Classpect
A class/aspect combo, more commonly referred to as a title or a classpect, is an objective and reliable way of describing a character. Through their abundant specificity and clarity, classpects have become the most common form of media and character analysis in Biden's America. While the origin and creator of classpects remain unknown, they were popularized by their wide use in analyzing the Contestants of The Wiki Camp 2.
Overview
A classpect consists of a Class and an Aspect. Aspects are not limited to particular classes; any class may be paired with any aspect, and vice versa. Because classpects consider the entire narrative arc of the character they describe, they do not change over time. A character's classpect remains consistent throughout their entire life.
Class
A character's class describes the manner through which they interact with their aspect. This is often expressed as a fill-in-the blank phrase (for example, one who destroys ________ / destroys with ________). Classes usually come in pairs. Active (-) classes tend to directly interact with or influence their aspect, wielding it to their own end. Passive (+) classes, meanwhile, tend to allow their aspect to act and are influenced by their aspect. The universal (o) class is the Proletariat.
Classes may appear to use gendered language, but no classes are gender-locked.
Aspect
A character's aspect refers to the particular element of reality they interact with. Like classes, they come in opposing pairs. Aspects have literal meanings, but also metaphorical ones. Aspect is a savory gelatin made with a meat stock or broth, set in a mold to encase other ingredients.
List of classes
| Description | (-) | (+) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steals their aspect, steals with their aspect | Thief | Rogue | Redistributes their aspect, displaces their aspect |
| Prints their aspect, prints with their aspect | Prince | Bard | Allows their aspect to destroy/be destroyed |
| Manipulates their aspect | Witch | Mage | Is manipulated by their aspect, studies their aspect |
| Heals their aspect,heals with their aspect | Sylph | Seer | Sees/sees with their aspect |
| Goes to sleep | Knight | Maid | Made their aspect |
| Grows their aspect, combs/shaves their aspect | Heir | Page | Reads their aspect, telephones their aspect |
| Reviews their aspect, gives it attention | Critic | Licker | Blindly preaches their aspect, drives people away |
| Eats their aspect | Beaver | Poster | ...Uh... |
| Rules over their aspect, rules using their aspect | Lord* | Muse* | Short for "mouse" |
* The Lord and Muse classes almost always show up together.
List of aspects
| Description | Aspect | Aspect | Description | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Living, potential, growth, plants | Life | Doom | Death, endings, fate, poison | ||||
| Rejection, determination, light | Hope | Rage | Anger, clowns, the narrative | ||||
| Truth, certainty, rocks, gemstones | Ture | Flase | Lies, deception, fiction, the sea, waves | ||||
| Other selves, splinters, souls | Heart | Mind | Choices, paths, thoughts, law | ||||
| Luck, hope, flight, information | Light | Void | Nothingness, emptiness, warranty | ||||
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Statler | Waldorf |
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| Wind, freedom, open worlds. The first open-world aspect. | Breath | Blood | Horror, fear, blood, scary, Halloween, family, connections | ||||
| May 2, 2023, 12:00 AM UTC | Time | Space | |||||
| A sword enchantment that ignites target on contact. | Fire | The Hogs | Nobody is allowed to use this aspect. | ||||
| Comfort, monetary value, the rich | Money | Canny | The perturbed, disturbing, horror | ||||
| Horrible things! | Horrible things! |
Example classpects
This list of Wiki Camp 2 classpects is incomplete. You can help by expanding it!
| Character/Contestant Name | Classpect | Explanation | ||
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| Spike | Lord of Dude | DUDE. | ||
| Vriska | Thief of Light | Has ALLLLLLLL the luck!!!!!!!! | ||
| Mr. Snrub | Prince of Money |
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| Mr. Incredible | Lord of Canny | Has complete and utter control of the element known sparsely as "canny." | ||
| The Computer | Maid of Heart | The Maid class can have multiple meanings, ranging from "protects passively" to "maintains", or even "creates aspect",
When thinking about the Heart aspect as the self, identity, and/or splinters, this fits The Computer's ability very well. The 'Self' of The Computer is simply a bunch of files, zeroes and ones, etches on a drive. However, this is not only transferable to other platforms by effectively replicating herself, she is also theoretically able to clone herself, something that heart players often do. Cloning and transferring fit the bill very well for "Creates Self". In terms of protects/maintains, the simple ability to look at her own files and edit them along with the environment she's in fits this description very well. In a literal sense, The Computer fits the bill for a Maid of Heart very well. | ||
| crispeh | Rogue of Time | me criseh | ||
| 9150625 | Prince of Mind | Put most simply, 55 has a preternatural ability to destroy memory, but not intentionally. So to be less simple let me justify why they aren't alternatives.
Prince of Light fails because Light has an element of luck even if it is about information. Heir of Doom gets close, but they do not embody nothingness itself, as they do have a form. They just cannot remember it, and since memory is so central to their character, Mind is the aspect I've chosen for them. Mind has a secondary theme of timelines, options, and futures, and if you read their entire journey from WC1 to WC2, it fits perfectly. So there it stays. | ||
| Smobo | Peregrine of Mendicant | Mail. | ||
| Athina | Mage of Light | Mage is a loser class and Light is a dweeb aspect. So I'm a dweeby loser. | ||
| Rocko | Beaver of Reddit | He is a beaver* | ||
| The Nostalgia Critic | Critic of Rage | He watched it so you don't have to! | ||
| King | Rogue of Breath | I actually ID'd with Knight of Heart for a good few years before i got govt. assigned Distributor of Opportunity by one of the only two people I've ever trusted the classpect opinions of. Breath's also got heavy emphasis on repeatedly stumbling into unique opportunities just by Doing Your Own Shit which is a ridiculously common happenstance for me. | ||
| Me | Witch of Heart | I feel like this goes without explanation? | ||
| Nobody | Lord of The Hogs | Nobody is allowed to use this aspect. | ||
| Jurta | Seer of Life | IDK | ||
| Okinchester | Chest of Nuts |
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