Had Homestuck on the mind lately and decided to combine with qsmp because I bored, specifically assigning classpects for everyone. If you have no idea what I'm talking about, I'll try to explain best I can.
Warning this is extremely self indulgent and nerdy lol
Another warning, I know some classes are gender locked but I don't care and gender isn't real anyway.
So what's a classpect?
A classpect is the combined power of a characters class and aspect, there are 12 aspects (Space/Time, Mind/Heart, Hope/Rage, Breath/Blood, Life/Doom, Light/Void) that embody the basic powers in the universe. The 14 classes (Sylph/Maid, Page/Knight, Seer/Mage, Heir/Witch, Rogue/Thief, Bard/Prince, Muse/Lord) is how the character utilizes that power.
All aspects are paired together to form opposites around the same concept, in order list above (Creation, Application, Comprehension, Relocation, Manipulation, Destruction, Domination). There are active classes which have more direct control over their aspect and passive classes that have more intuitive over said aspect. I'll give a brief explanation of each class and aspect as they come up with the analysis. Btw this is only my opinions so if anyone has different thoughts I'd love to hear it!
Baghera: Rouge of Doom
Rouges are classes that steal their aspect to give to others, or steal through it. Doom is death, sacrifice, empathy, the end of all things, and the futility of choice. I connect this pretty strongly with her staying in purgatory after not being able to rescue Pomme, literally stealing the death her teammates should have had for herself. Though it can be said that by escaping the island as a kid that led to the federation kidnapping her entire friend group, she stole the fate she was destined to have and passed it along to them.
Etoiles: Knight of Heart
Knights are those who serves or serves through their aspect. They are bound protectors and problem solvers. Heart is soul, the inner self, with strong ties to love itself. Etoiles wears his heart on his sleeve, he is a protectors of the islands hopes and dreams with a shield linked to his very body.
Kameto: Heir of Blood
Heir is one who changes or changes through their aspect. Blood is community, bonds, and comradery. This is mostly based on when Kameto, after being 'rescued' by Etoiles from the Federation very suddenly told Baghera Etoiles wanted to kill Pomme, this was around the time Baghera was peak suspicious of Etoiles. The idea of Kameto being able to tell how strained their relationship was at a glance and using that to his advantage, getting people to forget about why the federation had him, is very interesting to me.
Aypierre: Maid of Space
Maid is one who makes or makes through their aspect. They are often prepare others for their story as well as balancing the needs of the many. Space is creation itself, innovation, and a connection to life. Pierre was almost always being asked for something or other at any given time in the server, which is exactly what he wanted. He thrives on being needed. Also I know I said I don't care about classes being gender locked but I think it is interesting to note the Maid class is female exclusive which honestly makes me connect it with him more because he would.
Ayrobot: Sylph of Time
Sylph is the other side of Maid, though far more entangled with their own minds. They heal through their aspect or one who heals their aspect, though this isn't always physical. Time is strife, action, and the unconventional. Both Space and Time have connections to technology as well, also in the same way Space is connected to life, Time is connected to death. Ayrobot when he was first made was a close companion and creation of Aypierre, 'healing' his loneliness, turning spiteful and violent only after his supposed death and abandonment. I like to think of Ayrobot going against his class the same way he goes against Aypierres original coding, making him very unstable.
Pomme: Page of Hope
Pomme shares a class type with Etoiles, being a Page. Serving or serves through her aspect, though Pages are typically more daydreamers and have a tendency to have a deficit of their own aspect at the beginning. Hope is justice, belief, and friendship, as well as a connection to holy powers. Unlike most pages who shield themselves from hardship Pomme started her life hunted and abandoned and thus the thing she can't accept is that she could be safe and protected, seeing herself as the protector for her siblings.
Antoine: Lord of Void
Lords are not normal players, in fact there is only one in existence in Homestuck canon. They command those to their will, because of how much influence they have, it is considered the most active class. The Void is tied to the furthest ring, the empty space in the universe, secrets, the dark, and outright destruction. Combined, this is something with complete control over the dark and all that it holds, keeper of secrets and manipulator of truth, one who keeps all at a distance from him. I like the idea that similarly to Ayrobot, Antoine is very much fighting against his class. While he was once an eldritch god who could freely play with humans lives as he wished he now keeps a very tight leash on that part of himself, even if it's more slack than he might realize.
@issialou Q!Pierre after getting a child and immediately offering cookies and saying "Petit, Petit" to both years apart. They really were both his children.
(for context to anyone else one of the first things q!Pierre did after making Ayrobot was offer him cookies to follow him ((As seen in this post)) which is now getting compared to him offering Pomme cookies for when she wakes up.)
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Organization for Transformative Works
"Before they were one, they were two. And before they were two, they were family. On the eve of the Federations biggest gamble yet, there's a certain swordsman not asleep yet.
(Or, Aypierre is a victim of identity theft and Etoiles has a heart too big for his body.)"
