7/26/2023 0 Comments Homestuck strife specibus list![]() ![]() We have to accept the idea that all classes use their aspect both in a literal and a figuratively way. Helped people see things.ĪG: I could even perform the feat literally, if you wanted. She never said that she was a healer, though:ĪG: This is what I did as a Sylph of Light. First, does Sylphs heal? This is something people have been saying, because of what Aranea said and did: She healed Terezi’s eyes, helping her to see(Light). I really can’t tell if Kanaya was in touch with her aspect, I can’t tell a good example of Kanaya’s role in action beside of her desire to grow up a new Mother Grub, to create something that will create a new troll generation, to create something that will propagate troll race.Īnother example: Aranea Serket, a Sylph of Light. That is a very surrealistic way to tell it, someone who creates creation, one who creates creativity on others. If a Sylph of Space is one who Creates Space, she must have been able to create movement, physical space on objects, propagation as she said, and also creation. We have not seen how Kanaya’s role works, we just can theorize what she would do. Read it if you’re ready for themĪ famous example: Kanaya Maryam, a Sylph of Space. This contains examples of characters from the comic and thus, spoilers. After all, heroes need tools, but they also need the ability to choose for themselves what those tools will be and how they will use them.A Sylph is said to create their aspect and create through their aspect. Like most things in Homestuck, kind abstrata are both a necessary component of a game and a powerful representation of the comic’s roots in myth and storytelling. A strife specibus represents a training wheel for the combative player a way to fight, a path to take, that is cast aside once the player is sufficiently heroic. This is a deliberate removal of abstraction, allowing players to interact more organically with the environment. In short, you just pick up a weapon and can use it. One of the many benefits to an ascension to the god tiers is a badge that allows you to use any weapon you please without allocating said weapon to a matching strife specibus (previously, you can have multiple specibi, but could not use weapons you didn’t have specibi for). To ensure a full heroic experience, SBURB allows the player to experience and use their growth without looking at numerical proof thereof. The game places as few abstractions as possible between the player and the world, when possible (and those that exist decrease as the player grows more on this later). The difference, of course, between growth in SBURB and in traditional games is that in SBURB, the stat is invisible. SBURB does this as well, as demonstrated by John’s progression from needing the supernatural aid of his server player to lift a sledgehammer to making a good attempt to break Jack Noir’s face open with the Warhammer of Zillyhoo. In many games, such as the Fire Emblem series, characters become more skilled in the use of a weapon by using it. The characters of Homestuck have similar relationships with their weapons: John, who never fought prior to the game, chooses a weapon at random Rose chooses a seemingly harmless “weapon” with which she is already familiar, Jade uses rifles she was taught to use by her game-hunting grandfather, Dave was trained (read: abused) from birth to use swords, and so on. ![]() A choice of weapon is never meaningless Batman’s trauma from the violent shooting of his parents results in him using any gadget under the sun, but never a gun. The relationships between characters and their weapons have always been intimate, from Arthur’s Excalibur to Batman’s utility belt. That’s why today, we’re going to talk about kind abstrata. Characters and their traits are templatized specifically so that readers can imagine themselves in the world of SBURB, and there’s no trait closer to a hero than the weapon they instinctively reach for. That said, the richness of that setting is what draws so many fans into Homestuck. With the chaotic maelstrom we fondly refer to as a plot raging ever onward, it’s often easy to forget that SBURB is supposed to be a video game increasingly, the story has become more about its characters than setting. ![]()
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