About your process, when youāre developing OCs like for Sovereignstuck do you try to avoid repeating things like Classpects or blood color + Aspect combos that were already used in Homestuck? I personally feel compelled to do that like even to the point of not using Extended Zodiac signs that weāve seen in Hiveswap and Iām not sure why
Hmmā¦ I wouldnāt say we, as a team, avoid it at all, honestly! Itās one of those āIf it happens, it happensā type deals. Our concern is less with Repetition and Total Originality, and more with Accuracy. If that Accuracy happens to result in an already canon Classpect reoccurring, or an already dub-canon Sign reoccurring, then so be it! Itās not really a crime. Repetition of Classpect/Signs/Themes/Motifs isnāt an issue at all, really, itās just a matter of whether or not it fits.
Hell, Sovereignstuck has two Maids of Space! Thereās @unexiledās Dynama Zarrow, and Porrim Maryam! Itās not an issue, because it fits both characters, and they arenāt copy-pasted in any way. Being a Maid of Space is an important part of both of their characters, without there being much overlap at all in how they function during the course of the story.
Oneās a religious zealot who doesnāt know how to be their own person, take up any room, or put their foot down unless itās in the name of God, and the other one is a sex-positive feminist activist who already figured out how to take up space and defend herself for the sake of herself only. Theyāre two entirely different characters at two entirely different points of their development, with vastly different Themes and vastly different ways of interacting with their Class and Aspect!
We have a Prince of Heart, as well! Annomi Errata, who Iām in charge of. Heās an incredibly different person from Dirk Strider, and their character arcs in their respective stories arenāt identical at all. Dirkās state of being a Prince of Heart throughout the course of Homestuck was defined largely by his catastrophic concern with the idea of becoming/being a bad person. He had a crippling fear of it, and was absolutely negatively obsessed with the concept.
Annomi, meanwhile, is in a situation where he had that fear eat him alive for so long that he gave up, and started actually being a bad person as a wildly self destructive method of reclamation of control. Once again, theyāre two entirely different characters at two entirely different points of their development.
Itās all a matter of figuring out what works! Sometimes we get repeats. Sometimes, we even get repeats within the confines of the same story! Thereās no harm in it at all! Itāll be fine as long as you handle it with some confidence!
