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Here’s them without anything in front of them!

For these classpects, I’ll primarily be looking at the characters through a narrative lens rather than ascribing aspects and classes based on their personalities. SBURB uses classpects as a way to provide the players with the journey they need to grow as a person and grow into an adult (behold the metaphor for growing up), and so I’ll do my best to do the same.

From right to left:

Berdly - Knight of Light. Ok this is mild bias because I’m one of the top 10 Berdly fans and I’m a Knight of Light but HEAR ME OUT!!!! Knights are an active application class, the Knight class is characterized in the way that they already have a good grasp on their aspect, but they often put up a façade or persona of confidence as a way to hide the way they feel incompetent or not good enough in using their aspect. Their journey is about turning it down a notch and accepting how they are good enough with their aspect without all their overcompensation. Light is an aspect that is all about illumination, luck, importance, and (most applicable to Berdly) knowledge. Berdly is a very intelligent person, but he gets so wrapped up in his idea of being the #1 in the class that he keeps moving the goalpost of what “smartest” is for himself. His whole arc in ch2 is learning it’s okay to be “dumb”, it’s okay to not adhere to his façade.

Alt. classpects I (at one point) considered: Page of Light, something to do with Heart (Prince and Page were the foremost ideas)

Noelle - Maid of Breath. Ohhh man she’s the Maid of Breath to ever breathe. Maids are a passive (?? It’s really up in the air I’ll be honest, we’ll call it passive though for the sake of me being a Sylph/Maid truther) creation class. The Maid class is characterized by the way they rely on other people to give them their aspect, and their journey is to be able to rely on themself to create their aspect for themself. Breath is an aspect that is all about freedom, direction, and flexibility. Noelle is seen to rely on other people to give her freedom; Carol is strict, Berdly is pushy, Queen is controlling, and the Player is powerful. Her (primary) arc in Ch2 is about her ability to stand up for herself and choose for herself what she wants. This storyline for Noelle is continued in what we see in Ch4, and it’s assumed it’ll continue for the rest of the game. Additionally, Breath as an aspect is also associated with freedom from the narrative—most notably shown in the way John (an Heir of Breath) gains powers that allows him to retcon the story he is in. Noelle’s tendencies to find glitches and exploits in games is an extension of her aspect, and the Snowgrave route is only possible because of her ability to find secrets. She Creates narrative Freedom for the Player.

Alt. Classpects I considered: none tbh?!

Ralsei - Heir of Doom. Yeesss I took SOO much creative liberties with his outfit, sue me idc I’m not putting him in t-shirt <//3. Anyway. The Heir is a passive manipulation (????? Again, we’re subscribing to the Sylph/Maid pair and the Witch/Heir pair. I don’t CARE what Hussie says, I make the rules here) class, characterized by the way they seek out or inherit their aspect. Their journey is about knowing when to adapt and move on to new things, and to not get stuck on parts of their aspect for too long. Doom is an aspect that is all about destiny, caution, and rules. Ralsei is the kind of person to gravitate towards authority, he believes that he is subservient to the Lightners and that he must serve them accordingly. He gravitates towards other authority figures, such as when he momentarily became a butler for Queen. A large portion of Ralsei’s arc is about forming his own identity outside of authority figures, as well as moving past what the prophecy says will happen and hoping for what the heroes can accomplish without it.

Alt Classpects: Ralsei is sooo complex oml, I could also see him as a seer of doom or void too, especially with how he knows abt the prophecy, but I also feel like his fixation on the prophecy is in part due to the authority of it, idk

Susie - Rogue of Hope. The Rogue is a passive relocation class, characterized by the way that they believe that they don’t deserve their aspect or aren’t capable of handling their aspect. Hope is an aspect that is all about trust, acceptance, optimism, belief, and a big YES!!. For all of Susie’s life, she’s been othered and outcasted for how scary she appears to be. People told her that she was a mean girl, and so she ended up becoming one. She felt like she didn’t deserve any trust or friendship, and that getting close to others would only end with her getting hurt. Throughout the story of Deltarune, she has learned to gain friends, put her trust in others, and allowed herself to be loved and give love in return. Susie holds the white pen known as Hope. She gives belief to her friends, and they’re all the more stronger for it.

Alt Classpects: genuinely cannot see her as anything else. I’ll accept Knight of Rage MAYBE, but Susie to me is characterized more by her growth into being open and caring

Kris - Knight of Heart. Knights are an active application class, the Knight class is characterized in the way that they already have a good grasp on their aspect, but they often put up a façade or persona of confidence as a way to hide the way they feel incompetent or not good enough in using their aspect. Their journey is about turning it down a notch and accepting how they are good enough with their aspect without all their overcompensation. Heart is the aspect all about identity, emotion, impulsive decisions, and the soul. A Knight of Heart is able to turn their impulses into Act(ion)s to be able to complete their goals. They have a strong sense of identity, even if they doubt themselves about their level of openness and sense of self. They may also use their application of Heart as a way to exploit the impulses or desires of other people and— okay. Yeah, this kind of sounds like Kris, but really it just sounds like—

Well.

You.

The Soul. The Player.

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Kris - Knight of Rage. Rage is an aspect opposite to Hope. It is about doubt, negativity, criticism, denial, defiance, and a loud NO.

We don’t know a lot about Kris, and we only get to learn about them through the words of other people. It’s difficult to classpect them because of this, especially since they aren’t going through the same journey as everyone else. In fact, we are taking their place in this journey, replacing their Rage with our Heart.

Anyway, the Rage aspect is often seen as a negative or “bad” thing, but really aspects are aspects, not good or bad. I personally think that Kris’s shield of confidence with their aspect lies with their constant pranks on their friends and family members. They act very playful and mischievous, but struggle a lot with their doubts and insecurities, especially in the way they don’t fit in with their other peers. Kris’s ability to tear control away from the player is one way that they apply their Rage to achieve their goals, quite literally telling us “No. you don’t have as much power here as you think”. They use and apply Rage to be able to persist without us, as well as to defy what our goals are. Choosing Knight of Rage over other classpects also allows a parallel to be drawn between Kris and Susie, as their classpects are each others Reactions.

To put it simply, classpects are made up of three parts: the Function, Activity, and Aspect.

The 6 Functions are split into 3 pairs: Manipulation/Comprehension, Creation/Destruction, and Application/Relocation

The Activity is whether the class is Active or Passive.

The Aspect is, of course, one of the 12 Aspects, which are split into 6 complementary pairs. Hope and Rage are one of these pairs.

Every Action has an equal and opposite Reaction. If a Knight of Rage’s Action is actively applying Rage to something, the Reaction is that they are passively relocating Hope somewhere else. This means that the Actions of a Knight of Rage can look like they were done by a Rogue of Hope, or vice versa. I felt like this was an important idea to touch on in choosing classpects for the Fun Gang, especially since Susie and Kris are incredibly strong parallels in their stories and history of feeling outcast in the society they grew up in

Alt Classpects I considered: Witch of Rage, Prince of Heart (dude I will sooo subscribe to PoH Kris if Eram is the horned headband, Ralsei is Kris’s monstersona/made by one of Kris’s items, and the Knight is Dess’s body + Kris’s og soul. they/them why do you have so many splinters of your identity………)