#claspect-analysis

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Witch of Breath

Alright! A Witch of Breath first.

So a Witch is the active manipulation class, its passive counterpart being the Heir. Witches are known to be bubbly and friendly, but lacking control over their aspect. They have a tendency to hide their true feelings for the sake of making those around them happier. 

Breath is the aspect of communication, freedom, and direction. Freedom and direction inherently sound contradictory, but think of it as having the freedom to take whichever direction one chooses. 

Then, a Witch of Breath is one who manipulates the freedoms she and others in her session have, and can easily change the direction of the paths they walk. But she lacks control, as stated above, so while it’s likely she’ll have great communication skills and be able to allow information to flow freely between the members of her party, it’s also just as likely she’ll be letting secrets slip, things told to her in confidence will reach the wrong ears. This is made even more likely if your session has a Light player or Void player. It becomes the Witch’s goal, then, to know what needs to be said when to get things done. 

The Witch’s land is supposed to be a hindrance to her aspect, a quality she might share with the Heir, and it’s up to the Witch to take control of her aspect, freeing it from the hindrance and giving it a purpose. In a sense, this will also allow her to take control of the aspect been running amok in her life, allowing her to grow more as a person.

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Page of Hope

Ah, a tricky one, given that Page of Hope is a canon claspect, one Jake English.

For the sake of keeping this about the claspect and not about the character, we’re going to be ignoring the small quirks that are specific to Jake by cross-referencing the Page class with Tavros and the Hope aspect with the violet bloods. 

Page is the class of passive weaponization/protection, its active counterpart being the Knight and inverse the Thief. Huh, no wonder Tavros and Vriska spent a lot of time in their session together. Interesting. Hope is the aspect of trust, dreams, belief, and ideals. Hope is about multiple paths, multiple possibilities and choices, about opening doors. 

Pages as a class are designed to give their session the aspect, and the more realized the Page, the better they are at giving their aspect. Take, for example, Tavros scraping together an army of ghosts to face Lord English. He gave them a direction, and allowed Meenah to communicate with them openly by having her stand on his horns. He may have been a doormat, but he’s perhaps the most realized Page we have in the comic. 

A Page of Hope, then is supposed to bring into their session opportunities. Jake did that when Aranea unlocked his powers, the Hope-splosion serving as more or less a diversion. Pages are an open conduit for their aspect, allowing it to pour into the session upon full realization. Jake managed to make a second Dirk simply by believing in an image of Dirk he had in his mind strongly enough. Let’s not forget that his Hope-y powers overwhelmed Jade’s powers from the Green Sun - Hope is not an aspect to be trifled with. 

I may say this a lot, but a fully-realized Page of Hope is perhaps the most, if not one of the most, strongest claspects in the game. It overpowers the Green Sun, it overpowers Princes and Bards... but that’s the power of Hope. If you believe in Hope strongly enough, it will return the favor. 

But what does a Page of Hope’s personality look like, you ask? Pages tend to be oblivious, especially in relation to their aspect. Hope is highly tied to reproduction, given how many crotch shots there are for Jake, and how the violet bloods kept trying to fill their quadrants. Tying the two together, it would make sense if a Page of Hope was extremely attractive but also completely unaware of their charm. It would be like their hidden potential that they’d need to learn to master. They’d also probably be pretty optimistic, but not consider themselves an optimist in the slightest. But that’s probably because the situation around them would seem pretty hopeless, especially if they were on their Land.

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Maid of Breath

And here’s the other half, Maid of Breath.

Maids are the passive healing class, their active counterpart being the Sylph and their inverse being the active/destruction Prince class. A Maid’s goal is to serve others with the overabundance of aspect that they possess. Breath is the aspect of direction, communication, and freedom, and is often associated with wind, mail, and other free-moving things. 

A Maid is one who starts their stories being serious about their aspect. I’d picture a zealot in a way, but about having as much freedom to do as they please. They’d have many different avenues to go down, but not really want to limit themselves. In fact, fining direction in life would be both hard and easy for them - they have the ability to do what they want, but don’t want to restrain themselves in any one particular path. 

The ideal way to go about things, then, would be to heal others’ lack of direction by giving them directions the Maid could have taken. For instance, a Maid could receive an opportunity to take up a job: an unrealized Maid would do nothing with the job offer, as they don’t want to dip into their hours of freedom, whereas a realized Maid would probably turn around and suggest the job offer to a friend who’s more strapped for cash. They have the best interest of their friends in mind, and it’s just a matter of figuring out how to give away their aspect to those who need it more than them.

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Seer of Time

Aah, thanks Anon! Although I’m at like 215 or so now since my hiatus, oops ^.^’

Seers are the passive knowledge class, and generally start off with incorrect or misled assumptions surrounding their aspect. Time is the aspect of chronology, destruction, and literal time. It’s also closely associated with death, and is more so the aspect of death than Doom is. This is because its opposite is Space, which is also the aspect of creation. As things are born, so must they die at some point, it’s only natural. 

So one with misguided opinions or incorrect facts surrounding destruction and death... would probably be the worst person to have on a demolition crew. They probably really enjoy watching things break, but would probably often call out how physically impossible certain special effects in movies are. They’d also probably like media that portrays time travel, I imagine certain franchises that touch on the possibility would really get them going. Perhaps, with their misguided opinions and information, they’d think time travel was realistically possible? Not to be the one to burst your bubble, but in the real world, our world, time travel isn’t possible. The germs and diseases we carry could wipe out the entire population of humans in the past, just as going forwards in time would be deadly for us of their past. But I bet a Seer of Time would cling to the idea, or perhaps have some clue on how a time travel device would work, but of course would be wildly wrong about it. 

The goal of a Seer of Time is to actually learn everything they need to know. They need to see that they are wrong in the first place, and then learn the correct facts so as to better inform their session mates. A Seer of Time, once properly realized, would be able to see forwards and backwards into time, but given their passive abilities, would likely not be able to time travel without some other kind of outside help, perhaps from another time player. They’d probably specialize in death predictions, would probably really like the idea of Ouija boards too. Talking to the dead, learning from the dead, seeing into the timeline, all of these fall under Seer of Time abilities. It’s important to remember though, that a passive class generally does not act for themselves, but for those around them, and benefits of the actions others take from there. A Seer of Time would pass on information they’ve seen in the timeline and benefit from the steps taken by the rest of the team to prevent or strive towards certain events they want to happen. 

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Knight of Void

Part 3 of 3

Knights are the active weaponization/protection class, their passive counterparts being Pages. Knights represent what their session lacks, and must overcome their insecurity surrounding the aspect they’re so good at using in order to provide their aspect for the session. 

Void is represented by darkness, and stands for obscurification, lack, and nothingness, as well as unimportance. A Knight of Void, then, would be very good at using nothing, or very good at using uncommon methods to get what they want. They’d probably have some kind of insecurity, perhaps tied to how much they’re usually glossed over in groups or how easily they’re forgotten. Knights of Void would probably be best at unarmed combat, given Void’s uncanny ability to make its players super strong and good at fighting with nothing. The Knight of Void would be exceptionally good, even among fellow Void players. 

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Mage of Void

Part 2 of 3 of Mituna’s ask.

Mages are the active knowledge class, their passive counterpart being the Seer. Unlike the Seer, the Mage has an innate and inborn knowledge of their aspect. Early-game, a Mage is theoretically better than a Seer, as a Seer spends the early game re-learning their aspect and removing their old, incorrect knowledge and habits. Mages are charged with figuring out how to teach others about their aspect in a way that makes sense, and often their land quest revolves around teaching or somehow creating their aspect with their knowledge. 

Void is the aspect of nothingness, of paradoxes, a lack, an obscurification, and is usually represented by darkness. Void, as the opposite of Light and knowledge, is perhaps the biggest oxymoron I’ve ever seen when paired with Mage. Theoretically, however, a Mage of Void would know a lot about nothing. Or rather, what’s probably considered to be nothing - the void between sessions, paradox space, horrorterrors and the occult would be all of the Mage of Void’s specialty. 

It would make sense if the Mage, pre-game, had a deep interest in cryptids, Creepypastas, and the unexplained. Things that would generally be written off as false or fake, or be really obscured from “main stream”. Using their immense knowledge of “nothing” (or as I suddenly realize, perhaps knowledge of “nothing important”) they’d be able to bring those creatures to life. The main problem would be, of course, then getting a handle on how much Void the Mage is making, and to be careful not to let it swallow the session whole 

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Page of Life

I think the better question is, why do you guys want me to analyze all the tight bootyshorts claspects first?

I might as well copy and paste at this point haha...Pages are the passive weaponization class, their active counterpart being the Knight. Pages generally come into their power late-game, and are pretty much useless up until that point. Having a Page in one of the cardinal aspects (Space or Time) is generally a bad idea because you’ll either a) not get a Genesis Frog in time or b) won’t have any closed time loops or alternate selves to fall back on until it’s too late.

Life is the aspect of, well, life. It’s represented with fire, and stands for desires, power, and drive. Whereas Hope is good for inspiration, Life is one’s will to live. Life can keep you going when Hope fails. The pure determination needed to keep chugging through the worst, despite losing all hope in a good outcome. Life is the primal desire to live. As such, Life aspects make the best healers, literally being able to return users and their targets from the grave. 

So then, a Page of Life, once fully realized, should be able to allow others to weaponize their enemy’s life force, or their own life force as needed. Their teammates could more than likely go on suicide missions, like to fight denizens, and as long as the Page knows how to return them to life to fight again, they’ll probably never fall in combat. 

I’ve recently learned a new factoid about Pages - rather than directly weaponizing their aspect, it’s more common for Pages to embody their aspect. Much like how a Knight represents what a session lacks, Pages represent what a session needs, and a Page’s presence means that the session will eventually get what it needs, once the Page is fully realized and has come into their powers. See, Pages have a unique ability to create their aspect. It’s very similar to how Maids and Sylphs heal with their aspect, but instead of directing made aspect to healing, the Page simply outputs massive amounts of their aspect directly into the session. So a Page doing a Life-y thing could well bring back all their teammates and enemies within a certain radius. Good in a pinch, but more trouble than it’s worth if not properly trained for and honed. 

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Speaking of Knights. How about a Knight of Mind?

Knights are honestly my favorite class to talk about, aside from Rogues. 

Knights are the active protection/weaponization class, their passive counterpart being the Page. Mind is the aspect of thought, choice, and perception. I do believe there was a canon Knight of Mind? Latula Pyrope, if I’m not mistaken. Latula was shown to have a disability, a lack of a sense of smell, thus continuing the idea that all Mind players have some sort of sensual disability, though such disabilities are not exclusive to only Mind players. 

Knights, as the class dictates, have something about themselves they want to keep hidden. Some form of insecurity that ties back to their aspect, and prevents them from supplying their aspect to the rest of their session, the very same aspect their session lacks. A Knight of Mind’s presence would probably dictate that members of a session are a bit too tied up in themselves and perhaps their romantic interests to think about logistics or actually try to plan a way to beat the game. Or, a lack of thought and selflessness would show up in other forms. Perhaps their session mates got greedy with their own powers, or for some reason, couldn’t cohesively work together to get things done. It is, therefor, a Knight’s job to get over their own insecurities to provide their aspect for the rest of the session. Many Knights, however, fail at this task at some point or another, whether pre-game, post-game, or mid-game. 

Possible powers for a Knight of Mind might include a passive affinity for alchemy, specifically alchemy that results in some form of weapon. They’d have some inherent knowledge of what needs to be combined together in order to make something they or someone else in the session can use as a weapon, pointing back to the Knight’s ‘weaponization’ abilities. They’d also be able to understand and turn enemy attacks against the attacker, making just the right moves and using the right abilities to know how to counter. Knights of Mind would also be amazing at making and executing plans of action or attack, though they’d be uncertain and lack self-confidence in said plans.