Hey, guys! In this video, we dive into Classpects in a little more depth, focusing on the recurring symbol of the Witch’s Familiar. We also take a look at every case of Witch roleplay we’re currently aware of, and note how characters who roleplay as Witches always seem to end up with Familiars themselves.

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Who is Equius’ familiar?

Heir’s familiars tend to actually be pretty harmless and less powerful. John’s clearest Familiar is Wizardly Vassal, for example. I could also make an argument for Nepeta, and then Davepeta way later into the narrative–they’re p much set up as Jade’s familiar, and they’re pretty relevant to Arquis, too.

Witch Familiars

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All The Witches we’ve seen have been associated with some powerful beast that granted them an equally powerful aspect related boon. Jade packed up their entire session thanks to Bec. Damara shaped the history of an entire planet thanks to Lord English. Feferi was able to set up stable dream bubbles thanks to Gl’bgolyb. I wondered how this would work out for other witches so here’s my brainstorm under a read more cause it gets long.

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I have to say I don’t really understand why people think Heir is a passive class. When I think about it I always see it as active, for a few reasons. One is that no Heirs I’ve seen acted particularly passive(except in the process of failure). Also if I’m not imagining things, the connection between The Choice’s answer and the player’s passive/active alignment. I might be wrong, I just cannot think of Heirs as passive.

I’m not sure what you mean about the Choice and the player’s active/passive alignment? I never detected any difference there.

I read Heirs as passive for the same reason I do Knights, Sylphs, Seers, and so on: They’re more group-oriented and reactive to what others think than their Active counterparts.

John acted passively in success a good number of times. His first time using the Breeze was fundamentally in reaction to WV’s insistence. He takes direction from Rose and Vriska and Terezi at various points, following someone else’s direction for almost the entirety of his quest much like Rose and Dave (Jade is a notable inversion of this). And he exerts his power primarily for the benefit of Others even when he does use it actively. The list goes on.

However, I do hold that John acts actively pretty often, as part of my argument that Seers/Mages/Heirs/Witches are the most flexible classes who have the easiest time veering between Yin and Yang states, as I argued in my Change/Know essay.

Force and Flow — Know and Change – optimisticDuelist – Medium

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

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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.

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Force and Flow — Know and Change – optimisticDuelist – Medium