#like here!

do you have any thoughts about sorta self-contradictory titles? heir of blood, for instance, sounds like itd be hard to reconcile using your definitions. what dya think an heir of blood would be like?

I don't find Heir of Blood to be contradictory? That to me parses as someone who's life is directed by the many tethers between them and others. It sounds to me immediately as a deeply fraught existence. Someone who has no choice but to be tangled up in all those red threads until they can't get free. what made Karkat a frankly mind-bogglingly good knight of blood was he had full utility of blood, he could reach out and grab the tethers and drag his cavalcade of shithive friends to where they were needed. its the nature of the utility of the Knight that made him so damn good at what he did.

(sidebar, i'm of the opinion that Karkat Vantas is the best leader in whomstve, that he's the punctuation point on the running joke about leadership. but that's a different story.)

in contrast to knight of blood, an heir of blood has zero grasp of the aspect. it's not a tool to be used like a knight's aspect, it's just the will of the aspect dragging the heir around. so to me an heir of blood is going to be this sort of gravity well of connections.

i conceptualize blood as a viscous, thick pool, one that is so heavy it takes effort to stand up in it, to keep on your feet. the heir is not going to keep on their feet. they're going to have to hold their breath.