Here’s the last one of this Classpect essay series! This is on the Know and Change pair, the quartet of classes closest to the Spectrum:
Mage and Seer & Heir and Witch
Coming soon will be:
- More Homestuck Explained videos, covering Homestuck’s core themes from beginning to end
- Writing about Jane Crocker, Davekat, the Alpha Timeline… .
- Hiveswap lore and analysis, linking the game to Hiveswap once it comes out and probably handing streams and such if all goes well!
- And more stuff as I think of it, too. Really, figuring out the Classpect system made me realize we’ve only scratched the surface of Homestuck (it keeps happening), and this is only the beginning of a new extreme.
If you can spare me a buck a month you can help me make all this content and, like, not die and stuff– and get your hands on it earlier, too! Higher reward tiers will let you invite friends to the Discord so they can access this stuff and talk about it, too!
Feel free to @ me, reblog or send me an ask with your thoughts on these first two essays. There may be some things I can’t answer as they will be answered in later posts, but I might use those as inspiration for what teasers to release from sections of the next two essays over the course of the week.
You can also feel free to talk to me in the Hiveswap Discord where I moderate and cry about Homestuck. I’m very interested in seeing how my thoughts stand up to scrutiny, so don’t be shy!
[Active/Passive Masterpost] [Destroy and Create] [Serve and Steal]
You want feedback? Sure.
Ok so the last time I reblogged one
of these I asked about Dancestors, and I’m about to bring them up again
because god damn do i think i can dancestor.I read the bit you wrote about how Heirs must claim Independence from the will of their aspect, and how Heirs control their aspect, and I thought about the Heri you didn’t mention. Mituna.
Was Mituna a successful or failed Heir? On one hand, Mituna DID change the doom of the alpha trolls, but he also succumbed to doom and burned himself out. I ended up attributing this to Captor duality shenangians, but while i was looking at the wiki page, i noticied something that threw me for a loop.
To quote from Aranea’s exposition, “
He
was gifted with vision twofold, and had strong prophetic insights
wherever a 8leak future was concerned. He had much to say when it came
to warning us a8out the path of doom and destruction we were all headed
for, 8ut no one took him very seriously.”His attempt at emulating one of the Knowledge classes cements, at least in my mind, your Classpect views as canon.
to sum up a longwinded spiel, yours are some good damn posts.
Oh shit you’re right! And that lines up perfectly considering Sollux is Mituna’s mythological forebear, too.
I had only detected one instance of a character picking up a Prophet’s mythological Role–Karkat, the only character besides the actual Prophets described as having issued a prophecy in the form of his shitty shipping grid, and who’s forebear is obviously the Signless, as prophety as it gets.
You just added another to my roster though, so thanks! That owns 😀
I’m sure mine aren’t exactly CANON in that I’m probably getting some stuff wrong/missing other stuff (like this), but I do think we’ve gotten significantly closer! I’m excited as hell. Thanks!
Force and Flow — Know and Change – optimisticDuelist – Medium
Flying through Storytelling 