Mage of Space?
To be a Mage means to be “magician” (from Latin magus) who has learned their skills (this usually meant people like astrologers or priestly class) and are associated with actual magic and magical tricks.
In Homestuck, Mage is a class where one gets pressured by their own aspect through lack of comfort, annoyance or even actual suffering it might bring,
all for the sake of becoming better through things that torment them (a situation comparable to the way pearls are made - through constant irritation of the oyster, that builds up a nacre, forming the gem out of the irritant object).
Mages also tend to keep up nonchalant or cool attitudes (masks) that easily fall apart once you get to know them (comparable to attitude Knights put up), mostly done for the sake of protecting themselves from uncovering their weaknesses this class is trying to uncover. Usually, the opposite aspect is used to shield Mages from the aspect they suffer from.
The aspect of Space has to do with literal space - so, location an object takes and relocation of it, size of it and making something smaller or larger. Space should not be confused with Void aspect in case of lack or nothigness, even if “empty space” is something you could describe Void with. All heroes of Space also have a recurring theme with being fashionable and taking interest in clothes (Jade alchemizes lots of dresses, Kanaya partakes in dress sewing as a hobby and Porrim - probably not for the first and not the last time - makes Kankri wear sweater she has made herself). Aspect of Space could also be distinctively linked to ability of teleportation and removal (like teleporting enemy out of your personal space and locating them somewhere else).
The Mage of Space would be someone who’d suffer from either constant relocation or inability to move; they’d live in a place that would be too small or too big for them (or would have unfitting feng shui flow). They’d wear bad clothes or clothes would constantly not fit them (as they would be either too big or too small). They could hate their own body (thinking they’re too big or too small, but also counting in body dysphorias where one thinks they need one more hand/one less leg, etc.) or they would have a problem with body/bodies of others (this includes objects, not only people and animals). If they teleported, they’d probably teleport to places where they wouldn’t want to be at or they wouldn’t be able to do it properly. As a mask, they’d pretend they have a lot of “time” to learn/find proper dress/lose weight/change places or that they don’t have enough of it to actually find the dress/find new places/move out.
An example of Mage od Space would be Max from “Goofy the Movie”.
(I’m talking about only this movie, I don’t know how Max is treated in other appearances)
Max, as an awkward growing teenager, suffers from “space” in a couple of various instances that keep showing thorough the movie. He has problem with his body “growing without his control”
but also the intrigue with going to the concert he had told everyone he is going to when the truth is he was only taken for a family trip with his father. In the end, the struggle keeps being shown through how Max doesn’t enjoy himself in the places Goofy is taking him to, the map he keeps going back to - and that eventually becomes his responsibility as well
and also other minor examples, like not fitting in the car.
Another example would be Chouji Akimichi from “Naruto”.
Chouji is an example of “this fat kid” trope in “Naruto”. He is constantly shown eating onscreen and his major fighting moves are about changing the size of his body.
Once we get to know his backstory, we hear about how being from Akimchi clan, whose main idea is to be fat (as fat can be changed into energy needed for various, often life-endangering techniques) was the source of his grief and how Chouji could never come to terms about it
until the faithful event that make him come to terms with his own suffering.
Yet another example would be Noko Hanazawa from “In the clothes named fat”.
Now, this is a story about eating diorders and they define Noko, as she suffers from compulsive eating (as seen above), but also from how everyone around her are thin (in addition to how she can’t handle her own body)
and the issues her boyfriend has with body weight.
In the end, it’s not your typical “lost weight and became happy” Girl Makeover Story ™, because it shows true ugly side of eating disorders, rebounds and psychological problems attached to it that both cause it and result from it. In terms of “space” being “size of my own body and body of everyone else”
Noko truly is a Mage of Space.
