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 Class/Aspect Role Table - Revision reasoning…

the-sad:

bladekindeyewear:

We quite recently saw the Page god-tier uniform:

If you’ll notice, Tavros is basically dressed like Robin.  Makes you think that perhaps Page is indeed the passive counterpart of the (dark) Knight after all.

So, from a number of different sources, concepts and ideas, I finally have a complete, good-feeling guess as to the final role layout/pairings, and their associated purposes.

Here we are:

• Purpose - Active - Passive
• — Standard Classes —
• Know - Mage - Seer
• Change - Witch - Maid
• Destroy - Prince - Bard
• Steal - Thief - Rogue
• Repair - Sylph - Heir
• Exploit - Knight - Page
• — Master Classes —
• Embody - Lord - Muse

Three passive and three active classes per gender among the standard classes, the way it works out here.

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I believe that god tier accent colors are related to how active/passive the class is. The Page and the Heir should be both active or both passive since their shoes/belts/codpieces are yellow.

Why do I think this is so? Well, look at Vriska.

Her shoes are red. This isn’t suspicious. Red compliments orange quite nicely. Now let’s see Rose.

Blue slippers? I did not expect that! I thought the colors of shoes formed a hidden pattern based on class, which was a reasonable idea at the time. After all, we had never seen two different god tiers with the same class at the time.

Let’s take a look at a Sylph.

If you look closely enough, you can see that Aranea is wearing pointy baby blue slippers. Hussie has said Seers are passive, so we can assume Sylphs are passive.

Let’s dig a little deeper.

Dave’s class is active.

This would mean Maids are also active. Disregard the red soles on the bottom: they’re the same shade of red as the aspect symbol so they don’t count.

that’s all i’ve got

Hm!  Could be!  …Oh, and Pages of Breath have yellow shoes in the flash, just like John!!  That would confirm Passive Heirs!

Maid has always been a strong candidate for an active class, especially under the “Repair” purpose.  In which case, a Maid of Time would be “One who repairs/heals Time, or repairs/heals through Time”.  Aradia can indisputably be construed to fit that description.  A Sylph of Space would be passive in comparison: “One who invites the repair of Space or heals through Space”.

In that alternative - which, honestly, makes a little more sense than my initial guess - we’d have:

• Purpose - Active - Passive
• — Standard Classes —
• Know - Mage - Seer
• Change - Witch - Heir
• Destroy - Prince - Bard
• Steal - Thief - Rogue
• Repair - Maid - Sylph
• Exploit - Knight - Page
• — Master Classes —
• Embody - Lord - Muse

This is… perhaps more of an even distribution.  We still get a 3/3 active/passive split for males and females.  Males would own a monopoly on Destroying and Exploiting; Females would own a monopoly on Stealing and Repairing.  Both of these choices make some sense.  Then, the broadly applicable classes that Know and Change are split between males and females: for Knowers, the males are active, and for Changers, the females are active.

Wow, this is really, really balanced.  I like this more, actually.

It also means that our concept of broadly-manipulating god-tiers, ones who have the power to visibly shift Breath or Space at whim, is based on the intentionally introduced bias of mainly showing us the abilities of those who Change/Manipulate.  The abilities of other god-tiers could be pervasively less visible and more obscure, like Vriska’s luck-stealing (mainly depicted through surplus visual aids), her luck stockpile’s continuous benefits, and Seers’ knowledge.

I am three times more satisfied with this list!  Thanks, the-sad (EDIT: it’s now once-ler-direction)!  :D

I’ll edit my original post.

EDIT:  A clarification from the-sad, since this was misunderstood by at least one person earlier: “What I mean to say is that there are two shoe colors per aspect. One is an active shoe color and the other is a passive shoe color.”  Emphasis mine, because bolding turns me on.

EDIT2:  It could be noted that the Repair roles could also be equated with the ability to Create.  In other words, a Create/Destroy dichotomy between the genders.  In this situation, the Sylph uses her ability to create mainly in order to mend the damaged, while the active Maid is more likely to create outright.  In other words, the Maid of Time can make time!  That definition(/pun) certainly embodies what Aradia did with all those doomed timelines and clones.

2012-7-29