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Homestuck Title Test

Yes, I know, another title test seems pretty redundant at this point. A lot of people enjoy thepageofhopes’s Homestuck Title Test, and they have good reason to! It’s very well thought-out and quite consistent. But since the creation of that test, new information has been revealed in the comic itself that calls into question some of the assumptions made, and of course, there’s always the sticky situation of fanon titles. I wanted to take a title test that adhered to what we know of canon Classpects as strictly as possible while still basing its analysis in valid psychological assessments. And then I thought, well, I’m kind of a hobbyist psychologist, so…

Here it is, a brand-new 3.5-part Homestuck Title Test!

Before we begin, you should know that this page is subject to change at any time, and with little prior explanation. I’m a capricious perfectionist. My apologies.

BEFORE YOU BEGIN: THE TEST MAY BE UNDERGOING SOME SERIOUS REVISIONS SOON. IF YOU ARE OKAY WITH THE POSSIBILITY THAT THINGS MAY CHANGE IN THE NEAR FUTURE, GO AHEAD. IF NOT, PLEASE WAIT FOR A WHILE!

(sorry for shouting up there but I wasn’t sure how else to get people to notice! please happily continue on with your life!)

I’d like to lay the ground rules of the Classes and Aspects to better explain my reasoning. I’ve adopted bladekindeyewear’s Class and Aspect definitions for the purposes of this test, although if Hussie ever decides to grace us with information that conflicts with those, I will edit the test accordingly. I’ll summarize them here for consistency’s sake, but you should really check out the original posts. They’re much more elaborate and informative than I can render them.

Classes are paired active-passive. Each of these pairs has a keyword of sorts that defines the purpose and powers of the Class. They are as follows:

Purpose - Active - Passive

— Standard Classes —

Know - Mage - Seer

Change - Witch - Heir

Destroy - Prince – Bard

Create - Maid - Sylph

Steal - Thief - Rogue

Exploit - Knight - Page

— Master Classes —

Embody - Lord – Muse

This test only covers the Standard Classes. I am of the opinion that SBURB/SGRUB/whatever only assigns the Master Classes in the event of a two-player session or under other similarly strange circumstances, so I won’t be including them in this test. If you want to have a Master Class, that’s fine! You’ll just have to make that decision for yourself, because I honestly don’t know how to test for a Class with all the skills and no apparent weaknesses.

Anyway, these pairs (not counting the Master Classes) can also be grouped into what can loosely be described as ‘meta-pairs.’ (I apologize for the pretentious terminology.) Those go a little something like this:

Know – Change

Destroy – Create

Steal – Exploit

The Aspects can be divided into opposing pairs, too.

Light – Void

Heart – Mind

Blood – Breath

Hope – Rage

Time – Space

Life – Doom

Again, all of these pairs are of bladekindeyewear’s devising, not mine.

These pairs and meta-pairs form the basis of the Title Test. Before we get into that, though, how about you go take the tests and save your results somewhere? You’ll need to take three tests total. Make sure you save all of your results. I would recommend pasting them into one giant document, but handle it however you wish. And for accuracy’s sake, please be honest!

Jungian Cognitive Functions Test

Triarchic Intelligence Theory Test

HEXACO Personality Trait Test

Now onto the tabulation of your results!

First, we will determine your Class. Let’s begin with the Jungian Cognitive Functions Test. You’ll notice your results list 8 functions. However, not all of them need be analyzed for the purposes of this test. What we want to look at are the 4 Perceiving functions. If you aren’t familiar with Jungian terminology, this essentially means the functions that describe how you gather and act upon information. These are the iNtuitive and the Sensory functions, and you can pick them out of the 8 by looking for the ones that start with either N or S. Ignore the others that start with T and F – they aren’t relevant for this test.

So now you’ve narrowed your list of 8 to a list of 4. This list should consist of the functions Ne, Ni, Se, and Si. You’ll need to find the one with the highest percentage of those 4.

Now look at your Triarchic Intelligence test results. These tell you how you best apply your knowledge: Analytically, Creatively, or Practically. Take note of your highest score here, too.

Once you’ve figured out your results, consult the Class Table.

Go to the quadrant headed by your dominant Perceiving function. Once you’ve found it, locate the Class that corresponds with your preferred Triarchic Intelligence. For example, my dominant Perceiving function is Ne, so I could be a Witch, Prince, or Thief. My preferred Triarchic Intelligence is Analytic, indicating the Witch Class. Therefore, I am a Witch!

In the event that your Triarchic Intelligence results assign you a Class that you disagree with based on gender restrictions, feel free to select instead the Class indicated by your second-highest Triarchic Intelligence. So, for example, if my dominant cognitive function were Si and my preferred Triarchic Intelligence were Creative but I really wasn’t feeling the codpiece Class, then I might decide to label myself a Rogue instead because my second-highest Triarchic Intelligence is Practical, or whatever it happens to be.

Next, we will determine your Aspect. This is where the HEXACO Personality Trait Test comes in. The name ‘HEXACO’ is an acronym for the 6 categories assessed, each of which is associated with an Aspect pair:

Honesty/Humility: fair/sincere vs. secretive/ambitious – Light/Void

Emotionality: sensitive/dependent vs. secure/confident – Blood/Breath

eXtroversion: extrospective/bold vs. introspective/reserved – Mind/Heart

Agreeableness: friendly/compassionate vs. vengeful/angry – Hope/Rage

Conscientiousness: efficient/organized vs. easy-going/careless – Time/Space

Openness to experience: inventive/curious vs. consistent/cautious – Life/Doom

Each of these categories is scored in 4 distinct subsets, but we only care about the larger categories. Just add up the individual subset scores for each of the 6 categories and record them somewhere.

Now that you have your HEXACO scores, you can determine your Aspect. Add all of your category scores together and divide by 6 to find your average score. This will be your ‘baseline’ for the next calculation. You’ll need to determine which of your HEXACO scores is the farthest in either direction from your baseline average, or in other words, which scale measures your outstanding score. You can do this by subtracting each of the scores from the baseline and comparing the differences.

Your outstanding score determines which Aspect pair you will select your final Aspect from. Pick the pair associated with the HEXACO scale that measures your outstanding score from the list above.

Now we need to determine which of the paired Aspects you should select. Once you know which HEXACO scale to look at, determine which direction the scale is going. If the outstanding score is greater than your average, then your Aspect is the one on the left side of the pair. If your outstanding score is less than your average, then your Aspect is the one on the right side of the pair.

However, your Aspect depends upon your maturity level. If you are mentally and emotionally mature, then your current test results accurately describe your Aspect. If you lack either mental or emotional maturity, however, then your current outstanding personality trait is clearly not the right direction in which you need to develop! In this case, your Aspect is the opposite of the one determined above.

In order to determine your maturity level, read this summary of Morler’s Levels of Maturity. Beginning at the first level, determine whether or not you have surpassed this level of maturity. If you feel that you have, move onto the next level. If not, then that is your maturity level for the purposes of this test.

If your maturity level is Level 1, 2, or 3, your Aspect should challenge you to mature. You should therefore select the opposite Aspect of the one you determined with the HEXACO assessment.

If your maturity level is Level 4, 5, or 6, your Aspect should support your growth. You should therefore keep the Aspect you determined with the HEXACO assessment.

I’ll analyze my own scores as an example. After adding up all of the individual scores for each of the 6 categories, I have 257 in Honesty/Humility, 189 in Emotionality, 195 in eXtroversion, 289 in Agreeableness, 156 in Conscientiousness, and 287 in Openness to experience. I find that the average of these scores is 228.8, so that’s my baseline. The score that differs the most from this value is my 156 in Conscientiousness, which is 72.8 points away from the baseline, meaning that my Aspect pair is Time/Space. The score is less than the baseline, so that means that of the Time/Space pair, my Aspect is Space.

As for the maturity test, I consider myself a high Level 4, so my Aspect should support my future growth. This means that I keep the Aspect determined by the HEXACO results. Thus, I am the Witch of Space! (canon title wooo!)

Note that if you have a canon title, that by no means indicates that you’re identical to that character! What it might mean, assuming I’ve constructed this test correctly, is that you and that character tend to think in somewhat similar ways and might share either a personality trait or some values. That’s it, nothing more in-depth than that.

And there you have it! Your very own Mythological Role. Keep in mind that while your Class is unlikely to change with repeated test-taking, your Aspect may vary. I would recommend taking the Aspect portion of the test a few times over a couple of days, if you want to bereally accurate. And of course, there’s a certain sense of narrative causality that I can’t possibly hope to recognize here. If situations demand that you be a Lord or a Muse, go ahead! If as a Knight you feel like you’d fulfill certain thematic trends in your life, have at it. I’m not going to claim that I can account for every circumstance with this test.

I’m curious to see what titles this test generates, so please reblog with your new Class and Aspect! Or, y’know, send me a message. That would be cool, too.

Alternatively, consider filling out this Google form. That way, I can more easily keep track of data and maybe improve the test based on the distribution of Classes and Aspects. You definitely don’t have to, but I’d really appreciate it!

EDIT: For the moment, what I really need are responses to this form over here about your HEXACO results. We’re trying to rebalance the Aspect portion so that it is 1. more consistent, and 2. more accurate to the test-taker. Any data is welcome!

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And now that you’ve got your title, I’ll explain the various psychological theories applied in this assessment and how they relate to the mythological roles of Homestuck. Basically, I’m going to tell you why I structured this test the way I did. I’m going to warn you now: if you don’t know much about the underlying theories behind the tests you just took, this section may not make much sense to you. Possibly it won’t make sense even if you do know your stuff – I am only a hobbyist psychologist, after all!

The Classes are based on your cognitive functions and the ways in which you apply them, rather than your personality traits.

I chose to assign a Class based on the ways of gathering and acting upon information as described by the Jungian Perceiving functions. The Jungian Function Theory is widely respected today, forming the basis of the popular Myers-Briggs Type Indicator as well as other newer interpretations. I feel that the function-based analysis of Jung’s original tests is more accurate and consistent than the dichotomy-based MBTI assessment, which is why I didn’t express the dominant Perceiving functions in terms of their MBTI equivalents. (If you’re curious, Ne is supposed to be dominant in xNxP types, Ni in xNxJ types, Se in xSxP types, and Si in xSxJ types. Doesn’t mean it always works out that way, though, especially if you’re judging your MBTI based on one of the numerous and rather inaccurate online tests!)

Notably, I chose not to incorporate Judging functions or the Introvert/Extrovert dichotomy. I didn’t want to restrict Thinkers and Feelers or Introverts and Extroverts to any specific Class, because I believe that those Aspects determine how you act within the confines of your Class. For example, Rose appears to be an introvert and Terezi an extrovert. Does this mean that one of them isn’t a Seer? Of course not! They both display the characteristics of their Class, though they go about it differently. Similarly, I think it’s fair to say that Sollux is primarily a thinker whereas Meulin is a feeler, but they are both Mages.

Introversion and extroversion can determine the way in which you approach your role, but not necessarily the role itself. The same applies to Thinking vs. Feeling; these dichotomies might characterize the way that you process information and make decisions, but they should not impact the way in which you gather that information and act on your decisions. This means that though not all members of the same Class think and behave identically, they share certain methods of interacting with the world, allowing variance in personality type within a Class while maintaining its assigned purpose and general role in the game.

(This is also why, despite its neat division into four groups, I chose not to implement Keirsey’s Temperaments. Though the Sensing groups SJ and SP are kind of what I ended up using, the distinction between the iNtuitives NT and NF would’ve brought the Thinker-Feeler dichotomy into this, and I had resolved not to do that. Same goes for Enneagram theory – it also weighs Thinking-Feeling preferences in determining your Enneagram and Wing, from what I understand.)

So, onto the functions that impact this test. Everyone has two Perceiving functions, one more dominant than the other. One will always be introverted and one extroverted. Similarly, one will be Sensory and one will be iNtuitive. You can’t have two introverted Perceiving functions or two iNtuitive functions – it simply doesn’t work that way. So that means that there are four distinct types of people described by their Perceiving functions, as follows:

Dominant Function – Supporting Function

extroverted Sensing (Se) – introverted iNtuiting (Ni)

introverted iNtuiting (Ni) – extroverted Sensing (Se)

extroverted iNtuiting (Ne) – introverted Sensing (Si)

introverted Sensing (Si) – extroverted iNtuiting (Ne)

Note that one must either have Se and Ni or Ne and Si, although one of them will be preferred to the other. That forms the basis of my treatment of paired Classes in this test – somebody who has the dominant function Ne has the same functions as someone with the dominant function Si, just in a different order! In contrast, an Ni-user has none of the same functions as the Ne-user. That’s why I didn’t choose Class pairs based on iNtuition vs. Sensation but rather their shared functions. This way, the two Classes of a pair will think somewhat similarly on a basic level, but their differences will manifest in their dominant preference.

Here’s a table of info about the uses of the Perceiving functions.

(Source, slightly modified for clarity)

(my apologies for the quality, but tumblr eats real tables, so you’ll have to settle for a screenshot.)

Notice that, when used as supporting (or information-gathering) functions, the introverted Perceiving functions focus on learning from internal sources and the extroverted Perceiving functions cover learning from external sources.

Now consider their dominant function (or acting-upon-information) functions. Introverted Perceiving functions manipulate the inner environment, or the mental world. People who are dominant in these functions internally react to the external world, modifying their beliefs to suit things they’ve noticed in their surroundings. In other words, they do not directly modify their surroundings but rather the way that they (or other people) react to them, allowing events to occur and then judging them later. Sounds kind of like a ‘passive’ pattern of behavior, right? People with dominant extroverted Perceiving functions externally react to their internal world, changing their surroundings to suit their ideals. They directly alter their surroundings based on what they (or other people) think. This seems like it describes ‘active’ Classes pretty well! That’s why I based the active-passive distinction on the introversion-extroversion of the Perceiving function, so that all of the passive Classes have a dominant introverted Perceiving function and all of the active Classes have a dominant extroverted Perceiving function.

The Classes and their purposes were matched with dominant Perceiving functions based on the use of the mature function. The table above describes the functions at their best and most developed, which should serve as a goal that is demanding, but by its nature feasible to achieve as it is an extension of the function that you already possess. In this way, your Class is a role to grow into that doesn’t change who you are at heart but rather provides a path for maturation. In other words, your Class describes your maturation quest, which appears to be kind of the point of SBURB/SGRUB/whatever! The game forces you to develop and mature your dominant Perceiving function in much the same way that mundane life demands of adults. It should lead not only to an improved effectiveness and a healthy cognitive process but also to greater happiness – it is the path of learning to accept and develop your potential to its highest degree.

If you want to know more about why I chose the Classes in each Perceiving function group, check out this post. It’s one of my favorite explanations of the distinction between iNtuitive and Sensory functions. There’s a brief summary of the cognitive functions available here, for specific differences between introverted and extroverted functions. I’d recommend researching some on your own, if you’re really curious! And of course, I’m completely willing to answer any questions you have. Just send me a message and we’ll talk.

So now that you’ve determined the direction of your actions, you need to determine their nature. This is where the Triarchic Intelligence Test comes in. This further refines your list of potential Classes to a single role based on the way in which you tend to apply the information gathered through your perceiving functions.

This test was one of the first theories of multiple intelligences, though nowadays it is considered obsolete because it is more a measure of skill than what psychologists define as intelligence. Fortunately, that is exactly what we’d like to measure here! Unfortunately, because not many people still use it and because it was originally designed as a personally-administrated test, there aren’t any online versions of it. The test featured here is one that I created myself based on the records of the assessments that I researched. If anything goes wrong with that particular test, I sincerely apologize – that one’s all on me!

Each meta-pair was assigned one Intelligence of the three assessed here – Analytic, Creative, and Practical. I chose the assignments based on the purposes of the Classes:

Analytic – Knowing and Changing

Creative – Creating and Destroying

Practical – Stealing and Exploiting

As for the Aspects, the 6 pairings seemed fairly obvious and they lend themselves well to the 6-scale HEXACO test, which is based on the theory of the Big Five Personality Traits with one additional scale. Paired Aspects are two sides of the same scale, as reflected in the test. I chose a personality trait test rather than another cognitive function test so as to keep them somewhat independent. Otherwise, I feared that this test would produce only about 12 Classpects on average rather than the 144 possible, because both your Class and your Aspect would be determined by the same measures. Your Class is a measure of how you process and react to information, or in other words, how you interact with the world. Your Aspect should be either a quality which you lack and need to develop in order to properly mature or direction in which you must continue to mature.

As for Morler’s maturity assessment, if you were to say that it looked awfully familiar, you’d be right. From what I’ve gleaned, it’s heavily based on Kolhberg’s theory of developmental maturity. The reason I chose this test, as obscure and little known as it seems to be, is that the entire range of the test neatly expresses what I consider a reasonable range of maturity. While Kohlberg’s final level of maturity was almost literally a messianic state of mind, here, it’s really all about learning to apply yourself in a constructive manner to whatever you set out to do, and the final level is an entirely reasonable aspiration. I chose to include Level 4 in the ‘mature enough to keep your Aspect as determined by HEXACO’ stage because while someone at that level could use some work, I think they’re ultimately salvageable without the paradigm shift that earlier levels might require.

A fun consequence of this test that, while not originally intended, ended up coming together beautifully: According to bladekindeyewear’s Role Inversion Theory, any given role can invert its Class and Aspect under stress. This inversion follows the pairs outlined earlier in the test. For example, when Rose went grimdark, she displayed attributes of a Witch of Void. Notice how she switched from passive to active as well as between the two Class pairs in the Seer-Mage/Heir-Witch meta-pair. She also flipped from one end of the Aspect pair to another. Aspect-flipping is easily allowed by the structure of the HEXACO scales, but what about Class-flipping?

Well, the Jungian Functions of a person under stress also invert much like the Class of a player! Cognitive functions invert along the introvert-extrovert dichotomy, so, for example, a dominant Ni function would invert to a dominant Ne function. However, rather than encompassing the breadth of the function as it is found in a healthy user of the dominant version, the shadow function tends to only include the more negative facets of the function. It is, after all, working counterproductively to the dominant and familiar functions.

This is exactly what Rose’s transition from Seer to Witch entailed. The Class Table is set up in such a way as to allow inversions between passive-active Classes in a meta-pair in accordance to observations of the Jungian Functions. For more information on this tendency to invert under stress, scroll down this page until you see “Understanding Archetypes” or otherwise research Jungian shadow functions.

And that’s all I’ve got for now, though I reserve the right to edit this at any time. If you have any further questions or if you want to critique something about my method, feel free to message me! After all, I am only a hobbyist psychologist. Any feedback is welcome!

If you’d like to give your opinion on the test anonymously in a way that will also help me to collect data and sate my curiosity, consider filling out this form! And also maybe this one, if you’re feeling particularly generous today.

historicthrenody

Homestuck is fucking me up right now in ways you have no idea. Like just, in light of the recent update I’m heavily considering the idea that…

God tier is a farce.

An illusion, set up by the game, and you’re thinking, how can it be an illusion when you gain all those powers and immortality?

The problem with god tier has always been, in actuality, most of the kids had already gained their powers before needing to god tier. In actuality, the only thing god tier had ever been proven to gain was immortality.

I once made this connection, in an older post of mine two years ago, but tldr; the idea was that nobody who plays Sburb can actually die by any normal means. What if, in fact, this whole time, they all were “technically” immortal.

Except they can die within the game you say!! Look at all those doomed selves.

But see, they always end up just “rebooting” at some point or another. Their memories, their consciousness, they never truly have ever been shown to die.

What if, lets assume in some cracked up way, they never played Sburb, they could have potentially lived forever.

I have never seen any Homestuck character die by any natural means, they have all literally been killed by either something or someone.

But the game is big on transfers and reincarnations, and these kids are paradox space clones of themselves, genes based on slime, what if they were never truly human to begin with.

What if they were God’s from the start?

And wouldn’t that be a part of the big riddle. The big joke. The biggest irony, because consider if you’ve ever watched the Wizard of Oz.

Dorothy always had the power to go home. She just didn’t know it.

Sburb is a game about growing up.

What better joke, than the joke of, everything you are, and will be, was always right inside of you all along.

What could possibly be a better message, for a coming of age story?

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