From my experience, nowadays a plurality of classpecters and classpecting resources have accepted a certain set of class pairings. Of course, you have the indisputable Prince(-)/Bard(+) and Thief(-)/Rogue(+), and the not indisputable but very rarely disputed Mage(-)/Seer(+). From there, the usual pairings go Knight(-)/Page(+), Witch(-)/Heir(+), and Maid(-)/Sylph(+).
But the latter pairings are only speculation -- just speculation that has kind of... settled into a groove. It's not much of an active topic of debate anymore, and arguments on that topic often end up floating in the void, to be read only by enthusiasts and not have much effect on the broader understanding of classpecting. There just hasn't been as much appetite anymore to sit around like Greek philosophers lecturing at eachother about how a Page is a featherless biped.
(To be clear, that's not to say that these pairings are wrong. There's plenty of good arguments for them; optimisticDuelist's Force and Flow series very much stands the test of time. Nor is it to say that absolutely no one has been questioning them! To those of you who have been championing your own class interpretations, you have my respect! ^u^)
I'd just like to bring into public discussion the equally good arguments to be made for other class pairings among Sylphs/Heirs/Knights/Witchs/Maids/Pages! (as of right now also known as SHKWMP, pronounced shkwump). Witch(-)/Sylph(+) is a classic one, and I honestly think you could pair Maid with just about any of them bar Witch and make a pretty good case for it. And that's not even touching the discussion on whether Knights, Pages, Maids, and sometimes even Sylphs are active or passive!
So, what do you think about class pairings? Do you have any unusual ones you believe in? How much stock do you put into verbiage and inversion? How do you define Active and Passive? Argue your cases! :>
