I really enjoy your take on the classpect system and how you define the classes especially, but I had a question on Heart in relation to the Knight and Page classes. When describing the way that knights can use their aspect and the ways pages interact with it, you said it wasn't inside of them but something they can wield or lead. I was wondering how that looks with the heart aspect, which is entirely your personhood??? I would love to hear your take please!

Well, would you not think that a Prince of Heart is also using personhood? A Prince gains power from fealty to their aspect. To be kind of tawdry and cliche, it’s as if being True To Your Heart gives you more power in a way that leads to incredible limit breaks.

In comparison to a Prince of Heart, I think the Knight of Heart is not really up for talking about Personal Stuff or trying to sort through their shit. They start out with a really strong sense of their Self; it’s something else that is their barrier.

(Worth nothing, both Knight and Prince are Tanks in my reading.)

Knights kind of feel like the “Hey I just work here” class. The actual functions of what they do with their Aspect, that’s really easy. Karkat was always good at Blood, Dave was always good at Time, it was their Other Issues that tripped them up. (Being queer and troll queer/cullbait respectively.) If you’re a Knight of Heart, I think you’re journey of growing up is easier than others, but complicated by Something Else. Knights are super queer to me, so someone who figures out super early they’re trans but then has to contend with the new expectations of gender they weren’t socialized with, that feels to me like a very KoH arc.

Now a Page of Heart lmao feels like the Disney Movie Protagonist to me. The one who learns in the end “you have all these cool abilities but the power came from inside you all along.” It’s incredibly twee. Thought I will say, the guileful nature of the Page paired with the romantic nature of Heart is very funny to me. I think a Page of Heart would be an absolute heartbreaker, like would make Jake English seem like a fucking nun in comparison.

I also think a Page of Heart might have a “oh no my true love was hurt so I accidentally burned down a village, whoopsie daisy” moment.