#rogue of void

[awesomekittyparty]

MEOWWWW MEOW MEOW

Rogue of void outfit fully from scratch by me !!! :3

Here is 2015 vs 2024 😽

[cgtg]

VOID PLAYERZ ONLY

as with the prev polls: if you consider multiple, i suggest going for the one u feel aligned with currently/most often, which one u wanna represent in a poll like this, whichever has the most compelling role/narrative, whatever works for U. classpecting is very subjective, and fluid for a lot of people.

i actively encourage discussion in the replies of what your class and aspect mean to u. simple or lengthy, i wanna hear it :J

excluding master classes bc no space for em, sorry.

for those who cant vote: i’d appreciate u passing the poll along. also, i’ll likely post updates throughout the week on how it’s going so everyone can have a peek inside. thank u

[starlit1daydream]

Thieves & Rogues: Inundation and Redistribution

A day late, I'm aware; turning 18 will do that to a girl. I'm now older, and definitely not wiser.

The Thieves & Rogues are another contentious group; particularly the Thieves for various discourse-generating reasons - but the Rogues have their pitfalls and fall victim to mischaracterisation a lot more than you'd assume.

The Thief:Rogue dichotomy embodies inundation, redistribution and possession. It's the authority over who gets to hold their Aspect for themselves; whether it's them or somebody else, that's what being a Redistribution Class is about.

There's often some insecurity about their capacity to hold it in play as well - and they tend to use a lot of their opposite Aspect's forces; after all, what do you get when you take something but the absence of it, and therefore its opposite?

Canonical Thief players are Vriska Serket (Thief of Light) and Meenah Peixes (Thief of Life).

Canonical Rogue players are Roxy Lalonde (Rogue of Void), Nepeta Leijon (Rogue of Heart), and my arch-nemesis Rufioh Nitram (Rogue of Breath).

Point A - the narrative function of the Thief.

The Thief is the one with active distribution of their Aspect; and therefore the one liable to actively steal it. This, on paper, sounds pretty nasty - there's a reason why Thieves are lumped in with the nebulously 'bad' classes; but it's a neutral role with possible applications in either sense.

They often hold a deep-seated obsession with their Aspect; they think it's something that's out to get them and conflate an excess of it with an absence. Their perceived lack of it motivates them to hoard it, as much as possible.

Vriska Serket, the Thief of Light, is contentious for a damn good reason. Imbued with ungodly plot armour and fortune's favour, she seizes control of the narrative by force, all the while bemoaning her unlucky streak & employing the most unsubtle methods of manipulation she can think to use.

Meenah Peixes, the Thief of Life... does not understand the consequences of her actions; period. She thinks Life is out to get her, exacts every bit of free will she has out of spite and cultivates discourse and stagnation to try and encourage character development. (Oh, yeah, she also... kills people. Like, a lot.)

Their opposite Aspects are, therefore, pretty prevalent! By taking away their Aspect; they leave the inverse behind.

Vriska stealing Light leaves Void. Meenah stealing Life leaves Doom.

Often, it's almost as if they're using their inverse to cultivate their actual Aspect; Vriska uses offscreen events to justify onscreen developments - it's how she 'takes luck'. Meenah uses suffering and control in order to encourage growth - it's how she 'takes life'.

They care very little for their Aspect at the centre of it all, despite their perceived obsession; they don't seem to understand the value of it at all. That's the interesting part, I feel.

Point B, the practical function of the Thief.

Now, taking the Aspect is a very powerful ability in the right hands. We don't just see Vriska metaphorically rob fortune, she literally steals luck from her enemies mid-fight and utilises chance and possibility in order to get the upper hand.

Meenah takes 'taking life' about as seriously as you can get - not only does she really like killing people, but as the Condesce everything she did resulted in stagnation and decay in her wake as she robbed the worlds she ruled of the ability to develop; using control and hegemony to cultivate development and failing miserably.

The opposing Aspect, again, plays a prominent role! Vriska forgoes certainty and manipulates the absence of a definitive outcome to play around with luck. Meenah forgoes development and enacts control on the people beneath her to play around with change.

Point C, the narrative function of the Rogue.

I'm gonna use the Thief's concluding point as the jumpoff point for the Rogues; whereas the Thief devalues their Aspect, the Rogue puts too much stock in its importance. Their Aspect is too important to them; and so their relationship with it differs.

Passive classes tend to act without realising it, and the Rogues are no different - I'd argue their presence often leads to their Aspect being taken in a way they don't realise they're doing.

Roxy Lalonde, Rogue of Void, is desperate for attention, and yet obfuscates knowledge, is isolated from all society and would rather get drunk at the start of her arc than face the truth of her situation. I'd argue that she downplays her own importance as a person in the face of her friends' catastrophic communication failures. By being around, she takes the Void from her session and opens up ways to communicate whilst learning to give irrelevance to things.

Nepeta Leijon, Rogue of Heart, puts people into boxes. She makes them into little cariacatures on her walls, plays matchmaker in her stories; and yet she's also one of the most emotionally mature and genuine trolls in the story - she wears her Heart on her sleeve, and doesn't deny it. By being around, she takes the Heart from her friends by way of drawing out truer selves, as we see in her relationship with the insecure & disingenuous Equius.

Rufioh Nitram, Rogue of Breath, takes people's sense of purpose and direction and makes their agency depend on his presence in their life. He does Damara and Horuss dirty time and time again, and yet they can't cut him off because he's made himself too important. And yet there he is, spineless, giving away his own free will because he holds no security in his selfhood. He's trapping people in relationships without realising. I also want to drop an anvil on his head.

The common thread, despite the differing situations, is the indirect usage of the opposing Aspect to passively take away the true Aspect and the character development involving a realisation of their Aspect's value and the importance of keeping it for oneself. Roxy is the only Rogue whose development we see in full, unfortunately; but there's snippets with Nepeta and Rufioh Nitram changing isn't happening any time soon.

Point D, then. The practical function of the Rogue.

Once again, Roxy is our only point of reference by virtue of being the only God-Tiered Rogue; but luckily, she also gives us some really good demonstrations. Roxy literally takes the nonexistence away from something, bringing it into existence.

Inversely, she's capable of giving Void to herself, cloaking herself and by extension her whole session in a veil of invisibility. She's controlling the distribution of Void, letting it both be taken and given; after making her peace with the distribution of it.

So, the common thread is the central question of 'who gets to have my Aspect?'

A Thief would tell you 'me', and a Rogue would tell you 'anyone else'. That's what I feel separates them, and yet don't let that convince you that Thieves are bad and Rogues are good; look at Rufioh. A Thief may take for altruistic reasons, and a Rogue may give away for... not so altruistic reasons!

Get creative with it, that's what I say. How about a Thief of Doom who takes on everyone else's suffering because they're self-sacrificial to a fault? ...Okay, actually, that's my idea, don't take that one.

Anyhow, next week I'll be concluding the 'normal' classes with the Maids and Sylphs! Should be fun, I'll see you then - hopefully on time, too.

[mcacomulada]

this is me trying to do that… thing with js paint and failing, i could not for the life of me find if there was a trick to doing the mask or not😔😔

doodled this in class :P

[as-anecdotes]

she's excited bc she did it !!! a lil comparison of five years except I'm doing a thing where I'm trying to like. draw a chibi design per day. we'll see how it goes but I'm v happy with this right now

[mageofmercy]

Maid of Void

Maid of Void: someone who actively creates with void or creates through void.

Maids have very close relationship with their aspect, this can be a sharp, double-edged sword. As their strong ties with their aspect can over time cause immense strain upon the individual. Until finally? They tear themselves away, rejecting it ((like aradia Bot) and Jane's relationship troubles) its coming back. Coming back to their aspect with a new defined sense of boundaries. That truly makes a Maid.

The aspect of void, the archetype of enigma, ignorance, unfortunate, hiding, blindness. But also mystery, wisdom, unconventional kindness, Contentment, and well kept secrets.

The Maid of Void is someone who begins their life full of kindness, but in a way that isn't very conventional. When people displease them, they're not much one's to fight for what they believe. Creating the positive qualities in void within themselves, but not quite as much in others. Creating in them unfortunate ignorance for how the Maid actually feels about anything. Or even sometimes, anything and everything in particular. The maids of void are not people who would step on any toes. But it's actually hurting others more not to. And as they begin to see that? These kind individuals will begin to change.

For it's when they get tired of all the lying about the true nature of things in order to heal and protect others. That you know that the MoV is truly on their way toward maturity. They stop the white lies. How much depends entirely on how much they hated being locked in the void, with a million secrets, unsaid things, maybe even unprofessed love. Because eventually? They create for themselves a void of mystery without the allure, a true enigma, ignorance without meaning, nobody knows who the maid of Void truly and actually is. And they actually begin to hate this. They begin to hate their own aspect. They begin telling everyone how they feel. The Maid inverse into the bard of light when they come to this phase. Both aradia and Jane had to go through it too. But don't worry, the pain doesn't last forever.

They eventually begin to learn that telling everyone the blunt honesty of how everything is, every last little scrape of knowledge. From you smell really bad, to I don't like how your voice sounds, to its too hot today, and just on and on telling people what they truly think. An unexhaustive list of the things. Because they've been thinking and holding it all in for too long. But they begin to realize that creating their aspect this way isn't who they actually are. They were creating void by destroying and corrupting light as bards do. Bards can be kind, loving, genuine individuals. But cave under enough pressure. So please be kind to bards everyone, okay sidenote over let's get back to it.

A fully realized maid of Void would come back to void with a newfound appreciation of void and would actively create void within all the things where they had said too much. They would heal people with their lies, telling them they actually do look good today, or they would pull strings to create alluring mystery about someone. How? Beats me. I'm not a Maid. But they would create within people void by actually creating with all the archetypal values of void. Somehow. Just know that it's possible, I'm not a Maid. But as a void player? I know for a dang fact that it's possible.

[qirongenthusiast]

Oh em gee !!

[weredyke]

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[meiiknifelover]

CLASSPECT INVERSION FOR OUR (w @typographic-horror) TROLLSONAS!!!! COMIC

Rogue and Prince are the og ones (if u are struggling to understand the text press alt on pic)

[prettiest-ghoul-at-the-party]

Resisting the urge to classpect every single character I like (The Jon is such a Rogue of Void to me)

[awesomekittyparty]

Collect my fickle insecurities

And turn them into beauty

Alchemize the dark within me

[giftofclasspects]

and the void playlists are done! here are a few of my favorites,

witch

rogue

maid

[starlit1daydream]

why do rogues always have relationship issues. its downplayed with nepeta (though she's still hopelessly in love with someone she knows will never love her) but then we look at roxy and rufioh and. ouch

[starlight-seeker]

TG: rogue of void at ur assistance ;))

[salems-lots]

[ Puts Laine into Homestuck ] I'm sure nothing bad will happen to them

[en8y]

[IMAGE ID: three horizontal flags with nine stripes; each flag has the void aspect symbol in the center; a dark blue shape made of six curved lines, none of which are touching or connected. it is outlined in medium blue. the middle stripe is twice as large as the rest of them, which are equally sized. the first flag has these top three colors: dull green, warm grey, and dull yellow-orange. the second flag has these top three colors: medium green, dark cool green, and deep purple. the third flag has these top three colors: bright purple, bright cool pink, and bright teal. each flag has these bottom six stripes: medium blue, off-white, medium blue, dull blue, deep blue, and dark blue. END ID.]

voidasirogue: a gender connected to being a rogue of void; this gender is connected to the void aspect, void aspect aesthetics, rogue aesthetics, chaoticness, and xenzh genders!

voidasylph: a gender connected to being a sylph of void; this gender is connected to the void aspect, void aspect aesthetics, sylph aesthetics, elemental, airy, or ethereal aesthetics, and nadelvinity!

voidaseer: a gender connected to being a seer of void; this gender is connected to the void aspect, void aspect aesthetics, fortune-telling or prophetic aesthetics, and oracrinity!

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