I have been thinking about this A LOT lately and I wanted to see what other people thought of it. I have come to the idea that a sound based power will be our new subclass First part of this is of course seeing how it’s the “light and darkness saga” we must look at the colours Solar orange= Stasis Navy Void purple= Strand green Arc blue= ? Red So now that we have these inversion in mind what themes in game can we associate with red that are close to powers. This then made me think of nightmares and how these are just voices in our head that drive us to do bad things and pessimism If we use this logic and look at arc what does energy do to us well it creates light it makes people run around and do sporty things while giving some optimism ( yes this is a reach but so is strand and void to a degree) Next thing I want to do is talk about the sound wave and show how similar yet different it is to the light wave. I think fundamentally all dark subclass can relate to a sound wave (shatter and suspend) where bungie really likes to emphasise sound in these subclass. As for light well I think it’s very self explanatory but as for examples we have (ignite,jolt and volatile). Both of these waves have a the traits of a wave such as amplitude frequency and resonance the latter which is a good candidate for a verb of some sort like amplify in arc but of course these waves come from completely different sources one comes from the electromagnetic spectrum and another comes from longitudinal waves both can be reflected and diffracted but we need different senses to detect both and both of these senses(hearing and seeing) are fundamental for understanding the world and gaining information TLDR; these waves are different but equally as important as the other Ok now that we’ve got all that out of the way why sound? Well first of all I can imagine a place where there is a sonic/sonar subclass that consists of inducing not electricity but sound into an enemy (emanate)and being able to manipulate the sound waves so that you can (resonate) with an enemy leaving them vulnerable and then make them expel that energy (terminate) to other enemies making them loose health and gaining a resonate debuff (Tinitus) this debuff being the sound equivalent to blind light-sound. There may also be a fourth Verb that buffs you similar to radiant and woven mail like increasing RoF idk (onslaught 2.0?) Final point I want to make is how this ties into “darkness subclass ideology” where darkness is all about the mind and consciousness of the universe now you could say each subclass is like an emotion with stasis being anger and strand being happiness Stasis as we are told mainly comes from anger and absolutely loosing your -blam!- while your full of rage Strand we are told to let your connection flow through you and to use it to your advantage making you Spider-Man and connections do make you happy Sonic could be embracing the anguish and dread of lose and using it to inflict pain and suffering onto your enemies this makes me think of it being the “sad” class to complete the trifecta. As for the question “isn’t this too dark?” I present Beyond light That’s basically my crackpot idea. I would love to see what other people thought of this since I think it fits every aspect of the darkness and is like strand where we thought it was poison and now think it’s resonance but this just seems like a bungie subclass that we could get Maybe a storyline with Nezerac will be where we finally get to cream.