So we know that muse is the most passive class and that it probably relates to inspiring people, but there was the question on how this class's powers work. Like rogue and thief both steal but rogues steal for the benefits of others and thieves steal for the benefit of themselves. Here I theorize that Muses aren't just people who inspire but they specifically are a class that "Inspires by death".
Which is to say the path of a muse is a path of death. That's why they are the most passive class, because their power is to die and through that death they have a vast cascading effect on everything. Normally when a character dies like dies for good their effect on things come to an end. But the muse would be the opposite alive they don't do much but in death they have a greater effect on the world than any other.
Example Calliope died and this inspired her friends to search for her and search for a way to revive her. It was a lonely path (probably because she is both a space player and cherub) but in the end through the act of dying it lead to her being able to revive and exist as a separate being completely free of her brother and never having to dirty her hands with killing him. Also it put her into the furthest ring where she then was able to find and release Alt-Calliope who proceeded to do so much damage to reality it made LE's cracks look minor nicks in comparison. I also feel like pointing out both Calliope and Alt-Calliope in death were able to do an amazing feat of creating a dream bubble spiral that LE couldn't find them in.
Then look at Alt-Calliope her first act of inspiration was to kill half of herself, the Caliborn half, letting people know that no matter how powerful LE was there existed a cherub stronger than him. Her next act? To die and become god tier. And then to die again to her denizen as part of the choice putting her in the furthest ring. The mere presence of Alt-Calliope in would inspire a ghost army to pretend to look for her which would be one of two necessary catalysts for the retcon power to surface. The other would be Lord English hunting the ghosts and smashing up the ring looking for his sister. These very cracks would be the thing that allows Alt-Calliope to reach the green sun sealing LE's defeat. And her final act? To die by collapsing space in on herself creating a black hole next to the green sun, which upon devouring the whole green sun turned into a massive black hole that devastated the furthest ring.
This bleeds into Alt-Calliope's session. Alt-Calliope is the only player to have a session that wasn't designed for them, even after predominating the session was still designed only for Caliborn yet the denizen changed. The reason? It's because she was a muse and muse players are a path of passivity and death. They aren't meant to be alive so the game created a session where Alt-Calliope would have no choice but to choose between accepting death or living in a failed session. That is to say the session was designed so she would come to view death in a different light and welcome it and thus become ready to die when the time came. Which is to say much like a void session is where a void player can thrive, ala Roxy, a dead session is one where a muse, a death player, can thrive and become more powerful. But by the very same token their act of dying makes them a tragic player who can never enjoy the fruit of what they do.
Though what good would be a master class if it made you incapable of winning and enjoying those fruits completely. Thus I believe that muses are predispositioned to have two alpha versions of themselves. That is to say two equally important main versions of them will ultimately come to exist, both will die, but one will die to achieve victory while the other will die and then revive allowing them to enjoy the fruits of victory.
I believe this makes them similar to doom class which speculates the reason Sollux and Mituna have double dream selves and in Sollux cases two ghosts is because doom players are a path of sacrifice. And it be horribly sucky and unfair to be dealt an aspect that means you're going to have to sacrifice yourself to win. So theory postulates the doom players get an extra dreamself and ghost so they can sacrifice themselves and yet still be around to enjoy the fruits of victory. Doom and Death do after all appear to be associated. The -ATH code that Sollux was all about has problem sleuth's death face on it.
Muse being the class of death would also cover by why Hussie designed its outfit to make its wearer look just like how Death looked in Problem Sleuth.
And when reading Caliborn's words I realized what Calliope....what the Muse class really is, she's deconstruction of the obnoxious story trope where a female character is killed to create motivation to grow/go on a quest for their typically male counterpart. This stuck out like a sore thumb when Caliborn talked about his sad backstory and how his sister was "tragically murdered". So the female counterpart, Calliope, dies and it sends Caliborn on this grand quest to become the most evil thing alive. The deconstruction comes in several ways. The first is that killing Calliope does pretty much nothing for Caliborn's growth in fact it stunts him physically and mentally and it highlights that it was a terrible horible thing for everyone and everything. Then it introduces Alt Calliope who does die and end up acting as motivation for LE, which again is shown to be a bad thing by all the pain and hurt he causes by smashing up the furthest ring to find her. But an important thing here is Alt Calliope died on their own terms and death wasn't the end of her story but rather she used her death to wreck incredibly destruction and defeat her brother becoming a big hero. But the biggest deconstruction comes in the form of our Calliope. With her the story is basically saying "hey having a female character whose only purpose is to die either as motivation or to make a point at how edgy and evil this villain is really sucks and is lazy. So I killed her but now I'm reviving her because her worth is inherent, it's not based on her brother or any big actions she does. She's a living being with her own feelings and dreams and deserves as a happy ending as much as anyone else." That's why the muse class is both inherently female and the most passive, it's parody of the woman in refrigerator/disposable woman/etc... tropes to commonly seen in stories.
Submitted May 14, 2016 at 04:50AM by yuei2 http://ift.tt/1UZTYgG homestuck
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