Templates

[MTC]

Not sure this fits here, but it doesn’t seem to deserve its own thread, and it might be a spoiler, so:

Kappa, why do some instances of a female Tony use sparksflying while others use allthebrightest? And, in case this isn’t answered in the first answer, what categorizes new instances of a female Tony into one username or the other? I think I understand the reasons for all of the other username differences (or at least all the threaded ones), but I haven’t figured out the reason for this one.

[Kappa]

:D

Okay so, by and large, Tony and Sherlock journals come in pairs. The pairs are as follows:

bitofafiction/toblameforit - Boy Sherlock with Boy Tony
sicaria/ferratus - (trans) Girl Sherlock with Boy Tony
calendarofcrime/allthebrightest - Girl Sherlock with Girl Tony
nobodyelse/sparksflying - (trans) Boy Sherlock with Girl Tony

For the most part, the gender distribution of a Tony-Sherlock pair determines which of those pairs of journals they will use. But! Sometimes things happen. Like when a Sherlock becomes a Sunnyvampire, he gets eversomuchfun if he has no soul and dearsweetsoulful if he has a soul. In the case of the minipyre twins, I decided that using a recombined journal pair (sicaria and sparksflying) fit the setting and the characters best, so I went with that even though in the ordinary course of things a girl-girl pair would use calendarofcrime/allthebrightest.

[Anya]

You have a Ichabod template, what about a Katrina one?

[Kappa]

In a word, nah.

In some more words, I don't think I've even seen enough Sleepy Hollow for Katrina to be present in my mind in any form other than cryptic mystical hallucination. XD

[Bluelantern]

I still find Ichabod a odd example of a purple, why did you chose him?

[DanielH]

Is there anyone in the massive multiverse that is wholly unique? Like there isn't and will never be an alt of them? And not for 'Alicorn/kappa/Aestrix/ect doesn't feel like writing them again' reasons.

All three main authors said “no”, but I’ve always read Bar (and Milliways as a whole) as truely unique. Earlier today, Glass said Bar wasn’t a template in the Talk To Effulgence Characters thread, but I don’t know whether to count that as confirmation. I can’t think of any other special cases though; as Kappa said, even the Admin is duplicable.

[Alicorn]

There's only one Milliways, but I feel like under the right circumstances the personality of Bar could find someplace else to call home. Those circumstances are not likely or planned. (But people can acquire more templateyness in Glass-vision.)

[DanielH]

I believe somewhere you said that the Twilight!Bella is a different template than yours (obviously). On the fandom ideas thread you said Edwards don’t occur without Bells. Does this mean that Twilight!Edward isn’t the same template, he’s an exception, or you don’t think Twilight is even in the same multiverse as Effulgence?

Whst about Renesme? Is she still an Elspeth?

[cbhacking]

Whst about Renesme? Is she still an Elspeth?

Nah, that's clearly a Pokémon. :-) (couldn't resist)

The idea of an actual Twilight world occurring in the glowfic metaverse is amusing, though I'm not actually sure how that would end. The Effulgence peal is easily powerful enough (and sufficiently forewarned about what to expect from Golden, if they realize what it is fast enough) that they could probably take over and fix up the place pretty easily (I don't actually know what the state of the canonical world is at the end, but I'm fairly confident it's not up to the peal's standards). I don't know who the characters within it, pre-pealing, would be... so maybe something more like Pattern's world, where they discover the world by finding dead people Downside (or in some other way find people thoroughly detached from their world) and realize there's a whole lot of Thing That Needs Fixing there. The Incandescent peal would, at present, have a much more difficult time of things; between lack of information (partially mitigated by scrying) and the fact that pretty much nobody except the mages is likely to have the raw power to take on a vampire (and that's a maybe, assuming general readiness and lots of mana; runecasters and spellbinders probably wouldn't get enough time for anything useful unless from ambush).

The peal's reactions to meeting Twilight!Bella and discovering, contrary to all appearances, that she is definitely *not* a Bell... well, that'd be interesting to watch.

[Alicorn]

The question of template interaction with canon Twilight is kind of a wrong question. Edwards won't occur without Bells because I won't write them that way; canon Twilight is indeed not part of the Effulgence multiverse. Canon Twilight Bella is, if you insist, a circumstance alt of sorts to regular Bells (the other obvious example of circumstance alts in Effulgence is Edda Loki and Yggdrasil Loki).

Elspeth is intended to be genetically identical to Renesmee. Renesmee doesn't get enough actual personality in canon for me to make firmer declarations about their relationship.