Effulgence Fandom Ideas

[modrony]

Materia/Potter cross.
World works like Materia except there is a hidden society of scientist that you need to be born into to get anything technological to work.
They are protected from hubris-effects, but have a weak excuse not to do anything."If people knew we existed they would ask us to fix all their problems".
science!timeturners, patronuses, broomsticks etc.
Chemistry concoctions that change your appearance or increase your luck :)

[cbhacking]

I realllly like this idea!

However, since magic is already a thing in Materia, I would instead say that you should chuck all the blatantly impossible things from Potterverse and replace them with the scientific things that wand wizards (and/or "muggles" of Materia) lack. Airplanes and rockets, not broomsticks. No timeturners, but you can have GPS (and anything else that relies on relativity to work correctly). The scientific counterpart to patronuses requires a scientific counterpart to dementors; the only thing that comes to mind there are plagues and other widespread medical problems (AIDS! Oh $DEITY if Materia had STDs...) and modern medical responses to them (heeeeey we currently have treatments, but no cure, for HIV...). No amount of stirring stuff in a cauldron is going to change your appearance much on drinking except possibly by poisoning you, but we can have plastic surgery and various other things under the umbrella of "modern medicine" (interestingly, IIRC there are references in ToMU to recreational drugs). No amount of anything will actually change your luck, but those who understand statistics and understand probability and apply Bayes theorem can give a tremendous appearance of supernatural luck in some circumstances.

My great love of HPMoR might be showing through juuuuust a little here, although this would be almost its mirror counterpart.

[Alicorn]

Materia/ToMU has sexually generated diseases that don't work by contagion per se, and rings of protection to ward them off.

[Bluelantern]

I feel that the Scientific Potter is good, but I am skeptical that it can be properly explored in effulgencian format.

edit: move the question to the incandescence thread

[cbhacking]

Yeah, about half an hour after my post I was thinking "as a world, Materia really wants a rational fic... but I don't know if Effulgence could play that part." I still really want to see this done *somehow*, though.

[modrony]

Guess we are all HPMOR-fans here :)

However I was not thinking rational but rather 'sciency'
How would HP go if someone from Materia wrote it?

[Anya]

*raises hand* I am not apart of the HPMOR-fan people.

I really can't explain my dislike for it.

[DeAnno]

A thought for a setting (my apologies if it's been mentioned already): Heroes

It has its, umm, problems, but is also very much a setting to the tune of: here have some nice powers now go do stuff. Another thought I had about Heroes after rewatching it is Peter's Volume 4/5 power is the same as Addy's (albeit with some control over being forced to switch by contact.)

[Adelene]

Dropping this here so it doesn't get completely lost:

(8:08:52 PM) Adelene: "This temple is fairly simple. The back wall is painted with a laughing man hugging a smiling woman as they sit together on a wooden bench; the woman's half of the bench sits on a grassy plain, and the man's half is under a huge oak tree, with more trees crowding in behind. All around the rest of the walls, the same two figures reappear in a simpler style, always interacting with people; the forest god seems to prefer hosting or attending celebrations and giving or receiving gifts, while the plains goddess is mostly shown talking to people, listening to their problems and offering solutions."

This is presumably not where you were going with this, but it gives me the idea of a similar diety-takes-offerings setting where problems themselves are the offering.
(8:09:03 PM) Alicorn: Ooh huh.
(8:09:10 PM) Alicorn: brain looks at that and goes "trust-powered deity".
(8:09:16 PM) Adelene: Yep. :D
(8:09:20 PM) Alicorn: Teah works kind of like that, come to think of it, did you read those sandboxes?
(8:10:22 PM) Adelene: I've read every Teah-thing I've seen, which I think is all of 'em, but I wouldn't peg Teah as this sort of thing - he doesn't need the wishes to be directed at him and presumably would be as okay as a bored Joker can be without them.
(8:10:34 PM) Alicorn: *nod*

[Kappa]

I liiiiiike the trust powered deity idea.

Heroes sounds fun too, but I never got past season two... is there ever anything more to it than Generic Superpower Setting?