Effulgence Fandom Ideas

[Lambda]

A Chelsea could probably take Cherish's place in a Wormverse. The name attractor even already fits.

[Marri]

The spreadsheet lists the Chelsea from Worm as having the nickname 'Cherish' :)

[Anya]

I suppose theres the more modern day retelling, in Percy Jackson, which has a bunch of Greek Mythos. though it focuses in telling new stories about the children, demi gods, of the Gods.

But I'm not sure about actual Greek Myth stories.

[PlainDealingVillain]

There are a bunch of collections; Bulfinch's Mythology is the most famous and in the public domain, there's a book called The Greek Myths by Robert Graves which supposedly has very good retellings of the myths and absolutely ridiculous interpretations, and Edith Hamilton's Mythology, which is more recent. Personally, I'd suggest reading translations of the original sources; Ovid's Metamorphoses is hilarious in its own special, twisted way (though a bad translation can make it hard to see). I'm not sure whether the humor I found in Hesiod's Theogony was Hesiod's or due to the odd translation I read, but it was there; the Theogony also focuses on the gods and their interactions more than the heroes or the latest nymph to reject Apollo's advances, which can be what you're looking for.

[modrony]

How could Joker not be Discordia in a greek mythos?
I do like the 'born from a headache' aspect of Athene thou.

I'd advocate Chelsea as Heartbreaker for Worm.
Both a male!Chelsea and a Chelsea with kids. Can you imagine?
Guess it's a bit late to suggest this.

[PlainDealingVillain]

Actual mythological Eris was much more "Fuck shit up for the Evulz" and much less Joker than the Discordian portrayal; she frequently rode on War's chariot and Pestilence, Famine, and Slaughter were her kids (by War I mean Ares). Not a nice person. Which isn't *necessarily* not a Joker, but isn't a lock like Discordian!Eris would be.

[Adelene]

I don't actually think Discordian!Eris is a Joker, either - She doesn't care about people nearly enough to fit the template. I could definitely see a Joker as a disciple of Discordian!Eris, though.

[Oraanu]

I'm kind of curious to see what a Bell would do with the SCP-verse (http://www.scp-wiki.net/). For anyone unfamiliar, the premise is that there exists the SCP Foundation, whose job is to Secure, Contain, and Protect the world from all the strange and often dangerous objects/creatures/places/eldritch abominations that keep popping up. Due to the source format, very few of the often apocalypse-waiting-to-happen threats are ever killed/neutralized, but that probably could change.

The universe operates on a sort of "conservation of insanity/horror" principle, so it's probably in the same class of "not nice" as Materia, though not quite as metacausally resistant to tampering with the status quo. I could see a Bell as a SCP scientist studying "Safe" objects in the interest of bettering the world / saving it from the most dangerous threats. I could see the Joker as some sort of reality warper. The SCP Foundation usually tries very hard to contain those. Since this is a Joker, this could range in effectiveness from "laughably not at all" to "satisfying the attractor for terrible shit to happen to him." And I have the most hilarious mental image of them meeting in the course of investigating a rain of jellybeans.

Superpowered individuals exist, though they seem to almost invariably be locked away, even if they're causing no harm. Other templates could come to exist with powers that the Foundation decides need "containing." Perhaps Bell is the only one who treats them like people. Maybe they have a reality warper jailbreak when someone tries to contain the Joker. I think there are lots of possibilities!

[Bluelantern]

I was avoiding linking the scp here, dont want suck people into that blackhole

That...luring... Blackhole....

[Alicorn]

I would consider the SCP setting to be more of an inspiration than a canon, considering how sprawling and committee-led it is in its original form. And it doesn't have tons of appeal for me, but it doesn't seem completely out of the question as an eventually.