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Since When Have Sylphs been an Active Class and Maids been a Passive Class? I Feel Like I'm Being Gaslit
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Since When Have Sylphs been an Active Class and Maids been a Passive Class? I Feel Like I'm Being Gaslit
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Of course, the simpler explanation is simply that the Power Verbs the homestuck classes use and the Active Passive Scale are simply separate but highly related concepts, and the pairings of classes rely Simply on the verb Being Used for the power between the two, not the activity level itself Though i imagine the two overlap greatly because when you have a power verb that is "Does X" versus "Invites X" they would naturally gravitate towards Active or Passive Actions the Situation with Sylph and Maid then, is that the Sylph is Inviting an Active Action, and the Maid is Doing a Passive Action Which makes sense if the Maid's verb is to "Serve" Serving is then considered an inherently passive thing to do, even when you're doing it actively and with vigor So then in return, whatever it is that the Sylph does as their Invites class verb Should be something that, even if done in a Passive manner, is still a direct enough action that it's inherently Active thing to do
have u done maid of mind?
i have not! it’s also one i haven’t given much thought, but definitely a very interesting idea. i think especially with maid’s implications of being a bit of a vessel class, along with being a healer in a violent environment like skaia, and what that means for mind’s, well, mind and brain associations. it’s very much like aranea’s direct-healing-shock-to-the-brain type deal, to me? maid is a bit of a brute-force class in my eyes, as well as a class that very much works in the retrospective, cleaning up (or even sweeping aside) the shards of what’s been broken, but at the same time, powerless to, or intentionally choosing not to, do anything in the present moment. vaguely waving my hands at aradia and jane. it’s all just got interesting implications, to me. i’ve got an interesting post about sylphs/ maids and their violent roles in the game here, and the section about mental healing is kind of what i’m getting at. overall just a really interesting classpect in terms of narrative role. thanks for asking in! :)
been thinking a lot about maids and sylphs recently. specifically sylphs, but both. i class them both as the healing classes, ofc, but "healing" is kind of a strange word to use. because, yes, on the surface, that's what they do. maids are "aspect-focused" healers and sylphs are "person-focused" healers. but what both those classes do can't really be counted as "healing" in the traditional sense.
when we think of healing, we think of gentle, nurturing actions. being gentle, taking it slow, being cared for and cared about. but neither maid nor sylph do any of that. the healers in canon are all specifically extremely violent. kanaya is a nurturer, yes, but this is instead because of her connection to the space aspect, and she is also a warrior who kills multiple people with a fair amount of ease. aradia takes gleeful joy in destroying timelines and watching the fabric of paradox space be ripped apart. aranea attempts to stage a violent coup on reality itself, and breaks jake's mind with her powers. jane kills karkat just to violently rip him from the grave, purely as a show of what she's capable of. this is not gentle shit. it's violence.
i think this speaks a lot to the kind of environment that skaia cultivates. where "healing" cannot truly be healing. they don't have the time for that. they have to play the game. they have to fight enemies, they have to breed the genesis frog, and fight the king, and everything else that comes with playing. they do not have time for healing. this goes for mental healing, too. none of the characters ever have any time to process trauma because they always have to just keep moving. keep progressing. they have to win. this is, of course, just working as designed. take young, impressionable kids, turn them into weapons, irreparably traumatize them, and dump them out on the other side as soon as their purpose creating a new universe is complete.
as a side note, i think the types of violence these types of characters tend to commit is also influences by their class. maids tend to commit acts of violence against their aspect itself, while sylphs tend to mostly be uninvolved with their aspect in acts of violence. this isn't a hard rule though.
classpecting part 3 maid of space
Maid of Space
-# Accommodates for Space or through Space. Personality wise, maids have shown to be a diverse batch in their little group of three. We only have three canon examples in homestuck: Aradia Megido, Jane Crocker, and Porrim Maryam. On the surface level, all of them don't exactly show much similarities. Aradia and Jane you can just maybe attatch something there, as both are rather vibrant young ladies sometimes. Other than that, not much else to say…. However, if you dive deeper into their stories, one common theme rises: Being held back. All three maids suffer from a force blocking their path. For Aradia, it was literally dying and being restricted to a metal shell of her own body. For Jane, she was restrained indoors due to the threat of being assassinated as well as putting up a sort of mask around Jake to hide her crush on him. For Porrim, it was the misogynistic society that seemed prejudiced not only against women but jadebloods as a whole. Struggle is a common theme among the stories of maids, and it can manifest as anything it'd seem. A maid's challenge is not to just defeat this, but find their own truth. A maid of space can be anything, just like how versatile maids can be, but their life will be marked by a struggle against a barrier blocking them from truly unlocking their true nature at first. The challenge of this maid will be to embrace their creativity while fighting a system that tries to keep them oppressed, whether enforced by an exterior factor or something that they brought on themselves. When we talk about powers, a maids powers are straight forward- they create their aspect. While not exactly creating, it comes close enough. While Jane revived people (creating life), and Aradia made time by freezing things or people like Jack Noir thus giving herself time to escape! A maid of space's powers would likely be creating space for herself, perhaps literally making something from nothing. Whether it be as simple as a generic object or even a whole pocket dimension if a high enough tier!
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Minigame! Decode the binary!
01001101 01100001 01101001 01100100 00100000 01101111 01100110 00100000 01101000 01100101 01100001 01110010 01110100 00111111
hint: it says "maid of heart?"
Hey there! sorry for not responding, i forget this blog quite too often.
Alright, let's gather my binary-decoding helmet.
Maids are Passive classes that parallel Heirs. While me and my friend only recently knew about this and we are still not too sure of the "verb" that Maids share with Heirs, we are still pretty confident on what we came up with.
Maids, just like Heirs, possess the primary function and goal to Become One with their Aspect, albeit in a different way than the Heir does. Maids are often entrusted with a extremely important role relating to their Aspect (Aradia keeping track to make sure the timeline doesn't doom itself, Jane inheriting her family's business and [assumed] role of bringing Life to the dead lands of her session, and Porrim with her breeding duties), but they are often tempted to follow and behave like their opposite Aspect. Maids are entrusted to keep the Aspect safe for the group to use, as they are dependant on the group's success to win.
Heart represents the embodiment of Feeling. It is the emotional landscape of people, what irrational impulses influences them, what makes them the way they are.
The Maids's problem is that - at the time of their session - they are rendered unable to act like their main Aspect due to something external that's preventing them to use it properly, which in turn makes them act more similarly to their opposite Aspect. Since Aradia was dead at the beginning, she acted cold and distant to everyone. Doesn't this sound like a description of Space to you? It sure does, and it's not the only example i got. Jane quite literally turns herself to Doom letting the Condesce control her through the Tiaratop, preventing her from properly reaching Life. Same goes to Porrim, although with her the interpretation is a bit more stretchy.
With that in mind, the Maid of Heart would be someone that is entrusted with something important involving Heart but it's not currently able to fully use it because of an obstacle that's preventing them from doing so. Maybe this Maid is aiming to be a psychologist, wanting to help others with their emotional struggles, but due to a recent tragedy that happened with her, she's currently feeling unable to express sympathy and understanding the way she really wanted to, etc.
For the powers i believe that since they (probably) share the verb with Heirs of Becoming their Aspect, my guess is that they can control how their Aspect flows outside of them. Aradia freezes Jack in time, and Jane makes Life flow from her footsteps as soon as she gets the Trickster Mode. Maybe this Maid could make Emotions flow from her, affecting directly anything that comes in contact with her, or even giving "life" to inanimate objects by infusing them with Souls.
Note: I'm not too happy with this power definition since i think it's a bit too similar to how Pages work, but that's the best i can think of at the moment.
guys what do maids do. i thought until the breakthrough that maids created like princes destroy. but i dont think they actually do that because we never see jade magically growing plants like in totoro and we never see aradia expanding time so that each second takes a minute or something. what do they actually do like what is their job
reworked my definitions of maid and sylph with the positive/ negative flip. i've always seen maid as the "repair" class and sylph as the "restore" class, which in retrospect makes far more sense with maid being passive and sylph being active. especially with the role of maids and sylphs in the story - both aradia and jane are vessel-like characters, while kanaya and aranea are both just-do-it-yourself type characters. i think that's a really interesting contrast, especially for a class pairing that doesn't get a lot of spotlight, and i wish more was done with it/ more is done with it in the future (PLEASE beyond canon give us another sylph character. PLEASE. mage would be great too PLEASE)