#classpecting asks

im a huge fan of @wakraya's class test. it gave me Maid and that result literally changed my life forever and irrevocably.

Okay, so. First of all: I do actually help with classpecting characters, but I actually use things like fears, desires, motivations, etc. to get a grasp on those kinds of things. Likes can be very…subjective, and not entirely reliable. After all, you can have two very different characters who like the same kinds of things.

So I can’t really give you anything except a vague guess based on the behavior I’m seeing. Sorry Anon. However, you’re welcome to shoot me a message either at my main (@ridasverkisto ) or on discord under the same username.

That being said, my vague guess would be either Breath or Doom, with a maybe at Time. I can’t really give you anything for Class, unfortunately–I just don’t have enough information.

This is a softball one because she and I are both Maid of Light ....... she's a hologram, she's a star, she's a stage girl... she is also overflowing with cultural relevance...

Neon (BreathLight)

(icon by victis-stelar)

So! Neon is a fun dual aspect, because it's one of the ones that inspired the entire classpecting system! By that, I mean it has canon representation, in the form of poor, dear, Tavrisprite.

Tavrisprite, according to the ERIJANCENTRAL.COM dual classpect calculator, is a Spy of Neon, or ThiefPage of LightBreath. (Other notable details - Spy is an inverse of itself, and its paired class (active/passive swap within the verb group, so Thief to Rogue and Page to Knight) is Hunter, which is Davepeta's dualized class.)

In a sense, Tavrisprite is the ultimate showcase of what can go wrong with dual classpecting. The two personalities are incompatible as a living being, exploding just seconds after being created. This is obvious in the classpect name itself - Spy of Neon. A spy is thought of as sneaky and subtle -- neon is anything BUT. Their fusion was doomed from moment zero.

On the other hand, Neon itself isn't a fundamentally broken classpect. Obviously, the Tavrisprite fusion had permanent personality-altering effects on both (Vriska) and Ghost!Tavros - Vriska discovering how to cool her fires, and Tavros discovering how to be a leader, even though the fusion was merely seconds long. (For more discussion on that specific note, check out my fanfic, polyfrag.)

Neon also could represent a coming together of John and Rose. A "Herald of Neon" - a herald being a messenger containing news - could fit their relationship, vibeswise. I won't really get into it here, since that'd just end up being a Why I Like Grimdorks apologia, lol. But I do quite like it.

Finally, the popular fan fusion/pairing of John/June and Vriska results in a "Vagabond of Neon." Again, I can't really go into this specific one beyond just, "those vibes feel kinda right for that pairing," but yeah. (Hi godfeels fans lmfao - my new fic about June, featuring her wandering in Alpha Timeline Earth sort of aimlessly yet directedly, does evoke this classpect intentionally.)

I just realized I got to the end of this post without talking about Neon.

@nihilistic-janitor and I named the aspect Neon because it's bright and obvious, yet literally a gas. It's one of the more literal names, since it is just Light But Windy, but I feel like it fits.

Where Light oftentimes blinding and scattershot, and Breath leading in all directions, Neon is a pinpointed alternative. A neon sign tells you where to go and why you need to be there. It combines knowledge and travel in a nicely neat way.

(Special thanks to @victis-stelar for the dual aspect icons!)

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Please send in more asks! I can do ones about specific Classpects, Classes, Aspects, or meta stuff, like the dual system or how classpecting works with player-fused Sprites.

so above is a link to a prior post talking about the Doom aspect, but the meat of my analyses on Doom is on my Classpecting FAQ archive, as well as on erijancentral.com/search/doom. If you're browsing my blog on its main domain (even on mobile, i have a custom browser view) you'll be able to access the main ErijanCentral website for the Classpecting Search Engine!

Anyway, yeah. Doom is -- it's new life after a forest fire. It's survival after devastation. It's the climate apocalypse and perseverance in its face.

Honestly I think my hottest Doom take is that Doomguy isn't Doom, he's a Time player???? Because of his themes of legacy and loops and music. (Doom music is ICONIC AS HELL, you cannot argue with that.)

That first post I linked talks about Doom in relation to queerness, but it does mostly assume that you know that the Life aspect has strong ties to, like, the idea of comphet. (See goddamn Jane Crocker, see the Batterwitch being the Ideal Housewife, see, uh, yeah.) And so Doom, as its inverse, has strong vibes of the other way around.

Witch of Life, crowdsourced via @voxsymphonia