aspect slander pt. 5 Blood - this is a sticky 0ne. laughtrack. but seriously the 0nly data two g0 off 0f is vantas and his disturbing alternates. someh0w also in tighter pants. did bef0rus have a shortage 0f clothing material in their creepy dyst0pia? it would check 0ut... anyway. kk by his own begrudging admissi0n couldn't d0 shit with his own aspect. which is telling when it's paired tw0 a knight class, the one with the m0st bog standard 0bvious applications 0f its paired aspect. weaponize it. n0t telling of kk's capabilities f0r once th0ugh. i think it's telling of my previ0us theory that s0me aspects are 'supposed' t0 end up with certain classes, and kk got fucked by it being a buggy piece 0f shit and our 0versized session. instead 0f tz who g0t the perfect pair, he got a dysfuncti0nal one. knights are supp0sed to be straightf0rward aspect applicators, but bl0od is an alm0st entirely passive aspect. maybe if he weren't such a wriggler ab0ut his mutantho0d he'd have been able two brute f0rce some kind 0f hemoweap0n edgy ho0fbeastshit but i kind of d0ubt it. while it's not meant t0 be literal blo0d, it is the most 0bvious metaph0rical stand in. blo0d ties, connecti0n, that shit. i think blo0d can only be given tw0 some0ne with a very strong pers0nality. no0ne's going tw0 debate kk had that. which is also why i think there is a selfish comp0nent to the aspect th0ugh, because skaia works that way. it uses these fancy titles as carr0t and stick, both 0n the player and team. i think that secondary shade tw0 blo0d that pretty much all aspects have is strength of the self. it's a bit archaic but the expressi0n being thick-blo0ded comes t0 mind. the aspect subtly amplifying your pers0nality, making it louder and m0re of a beac0n. everyone pretends they like pe0ple who are quiet and p0lite but it's a load 0f shit. human, troll, d0esn't matter. people 'like' quiet types because the thinkpan is lazy and naturally wants tw0 discard extraneous n0ise, if you d0n't make any you're easy t0 forget which is 'nice' 0n a biol0gical level. thus, if you're cl0t burstingly fucking loud and acerbic like karkat vantas then y0u're the only 0ne anyone can hear y0u're the one that will get eyes 0n you. t0 do with as y0u will. no mind c0ntrol needed. just manipulati0n of basic s0cial structures. always, always with the fucking manipulations. skaia's blighted calling card. telling some0ne they are designated as the glue holding a gr0up twogether is b0th an ego b0ost and als0 complete n0nsense because again, there isn't mind contr0l. it's just another way f0r the game to assert it's g0t more c0ntrol 0ver us than it actually does, like all y0ur friends or b0nds are attributed t0 it. charging the po0r dipshit blo0d player with keeping all the purposefully bl0ated egos 0n board with 0ne another f0r just long enough tw0 see the game completed, then y0u can all kill each other 0n a rock. supercharging 0ne's ability to garner attenti0n also paints an en0rmous target on that player's back. pe0ple rally around leaders but they als0 rally around id0ls and trophies. y0u really don't want tw0 start being considered a prize by the af0rementioned gr0up of w0uld-be gods with steadily swelling heads. being less directed at the finish line than s0meone with light 0r time also risks the bl0od player getting an un-appr0ved noti0n in their head and coming af0ul of skaia's janit0rs. then you get m0pped up.