You are now the Maid of Time, recently resurrected from the crypt of Derse. Your name is Aradia Megido, and for the first time in your life, you feel truly alive.
You have just incapacitated Jack Noir with a spell. But a demon so powerful requires your full concentration to subdue. He will break free any moment. You may release him, and die now. Or you may continue to hold him, and die later.
What will you do?
Aside from die, that is.
Author commentary: Aradia currently is an exceptional portrait of a character who absolutely has her shit together finally, in every way possible. I think you will agree she is coming across here as something of a "bad ass." If she didn't straight-up decide to just peace out through Jack as a portal, and if Homestuck rolled somewhat differently, it wouldn't be hard to imagine her unfreezing Jack, getting him in a headlock, and absolutely whaling on him in a frightful display of dominance. But no, it doesn't roll that way, mainly because my tendency was to gravitate away from outcomes involving depictions of action and physical conflict due to it being such a pain in the ass to execute. Also it would probably be stupid if that's what happened next. Mainly because now Aradia herself, like me, also gravitates away from conflict, due to this radical god tier-fueled transformation of her persona into an fairly unusual death and destruction-worshipping pacifist type. Sometimes a character will get their shit together so hard, they experience such a profound transcendence of all the petty matters related to the conflicts and plot, that there's really nothing left for them to do but bounce from the story almost entirely. That's basically what she's doing here. She's absconding to a different plane of reality, and rising above all the petty concerns of mortal beings forever.