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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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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. 

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Do you mind doing an analysis for a Rogue of Breath? Thank you so much!!

Ah, yes, Rogues! The hardest class to find a canon base for! I’m not even freaking kidding. 100% of the time, if you Google “homestuck rogue of ____” and put any aspect there, you’re gonna get this design within the first few results.

Like, seriously guys? We have a canon Rogue design. We’ve had it since Roxy ascended back in February of 2013. Get with the times. Honestly, as a Rogue player this ticks me off to no end. So, for all the Rogue asks, I’m going to attempt to color the base appropriately. Please don’t be mad at me if I get it wrong. 

Rogues are the passive stealing class, and Breath is the aspect of direction, communication, and the wind. There is actually a canon Rogue of Breath, and that’s Rufioh. Described as “exceptionally easygoing and friendly”, Rufioh is a good example of what a Breath player could be. Relaxed and able to change on a dime, like a lazy summer breeze. Rogues are surrounded by an unhealthy amount of their aspect, and must learn to properly redistribute their aspect among the team, not forgetting to get themselves to proper levels of their aspect. 

So a Rogue of Breath might be surrounded by an unhealthily high amount of freedoms or an unhealthily low amount of freedoms, it could go either way. Rogues are always lovable, a favorite of the group, regardless of their aspect. They’re very nice in most regards, but very controlling and manipulative when it comes to their aspect. 

Potential powers of a Rogue of Breath would be stealing away someone’s ability to talk or communicate, and giving that ability to communicate to someone who prior couldn’t. Another would be manipulating or redirecting the wind, doing the “windy thing” essentially. 

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Could you do a Knight of Light? Also your blog deserves to blow up more it's so good ~(ÔuÔ)~

Aww thank you! OwO

A Knight is the active protection/weaponization class, and Light stands for fortune, luck, and importance. It, along with Mind, are the aspects associated with knowledge, though Light is more about “shedding light” on a subject and Mind is more about evaluations and predictions of people or happenings. It’s very much like the split between intelligence and wisdom - intelligence is book smarts, or the Light aspect, whereas wisdom is practical thinking and common sense, the Mind aspect. 

Knights, as was prior mentioned in my Knight of Space analysis, Knights tend to have a very huge insecurity surrounding their aspect, despite being amazing at using their aspect. For a Knight of Light, this insecurity might possibly revolve around how well they do in school, or how much they’ve read, or how many times bad things happen to them (which wouldn’t be as often as they make it out to be). They might be insecure about how much attention they unknowingly draw to themselves, resulting in severe boughts of stage fright, despite probably being heavily interested in theater. 

Knights also tend to represent what their session lacks, and need to get over their insecurity to provide it to their session. For a Knight of Light, the biggest factor that might play into something missing in their session is either luck, or the knowledge of what to do. They’d probably have some sort of innate sense of what needed to get done in the session, but would be so uncertain about their ability to understand what’s important to do that it would seriously hamper any progress the session would make, as the Knight would be second-guessing themselves. A key point in a Knight of Light is to have confidence in what you know and what you think you know. There’s always opportunities to learn, and failure is just another way of learning what’s right and what’s wrong. 

Potential powers for a Knight of Light would revolve around their signature weapon or some kind of unique tool. In general, they’d be very good at weaponizing their own luck, making it more likely that they’d wind up avoiding a strife due to some crazy lucky shenanigans, or they might manipulate the luck of their enemies to, say, suddenly get hit by a meteor. The idea is that the Knight of Light would be able to turn luck in their favor, as a weapon, or perhaps even as a sort of shield, to prevent bad things from happening in the session. Knights of Light would also probably be rolling in the dough, as both fortune and luck can associate with winning the lottery, or other large sums of money. It wouldn’t be uncommon, pre-game, for a Knight of Light to be very well-off money-wise, and to perhaps even arm their house with fancy gadgets using the money they already have. 

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Could you do a Bard of Mind?

Woo more codpieces

Bards are the passive destruction class, and Mind is the aspect of thought, choice, and perception. It, along with Light, is one of the two intellect classes, with Light being more focused on facts and Mind being more focused on application. With the opposite aspect being Heart, and as the Extended Zodiac quiz tells us, Mind players are those who tend to not think about themselves much, and also have trouble sticking to one decision.

A Bard, however, ghosts their opposing aspect in an effort to reject their actual aspect. A Bard of Mind, then, would probably attempt to be a Sylph of Heart. They’d pay very little attention to what their thoughts were and focus only on themselves and their actions. They’d unknowingly attempt to build up their own identity, only to destroy it entirely on a whim and start over again. As a destruction class, their aspect is going to come back to haunt them eventually, causing the Bard of Mind to probably start challenging everyone’s thoughts and opinions, causing widespread devastation via second-guessing and inter-personal doubt as a team. Plans will go awry, doomed timelines will be made, the team will probably be set back a bit. 

As a Bard of Mind, potential powers could include the ability to instill a particular type of insanity, or render both allies and enemies vegetables, essentially “destroying their mind” or their ability to make their own decisions. Bards of Mind could instill confusion on a minor level as well, causing enemies to doubt their actions in combat - “is it really a good idea to attack this specific person?” they’d think to themselves. On the Heart side of things, Bards of Mind would probably minorly exert an air of self-mindfulness. Constantly questioning their teammates’ choices would eventually cause teammates to build up a resistance to the questioning, increasing the confidence they have in their selves and their own agency. 

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How about a Prince of Mind? :3333

A Prince is the active destruction class. They despise or reject the aspect they have within themselves, and actively try to remove it from themselves and their surroundings. Princes also deal with the idea of shattering or fragmenting one’s aspect. Mind is the aspect of thought, choice, and perception. It’s the most logical and emotionless aspect out of all of them, and is opposed by Heart, the aspect of self, soul, and identity. A Prince of Mind, then, would strive to eliminate the logical way they do things, or the way everyone seems to be making choices they don’t like around them. 

Princes of Mind would pretend to be of the Heart aspect, trying to follow their heart and do what their intuition tells them. Unfortunately for them, their intuition is usually based off logical thinking. A Prince of Mind might cause a romantic stir among their friends, as they begin to destroy the mental barriers in their friends’ and their own mind. I want to say that a Prince of Mind has a high chance of going Grimdark, simply because they’re more inclined to give up their inhibitions and logical thought. 

Potential powers of a Prince of Mind would be imbuing others with a sense of insanity, or lack of logic. They also have the ability to destroy the choices other people have, or their own choices in life, though this is more of a power that does things accidentally, “oh oops sorry now I guess you gotta do this instead of that ahaha…”. This can be both bad and good, as destroying choices can either narrow you down to the good options, of force you down a potentially dangerous path. Princes of Mind need to learn to accept their own logical thought and the choices they made or will make in their life. Once they learn to keep control of their desire to destroy those aspects of their life, they’ll probably be a great supportive asset on the battlefield.

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I took a like a million tests and got Page of Space. Can you please shed more light on this and HOPEfully I'll learn something new ;)

Yup! 

Pages are the passive protection/weaponization class. They have a hidden potential for their aspect, and need to overcome some sort of hurdle of insecurity in order to fully grasp their true potential. Space stands for creation, maturity, and literal space. A Page of Space, then, would have an untapped ability to be mature or to make some kind of art or be creative, in the most direct sense. Page of Space powers could include force fields, telekinesis, teleportation, and the like. They’re turning literal space, gravity, position, velocity, into a weapon, so anything that moves things about through space somehow or stops things from moving is on the table for a Page of Space.

Personality-wise, Pages of Space tend to be kind of dorky, like Heirs, but more of a pushover, much more easy to push around and step on than an Heir. But they’d have some kind of air about them that inspires others to write, to draw, to make and express themselves somehow. Space is the opposite of Time, so where Time stands for the inevitable end, Space stands for the limitless possibility of beginnings. It overlaps slightly with hope, for reference. 

The other thing about Pages is that they’re pretty much multi-aspect, until they come into their power. A Page of Space is actually a pretty bland answer. If you’re not answering the quizzes truthfully, or if the quiz maker doesn’t have the proper grasp on the concepts of claspects, then it can very easily give you a rather safe Page of Space answer. If you find yourself taking and using other peoples’ creations as a reference for your own, then you’re probably safely a Page of Space. If that doesn’t quite define you, I suggest finding another quiz.