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Verb and pairing evidence:

A Knight is someone who would actively fight their aspect, and who would exploit their aspect to actively fight with.

A Page is someone who would passively fight their aspect, and who would passively fight with their aspect (as if by the will of their aspect).

I read Knights this way because in this dialogue Aradia mentions that:

ARADIA: the knight of time is not necessarily the tactician

ARADIA: he is a powerful warrior class which exploits the flow of time as a weapon

(btw this is also where I’m getting the concept of “active classes exploit their aspect”). IMO in homestuck when someone says something like this so bluntly (at least when there isn’t some factor in place to doubt them) it’s counter-intuitive to ignore them, especially when the actions and powers of our knights support her words: Dave alchemizes the caledscratch and other broken sword based weaponry that can be extended by turning the time back (plus his main weapon, the caledfwlch/royal deringer goes through many renditions and goes back in time at least twice, so Dave does pretty much wield time, and uses time to fight with), Karkat ends the fights with (A2) Jack Noir and Gamzee by forming temporary relationships (blood) with them (and often fights along-side Terezi). Also, if the verb of the knight was literally “fight” then it would explain why Knights are often very resistant to their aspect (ie: half the time they’re fighting with it and the other half they’re fighting against it). In addition to this, this page could be seen as Dave trying to stop John from time travelling. Finally here Dave says:

DAVE: ugh my shitty childhood spider senses are tinglin just thinking about it

DAVE: it was “training” you know

DAVE: but you know what it really was it was some vicious shit that was bad and sucked and i hated it

DAVE: it didnt make me stronger

DAVE: it did the opposite

DAVE: it made me never want to fight

Which looks like evidence against this theory but Kanaya mentions here that:

CGA: I Think We Are Given Roles To Challenge Us

CGA: That Dont Necessarily Suit Our Strengths

I’ve put the Page as the passive equivalent to the Knight, since A: I think the Page’s arc looks a lot like what the passive version of the Knight’s arc should look like, B: there’s a moderately strong link between the two medieval versions of the classes, And C: Tavros’s actions and Aranea’s words heavily imply that the role of the Page is to inspire others to fight.

Other verbs: There is an argument that Knights “exploit” their aspect (supported by Dave and Karkat using their aspects for things other than fighting, like gaming lohac-exchange and Karkat getting the other trolls to “obey” him and work together), but I don’t agree as Aradia actually says that Dave falls into a warrior class the evidence that supports the theory also can fit the “fight” verb (Dave aggressively fought up the Lohac-exchange? Karkat fought blood in the form of the accepted hierarchy and the Troll’s warrior spirit?). There is also however, these couple of lines from Karkat:

CG: ANYWAY, SHE AND DAVE DO A LOT OF FROG BREEDING, ACCELERATING THE PROCESS SIGNIFICANTLY BY EXPLOITING TIME TRAVEL, WITH HELP FROM ME AND KANAYA, SINCE WE WERE IN CHARGE OF FROG DUTIES IN OUR SESSION.

CG: SHE AND DAVE RAN INTO JACK, WHICH I’M SURE HE MUST HAVE SAW COMING BECAUSE I’VE NEVER SEEN ANYONE EXPLOIT TIME TRAVEL SO SHAMELESSLY AS HIM, NOT EVEN ARADIA.

But the language is pretty vague here and he doesn’t mention Dave being a Knight in either sentence like Aradia does so I think if Karkat is saying anything class related he’s just saying that Knights are more active than Maids (since he does imply that Aradia exploited time travel, just not as shamelessly).

I also will point out that there’s some evidence to suggest that Knights actively create their aspect, as Karkat’s session was short on Blood (very little cohesion and teamwork between the players? Although there was already an existing hierarchy so this one is a little vague) and Dave’s was short on time (incredibly small time limit before the reckoning? Although this is due to Jack Noir, who is part of the galactic cancer, so maybe take this with a pinch of salt) plus Knights are involved in the frog breeding (Space creation). Personally though, I don’t think there’s enough evidence to give this theory much weight. I guess you could also say that Jake “creates” using his aspect, but again it doesn’t fit with a lot of other things we know about Pages (nor do we have any examples of Page’s inspiring others to create).

Medieval connections:

Knights:

In feudalist times Knights were a nobleman who swore to fight for a more politically powerful noble, and who were also required to swear religious oaths about their conduct. More than this Knights were defined by the fact that they were mounted warrior (which is why in chess the knight is usually shaped like a horse), and in some contexts might have been the only soldier allowed to ride a horse into battle.

As you probably already know Knights are also heroes of a lot of stories, who fought monsters and a lot of the time were sworn to protect those weaker than themselves, and this is definitely reflected in homestuck, with both our red Knights having sort of god-complexes.

You can definitely see why Hussie puts the Knight as the active warrior class, as the idea of the Knight is someone who fights for others, but who also uses a large wealth and exploits others to do so.

Why would a medieval Knight fight?

Because it was their job? More than any other homestuck class the Knight has more military/martial connotations, so maybe the question we should be asking is why would a homestuck Knight do anything other than fight?

Pages:

Similarly to how Bards are (almost certainly) representative of two very closely related medieval professions, the Page class (as I read it) represents the Page and the Squire, which also had similar roles.

If you lived in europe and were a noble male rich enough to become a Knight you could go through this “career path”:

Page (from when they were 7 until age of 14) —> Squire (until age of 21, or earlier in certain contexts, OR you’d stay a Squire forever if you were to poor to become a Knight) —> Knight.

A Page was a (noble) general purpose servant-boy who worked in a castle, delivering messages and serving people food and drink, but also acted as an attendant for a Knight, (doing things like cleaning weapons and armour, and helping their Knight put on armour).

A Squire served only their Knight, and as I understand it they had a whole new range of roles which included generally looking after their Knight, his equipment and his horse.

Why would a Medieval Page fight?

Squires were often brought to the battlefield by their Knights in order to prove themselves, and both Pages and Squires were meant to look after their Knight’s weaponry, reflecting how the Page class is (probably) meant to inspire others to fight.

Fitting them together:

Medieval Pages directly serve Medieval Knights, giving more weight (if Pages and Knights are a verb pair) to the theory that some verb pairs form a sort of “master and servant” dynamic (Bard serves Prince, Witch serves Sylph?, Maid serves Heir), or at least their medieval counterparts do.

Character development patterns:

(For this part I’m going to ignore Latula and Horuss for the most part and focus on the Knights and Pages with the most screen time.)

Knights:

Both Dave and Karkat grew up in damaging environments, which eroded most of their self worth and forced them to put up walls of false personality and self deception around their issues, making them (try) to seem outwardly confident. I see this as them suppressing the negative parts/consequences of their aspect by using their aspect. In my opinion Knights reach the end of their journey when they’ve burned through their self denial and have the clarity to fight fully using/exploiting their aspect.

Karkat:

During his childhood Karkat had it forced into his mind that he was worthless because of his blood colour, he had no powers and very little caste related inheritance. Because of this he hides his blood colour from others, and he’s also in denial about how his blood will affect his life, which I see this as him suppressing/resisting the negative facets of “Blood”.

Then Karkat enters the game. He still tries to hide his Blood colour, and now fights Blood in the form of the accepted troll hierarchy (ie: highbloods such as Equius should take charge) but is now also exploiting the positive facets of “Blood” to fight with (positive facets being relationships and warrior spirit). During this time he forms pacts with Jack Noir (who later gets exiled by other red team members, as he apparently would have betrayed them) and Eridan (who later goes on a murder rampage).

Now the session has ended. Everyone knows Karkat’s blood colour, and partly as a result of this (and partly because it’s clear he’s a bit out of his depth at this point) Karkat is losing all his authority, (by this page, pretty much no-one is listening to him, even if Kanaya will call him a leader later). At this point he delays Gamzee’s rampage by forming a moirallegiance with him (resisting/fighting “Blood” in the form of Gamzee’s acceptance of his sociological role as a murder clown, and exploiting “Blood” in the form of their relationship to to this).

By the end of the meteor journey he has gone full reluctant hero. He has accepted that he was never going to be a threshecutioner and his given up his leadership role to Vriska. Karkat is no longer fighting Blood, but arguably this is an important part of his story as now that he isn’t denying the negative part of his aspect (and his childhood) he arguably has the clarity to use his abilities much better, and with much more control and power?

What’s the future of Karkat’s arc? Well Echidna and Kanaya seem to think he’ll be looking after the new troll world, with the denizen specifically wanting to look at him and see that he’s the right version of Karkat for the job (at least that’s how I read it). Speculating further, I think he will wake up alone on the new troll world, and will have to act as the new Troll Jesus, suppressing the young Trolls inherent inclination to form a blood based hierarchy (not completely destroy it, but just to stop it from being so brutal, as by trying to destroy the hierarchy you’d just end up with a bunch of “enlightened” highbloods a few centuries later) and also fighting their warrior spirit (but again not destroying it, just stopping if from causing wars), all the while using his own warrior spirit and ability to form relationships to do so. Either this will stick and he’ll create a template for a more pacifist and caring Troll species, or he’ll become immortal or something and will regularly show up to shout down people trying to start wars or hierarchies.

Dave:

Dave was physically and emotionally abused throughout his childhood, but still idolised Bro Strider despite this. Seeing as how this abuse was due to the fact Bro was being affected by a time demon trapped in a puppet, and seeing as how much of the abuse took the form of Bro moving at super speeds (be it attacking Dave during “training”, or doing stupid “pranks” like replacing sandwich fillings with a puppet), I think that Dave being in denial about the fact he is abused represents him “fighting time”.

Dave then enters sburb. He is now exploiting time to fight with, but in addition to this he also comes face to face with, the fact that he isn’t really the hero Bro seemed to be “training him to be”. This is the first part of him letting go of his self denial, of admitting to himself just how messed up he really is.

Now Dave’s (first) session is over, and he’s travelling to the next one on a meteor. Over time he begins to realise just how badly Dirk abused him, and he is also made aware of a bunch of riddles and shit that imply he’s destined to fight and kill Lord English.

In openbound Dave says:

DAVE: i think i might be “supposed” to kill him anyway?

DAVE: thats the feeling i get like there are all these clues about that ive kinda noticed

DAVE: so if i am THE GUY that needs to take him down then fine ill do that if and when i get hornswoggled into some big showdown with a ridiculous green space pimp or whatever he is

DAVE: i dont know i think im not really cut out for the whole reluctant hero shtick

DAVE: like the whole scene is so obvious and trite and i cant even tell if my reluctance is ironic or if im playing it straight

DAVE: like ill wonder if im being reluctant enough to cut it or if im actually just being reluctant to be reluctant

DAVE: it turns into like meta reluctance and then all i can think about is how fucking stupid the whole thing is

DAVE: i think im probably just too self aware for this hero bullshit so dont even waste your time on me

There’s an argument that these lines sort of sum up Dave’s whole arc as Knight of Time: he’s a reluctant hero, but a recursive one? He uses irony to hide from his issues that would otherwise be obvious to him, and when he does fight he does so recursively, and with recursive awareness. This is supported by and reflected in how Dave is represented by the broken sword. His sword and specibus are broken during one of the abusive “bouts”, (remember the quote about not wanting to fight) and later Dave breaks the Caldefwich because:

DAVESPRITE: maybe if john was to try with his pure heart and shit it woulda popped out like a champagne cork and fuckin hero confetti woulda blasted him in the face

DAVESPRITE: but you

DAVESPRITE: we

DAVESPRITE: we had to break it

Then he goes on to alchemize Caldescratch, a weapon where he can fight using the full length of the sword, but only by exploiting time to do so, ie: he’s only an intact “warrior” when exploiting time and irony?

What’s next in Dave’s arc? Well it’s hard to say as he has fully realised how damaged he is (and that he doesn’t like fighting) and I think it’s sort of implied that Davepeta will be the one to kill LE now? I’d love to see a homestuck finale where (alpha) Dave finds a new reason to fight, or just discovers the real reason he was fighting the whole time.

Pages:

(As I read it) Pages cause others to through sort of knight-like arcs before being able to properly arm others with their aspect. IMO, a Pages enthusiasm and belief in their aspect causes more cynical and more active players to suppress it (fight that aspect in said Page and others), sometimes in order to “toughen [page] up” and sometimes just as a side effect of a different player starting to “believe in” said aspect. A Page’s journey/challenge, is to then slowly rediscover their aspect (and why they believe in it) within themselves and to also learn how to show their friends how great said aspect really is, eventually giving their entire team the clarity to weaponize the Page’s aspect.

You may have noticed I mentioned Pages “believing” in their aspect. This is a problem as we’ve only really much of the Pages of Breath (spirit) and Hope (belief), so it’s difficult to say if Pages of other aspects would “believe” in their aspect (would Page of Blood or Mind or Rage “believe” in their aspect? Would a page of doom originally be enthusiastic and optimistic about Doom?). Unfortunately, we only have Jake and Tavros to go on, so I’m going to assume for now that all Pages originally do “believe” in their aspect.

Tavros:

Before entering the game, we know that Tavros already had an interest in “Breath” as detailed in this page You have a profound fascination with the concept of FLIGHT, and all lore surrounding the topic. You believe in FAIRIES, even though they AREN’T REAL.

Tavros is then paralysed from the waste down by Vriska. I sort of got the feeling that there was some debate about whether or not this was part of how Tavros’ arc as Page of Breath was “meant” to go. I’d argue that Vriska was doing to Tavros what Knights normally do to themselves, ie: suppress and fight their aspect (Tavros is a Hero of Breath, and is now restricted in how he moves and what he can move). But there is an opposing argument which says that saying “it was Tavros’ “destiny” to be paralysed” is like saying “it was his fault”, like saying that “some people just “inspire” this level of bullying”. I don’t think this is what Hussie is implying in this part of the story. Tavros didn’t turn Vriska into an asshole anymore than Jake turned AR into a manipulative dick. What I do think however, is that Pages present a sort of target (mainly because of their enthusiasm for their aspect) so that active players who were going to victimize someone anyway attack their Page, and do so in an ironically aspect related way (Tavros is made to throw himself into the air as Vriska knows he loves the concept of flight). Also, Tavros isn’t the only one who gets paralysed.

Tavros then enters the game. Here there’s a bit of a hole in my “Knights and Pages fight” theory, since Tavros also fights using friendship, as he communes with the imps and other enemies (which if Breath is the opposite of Blood he really shouldn’t be doing)? You could say that Breath and Blood represent different types of “friendships”, with Blood being society and bonds between people, and Breath being spirit and the kind of friendship that frees people instead of binding them? John definately talks a lot about friendship so for now I’ll assume that Breath = friendship too. Anyway at the start of his time in the game Tavros goes on multiple “useless” side quests (which could be seen as being “directionless” and Breath-like?) until Vriska makes him go to her planet. There’s a point to be made that over this time and by controlling him, Vriska is “suppressing” or “fighting” his freedom. There’s also an argument that Tavros inspires Vriska to fight using breath as well, as we see her enjoying her rocket shoes in the Make her pay flash and Vriska is also inspired by Tavros to wear a fairy costume implying that somewhere in Vriska’s messed up mind, she might already be warming up to the concept of “Breath”?

Some time later, an Aradiabot shows up and attacks Vriska, launching her into the sky (giving her airtime? Using “Breath” to restrict “Breath”?) and then throwing her against the ground, paralysing her. It’s unclear as to whether Aradia wanted to kill Vriska, or just hurt her a lot, or if she was trying to do to Vriska exactly what Vriska did to Tavros? The effect is the same, Vriska is not dead, but she is paralysed or in a coma and unable to return to her non dream self.

I believe that if Vriska pulls Tavros’ story of course anywhere, she does it here. As Tavros leans in to kiss her a breathy graphic appears, but he’s interrupted by Vriska mind controlling him. It’s a bit unclear what he was about to do (was his power going to reverse what Aradia did? Wake her up from a coma?), so I’m not sure we can make assumptions about how his journey would have gone otherwise, so for the sake of argument (and because it forms a better match to what happened to Jake) I’m going to assume that being interrupted didn’t delay his journey that much.

Tavros spends most of the rest of the session sleeping, which could be seen in two different ways: A: Tavros is burying himself in his aspect by staying in a place where he can fly, or B: Tavros is dispirited and has a lack of breath instead. He only wakes up to fight the Black King.

As I see it, the next series of events in Tavros’ arc are all about him learning how to inspire others with Breath (and how to win them over). He attacks Vriska in an attempt to stop her from creating Bec Noir, but get’s killed. We later see him working with Vriska, but he then leaves her, and sort of causes Sollux, Feferi and Nepeta to do the same. This is the point where I think he begins to properly grow into his abilities. He flies away, and inspires others to do the same.

Later we see that Tavros has assembled a giant ghost army, which could be the peak of his non god tier role as Page of Breath? Inspiring a huge army to fight using spirit and friendship?

I have no idea what’s next for Tavros. I’d love to see what powers a full power Page of Breath is capable of (would he redirect attacks using wind? Would he assist others in flying and dodging?), but barring shenanigans like the Mituna method (the idea being that Mituna launched the beforus Prospit moon into the furthest ring and the Prospit beta trolls and Sollux will be able to use it to god tier) this is unlikely to happen.

Jake:

Jake was also very invested in Hope. Here he explains what he thinks Hope is to , and he is also very quick to believe Dirk’s history lesson about the Condesce. His love of adventure might also represent Hope, but this is a little shaky. Jane, however, does not believe in the batterwitch conspiracies or the more magical parts of the game. It’s very plausible that this is because of Jake’s classpect, ie: due to Roxy and Jake assuming Jane will believe this stuff they tell her everything all at once and she doesn’t believe any of it (her Hope is suppressed, whether by herself or by her teammates). This is temporary though, as she does begin to believe in the game stuff and the batterwitch later.

The next important moment in Jake’s arc is his fight with Robodirk. Several times during the fight we see Jake fight Robodirk with “Hope”. He fires continuously at the robot after seeing his last volley of bullets each individually sliced in half (in the hope that more bullets will work), then, after being kicked around repeatedly he jumps and tries to grapple Robodirk, which also doesn’t work. This can’t really be seen as Jake having his Hope suppressed or resisted, as we don’t see him lose Hope due to the events, but it’s a good example of why Pages get picked on. Whatever AI controls Robodirk is a sliver of Dirks soul, and beats Jake nonchalantly, subconsciously wanting to punish him for being so full of Hope (because this is what he’s jealous of?).

The first time that I’d say we actually see Jake’s Hope “suppressed” is this scene, where he finally get’s some introspection after the trickster arc. The way I see it this is mainly him realising what “Hope” really is, and that a few of his faults where because of the fact he had “too much” of it?

After the Alphas god tier, Jane throws Jake in prison and we see this scene where you could argue Jane further “fights his Hope”

By this page, Jake is at the lowest point his arc, and has almost zero confidence, having had his hope suppressed by Dirk, Jane and Vriska.

Jake later goes on to fight Caliborn with a huge Hope attack in this scene, which according to what Aranea says here, will provide hope for others across paradox space that LE can be defeated.

Opposite classes:

Knights and Pages Vs Mages and Seers:

Knights and Pages “fight”, “suppress” or “resist” while Mages and Seers “view”, “know” or “see”.

Obviously these aren’t perfectly opposing verbs (an argument exists that you can’t see the future while being intrinsically opposed to it, and that you can’t properly understand something without accepting it, but this concept isn’t really explored in homestuck so we can’t use it as evidence), but I don’t think these classes are opposites based on their verbs, I think they’re opposites because they have completely opposing ways of solving problems and trying to get what they want.

Put simply: Knights and Pages tend to not want to compromise (which seems to result in short term success but then failure in the long run), while Mages and Seers will tend towards compromising and mitigating (which seems to result in long term partial success).

Look at this page, in which Karkat says:

FCG: YOU WANT HER IN EVERY QUADRANT LIKE A DESPERATE FOOL.

FCG: DO YOU REALIZE WHAT YOU’VE BECOME? YOU ARE THE SAD JOKE CHARACTER IN THE ROMCOM, YOU KNOW THE GUY I’M TALKING ABOUT.

FCG: WHO’S GREEDY AND INDISCRIMINATE ABOUT FILLING EVERY QUADRANT, TOTALLY OBLIVIOUS TO IT, AND IN THE END HAS FUCKALL TO SHOW FOR IT.

in other words: he couldn’t focus on which kind of relationship he wanted to be in. He didn’t want to compromise and accept the negative part of “Blood”.

Contrast this to Meulin, who was able to stay very close to Kurloz after their flushed romance breaks down, thereby accepting (and thereby also mitigating, as they do remain in a close friendship) the negative part of “Heart” (not being able to get what your heart desires).

Similarly, both Sollux and Terezi compromise with their aspects, Sollux accepts/compromises/contaminates/mitigates “Doom” (his death) by only half dying, Terezi accepts/mitigates the results of Vriska’s decision and uses “Mind” (synapse future vision stuff) to mitigate the damage Viska causes, thereby only killing Vriska rather than letting herself and Karkat die as well (IIRC Terezi has used her powers 3 other times during homestuck, once with Dave that involved creating a doomed timeline, once where she helped John navigate his zaps, and the I R3M3MB3R YOU).

The way Karkat and Kranki both change and manipulate their place in their team’s hierarchy also supports this idea, as they both have blood colours that would have slated them for culling but react to this in different ways (culling on each planet meant different things, but I think they have different class directly because of this). Karkat resists his Blood colour all-together, and doesn’t allow his Blood colour to be known or allow it to affect where he stands in the team, forcing his way to the position of team leader, but only until his session ends. Kranki on the other hand embraces his Blood colour (and his place in troll society), but then uses it, using his stature as a mutant to lecture others and gain power in that sense, mitigating and accepting the negative effects of “Blood” by accepting his place but simultaniously putting himself above others.

Also, in the same way that Seers and Mages are experts at looking ahead, we often see Kinghts and Page “painting themselves into corners”. Here Karkat mentions how he painted himself into a corner in regards to his and John’s conversations. Here Dave talks about how often dying is inevitable in time-travel, and it’s likely that he created less dead alt-Daves than the average, as evidenced here (which to be fair is the normal reaction to seeing alternate versions of yourself die, but I’d argue different classes would have dealt with this problem in different ways, and the way where you “resist all alt selves until you’re forced into a corner” is the Knight’s approach to the problem). We also see Tavros being “painted into a corner” in this page where he resists fighting by using running away from Vriska’s overly powerful monsters (or, he fights by flying) until he’s literally cornered. Arguably, Jake also paints himself into a corner, not directly through his Hope but by not having the forethought to acquire more uranium until the only way he could retrieve a uranium power source in time to send the bunny back was by fighting the Dirk-bot?

Pages and Knights are still powerful and important players:

It’s an important thing to remember is that the “approach” of Knights and Pages is still vital in certain circumstances. I don’t think a Seer or Mage of Blood would have been able to lead the Beta trolls to victory, but Karkat arguably has the perfect classpect to lead their session, as he suppresses/resists the normal troll Hierarchy and takes charge for the “moment” when it really matters. In contrast to this Rose shows instances where a Seer’s or Mage’s approach to problems often really isn’t what’s needed, Here Dave says that:

TG: rose spends all her time calculating

and this is backed up by Rose’s behaviour in the jetpack-timeline, where Rose wants to continue the timeline to gather more info, and Dave wants to go back. Doc scratch put’s it best here saying that:

A Seer would support her allies in battle not with her weapons, but her vision. She would sift through dross of her comrades’ poor tactical inclinations and examine the grim consequences. A Seer would not charge into the fray headlong but direct it as a conductor with a baton. She would have the sight to eschew the obvious gambits, and find the path to victory disguised cleverly as setback, or even imminent defeat.

Session Role:

Knights:

Obviously, Knights are meant to help with frog breeding, in my opinion the important question is why.

If you believe that “Knights actively create” then the answer is that the Knight has the approach and abilities needed to guide the creation of the new universe. They are the creation class. They help create the universe.

I don’t believe there is enough evidence to say that Knights are the creation class though. I believe that Knights are involved with frog breeding because an active “no compromises” approach is exactly what is needed when frog breeding. The one time you see Karkat go against this “no compromises we need absolute victory” is when he skimps on the frog breeding so that he and Kanaya can go and fight the Black King (although to be fair this could be interpreted in a completely opposite direction, depending on).

There’s also the possibility that Knights are meant to help with the breeding in order to distract them from any large threats/enemies that they might want to fight instead?

Or the Breeding duties might belong to a Knight because they need more convincing than players of other classes that their skills are actually needed? (Dave was the only one who could help Jade gather the frogs by looping several weeks of his time, Karkat arguably helped the breeding by shouting at all the other Trolls to move frogs at particular times?).

Pages:

IMO Pages are meant to inspire people to fight. I said in the Bard post that Bards could be meant to motivate their co-players into developing into their roles. Well I think that the role of the Page is to motivate their friends to fight at the right moment, like a sort of rally point for specifically martial situations.

Costume significance:

Knights:

Knights have a flap of cloth hanging just below the bottom of their hood which is split into three sections. I believe it’s meant to represent the crenelations on a castle. The Knights hood is also a lot more close fitting than some other classes, possibly referring to how chainmail hoods hid and protected more of the face. In addition to this you have a double sleeved t shirt (I think that’s what it’s called) a long cape, a line running down the trousers (which could be meant to make them look like tracksuits?) and some kind of converse-trainers I think?

Pages:

As BKEW has pointed out, the Page pjs look a lot like Robin’s costume (as in Batman and Robin) with skimpy shorts, a large belt, shorter but still doubled sleeves (giving more weight to the Page being the passive Knight counterpart?) and a short cape. Contrast this to how Knights have the largest and most heroic cape of the standard classes (like a superhero) and it’s pretty reasonable to assume that Pages are meant to act like the “sidekicks” of their co-players, at least in terms of abilities. Pages also have this weird spiky collar/ring of cloth around their neck, which, if you wanted to go full tinfoil could be a reference to Kermit the Frog’s collar (also the ribitar’s) which could be like a subtle way of saying “Pages are actually as important as Billious slick”? Or it could just be a reference to this page.

Notes:

This post took such a long time to write I’m just glad to see the back of it. It probably didn’t help that I just forgot about the whole thing for a couple of weeks. I’m probably not going to be able to cover all the classes before homestuck ends on 4/13 (this was probably the longest class theory I’ll write though) but I’ll try anyway.