Talk:Aspect/Archive 1

Speculation about the powers of Heroes of Life
okay, so, i was just thinking... listed on this page, under the potential powers for the Life aspect, we've got "Longevity, able to extend lifespans (?, theorised based on the Condesce's abilities) ". these made a lot of sense to me at first, but thinking more, i'm 99% sure that they're false.

the thing is, these powers are based upon what we've seen on the Condesce's abilities. however, after seeing the kids' scratch universe and seeing that their ancestor counterparts have different mythological roles leads me to believe that all of the trolls' ancestor counterparts would also have different mythological roles.

therefore, fef's powers as a Witch of Life have nothing to do with the condesce's.

this is mostly aimed at the "extension of lifespans" part, considering that i'm pretty sure it's canon that the higher a troll's blood colour, the longer they live. if it's not, do forgive me, as it's 3am. but i'm sure there was something about Marquise using the cue ball to see something about the Summoner and being all OMG HE ISN'T BORN FOR YEARS AND YEARS LOLOL and i'm not even sure if they ended up meeting or something but wow i'm rambling

okay my point here is that i'm pretty sure neither of these powers are related to the Life aspect. if i'm just missing something massive, make sure you let me know! xoxo

220.236.216.136 11:36, February 19, 2012 (UTC)

-The Expatriate/Executor showed Void powers. The Condesce's ability to extend the Helmsman's lifespan probably has nothing to do with blood. -Janaro-


 * ah, right you are! i knew i was missing something. thank you, Janaro! xoxo
 * 220.236.216.136 11:36, February 19, 2012 (UTC)

The Pairing of Aspects
So, I'm thinking about the whole active/passive pairing thing with classes. As such, I started thinking about pairing up aspects as well. Not in an active/passive way, just generally, either by way of opposites or similarities.

I wrote some stuff down, and the idea seemed to make at least a little sense. There are a few pairings that come across as odd, but that's what speculation is for, right? ;)


 * Time/Space (historically paired together)


 * Heart/Mind (same as above; can also be considered opposites - emotion/logic; both symbols are stylized versions of things found in the human body ([the typically depicted shape of] a heart for Heart, and a stylized synapse for Mind)


 * Hope/Doom (opposites)


 * Light/Void (opposites; if taking void as darkness)


 * Breath/Life (very similar symbols; similar meanings)


 * Blood/Rage (honestly only paired because these were the remaining aspects; it's possible the link could be that rage leads to blood, but that could just be me seeing what I want to see.)

This is probably really unnecessary but I have a boner for links and sets and the like, so enjoy that. xoxo

220.236.216.136 11:33, February 19, 2012 (UTC)

I've been thinking along the same lines, but with some differences, mostly around how two aspects can be seen as basically the same thing: 193.60.78.34 00:02, March 9, 2012 (UTC)
 * Time/Space : Obvious. The two together form Paradox Space.
 * Heart/Mind: I think they collectively represent the soul. Heart is emotion, memory, likes/dislikes; basically, what you are. Mind would be your reasoning, your intentions, what you do, which is why Terezi could sense the consequences of that.
 * Light/Doom: Good fortune and misfortune. Both related to luck. Alternatively, Light is luck, while Doom could refer to unavoidable fate. In other words, What is set in stone and what isn't, both representing future events.
 * Hope/Rage: Good and bad desires.
 * Blood/Breath: Apart from the way the two interact to bring oxygen to the body's cells, there's little to see here, really. Mostly because we know jack shit about what Blood actually means.
 * Life/Void: Given that Life seems to relate to healing, and Void is about hiding, I suppose you could say these are both protective powers.

Connections
It seems that trolls with the same position on the hemospectrum have the same aspect. Meenah and Feferi Peixes, who are both tyrian purple, are both heroes of life. Aranea and Vriska Serket, whose blood is cerulean, share the aspect of light. It also appears that three of the kids have aspects that correspond with the classical element associated with the zodiac signs of characters in certain rungs of the hemospectrum. Scorpio, a water sign, seems to be connected with Light; Rose Lalonde's classical element is water, and she is also a hero of light. Dave Strider's associated classical element is fire, which is the classical element associated with the sign Aries: the sign of Aradia Megido, his fellow hero of time. Jade Harley's classical element is Earth, which is also connected to Kanaya Maryam's sign, Virgo. Additionally, Jade and Dave have similar text colours to Kanaya and Aradia, respectively, which may also be seem as evidence of this connection. 67.170.237.69 05:35, April 10, 2012 (UTC)possiblysomecarrots


 * Yeah there have been huge discussions about the trolls and their ancestors having the same roles, the introduction of the pre-scratch versions of the Ancestors has have confirmed that and half disproved that. As for the Kanaya/Jade connection all of that was on Mythological roles page before the Class and Aspect pages were split off but it seems some of that has been lost in the split. As for the Vriska/Rose connection and the Dave/Aradia connection I can't recall it being specifically noted but it may have been. The Light6 06:00, April 10, 2012 (UTC)

The Kanaya/Jade connection is notable, as they both have similar tasks within the game (restarting life). Aradia and Vriska, the trolls who share Dave and Rose's aspects, are never called upon to use The Tumor in Green Sun related shenanigans. While this can be attributed to the differences between the sessions, John and Tavros's actions within the game have few ties, other than Vriska's influence over both of them. Additionally, their text colours are not the same. This could mean that we are making a mountain of a molehill, so to speak, or that Tavros and John are of such different character that there is no need for an emphasized connection. It should also be noted the lack of similarity between the text colours of the alpha kids to those of the beta trolls with the same aspect. While this could be just the effect of their being in different universes, that is contradicted by the similar text colours of alpha and beta trolls with the same aspect. 67.170.237.69 01:12, April 18, 2012 (UTC)possiblysomecarrots.


 * You are comparing apples and oranges when comparing the kids/troll connections with the pre-scratch/post-scratch connections. One thing both you posts kinda hint at is that you haven't realised that Aranea is Vriska's "ancestor" and Meenah is Feferi's "ancestor". Trolls share blood colours with their ancestors and trolls text colours are the same as their blood colours (with the obvious exception of Karkat, UU and uu). Likewise the troll players and their ancestors share their aspect along with their blood colours. Comparing Vriska/Aranea to Vriska/Rose or Feferi/Meenah to Feferi/Jane is the wrong way to go about it for certain features. Also why would Aradia and Vriska ever be called upon to use the Tumor? There was only ever one Tumor and it was in the kids' session. The Light6 01:39, April 18, 2012 (UTC)

Speculation
Okay, going to make my case here, the last few are not significantly more speculative. Look at Breath, it says "John can do this, Tavros did a thing we don't understand, hey maybe it's versatile like Light". I would say Hope, based on observations of Eridan, is actually fractionally more well-established than Breath is, because we know how he uses it with his class. We don't understand Breath yet, because our main specimen is a class we don't yet know anything about. The least speculative aspects are Light and Time; we don't know much for sure about Space because Jade has Bec's powers too. Everything else is very speculative, and will remain so until either we have explicit exposition (hello UU), or we amass a useful body of observations of players of the same aspect but different classes – something which is only really true of Light so far.

Most of all, though, it is a cardinal wiki sin to use a level 1 heading in an article

The disctinction between the speculation section and the normal section is that we have had some sort of exposition on the ones listed outside of the speculation section. Be it that we have seen the aspect in use or that we have had exposition on the matter from UU. The ones in "speculation" have never been seen in use, not confirmed at least. Eridian might have used hope powers, but the fact that Scratch implies he got said powers from the Angels of his land implies that it could be something else, just like Rose most certainly did not use her light powers when using black magic. And we also never had any exposition on them from UU or anything. Using a level 1 heading should be avoidable easy enough really, but there should still be an indication that the later aspects are more speculative than the others. Also the ones outside of the speculation area have become increasingly speculative because people kept adding stuff after that distinction had been made.bitterLime 13:43, June 4, 2012 (UTC)
 * Basically I don't see why we need the distinction. The amount of speculation present on the page – for all of them, not just the last few – is I think acceptable, and it's reasonably clearly indicated what is fact and what is speculation. So there's no real need to separate them
 * I suppose we don't need it as long as the speculation is clearly marked as such (which it already is in most, if not all cases here). It's just that those in the speculation section consist pretty much out of nothing but speculation, while the others at least have some confirmed info in it.bitterLime 15:49, June 4, 2012 (UTC)

More Speculative Stuff
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspect_weaver

What do we think, coincidence or meaningful? Arlo James Barnes 05:08, July 20, 2012 (UTC)

Trueblood
I've seen all the interpretations of what Blood could be, and you've all eaten all the red herrings and shat silly theories, one of which is the relationship karkat tends to (or tries to) bond with others is his blood power, this is NOT some sort of "bloodpact" power, shit is so corny it might roll in aniiimuus but not HS; anyhow this is only a tendency KK has developed over the insane amount of equally corny movies he has seen. The abilities of the bearer of Blood however extend to a much more cosmic way: think of reallity as a current (alpha or otherwise), the Blood aspect utilizes it's flow for it's porpuse, and we've been pointed out this by Aranea herself, comparing the timelines as actual circulatory systems. Then it's easy to think over how Karkats fuck ups produced many Aradias and ultimately led to the creation of Bec Noir (A1's cancer) thus weaponizing the flow of reality; and how his ancestor was capable of witnessing what happened what lied beyond space/time (the scratch). Now with that pointed out (again) I leave and hope this doesn't get ereased from this wiki (again). I will probably go rant on John's actual aspect but that's it for now.

201.166.111.72 08:55, August 31, 2012 (UTC)

Hope and Doom theories
The paragraphs I have just added are I think excellent examples of good speculation, which is acceptable for inclusion on the page. People are welcome to disagree and discuss the matter, naturally. There is actually a lot of development of both theories (and I mean a lot), rather more than the summaries I've placed on the article. So if anyone queries the logic of the two theories, I would like to direct them to read this and this, which are where I got the theories from

Aspect Duality
Thought I might share this. Maybe we can add it to the page? AnimeApprentice (talk) 06:12, October 25, 2012 (UTC)


 * There are many theories about aspect pairings, I've even seen diagrams which connect all 12 aspects together in a geometric arrangement. That being said, the connection between certain aspects can definitely stand to be strengthened on the page, but I think we need to be careful not to go overboard on speculation. - The Light6 (talk) 07:55, October 25, 2012 (UTC)

Color Schemes
Adding those color palettes to the page was a great step, but I think we need to include the shoe color too. Because if I'm not mistaken, that is also consistent for god tiers. Aepokk Venset 21:44, November 4, 2012 (UTC)

I'm not entirely sure how that would work, since heroes of light have different shoe colors, and potentially some other discrepancies. But I don't know. Unless you mean what seems to be the "default shoe color", which I guess works? Maybe? But we really don't know how the whole shoe color thing even works. If there are "default colors"(which there probably are), or if they just depend, or what.

Also since this is a section, I figured I'd point out that I think the terciary colors for the Blood and Hope palettes are inaccurate. Simply because GT Karkat and Eridan have been shown to not... have bright white or red pants to their outfits. Sorry to derail, but I figured I'd just throw that out there since it's related. Majora787 (talk) 23:58, November 4, 2012 (UTC)

I think having palettes is a great idea in theory...but not so much in practise, because I don't think we are ready for it. For example Meenah's pants are the same colour as her hood, while Vriska's pants and hood have a distinctiv difference in colours...despite them both being thieves. The hood being the same colour as the pants/skirt is also true for Feferi, Jade and Eridan...But Feferi's sleeves have a different colour from her shirt, while jade's sleeves are the same colour as her shirt.Again both share the same class...do you see where this is going? The colour schemes don't seem to be absolute or clear cut. But yeah that aside the hope colour scheme is definetly wrong, Eridan's and Chronus pants are yellow, not white. Blood is arguably accurate because Kankri does indeed have brightish red pants, but Karkat has dull brown ones...here we go again. Not to mention that witches actually get another colour for the stripes on their socks.bitterLime 14:49, November 5, 2012 (UTC)

I think there's a simple solution to this: Have a color palette for all aspects, as we do now, but without the labels such as "hood color" or "pants color" etc; the only colors that should be labeled are the symbol color and shirt color, as those would (apparently) be the only colors that are consistent across all classes. Aepokk Venset 16:19, November 7, 2012 (UTC)

Okay I removed the tags right now as you proposed. And I also took the time to double check all colour schemes. I edited some a little bit where the colours were off a tiney bit (probably because that happens to them in some panels). There, however, are a few colour schemes that are just all over the place. Those are most notably blood and life. The colours in those schemes change pretty drastically in almost each appearance they have (Will post comparision some time soon). Smaller offenders are hope, who just does not have a fourth colour at all (no big problem I guess we'll just leave the last one out for now or put the third one twice), and time... due to the ever changing colour of dave's sleeves (they vary from the colour of his symbol to the colour of his hood...and a medium shade inbetween), but that can be ignored really because it's still a shade from the colour scheme being used most of the time, just a different one at different times.bitterLime 22:07, November 7, 2012 (UTC)

I'm going to place these here until we resolved the issues they have.

My proposals on dealing with it: bitterLime 21:43, November 8, 2012 (UTC)
 * Dark shades of the aspect symbol being used (witches socks, bards cod piece): ignore them unless we ever see this darkr shade of the symbol for other aspects as well.
 * Hope: just leave the secondary colour doubled until we get more shots of hope heroes and might get a tertiary colour
 * Rage: If we ignore the darker symbol shades in general this one is good to go.
 * Life: I'd opt for the darker tertiary shade...just my feeling though, we should wait for more evidence I guess. (light tertiary shade was seen on Feferi's sleeves, Dark tertiary shade was seen on feastings's meenah sprite.
 * Blood: welp...just take whatever I guess. Until we have more evidence.

I think the "darker aspect shade" should be counted as a different color, honestly. Because I was under the impression that Aspect referred to only the color of the actual symbol on the shirt. I think Rage should be ready to add soon. Aepokk Venset 05:46, November 9, 2012 (UTC)

Well yeah, you are right. But especially with the witch of life you can see that the socks are the same colour as the symbol colour, but they have additional dark stripes. So are you also in favour of just ignoring those kind of shades for now? Or should I add it as another colour? I don't really want to make the pallets even bigger. Then again I guess we could just make the colour squares of the pallets smaller, they are kinda big. Also I rewatched "roxy: sleep walk" and realized that you see a close up of Karkats leg and cape, imo the coser up we see something the more reliable, so I guess I'll take the cape and pants colour from there, and since Karkat appears to have his shirt in the same colour as his pants we'd end up in a similar siutuation as with the hope colour scheme, with one colour being doubled. We could ofcourse opt to leave life and blood of the page for now, until we get better shots, but I think we should just put the most reasonable guess on which colours are accurate.bitterLime 14:58, November 9, 2012 (UTC)

Yeah I think we could just leave the "darker Aspect shade" in the palettes as they are now, it makes sense really. We should just put a note somewhere as to the meaning of it so people know. And I'm all for trying to use our best guesses as to the colors based on close-ups, for now anyway. Hopefully we'll eventually get to see all the god tiers in classic sprite form, and we should definitely go by those colors. Hell, he might even release an official Class/Aspect chart displaying all the possible outfits at some point (but it seems unlikely). On the note of Karkat, we should definitely use the sprite as it appears in Roxy Sleepwalk. Obviously it's not reliable for the symbol color, but we could definitely use it for the shirt, pants, and cape colors. Aepokk Venset 18:13, November 9, 2012 (UTC)

I did something to the rage colour scheme, think that would work? Ad yeah I hope we get to see some more god tier people in sprite form, because that seems most reliable.bitterLime 13:14, November 10, 2012 (UTC) Hope and blood are back up, with one colour showing up twice in each colour scheme, until we get a better look at heroes of that aspect.bitterLime 16:27, November 11, 2012 (UTC)

Yes, I think adding the star and the note there is an excellent way to handle it. Aepokk Venset 15:16, November 26, 2012 (UTC)