#time to be autistic for the next year wooooo

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EVERYONE IS IN THEIR LIFE SKINS HOLY FUCK

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What is your personal take for each of the classes, particularly for key verbs or functions of each? It seems every classpecter has their own flavor and unique perspective. I look forward to seeing more of you and your ideas!

Wooooo I have not been on tumblr in a LONG time sdjfhsfkdsj

Luckily for the requests still gathering dust in my ask box after…

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three years I’m still an autistic light player! Also I am SO glad you asked this because not only do I love getting to hear what other people think of the Classes but I am also very set in stone on my own!

Because there’s a grand 14 classes, this is going to be a bit of a long post but let’s go in order of appearance in the comic and their counterparts!

Starting with our beloved Manipulation classes! Now that sounds bad, but thankfully the Active Witch and Passive Heir aren’t going around manipulating people (not inherently, at least). The Manipulation class is all about manipulating their aspect! For the Heir, a passive class who manipulates their aspect for the gain of others, they are able to control their aspect- and even become the embodiment of said aspect! A great example of this is everyone’s beloved Egbert! An Heir of Breath who is able to control the wind and air and even physically become breath itself! For the Witch (Active), they are just as direct in manipulating their aspect! For example, Jade! A Witch of Space who can directly control and physically manipulate the size or velocity of any inanimate object! 

Also quick little fun fact, but Jade’s teleportation powers don’t at all come from her being a Witch of Space! Though it would make sense that she would be able to “manipulate space” by transporting it, these powers are inherited from the First Guardian in here when she was fused with Becquerel via means of sprite prototyping and dream self shenanigans!

Moving onto the Seer and Mage: the Knowledge classes! The more active Mage gains knowledge of their aspect through studying and understanding it and then using this knowledge for their own benefit. A great example of this would be Kurloz Makara, Mage of Rage! He gains knowledge of his dancestor, the bard, and how things will plan out and uses this knowledge to set things in motion for the Mirthful Messiah. The more passive Seer is more of, well, a seeing class! They gain visual sight of their aspect which then gives them insight of what’s needed for a successful session! For example, Rose gets a hold of the magic crystal 8ball that lets her see into different timelines and such so she knows to tell Dave that he has to go back to stop John from listening to Terezi. Then later on after she ascends, her godtier powers as a Seer of Light give her the ability to see into the optimal future to see what must be done in order to reach this most optimal outcome!

Next up is the manifestation class consisting of the Knight and Page! The Knight, as more passive manifests their aspect directly for the purpose of protecting others. We see this in Dave as a Knight of Dave really only utilizing his powers of time hopping in order to save and protect his loved ones! The active Page is also a manifestation class but it’s hard to classify them with a verb other than that. Pages are defined as people who are severely lacking in their aspect until they manifest what they’ve built up a,l along in one big implosion of aspect! We get an up-close look at this with Jake as a Page of Hope, but also with Tavros even though he never ascended- at least story-wise. I’ll cover that if I ever get to Page of Breath!

Then we’ve got the fixing classes: Sylph and Maid! The active Sylph is one who “fixes” by using their aspect to heal! Though she did so in a very indirect way, Aranea as a Sylph of Light “fixed/healed” all of the dancestors by relaying the information she gained from Echidna and telling Damara to initiate the scratch in order for them to avoid permanent death. The Maid is one who mainly cleans up things around their session by utilizing their aspect for the sake of others! We’re lucky enough to see TWO maids in action with both Jane and Aradia! Aradia cleans up the trolls’ session by going around in time and making sure that everything is setup and ready for the necessary events to happen! Jane, as a Maid of Life does so by, well, using her life powers to “clean up” her session mates and heal them!

After that would be the Stealing classes of Thief and Rogue! As a Thief myself, we are an active class defined by our ability to steal our aspect directly or steal by utilizing our aspect for our own benefit! Vriska (and myself) as a Thief of Light steals the luck of others and uses it to further her own ventures. Not only that, but Vriska truly embodies the Light aspect and goes as far as to also steal knowledge from people when she dies and gets all the info she needs from the dancestors in the dream bubble to go and fight Lord English, and then she also steals the narrative spotlight and takes up a lot of the comic on her own! Rogues, as the more passive counterpart to the Thief, steal their aspect or by utilizing their aspect for the benefit of others! For example, Roxy doesn’t so much steal the void itself, but they steal from the void by stealing ideas and concepts and bringing them to reality! 

Lastly of the main common classes are the Destructive classes that I have covered a LOT on this blog: the active Prince and more passive Bard! Normally the other classes aren’t very strict on if they affect their aspects directly or if they utilize their aspect to affect the world around them, but the destructive classes are very strict about this. The Prince is one who destroys their aspect directly for their own benefit. Not destroying by using their aspect, but going in and completely eradicating their aspect and the concepts tied to it. For example, Dirk as a Prince of Heart is able to extract someone’s soul out of their body entirely and destroy it- thusly destroying what makes that person truly alive and possibly even killing them. I would love to make that theory concrete but unfortunately, we didn’t get to see him actually destroy Aranea’s soul before he was interrupted. Another example is Eridan as a Prince of Hope because even though he never ascended, he destroyed hope by killing his angel consorts and the creatures he was supposed to help in his session but also in destroying the matriorb and destroying the hope that the troll species can live on past the meteor. Bards are defined as ones who destroy by utilizing their aspect normally for the benefit of others. Take Gamzee as a Bard of Rage who is able to go into a frenzy of rage and bloodlust to destroy pretty much anything around him.

And Finally, the Master Classes. The active Lord and passive Muse.

Lord and Muse are a special case because they appear very rarely and only in two-player sessions. Not only that but other than being the two Master Classes, they aren’t connected in any way. The Lord is the Commanding class, defined as one who both commands their aspect directly and one who utilizes their aspect to command others and the world around them  for their own benefit. We see this in Caliborn and how he uses his Time powers to go about collecting the Leprechauns/Felt and beating his entire session in what would have and very well should have been impossible time. He also goes about as Lord English commanding the very fabris of spacetime and destroying it entirely.

The Muse is an inspiration class defined as one who inspires and calls to action their aspect and those around them. We see this in Calliope as a Muse of Space where even though they don’t end up ascending, they are able to inspire everyone else (particularly the Alpha Kids) so that they rise up and fight alongside the beta kids to beat Lord English and eventually the game itself, leading to the creation of Earth C.