Twilight Sparkle had been proud of getting halfway into Act 6 of Habitrapped without her brain imploding. She was a very detail-oriented girl, true, and took actual notes on the comic whenever she could, but Act 6 had proven itself to be a bit of a... erm... a word that Rainbow Dash sometimes used when ranting about algebra. It began with 'cluster' and she refused to speak the second part aloud, but for this topic, she silently agreed.

Abstract Cognition had explained that the webcomic's author had promised seven Acts total, so when the story wound up being a lot longer than he'd originally planned after Act 5, things got a little out of hand. Twilight had asked why he hadn't just told readers that at first, laughing as she'd said it.

She wasn't laughing now.

"...and so, in short, the fans who wanted more Habittrapped and got it are now invoking the trope They Changed It, Now It Sucks."

"Er, trope?"

Abby gave Twilight a flat stare. "You need to look at more social media sites."

Twilight opened her mouth to argue, but ultimately decided against it, instead returning to her notes. Sure, this wasn't one of their usual 'Classpecting Sessions', but it had been obvious that Abstract had wanted to vent. One didn't walk through school all day shining like an angry lightbulb and not have something important on one's mind. Thus Twilight grabbed a notebook and head for their usual discussion spot when lunchtime came around.

"There's often a lot of disagreement among fans in any fandom, really," she offered. "No one's going to agree on everything."

"Yeah, I know," Abby sighed, sipping her juice in a very loud, annoyed manner. At least the Light had subsided from blinding glow to flashlight at noon, "That's not the problem, though."

Twilight quirked an eyebrow, "It's not?"

"I mean, I get why everyone's losing their minds over what Dagger did in the Meat Timeline, I really do, especially after what he pulled on Violet." Abby's face scrunched up. "I like Violet and she's technically his mother, daughter, and sister, so it was really underhanded, but it makes sense that he'd take her, since she'd probably screw over his plans if she'd been on the side of the others. Assuming, of course, she didn't waste away because she was putting off her Ascension—"

Oh no. Twilight knew this tangential tone.

"—if not for her and Virgo still being together and parenting a daughter in the Candy Timeline, I'd probably be pissed off too. And then there's Shortbread being all 'mad with power' and stuff." As Abby spoke, the Light began to brighten again. "But it's obvious that both Dagger and Capricorn were both likely responsible for warping her mind in their respective timelines. I mean, heck, Dagger was running her campaign—"

"Abby—"

"—and then Capricorn got a hold of her in Candy, and we all know what happens when that guy gets into someone's head. So, I can understand how her whole 'reign of terror' hap—"

"Abby."

Abstract's mouth slammed shut as Twilight leaned in close to her, eyes narrowed with the whites already turning faintly heliotrope. A flashback to when Habitrapped^2 first came out waved at her from her memory and, thus, the Light around her dimmed back to its prior brightness. "Ah....sorry."

Nodding, Twilight sat back in her seat, picking her notebook back up while Abstract sighed with relief, almost dropping her juice box.

"Now," the purple girl said as calmly as she could to the pink one, "If it's not the newfound conflict that's bothering you about Habitrapped Part Two's plot, then what is?"

At this question, Abby's expression actually grew pained, her glow dimming even more than it already had.

"It was implied that Knights and Maids are a complimentary pair, not Knights and Pages or Maids and Sylphs."

Twilight dropped her pen. "What."

"And, due to how it was all worded, it's heavily implied that Maid's are Passive, not Active."

"What."

"It throws my whole thesis into question!" Abby took a long draw from her juice box, looking completely mortified, "And not just mine: the whole Classpecting community! We were all so sure we had cracked Horsie's code on how the Class System worked and then one paragraph throws the whole fandom analysis into complete disarray!"

Grasping for a word to start a sentence with, Twilight's jaw remained unhinged as she looked down at her notes, back to Abstract, and then inwardly, at her own personal thoughts on the topic of Habitrapped Classes.

"I mean, people were always debating Knights being Active or Passive, so implying they're Active isn't that big, but the Maid Class? Aries practically ran the entire Beta Troll Session to make sure they wound up doing things the way they were supposed to, in order to beat Lord English in the long run! That's, like, the very opposite of Passive! How the—?"

"Seers are Passive, right?"

"Huh?" Abby looked over at Twilight, who had her Deep Analysis expression front and center, "Yeah—"

"And Violet, Libra, and even Cancri after the Alpha Troll Scratch were important to their Sessions, right? Front and center, even, correct?"

The dimmed Light flickered a hue brighter, "...Yeah. What are you thinking?"

"And Rogues are Passive too, but Foxy obviously has a major role to play, the way that things are going so far in my reading. That her Aspect is Void only makes her seem more Passive. And yet she's not." Twilight realized she wa ranting at this point, but pressed on regardless. "What if Active has nothing to do with being flashy and offensive? What if Passive has nothing to do with being behind the scenes and defensive?"

Abby's glow kept getting brighter and brighter as Twilight's own eyes lit up.

"What if..."

Author's Notes:

They both then proceeded to have one of the most amazing headcanon nerd-outs in the history of paradox probability space.