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Hope is an aspect associated with failed and destructive male sexuality so I personally would Very Much Stay Away from it but I’m also paranoid about a particular hope player called Grampa Harley within canon (there is so much bad subtext there note Jade and parasites) so I might be projecting his evils onto the entire aspect? Except Eridan and the way Jake tears apart his friend group? I’d recommend reading into it a lot before settling on (especially) hope or rage. I might be wrong! -/(0-0)\-

Sorry for foisting my analysis onto you randomly, I know I have an unconventional viewpoint on how classpect stuff works. Also like. An obsession with the homestuck works on dream logic theory, death=sex=tea=cake=arsenic=maturity, etc. so yeah didn’t mean to weird you out if I did. -/(0~0)-

Haha, mildly weirded out, but it’s alright. Thanks for your concern! :)

Long-ish reply under the cut. Again, I never learned the art of concise communication. :P

I think I see where that interpretation might come from, moreso with the Amporas (oh man they’re such massive tools i love/hate it) than the Jakes imo, but ehhhh even if it’s associated with the aspect, for me the sexuality bit isn’t particularly definitive for hope? And, like, even if it is, I’m cool with that. (Seriously, I have no problem with associating myself with deeply flawed characters. I’m a deeply flawed character, and the journey of overcoming those flaws is one of the things that makes life interesting. :) )

In any case, I was more interested in some of the other traits relating to denial that I see reflected across the three hope players we see in Homestuck. Specifically:

Subscription to a fantasy-self in order to avoid facing their own insecurities, although this also dovetails with a few of the classes (*waves* yes hi i turned myself into the Clumsy Comic Relief character back in grade school and still hold onto that identity, to a degree)

A belief, however inaccurate, that if you believe in something hard enough, it can become true–and vice versa with the power of denial (i literally make the conscious decision to headcanon reality when i don’t like it and it is a problem because that’s not how reality works–except that sometimes it does because placebo effect welp)

Attachment to stories and fantasies! (probably pretty self-explanatory, coming from someone who’s been reading/writing fic for…ha. most of my life, even before i knew there was a term for fanfiction. listen i just really like my escapism, and denial is one of my main coping mechanisms)

Seriously though that use of denial as a tool for interacting with the world, and the personal challenge/quest to face the world as it actually is–and yourself as you actually are. I relate.

*shrugs* Anyway, that’s where I’m at now; we’ll see if I shift around anymore. But, like, also? This is just my personal interpretation of the classpects and how my personality maps to them. I’m a big fan of having multiple interpretations of the canon floating around, mostly because it gives me more to play with in fic. ;) (In general, I tend to be much more interested in fic than I am in canon meta. Fic is just a lot more fun to me. :) )

Thanks again for your concern, and for the meta recs! I’m looking forward to going through them in more detail. :D (although, i will ask that y’all give me space to figure this one out more or less on my own. i’ll get back to you with the final result. *thumbs up* :) )