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QuestionMight I ask your opinion on the Maid of Heart's roles/path/challenge? And some possible weapons? Answer

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Roles, paths, and challenges: CA

Okay. Maid is the active counterpart to the passive Sylph class, both of which create their Aspect. Maids are hypothesized to be an exclusively female class, but, again, anything is possible with god tiers. Maids, however, unlike Sylphs, actively create their Aspect, meaning that, first and foremost, the creation for their Aspect is for themselves. Take Aradia, as the Maid of Time, for instance. When she first was shown in god tier, her first act was to slow Jack down to a stop, thereby creating Time for herself. This simultaneously happened to create Time for her friends, but her first act was one of self-preservation. Not that this is a bad thing. To be honest, we were all kind of surprised by what was happening, and we didn’t expect Aradia’s dream self to already be god tier, so…
Anyway, Heart is the Aspect of self, emotion, and embodies the idea of a soul (hence how Dirk managed to attempt the ripping of Aranea’s soul out of her new body). A Maid of Heart would be a person who would go around creating either one of two things for themselves:
One: they could create emotions for themselves. This doesn’t mean IN themselves, although it could be that if it was really something they wanted. No, they would create emotions for their own purposes. If a Maid of Heart didn’t want to fight an army, they could create enough sympathy for themselves to either stop the army from fighting them and get it to fight themselves, or, if powerful enough, they could turn the entire army to their side. If they wanted to pump themselves and their team up to fight the Black King or something, they could create that fighting drive in themselves. They would be able to give themselves and others power through emotions.
Or, two, they could create Souls. I imagine it as an ability that would, at least most of the time, use an existing soul for a template, and it would create some slight physical form for the copy of the soul in question. Yes, a Maid of Heart would be able to copy souls to make clones of them. They would be able to create an army- an army with little in the way of physical form, meaning any blow they take would likely just be like passing through air, and any blow they make, would hit the soul. Any creature with a weak soul would be hurt really, really badly, practically destroyed by any blow they took from that army the Maid created. Even an enemy as potent as the Black King, given the existence, his being, if it was harmed every time the Maid’s army hit him, not even he would be able to stand up to it.
So as for roles, a Maid of Heart would likely be a more behind-the-scenes fighter. Allowing their army every chance to fight on their own, to heal them by recreating their template, to allow emotion and soul-crushing power to destroy their enemies for them. They would help their team by giving them high doses of fighting spirit. They’d be like one of those mage types from RPGs, providing buffs and making really powerful attacks.

As for paths…well, the Maid of Heart’s true path would have to involve embracing their emotions and their ability to manipulate others. This doesn’t mean that they’re going to utilize this ability. Hell, they could hate that they have it! They just have to recognize this ability of theirs, and recognize that using it is a good thing, providing they only use it in moderation. After all, their abilities are given to them for a reason, and that reason is to help them, believe it or not. Other paths involve using their powers too little (be this due to fear or some other factor), or using their powers too much (which would likely lead to class inversion, turning a Maid of Heart into a Bard of Mind).

As for challenges, I’m a bit confused as to what you mean. Do you mean quests? In which case I recommend a quest that would let them learn to use their foremost abilities (creating emotion and thereby manipulating people) better, maybe creating something that would stop a war between two factions of their consorts? This could be a speech, a song, a monument, really just anything that would help them stop whatever destruction is happening in their world.   A grander, overarching mission for all Maids would be to learn how to support their friends with their aspect, as support is the main purpose of both the Maid and their passive counterpart, the Sylph.
If you’re talking about personal problems, however, things like overcoming doubt or fear or such, I would say it would depend heavily on the Maid of Heart themselves. Some Maids of Heart might hate their ability to create emotions in people, or might not understand it, leading to them not knowing how to use their abilities when the time comes. Other Maids of Heart may be too eager to use their abilities, which might drive those on the tail end of their skills insane (as rapid and uncontrollable and unexplainable changes in mood sometimes can), destroying their thoughts, thereby turning the Maid of Heart into a Bard of Mind, with negative connotations for the Maid in question. I mean, just take a look at Jane, the Maid of Life, inverted by Her Imperious Condescension’s mind control tricks, forced into a Bard of Doom’s role. It results in her threatening Jake with rape (a result of her romantic feelings for Jake mixed with her frustration towards him and her just general anger), killing Karkat just to bring him back to life again (more anger with a mix of proving herself), and doing a ton of other pretty horrible stuff.

So, my altogether opinion of the Maid of Heart is that they would be a useful teammate, and have the makings of a pretty good grounding member for the team as an excellent communicator. All it would take is a bit of understanding their abilities.


Weapons: TC

The pattern for the most well known Maids’ weapons is that it is related to something that they are interested in.  Jane enjoys cooking and baking, so she uses a spoon/fork as a weapon.  Aradia enjoys archaeology, so she uses a whip like Indiana Jones.  Porrim supposedly used Kanaya’s chainsawkind specibus as well, showing her interest in fashion (it turns into lipstick!).  As for Heart players, they tend to use melee weapons that also reflect their interests, with Dirk’s anime and Nepeta’s roleplaying/cat theme (Theirs are based on slashing attacks, but I’ll cut you a break).  Seeing as I do not know what you are interested in, I will mostly use the Heart player pattern as a reference and make occasional guesses for your interests.
As such, the following would be suitable weapons:

  • Artkind: That’s why it’s called painting.
  • Bladekind: Always an option, especially if your interests are anime.
  • Bookkind: Interested in reading?  Why not destroy your foes with LITERATURE!!!
  • Chainkind: Anyone who shops at Hot Topic tends to have many weapons for this strife specibus.
  • Chainsawkind: Like chainkind, only sharper.
  • Clawkind: Ooh, shiny.
  • Entertainmentkind: Are you not entertained?
  • Fankind: I could say some cliche like “I’m your biggest fan”, but even I’m not that horrible.
  • Forkkind: Stick a fork in it.
  • Instrumentkind: The hills are alive…
  • Keykind: The fastest way to unlock a person’s heart?  Stab a key in their chest, of course!
  • Knifekind: One of our most over-recommended strife specibi, back with a vengeance.
  • Needlekind: Thankfully, there’s no need to thread these bad boys.
  • Penkind: Its name is Anaklusmos. For all you non-demigods out there, that means Riptide.
  • Pubkind: For all you alcohollics out there.  *Alcoholics.
  • Puppetkind: If you really feel you must.
  • Sciencekind: Blind them with science.  No, really, like stick a scalpel in their eye or something.
  • Scissorkind: Make sure someone prototypes paper.
  • Signkind: You said stop, now make sure they hear you.
  • Soundkind: …with the sound of music.
  • Sportskind: Touchdown, or whatever.  It matters little to me.
  • Staffkind: YOU SHALL NOT PASS!!!
  • Toykind: No more playing around.  (Yes, I know my puns are awful)
  • Wandkind: Expelliarmus!
  • Yoyokind: You’ll always bounce back.