#session analysis

derse; heir of space (afab, human), knight of void (male, human), seer of time (fem, goldcaste), sylph of life (fem, limecaste Faking as an indigocaste), witch of breath (transman, olivecaste), thief of doom (transfem, rustcaste)

prospit; maid of mind (fem, human), prince of blood (male, human), rogue of light (masc, jadecaste), page of rage (male, fuchsiacaste), mage of heart (male, bluecaste), bard of hope (feminine, purplecaste)

quadrants → knight of void <3 prince of blood, seer of time <3 rogue of light, mage of heart (one-sided) <?3 heir of space, sylph of life <?3 bard of hope (mutual)

→ knight of void <> maid of mind, sylph of mind <> witch of breath, page of rage <> rogue of light

→ heir of space o8< maid of mind (auspistice) o8< prince of blood, heir of space o8< rogue of light (auspistice) o8< seer of time

→ thief of doom (one-sided) <?3< sylph of life

familial relations (humans only) → heir of space & knight of void (siblings), prince of blood & maid of mind (siblings)

that's all, thank you!!! sorry for the long ask X(

Okay, this will be the longest session analysis I’ve done so it will be lengthy to read and I’ll be focusing more on the interaction side rather than what the character’s abilities can do. I would like to start with the fact that this session is not only more likely to succeed by having both a Space and Time player, but specifically having two classes that have very useful abilities that make it more likely to win. I’ll do my best to keep everything straight and go down the list of players!

The great news here is that the Heir of Space passively manifests and manipulates their aspect, so Space is more likely to bend to her whims and make her quest easier and protect the Heir. The Heir is also lucky that all of her co-players have good synergy with her abilities and can make for some unique combinations. Hopefully she has a good relationship with her brother, as the Knight of the session is usually tasked with aiding the Space player with frog breeding and guarding. Plus, a successfully realized Knight of Void helps reveal hidden objects and secrets so he can make or break finding the needed frogs if he isn’t in an amicable mood. I will say that it seems the Heir does have two auspistice groups going as well as an unrequited pale crush from the Mage of Heart. Depending on the feelings, the auspisticism may be tumultuous. The Heir beefing with the Prince of Blood can lead to more broken relationships from the Prince’s ire and the Heir’s tendency to isolate themselves (Space aspect trait). On the other side is the possible pitch feelings between the Heir and the Seer, who can literally lead everyone down the path of death if she gets spiteful. They definitely will be commiserating with the Mage often, which won’t help the pale feelings until the Mage finally decides to shoot his shot. Good luck homie.

So the Knight of Void is an active role that will help use the Void (secrets, darkness, etc.) to protect/work towards his goals or what’s important to him. Knights tend to put up a false front to cover some aspect of themselves that they are ashamed/have doubts about. So this person would likely be the person that unintentionally harbors everyone’s secrets but they are forever safe with this person. His presence may help mask or at least nullify to some degree the bond breaking effects his matesprite Prince of Blood may cause. Now a Knight of Void that dreams on Derse already has edgy written into his character sheet, the big thing is learning to drop whatever edgy mask is used to cover up how much he cares which honestly with the support system present shouldn’t be hard! This support is pretty much doubled by the Maid of Mind, as they passively help create Mind and are helpful to everyone. Sorting thoughts, taking a step back and finding logical solutions, and helping others remember key events/information will be their main abilities but being able to compile all these logical data points will be easier when there is someone (Knight of Void moirail) who inherently tends to pull obscure information to them.

The Seer of Time being a goldblood tracks with those multicolored eyes being special in another regard. Seeing as she is the Scratch resource for the session as well as someone who is going to have to see countless doomed timelines/visions of her dead cohorts and how it happened she is going to be quite the stressed player. Having a matesprite helps, especially an organized jadeblood Rogue of Light that is passively giving luck and enlightenment to her. This only boosts the likelihood of seeing the better timelines as well as providing the level head that may be needed to help with any burnout. Vice versa, the Seer helps the Rogue grow confident because she sees the best person the Rogue can be, helping with that pesky self-doubt Rogues tend to suffer with. Now depending on who is the auspistice and what direction the relationships are going toward aren’t stated. If they lean pale then it’s just a matter of one of the three being responsible and not letting each other get too deep in a habit that is all consuming but one done out of care (such as being overprotective). If the feelings are ashen then you may have them balancing on the edge of someone saying something too personal that can cause a huge emotional blow up or even death if it gets bad enough.

The Sylph of Life is going to have to retain that optimism and hopeful energy through so many trials and tribulations it is not funny. First off, their caste is pretty much extinct or illegal so that obviously is its own issue. The wealth and resources that would be needed to pull off an indigoblood guise makes it even harder. A healer who’s aspect lies in the field of Life wouldn’t necessarily be keen on the bloodcastes, especially as a limeblood which would be hard to hide to all those around them. Their moirallegiance with the Witch of Breath is what likely keeps them sane. Either the Witch prevents the Sylph from going off the deep end and trying to meddle with a system that is too big to handle right now while encouraging them to relish the freedom they do have OR the Sylph is helping ground the Witch of Breath to make sure he isn’t trying to lead a rebellion before the manifesto is even drawn up. Because the Witch of Breath freely manipulates Breath, he may help others in the session feel free of the burdens of their society which can benefit everyone. The issue here lies with two players' emotions specifically. The Sylph and Bard of Hope are mutually pale for each other, which isn’t awful per se, just dangerous. The Bard passively destroys the Hope of the session and for someone who hinges on Hope and Life to get them through the Sylph is going to have to really try hard to remain optimistic enough to work through that passive Hope destruction and help the Bard pull her head from her rump every now and again. The other issue is the unrequited Thief of Doom’s pitch feelings that are targeted towards the Sylph. The Thief, while not inherently a bad person, has two dramatic sides due to their classpect. The Thief’s show-boating personality and the Doom aspect’s habit of attracting death and creating boundaries. This being one-sided means that if nothing is talked about and discussed well the Thief may inadvertently kill the only Life player due to jealous machinations brought on by jealousy. If the Thief can find someone to vent to or discuss their emotions then she may be able to use her powers as intended and bring Doom to her adversaries, even if it is to show the Sylph how much better she is or how much more capable she is than someone else. Sometimes you just gotta take the win and not think too hard on the why/hidden reasons.

Speaking of unrequited feelings, back to the Mage of Heart and his pale flush towards the Heir of Space. The Mage unfortunately is often the one to suffer, and I know this classpect well as it is the one my partner shares. They empathize to an unhealthy degree, and often can get overwhelmed by the many sensations of the world. He may be someone who lacks a specific sense or has it in excess. The issue is he can’t just sit on these emotions and sensations. Yes, they are helping him ruminate and learn more about himself and others but that repetitive cycle inside his head is bound to lead to unhealthy attachments to those that can make him feel safe/seen. If he doesn't fess up or talk to someone like the Maid of Mind or Prince of Blood to sort out these issues it could lead to negative traits or bad advice being passed around. Again, good luck to this person. You’ll be great at commiserating but the journey is hard.

I’m realizing I tend to end on Pages, so I’m sorry to anyone who is a Page and saw that trend in my writing style eons before I did. The Page of Rage being a fushiablood is quite fitting. They would be someone who is peaceful, almost completely pacifist, in the beginning. However this doesn’t mean they aren’t argumentative or stubborn, often being the one to flaunt their power/wealth and be a big talker. The Page would continuously learn to harness their focus and dominating spirit to the point where he may be able to even make a temporary field where anything he says becomes true (though this would likely be less than a two minutes since this would require so much energy). Luckily the Rogue of Light is there to help balance out that entitled attitude with the ability to provide a lucky lesson or experience in favor of making the Page a better person (or at least more likely to be team player). Because the Rogue is matesprited to the Seer of Time the Rogue can also inadvertently obtain advice from the Seer about how to lead the Page down a path that won’t end up with someone killing him before he can emotionally mature and gain the strength needed to fight with more than words. Who knows, the Page may even become one of the group’s leaders after a certain point.

We have a mage of space, witch of light (who are both in prospit) along with a seer of void and a bard of time(both derse)

Im not sure if this will be relevant for the analysia but the mage and the seer are besties plus the witch and the bard have a kind of friendly rivarly

Congratulations you have a viable session with access to a Scratch!

To start, the Mage of Space would make this a breeze on the front of breeding the Genesis Frog as well any Space related issues. The Mage is knowledgeable and likely has a variety of interests that they can use to help themselves or others out of situations. Now Mages typically have a hard time with some part of their aspect, so this may be something such as having bouts of creative blocks or even being near/far sighted or not having strong physical senses. They likely would experience headaches worth of information in an instant upon Godtiering. Hope they have migraine relief tactics ready. Especially on Prospit with the oracle clouds that eclipse occasionally.

The Seer of Void makes a good best friend for the Mage of Space. The Seer of Void sees through Void, seeing all secrets in due time and how to navigate the Void and any dark areas that may plague the team. They would give insightful information to their team at random times that may seem randomly insightful to something they may be going through even if they haven’t said anything. Being the knowledgeable passive counter to the Mage means these two likely have interests or other traits that may be outlandish or not well understood except by each other. The two likely have felt misunderstood/invisible until talking with each other. Truly friends thick and thin.

The Witch of Light would be someone I liken to a bee or an active insect. Always buzzing from interest/activity, especially things involving new skills, info, or luck. The Witch is one whose abilities allow for manipulation of luck and Light, very helpful for the team with two other knowledge based players. The Witch of Light is highly sociable so you wouldn’t worry about anyone growing distant since they’d likely love to yap to everyone and send everyone information that makes them think of someone. It is especially well paired with their friendly rivalry to the Bard of Time. The Bard keeps them wanting to accomplish more to show how good they are, how much more ahead they can before the Bard gets lucky.

The Bard of Time may be your only thing to worry about if they’re allowed to slack off with their Time responsibilities. The Bard ghosts Space and may get caught up in their projects, so the Witch keeping them busy by encouraging them to progress on something other than their wants at the moment will help keep Time moving well. Plus the Bard can help the others gain knowledge much faster if anything requires downloads or reading as they can shorten the amount of time necessary (with mixed effects). The same goes for the Time it may take for breeding frogs if they help out. The Witch’s luck manipulation would also help curb any negative effects the Time skipping may cause. Rivals that keep on boosting each other’s abilities incidentally create a loop where they have a low failure rate.

How would a session with a page of space, page of time, bard of space, and heir of life go?? :)

Is this session doable? Yes. Is it going to be hard as hell? Yes. Your Heir of Life is going to likely pull their hair out so invest in some good alchemized bootleg Nair bestie.

So for starters, you have two Space players! That is either going to be a detriment or a back up, I’m honestly unsure since this might be Skaia saying you’ll need it. Pages start deficient in their aspect, and Bards passively destroy their aspect while ghosting their counterpart. This means that your Page of Space lacks Space during the beginning of the session, either physically (either hoarding, homeless, or nothing to call their own) or metaphorically (creativity). Space players also tend to be isolated and lean towards isolation as a form of comfort/situation avoidance so it’s possible they may have a habit of pulling away which makes progress hard to focus on. A Page of Time would lack Time, meaning they likely barely scraped by to Enter their session and likely will have less Time to get caught up to everyone else. Your Bard of Space will also be passively making decisions that could harm your Genesis Tadpole as well as the fabric of Space around your session, as well as make some funky alchemy that may glitch the system rendering it useless while they lounge around with all the Time in the world because nothing matters that seriously (possibly due to depression).

Now negativity aside, if these three can be pulled up by their bootstraps to progress and learn on their journeys, they’ll make extremely powerful gods. A Page of Space would be able to manifest anything from Space with enough focus, the ultimate creative will if they can master the heavy burden after coming from someone who can’t draw a stick figure. A Page of Time would manifest and exploit the flow of Time to their whim, allowing for free manifestation, like a start, stop, rewind, fast forward type deal. The Bard of Space would be able to rend the enemies creative states making weapon development impossible, or even activate Murphy’s Law as they please without having to lift a finger.

The Heir of Life, bless them, will be the one who’s going to actively be there to motivate and clean up any messes. They will act as the leader likely, and the inspiration to grow to everyone. Their coplayers may look up to them and their infectious charisma and optimism. The Heir fully realized would be one that anytime they are seen, Life itself flourishes around them. They will be the glue holding the team together when times are tough. Unfortunately they may suffer if they don’t take time for their own mental health as they may inverse into the Doom aspect if they receive too much negativity to counter their optimism.

seer of heart, bard of space, page of void, and maid of light!

thank you so much!

Already starting with a mixed bag, you have a Bard of Space and no Time player. Essentially without heavy shenanigans, you’ll only have one chance as there won’t be a Scratch to save you. The good news: you have a space player, so that means that you can in fact win the game! The bad news: they are a passive destruction class, so the destruction of your only way to win in this session will need watchful eyes or you’ll Game Over. Now Bards get a bad rap, and Bards of both Time and Space are practically dog whistles for people to come in and tell them they are a bad classpect, which is entirely untrue as everything is unique to the individual. Yes, classpects are going to play into the narrative stereotypes (as they are meant to for the story) but that doesn’t mean they have to be the full cliché. A Bard of Space (especially a Derse dreamer) will likely be someone who is either used to things feeling “inevitable” or may have a bleak outlook in the grand scheme of things, used to things slowly or suddenly going awry but being someone who accepts it in either a depressed or aloof state. They ghost Time and due to this passively cause the destruction of Space due to this, maybe taking up more Space literally by hoarding or sidetracking creative thoughts with time anxieties. They may have a quest that causes them to realize the inevitable fate they believed for so long is actually not true and that they had more paths available but they were so focused on one path they disregard the others. Your session also has a Page of Void who is also dreaming on Derse. Void players are already susceptible to Horrorterror ramblings and influence since they draw their powers from the Void beyond the Furthest Ring into Nothingness. Void can be a pretty hard concept to grasp for most, as many obviously can understand the ‘secrets’ portion of Void. The real challenge lies in understanding nothing, which pairing that with a Page who must journey from being unable to connect with Void to being one who wields and serves it makes it tricky for the Page. It would mean that early on everything would feel like a clue to the Page, as they can’t discern what is important or just an unrelated object. Not to make the Page sound like an idiot, as that’s not the case! It means they are likely meticulous and know many obscure things that aren’t necessarily helpful right now. Being one to be more suspicious of information also means they are likely to get distracted by ‘but what if there’s more to this’ thoughts. They mean well, but their journey will be to learn to listen to the Void instead of the Light, that reading between the lines of reality will grant them secrets that are unthinkable. They’ll learn to be less introverted or quiet and bring secrets of the Void to their session and may even learn to provide shortcuts or tips that absolutely cheese the game.

Luckily, for your worried Bard and anxious Page you have a pretty good synergy of a session! The Seer of Heart and Maid of Light will have to be daycare workers at first, having to guide their aspects to keep communication clear. As Space gets passively flawed and secrets can’t stay in the dark due to Void manifesting easily, the Seer of Heart will essentially be the glue to keep everyone from infighting. They would be able to see each player's true intentions and Heart, and help guide their co-players to use their strengths to benefit each other. They will essentially be playing a dispatch officer and therapist in turn, as well as doing their own quest. Knowing the strengths and weaknesses and best combinations will come naturally but if the Seer isn’t careful they can ignore logic if they get too caught up in the whims of a particularly strong emotion (or even personality like a pushy friend). Being a Prospit dreamer they may be a tad naïve at times or not think about how their own emotions may come out, and will need the occasional grounding.

The Maid of Light will act very heavily as the group’s reference point or advice friend separate from the therapy friend that will be the Seer. The Maid has a unique talent of brightening a room, and it can be literally, but they may find that people often tell them that they are easy to get along with or make people smile often. They can be a Light to help the load of how dark a session can get, and they often have a habit of giving good advice on most things. Information on how to feel better, how to better tackle a problem, or even just lending a skill book are ways they will passively brighten the session without even realizing. Being Prospit bound means that the Maid is likely very knowledgeable due to Skaia’s cloud visions giving glimpses of more information, the challenge is not building their expectations around information they skew or nitpick to support their wants instead of reviewing all the data.

To sum your session: 

You have Bard who may deal with lax attitudes but their chill nature actually inspires others to be more creative with their ambitions.

You have a Page who needs help focusing but can eventually unlock the Konami code for your session in some way and dispel anything hidden.

You have a Seer who can see right into the souls of others and make the best synergy possible by being a literal matchmaker for different skillsets.

You have a Maid who’s a literal beacon of knowledge that seems to bring good fortune just by being their helpful selves. 

mage of doom (a, she/her, tealblood, <3 j), sylph of heart (j, they/them, oliveblood, <3 a), heir of space (m, he/him, violetblood), mage of blood (s, he/they, limeblood), page of breath (k, she/her, rustblood), theif of time (v, they/them, ceruleanblood)

thank you 🫶🫶🫶 and no problem if youre unable/dont wanna do this lol

Very late reply :O sorry! Saved it as a draft rather than posting :\ First off, disclaimer that these are opinions and differ drastically based on each individuals’ interests and personalities. 

You have an extremely viable session, congratulations! The Heir of Space is practically guaranteed to complete his quest of frog breeding since Space is literally inherent to him. Space is more likely to make things easier to find or the Heir's passive ability to shift the terrain ahead without thinking about it if he progresses far enough. He likely has a lot of niche or varied interests so he is likely always interacting with it in some way and incidentally helping someone with their quest or leveling up at the same time as himself. As a violetblood, he does have a possibility of being deeply religious or violent at times, or at least prone to take certain things more personally. I wouldn’t say he’d be a berserker per say, more like if he’s not careful he can tend to influence his environment in a passive but negative way if he’s feeling cross with someone/something. The Thief of Time can make or break a session based on how they act but given the usual Thief nature to swing towards wanting to complete their goals specifically, I'd say they would literally be able to give everyone all the Time they need from enemies. Combining the ego that comes from the Thief ideals and the ceruleanblood is such a classic Vriska take honestly. It gets shit done, however! So if your teammates can put up with their shenanigans and attitudes (both the good and bad ones) they are a very powerful ally. It also means that since they would be stubborn towards their goals, if you need to Scratch they will get it done for sure.

Now for your matesprites, they would have such a cute slice-of-life dichotomy. It really gives sunshine/gloom pairings (a classic). Likely one of the most healthy relationships due to the communication and boundary setting here. The Mage of Doom has either suffered or has bad experiences/relationships with boundaries, rules, or even death. Either being repressed, chained down, or having these often broken in a way that is negative. Due to this, she tends to have a good grasp on these aspects and maybe even have a love/hate interest in these topics and likes (even begrudgingly so) guiding others with her advice. Adding that she is a tealblood doesn’t help that she likely is to get inside her head often and run around in circles over logistics. Their Sylph of Heart matesprite would be someone that uplifts and helps the Mage of Doom (and honestly any of their friends) with matters involving the soul. Can they always pull someone out of their head? Maybe not. Can they instead be the best listener and advice giver (to an annoying degree sometimes)? Most definitely. Slyphs are known meddlers, and when it comes to matters of the Heart meddling can get them in some hot water if they pester or don’t read the room properly. Their oliveblood will help them pick up on these signals though, as they are naturally perceptive and Heart-bound. On the flipside though, they are quick to become friends and be a social glue due their infectious nature of breaking down your negative moods and making someone feel better at least.

Following up with the Mage of Blood, this classpect is a blessing and a curse to those who have it. Being one to understand bonds, unity, and literal Blood as both the best and worst way is going to be draining. The Mage will definitely need their friends to help keep them sane and tell them when they need to cool it and stop doing so much. This combo thrives off devotion and promises, both between themselves and the group as well as to ones to themselves. He may have a hard time accepting when he fails someone or becomes frustrated/depressed when he swears he will get better at something but it doesn’t happen to the standard he holds himself to even if it's beyond what anyone would expect. That being said, when things are going smoothly and he notices everyone is vibing and working together its likely that he played some aspect in it even if he doesn’t know it. The main goal is to keep him from spiraling or placing blame on himself for complex or nuanced events that hinge on multiple events. As a limeblood they will understand the complexity of unity and how their existence can be challenging to the usual community standards. This is because he is even more of a target within troll society due to Royal Decree™. They may find common commiserating with the Mage of Doom.

Ending with the Page of Breath! Poor, poor Tavros (bet she’s tired of hearing that comparison sorry). Honestly I was just going by pairing/down the list so this isn’t a knock against Pages, I swear. Pages are some of the most divisive and debated classes. A common fanon idea is that Pages are some of the strongest classes when fully realized but often have the most difficult journey (as we’ve seen with Jake and Tavros). She is likely someone who used to fully rely on other people to start things (hang-outs, friendships, dates, etc) but it doesn’t mean the Page is shy or awkward! Breath aspect has a habit of making people just kinda… float. Being ambivalent or just straight vibing for a majority of time before they find the passion for something else to weigh them down is often part of their quest. This Page is lucky because all the other session members are actually really great at grounding and will help the Page direct her vague ambition towards tangible goals. I’m not saying she is just on standby until she has a directive, she’s actually the opposite and likely gives other players much needed breaks to vibe and destress. Her rustblood actually helps with this as the time she spends with people will likely seem more significant since rusties like having something to do and can be quite hard workers.

do you think this is doomed? what would be your predicitons for this session?

Thank you very much for your time!!

(sorry this took so long)

Okay, right off the bat, a Page and a Prince for your Space/Time duo? And they hate each other? Oh dear. Oh dear oh dear oh dear.

You do have two saving graces- your Knight of Blood & Sylph of Hope are both really great support classes. They can hopefully prevent this session from dooming itself.

Speaking of, Thief of Doom is an interesting Classpect- one of the most understood classes paired with the second-most misunderstood aspect? Fascinating. (Rage is obviously the most misunderstood). One who steals rules & fate for themselves- it could be defined as someone who takes the ultimate fates & destinies from their coplayers- using a canon example, they could perhaps steal Dave's ultimate fate of defeating Lord English from him. Their positive relationship with the Knight is certainly helpful.

Oh, but the Prince Of Space. Destroyer of Creation & Beginnings. Shatterer of Physics & Creativity. And apparently, hater of the three most useful players in the session. That's not great, especially the hatred towards the Knight. :(. Space players a required to breed the Genesis Frog, and based on precedent from the B2 and A1 sessions, Knights help. But Princes wholeheartedly reject their aspect and all connected to it. That unfortunately includes frogs. Oh nooooh.

Now, a Page of Time is by no means a weak class, and can become incredibly powerful in the long run if given the right help, just like all Pages. However, due to the nature of the Time aspect, the rewards for this growth can be seen before the Page even reaches the first gate. Time Travel is truly broken.

And don't think I've forgotten the Maid of Void (though it may be easy to do so). A servant of Darkness & Obscurity- perhaps acting on the whims of the Horrorterrors, perhaps following some more obscure mission. Their ability to spread misinformation could be deadly if put in the wrong hands, or with the wrong motivation. Hating the Sylph isn't nice, and the Page already has enough on their plate.

All in all, this session is... iffy, to say the least. I would seriously recommend a Scratch.

I haven't done one of these in *checks watch* 8 years!

Here we go :D !

Players

- Knight of Light

- Witch of Time

- Mage of Space

- Mage of Doom

- Heir of Life

- Heir of Time

Two reminders!

1: Each class has an influence on the aspects, informing what sort of situation the players are walking into.

2: For Homestuck, the aesthetics and themes are literal. Sburb is an in-universe game, homestuck is an in-universe webcomic. The fiction being presented obeys the rules of the fiction more than anything like common sense and logic (the story has been quick to call out how stupid and bullshit plenty of things are). But for example, Sollux is a # elite hacker, he can literally hack the universe. Dave with his

Gamzee is a clown, his religion is literally a joke. Rose is a goth into eldritch horror, those things are real and she gets magic evil powers from the hororterrors

Homestuck is a setting where YOU, dear reader, were right along. Your interests ARE cool and usefully and secretly relevant all along!

Until it decides that's bullshit and fake as hell

But yeah, things can vary wildly depending on the likes, dislikes, aesthetics, and themes of the players. With that in mind, think of how this may be tailored for your session. Moving on~

Mage of Space. A mage class means there is some sort of looming disaster, something only they can handle thanks to personal ability and experience. For Sollux, the Mobius virus he made + the program that summoned Lord English. For Meulin, her session all becoming flat, 2 dimensional caricatures.

For a Mage of Space this may manifest as something like The Big Crunch happening to the session (a theoretical way for the universe to end), making the session shrink, causing lands to collide, Derse and Prospit to slam into each other or Skaia, etc. It may also deal with struggles in breeding the Genesis Frog creating a deadline, such as disease, stillborn tadpoles, etc.

Knight of Light. For a knight, their aspect is severely deficient and requires real finesse to make it work. Karkat with 11 co-players, the hemospectrum caste system and general troll violence, and then the whole 2 team thing. Dave with a session in literally only 1 day and the whole Davesprite timeline incident.

For a Knight of Light, Skaia itself may flicker or dim, turning the sun on and off for the whole session. The session may experience power outages and lost wifi connections. Sburb may come with an actual tutorial or settings menu only the Knight can use. 

Mage of Doom. We all saw Sollux do what he did. He was a coding wizard, quite literally, creating a code that would doom Karkat and everyone he knew. Sollux kicked off the session going to hell, he had to kill his own friend, he died again and again to avert predestined failure and come out on the other side.

There are no shortages of fate and order that can come crashing down.

Heir of Life. Some restraint placed on the aspect, held back and stagnated, that has to blossom in service of the heir. To unleash, inheriting a mantle, similar to becoming an avatar for their aspect. John’s use of the Breeze completely reshaped his session and later gained Retcon powers to literally change the timeline. Equius was the void in Doc Scratch’s omniscience, the mastermind behind their own session’s existence.

For an Heir of Life I think this could represent an evolutionary step, either ushering in mutation, creating a new species, ascending to a sort of hivemind status, etc. I think the cost of something like that would be a relatively weak session, lacking vitality. Players are not quite the typical superhumans ectobiology makes them, lower health pools, perhaps more poison and harmful status conditions, etc.

Finally

This last part is going to be tricky to call. Time.

Witch of Time. Witches have some sort of mentor or familiar, a master of the aspect. For Feferi, a horrorterror lusus, and for Jade, the first guardian, Bec. The aspect gets sent on a metamorphosis, some real gamechanger stuff, total redefinition for the sake of the session. For Feferi that was the dream bubbles and for Jade, the Yellow Yard and her interactions with Fenestrated Walls + that time she shrunk each land in her session.

Heir of Time. We already covered Heirs. In this instance, to inherit time, to become it, would mean fully embracing causality and entropy, forcing things to progress by their very own presence.

Together, both as time, really complicates things in interesting ways. Time is broken, requiring the witch to transform and reshape and yet the heir is to become an avatar of it as a force. Time must alter and yet it is being held back. Together, I think this would imply some possibilities, my favorite of which being

1: There are no timeloops. The Alpha Timeline is iron clad, this is the one and only shot. The Heir at the beginning, the Witch at the end, forced to cross paths in the timeline from opposite directions.

2: Reincarnation. My beloved wheel of Samsara. Together the Witch and Heir will do it again and again, remix and reshuffle, walk through every timeline, as many times as it takes to win. Dozens of scratch constructs.

3: Gaps of lost time. Areas that, through some glitch or some other, are left blank as a sort of “choose your own adventure point”, creating dozens of “critical moments” that wildly spiral in different directions depending on how each plays out, creating an increasingly large timeline branch with each successive one.

Personally I think the Time players should share a denizen. My suggestion would be Janus, the god of beginnings and endings and transitions, represented with 2 heads. Or perhaps the titans Prometheus and Epimetheus, forethought and afterthought.

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All in all, I don’t think you can call a void or doomed session or whatever just by looking at the classpects involved.

However, I’m gonna be real with you champ. It does NOT look great.

Mage of Space: uh oh, space is gonna go to shit

Heir and Witch of Time: truly absurd levels of paradox here

Mage of Doom: Things are going to overlap into devastating nexus points of fate

Knight of Light and Heir of Life really just add spice to what is the worst possible confluence of timelines possible.

The Mages and Time players are sailing across an absolute nightmare of space, time, and destiny. The Knight or Light and Heir of Life are the fulcrum needed to make sure that ship doesn’t actually fall apart. It’s like having a ship in a storm with all hands on deck. The hurricane is growing, the waves are rising to tsunami heights, the only way the engine doesn’t explode and the ship can actually steer to safety is if everyone is in sync and working together. And while all of these roles are vital, that communication and sync aspect is going to fall to the Knight of Light and Heir of Life

It’s so bad. IT IS SO BAD.

My personal take on how all of this combined would be an anomaly on Skaia. Perhaps something like Karkat giving the universe cancer and Bec Noir, for instance.

Session Status: Dharma

Something is wrong with Skaia, causing it to expand, grow, and mutate. Skaia ordinarily evolves into its fully prototyped state but for whatever reason, it keeps growing increasingly complex and dangerous, starting to consume and integrate the players lands and the moons of Prospit and Derse into a truly universe shattering form, a sacred mandala that will cause the session to completely game over. Time and Space will become one, the session will end, both ceasing to exist in Skaia’s Great Wheel. Each configuration, each pattern in the vast geometry of the cosmos, is a code. The only way to beat the game is to find the exact sequence that will allow for the Genesis Frog to evolve properly before the universe completely self annihilates and All Becomes Skaia. Perhaps this is all because of the Genesis Frog somehow merging with Skaia, fusing into an anomaly and causing both past and future to blend into an unstable mess.

GOOD LUCK CAUSE Y’ALL SURE WILL NEED IT

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