#classpect blog

[combination-classpecting]

intro post

hello and welcome to combination-classpecting! this is a blog i made to classpect the combined aspects/classes made by @superxstarzz . CANNOT EMPHASISE ENOUGH HOW MUCH YOU SHOULD GO LOOK AT THEIR COMBINED CLASSPECTS. THEY'RE AMAZING.

requests for classpecting are open!

any combination can be requested. combo class + combo aspect, vanilla class + combo aspect, combo class + vanilla aspect are all valid. just please don't request vanilla combos because there are heaps of blogs out there for just that, lmao. if there is a design for the classpect you're requesting, i'll find it and link it in my little analysis!

i'm NOT BIG ON CLASSPECTING THEORY. take everything i say here with a grain of salt - its for fun. that said, most of what i say here will be done with reference to @0pacifica's classpect essays (here on ao3) and other assorted analyses. if you want references for what sources i pulled from, cobbled together, and altered to fit my liking, hmu! dms should be open unless i fucked up horribly. most of my analyses will focus on narrative role/role within the game and teams, so if you want things like powers (skills, fraymotifs, passives, etc), lands, and such to be part of your request, let me know! i can do my very best.

mod uses they/it. you can call me whatever floats your boat i honestly don't care.

that should be it for the intro! if you have any questions ask :) i do not bite

[classpecting-posts]

can you classpect a jar of pickles

What kind of pickles?

[bloggingthefamily]

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Good to know Mario runs on Homestuck god tier logic

[tavtiers]

Notice to Classpecting Blogs

For years now, I've compiled useful information from other classpecting accounts onto my computer. When classpecting, I often use this wealth of information as a reference guide.

I have since discovered, to my horror, that a large percentage of content I have saved no longer exists on the internet (due to the deletion of blogs, art accounts, etc).

That being said, though it is wildly unorganized, I am sharing my google drive with the rest of the classpecting/Homestuck community! I hope you are able to find use in it, or, at the very least, make sense of it.

ARCHIVE HERE

Much love,

Tavtiers

@creative-classpect @rogue-of-heart-classpecting @askthemageofhope @sylphclasspecting @12colors-classpects @creativegodtiers @yourfaveisclasspected @fraymotifsbeyond @classpect-interpreter @sburbanalysis @tierstuck-aesthetic @urcharactersclasspect

And to the people who started it all <3

@sylph-of-hope-analysis @dahniwitchoflight

Note:

My blog is still active! This post does not mean I'm leaving.

Since these folders were created for personal use, they are not sourced or organized (and I sadly do not have the time to organize them).

Apologies to any classpecting blogs I did not tag! I tried to grab a handful I knew had been posting recently.

Please let me know if any links are broken.

Finally, if there are any additional blogs you would like to see linked to and/or material to be archived, feel free to let me know!

[thecrowfinder]

okay i need to go on an insane person ramble about the process of making an OK KO homestuck au because this shit is absolutely fighting me every step of the way despite only being in the very very beginnings of even being a concept. hoping that yapping will bring me to some kind of epiphany on how to approach the issue

okay so combining these two stories is SO FUCKING HARD. and not because of OK KO, the shows world is very cooperative. well behaved, if you will. (nice piece of media of the week /reference.) homestuck is the culprit here, devious and overcomplicated bastard of a webcomic that it is. so far ive been getting tripped up on arguably the most important part: narrative, or more specifically, classpects as they relate to narrative.

classpects have a HUGE narrative role. they reflect the characters; their arcs, their personalities, their goals, the way the story treats them, a LOT of shit comes back to classpect. however trying to classpect characters not from homestuck in order to make a homestuck au will very quickly lead you to a paradox: you need to have a general idea of the narrative path of a character in order to classpect them, but you need the classpect in order to determine where the character is going. it creates this evil ass feedback loop where the path forward just becomes goddamn impossible to discern for some characters.

granted, since this is an OK KO au with OK KO characters, i do have somewhere to start. i can reference the actual characters and their arcs in the show!!.. however that also makes it slightly harder, because OK KO was not written like homestuck. most of the characters dont fit anything specific at first glance because they werent designed to. i gotta extrapolate, and exaggerate, and with some characters i just gotta start making shit up.

and that isnt even touching on the fact that some narrative concepts are just plain unusable as they are, due to being specific to a narrative told by andrew hussie. hussie was not just the author, but the primary narrator, and thus he serves as the subtle lense through which we view the story of homestuck. he is the sometimes sadistic, sometimes heroic, and kinda dipshitted powers-that-be; he dictated the rules of the story just as much as he was subject to them. everything (including but not limited to the way classpects relate to narrative) is influenced by the things hussie favored, the characters he wanted to spotlight, and the concepts he wanted to explore.

therefore i, as the author guiding THIS story forward and narrating every event, become a character in my own right by the logic of homestuck; my own personal goals for the story, and their effect on the narrative as a whole, functionally take a wrecking ball to the framework i am trying to reference. i cant just rip hussies concepts and play mix-n-match with stuff from other fandoms, i have to deliberately rip the ideas behind them apart with my teeth and decide how i personally want them to look. i basically have to rewrite most concepts from homestuck through my own lense, or at least deliberately subvert them.

basically, if/when i ever Actually Make this goddamn thing, it is going to be a beautiful, grotesque monster of a story, that may not resemble homestuck much at all. especially since i am prioritizing keeping everyone in-character. homestuck fans cope i guess

[museofthepyre]

hello non oomf. what is your classpect. sorry I'm very into homestuck right now

HEHEEEHE I AM SO GLAD YOU ASKED, I am a mage of doom >:3 unfortunately… oh the horrors

[badlydrawn-brostrider]

Shouldve worn the bard outfit

BRO: Why would I do that? That's stupid.

BRO: D's already a bard, wasn't about to match with him.

( @badlydrawn-alphadave )

[daveymaybe]

Dave strider sprite edit i had made WAY BACK based on @kigahto 's sprite editting style

[onionsquared]

lotf classpects teheheheee

i did these like a couplpel weeks ago but finished my roger drawin so i could post!! @autismguy55 came up w the classpects except roger i did that 1 becuz i must draw roger its like my life duty

Ralph - Knight of Blood

Piggy - Mage of Mind

Simon - Muse of Hope

Jack - Heir of Rage

Roger - Prince of Life

ramble in tags #lol

[a-little-too-sillay]

I drew my friends using @superxstarzz classpect combos!

@adventures-with-cowboys-n-rats as a Prophet of Birth

and

@glass-coffin-will-graham as a Warden of Sentience

[ask-the-witch-of-mind]

Hello I'm here to ask for self-classpecting help!

Currently the ones I'm stuck between are Knight Of Space, Heir Of Life, and Heir Of Space. If it's not too much trouble, would you mind analyzing these if you haven't already please and thank you? /Nf

0mg 3 wh0le classpects 4 me 2 yap ab0ut thx u!! 8O

here are my personal thoughts on the knight of space:

the knight of space (and space players in general) are very patient, a kind of "wait and see" mentality, they're patient players, they wait for things to come to them rather than looking for that thing as soon as possible. this isnt to say theyll let things like injustice slide under the radar. theyll let things burn just to build it agian, theyll pick alliances and challenges wisely.

knights of space exploiting their aspect, both for themselves and for their team. space players also tend to be isolated and lonely, theyre also on frog duty.

an heir of life is one who is able to change lifespan, health, and progress. heirs of life can change peoples whether that be physically or emotionally, heirs of life can heal and resurrect the dead. heirs of life are very active and energetic while waiting for the next task. heirs of life normally like to put animals and plants around themselves.

an heir of space is one who is able to change space, they can influence objects to change their size, speed and location to benefit them. like the knight of space they are very patient players, im kinda stuck on what to write for an heir of space. 8[

[combination-classpecting]

hello! Could You please analyse a combination of a bard of heart and a page of time? of course if You want to. and if You'd do that, could You give an idea of how that combined classpects land would look like? thanks! and peace

i can absolutely give it my best shot! as the first ask i'm answering, you'll be a bit of a guinea pig for formatting, lol. would love feedback on how this layout works or doesnt work, and thoughts on my analysis! will put it under a cut to prevent clogging.

Keeper (Bard + Page)

A Keeper is changed by their Aspect into a tool for it. Their narrative role is to drive forward the goals of their Aspect, by any means necessary. The passive destruction of a Bard combines with the immense potential of a Page to create someone who has immense positive potential that always comes with a downside. Keepers may be seen as cursed, perhaps, in that any good they do will always serve their Aspect, and be accompanied by an excess or destruction of said Aspect outside themselves.

A more verbatim reading of the Keeper may combine with the above narrative-focused reading to create someone who protects and Keeps their Aspect at any cost. They may nurture it, keep it hidden away, weaken it over time, all for a variety of reasons (after all, how far is "Keeper" from a "jailor"?).

As an example, take Jade, and replace “Witch of Space” with “Keeper of Space”. Perhaps here she would keep Bec locked away, as he represents Space in some ways, until inevitably being forced to fuse with him in godtiering - for better or worse. Perhaps she would nurture him and ignore any harm he causes others. Whatever the case, a Keeper will serve their Aspect and be changed by it in the end, no matter how hard they struggle against this role or lean into it.

Sentience (Time + Heart)

Sentience describes an organised path to the personal answer to the question of narrative meaning. It is awareness of one’s place in a continued narrative and/or timeline (they're a little interchangeable, within Sentience - personal narratives follow a timeline). The main difference between this and Neurons (Time + Mind) is that Sentience sees themself as important within this universal plan. They see themself as a vital driving force of the narrative, and believe that their own answers to questions of the timeline and importance are the most crucial ones. Time marches on towards death, and Heart seizes the purpose and meaning of Life up until that death (carpe diem, and all).

A more verbatim reading might see Sentience as describing an awareness of the self and soul. Sentience is eyes that open to the plan of the timeline, and a stubborn insistence that they still matter in the grand scheme of this plan. Sentience can be likened, in some ways, to Hope, or Light. It’s knowledge of the self and the timeline, and the resilience to continue on being true to the self - serving the needs of Skaia and the winstate in their own personal way.

Combining these...

Keeper of Sentience

A Keeper of Sentience may guard, nurture, or weaken their own meaning within life, and those of others, at the cost of passive destruction around them. This is a rough one to think about in a practical sense, and frankly is making my head hurt a little. (I'm not the smartest guy in town) So let's break it down with a more verbatim reading.

Keepers of Sentience may have the ability to... Keep Sentience from others. (That sounded way cooler in my head.) They can choose to stoke personal narrative meaning within others, allowing them to reach a certain 'enlightenment' or conclusion on their place within the narrative, or they can hinder it and take it away, leaving them to be a hopeless slave to the whims of the timeline and narrative. A fully realised Keeper of Sentience may become one with Sentience in a way that completely serves its whims. They can advance the personal journey of others to great passive detriment (think along the lines of hastening someone's realisation that they're transgender, perhaps, but this would also speed up the progression and intensity of dysphoria, and create other complex feelings related to the unnatural speed of this revelation).

Land ideas

Lands are something I tend to find tricky, but for you, I will do my best.

Lands should serve to challenge the player's initial self, advancing them to their fully realised classpect. I tend to do this by incorporating one word related to their Aspect, and one word personal to the specific player. I'm going to format these Lands as "Land of [Aspect keyword] and [Personal keyword]", for ease of distinguishing between Aspect words and words you may want to switch out and personalise to your character's journey.

Land of Continuity and Lanterns

A dark Land where the only method of travel is through shadow lanterns that light paths over the moor, turning them corporeal. These lanterns are created by the consorts of the Land, and each one casts shadows that describe and foresee one's journey through life - but this craft is dying, and the consorts are lost, directionless, unsure of what comes next and what their place in it will be. The Hero needs to help craft enough of these lanterns to light each consort's personal path into the future. Dungeons scattered across the land may contain puzzles where shadow lanterns must be lined up in the correct order to portray a journey.

[AESTHETIC INSPIRATION: Outer Wilds: Echoes of the Eye, GRIS]

Land of Realisation and Illness

A Land plagued by a Malady. This curse creates sudden hyper-awareness of one's place in a wider "narrative" that seems to break the mind of the poor consort afflicted. The Hero must find a way to suppress the overabundance of Sentience within these consorts, while minimising and controlling the negative effects created - perhaps by transferring them onto themself. Dungeons may include puzzles that speed up time or create auras of suffocating worrying about oneself that must be cleared away.

[AESTHETIC INSPIRATION: Genshin Impact's Natlan, generic medieval knightliness]

... and that about does it! i hope this was to your liking!

[classpecting-posts]

Have you done gimmick remover?

@gimmick-remover

Prince of Heart, I guess. Sorry I can't think of a less obvious one.

[edits4thosestuckathome]

@phantomthiefgaige asked! -> “Okay so…total crapshoot if this can be done but…a class swap for Jade that makes her the Rouge of Space instead of the Witch? If it’s not possible I understand

-- from the biggest Jade fan in the world"

[yourfaveisclasspected]

MOLLY is a PRINCE of VOID!

Requested by @lily-the-smol!

[classpectalbums]

Submissons: open!

Ever wonder what your fav album or song would have as a classpect? Or what role it would play during a session of sburb? This is the blog for that niche question! Submit an album, ep, or song to get classpected! I'll listen to the full album in chronological order and analyze it later. Then later I'll be classpecting it! Giving it an aspect and class!

You can submit by asks/dms/submissions!

This a side blog, my main blog is @snowynightlight! You can call me snowy (they/them)!