aspect slander pt.2 i think it's imp0rtant two get the big 2 0ut of the way first, because f0r the naive they might sound like the m0st seductive of the aspects. this is 0n purpose i suspect. they're the (supp0sedly) only 'necessary' aspects t0 breed a new frog, and thus the 0nes you c0uld assume skaia gives the most tw0 and keeps the tightest grip on. which itself is still just an assumpti0n. why does it have tw0 be them? think about it. if either 0f those players dies after slick is b0rn it's not like time and space st0p working. they aren't actually tied to the metaphysics. if y0u gave the frog planet tw0 lets say a mind player and had a light player lucky en0ugh that they were an avid frog c0llector and had the necessary 0nes without needing t0 go back in time and get the missing genes, that w0uld still serve the same function. hell, i alm0st forg0t kk is the one wh0 helped kn out! even if he fucked it up. but it g0es two sh0w skaia can't even be assed to care en0ugh about it's 0wn purpose tw0 ensure the big 2 have to w0rk together. which brings me tw0: Space - what d0es it even do? n0 seriously. that's my biggest point here. y0u can't actually prove it d0es anything. kanaya is a dear friend, but she did everything with her own p0inty gritted teeth and hedge trimmers. no green sparkles required. "but s0llux!" you cry stupidly: "that harley human! with the fluffy ears! she went apeshit bananas with the green sparkles!" yeah yeah i knew the plan. think harder dummy. it needed her c0nnection tw0 the green sun and general first guardian nonsense, n0t aspect. did that supercharge what she already had? fr0m what i've heard her damn barkbeast could d0 all of that already and he sure wasn't a player. we have, at best, a guess at what space actually does when being hard carried by the p0wer of a fucking pan universal instituti0n. it got me tw0 thinking. leaving aside that if you c0uld cheat one in they bec0me superfluous, space's only c0nfirmable role is they make the game generate a fr0g planet. which brings in all the to0ls needed to generate a new universe fr0g, bilious slick in 0ur case. they ARE the universe. space is a frog. c0uldn't you actually just call the aspect 'fr0g?' some0ne designated just two be s0me kind of self insert 0r weird trophy 0f the universe to c0me? that is what they actually do. they generate and channel fr0gs. it's the aspect of being a flagbearer f0r a universe you might never create. f0rced by skaia two be a facilitator at best because it's pretty much a guaranteed 2 pers0n job. it's like skaia f0rgot they needed an actual trigger f0r all the conv0luted crap a session has t0 have happen and just dumped it all on 0ne po0r sap, at best tricking them into thinking they're special and n0t an afterthought necessity. f0rget your dreams. y0ur talents. your interests. n0w you c0llect frogs s0 you can breed fr0gs and protect a r0om full 0f frogs until it's time f0r a really fucking big frog. yes. m0re frogs. fr0ggirl. admittedly i'm getting far up my 0wn chute with the theorycrafting there ab0ut frogspecting, but when the data is emptier than fucking v0id on what a space player actually d0es or is necessary f0r what else can you d0? the most charitable way i've ever heard it put is that space is the medium against which everything else happens, that which gives c0ntext. congrats 0n being the backdrop against which endless gall0ns of paint get splashed. it's m0stly going tw0 be your team's bl0od.
unf0rtunately y0ur weakest th0ugh n0t f0r lack 0f trying. we have a single example 0f an unm0dified space g0d tier being al and she is a muse and a cherub thus making her data null. that being said she did literally turn the green sun int0 a black h0le.
i think y0u've missed the point 0f these wildly anyway. so there's n0t much point reminding ab0ut anecdotes, let al0ne cherubic ones.
if y0u wished t0 slander i w0uld g0 f0r th0se m0st 0ften selected t0 be space players. space is an aspect m0st 0ften p0pulated by pe0ple wh0 d0 0ne imp0rtant thing 0nce then never d0 anything imp0rtant ever again. twice if they happen t0 be lucky. space is an0ther safety net created by skaia t0 g0 0ut 0f their way t0 unfuck an already fucked situati0n assume light and time weren't paying attenti0n. 0ther than that they just play unintenti0nal setup and thus bec0me the blame nexus 0f any given sessi0n.
s0 like when i specifically called out they technically 0nly exist two d0 one thing (generate a fr0g planet) and then are totally irrelevant? s0mething like that? they're wordy en0ugh as is, i've got tw0 trust in some reading between the lines!
then i understand c0mpletely.