I’m honestly not sure. Joey could be a Life player in some deep-ass Light roleplay, but her Light roleplay hasn’t seemed INHERENTLY unhealthy like most have? Her being pissed about her dad’s neglect seems p reasonable.
If A. Claire is in fact a Jane, then Joey could well be roleplaying in imitation of her. Heck, “Claire” even sort of qualifies as Light-related, so the Light influence could even be there too? But I’m genuinely not sure!
I’m still reading her as a Maid of Life currently, but the possibility that she’s an Heir or Witch is in my thoughts now. I suppose we’ll see.
I’m not sure I understand the question, sorry. What other 6?
If you mean 6 classes, each Archetype corresponds to two Classes. You can think of Classes as different “versions” of the Archetype, with the same rough powersets that are simply deployed differently. Or at least, that’s how I think of it.
I’m not sure I’ve ever heard that Earthbound was heavily inspired by the Beatles spiritually. It has references to it, though, yes. Homestuck does too, I think–or at the very least, Hiveswap does. “Hey Jude” is an achievement, after all.
Oh, no. All I was alluding to was that Mind and Heart powers in general both seem to be linked to alt-universe memories. I kind of already believe this about Dirk, since I suspect he correctly subconsciously intuited Jane’s other name, Anna.
Since Dirk has Heart powers, I just mean he has the idea of Heart to add to any potential fraymotif combination. Considering what Dave and Terezi were able to do together, literally who knows what the kids could accomplish by working together as they learn to use their powers to their fullest.
anon: I don’t do analysis writing on individual classpects, not because I don’t want to or don’t think it’s worth doing (there’s lots of cool peeps doing it on tumblr now!) but because I could do it literally forever.
Writing or producing content mostly related to Homestuck is basically a full-time job for me, so I try to stay focused on making stuff as many people can enjoy as possible. When I do talk about this stuff, I’d like it to be focused on particular characters, and ideally on Youtube.
That way,
A) People who aren’t already in love with Classpects might have a chance in hell of being interested, assuming I do my job well enough and B) I can hopefully paint a much more evocative and interesting idea of what the Title might be like.
Until then, I think what I’ll do is mention a character I read as at least related to said Hero Title, if I can think of one.
At least two characters I’ve considered covering in video form can be read as Pages of Heart, I think: Kirby (serves himself the bodies and identities of his enemies; wears hats) and Steven Universe (though I also think he might be a Knight? I’m not sure. I’d need to rewatch SU at this point.)
@appreciationcat Thanks! I don’t know if anyone “should” use classpects any particular way, especially since I’m not even sure we fully understand the system, but I’m glad if what I’m up to is helping anyone understand classpects better.
@geekness101 See 1. As it happens, though, we have one such character right in the comic. Jake English may not be a Witch, but he does roleplay as one for a good chunk of his narrative. Keep an eye out for my writing on that as soon as I can possibly produce it.
I’m a big Roxygen fan. I’m kind of a very laissez-faire multishipper in my heart of hearts, and that’s especially true with John. I ship him with like half the cast don’t even look at me…
That said, I’m also huge on Callieroxy. And Janecallieroxy and Johncallieroxy. Also I kind of figure between Davepeta, Dirk and Terezi, everyone’s probably more likely than not to recover their memories about everything over time with like, fraymotif god powers and stuff.
Not that the “bound together by shared memory of trauma” concept is bad at all for John and Roxy, now that you mention it. I have a similar mindset about how Dirk and Jake deal with their shared trauma as the ones who experienced the brunt of the responsibility for/harrassment of HAL/AR.
Hm. Homestuck is good. I need to catch up on fanfic.
Back in the old fandom days, I was one of the many who was pretty pissed about that joke and internalized it as some sort of “take that” at Homestuck fans who had criticisms of the comic’s relationship to race.
My feelings have since shifted, and I certainly don’t think that was the narrative intent. I think the Caucasian joke is better understood in context with the rest of the comic’s gnostic themes. I’ve written an article on Trickster Mode:
Suffice it to say, I’m not an expert on race issues, and I don’t want my personal feelings to imply that all people who are critical of Homestuck along those lines are being unreasonable or anything.
But my reading of the text is such that if anything, the joke here is on Whiteness as a source of political power.
Or, even more likely, on making a tongue in cheek reference to one of AURYN’s side-effects in The Neverending Story. When Bastian (a white kid) gains the amulet (same one depicted on Jane’s Lollipop), he’s also transformed into an “oriental prince.” Racebending is sort of part of the thing’s powerset.
Not on debunking the idea that the kids could be white, or mocking fans who wanted to consider the possibility.
Hopefully I can catch up a bit with the massive amount of really good posts I’ve been meaning to read/respond to/signal boost over the next couple days, too
I’ll tag all the posts with #analysis asks and #long post to avoid stretching dashes.
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