#sotdd

cleo doesn’t show up very often in this fic but i had a fucking blast writing her when she did. cleo’s one of the members that i’m more familiar with (i used to watch their streams a lot, including most of their outlast 2 playthrough o-o which is sadly now lost to time and i mourn it every day), so it was very fun finding a balance between the character’s threatening side and their pathetic side.

cleo isn’t a PVP legend, but that does not stop them from being absolutely fucking terrifying when they feel like it

classpect: thief of life

the most obvious part of this classpect is that it’s shared with a homestuck character, that being meenah peixes. meenah is a mean girl rich kid that isn’t necessarily an asshole (at least compared to her company), but she’s not afraid to step on people she doesn’t like and she won’t pretend to show interest in the things she finds boring (which is pretty much everything). she’s driven by the need to be doing something all the time, working towards an important goal, to the extent that she literally abandoned her girlfriend for this desire

ah yes, bdoubleo100. trafficblr’s 4th favorite person (only behind etho slab and renchanting)

deciding things for this character in the au was about as straightforward as you’d expect from him. the character is generally a one-track mind. sometimes gullible to a flaw, sometimes very predictable. but that’s why we love him

dreaming moon: prospit

this is about as obvious as it could get. bdubs would fit right in amongst the red team or the harleyberts

he also makes the most sense as an early prospit dreamer, though (a) he’s a time player and not a space player and (b) somehow i didn’t realize that his whole sleeping thing in hermitcraft could be easily tied to prospit until i was mostly done writing the fic??? there were so many plot points that i randomly thought of in a brilliant streak of creativity but somehow i didn’t see that very obvious thing that i could insert for most of the writing process

classpect: bard of time

“he gave me a clock”

wow really.

etho is the heir of void which is. sort of a classpect used in canon homestuck as equius’s title, and generally means “one who becomes (surrounded by) nothingness”. for equius it meant that he quickly faded from having any relevance or screen time in the narrative, and it means the same for etho here.

i’d like to think this is in part because he really does disappear from all discussion or events at some point in 3rd life, but honestly it might be a bit biased from my perspective? i didn’t watch any renchanting POVs when 3rd life initially came out, so from what i saw back then it didn’t look like etho was there at all lol

his land has a bit more of a story to it, though. my beta .khads suggested it being some sort of dark oak forest pretty early on, when i had barely figured out anyone’s land names. i decided on “trees” as the first noun. and you know how long i stayed undecided on the other noun? Over A Month.

at the halfway point, my lovely artist @anachronistic-cat was assigned to me and i sent them detailed descriptions of each player’s land for drawing inspiration. etho’s said something like “land of trees and ???? (i have no fucking idea what to do)”. cat suggested that the second word could be “nothing”, and i took this and ran with it- made it into a forest with no grass or animals, which basically isn’t even a forest. in chapter 9, etho describes the lack of basically anything there as being unnerving and out-of-place.

so i figured out how to make it cool after all!

PROSPIT

Bdubs - Bard of Time (Land of Metronomes and Rhythm)

Big B - Seer of Space (Land of Mist and Frogs)

Etho - Heir of Void (Land of Trees and Nothing)

Impulse - Rogue of Blood (Land of Daylight and Labyrinth) (yes i know he should be a derse dreamer with etho)

Scar - Witch of Rage (Land of Spikes and Balloons)

Skizz - Knight of Blood (Land of Towers and Gravity)

Tango - Page of Time (Land of Pipes and Magma)

DERSE

Cleo - Thief of Life (Land of Ruins and Flame)

Grian - Maid of Doom (Land of Spotlights and Fungi)

Jimmy - Sylph of Heart (Land of Ribbons and Specter)

Joel - Prince of Breath (Land of Plants and Constraint)

Martyn - Knight of Light (Land of Glass and Dice)

Ren - Maid of Hope (Land of Mirrors and Promise) (he should probably be on prospit though)