#to be his guide to ensure he wouldnt be killed when attempting to speak to people. her reasonings for accepting were of course never

[falled-over]

remembering truganini is enough to ruin my day.

#i kind of want to make an art piece about her but i do feel weird using her as a basis for it. so it just exists in my head #its not like a 'i would need permission from palawa people to make it thing' i wouldnt do it even if i got permission. its not mine and #doesnt need to be #im sure the person reading this doesnt know who she is so heres a small part of her story; #she came from lutriwita tasmania. during her lifetime she personally witnessed an estimated 96% genocide of her people. #in the 1830's george a robinson towards the end of the 'black wars' (attempted palawa aboriginal genocide. it was very much #a war) travelled to offer a 'peace treaty' of sorts to the very few remaining (from an estimated 6-20 thousand to around 1-2 hundred) #saying they could go and live on an island where they'd be given flour and tea and a 'good white man' to protect them. truganini was asked #to be his guide to ensure he wouldnt be killed when attempting to speak to people. her reasonings for accepting were of course never #recorded but she did. and helped round up those people. almost all of whom died in the horrible conditions they were forced to live in on #that island (wybalenna). 16 made it back to lutriwita. #she saw the graves dug there for her people looted by settlers. #looted for bones. and skin. so they could be studied like specimines #the remaining people were sent back to live in an ex-convict camp in 1838. 8 years on that island. most died. as was the intention #even on her wikipedia page she is credited as 'one of the last full-blooded tasmanian aboriginals' which is a phrase highly contested by #living palawa people today. but she knew her reputation. she was considered the last tasmanian aboriginal. #upon the approaching of her death she took a trip to a nearby river and pointed to the deepest part of it #asking to be buried there #she had seen how her friends family and people had had their graves robbed by white settlers and knew the same would happen to her. she #wanted to rest in peace. in the bush. in the deepest part of the river #born around 1811-1812 she died in 1876 #and the last piece of her skin was returned to lutriwita from a british scientific association in 2002. #126 years later #her skeleton was on display in the tasmanian museum (still in operation i might add) until the 1940s. some 70 odd years. and remained in #the museums storage before being returned to the palawa community in 1976. 100 years after her death #she asked to be buried in the deepest part of the river. where no one could touch her.

[isaacathom]

if i wanna just have it be neat and tidy and only use classpect pairs, then my remaining classes are +heir, -page, and -prince. my remaining aspects are doom, time, and blood. my remaining characters are Lyndel, Dahnte and Tsitas

ho boy. alright. lets just get these three fine folks defined so i can then fuck with them. Lyndel is almost 100% passive by her nature. she loves helping others. she negotiates with Dahnte, a man she doesnt particularly enjoy interacting with, for her friends benefit. she likes coordinating things and helping to lead, but crucially she doesnt WANT to be a leader. she doesnt want to make the actual plans, she just wants to help execute them properly. perhaps indecisive, requiring the guidance of others, or requiring clear instructions to give her some sort of purpose.

Dahnte is a cunt. tadaa! ok, well. he’s a manipulator. he likes getting what he wants, and he cares little for the thoughts of others. there IS a clear exception - Tsitas. Dahnte will do most anything Tsitas asks of him, even go against his own principles (to an EXTENT). if he thinks doing something with help Tsitas, he’ll do it. which would make him passive, no? noup! firstly because its SOLELY for her and not the other 6 players, and partly because it makes him look better to her, making it a selfish act.

Tsitas is a manipulator, but far less overtly a cunt. She’s a negotiator, and shes good at getting people to agree to do things they dont want to (like Dahnte) and at doing things against their own best interests. its all about her and her Squad (aka herself, Dahnte, and possibly Endlyn as one of the very few lowbloods that she can stand to be friendly to) and their interests. which could actually make her passive, which could be an interesting route to take.

ok. we’ve got a passive changer, an active destroyer, and an active server/exploiter. ok. Page as the exploiter IMMEDIATELY fits into all three, which is awkward. Lyndel is far less overt about it in terms of being a manipulator of others, but she does push responsibility unto others. she JUST wants to serve, even if being a leader might be whats required of her in the situation. she wants to help, but her way, on her terms. and that term is ‘i am not in command’. if the Page is the class that makes others into Knights (guiders), then this makes perfect sense for Lyndel, as one who doesnt want to make the choices herself. so if Lyndel is a Page, the Page of What? i dont think of Blood, because Lyndel’s relationships to others are strong enough and she doesn’t need guidance in this respect, even though a Knight of Blood (the passive counterpart) is a natural leader (but only in terms of keeping the team together, iirc). she doesnt have much stake in keeping people friendly (since she keeps holding a grudge against Iliyas and doesn’t really seek to resolve it). Page of Doom, though? i think i see it. a Knight would guide in the face of destruction, show others the way (in a vague sense, lol) and i think maybe Lyndel asking others to be that, to show her how to do this, fits in with her admiration of Junzha’s dedication to healing (and the fact that he is actually a Knight of Life - he and Lyndel are a natural fit in this respect. if inversion theory is true, these two? ho fuck). i kinda dig that. ok, lets say this is true. this means Lyndel is active, a Page of Doom. this means that Tsitas is passive, which is interesting. 

heir prince blood time. if Lyndel is active, this means the classes of the remaining two fall into place. Tsitas becomes an Heir, and Dahnte becomes a Prince. but of what. the obvious one would be Dahnte as a Prince of Blood - destroying the personal connections of those around him for his own benefit. his first show of this, of course, is when he sends the drones to cull Serren, sending rippling fractures through the group. While Iliyas eventually deflects the fractures to an extent, they are still there, especially with Lyndel, Junzha, and Rhiana. it also partly damages his relationship with Iliyas, which doesn’t really bother him. and, of course, on a literal level, he destroys Serren’s blood by killing her and triggering her Heart powers, causing her to come back as a bloodless ghost. All for the intent of bettering himself in Tsitas’ eyes! of course if he’d known Serren would revive as a ghost out for fucking blood (haha) he probably wouldnt have done that, because hes scared of ghosts. ooh, perhaps BECAUSE of that bloodless quality? he cannot kill ghosts. he is vulnerable to them. hmmmMMMMMM oh god thats good shit, actually. fuck. oh man.

which makes Tsitas the Heir of Time. A changer of it, for the benefit of others. id not call her selfless to any severe degree, but compared to Dahnte? mmm saintly. because she has mastered the art of compromise. She understands that it is truly in her best interests to support others (even before the game she understands this, and projects an air of reason. when her power base is stripped from her, this becomes completely ingrained as like, a survival mechanism.) and shes willing to go against her personal beliefs (in highblood superiority, for instance) to do things for others. in terms of Time? She rolls with the hits as they come, and her acts of time travel are almost definitely all in response to a doomed timeline, rather than preventing them. its not necessarily a lack of foresight, but she reacts to the knowledge and works backwards. so there are likely a good number of doomed timelines this session, but all of them are fairly short lived after the branch - as soon as Tsitas understands, its corrected. Reactive to the will of Time. it also speaks to her ability to accept change moving forward - for time ever marches, and time ensures change, and she accepts it. her change in status from defacto leader to Just Another Member? frustrating, but acceptable. she will manage. Perhaps she will attempt to puppeteer from the sidelines for a while, before accepting her losses and moving forward. thats possibly the most important thing - as the heir of time, she is something approximating an embodiment of it, and its dauntless march ever onward. she doesn’t let things phase her. well, usually. there are likely moments where she’ll crack, where the inevitabilities of whats around her get too much, and she experiences a crisis of faith. but she is able to recover. because time always recovers.

most of this is incredibly vague bullshit but i THINK i like these. i think these work well.

#story blogging #homestuck stuff #hoo gee. ok now ive got it sorted. i knew i kinda dug the idea of Tsitas as the time player #admittedly thats when she was an Active class but i think passive suits her fine. a bit of maturity for the arc? neat