Nihkee: Sylph of Rage.
She wants to improve you as dramatically as Kanaya and Aranea improved Eridan/Jake’s power levels. MAKE is right there. Nuff said, I think.
In the bad end she may echo Page or Heir, deploying these faculties to buff herself rather than you and manifesting either the Page’s limitless potential or the Heir’s powers of transformation and power over reality (through Void either way, since technology has some Void associations with Bluebloods particularly and factors so much into how she empowers herself)
Either way, both Page and Heir are less passive than sylph and so would explain her benefiting herself instead of others.
Daraya: Rogue of Hope
She’s heavily invested in rebelling/standing OUTSIDE alternia’s legal/social norms. She’s heavily drawn to other people who feel similarly, reflecting thieves/rogues general affinities for other outlaws(1)
–note that she’s specifically drawn to Elwurd and how she presents herself, and Elwurd is either a thief or a thief roleplayer herself.
as a Jade, Daraya would have the role of Sylph or maybe Maid forced on her, not Thief or Rogue. Hence, I think it’s likely her presentation of the Outlaw motif comes from a genuine place in her heart, rather than roleplay.
Things go very, very badly if you let her take direct charge and have her will take you to her favorite place. If you encourage her to just go out into the world and Let Stuff Happen (ie: take a more passive role in relation to reality), things go much better for both of you, and she finds an outlet that makes her feel better by making a friend and finding a cause she can help. by basically offering to steal books from the library, no less. so thats my Rogue logic.
(1)think the “Honor among thieves”
thing or Robin Hood’s band of merry men–Mindfang, a successful thief roleplayer, was drawn to Rufioh, an
innate Rogue. Vriska, an innate thief, was attracted to the IDEA of
tavros acting like a Rogue/the summoner rather than to tavros himself,
and later was drawn to Meenah.)
Vriska declares everyone on her ghost crew is ALSO a pirate, ie: an outlaw. Which is also a good example. Outlaws by definiton can only form communities/serious bonds with other people willing to shirk or redefine the norms of society, and outlaw communities run on their own self-defined rules and conventions of behavior. Contrast against Knights and Pages who generally feel quite beholden to societal convention.
I have longer posts on both of them sort of in the works but I’m doin a lot of stuff atm and the Classpects per se were not the most interesting thing about this volume imo, Daraya’s in particular. Not to say they were bad, I loved them both. Just that theres other stuff in these arcs I’m more inspired by.
I was getting bogged down writing ways all day today so I figured I’d try putting my thoughts out here in a shorter/snappier way, hope the format works. Lemme know if it does and maybe i’ll convince myself to write in shorter/snappier ways like this more in the future, could cover more trolls that way.
That’s all for now. Til next time,
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