Well, Vriska being God Tier wasn't a secret, so the change caught Aradia completely unsurprised. What was nice was that, in her eagerness to be unhelpful, Vriska had accidentally said something helpful along with it.

She smiled innocently. "Oh, I've blown up more than once? Thank you. See, that wasn't so hard."

Okay, she couldn't resist a little snark that time. The timeframe between the botsplosion and Vriska's death was only a couple of hours, which she figured was an acceptable margin of error. But she'd keep to her end of the deal, and hopefully in time to keep Vriska from interrupting.

"You know how I didn't have a dream self, right?" she went on. "That turned out not to be true. She was just sleeping in the crypt, in Derse's moon. So I blew up, Jack Noir destroyed the moon, and I came back to life." Simple, really.