March 2018

Where can I find your classpect title test?

https://homestuckexamination.tumblr.com/post/168160703234/homestuck-mythological-class-quiz

Do you think that a possible power for a Prince of Time could be to age their enemy until they decay in front of them? Would that be a good way to use “destroying through time”?

Yep, that definitely sounds like a Prince of Time’s thing.

I’m having a bit of trouble coming up with a male equivalent for the witch class, the closest I’ve come has been warlock, but that’s 2 syllables, any ideas?

The Wiz?

Would id be a prince or a bard of time, if their power was to make moments "happen" and skip the time leading up to it? Like a fight where suddenly they're on top of their enemy

Both.

Is there anywhere where I can find all of the descriptors for be classes?

On the Quiz link like, 5 posts beneath this.

The troll call is my sign and it's a fucking Dragon Ball reference

WhatPumpkin are cowards, Vegeta is already a 6-letter name.

This Trollcall definitely woke up the overlap between the Dragon Ball and the Homestuck Fandom.

Then again.

Homestuck already had plenty of Dragon Ball references huh.

AZDAJA HAS 3 HORNS!!!!

I still think one could be hidden because of the perspective.

Konyyl is thicc

:eyes:

I had an idea for a rage player's quest planet, the land of rivers and floatilla, where there would be all these groups of houseboats sailing around, but the water would react to the consort's emotion, so the hero of rage would have to keep everybody either calm, or completely fired up depending on the circumstances.

Interesting.

Ok, US States with classpects. All 50, go

I don’t even know half of the US States.

yo, what do you think the showboat-y-ist classpect would be? Like, I've got a character I'm trying to classpect, and they love being the center of attention, showing off, doing tricks, and could probably fit into a performance troupe like a fish into the sea, honestly one thought that came to mind was a Prince of Void, but they'd still have to be Void at their core in that case, and I've personally been thinking Light might be a better aspect for them

Thief of Light.

Since Kanaya's player planet was the Land of Rays and Frogs and Jade's player planet was the Land of Frost and Frogs, we can conclude that all Rustbloods would have lands ending with 'Melody', Bronzebloods would have lands ending with 'Zephyr' and so on, right?

Not really, Frogs is related to Space as a necessary Game Mechanic, but other than that the rest of the Lands relate specifically to a mixture of the Classpects and the Individuals, making all of them unique. 

One theory in the fandom that you think it's very,very stupid? (Excluding Gender-Locked Classes)

Not exactly a theory, but the idea that Hussie made the ending to ‘just get it over with’ and is not contributing to Hiveswap in any way, shape of form is one of the dumbest things I’ve heard being spread around.

The Jack Noir of the Alpha kids' session was a member of the Felt because he was possessed by Lord English. We can now say that a Spades Slick was a member of The Felt. :3c

He’d stab you for saying that and you know it. Curious that Jack was possessed by Lord English, and then Slick took over the Leprechauns.

"To create one must destroy" This is true with Princes ex. Prince of Hope (Destroys Hope (Fakeness) and makes something real) Prince of Void (Destroys the nothingness in something and creates something like Roxy, but has less control). There was a theory that Princes destroy to create new opportunities for their aspect.

It’s a way to see it, specially with Homestuck’s Gnostic Overtones. To Create a World you must first Destroy one.

Also, can Hope be considered fakeness? Rage seems to do with real things and whatnot so I thought that. (Also, I doubt Void or Light deal with fake or real things)

It’s weird, Rage has to do with tearing down lies so you would think Hope is about those lies- Yet, we know that when you really believe in something, it becomes slightly less fake. So while Hope touches imaginary topics, when you truly believe in something, there’s no such thing as fakeness.

Some times when I am bored I wonder what it would be like if the trolls and the kids had different classes, like what if Dave was a rogue, or if John was a bard? Or if karkat was a maid? Or if feferi was a knight?

Well their personalities would be different as a result of this, too, so like, it’d be an entirely different story, like a Bloodswap.

Shelby Cragg said on Twitter that Azdaja has 3 horns

Oooh, nice.

Is it possible for a Rage player to believe in something without proof and with also without the destruction/change classes involved?

Without the destruction/change Classes, I don’t think they have much to do with that. But Rage kind of is about tearing down false Faiths, sooo, they’d have to be really obsessively convinced.

Azdaja has as many horns as there are sticks on his symbol. This is kind of cute.

Huh, an interesting equivalence.

WAIT.

Three sticks on the eye.

Three horns.

3x3 = 9.

9K. Over 9000.

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Could the command classes also believe things without proof? Like, they choose what's fake or not for their own benefit.

The thing about Master Classes- And some other Classes as well, I feel that you all are trying to cheat the system by forcing things to be because you fake-believe in them. If the belief is genuine, it could happen, and with the Master Classes specifically, I feel as though the Aspect is. Retroactively shaped. It’s not a thing that, whoops, suddenly it’s like that- Rather it’s always been like that, but it’s always been like that because at one point the Lord of X or the Muse of X influenced it to have always been like that.

A rage player slaping the face of a light or hope player because their truth is wrong compared to what is going on around them. (Ex. Light/hope player saying everythings fine when everything is on fire.)

More a Hope Player, Light is more about actual Truth rather than Belief, Factual Information. 

I could see Rage players believing without proof, truth is subjective. The truth doesn't have to always be accurate.

That’s a good way to look at it, yes.

If a Hope player had really bad self hate and completely believed it, would that make it true?

Oof, dwelling into self-deprecation for certain Classpects may indeed be quite bad.

so a heir's challenge is to not get changed by their aspect. could something similiar happen to a maid? like if they arent careful theyd eventually get consumed by their aspect

Maids seem to be more Rigid? Where Witches and Heirs are at the risk of being changed, Maids seem to be more Oppressed than Changed.

could an heir of breath be someone who(not always) constantly feels sad? or would that be categorizad as a different aspect?

I’m pretty sure anyone can feel sad. And I mean, John’s depressed at the end of the Credits, soooo.

I see everyone say John is depressed in the credits but I don't see it, could you point it out to me?

A big part of the Characters leading up to the ending, is their Nostalgia for simpler times, and their Expectations of what comes next. Kanaya knew she would be raising the next generations of Trolls, and Rose tagged along. Roxy has Callie with her and Janey to keep her company and chill as the Queen of the Carapace Kingdom. Karkat and Dave are together and go out on adventures with Jade, who may or may not also be together with them- This ties into Dave’s interest on digging up dead things, except instead he’s digging up liberties. Dirk and Jake do robotics together and spar and may also be together- On top of that, Jake has Skaianet, just as Jane has Crockercorp. Everyone has someone or a group of people they hang out with regularly, do stuff together, or at the very least, have some job to look forward to.

John, however, never expressed wanting anything after the Game was done. His biggest wish was for to fight until the end and make sure his friends were alright and… He got that wish. Even Terezi, who didn’t get a happy ending, is at least actively looking back for Vriska, searching for her for Years in the Collapsing Remnants of Paradox Space. She’s driven with a purpose.

John is not. He has nothing to do. He hasn’t expressed any wishes of what to do next. His actual Dad is gone, as much as Jane’s may look like him the Credits tells us he misses HIS Dad. He doesn’t do any King-like stuff in the Human Kingdom, in his house, without the drive to even get up to take down the Birthday Decoration from two years ago.

By the end of the comic, the Protagonist has finally gotten past the story- And so now, his purpose, which was to reach the end of it, has been fulfilled, and he’s left not knowing what to do next.

The main difference between Rage and Hope is how they handle their own convictions, with the Hopebound focusing more on believing their own and the Ragebound tearing others’ down. They can both believe false things, so long as they truly believe it.

Hmm, that ties well with the Canon Quiz’s questions.

There's nothing that proves that Jade is together with Dave and Karkat aside from heteronormativity. In fact the house next to Karkat's is Jade's green, and not olive or lime blood colored. Not only that, but it completely goes against Dave and Karkat's arcs. Also, Davepeta is right there.

Jade may have two hands, but if her Jadebot dreaming up extra arms is anything to go by, I would say she could most certainly be with Karkat, Dave AND Davepeta as well.

I mean, is a Poly Relationship with the three just being happy together, perhaps the four of them, perhaps more, ‘heteronormativity’? Genuine question. Jade being with them doesn’t invalidate the two of them being together, and Dave and Karkat are most definitely Bi/Pan.

I always thought that a Heir/Witch of Mind would be very persuasive as a changer of Mind, but that (sadly) seems more in line with a Heir/Witch of Hope, or maybe even Rage. Too bad that word play wouldn’t make sense.

I still think the Heir/Witch of mind could be very persuasive indeed.

Wasn't Karkat's whole deal that he wanted Terezi "in all quadrants" so he could have her exclusively? And how his romantic inclinations was a callback to the Signless and Disciple? Saying he doesn't feel the same way towards Dave as he did towards Terezi is a little. Uhm. Extremely unfortunate.

One of Karkat’s big struggles with Quadrants is that he struggles with them in the same way people struggle with Queerness- Except instead of being orientation-related, it’s about the different kinds of Romance. When he is with Dave, he does transcend Quadrants just like the Signless- Because their relationship is a Human Relationship. The ambiguity of their Quadrant mentioned by Vriska and the fact Dave himself doesn’t really get Quadrants too much are big hints towards the fact they’re together, not as Matesprits, not as anything other, than the repulsive and alien emotion of Human Love. Now adding a Poly Human Relationship on top of this is an entirely different can of worms, because he wouldn’t be obsessively switching Quadrants or planning things, he’d just Love two people.

Not to say, are you trying to imply Karkat wanting Terezi in all Quadrants was at all healthy? Because that and Dave’s relationship with him most definitely have little in common.

So the Heir class has a danger of being consumed by their aspect, or inherit it. Maybe like, a sacrifice? Like how, while changing the doomed fate of the Alpha trolls, Mituna inherited it in the form of the destruction of his mind. Although, while Equis inherited irrelevancy, it wasn’t much of a sacrifice. John inherited freedom in he form of retcon, but it wasn’t a sacrifice. So maybe the nature of the inheritance is more related to he aspect? Doom: sacrifice, Equius dying, not too relevant.

Yeah it’s not necessarily a sacrifice, and it also depends on the person and how… Good/bad Heirs they may actually be? Not like, actually alignment but like, successful or failed Heirs may experience this Inheritance in different ways, even with the same Classpect.

No, it wasn't just about wanting her in all quadrants. It was about all quadrants AND having exclusivity. You're picking and choosing. "FCG: SEE IF YOU CAN HAVE YOUR GRUB, AND CULL IT TOO?? FCG: THAT WAY YOU HAVE HER ALL TO YOURSELF! CCG: FUCK YOU. FCG: YOU WANT HER IN EVERY QUADRANT LIKE A DESPERATE FOOL." Yes, the way Karkat went about it with Terezi WAS unhealthy. But wanting to be monogamous in itself if done right, like the Signless did, isn't inherently unhealthy.

I mean, honestly it could be? Yeah, and of course it’s not inherently unhealthy at all, but also it could not be- This is a Future Karkat vs Past Karkat conversation, they throw jabs at each other, bring out the worse of each other. Exclusivity could mean Monogamy as much as it could mean Obsession, and growing beyond Obsession MAY as well be growing beyond Monogamy, which is not necessary, but not unrealistic either. I’m not saying there’s definitive proof about Karkat, Dave and Jade being together, but like. You could absolutely read it that way and there’s nothing wrong about it. Same way you can read Karkat’s crush on Terezi as proof of his monogamy and have him be with Dave and just be chill friends with Jade.

Is quadrant vacillation between pale and ashen (or other pairs) a thing, or only between flushed and caliginous?

I mean, between other pairs like Red and Pale or even Red and Black could definitely be, but Ashen seems like a Quadrant that’s not specifically exclusive? It’s making sure two other people don’t like, fuck each other up, so you could be Red with someone, but also be their Auspistice between them and their Kismesis. 

Some people theorise that Boldir is a Lime-blood because her info card is of a light shade of green than olive

I saw! They’re also talking how Olive and Blood fading together in the last Troll Call card makes lime, which is getting people really suspicious of what’s going on.

so are Prince's all assholes with egos cuz i'm a Prince of Heart but i just have identity issues and a lowkey ego but everyone describes Prince's as asses

Princes, Thieves and Lords aren’t assholes, generalizing them as such would be harmful- However, they’re Classes that can fall prey of their Egos and self-aggrandizing behaviors quite easily. Everyone can be an asshole, and not everyone HAS to be an asshole.

Damn, terezis been through some shit

She really has, poor thing deserves hugs and a punk cerulean girlfriend.

i think the way Lords are perceived is heavily affected by the fact that Caliborn was the "evil" half of a Cherub

That is true, but also like, inherently, the huge amount of power put into an active, selfish Class, makes for an easily abusable recipe. So it’s an expected perception? Albeit untrue since it’s still generalizing.

you mentioned that every class has potential to be an asshole so I'm curious. we saw a lot of how Lords can, but what about Muses?

“Greater Good” type scenarios. Being selfish is as far away from the Muse’s Nature as can be, but altruistic tendencies often times come off as Selfish. If they’re convinced about a false idea, or consider a chain of events would be more benefitial to something they’re rallying behind, they could be as ruthless as Lords.

which class is most likely to obsess over a topic or goal for an extremely long amount of time to borderline addiction? like hyper focused single minded behavior

I feel the Bard? Maybe?

We know jackshit about Lords and Muses, for all we know Lords could be a wimpy class (Personality-wise) and Caliborn and Calliope were just examples of really shitty Lords/Muses

I mean, yeah but even shitty shows of a Class tell us a LOT about said Class, such as most of the Dancestors. Knowing about their powers as well sheds a lot of light on the Class itself. We barely know anything about ANY of the Classes, but we can definitely infer through context clues, comparisons and examples given to us by the text.

Who's to say we weren't wrong? I mean, we were wrong about aspects too.

I mean what Aspects were we wrong about exactly? Because the Canon Aspect Descriptions have only reinforced stuff we knew, clarified a few dubious points, and added upon the most accepted theories.

The kids could have won the Sburb without Vriska's interference. She fucked the kids' session up when she put John to sleep while Jade was trying to shoot her Cruxite Artifact

Yeah of course she did- But also Bec Noir was already in their Session, fucking up the Planets and heading for the Genesis Frog. All Vriska would have done by NOT being a meddlesome 8astard is create a Doomed Timeline. If the Kids merely won, there wouldn’t be a Scratch, and without a Scratch there would’ve not been an Alpha Session, which in turn would mean no Alpha Kids. Which means no interaction for Calliope and Caliborn, if they even existed in the new Universe made by the Beta Session, and it would also mean no origin for the title of Lord English, no battle in the Masterpiece, no ARquius to get absorbed into Lil Cal, and no Black Hole bringing the Juju Breaker to Caliborn. They required to fail the Session and Scratch it for it to be the Alpha Timeline, and not end up doomed and dead.

We thought aspects weren't based around personality, that's what I meant.

We sort of did, though? The Class and Aspect in conjunction said a lot about the characters and their predispositions. The Quiz gave a clearer sort of view about this but it wasn’t also anything necessarily game-changing, just clarifying.

Have you got any neat ideas for strife weapons?

animerchandisekind.

Azdaja's eyes are blue and cyan, which as far we know, do no relate to any trolls... But at the same time, the opposite of red is cyan, maybe the cyan eye is defective? Because for Sollux, Mituna and Psiioniic, they were blue and red

I mean, every Psionic we have seen so far has had different eye colors! If anything Cyan may relate to the fact he’s Mindbound? We don’t quite know how relevant the Eye Colors are, if they’re relevant at all. Except the black, that is, Folykl is most likely blind.

Who has the longest hair between Jade, Aradia, Vriska and Feferi?

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I’m gonna go with Jade, post 3-Years.

PM PUNCHED JADE WHILE IN PROTOTYPED FORM!!! I thought she would have second thoughts since she has Bec's instincts

Yep she did! Her sense of duty and MAIL DELIVERY is stronger than her devotion for Jade! At least enough to punch her, she would still never like. Stab her.

Nobody can beat Condy when it comes to hair

That is true, that’s why she wasn’t part of the Hair Contest, it’d be too unfair.