#6 functions

Hi Dahni,

was just deliberating over interaction of opposites in Classpect and, if I had any insight, was hoping to help get your gears turning on this for your readers.

LIGHT/VOID in RELOCATION/APPLICATION: Let’s suppose your LIGHT is something you can see (or rather, something that is bringing attention?), such as your hand. If you RELOCATE your hand in front of an object so that you can longer see it, you are APPLYING obfuscation. BUT, if you RELOCATE the hidden object away from the hand, you are performing … WHATEVER’S NOT OBFUSCATION. Moved LIGHT to do VOID, moved VOID to do LIGHT.

TIME/SPACE in CREATION/DESTRUCTION: I work on a production line and it hit me when my supervisor stupidly told me to ‘MAKE TIME’ to fix a problem I was having. I knew the only way to do that was to STOP the MACHINE–i.e. DESTROY SPACE. (It is a poetic image that SPACE is what provides TIME the mechanisms to run)

BLOOD/BREATH in UNDERSTANDING/MANIPULATION: When trying to understand Class, I go for the simplest analogies possible. For BLOOD I like to use a literal chain (of links). As a SEER of BLOOD (hypothetically), I KNOW just how many links are in my chain–and this enables me to CHANGE the number of links to effect a particular desired DISTANCE. Knowing BLOOD let me change BREATH. As a WITCH of BREATH, who would disregard the chain and focus on what is attached, … well, see, that’s about the extent of my noggin’s puddin’. If I’m on the right track let me know

Dahni: Yup! those are some pretty great physical/practical examples of the dualities of the functions, very nice!

for Relocation/Application as well, I always like to gives the examples of the interaction for how Movement is Necessary for Functional Interaction

You Relocate a Key Sideways to Unlock a Lock, but that can be harder to see in practical Actual Class terms

but I like your example, cuz it’s a bit clearer what class is doing what and how they interact in their subroles, it’s easier to break it down into clear example classpect roles

You Relocate a Hand/Visible Object in order to Block the Light/Apply Void 

you intend to move your visible object or take the light/relocate it inwards like absorption, and the ends result is the application of Void unto the situation. Thief/Rogue of Light with the Page/Knight of Void subrole, easy!

You Block the Light/Apply Void, by Moving your Visible Object/Hand.

You intended to apply Void in the situation, and the end result is your visible object moved into place to block the light. Page/Knight of Void with the result Rogue/Thief of Light like action

as well as Relocating the Hidden Object Into View, and as a result you have Revealed the Object/Applied Light

you intend to relocate Void, with the end result that you have applied light. Rogue/Thief of Void with result Page/Knight of Light subrole

and simply Revealing an Object/Applying Light, and as a result, the Hidden Object Moves into View

you intended to apply Light, and as a result the Void Relocated itself/the Hidden object moved. Page/Knight of Light with result of Rogue/Thief of Void

 (Revelation would be a good opposing word substitute for Obsfucation no?)

as for your Witch of Breath/Seer of Blood idea

the Seer of Blood Understands a Connection, how it grows, how it shrinks, it’s current length, it’s current makeup. This knowledge allows them to Change the Distance between two people, if they know what it is that makes them close, they can use this knowledge to bring them closer or push them further away. Manipulation Breath subrole

A Witch of Breath can change the Distance between two people, making them closer or more distant. Every detail they change in order to change the distance between two people, gives them a better understanding of the nature of that connection. Bringer them closer together gives you the understanding that they are close/and in what way they are close.

Information Blood subrole

it’s sounds redundant yes, but that’s exactly the idea of why things are connected like that, it’s redundant because you are always doing the exact opposite things when you think you are only doing one end of it

by Creating Time, You’ve Destroyed Space! By Destroying Space, you’ve Created Time!

By Relocating Light, You’ve Applied Darkness! By Applying Darkness, you’ve Relocated Light!

By Manipulating Breath, You’ve Understood Blood! By Understanding Blood, You’ve Manipulated Breath!

hi there, someone else came to me with the same question and my response then is basically that of course every person can technically manually do all the functions of their aspect, but their class’s function isn’t just what they do, it’s specifically which of the 6 main functions that they Excel in doing

Saying that Knights and Pages Excel in the Function of Application/Exploitation is not the same as saying every other class cannot apply/exploit their aspect

just like saying Mages and Seers Excel in the Function of Understanding/Information is not the same as saying every other class is entirely ignorant of their what their aspect is (Aranea the Sylph says hi) nor is it completely hardwalling a Mage or a Seer from being unable to do anything except “Know” something (Rose and Terezi say hi this time)

but other classes are simply not going to have the scope of knowledge and understanding that a Mage or Seer has, likewise a Mage or a Seer isn’t going to be able to really be super amazing at something, unless that something is apart of their actual Understanding function

likewise other classes are simply not going to have scope and expertise in applying/exploiting their Aspects like the Knight and Page

its the example of of say, an Heir being able to technically use their fists to hammer an Aspect shaped nail into the wall, and then the Knight strolling over with their actual class shaped Hammer to actually do the thing

sure technically both can “nail” the hammer, but the Knight has a clear advantage in skill and knowhow and it would take the Knight much less actual effort to do a task that might take the Heir forever to even understand how to do

See for example in canon Dave understanding that John’s retcon shenanigans were having an effect on the timeline and trying to get John to “leave the time shit to the time players” so to speak