#sburb classpect analysis

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The Sylph of Time

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Sylph - passive creating class, one who heals/fixes their aspect, or heals/fixes with their aspect.

Time - control over time itself and the purity of the timeline, it represents patience.

The Sylph of Time is one who heals/fixes Time, or heals/fixes with Time.

The opposite of a Sylph of Time is a Prince of Space.

Healing and fixing through Time. Interesting. Immediately that makes me think that a Sylph of Time is a natural multitasker. Always bringing on some new big project one after another, and even if they get lost in the clouds about starting so many, they always try their hardest to set aside even a little bit of time for it.

They seem like the kind of person to love to compile old archives full of media that would be lost otherwise, and encourage definitely not illegal collection of these types of media.

The Sylph of Time is someone I can imagine keeping the Internet Archive up to date on all their favorite old websites, and donating to projects like that when they have the money for it.

In other sorts of terms, the Sylph of Time seems like someone who would split themselves up to help their friends. They feel like the kind of person to always want to be there for their friends, even if it means they sort of destroy their own health in the process.

They only want what's best for others, and in this sense, can be sort of overbearing about how much they try to involve themselves in their friends' lives. Perhaps it's a daily DM someone gets sick of or a constant stream of 'are you ok?'s that other people get sick of.

Of course, there is nothing wrong with being concerned for your friends like this, and the Sylph of Time isn't doing anything wrong, but part of the adventure that the Sylph of Time needs to go on is to learn that sometimes, you don't need to always be there for other people, that they can handle their own issues.

Now I have.

The Bard of Void

Almost done, boys.

Bard - passive destruction class, one who allows destruction of aspect, or invites destruction through aspect.

Void - control over literal nothingness and secrets.

The Bard of Void is one who allows destruction of Void, or invites destruction through Void.

The opposite of a Bard of Void is a Maid of Light.

The Bard of Void is a gossiper at heart. I can see them not being one in the spotlight, but often hanging around those who do, and picking up a lot of secrets about the ones they hang around.

Bards and Princes are known for the destruction of/through their aspect, and I think that the Bard of Void wouldn't outright expose someone's secrets... just maybe leave a few hints here and there to start painting a picture, and when the puzzle pieces fall together, they can easily pass it off as someone else.

They like to know obscure things, but they have a habit of oversharing their obscure things, to the point where they might even become mainstream, if the Bard has a big enough following.

They feel like the type of person to talk about how they love 'obscure' music, when most of that happens to be semi-popular bands that the average person may have heard of. Not to bash but I just feel like it'd be true.

Bards typically need a push to accept their aspect, and it typically needs to be a hard one. The only way I can really see it happening to a Bard of Void is that they get their secrets leaked at some point. They destroy their own Void, and I can see this fall from grace being partially self made.

Not to forget, but Void is also about 'nothingness' and the concept of it. A Bard of Void would destroy nothing, meaning that they create where they destroy the absence of something.

Where they see a blank canvas, they might be filled with the urge to create on it, and so I see the Bard of Void to be the one to create graffiti on walls. To fill out Wikipedia articles of concepts nobody's ever heard of.

Yes. :)

The Sylph of Breath

Sylphs have a nice godtier outfit.

Sylph - passive creating class, one who heals/fixes their aspect, or heals/fixes with their aspect.

Breath - control over wind and airflow, as well as freedom.

The Sylph of Breath is one who heals/fixes Breath, or heals/fixes with Breath.

The opposite of a Sylph of Breath is a Prince of Blood.

Something that I find that Sylphs struggle with is specifically, when people don't need or want their help with their aspect. A Sylph of Breath fixes and heals through Breath, and while a visual of them breathing on a wound to heal it is hilarious, metaphorically it's a different story.

They try and heal people through, mainly, encouraging them to drop people that they consider to be bad for whoever they're trying to help. This is not always a bad thing, but it comes to be a bad thing when the Sylph pushes for it, even if it might end up doing more harm than good.

In their eyes, attachments are probably the most dangerous thing that can hurt someone, and they will talk about it. Sylphs love analysis, and a Sylph of Breath might obsess over different relationship types (platonic or otherwise).

There's more to it than just "drop your friends xoxo". The Sylph of Breath might also encourage to give people space when something happens. They're the friend who tells you to go and cool off after an argument.

I would not mind.

The Prince of Rage

Last Prince.

Prince - one who destroys their aspect, or destroys with their aspect.

Rage - control over negative emotion, as well as Rage itself.

The Prince of Rage is one who destroys Rage, or destroys with Rage.

The opposite of a Prince of Rage is a Sylph of Hope.

On the surface level, the Prince of Rage sounds like a cool title, right? All about destroying Rage. But the other edge of this sword lies in the fact that it's a classpect that also destroys WITH Rage, too.

Princes are best known for their ability to struggle with their aspect. Their whole deal is destroying their aspect, and being destroyed by it at the same time. Princes of Mind are eaten alive by their own minds, Princes of Blood end up sacrificing important parts of their life in a panic, etc.

But a Prince of Rage can get consumed by their Rage. They can have so much of it pent up in their body that it can kill them. Rage, in the wrong way, can be a potent poison to the user.

However, it's not like you should treat the Prince like a ticking time bomb. That's not the point. Their mission is to come to terms with their Rage.

The Prince of Rage denies their anger, denies their passion, unintentionally filling a role of Rage, being of hard denial and stone wall tendencies. With this sort of mindset, they are stubborn as a stuck rock on inland shores, and trying to move them by any means can prove futile, especially when performed in a manner that the Prince doesn't like.

They've got a lot of struggles. Princes struggle with their aspect because they are surrounded by either a total absence of it or so much of it, they're suffocating.

The Prince of Rage is pent up because their environment may have been too sharp, glazed with knives and brandished with hurt. Or their environment may have been too soft, patronising them.

They desperately need release, and they end up destroying Rage because they don't know what to do with it.

On the flip side, they also destroy with Rage. They have the conversational sway needed to start arguments, and likely this is on accident. They might say something that could be bad timing, or they make a poor joke about something. At the end of it, though:

Yeah.

The Thief of Rage

Augh.

Thief - active stealing class, one who steals aspect, or steals through aspect for themselves.

Rage - control over negative emotion, as well as Rage itself.

The Thief of Rage is one who steals Rage, or steals through Rage for themselves.

The opposite of a Thief of Rage is a Knight of Hope.

Thieves are a stealing class, and like their Rogue counterparts, they steal out of a perceived lack of their aspect. Thieves take and take and take, usually out of desperation because they feel inadequate with what they've got, and they want to be seen by others as "good."

What exactly "good" means is up to you.

Thieves of Rage steal Rage, glad we've got that established. Typically, they tend to steal Rage because they're desperate to have the same passion, same drive. Rage often comes because it is passion in it's purest form, not just plain anger.

They have a knack for internalising everything that's ever been said to them, ever. They turn any kind of comment around and scrutinize it for flaws. They are nitpicky because they seek this sort of acceptance, and it builds up.

A Thief of Rage definitely seems like the type to become the therapist friend, likely on accident, because they seek to relieve the suffering of others, and as a result, all of their anger is bottled up.

Though, we all know what happens when emotions are bottled up. It's essentially a Coke bottle filled with mentos, only explosions are bound to happen.

The kind of explosions that a Thief of Rage would have do not seem intentional whatsoever to me. To me, it seems accidental, and likely because the Thief is under stress and has no solid way to get it out.

All of the taking of Rage from others, siphoning their negativity at the cost of their wellbeing has come to bite the Thief in the ass as it always will.

Like many other Thieves, the Thief of Rage is stubborn to the core. They are the one friend who won't drop a toxic friend because they full heartedly believe that they can be the one to "fix them."

Yes.

The Thief of Mind

Hmmmm.

Thief - active stealing class, one who steals aspect, or steals through aspect for themselves.

Mind - the power over thoughts or control over minds.

The Thief of Mind is one who steals Mind, or steals through Mind for themselves.

The opposite of a Thief of Mind is a Knight of Heart.

At first glance, a Thief of Mind seems to be everything on the tin. Someone who steals the thoughts of others for their own benefit. And that's kind of it. That's a surface scraped off of the Thief of Mind.

Thieves lack their aspect, or they think that they do. Unlike passive Rogue counterparts, a Thief takes their aspect until they feel like they are on par with their ever increasing standards. They don't always take their aspect maliciously, as a lot of Thieves are misguided from a young age.

The Thief of Mind doesn't always take the thoughts of others. It's more so of a copycat like manner. The Thief sees a good idea that they like, and so they take it. Especially when it comes to information or dirt on someone.

Thieves of Mind have an obsession with being right and being smart about the mind. They have all ability to, but they often overlook how they can, or they just give up when something goes wrong.

A lot, and I mean a lot of their "original ideas" are recycled content. They feel the need to take the ideas of others, or at least parts of, because the Thief of Mind feels as though they cannot come up with a good idea themselves.

Mind is also equal parts judgement and balance, and a Thief of Mind likely feels skewed about their own judgement. They can't act independently because they feel as though they will fuck it up without having someone else there to help them come up with ideas.

To give them cred, though, Thieves of Mind are crafty and smart. Using their abilities to steal Mind, they can come up with some quite honestly brilliant plans. They just suck at living up to it.

They are paranoid at heart, that the machinations that they've constructed will fall apart like a house of cards. Thieves of Mind are suspicious of the world around them, and a lot of their suspicion and animosity towards other people comes from just... fear.

Time to see the Seer of Mind.

The Seer of Mind

I'm hilarious, I know.

Seer - passive knowledge class, one who knows their aspect or learns through their aspect for others.

Mind - the power over thoughts or control over minds.

The Seer of Mind is one who knows Mind or learns through Mind for others.

The opposite of a Seer of Mind is a Witch of Heart.

Besides our canon example of a Seer of Mind, they seem to be naturally curious people. Mind is an aspect of curiosity, and Seers love to learn. The Seer of Mind seems like one who would be very curious from a young age, always wanting to know about the world about them.

Setting them apart from a Light player, though, is that the Seer of Mind would be much more focused on people than the wider world around them. They'd be obsessed with learning how people behave, even to an uncomfortable degree. It might get to a point where some people are disturbed by it.

Their desire to know more about Mind can breach some rather ethical boundaries, especially if the Seer of Mind in question has an intense, obsessive personality. They might go as far as to get uncomfortably close with other people all in the name of curiosity.

The Seer of Mind reminds me of someone who's always thinking, always desiring to top what they last did in their amazing feats. They aren't malicious at heart, but a lot of their desires to learn about the minds of others can go south quickly.

Who knows, they might be into neuroscience. I can picture a Seer of Mind being obsessed with how the brain works, wanting to know all about that sort of stuff. They might even become the self proclaimed therapist, researching all sorts of disorders and trying to apply it to their friends.

Sure thing.

The Page of Space

Another classpect I enjoy. It's the classpect of my fankid.

Page - one who serves their aspect, or serves through aspect for themselves.

Space - control over placement, speed, and size within Space.

The Page of Space is one who serves Space, or serves through Space for themselves.

The opposite of a Page of Space is a Rogue of Time.

Pages often start out with a lack in their aspect. For a Page of Space, this can be translated as more literal. They lack Space. Perhaps their house is crowded. Maybe it's small. Maybe both.

I can picture a Page of Space living in a cramped apartment in a crowded area. Not a lot of space there.

Pages often put up a front of their opposite aspect to cope with the fact that they are well aware that they lack their aspect. They often immerse themselves in something else and put up a front strong enough that in some cases, it deludes them.

For a Page of Space, they act much like a Time player. They strive to always be on time, and they act fantastic with time management. They're always making schedules and organizing and trying to be neat and patient.

They cope with a lack of creativity by seeing what other people make and thinking about it. They believe strongly that they just aren't creative at all, and this is something that bogs them down.

They believe that everything they do they suck at, when in reality, they're probably very good at it. They don't see that they're good at it because of this Time player-like mentality, as Time players have this struggle too.

Coming into themselves requires a lot of patience. The Page of Space will get thrown headfirst into a situation that requires their focus and attention, and they might have to think creatively to get out of it. And they'll struggle with it the whole way, maybe even losing hope.