Thoughts on The Heir of Hope? I could really use an outside perspective right now. (Thank you)
Hallo! I have not been active on the internets from my computer in multiple days because my internet died and I wanted to give you a proper answer with correct grammars :33
... Ok so I really am sorry for not answering my internet has been spotty at best for like a week but itās pretty good now so I can finally actually answer!
Well, heir of hope... letās start with heirs, shall we?
Heirs, as far as I interpret them, are more literal versions of pages; while a page would channel the spirit of their aspect as part of their personality, a heir would becomeĀ their aspect physically (which is a fact thatās supported by canon! I love having theories and then remembering that theyāre actually entirely canon ^^ā). So heirsā personalities tend to reflect their aspect more literally as well, being almost archetypes forĀ āthis is what being X aspect meansā.
Iād say theyāre a simpler class, but that might not be entirely accurate, because aspects have a lot in them, if youāre willing to look. Like how void may be about mysteries and things hidden in shadows, but also includes contradictoriness (is that a word? It feels like it should be a word), or how breath can be wind but also scatterbraininess (neverĀ let a breath player build their own schedule, itās like a hurricane went in and messed all their meetings up... which, I suppose it is.. but thatās a tangent for another post, maybe). Thereās a lot of room for exploration there, finding where you fit into your own aspect, and whether thereās traits there that you wish to change, or improve upon, and whether youāre willing to put in the work (youāll find that, if youāre willing, it may come easier than you expected to start the change you want to see in yourself, though itās still bound to be difficult.. as is any change one should make. The key is being truly, actually willing and eager to better yourself, and know that sometimes you should ask for help, and that regardless, things take time...)
So. If a heirās personality is built on existing within the space of their aspect... what about hope?
... You know, hope is surprisingly hard to figure out. Though, the same can be true for rage, since both of them have two players that destroy their aspect, making them act inherently unlike said element... so we literally only have Jake to go off of and sayingĀ āyouāre like Jake English but your personality is more hopeā wouldnāt be particularly helpful... not to say kind of inaccurate.
I found (through two hours of research, god, apparently Iāve been sitting here trying to not get confirmation bias over theories for two hours... Then again I have been thinking about heirs for a while anyways, so it wouldāve been longer if I had been putting off answering any longer...) that hope is one of those aspects that are dreadfully unclear. Itās pretty difficult to take hope literally, as even in its literal sense itās not tangible like void and breath are, so, how do you becomeĀ hope?
Well... Iām sorry to disappoint, but I believe thatās up to you. Hopeās one of those aspects that are, in essence, whatever the player makes of them. Like most others, actually, I just find that the players we follow happen to be wholly uncreative in their use of their aspects... Except those that use it subconsciously, in which case itās more that the game looked at them and probably said something likeĀ āwouldnāt it be really funny if I made Dirk Strider a Prince of Heart?ā which, well. Iād sayĀ āsadā is a better word, but the gameās got a weird sense of humor and is also wholly irrelevant to right now!
Hope can mean a lot of things, but literally itās more... well, the way my brain tried to put it together is kind of like how determination works in Undertale (⦠without the space-time shenanigans, since those are both elements in actual Homestuck). You donāt give up, and there lies your power. By believing in yourself, you have power. By trying hard you can do.. whatever you want. At least, thatās the literal way to see it (which is the only way we see it in actual Homestuck, but, again, aspects contain so much more than just their literal definitions, and the players we meet during our time reading are dreadfully unimaginative). We never see any other definition, though Iāve seen some people mention that hope may also have to do with the literal definition of light, or holiness, because.. magic. Or something. Not sure I buy that, but also visualizingĀ āhopeā, which is a wonderfully grand concept is probably hard, so, glowing it is, I suppose.
What all of this ends up meaning is.. Well, the Heir of Hope is someone who is embodied by their hope. I usually suggest stuff like a horoscope but itās getting pretty late here and itās also 10 degree weather, and sayingĀ ādonāt give upā feels awfully tacky of me... So Iāll say this, instead; stay true to who you are. Iām not implying youāre perfect, or anything, but more that your true self is a wonderful person who, had I not been a Mage of Mind who dreams on derseās moon and therefore an expert in overanalyzing social interactions before I even know the other partyās name, Iād love to talk to. I feel like you can be an uplifting person, if you let yourself be, and that youāre an inspiration to be around once you start talking about stuff youāre passionate about. A presence to light up a room, maybe, or at least one that people notice when itās missing (because you only notice the absence of light in the darkness).
Again, sorry this came out late, I hope me working on this post for... three hours (yeesh, how the time flies when you double check against confirmation bias that the third heir we meet is, indeed, Mituna Captor, and that he did indeedĀ ābecomeā doom by accidental brain deletion) makes up for the three days where I was looking at this question from my phone and goingĀ āI should start writingā and then instead made my trollsona art and also read fics I have memorized because I tend to procrastinate (and also I spent 10 minutes just now trying to remember the word for procrastination and googled it asĀ āword for not doing thingā. It was not there. I'm in agony/j).
Hope (hah) you still enjoy it even if itās late? ^^ā

















