#lotarclasspects

[PART 1 HERE] What I'm unsure of, is whether Heir/Maid or Seer/Mage are the most middling class. the -1,+1. Because those aside, when it comes to Knight/Page and Thief/Rogue, we know those classes are SERVE and STEAL respectively. SERVE as meaning in service of, AND Serving their enemies martially. It's an assumption, but my instinct tells me they're not the most middling classes. Either way you slice it, THIEF/ROGUE or KNIGHT/PAGE would come after Prince. And if that assumption is made, then something is seen on the scale. MAKE and DESTROY are right next to each other on the rungs. And so too would STEAL and SERVE be, regardless of which way they're swapped. And these groups of concepts oppose each other. To take is the opposite of serving. Destroying is the opposite of making. Is having them next to each other on the rungs intentional, and relevant? or Elegant? Either way, it looks balanced. And homestuck really really likes its balance. So instead of a group of Classes which are all individual and unlinked to each other aside from the Counterparts, what we begin to see is groups of Four. Two opposing concepts next to each other, one POSITIVE (abundance of aspect, giving it to people) and one NEGATIVE (Detriment of aspect, destroying or taking it in relation to how its used) Which too, got me thinking. We've known for ages that Princes can tend to appear like they're embodying the opposite aspect because they can Destroy the aspect they have in themselves and others. Dirks harsh cerebral appearance. Eridan. Just all of Eridan. But Thieves too, Vriska believes she has an overabundance of BAD LUCK. For these characters, their relation to their aspect is one of detriment. As opposed to the MAKE and SERVE classes, who kind of match up fairly well. Due to this, it would create KNOW and INHERIT as opposites. or EMBODY whatever Heir/Maid are. In my mind, it garners the picture of people who go and learn vs people who recieve mastery based on right of birth. But I am still learning about the Heir class and trying to break down exactly what it's getting at in another post. to KNOW and to EMBODY are certainly opposite concepts, one implying an outside knowledge and one implying total becoming of it. Either way, they're the only two left. And this is less about me imposing my idea onto this, and me trying to figure out what Hussie was getting at, so I will need to look harder.

Heart-of-violets, thank you for giving me a lovely ask! It’s going to be good to flex my analysis muscles again! I apologize for how long you have waited, if you haven’t forgotten already.

The Seer of Heart. One who guides people towards their true selves, pleasure, and their SOUL.

The Seer is a complicated class, and I am not going to say that a seer is an understanding class. No. The seer guides. Rose Lalonde guided the meteor crew to the most fortuitous outcome, and Terezi guided John so that the session could succeed. In any case, they are guides. And you are a Heart player, which represents pleasure, feeling, and the true, inner self. Free of facades. 

The Seer of Heart’s land, might be the land of Paths and doorways. However this is in the sense of what you, as a Seer, have to do.

Heart is all about intuition, and for LOPAD, you’ll need it. It’s a land full of riddles and puzzles about where to go, and how. The seer may start out feeling like they’ve got it sorted, choosing the most logical way, only to realise that the more they think about finding the way the more lost they are. Eventually they learn to let your gut decide, and being a Seer, and the Land being for them, it will lead them on the right path. 

This path, however, is based on ethics. You are given a choice along the lines of: will you choose the many people or the individual person? Say a dersite was attacking a beach that the consorts love. You have to give it an item to stop it. A consort wants you to retrieve a diary from their dead friend that they dearly miss. You go to the place where both are, the diary and the derse thing are both there but once you choose one thing, you cannot choose the other. Will you choose the consort who weeps for their friend? or the other villiagers who can’t use their beach? something that is special to them?

Yeah its full of that stuff, As someone growing into an aspect, the budding seer might be very tempted to choose the masses, but their path is to choose the individual. the One. This is what Heart is about. While Mind is the Many over the Few or One, Heart is the opposite, emotion and gut instead of thinking and reasoning.

Your denizen is Janus: the greek god with two heads that guards doorways (i think)(its been ages since ive read percy Jackson oh god)

NOW ONTO POWERS

The seer of Heart is excellent at telling when you are lying, or a good liar themselves. They see through facades! They can also provide excellent moral support for the team, now this sounds kind of lame, but if a team isnt united..... there IS NO TEAM!!!!!

Also you can probably navigate the void pretty well “guiding towards souls and all” You could find exactly who you wanted in the Dream Bubbles probably. You have to trust your gut though. Always do that if you’re a seer of heart. You’ll go places.

Well I hope you enjoyed this analysis because tomorrow I will do another :D

Thank you!