Hoagster

The gift horse's mouth holds a secret which the horse can only guess. Look closely at its teeth to compare what you're owed to what you get.

Narrative Function

To dual-speakers of English and German, the word "gift" provides a wonderful opportunity for a translingual pun: In English it's a present, offering, or kindness; but in German it simply means poison. This pair of false friends present the best framework for understanding the Colt.

The Colt's primary narative function is to be sacrificed. The Colt gives themselves, or a part of themselves away, for the benefit of others, at great harm to themselves. They might offer their self up on an aspect's alter to settle some debt or dispute, or they might lose a part of their self in the name of a greater cause. But, even as the Colt is bleeding out, turned from horse to gift-horse, they can still bite the hand that slaughters 'em, turning from boon to bane in a final moment of defiance.

There's a lot of flexibility in the Colt's narrative. A Colt might 'change hands' muliple times, flitting around shifting their allegiance mulitiple times, like the toaster-oven that keeps getting regifted (with each movement of the Colt constituting a sacrifice of the narrative potential of their old connections), before they reach the culmination of their arc.

Player Tendencies

The Colt is one of the most passive classes, as its basic beat is a moment of altru sacrifice, but this doesn't actually tend to reflect in the class's Players. The opposite enfact, Colt players' tendancy is anathema to their class, as Colts are likely to be selfish and egotistical. Their sacrifices aren't sought out as first solutions, but resorted to under the duress of dramatic or ironic circumstances.

Godhood

The Colt's godhood is styled after the typical dress of the roving warrior class of Yankelan, which were fostered as a cultural part to Meiji era Yankeland's third imperial expansion project, commonly referred to in the local cultures as "Cowboys."

It is a hooded pancho over a button-cuffed shirt and pants, a belt with a buckle you can park a 2026 Ford under, and a pair of trusty dusty leather boots.

Attribution

RISE! Where is you anger? RISE! Where is your fury? RISE! Where is your fire? RISE! RISE! RISE! Where is you Wrath?

Narrative Function

The Raffe [răth]¹ are the instigator, leader, lynchpin, and success of revolutions: Through their aspect, they seek the liberation of both themselves and other characters. Sometimes they go beyond that and seek to free the entire narrative from the subjugative clutches of another aspect (or in especially rare cases, their own.)

Not all rebellions stories feature a Raffe, but those that do tend to find better success and greater successes, as the Raffe breathes strength into the movement, their presense a banner on the battlefield and a rallying cry in the wind, creating a movement-wide morale boost.

Player Tendencies

Raffes tend toward being a righteous and altruistic lot: they're deeply entuned to the suffering caused by unjust systems and actively seek to liberate those who suffer from the systems which harm them.

Godhood

The Raffe's Godhood is styled after fashion from the various punk scenes of late 20th and early 21st century Yankeelan and Britain.

It is a hooded, sleeveless battle jacket, worn over a sleeveless undershirt and ripped pants. The battle jacket is covered in patches and its hood is covered in a mohawk of spikes.

The pants are held up by a simple knot belt that flows into a 'waist-cape.'

Spiked bracelets act as arm accessories.

The shoes are big-stompy lace-up boots, which I like to imagine double as heelies.

Attribution

The godhoods were all designed, on commission, by @meraki-sunset. She's an amazing artist and a delight to work wit.

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Turvy-tipsy, the crow-cow flies Hoping to scarf itself wit a ribbon of wind And-yet, its neck keeps no company and it crop fruits no stones

Narrative Function

The Jinx ignores what their aspect is supposed to be, in favor of pursuing a warped and twisted inversion, an 'antispect' if you will. While this can be a conscience choice, for most Jinxes, their very presense in the narrative acts as an automatic anathema, curdling their aspect sour.

The Jinx's anathemic effect tends to start out as a localized affect afflicting themselves with negative experiences rooted in their antispect. Over their arc, Jinxes tend to learn to both mitigate the detirious effects of their antispect in themselves and their allies while weaponizing it against their enemies.

The classic example is the Jinx of Light, where Light, in either its literal or symbolic sense is inverted, creating shadows and/or misfortune, which the Jinx experiences first involuntarily before learning how to make it their enemies problem.

Player Tendencies

Jinx players tend to be canny sorts with squirrelly personalities. Antispects are not kind nor pretty things to experience and surviving the influence of one long enough to even start the narrative requires cunning, quick reflexes, or luck, possibly all three and more.

The squirreliness might eventually mellow out as the Jinx players learn to manage their aspect and aren't constantly under threat of suddenly having a very bad time, but the canniness tends to be more persistant.

Godhood

The Jinx's Godhood isn't styled after anything in particular, leaning toward generic flowing clothes.

The Godhood is a shoulder-cowl over shirt and pants, with tall lace-up boots. The cowl's distinctive features are a widows peak for it's windows and cat ears on its crest.

Additionally, in an allusion to the childrens' game of Jinx, the mouth is wrapped in bandages.

Attribution

"Et tu Brute," proclaimed the snake unto the scorpion. With a twist of it stinger, the scorpion agreed, "Et tu me, but not before you."

Narrative Function

The Nark's abandonment is one of betrayal, actively chosen. They are put into a situation where they must choose: hold true to some greater belief, principle, or loyalty; or, given into a base temptation by betraying the same.

And well, if theyr story were shaped by them to choosing the former, they wouldn't be a Nark. There are various different ways the Nark's wider story can play out—redemption and comuppence are most common—but, the betrayal is at the crux of their story.

Player Tendencies

Nark players tend toward being selfish and transactional characters with short term memories, measuring their relationships by cost-benefit analysis with a strong tendency towards 'what have you done for me lately'-isms.

If they aren't, then a good chunk of their arc can be spent in internal conflict between their desire to hold true and their act of giving into temptation, and how they, despite giving up what they had, didn't get what they wanted.

Godhood

The Nark's Godhood isn't styled after any fashion in particular, leaning heavily on the idea of generic flowing clothes.

It is a hooded cap with crossed lacing over a shirt and pants. The shoes are soft-sole slip-ons. It also features elbow-length gloves.

Attribution

"Et tu Brute," proclaimed the snake unto the scorpion. With a twist of it stinger, the scorpion agreed, "Et tu me, but not before you."

Narrative Function

The Nark's abandonment is one of betrayal, actively chosen. They are put into a situation where they must choose: hold true to some greater belief, principle, or loyalty; or, given into a base temptation by betraying the same.

And well, if theyr story were shaped by them to choosing the former, they wouldn't be a Nark. There are various different ways the Nark's wider story can play out—redemption and comuppence are most common—but, the betrayal is at the crux of their story.

Player Tendencies

Nark players tend toward being selfish and transactional characters with short term memories, measuring their relationships by cost-benefit analysis with a strong tendency towards 'what have you done for me lately'-isms.

If they aren't, then a good chunk of their arc can be spent in internal conflict between their desire to hold true and their act of giving into temptation, and how they, despite giving up what they had, didn't get what they wanted.

Godhood

The Nark's Godhood isn't styled after any fashion in particular, leaning heavily on the idea of generic flowing clothes.

It is a hooded cap with crossed lacing over a shirt and pants. The shoes are soft-sole slip-ons. It also features elbow-length gloves.

Attribution

Teaser.

Turvy-tipsy, the crow-cow flies Hoping to scarf itself wit a ribbon of wind And-yet, its neck keeps no company and it crop fruits no stones

Narrative Function

The Jinx ignores what their aspect is supposed to be, in favor of pursuing a warped and twisted inversion, an 'antispect' if you will. While this can be a conscience choice, for most Jinxes, their very presense in the narrative acts as an automatic anathema, curdling their aspect sour.

The Jinx's anathemic effect tends to start out as a localized affect afflicting themselves with negative experiences rooted in their antispect. Over their arc, Jinxes tend to learn to both mitigate the detirious effects of their antispect in themselves and their allies while weaponizing it against their enemies.

The classic example is the Jinx of Light, where Light, in either its literal or symbolic sense is inverted, creating shadows and/or misfortune, which the Jinx experiences first involuntarily before learning how to make it their enemies problem.

Player Tendencies

Jinx players tend to be canny sorts with squirrelly personalities. Antispects are not kind nor pretty things to experience and surviving the influence of one long enough to even start the narrative requires cunning, quick reflexes, or luck, possibly all three and more.

The squirreliness might eventually mellow out as the Jinx players learn to manage their aspect and aren't constantly under threat of suddenly having a very bad time, but the canniness tends to be more persistant.

Godhood

The Jinx's Godhood isn't styled after anything in particular, leaning toward generic flowing clothes.

The Godhood is a shoulder-cowl over shirt and pants, with tall lace-up boots. The cowl's distinctive features are a widows peak for it's windows and cat ears on its crest.

Additionally, in an allusion to the childrens' game of Jinx, the mouth is wrapped in bandages.

Attribution

The godhoods were all designed, on commission, by @meraki-sunset. She's an amazing artist and a delight to work wit.

Further notes

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(and its Dusk)

Here comes dawn, an kiss of the morning-light. To be the sun is to never know depths of night.

Narrative Function

The Dawn, despite the connotation leaning towards beginnings and creation, does not create their aspect. Rather, they gather such a mega-massive portion of their aspect in themselves, embodying it near comprehensively as a singular body, that they become like a sun made of that aspect, radiating it into an otherwise aspect-vaccuous story.

As a fully-realized Dawn moves through their story, the narrative surrounding them becomes near hypersaturate in their aspect; but not without consequence, as the parts of the story where their influence does not reach fade to be aspect-dim. This secondary effect lends the class a nickname.

Just as their coming slowly fills the story flush with their aspect on approach, like a dawn over the horizon returns the world to day; when they leave, their aspect fades, the story becoming becomes dim of it. An anti-dawn follows in their wake, as if a Dusk.

Player Tendencies

Dawn players tend to struggle wit empathy, especially so when it comes to questions about their aspect. Being so deeply tied to their aspect alienates their perspective from those whose lack it, and even those with a normal base-line amount. As the introductary couplet suggests, the sun can never know the night.

Godhood

The Dawn's Godhood is styled after Grekoroman togas.

It is a hooded cape over an asymmetric toga with a high-to-low hem. The cape's distinctive feature is a pattern around its edge of the homestuck sun's corona, radiating out from the edge, like the wearer is the sun's body.

A headband repeats the motif with rays of light extending from the crown of the players head.

The shoes are sandles, each with an in-laid gem.

Attribution