May I ask your thoughts on Hal’s classpect? I think he’s an interpretation of a Prince of heart while I’ve heard many argue Prince of mind and even a few arguments for knight of heart. What do you think?

I think he’s a prince of heart roleplaying a knight in imitation of Dave, just like Dirk, since…he’s a Dirk. He destroys Heart (forcing Dirk’s suicide in Unite Synchronize) to serve his Self to Jake (offering Jake Dirk’s head/his own self, encased in the glasses).

His roleplay may be intense/unhealthy enough that he echoes Mind (and/or maybe Time, during Unite Synchronize? since he does mention managing temporal logistics) but that doesn’t mean he’s not a Heart player.

And I don’t feel confident enough in my understanding of either Mind/Heart symbolism or of how, exactly, roleplay/Aspect shifting work to say for sure right now. Maybe Hiveswap will lead us to know more, but “Prince of Heart roleplaying Knight” is as specific as I’m willing to get.

I think AR’s existence as Scratch backs up that reading.
Knights’ serving of others gets them likened to Butlers, and Scratch is basically the best butler of all. Scratch easily parses as any combination of Prince/Knight and Light/Space, imbued as he is with First Guardian abilities and cueball omniscience.  And that’s before we take into account the other souls he’s linked to, of course–but still, AR’s Class predilections seem to be there.

turing-tested:

@revolutionaryduelist i am literally printing this out and nailing it to my wall as we speak

well that’s definitely some of the highest praise i’ve received thus far. 

the alphas are a quintet of extremely mutual fuck ups and I do love them all, I just read him the way most of the fandom reads Dirk basically. 

i rly hope davepeta saves arquis though i dont know if they will but it would own because imo nobody in Homestuck really deserves oblivion but Gamzee and Caliborn