#stealer classes

That’s not an inaccurate parallel to draw. Avoiding problems is what Bards do best, Pages struggle not to do, and Rogues learn the nuances of.

A Rogue of Space could make a pretty good leader. Space players tend to be more realistic in their approach to life and the universe than most other aspects, especially in ways that are actually applicable to most other aspects. Classwise, Rogues are among the top three classes in terms of “having a conscience”, which I’ve heard is handy when you want to accomplish goals alongside other people. They also tend to be quite popular among their friends.

I don’t really do Lands for titles, because I’m not that interested in Sburb outside of the claspect system. The way I see it is, there’s a certain pool of elemental words associated with an aspect (and this pool can be massive), and the factor that tells you which words to choose is the fancy mythic-symbolic quest that’s meant to happen on the planet. From an in-universe (Watsonian) perspective, these quests are Sburb’s attempt at generating conflict for the heroes playing it to overcome in ways that work with their titles, but they happen on a meta, or “Doylist” level in all other stories.Anyway, let’s go onto the usual stuff.Rogue of Light

As a stealing class, Rogues are naturally devious and covetous, but as a passive class, they’re concerned primarily with supporting others. This gives them an internal conflict of interest– between their desire for stuff, and a belief that they should give that stuff to other people. They’re caught between greed and generosity.

Light is the aspect of meaning and purpose. Its adherents necessarily have some conception of a cosmic plan that underlies every important event in history, whether that plan is God’s, karma’s or the Illuminati’s. It and its players are distinct from Time in that they focus very much on the content of what is predestined. To a Light player, winning a fight is never just about winning– it’s about being right.

Aight, it’s been a while, but here we are. Thanks for bearing with me!

Rogues and Heirs both accomplish similar kinds of goals, but are expected to take very different paths to get there. Heirs are asked to be chaste, fair and honest rulers, and tend to be bestowed with information and power that allows them to help solve the problems of other people. As a personality type, Heirs rarely initiate action for their own sake, but are quick to move if somebody else needs something done. In terms of morality, there is the question of who (or what) they should place their trust in. Examples of Heirs in popular media include Harry Potter, Steven Universe, Aang (from Avatar: The Last Airbender), and Gunnerkrigg Court’s Smitty.

Rogues, on the other hand, are much more active as people. If we look at the world in terms of imbalances, Heirs are the kind of people who will give things up (and inspire others to give things up) if they’re shown an imbalance, and otherwise kind of dick around with whatever’s around them. Rogues have an imbalance coded into their personality. On one end is a sense of greed, a desire for something that they don’t currently have. This doesn’t have to be a material object– some Rogues want to have love, or vengeance on some enemy.

The thing with Hope players is that they tend to invent narratives about the universe and then subscribe to them wholeheartedly, while Blood and Mind players are less about narratives and more about actual game plans. You could say that where Blood and Mind are more into ethics, Hope players are more marked by their weird-looking takes on metaphysics.

And Blood’s not necessarily about anger and pure action: it’s more about passion, like caring so much about your goals and the world that you could drill a hole in reality itself. Blood players can be schemers too, especially if they’re of a stealth-based class like Thief.

The big distinction between Blood, and Mind or Hope, is the much firmer pragmatism of Blood players. They’re not into all the shit about possible futures or deciphering whether or not something even exists. It’s kind of like the difference between Meenah and Vriska– Thieves of Hope and Mind are a lot more conscious of perception and presentation than a Thief of Blood, because those things enter into their class arc in a big way. A Thief of Blood is much more concerned with being able to secure tangible goods.

Alright.

At a surface level, Rogue and Witch look like incredibly different classes-- but looks can be deceiving, and immature Rogues and Witches are often pretty similar! They both have issues with self-pride and can dislike actually taking control of anything, both in a leadership sense and just objects in general.

basically not only do i want to leave an impact i also want all of it to be credited to me as something /i/ did, thinking for myself. /i/ got what /i/ wanted and everybody else should know it

Yes, this is all pretty natural for a maturing Thief of Void. Importance is still an idea with some relevance to Void players, despite their notion that it’s an illusion of human thought– their take on it is that humans create importance, hewing meaning out of the bedrock of causality by themselves. They may not subscribe to objective standards of morality (those don’t exist anyway), but a Thief of Void would still be his or her own number one.