#ragebound

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heart4rage: a flag for those who are rage-bound who prefer, prioritize, or have exclusive relationships (of any kind) with other individuals who are heart-bound.

rage4heart: a flag for those who are heart-bound who prefer, prioritize, or have exclusive relationships (of any kind) with other individuals who are rage-bound.

The song that inspired this drawing was Coagulating Blood from Undertale: The Last 27 Hours

OptimisticDuelist recently released a video on hope entitled Devotion and Delusion in which he outlined some of his ideas on the aspect of Hope. While I largely agree with the ideas he sets forward, I feel like Rage is just as linked to the idea of devotion as Hope is, if not more so. Specifically, it seems linked to unconditional devotion to a person or career, rather than an ideology.

Just look at our canon, and semi-canon, Ragebound. The Makaras are devoted to Lord English, and Kurloz inspires this same kind of unconditional devotion to him and, though she remains largely unaware of it, to his master, in Meulin. Xefros is devoted to Dammek to such an intense degree that he is willing to completely undermine his own agency and interests in service of his moirail’s. Lynera is so devoted to Bronya that she kills anyone who she sees as a threat to their relationship and acts as her right hand troll, even though she knows Bronya doesn’t see her as a romantic prospect.

Even Nihkee and Charun, who lack this specific personal devotion to an individual, each have an equally intense devotion to their craft. Nihkee is so devoted to the practice of Muscular Theatre that she refuses to phone it in, even in matches against trolls higher on the Hemospectrum. Charun lives in a cave and appears to have no connections whatsoever save their devotion to the meaningless beauty of Garbage Art, and is willing to risk significant physical injury to acquire particularly appealing materials.

Gamzee’s devotion to Lord English is so intense and unconditional that he betrays his friends in every single timeline, and is willing to sustain countless indiginities and injuries, including  being shot multiple times to bring about the coming of his god. Xefros doesn’t literally worship Dammek, but he comes close. His interest in sports, his personal property, all come second to Dammek’s. A good part of this is undoubtedly Dammek’s  abusive behavior, but with the rest of the pattern evident, you cannot deny the connection.

Aw dude, thank you for sending an ask, I was gonna do a long reblog/response (because I ramble so my theorizing and classpecting gets long, just as this post is about to get ;P sorry), but this is better! I put the cut before I start disagreeing.

I love Ava Ire, the Seer of Blood. I can still fit inversion and Familiars in there, so I appreciate you telling me a Seer of Blood sounded good.

I also appreciate you linking Odin to the Light aspect, that seems fitting. I was pinning him as a Rogue of Light as your reblog discusses him shedding some light on our story, and shedding light=redistributing. But I also really like Prince of Void, so, we’ll see.

Also, I know that Inversion isn’t the only thing Heroes can do. Inversion is just the introduction to Roleplay, as the revolutionaryduelist describes in his Youtube videos. He argues that Roleplay can work as Dammek being a Thief of Blood, but roleplaying as a Knight of Breath, not a direct inversion, but still Roleplay.

I loved Nevy the Hero of Hope too. Hope seems really fitting for her, but I was actually going for Mage of Hope,because she suffers due to her focus on relationships, but didn’t ever have to seek out understanding for that, and no one listens to her when she forewarns people about problems, like Sollux and his doom virus and Karkat. 

BUT, once we figure out what role she had in life - was she prophet or was she general - we can say for certain whether she’s Mage or Knight (Knight’s a good call).