eromancer:

revolutionaryduelist:

Here’s the first of the Class essays, where we go over the most intense Active/Passive dichotomy, putting these Classes on the furthest ends of the spectrum. 

The Key Verbs for these classes are Destroy and Create, covering
Princes and Bards & Maids and Sylphs, respectively. 

Quick disclaimer so I don’t get anyone’s hope’s up: This essay doesn’t include much discussion of Jane Crocker! Not because she isn’t relevant, but because I actually ended up writing this entire series because I needed to lay out my thoughts on Maids so I could get around to writing my essay about her. 

I’ll be linking to my Jane post at the end of this essay once it’s up, and this essay is pretty much required reading for it! So I think it’s worth checking out if you’re interested in her anyway. 

As for the rest, I just hope you enjoy.  The other two essays are already written, and I’ll be posting them over the next two weeks! 

They are available in their entireties for my Patrons, so if you can spare me a buck a month you can get these early if you decide you like them enough. Higher reward tiers will let you invite friends to the Discord so they can read them 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!

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[Active/Passive Masterpost] [Steal and Serve] [Know and Change]

Keep Rising.

How does this work in regards to the alpha trolls? From what we see, Kurloz is serving both Gamzee and Lord English, and Cronus is a Self-Serving prick?

Both Kurloz and Cronus are potrayed as ineffective fuck-ups. Most of the Alpha trolls are failed states for their Classes, and as I pointed out with Dirk for example who spends most of his session acting extremely Yin to both Hal’s will and Jake’s, an active class CAN end up acting Yin/Passive–it just isn’t super healthy for them, nor is it the most effective way they impact reality.

To talk about specifics I’d have to actually look at Cronus and Kurloz’s arcs, which…urgh. Maybe later. I’ve heard they’re interesting but I really need to work up the will to REALLY pore through all of Openbound again–I reference some Alpha trolls in this series but not all of them. 

Force and Flow — Destroy and Create – optimisticDuelist – Medium