Bard/Life + Thief/Space Rotting Singularity

Bard/Breath + Rogue/Mind Rome's Fall Central

All the roads lead to Rome, and by extension so do actions, and this fraymotif is a showcase of that.

Given any team that has sufficient total reasoning to attack the bard, The rogue starts by shifting their reasoning between one another. Each person thinks and feels the bad consequence the Bard had on everyone else. This solidified their decision to attack the Bard at once. However, the moment before everyone's attack reach at once, the bard summons a super-cyclone of aspect-boosted wind, grinding the team into shreds.

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Knight/Blood + Heir/Time Erythrocyte Memorial

The Heir of Time creates an area of effect that is enchanted with various memories of relationships from the past and future. Using those relationships and the drive to protect those the knight cares for, both before and after what's to come, The knight is supercharged, initialing a superswift, superpowered. one strike attack against a target. Bonus damage for if said target has negatively effected or will effect the aforementioned relationships.

(And I just want to reiterate that I LOVED the last two fraymotifs. They fit perfectly!! Especially the full team attack- their whole thing is that they suck at cooperation cuz they suck at communication. What you made fits perfectly!!! Thank you!!!

Gosh, so sorry this took so long to answer! This got left in my drafts for a while but now I am In The Mood to do some Fraymotifing proper. How close people are generally doesn't factor into a Fraymotif (or at least the generalized ones that I make on this blog), unless the players involved are so far apart that they use their "allies" like ammunition, at which point I classify it as a partybreaker. That said, this is a great synergy, which I only briefly touched on in this post.

Ghost of Your Cantata

Thief of Heart [one who steals and steals through emotion, essence, and the self] + Mage of Void [one who understands and understands through uncertainty, emptiness, and absence]

Ghost (Ghost note; a note with a rhythmic value but no discernible pitch, primarily used to represent percussive pitches or spoken words. Also literal Ghosts as in a less-present impression of a person or memory) + Cantata (A choral work of some length that also uses solo voices, usually with instrumental accompaniment. The texts used may be sacred or secular.)

The Thief is gonna start out by stealing the Mage's sense of self. The Mage of Void thereby becomes emptier, allowing them to tap into their magical Void powers with greater potency. The key feature of Mages is that they possess a bone-deep comprehension of their Aspect from having the very concept fused to their psyche; The Mage's sense of self is going to be Voidy, and the Thief stealing it and bringing it into their own self is then going to grow more Voidy as well (this is supported by the fact that Void and Heart as Aspects are equally "Bloody" on the Breath-Blood axis) giving the two a fair bit of leeway in the Personal Subjectivity department. The Mage as the active guide role is going to use their own inherent well of Void Magic to channel through the partially Voided Thief like a lens to give the Thief some scary Grimdark Void Tendrils with which the Thief rips out the heart(s) of their Target(s), causing a Void to form where the Target's heart once was.

No one specifically asked for this, but I figured I should bring this up just because it's something I'm going to continue to reference. Obviously, this stuff is more going forward, as I didn't really have any of this in mind when I was designing the earliest Fraymotifs. Mandatory disclaimer that none of this is canon bc Hussie did not come up with many canon things about Fraymotifs I made this shit up for my own benefit okay cool

Partybreakers: much like a Classpect verbiage, they'll [break the party and break through the party]. Using your allies as weapons is just as viable for attacking the Target as using weapons on your allies is when Partybreakers are involved. It's less of a "the partybreaker player engages with the Fraymotif in XYZ ways," and more like "this Fraymotif has XYZ qualities, which makes it a 'partybreaker.'" So not all Thief/Prince/Bard/etc Fraymotifs would necessarily result in a partybreaker, it's just that a Fraymotif that has themes of wielding your teammates as weapons (/neg) and/or treating your teammates as obstacles or indiscriminately to the Targets of the Fraymotif is going to be classified as a partybreaker.

Resonances: So Class and Aspect symmetries are really important to how Classpecting works, which is something that Homestuck has explicitly stated. And because Classpecting is the core of Fraymotif design, it only makes sense that it would impact them too. There are 3 kinds of Class/Aspect relationships within a Fraymotif that result in that Fraymotif being exceptionally powerful:

Complementary Aspects - Two heroes with opposite Aspects (e.g. Breath and Blood). This Resonance can be understood as the Aspects balance each other out and the Class dynamics/abilities are exemplified. The Prince/Knight relationship is a great example of this Resonance as seen in Blind Cavalier's Fanfare.

Complementary Classes - Two heroes with paired Classes (e.g. Knight and Page). This doesn't mean they do opposite things; it's more of a matter of how Active/Passive they are with their Aspect, and this resonance can be understood as the Classes balance each other out and their shared role is exemplified. I haven't specifically addressed this kind of Resonance yet in a Fraymotif, and the only example I have is pre-THE SHIFT so I didn't design it with this Resonance in mind, but Progression Ostinato is a Witch of Breath + Sylph of Life combo where the Witch and Sylph share the role of Controlling their Aspect (the Witch through conduction of their Aspect and the Sylph through the induction of their Aspect). In that example, the heroes jointly Freely Control the Healing of their teammates.

Compounding Classes - Two heroes that share a Class (e.g. a Witch of Breath and a Witch of Life). This Resonance can be understood as the Classes overlap and the interaction/dynamic between their Aspects is exemplified. When you get, say, two Princes together, you're going to have an Even Bigger Destruction on your hands than if you only had one. Expiring Vivace is a good example of the kind of compounded potential two Witches have. Compounding Aspects are not possible in Fraymotifs, as each Fraymotif only has one player of a given Aspect. Below is a small, very small, very very small, snippet of what my Fraymotif Checklist Spreadsheet looks like. The first image is of the Breath Classpects (x axis, sorted by Activity) and Life Classpects (y axis, sorted by Activity) pairings. The red-shaded cells are the Complementary Class Resonances (Blame Hussie for why the Class pairings are janky like that) and the green-shaded cells are the Compounding Class Resonances. The second image is of the Breath Classpects (x axis, sorted by Activity) and Blood Classpects (y axis, sorted by Activity) pairings. It's the same as the other screenshot but all those cells are shaded blue, because Class Resonances and Aspect Resonances are independent of each other.

also for all the nerds out there my checklist is topologically a conical surface.

So THE SHIFT has been my biggest block so far in motivation to continue this project. Having to redo the Fraymotifs I've already done before I can do new ones is not only a completely arbitrary obstacle, but also it is sapping all of my thought energy and just making me feel slogged down every time i look at the askbox. So, because I know I haven't done a damn thing about THE SHIFT since i put it in place 5 billion months ago, I'm just. not going to. At least for now, I definitely will come back to it eventually and a THE SHIFT post will be treated like a cool throwback remaster of my earliest Fraymotifs, which will be nice in the future when it eventually definitely happens.

Speaking of the askbox, instead of handling things chronologically to when I receive them, I'm changing how I handle it. The key aspect (roll credits) to doing these is actually taking the time to write them out and detail them and come up with all the cool references and such, which if you have ADHD like I do is a real killer, so going forward, I'm going to answer the ones I get that I think will be the most fun and interesting first. Listen. Listen to me. Grabbing you tenderly yet firmly by the shoulders. I will still do all 9504 2-player Fraymotifs. I will still do your requests. Eventually. So if you've got a request sitting in my inbox, it will still happen! It just might not happen right away, which if you think about it, is better than it not happening at all like it is now.

Oh, that reminds me, the specific weapons don't matter for my generalized Fraymotifs. So If you've specifed which weapons your heroes use in your requests, I won't be taking them into account.

Also the queue, there's absolutely no way that I'll be making up Fraymotifs faster than they come in and faster than the queue would post them. So I'll just be posting them whenever. Which again will be faster than the not posting them ever like I've been.

In an effort to get this project done in the forseeable remaining lifespan of the sun, I will no longer be taking 3+ Player Fraymotif Requests. Until I change my mind (don't hold your breath tho). I have like 10k 2-player combos to do and as genuinely cool and fun as the 3+ers have been, I'm not gonna be able to do what my blog is actually about if I keep this up. I already never post as it is I'm just trying to make the project less intimidating for myself so hopefully I'll be able to get more out there.

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Muse/Time + Lord/Space Organic Spacetime Entanglement

The two create a tear in spacetime. This tear connects the two players, so that each player can warp by wish to ANY PLACE THROUGH SPACETIME that the other was or will be.

Be noted its through SPACETIME, not SPACE & TIME. meaning if the muse wants to teleport to a certain location the lord was in, they must also move in time to any time the lord was there, and vice versa.