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REVISION #2: ASPECT NEIGHBORS CIRCLE

(EDIT: Hypothetically, there’s another fun facet to this aspect chart. The aspects closer to Space (the top half) are closer to Creation, and the aspects closer to Time (the bottom half) are closer to Destruction. Space and Time are the pure representatives of creation and destruction, respectively. Heart and Mind are directly in between, theoretically, because every individual has the capacity in them for BOTH creation and destruction.)

I’ve revised the image to something that makes a lot more sense, but first let’s quote the original…

Original Theorypost quoted:

(Here’s the image and aspect-neighbors theory ripped out of this ask into its own post)

Theoretically - very theoretically, we’re in uncertain theory-territory here - you could say Rage is only a couple ‘steps’ away, though…  Many of these aspects sound like they should be ‘next’ to each other, if they were laid out (opposites across from each other - the opposite aspect dichotomies have already been well established, if you click the link) in a circle.  Heart would be next to Blood, for example (for obvious literal reasons), and Blood in turn might be next to Rage, the former dealing (partially) with suffering to match the latter’s hopelessness?  (You can look at trolls and kids who are close to each other relationship-ways for much of this, using shipping as clues!)  Or, Doom might serve as the neighbor to Blood and/or Rage, though I’m certain that Time and Doom are obvious neighbors…  And keep in mind that the opposing elements would be neighbors too.  If Heart and Blood are neighbors/’sisters’, so are Breath and Mind, the aspect of direction and the aspect of choice.  Light and Space seem like they’d be related, so by extension, Void and Time would be sisters too, which makes plenty of sense.

And they could be said to affect Prospit/Derse leaning, too, based on the circle… it would make sense if the half of the circle containing the necessarily always-Derse Time aspect would lean Derse, while the always-Prospit Space aspect’s half leaned Prospit?

Again, neighboring aspects - an aspect circle - is on shaky ground and very unproven.  You’re working on much more tenuous and subjective ground than with dichotomies, and nobody has a really good idea of what order these would go in.

But if I had to take a second stab at it, and don’t assume this is right, it’s just a guess…

[CIRCLE REVISION #1 IMAGE]

WOW THAT TOOK A LONG TIME TO ‘SHOP

In fact, that almost certainly isn’t right.  Rage is nowhere near Blood, it feels like the drives and passion entailed by Blood and Breath should be neighbors of Life and Hope… really, the whole chart makes only a shred of cursory sense, ignore it.   :P

EDIT:  Wait, that’s odd…

When you combine two of these aspects that are two apart, you get the aspect between them!  Look at the outside words:

When you combine Mind’s Choice and Rage’s “Resignation” (the constriction of visible possibilities), you get a single Direction, or Breath!

When you combine Resignation and the passage/view of Time in Progression, you get Pessimism/Doom.  When you take the unpredictable Soul and try to track it over Time, you get Mystery.  When you combine positive energy to affect reality (Life) with the concept of information, you get Reality’s literal fabric, Space.  When you combine Unity and Optimism, you get Belief, like the religion that sprung around the Sufferer…

Hmm!

Vexarian (love ‘im or hate 'im) helped me come up with a revised chart that makes a whole lot more sense.  (…mostly hate 'im, but he’s good at spec)

• Vexarian: I find it interesting how most of the main ships seem to be between people very far on the scale.
• blastyoboots: mhmm
• blastyoboots: but for flings, the little unfulfilled or minor/side relationships he needs to fill the gaps with?
• blastyoboots: they were easy choices
• blastyoboots: pick the ones that are naturally next to each other, and spice the plot w/ em

Neighbors and opposites in this circle are often used for ships, relatives, et cetera.  Depending on how early Andrew might have had the aspects and their pairs in mind - likely before he finalized active/passive classes - he might have used them, which he at least knew during Hivebent, to pick and choose relationships to work into the plot.  Aradia is sandwiched between Doom and Void, for instance.

There’s also a really nice T-pattern going on!  Note that Time (Dave) is in a triangle between Space and Mind, and Breath (John) is in a triangle between Light and Void (Roxy).

But, er, anyway, shipping aside… it’s very nice to see which elements are perpendicular. Knowing and perceiving, the information-focused aspects, are the 'foil’ of those classes dealing with the paths and directions around which groups unite or individuals quest.  The physical realm, Time and Space, are 'foiled’ by the impacts of the individual.  Faith and conception of the possibilities open to reality is a 'foil’ of Life and Doom, the boundaries that determine who does and doesn’t get a say in reality.

The revised aspects also make more sense for that concept of combining neighboring aspects to form a given aspect.  Information resides at the confluence of Belief and the Fabric of reality, ideas given evidence on which to ground.  The enthusiasm to pursue a Direction, tempered by the cruel understanding of what cannot be done that is Resignation, leads to the realm of logical Choice, the impact of the Mind when it must decide which tough path to pursue.  Souls restricted by Pessimism, or otherwise dulled in their potential to impact reality, find comfort and strength in Unity and their shared pain and purpose.  When exposed to Information, the unique individual Soul leaps beyond it to Belief and creativity.

Gosh this is fun.  :D

2012-9-24