopping on somebody who drove a young man to suicide.
It's hard to think that somebody can look back to the harm done to the TF2 fandom and Tumblr's furry community and just be able to so casually brush it off, but as I said before, for somebody like Volts, Vade is someone who will take her in despite the bad blood previously between them. Vade will not hold grudges if she feels she stands to benefit and the person begging for forgiveness grovels sufficiently, especially now, when she has so few allies left. She'll take anybody she can get and use them as she will, even if they're using her right back, as Volts is no doubt doing. Shit, if I were to apologize to Vade at this point and prostrate myself before her, swearing off the Kiwis and pledging my allegiance to Otherkin, she'd probably accept me for no other reason than I could be of use to her. That ain't gonna happen though.
I think what grinds my gears the most was that I actually
liked Volts. Yeah, she was a Tumblr sperg, but I don't hold that against her. She seemed decent kid. I always got the impression that she wanted to do the right thing. Then I come to find out she's nothing more than a shameless opportunist who acted like a creepy, attention-whoring asshole IRL and was willing to change identities at will if she thought she could get something out of it.
I should probably look into whether or not Volts is close with Luxwing, one of Vade's last remaining loyal minions (at least last I checked). Lux was also very big into Link and Pikachu as well as going full SJW and otherkin. Both of Link and Pikachu were featured pretty prominently on her blog.
