Class swap Alphonse! He'd be an archfey warlock and Pin of all people would be his patron lol Very campy Alphonse uwu

If I'm trying to keep things simple instead of going into an entire compare and contrast: a few major things. 

First, the lack of aspect thing. Thieves start off void of their aspect like a Page might but quickly gain more as they steal it. Bards on the other hand go back and forth between being completely void of their aspect or completely in sync with it. So if we’re sticking with the luck focus of the Light aspect sometimes she’s gonna be leveraging her luck to cause massive destruction and other times being completely unlucky or at least not taking luck into account or acting independent of it. Practically speaking I don’t think this actually changes a bunch. Vriska is still going to be strong regardless and probably still a dick. 

Second thing is bards aren’t going to be stealing, so maybe she’s less relevant in the grand scheme of things as she’s not “Stealing the spotlight”. She might be less of a dick to Tavros too. She could also just be manipulating his success to fuck shit up too, really depends on how you want to swing things. 

Her relationships in general are probably pretty different. Maybe she does end up getting stuck in the weird Kismesis with Eridan, not really being able to get out of it as easily as she did in canon. Maybe her relationship with John ends up unchanged somehow, just her convincing him to do different things. I guess it really depends on what is going on with the other trolls tho. Maybe Doc Scratch can’t fuck with her? Like she ends up existing outside his omnipotence? Sort of in a fucking up his vision way or just being too chaotic for him to really get a grasp on what she’ll do. Maybe she ends up leading him by the nose to fuck everything up.

Something else, if this is a bloodswap does she have the murderous tendencies of a purple blood? I mean she was always murderous but it was always more intentional and thought out but purple bloods tend to be a bit more... berserk than she was. Does she still have her psychic powers? Maybe no one gives Jade narcolepsy and Jade ends up missing a lot of the key moments she needs with her Prospit dreaming future sight bullshit.

I finally finished my class!swap illustration based on the tweets by @americankimchi​, here are the new classes;

Caleb: Blood hunter (Archfey patron in the form of Frumpkin, uses a bow, I hc that he was still trained by the Empire, just as a ranged assassin, Frumpkin is a new patron)

Fjord and Yasha: tempest domain clerics (to an Old God and the Storm Lord respectively)

Jester: Arcane trickster rogue (lost a hand, uses mage hand and her animal companions)

Nott: Wizard in the school of illusion (here she’s inscribing a sigil of protection on Yasha)

Caduceus: Monk of the Way of the Open Hand (and notably not of knitting)

Beau: Berserker barbarian

“Let’s draw our characters as other classes!”

Isiah: Monk

Gira: Sea Hag Warlock

Bolark: Barbarian

and then a class swap within the party! Bolark the Druid, Isiah the Sorcerer, and Gira the Bard

Plus some doodles from the campaign I run

Alphonse and Thalin get a background swap!! Al would be a nobleman, probably a stuntman performer since he comes from a family of pretty high ranking fey entertainers already. Thalin would be a criminal, a nobleman thief working for the organized crime guilds in the capital! His code name is Poppy.