so about Pages, because two people asked wherehence comes my Thing about Pages secretly being the most powerful class.

let me give you what was my personal epiphany about how Jake Fucking English was never a “slow burn” as a power player.

So do you remember back in Act 6, how Jake spends the entirety of 6.1 thru Synch-Unite just trying to talk to Dirk? He wakes up in the morning and wants to get ahold of Dirk, is waylaid at every turn, and complains to everyone who will listen that he just fucking wants to talk to Dirk goddammit. It’s his primary motivation for the entire pre-entry sequence.

And then Jake gets bonked on the head and proceeds to have a dream about Dirk talking to him. He proceeds to dream about Dirk talking to him for 31 pages before Aranea finally interrupts. THIRTY. ONE. PAGES. It’s one of the longest logs in Homestuck by page count and word count. And its all a memory of Jake’s birthday, when he got to talk to Dirk, and Dirk was nice to him and complimented him and told him a story and indulged him.

This isn’t a coincidence. This is Jake, fed up with not being able to talk to the boy he likes, finally just having a Hope-fueled tantrum and dreaming about the one thing he wants for thousands of words. It’s unfettered desire and an aspect that’s sympathetic to its Page. Everyone mistakes them for lower-level players with big endgame potential because they don’t realize Pages don’t really choose to do shit, they just get what they want. (compare this to Tavros and his Breath-y desire to just have fun with the Game of the game and how everyone bends to enable this for him, even vriska under pressure from kanaya)

ppl be like “oh jake you used the combined power of hope and heart to make a copy of the boy you like in your brain to protect and guide you” but also “oh pages are a slow burn” bitch pls

anyway i love pages and i love jake english, hope you all have a smashingly good day