Keywords: Entropy, Limited, Acceptance, Follow Rules, Sacrifice Self, Obligations, Submission, Futile, Cautious, Repulsion, Pessimism, Necessity, Decrease, Inactivity
Symbols: Decay, Explosions, Bombs, Fire, Skulls
Doom is one of the 12 Aspects of Homestuck. Its Opposite is the Aspect Life. When I think of Doom, I think of the decay that happens when you age and grow older and the accepting of what you can no longer do or never could do. It is the slowing, decreasing, shrinking, sense of futility of the Elderly. It is the bitter repulsion, the cautious pessimism and the necessity of obligation that limits you and what you can do in the world around you. It is understanding what you can and cannot change. It’s the sharp Black and White boxes and lines that everything in the world gets sorted into. It is the sadness and apathy of acceptance contrasted with the frustration and anger of limits. Doom sees what it wants, and lets it go, gives it to others, or just lets it be destroyed altogether. Things will be lost or destroyed, people will die or forget and things will happen that cannot be changed, so don’t bother trying.
