#power-analysis

Part 2 of 3 of Mituna’s ask.

Knights are honestly my favorite class to talk about, aside from Rogues. 

Knights are the active protection/weaponization class, their passive counterpart being the Page. Mind is the aspect of thought, choice, and perception. I do believe there was a canon Knight of Mind? Latula Pyrope, if I’m not mistaken. Latula was shown to have a disability, a lack of a sense of smell, thus continuing the idea that all Mind players have some sort of sensual disability, though such disabilities are not exclusive to only Mind players. 

Knights, as the class dictates, have something about themselves they want to keep hidden. Some form of insecurity that ties back to their aspect, and prevents them from supplying their aspect to the rest of their session, the very same aspect their session lacks. A Knight of Mind’s presence would probably dictate that members of a session are a bit too tied up in themselves and perhaps their romantic interests to think about logistics or actually try to plan a way to beat the game. Or, a lack of thought and selflessness would show up in other forms. Perhaps their session mates got greedy with their own powers, or for some reason, couldn’t cohesively work together to get things done. It is, therefor, a Knight’s job to get over their own insecurities to provide their aspect for the rest of the session. Many Knights, however, fail at this task at some point or another, whether pre-game, post-game, or mid-game. 

Ah, yes, Rogues! The hardest class to find a canon base for! I’m not even freaking kidding. 100% of the time, if you Google “homestuck rogue of ____” and put any aspect there, you’re gonna get this design within the first few results.

Like, seriously guys? We have a canon Rogue design. We’ve had it since Roxy ascended back in February of 2013. Get with the times. Honestly, as a Rogue player this ticks me off to no end. So, for all the Rogue asks, I’m going to attempt to color the base appropriately. Please don’t be mad at me if I get it wrong. 

Rogues are the passive stealing class, and Breath is the aspect of direction, communication, and the wind. There is actually a canon Rogue of Breath, and that’s Rufioh. Described as “exceptionally easygoing and friendly”, Rufioh is a good example of what a Breath player could be. Relaxed and able to change on a dime, like a lazy summer breeze. Rogues are surrounded by an unhealthy amount of their aspect, and must learn to properly redistribute their aspect among the team, not forgetting to get themselves to proper levels of their aspect. 

So a Rogue of Breath might be surrounded by an unhealthily high amount of freedoms or an unhealthily low amount of freedoms, it could go either way. Rogues are always lovable, a favorite of the group, regardless of their aspect. They’re very nice in most regards, but very controlling and manipulative when it comes to their aspect. 

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A Knight is the active protection/weaponization class, and Light stands for fortune, luck, and importance. It, along with Mind, are the aspects associated with knowledge, though Light is more about “shedding light” on a subject and Mind is more about evaluations and predictions of people or happenings. It’s very much like the split between intelligence and wisdom - intelligence is book smarts, or the Light aspect, whereas wisdom is practical thinking and common sense, the Mind aspect. 

Knights, as was prior mentioned in my Knight of Space analysis, Knights tend to have a very huge insecurity surrounding their aspect, despite being amazing at using their aspect. For a Knight of Light, this insecurity might possibly revolve around how well they do in school, or how much they’ve read, or how many times bad things happen to them (which wouldn’t be as often as they make it out to be). They might be insecure about how much attention they unknowingly draw to themselves, resulting in severe boughts of stage fright, despite probably being heavily interested in theater. 

Knights also tend to represent what their session lacks, and need to get over their insecurity to provide it to their session. For a Knight of Light, the biggest factor that might play into something missing in their session is either luck, or the knowledge of what to do. They’d probably have some sort of innate sense of what needed to get done in the session, but would be so uncertain about their ability to understand what’s important to do that it would seriously hamper any progress the session would make, as the Knight would be second-guessing themselves. A key point in a Knight of Light is to have confidence in what you know and what you think you know. There’s always opportunities to learn, and failure is just another way of learning what’s right and what’s wrong. 

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Bards are the passive destruction class, and Mind is the aspect of thought, choice, and perception. It, along with Light, is one of the two intellect classes, with Light being more focused on facts and Mind being more focused on application. With the opposite aspect being Heart, and as the Extended Zodiac quiz tells us, Mind players are those who tend to not think about themselves much, and also have trouble sticking to one decision.

A Bard, however, ghosts their opposing aspect in an effort to reject their actual aspect. A Bard of Mind, then, would probably attempt to be a Sylph of Heart. They’d pay very little attention to what their thoughts were and focus only on themselves and their actions. They’d unknowingly attempt to build up their own identity, only to destroy it entirely on a whim and start over again. As a destruction class, their aspect is going to come back to haunt them eventually, causing the Bard of Mind to probably start challenging everyone’s thoughts and opinions, causing widespread devastation via second-guessing and inter-personal doubt as a team. Plans will go awry, doomed timelines will be made, the team will probably be set back a bit. 

A Prince is the active destruction class. They despise or reject the aspect they have within themselves, and actively try to remove it from themselves and their surroundings. Princes also deal with the idea of shattering or fragmenting one’s aspect. Mind is the aspect of thought, choice, and perception. It’s the most logical and emotionless aspect out of all of them, and is opposed by Heart, the aspect of self, soul, and identity. A Prince of Mind, then, would strive to eliminate the logical way they do things, or the way everyone seems to be making choices they don’t like around them. 

Princes of Mind would pretend to be of the Heart aspect, trying to follow their heart and do what their intuition tells them. Unfortunately for them, their intuition is usually based off logical thinking. A Prince of Mind might cause a romantic stir among their friends, as they begin to destroy the mental barriers in their friends’ and their own mind. I want to say that a Prince of Mind has a high chance of going Grimdark, simply because they’re more inclined to give up their inhibitions and logical thought. 

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Pages are the passive protection/weaponization class. They have a hidden potential for their aspect, and need to overcome some sort of hurdle of insecurity in order to fully grasp their true potential. Space stands for creation, maturity, and literal space. A Page of Space, then, would have an untapped ability to be mature or to make some kind of art or be creative, in the most direct sense. Page of Space powers could include force fields, telekinesis, teleportation, and the like. They’re turning literal space, gravity, position, velocity, into a weapon, so anything that moves things about through space somehow or stops things from moving is on the table for a Page of Space.

Personality-wise, Pages of Space tend to be kind of dorky, like Heirs, but more of a pushover, much more easy to push around and step on than an Heir. But they’d have some kind of air about them that inspires others to write, to draw, to make and express themselves somehow. Space is the opposite of Time, so where Time stands for the inevitable end, Space stands for the limitless possibility of beginnings. It overlaps slightly with hope, for reference.