mage of breath
a mage manipulates, controls, and most importantly, understands. sollux, as the mage of doom, understood fate, destiny, and the inevitability of playing sgrub, dying, and etc. however, the mage's 'sting in the tail', so to speak, was for sollux the fact that he died... a lot? like five times? tbh, i lost count. but, he was doomed, and he understood that. that's the pivotal part of being a mage. being unfortunate, and understanding why. a mage of breath, then, would understand and control wind and optimism, perhaps helping their friends and sessionmates be happy and optimistic. they'd understand how to cheer people up, but might be a little pessimistic themselves - the sting in the tail. their friends would try to cheer them up, but they would simply be unable to do it. the mage themselves would understand why they were unhappy, and might be resigned to their pessimism - sort of like eeyore from winnie the pooh. to compensate, however, they would have great knowledge and control of the physical aspect of breath - control of wind/air itself!











