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The Time Aspect and it's God Tiers/Classpect Roles

Keywords: Mechanical, Destruction, Endings, Terminate, Destiny, Ambiguity, Inevitability, Patience, Repetition, Past/Future Tense, Masculine Instinct

Symbols: Moments, Velocity, Clocks, Sound, Music

Time is one of the two cardinal Aspects of Homestuck. It is half of what creates a Universe. The other half is its opposite, Space. When I think of Time, I think of constantly repeating cycles of the past and future. It continues onward in a patient steady rhythm like a drumbeat or a metronome. I think of what you wait for, what you instinctively know is your destiny. It is the end, but it is ambiguous, its destruction, but it keeps happening. To wait for the end that may never happen, or endlessly repeat, because it is your unchangeable destiny, to eternally suffer that punishment. That it Time.

Witch of Time: One who Manipulates with Time or Manipulates Time

Witches are enthusiastic, confident and optimistic rebels. They break and change the physical and metaphysical "Rules" of their Aspect. Their challenge is to use their rule breaking powers in a morally conscious way.

A Witch of Time, like Damara, would definitely feel rebellious against Time, the idea of fate and patience. Their rejection that something would end or be ambiguous, combined with the Witch class's natural enthusiastic confidence and optimism with their rejection of Time's ambiguity and you have a stubborn force to be reckoned with for sure. They are definitely the "don't give a fuck" type. In terms of actual symbols like clocks and music, you may see a Witch of Time creating or owning an unconventional way of telling Time. Something like crazy sundials or weird looking watches or music that breaks the defined conventional "rules" of music.

It may be weird, it may not work right, but it will be new and different for sure. They might also manipulate others by repeating ambiguous things over and over until it sounds truer. They might use someone's fate or destiny against them. Maybe they will manipulate someone's memories or use the threat of destruction or something as simple as hypnosis by music. The Doctor from Doctor Who fits this pretty well, and is an example of not every god tier is inherently good or evil.

Heir of Time: One who Invites Manipulation of Time or one who Invites Manipulation through Time

Heirs naturally gravitate towards their Aspect or unconsciously seek it out. They huge amounts of Aspect related strength as well. Their challenge is to not get stuck on one thing, to know when to move on and adapt

An Heir of Time will have huge amounts of patience and a great natural instinct for how things will end up. They naturally gravitate towards the end, destruction or concepts of fate and destiny, because of this, they may have an interest in ambiguous fortune-telling or astrology that predicts how you might die. They are bad for getting stuck in ruts or doing the same things over and over out of convenience.

They may also have a natural talent for singing or making music and most likely will have a great internal clock or "metronome" that helps them keep the beat. They also might be lazy or hard to inspire and get going with the way an Heir of Time "Inherits the Time", meaning they believe they have all the Time in the world, and they may be right. They might not be the kind of people to try new things very often. They're most likely to wave things off and be like, yeah the shits going to hit the fan eventually, but not right now, so it's fine, we can wait.

They are prone to being manipulated by Time as well, certain moments or memories may be used against them, the thought of their own fate or destiny and what it might be, or maybe even they get lost in music or noise and are manipulated that way. They might have the personality of a naive spiritual saint that hopes they will make a change, or to end something wrong in the world, but doesn't really act to go through with it, its more of a nice thought to them.