#razor-drips

 Analysis

Void is about nothingness, the unknown, and information being hidden. Roxy, being a Rogue of Void, was able to steal nothingness away from things to obtain them. The Mage is the active part of the two understanding classes and is all about understanding their aspect and understanding using their aspect as well as Experiencing™ their aspect. We can see the experience part through Sollux by how he experienced Doom by dying more than once. So the Mage of Void would experience Void by having a lot of information hidden from them, their stuff lost, and people would possibly lie to them a lot. When this Mage understands their aspect they would be a lot less oblivious and know when stuff is being hidden from them.

Powers

This Mage would need to understand their aspect more and more before really using their powers, so a fully realized Mage of Void would basically be able to do anything with nothingness with almost no restrictions. So their powers could involve things like taking things out of nothingness, put something into nothingness/add to nothingness, and much more.

Song

But It’s Better If You Do by Panic! At The Disco 

This is a pretty good example of a Mage of Void song on the side of experiencing void. The song and music video create an interesting story of sneaking around to a speak easy (the illegal strip club) and watching the performers strut their stuff until the main character’s wife (or at least girlfriend) appears there in a disguise to perform and finds out about her husband and storms off. Eventually they get arrested by the police which sucks and puts them into even more of a voidy situation with the absence of anything you’re used to when you get in jail.~ Maid of Hope

A decision like that is based more in individual decision-making than it is in Title.

Like, going strictly by Title, a Sylph of Light would have never acted so outrageously as to cause the Game Over timeline. Neither a Seer of Light nor a Knight of Time would create a sun the size of two universes. Those are choices (BIG choices!) that are entirely independent of their classpect roles. 

So yeah, there might be a Mage of Void out there who is scared of being weak and over-embraces their aspect to the point of destroying their own mind to get power. It’d fit their Title, sure. Or there might be a Mage of Void who uses their capacity for understanding absence to comprehend exactly how bad of an idea that is. Or a Mage of Void that wouldn’t want to freak out their friends by suddenly acting at the behest of an undying tentacle monster. Maybe there’s a Mage of Void who’s inverted into acting like a Light player and insisting that they’re strong and cool and spotlight-worthy enough to earn that power their damn self, thankyouverymuch- and maybe there’s a Mage of Void who is just really freaked out by tentacles so they wouldn’t even consider it.

Out of all the iterations of Rose in Paradox Space, how many do you think went Grimdark? Half? A quarter? Maybe almost all of them did, or maybe our Rose was the odd one out. Think of all those possible alternate timeline decisions for the same person in the same scenario. 

Now for different people in vastly different sessions, with only a Title in common?