#inverse classpects

[aortaobservatory]

I need a little help, i have been mostly confused about my classpect since i have described myself as a sylph of heart, but i have been doubting my classpect since people (offical homestuck quiz) has told me im the light aspect

Aspect is the force that is most important in a person's life, whether lacking or abundant, whether good or bad, whether they want it or not.

The official TEZ quiz isn't bad for telling what your aspect is, but I wouldn't necessarily call it good either. If you know how to juxtapose the aspects and classes, it can be a somewhat viable springboard; it classified me, for example, as Mind Prospit, but I am Heart Derse. My class just happens to be Seer, which warped my answers on the quiz to appear as the inverse of what I was. (Seers study their true aspect through the lens of their inverse - I study Heart and Identity via Mind and Rationality. This means I appear to be a Mind Player on a surface level, but my deep desires are aligned with Heart; this is something a simple quiz cannot discern.)

For a lot of the people I have helped classpect (my friends, in private, because the way I classpect is extremely personal), they skipped the quiz entirely. What I found was that it helped the most to look at what their inverse was and see if that fit their experiences as much as the potential true classpect they were looking at.

Here's how I look at it:

If you describe yourself as a Sylph of Heart, your inverse would be Bard of Mind. A Sylph of Heart fulfills the Bard of Mind inverse by passively destroying that which is Mind (Rationality and Logic). Being a pure source of their aspect, a Sylph of Heart is either "scared of" or "sees no need for" what is Rational and Logical. They focus on actively enhancing Identity and Emotion, and thus, passively cause the destruction of Rationality and Logic. A Sylph enhances their aspect so much that they end up completely snuffing out their inverse aspect, which is very similar to what the Bard class does.

But AO, if both are supposed to fit, how do you tell which one you actually are?

Fall back on what an aspect is: Aspect is the force that is most important in a person's life, whether lacking or abundant, whether good or bad, whether they want it or not.

Now examine yourself, and be willing to be honest with yourself too. Which class holds what you struggle with the most?

For Sylphs, their challenge is to learn how to listen to the needs of others instead of assuming they know best, and to balance themselves by learning that it's okay to rely on others for their aspect sometimes.

For Bards, their challenge is to be able to embrace their aspect and not be ruled by its whims, learning to control the way it impacts themselves without letting it be destroyed.

As you can see, despite their similar actions, there is quite a difference in challenge and motivation! Though I will say, these are my class definitions, and class definitions can vary from classpector to classpector. At the very end of it all, only you can decide what fits and what doesn't. I hope I was able to help a little.

[aortaobservatory]

Because I have been absent, I think I'll post some thoughts I had about some specific classpects and their inverses.

These are classpects that belong to people I personally know.

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Page of Space (Thief of Time)

You don't have enough efficiency or a set goal in your life, so you take and adopt the goals others have for yourself, or simply follow in their footsteps without considering the value behind why their set goal is set. This is, of course, in your attempts to learn how to use and navigate the variation in your life, as well as engage with your creative drive.

Rogue of Breath (Knight of Blood)

You are good at gauging your relationships and the levels they're at to aid you in things like camaraderie or responsibilities. But you are absolutely incapable of letting yourself rely on the strength of other people's relationships with you. This means you'd just rather give them freedom instead; you give but never receive in return. This leads to relationships where you're often taken advantage of.

Maid of Breath (Prince of Blood)

Your freedom comes from a need to control your own responsibilities and relationships, but because you've yet to figure out how to define freedom for yourself, your control over your responsibilities and relationships is beyond your grasp. You strive constantly to purify the meaning of freedom imposed upon you by others, and one of the ways you've found works involves destroying, or encouraging the destruction of, the responsibilities and relationships of others.

Thief of Blood (Page of Breath)

You crave responsibilities, relationships, and the camaraderie of others, but you don't know how to place proper value on it, so the ones you do have are taken and shallow. Your attempts to dig deeper and make them mean something come from your attempts to use and navigate your own freedom and individuality. You were trapped before, and now you don't know how to be free.

Seer of Light (Witch of Void)

Secrets drive you. You have been surrounded by secrets your whole life, so much so that you cannot help but be made of them too. You exist to crack open all the secrets you possibly can, because knowledge has always been withheld from you, and you only know how to study through the lens of what is unknown to you, rather than what is already known by others. You change the lens through which you study, but it is always unknown. You change what is secret and bring it to light through the studies of nobody else except for yourself. You know what you know because you change the unknown and you do not let anybody else do it for you.