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Keywords: Mechanical, Repetition, Masculinity, Destruction, Endings, Choice, Precision, Impatience

Symbols: Moments, Velocity, Clocks, Music/Dance

Time is one of the 12 Aspects of Homestuck. Its Opposite is the Aspect Space.

Dahni Expansion: This makes it so Time is full of latent energy just waiting to go and be expressed in a variety of pursuits. Time dances to it’s own unique detailed rhythm, but because of its focus on the end result and not the journey, they may not notice themselves repeating certain patterns, doing the same thing over and over again and not realizing why they end up at the same place again and again, like a jumpy leg constantly bouncing with energy. Time always marches onward towards the end, and all things must end, so that energy can also come out as a destructive in nature force, like how a spinning top turns into a drill to pierce the heavens and make the impossible reality. Luckily as they are problem solvers and nontraditional in nature as they dance to their unique rhythms, no end result is out of their grasp if they wish to make it reality.

Symbolically, Time is a constantly rotating mechanical gear, always moving like a drumbeat or a metronome steady in it steps always marching on towards the end on a source of infinite energy. Time is also always waiting to burst forth and sing or dance to its own song. When I think of Time, I think of the cycles between past, present and future and the race to get to the end result of every situation, how everything eventually comes to it’s end, it’s destruction, or death. Time then is more of a burnout than a gentle decay.

"Time moves forward in precise, measured ways, singularly focused on an individual end goal, but the beat of music can go anywhere, anytime, anyway or be anything you’d like. For Time, the journey is precise and single mindedly focused on one thing, steadily unwaveringly ticking along like clockwork or a song beat, but that one thing could be anything. Your personal Ultimate Choices are what rings true in the end, because Time is looking steadfast at their personal end goal, where the finer details of individual circumstances come in to play.”