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QuestionIf you have enough Time, could you please do the Maid of Hope, that is, if you both aren't too busy. Thanks anyway! Answer
Anonymous said to fancygodtierpowers:
Um, if you aren’t too busy, then could you please do Maid of Hope. That is, if you don’t mind. Thanks!

No problem.

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Powers: CA

The Maid and the Sylph are the active-passive pair for the Creating classes, both of which hypothesized to be female-exclusive classes, but in a webcomic where a giant snake-like denizen looks like phallic imagery to a green girl, anything goes. Where the Sylph creates their Aspect in relation to others, Maids use their Aspect to give themselves, such as giving themselves more Time in a certain red-blooded troll’s case. Maids are made to freely create their Aspect for whatever reason they deem fit, but fortunately, most of them have the sense to not do this too much.
Hope is potentially the most potent of all Aspects. It is the Aspect of belief, of faith, of optimism, of energy. It is as powerful as its wielder, and the Maid of Hope’s ability to create Hope freely is very, VERY powerful. Beyond simply fostering other’s faith in them, the Maid would be able to foster belief in whatever they viewed as worth having faith in. They could inspire faith in their team’s ability to succeed, to defeat the Black King, or in each team member’s abilities to complete their own individual quests. They could inspire faith in just about anything, really, all it needs is for the Maid to believe in it, too, for it to work. The Maid might even possibly be capable of creating that which there is Hope placed in….That was worded very awkwardly, let me try to explain again: the Maid could create whatever gods or forces people believe in at the time. Illusory? Most likely. More bark than bite? Most definitely. But not entirely powerless. I mean, if you saw whatever or whomever you placed a shit-ton of faith in fighting against you on the battlefield, you’d probably want to give up, or, at the very least, stop fighting until you figure out why they’re there. The Maid of Hope in general would be able to create whatever is needed to make faith once they have completely come about understanding their powers. If to win a battle, their friends thought they needed an army, a fully-fledged Maid of Hope could create that army.
Furthermore, the Maid of Hope would be able to create Hope as pure energy. This could potentially make them a very destructive force, despite their nature as a Creating class, as this energy could basically take any form the Maid wanted: a force field, a laser beam, a shield, a sword, a light source, a spirit bomb, whatever. Anything the Maid of Hope wants that energy to form, it’ll form, and (hopefully) complete its purpose.
The Maid of Hope would be very helpful on the front lines of battle. Their ability to create weapons from the pure energy of their Aspect means they will never be unarmed, even if they should happen to lose their own weapon, and their ability to pump up their allies and confuse their enemies with their own hopes and objects of faith make them a force to be reckoned with, and that’s not even counting their weapons.


Weapons: TC

Well, for once… the Maid part of the title doesn’t really matter, since the Hope part is quite specific.  All Hope players revealed thus far have wielded a gun of some sort, with Eridan and Cronus wielding Ahab’s Crosshairs and Jake wielding his dual pistols.  Whereas usually the Maid wields a weapon pertaining to their interests, that would be restricted now to helping you decide the sort of gun that you/your character would use.  Here are the types of gun specibi available.

  • Automatickind: Shoot enough bullets until you hit something.  That’s the American way!
  • Flamethrowerkind: Now, when Captain America gets here, what we’ll do is use these flamethrower hands to trap him in a fence of fire.
  • Laserkind: For all of you people who have ever wanted a Death Star.
  • Pistolkind: Shoot to thrill…
  • Riflekind: Play to kill
  • Shotgunkind: No, this is not what calling shotgun means!


Land and Quest: TC and CA

Here’s a word list to help you if you’re having trouble in coming up with a good Aspect word for your Hope land. Disclaimer over. Let’s talk about lands.
Well, we had talked about this before, but sadly, we only have information from one land. Eridan Ampora, the Prince of Hope, and his land, The Land of Wrath and Angels. Where Jake English was the Page of Hope, his session was a Void session, thereby making his land inherently different from that of a normal session.
Eridan’s land is fairly easy to dissect. Angels is more than obviously the Aspect word because Wrath is more of a Rage word anyway. Where we don’t know which is the quest and which is the aesthetic, I would hazard a guess that Wrath is the quest word, and that Angels is the aesthetic word, given how the angels were apparently fairly peaceful before Eridan started shooting them, meaning that Eridan’s planet wasn’t inherently wrathful, so that’s not the aesthetic. As a side note, this might mean that Eridan knew a lot more about his planet than he was letting on, and that he knew that Wrath might have been necessary for him to finish his quest.
So: the Maid’s quest obviously wouldn’t be quite as destructive as the Prince of Hope’s, and not quite as impersonal as the Sylph of Hope’s, either, as the Maid’s powers themselves aren’t quite as impersonal, either. The Maid of Hope’s land would have consorts who have themselves two things: a deity they love quite dearly (or perhaps multiple deities, they can look however you want- hell, one of them could even be the Maid, provided the consorts seem unable to recognize their similarities) and quite a large problem. A huge monster running rampant in their land, a disaster like a fire or a flood, or some sort of famine that has a solution the Maid can understand and begin to implement, anything, really. These consorts have no way of helping themselves from this calamity, save for the lot of effort they just can’t seem to muster for some reason. It’s probably hopeless anyway, right (I’m not subtle at dropping hints).
The Maid’s quest is to restore Hope to the land by blessing it as some sort of figure of Hope. Take Christianity (gods know no one else will): the deity is God, the messiah is Jesus, and the  celestial heralds are angels. The Maid could be either (one of) the deity(ies) returned to the planet to solve their problem, the messiah, or some other sort of important figure, like an angel. The Maid will help the consorts solve their problem by creating Hope for them as their religious figure, and by being such a figure of power, the Maid can therefore help them solve all their own problems (although, admittedly, the larger one might need the Maid themselves to intervene). How does one go about motivating these consorts who have been lazily relying on their deities for generations? I don’t know. Impart some Uncle Iroh-esque proverbs on them, make them ingest some caffeine, just make sure they can do it without you in the end. As far as Hope can bring you, no one can manage on it alone.