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CLASSPECTING DUCK GUY: DHMIS and the aspect of Doom
Saving the best 'til last, of course. I'm not at all biased.
I love Duck Guy. I think this crusty old son of a bitch is the best character in the show and I think he's a very interesting one to analyse.
His Aspect is, of course, very simple to pin down. Duck dies all the time. He dies so much they have backups to make sure he can come back. There's an entire episode revolving around him dying. Duck is an obvious Doom player.
His relationship with the Aspect, though, goes far deeper than just 'he dies a lot'. When you expand Doom to cover rules, regulations, acceptance & compliance, you realise just how well he fits into the box. Duck is the only one of the guys never to reach self-awareness. His attempts at rebellion end in his mutilation and destruction. He's the only one with the wool pulled over his eyes, obedient to the system that controls them.
This, of course, makes him sound more like a Hope player, but... Doom has more facets than people give it credit for. Duck is 'fate's chosen sufferer', to use the EZ's description, for sure. Plus, who better to represent the aspect of rules and compliance than the guy very much portrayed as a right-wing bootlicker? ('Memories of him telling me about the military, digital currency, etc'...)
The Class is where things get interesting. Duck is a narrative joke, just in a different way to Yellow. Duck is the chewtoy, the plaything, when somebody needs to get hurt, he's the one there. He's an arrogant jackass to boot, and, here's the kicker - Duck passively influences the other characters to gain awareness. He destroys their suffering and limitations, he's just unaware of it. Episode Five, anyone?
That's why he's the Bard of Doom. Sure, he doesn't exactly fit the pattern of the Bard's journey (ghosting their opposing Aspect 'til a dire crisis pushes them into their own), but he's definitely got the traumatic incident that gives him an influx of his Aspect covered. Episode Five, anybody?
Duck's a tragedy, made to suffer over and over again, existing to demonstrate the limitations of their universe and ultimately showing the dangers of falling into compliance. But in his mere presence, his actions erode the limitations and regulations that bring suffering to those around him, his rebellion and irascibility leading to their liberation.
Plus, a series like DHMIS could sure use somebody to represent the aspect of predestination and acceptance. One could argue Duck destroys that too - his death is the straw that breaks the camel's back and leads the other two on to fight against the cycle.
Tomorrow, I might be giving another little insight into two of the show's most prominent figures...
oh ruby sunday is most DEFINITELY a space player. tied so intrinsically to motherhood? her one standalone episode revolves around distance? fear of isolation? snowfall? my god all she's missing is a pet frog.
rudimentary thoughts
Monika is a Witch of Doom with a Dersite sway
Sayori is a Page of Blood with a Prospit sway
Yuri is a Mage of Void with a Dersite sway
Natsuki is a Knight of Life with a Prospit sway
reposting from twitter
Veronica Sawyer is a Rogue of Blood with a Dersite sway
Heather Chandler is a Witch of Life with a Prospit sway
Heather Duke is a Thief of Mind with a Dersite sway
Heather McNamara is a Page of Breath with a Prospit sway
Jason Dean is a Prince of Doom with a Dersite sway
Curious about what people's classpects are.
I'm a Rogue of Breath myself; Dersite sway.
And, yes, sharing a title with Rufioh Nitram is just as painful as it sounds.
every additional detail i learn about classpecting only makes my previous assignments more valid, it seems.
seers seek their aspect through its opposite? red guy, the seer of breath, seeking freedom through family and connection.
bards signify an instability in their aspect within the session? duck, the bard of doom, within a world that most definitely has an instability in regulation, order, rules, terminality & suffering.
i now need to research pages in more detail, i fear.
beginning to realise the inherent genius of mind-bound heather duke actually. i'm too exhausted and too afflicted with first-day-of-college-itis to elaborate right now but. yeah. i see it.
BoJack Horseman is a Dersite Bard of Void
Princess Carolyn is a Prospitian Maid of Blood
Todd Chavez is a Dersite Page of Light
Diane Nguyen is a Dersite Seer of Heart
Mr. Peanutbutter is a Prospitian Heir of Breath
Sarah Lynn is a Prospitian Prince of Life
any questions?
Dipper Pines is a Dersite Heir of Mind
Mabel Pines is a Prospitian Witch of Heart
Stanley Pines is a Prospitian Thief of Void
Stanford Pines is a Dersite Mage of Light
Soos Ramirez is a Prospitian Page of Life
Wendy Corduroy is a Dersite Knight of Time
Fiddleford McGucket is a Prospitian Bard of Light
Gideon Gleeful is a Dersite Prince of Space
Pacifica Northwest is a Dersite Maid of Rage
Bill Cipher is a Prospitian Lord of Mind
Upon revisiting this post, I only covered half this post. Seers aren't terrible at combat, but they are Passive. Think about how Terezi had to write out the plan for John to fix the timeline, When she gave the very long plan to get Dave, all of the money (all of it).
Seers are planners, who, if they can get people to listen, can chart the course to where they need to go, however, they themselves lack the power needed for the plan (Terezi needed John's Retcon and Dave's Time Travel), thus cannot do it themselves and must tell their plan to another (Could be seen as the Seer's Prophecy)
i want everyone who writes classpect guides that insist seers are passive and not any good at combat to check this shit out
Fuck you. Classpects the Pines Twins.
Art inspiration struck me (rare) and I colored and shaded it (even rarer!) so here's my cringe trollsona! This also counts as a pseudo-redesign of the sylph costume (because I felt like jazzing it up a bit!) I'll leave the OG sylph costume below the cut for reference!:
Just because I've gotten Knight of Space literally everytime I've taken a classpect quiz doesn't mean I'm not a Slyph of Hope!!! Follow your dreams and lie!!!
a prospit dreaming heir of light and a derse dreaming mage of void (ill give my explanations to why i classpected them this way eventually)
while this is another sketch for a future project, this is also the last contribution to this years oct-ober for some time ONLY bc i have school starting tomorrow and, as a result, i wont be drawing as much if at all... and ive been also feeling like crap a lot recently and ive been only doing these october art prompts out of obligation, also i skipped yesterdays prompt bc i didnt know what to do
(prompt list from @pmc360)
a prospit dreaming heir of light and a derse dreaming mage of void (i completed the sketch)
combining two media interests into one is either heaven or hell (for me, it led me to waste many hours on classpecting various oct contestants), and thats what i did, im gonna do more contestants eventually bc my conclusions finally made me feel smart in a way that isnt academic
explanations for the classpecting below cut due to possible lore spoilers
anyways eric is an heir of light according to me bc of how hes, well, an heir to his family business (and the fact that heirs often have to do with death in a way, with eric having to deal with the eventual loss of his grandfather), and light being based on his innovativeness and his yearning to know/experience more, especially for the company, even if it leads him being seen as arrogant or insensitive in a way, but his resourcefulness balances that out
for mizuno, he had already experienced a lot, yet he still has a lot of opportunities and potential to grow as a person... or former lab experiment/escapee, anyways, also leading him to be skeptical and eccentric in a way through his shyness and skepticism, as well as him receiving knowledge through both experience and that little voice in his head (which i believe is a rogue/thief of breath, if the real voices physical form is even alive)
to be fair, most of it is just through both vibes and aspects of their character/personality, so feel free to disagree and fight me in the comments or inbox abt what u think
angela is a prince of blood and roland is a mage/knight of void. send tweet.
To everyone who knows aspects better than me, what would be good for a timid shy and nervous troll? (Specifically a Jadeblood)
Uploading this screenshot bc if I reblog it it won’t show up when you search for the tags, I just rlly want a name for her bc I’ve been leaving her ref sheet open for a couple of days now
If you can’t come up with a name, I’d also like to know the difference between a seer of doom and a mage of doom to properly classpect her ^^
Anyway john gauis classpect prince of blood