Light - Cyberstuck

The Light Aspect and its God Tiers/Classpect Roles

Keywords: Everything, Exposure, Awareness, Attention, Illuminate, Information, Finite, Meaningful, Importance, Perception, Influential, Clarity, Existence

Symbols: Light, Probability, Eyes, Data

Light is one of the 12 Aspects of Homestuck. Its Opposite is the Aspect Void. When I think of Light, I think of the constant gathering of data and content, gained through your own perception and influence. It is also uncovering and revealing the meaning you get from that information. It is understanding the meaning and influence that people give to things like spirituality or superstition. It is the attention and clarity of mind needed to illuminate the world around you, to identify what is important and worth knowing to yourself. It is the calculating perception of probability, fortune and odds based on understanding the relevant information. Light is the brightness that exposes all things from every angle, nothing is hidden from it or escapes its attention. It is the intense scrutiny of yourself and everything around you that illuminates the desired path towards Enlightenment, or hyper awareness of everything.

Mage of Light: One who Understands with Light or Understands Light

Mages will uniquely experience their Aspect, both good and bad. As a result, they gain a unique understanding of what their Aspect is or does. Their challenge is to become open to new insight or different perspectives than their own.

A Mage of Light might suffer from their knowledge, perception or awareness of all things. They would be enlightened with valuable knowledge, but it could be torturous also knowing what they know. They already know everything, even things they might be powerless to change. They might literally suffer from a third eye, either in their mind like migraines or it being physically on their body. Bright lights could hurt their eyes and they might even suffer from all the attention and exposure, they could be someone important or influential because of their knowledge, the flash of a camera could be especially bad. On the flipside through their unique experiences, these things could be uniquely effortless for them to navigate moreso than other people, they could be people able to effortless navigate the spotlight of either fame or infamy. They could see the importance in the thing that everyone else ignores, the truth underneath all of the lies that nobody else detects.

Everything they do could be scrutinized, or be seen as bad or a good omen. The whole of the meaning of existence weighs heavily on them and they could suffer from an existential crisis or two. To put it shortly, they are someone who didn’t ask to be enlightened, and might have even preferred not knowing, but who can also turn it around and use it to their great advantage. On the bright side, this causes them to truly see what is important and meaningful in life, so they can focus on that instead. They may also suffer from accidental bouts with superstition, stepping on mirrors or constantly running into black cats and such, or know of even the most obscure superstitions for giving good or bad luck where needed..

This can cause them to have bad luck at times, but also causes them to have knowledge of everything to do with superstitions and how to fix them when they go wrong. They are burning from all the Light they are constantly being exposed to, and it can wear them out, physically, emotionally, maybe even mentally. They might also have been lied to in the past about various things and suffered for it, so now they know how to tell truth from a lie. Nothing escapes their notice or perception, so they can never be snuck up on or be hurt by anyone meaning to hurt them, they would know before it ever was a thought in the other person’s head.

Thief of Light: One who Steals with Light or Steals Light

Thieves have good intentions, and might be egocentric. They have natural confidence with their Aspect, but hide insecurities and hate being seen as weak. Their challenge is to learn to let others have their Aspect as well

Thieves of Light have a natural knack for knowing and paying attention to things that are important and influential. They have natural confidence for perceiving things clearly and seeing what they really mean. They would also steal for themselves any kind of importance or attention, wanting the focus to be completely on them all the time. They would do this by stealing other people’s time in the spotlight for themselves. They also have no trouble acting important and influential to secure this center stage spotlight. A Thief of Light like Vriska Serket would also take for themselves every kind of probability and luck.

They make sure fortune and favor always shines on them, maybe even literally stealing people’s lucky charms. They cannot stand having themselves, their information or their understanding of things going unacknowledged. When people play games, their cards are always on the table, their opinions never go unheard and their perception of things never goes unnoticed, even if have to scream and yell or do something drastic to make sure they are always being paid attention to. Their point of view on things is always taken in account whenever anything is being discussed if they can help it, and they do.

They would mainly do this by going around stealing the important meaningful bits of data and information from other people, taking the credit and attention for discoveries others have already made, stealing away their importance and influence as well. If someone else is getting attention or acknowledgement for something, they will elbow themselves into the spotlight as well. It does not matter if whatever is happening does not concern them or isn’t their business, they will make it concern them and they will make it their business anyway they can. They will always have something to say about everything.

Rogue of Light: One who Invites Theft of Light or one who Invites Theft through Light

Rogues have problems coping with their Aspect or their supposed lack of it. They think they can’t actually handle it, causing them to give it up too easily. Their challenge is to come to terms with their Aspect and own it

Rogues of Light would have problems coping with any attention, importance or influence placed upon them, either thinking they don’t deserve what they have or being nervous about handling that kind of responsibility or feeling too exposed in general. They might not know where to look or who to turn to at times when they need information and clarity. Because they might think they’re not good enough or smart enough on their own, they might try to pass some importance or responsibilities onto other people. They might be uncomfortable being in the spotlight or in crowds or be nervous under pressure.

They have difficulty trusting their own perception and perspective on things, but they try to answer anyway if someone asks them an important question. They might be superstitious and feel like they are constantly have their good luck taken and bad luck thrown their way. They might even have a tendency to give away things that are important or meaningful to them or their own personal lucky charms to others. They might have trouble literally trusting their own eyes, thinking that they are seeing things that aren’t there, or thinking they are not seeing something correctly. They might even anxiously believe they are being constantly watched, even if nothing is there.

They may try to cope with all of this by seeking the answers and information wanted from them in other people. They may be too open and honest with people about what they believe, see or know, allowing that information to be taken and claimed by other people. They may willingly give up any legitimately earned attention and fame to other more undeserving people. They should be careful not to give up too much to other people, in case it comes back to bite them in the ass, like people start to legitimately believe they aren’t intelligent or not important, when they really are.

Knight of Light: One who Exploits with Light or Exploits Light

Knights hide a fear of a perceived fundamental failure with their Aspect behind a shield of confidence and obsessive effort. Their challenge is to learn to take it down a notch and to understand that they are skilled enough

A Knight of Light would have information and knowledge of what various things mean and would use their sharpened perception of that information’s importance or meaning to great advantage. They are also good at applying their knowledge to various different uses. They might exploit the influence of some important information to their advantage like a bargaining chip, or they might use someone’s perspective or perception of things as a means to an end. They could exploit how much attention something or someone does or doesn’t get and use that as well, maybe as a way to hide something. They may try too hard to see or understand things, thinking they’re not really seeing the whole picture clearly. They may read and reread something over and over, making sure that they aren’t misunderstanding it.

They might worry about whether or not they’ve accurately gauged something’s importance or influence, wondering if it’s actually worth it. They could very easily exploit people by exploiting their superstitions against them, using broken mirrors or black cats. They might even exploit all kinds of lucky charms themselves. They could exploit probability to their advantage because of how skilled they are with luck, though they would second guess themselves over whether or not they’re taking unnecessary risks. They could be very skilled with data collection and they are good with any of its practical applications, but could easily beat themselves up if they got something wrong or incorrect. They are very skilled with focusing their attention on important and meaningful things in order to put them to good use. They could also be very precise with using reflective surfaces or lenses any way they wanted to, though they would have a tendency to keep fiddling until it was exactly right.

They might be good at flash photography and they would have a good eye for how things look, even if they think all their photos sucked. They may worry they don’t understand something thoroughly, or that they understand it wrong, that the correct meaning is something different than what they think, causing them to obsessively over analyze what they know for any possible mistakes or misinterpretations. They might exploit an object or place that is very bright and blinds people with its light. They would constantly worry that something could be hiding in plain sight, right under their nose or that they could be missing something. Some piece of the puzzle or missing information or hidden meaning that they’re just not getting. But they would try to hide any perceived gaps or mistakes in their knowledge and deny any kind of guesswork that they do when they are in the middle of figuring something out. They would be amazing investigators, either private or crime scene, or even great journalists

Page of Light: One who Invites Exploitation of Light or one who Invites Exploitation through Light

Pages start with a deficit in their Aspect that they confidently overcome through obvious overcompensation. Their challenge is to keep at it, even if they fail and the journey is slow, for they become the strongest players

A Page of Light would at first have trouble focusing on something or keeping their attention on important or meaningful things. This may cause them to not fully understand every piece of data or information and understand its meaning, or it may cause them to have not enough data or information to be able to come to a conclusion, or it may give them incorrect data. They might have their lack awareness and proper attention to something important exploited by paying attention to the wrong thing and over focusing and analyzing that instead of what they should focusing on. They may act like they totally understand something and try to bluff their way through an exam or test of knowledge, and would ultimately fail. They might not fully understand how or why someone is influential or important and their efforts to understand would mostly completely miss the point.

They might not fully understand superstitions or spirituality or why people have them and place meaning on them. They go by on guesswork, lots of guesswork rather than actual data or information. They might often try to hold conversations about things they have no understanding of in an attempt to seem important or influential, like using a lot of big words they don’t understand the meaning of in order to sound intelligent. They might talk on and on in an attempt to make themselves perfectly clear to whoever is listening, but end up befuddling whoever is listening by over explaining everything they say or do. They may not understand why something is important or meaningful to another person, or how important or meaningful it is. They then attempt to overcompensate for that by overestimating its importance or meaning, acting like that person or thing is something to be revered as a perfect godlike person or substance or highlighting and valuing the wrong characteristic.

For example, they might think a spiritual golden object is important and influential because of the price of the gold created to make it, rather than its spiritual significance. So in their attempts to impress, they would act astounded about how expensive it was and what you could get for selling it or even worse, they would sell it and replace it with some random gold thing worth even more, thinking they had done something impressive and thoughtful. They may try to overcompensate their lack of knowledge about things by gathering a lot of useless or even incorrect information and trivia in an attempt to impress others with their knowledge. They will fail a lot, as Pages are prone to, but eventually they will learn from all their failures even if simply because they exhausted every possible way to fail so only the correct path is left.