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[acts_of_gord]

Let's face it, very few of us have characters from canons that are totally normal but just overly dramatic. What's an integral part of your pup's canon that nobody (or next to nobody) questions in-universe, but that would cause an ordinary, normal Earth person from the real world- or from a normal-world-like canon- to go "Wait, what??"

Gordon's just gonna be over here looking miserable as he gets interviewed for Killer Scientist Monthly, thanks.

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[no_vampires_plz]

Oh, man, where do I start? Dragons, manticores, griffons, cockatrices, and phoenixes are all part of the native fauna. Weather is made by pegasi moving clouds around. The inhabitants have to actively make the seasons change. The sun and moon won't rise or set without the prompting of the two goddess-queens who rule the planet.

Oh, and the dominant life forms are tiny, candy-colored talking horses who have no problem developing a civilization despite the fact that they have no opposable thumbs.

Yeah.

[innerbrat]

Mel: the flying cars, but also the fact that all sorts of non-human looking people just wonder around looking non-human. I'm still not sure if they're menat to be demons or, as Mel iinterprets them, mutated people. I usually go with the latter.

Dinah, Renee, Floyd: EVERYTHING. It's a perfectly normal universe, but there are superheroes, aliens, magic, gods, time travel, jetpack Nazis, dinosaur islands, metahumans. And most people STILL just live a normal life.

Death: That'd be the Disc.

Marguerite: Perfectly normal universe, thank you very much.

My Leonardo pups in MM: Oh boy, I don't even know where to start. We could go with the fact that Machiavelli is a teenager in 1467 and apparently a BFF with Leonardo, but I think I' going to have to go with Leonardo wears sneakers. In 1467 Florence.

[theresnodoor]

CONVERSE WERE SUPER HUGE DURING THE RENAISSANCE.

[innermuses.livejournal.com]

SO WERE LEATHER WASITCOATS.

[theresnodoor]

SKINNY-LEG JEANS.

[innermuses.livejournal.com]

COMPLETELY CONVINCING CROSSDRESSING WIGS.

[theresnodoor]

PASSWORD-PROTECTED MECHANICAL GATES.

[innermuses.livejournal.com]

PASSWORD PROTECTED GUARD DOGS.

[theresnodoor]

Laaaaace curtaaaaaaains~~~~

[invisi_cipher]

Just for the record, I personally adore Leo and his converses. They just put the adorable over the top.

[innerbrat]

Leo loooves his converses!

[spooky-lemur.livejournal.com]

616 Ben, Ult Ben, Val von Doom, Jessica Drew, Julie Finster: As innerbrat said, EVERYTHING. Comics guys. One thing in particular in 616 Ben's case, just how old is Franklin Richards? And my do I have a lot of comic book pups.

Artemus Gordon: I reject your physics and substitute my own. Of course you can safely launch a person about ten feet in the air by putting a small stick of dynamite under a pan (or was it a bucket?) and have them stand on it when it goes off.

Thalia Grace: A fair number of people would argue that monsters and Gods aren't real. But aside from that, how are underage kids traveling cross country without an adult and no one looks askance.

Rincewind: The disc.

[basic_powers]

What spooky_lemur and innerbrat sed.

[evil_koala_626]

Good night, everybody!

[kd7sov]

For Felix... I'm not sure. I would say the flat nature of the world, but there is a reference to "[putting] an end to a few silly arguments". Possibly Kraden? An old man who isn't an Adept, but who can tag along with the other party members - who are - as they walk tightropes and hop on stone columns and pass through illusions of solid rock walls and so on. Particularly given that seems like non-Adepts can't see Psynergy in use. Come to think of it, perhaps the fact that they call their magic Psynergy counts.

(As far as the fandom goes, I'd say the Anemos-Moon theory, but as it's not explicit in-game it doesn't count.)

For Kain, as with just about any Final Fantasy character, the answer would have to be airships. They shouldn't even work, in normal physics.

Karis' answer is easier than Felix's, despite the fact that she theoretically comes from the same canon. It's her hair. Which is bright green, but no one in the game seems to think that's unusual. Even though hers is the only character model so far with green hair. (Except for a few Proxians, but that was a darker green and nobody's quite sure whether they're actually human or not.)

As far as Fluttershy goes... I think Leesha's covered that.

[campkilkare]

The sylladex! Obviously, Karkat is an alien, and has a variety of weird alien junk going on, but he is already used to the humans in his canon being mystified by that stuff. But in Homestuck even the humans use card-based inventory management schemes like a video game. It sort of astonishes Karkat even now to meet people who DON'T have an abstract extradimensional storage system with a pain in the ass interface at their beck and call.

Also, sprite-flipping. Chirality is not a thing in the Homestuck universe.

[yakalskovich]

The worlds of my pups are almost normal, if you allow for slight supernatural and/or stylistic variations.

Teja's world would appear to people used to contemporary 'dirty' versions of historic novels and movies at too clean and rather stilted, apart from the true dreams and nigh-impossible prescience Teja has. Imagine Teja's canon set in a production design like '300', as opposed to 'Rome' for realistic normal -- know what I mean?

Urquhart's world is normal and dirty and on the gritty end of the sliding scale; we are just required to believe that a very tall broad man with an enormous mane of blond hair can move relatively unnoticed and even dress up as a monk. Oh, and that a Scotsman will speak accent-free German, so accent-free nobody ever wonders where he or his name come from.

Tamara is from a very shaky version of the 18th century where All The Myths Are True; Ma'at is just a goddess, but otherwise her world is ours; Sirona's canon takes place in a normal world which is actually meticulously researched up to the point where it takes place in a future which by now has been overtaken and is hence an alternative universe ('What party is ruling Germany????); Bridgette's world is the normal US with added ESP; Tower is just an embodiment of an archetype, and the tarot make their own world to live in if they need. Just Donovan's world is exceedingly bizarre, with vamps and weres abounding and out in the open, and if you have a question for a murder victim, you call in a licensed necromancer and have them raised as a zombie for a bit to call up the memories from their not yet decayed brain...

Oh, and Margolotta! She's from the Discworld. No further explanation necessary...

[death_gone_mad]

Oh, wow, the details of magic on the Disc brought back flashbacks of forum threads trying to puzzle out Gielinorian magic theory from official canon descriptions of alternate dimensions and teleportation. Given that the developers of Runescape love throwing in references to everything and that some of the developers and players are fans of Pratchett's works, I wouldn't be surprised if some of the details of Runescape's magic, both the Planar Theory version that fandom came up with and whatever design document the developers follow, are Discworld inspired.

The fact that the weird magical super-injunction against Amascut is effective in keeping her (relatively) depowered sounds very Discworld inspired.

Oh! Perhaps pertinent to Margolotta, Runescape makes a distinction between vampire and vampyres (Think Carpe Jugulum). It's what Amascut means when she talks about feral and civilized vamps. I was worried that people who didn't know the canon wouldn't get the vampire/vampyre thing. Oh well, I'll blame it on bar translations.

Hmm, Discwold physics might be fun to mess with. First I need to read the books so that I know what I am doing. :P

[a1enzo]

You mean besides the anthropomorphic digital constructs?

[agoodshinkickin.livejournal.com]

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Their biology makes no sense. Why do they have teeth, or lips? The number of digits and toes is all wrong.

Then there are the people who don't notice them walking around in a hat and coat.

Splinter, a seemingly normal rat, was already at least fifteen years old by the time he met the turtles.

I also want to make a snarky joke about how if people actually MET Aang, they'd probably be confused as to why he looked of Asian descent. "But he's white in the cartoon!"

And that's the Avatar State would kick in...

[death_gone_mad]

Well, beside magic and gods and the general B.S. that comes from MMO's...

Dear Amascut, goddess of destruction,

Why don't you kill the adventurer yourself? You know. Make them burst into flames of something. I suppose that would break the Edict of Guthix, but you already break them by walking amongst us mortals and making your minions burst into flames when they fail you. Besides, if you are caught breaking the rules, won't Guthix destroy the world in a hissyfit? Isn't that what you want anyway?

P.S. Paper hats. WHY.

[ceitfianna]

Most of mine are from fairly normal worlds-Will, Jane, William, the weird tends to be their era and not other sorts of strange.

With Sameth I think the Dead walk usually wins for the moment of o.O.

Moist is from Discworld.

In Narnia, I think the Talking Animals and yes, myths just walk about.

Demeter's world has all the gods.

In the Pirate King's world, there's random singing and music and dancing. Also the constables and the pirates seem to be from completely different eras and no one says anything.

[waxwontbeenough.livejournal.com]

Moist is from Discworld.

And that is all that succinctly need be said.

(I first typoed "Discworld" as "Discoworld." Somewhere there is a planet called Discoworld otherwise I have a grievance with the powers that be.)

[spooky-lemur.livejournal.com]

And now I find myself wondering what the story of disco coming to the Disc would be like. = ]

Why the hell do I get all chatty when I don't have time to RPG proper like?

[waxwontbeenough.livejournal.com]

Disc has music with rocks in it, why not music with disco in it?

[spooky-lemur.livejournal.com]

Exactly!

Hey, I don't know if you're a fan of Phil Noto's art but I love the drawings he's done the past few days. Basically they're candid photos of classic Marvel heroes (http://philnoto.tumblr.com/) and I demand at least a miniseries now.

[waxwontbeenough.livejournal.com]

Oh my GOD, he did a Domino! This guy is genius!

[spooky-lemur.livejournal.com]

I can not lie, I love his mix of 50's style illustration and fashion sketches.

[waxwontbeenough.livejournal.com]

AND he did a Ron Swanson! GENIUS. *friends him on Tumblr*

[spooky-lemur.livejournal.com]

He's also taken over art duties on X-23's series. I love the cover for the next issue (http://marvel.com/images/gallery/issue/36461/images_from_x-23_2010_14/image/873283) (different artist for the cover).

[agoodshinkickin.livejournal.com]

AWKWARD FAMILY PHOTO!
WOLVERINE, X-23, JUBILEE.
BEST THING ON THE INTERNET TODAY!

[spooky-lemur.livejournal.com]

I *love* how solemn X is and how gleeful Jubilee is.

[agoodshinkickin.livejournal.com]

The thousand yard stare is the ONLY defense against the family picture.

[spooky-lemur.livejournal.com]

And now I want to see more of the awkward family photos of the Marvel Universe.

The Fantastic Four would be Reed and Sue with the aforementioned thousand yard stare while Johnny and Ben are fighting each other as they fall of frame.

Hulk has his own family now.

The Avengers has tons of potential as does the Summers family.

[agoodshinkickin.livejournal.com]

As far as Raph is concerned, every family photo of his family is awkward.

[spooky-lemur.livejournal.com]

And there's a good EP if I ever heard of one. Only question is would Mike be threatening to show a picture or would Ralph be looking through a photo album? Or Splinter could be doing the looking and Ralph catches him.

And hey why isn't Kitty in that photo with Wolverine? She was his first underage girl sidekick after all.

[varadia]

OH MY GOD IT IS MAGIC.

*DYING OF HILARITY AND JOY*

[spooky-lemur.livejournal.com]

I double dog dare you and Logan-mun to have an EP right after the taking of that picture....

[kippurbird.livejournal.com]

My feeling for Sameth's world is not that the Dead walk around but that the dead can be controlled by bells.

[ceitfianna]

True, I didn't even think about that part.

[forgottenmotley]

Bells. I mean really. Why in the world would bells control the Dead?

... and now I'm wondering how would the Fool's bells interact with the Dead. Probably nothing.

[ceitfianna]

They might do something just not what you expect. That seems to be the Fool's way. Someday canon will be finished and we can find out.

[waxwontbeenough.livejournal.com]

Shulkie, Siryn, Black Mamba, Jack of Hearts and Hawkgirl all come from comic verses where anything and everything are walking around like it's perfectly normal. Like this guy. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_Tribunal) Yes, his head is not attached to his body. The Marvelverse recently had a building in NYC come alive and try to eject all of its tenants until Damage Control showed up to reason with it.

Comics, guys. The best crack of all.

[spooky-lemur.livejournal.com]

Who needs a neck when you're the ultimate judge?

[waxwontbeenough.livejournal.com]

The Living Tribunal has no neck! The Living Tribunal NEEDS NO NECK!

[minkhollow]

Carl and Cosmo are actually from a fairly normal world. So maybe the fact that Bishop's clothes didn't throw off the thermal sensors in Cosmo's office?

Moist and Conflict Diamond... somewhat in line with the various 'it's a comic book 'verse, EVERYTHING' people.

Cata and Sam's world has a lot of Earth-mythic creatures wandering around, not to mention the Assassins' Guild itself. And what Mizzamir did to the place.

Claudia's job makes the people who inadvertently end up with Artifacts go 'wait, what?' a lot. But other than that, I'd nominate the IRS cover story, especially since she and Pete and Myka are so bad at faking IRS. (Why can't Jack's 'we collect strange objects' just be standard? That actually covers it really damn well, without actually telling anyone anything. /OMGWTFMonday'sepisodeBBQ)

Apollo... is a Greek god. They have a habit of marrying their siblings, eating their children, and all kinds of other whacked-out shit. Apollo's one of the less weird, per mythology, but he seems to have a bad habit of turning people into plants (or getting them turned into plants, in Daphne's case).

[theresnodoor]

...actually, nearly every odd/weird/strange thing that ever happens in my teenagers-fighting-aliens-by-turning-into-animals-using-other-alien-technology is called insane or screwed up BY THE TEENAGERS.

Usually Marco.

But Rachel spends a great deal of her time secretly wondering if they've all spent the last three years in a padded room, imagining all this.

So... oddly enough... there isn't a whole lot of "Hey, wait a second" in Animorphs that they don't criticize themselves.

[stripenfoxen.livejournal.com]

Oh, I think everything in Rabastan's [original] world would cause people to do multiple double-takes, though for me, the oddest was our first glimpse into St Mungo's, with all the weird ailments and no one seeing this as anything out-of-the-ordinary.

The rest is still weird, but that in my mind was the strangest.

Strength's and Wheel's world is odd too, given that it's always changing at someone's whim, and everyone goes along with it. [I've never once considered how it would look from a tourist's angle, though I guess that's something worth exploring.]

And Cybertron is a world full of alien robots that live and think and feel and all that sort of stuff with advanced technology and it's amazing how the humans of Earth take it all in [except maybe for Circuit Breaker who had herself a massive mental breakdown].