@griseousaconite

Yeah there's a lot of symbolic stuff you can get away with for the Life class for sure, you can get really creative with it. I'll try and keep that in mind for future analysis's, but I just felt like Prince of Life would likely mostly focus on literal life, though they definitely wouldn't have to and I should've expanded on that idea more. A Prince of Life tearing down authority is kinda the idea I had behind the whole "tearing down life to preserve life" stuff though :o

I think in retrospect I would add that it'd likely be that a Prince of Life is someone who started out with a lot of wealth and luxury and slowly lost it all as a consequence of their own actions.

Also, I do not actually believe that Princes destroy with their aspect. Part of why I made my own doc about classpecting is because there's actually some stuff I disagree with on the MSPA wiki. If you take a look at Eridan, Dirk, and Kurloz, they never seem to focus on really utilizing their aspect as a weapon, with like, one exception with Kurloz with the great honk, but he literally sealed his lips shut afterwards. So I see that incident more as a catalyst for him to destroy the rage within himself.

The biggest reason that I don't think Princes actually destroy things with their aspect is because it really steps on the toes of what little we know about bards, and it's why people usually think of bards as such a vague class, since they think that they just do what princes do but to the left.

Bards and Princes are inverses of one another. A Prince starts with their aspect but slowly destroys it within themselves, and Bards start without their aspect and slowly build it within themselves. A Prince destroys their aspect, and a Bard destroys things using it. It also seems contradictory that a Prince would destroy with their aspect, how could they do that when they don't have much of it?

The way Gamzee acts supports my take but it's also supported with what little we know about Cronus, the only other Bard. He was slowly building up hope within himself, specifically the belief that he would be the one destined to fight and destroy Lord English. Had Kurloz not destroyed the rage within him (the hope he was building up revolved around wanting to destroy, which means it was intertwined with rage) then Cronus could have used his hope to defeat LE and probably would've been stupid powerful.

Eridan had a warped idea on what him being a Prince of Hope actually meant, but when you look at the impact his actions had on the story, even if he claims differently, he never really destroyed using Hope. He ruined it when destroying the matriorb, and did that because he lost all hope within himself iirc. He was obsessed with tearing hope away from others with his apocalypse fantasies. Destroying hope was a huge thing his character revolved around, he never really utilized it.

I don't think I'm an infallible authority on classpecting by any means but I do stand firmly in my beliefs here. I'll accept if something proves me wrong though.