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star could be a male muse?

Anonymous

i guess? i don’t know anything about fantitles but uh

tw: opinons lmao

to be honest, i don't particularly think male/female roles should exist? for a start, in canon there are no roles that work as female/male, every class has a specific skill that makes it unique… so having male and female equivalents is pointless because then the class would have to accept both males and females – like does that make sense? by having two versions of one ‘function’ you’re almost making the whole class redundant, and making it redundant in being exclusive?

i mean obviously you’re free to do what you want, but personally i dislike the idea very much because it messes around with the basic premise of every class having different functions

I can understand why a female bard might necessitate a different costume but is the word "bard" itself really so inherently male gendered as to need a new name for a woman?

rinmemesuoka

bard is a male only class

a female bard just isn’t possible, just as a female prince or a female lord isn’t either

and on the flip side, like how a male muse wouldn’t be possible, and probably a male witch, slyph and maid wouldn’t either

it’s just a feature of the game yo

Two things: one, for the female Bard, I've seen "Voice" used and I think that's a good alternative. Also, for the asker who wants a Seer who also protects, maybe a Mage would work? Mage is theorized to be the active version of a Seer, who therefore also receives visions - but as a more active player, they could use this power to protect others if they so wished. Think Sollux and his self-sacrifice. Knights don't have the monopoly on exploiting their aspect to spare others from harm, after all!

Anonymous

Muse could work as a female version of Bard, but I think the canonical Muse role is pretty different from that of a Bard.

multiversalink

yeah muse can’t be used at all for bard!

homestuckresources:

if you sent an ask about god tiers explanations, then it’s under the cut. i’m mostly just going off of canon evidence so they’re not very creative? most are just literal meanings…
EDIT: added third batch, they also aren’t in order and sometimes i slip them in-between — like i tried to keep the maid questions close together — so check all the way through for your answer!
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Is there really any information on the Doom aspect other than it has to do with death? My title is Knight of Doom and I'm rather stuck on what it means for sure.

Anonymous

we’ve been talking about doom a lot today

http://homestuckresources.tumblr.com/post/34639349981/about-the-mage-of-doom-ask-didnt-mituna-heir-of

i even spoke about knight of doom, as that’s my title too!

http://homestuckresources.tumblr.com/post/34637360348/on-the-topic-of-self-diagnosing-classes-two-things

basically, a knight of doom would weaponize the aspect of failure and ‘doom’ to then stop or allow the prophecies from coming true, thus protecting the group in whatever way the prophecies need to swing

homestuckresources:

if you sent an ask about god tiers explanations, then it’s under the cut. i’m mostly just going off of canon evidence so they’re not very creative? most are just literal meanings…
EDIT: added second batch
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To the Knight of Heart Anonymous: I personally think that a Knight of Heart would, instead of protecting others through their emotions, protect other's emotions. A Knight of Heart would probably be really adept at calming others down and maybe act a bit like a team therapist and mediator? In any case they'd almost definitely take a more "passive" role than say the Knight of Time or Knight of Breath. Unless you wanna do that whole literal Power of Love Shield thing, which is fine too.

boobstomp-blog

if a knight acts as a mediator and therapist, they will never gain the means to do so if they do not ‘weaponize’ the ability to be a therapist and mediator; weaponizing must be done through ~manipulating~ their aspect – which is why i suggested splintering their own, as it would be strange to protect someones emotions while using another person’s the fuel the protection

unless i’ve misunderstood your point here and your problem wasn’t with the weaponizing own emotions part?

Please could you give your thoughts on the role of a Knight of Heart? Most of the asks earlier answered the Knight half, but the Heart aspect is a a little bit too abstract for me to understand, especially paired with Knight.

Anonymous

UU: to Understand the heart aspect better, yoU might Use it interchangeably with the word soUl.
UU: the hero Uses the methods endowed by class to inflUence in some way the soUl, or essence of being, of oneself or of others.
TT: Dirk is the heart guy. He’s the one walking the path of self, even when he doesn’t know it.

heart is all about your soul and your inner-self – so your emotions too. it’s not really about relationships as such.

another part of hearts, is that they can splinter their personalities – so dirk has different versions of himself: auto-responder, bro-bot, his split version in jake’s mind, and having both his dream self awake as his real self is. whether this is true for all classes or just active ones like the prince (read: destroyer) isn’t known.

i would then speculate, that a knight of heart would be able to splinter their own personality and soul, to weaponize? i don’t see it fitting that they would use the emotions of others when they are almost always portrayed as protecting?

Well, I've got a problem with an Aspect, Light. In fact I don't really understand to what it could correspond...

Anonymous

light?

light means fortune, or luck! vriska, the thief of light, steals others luck to benefit herself! while rose, the seer of light, can view the outcome that will bring the players the most fortune – ie. the winning path