Daily Entertainment: Weather Edition!

[damncompass]

It is icy as hell in New England, Milliways. I fell down twice trying to get from the bus to work this morning.

So, that brings us:

And now, the weather.... What's the weather like in your character's canon? Are they from a very cold or very warm place, or somewhere inbetween? Does the weather play into your character's canon in any way, or is there anything special about weather in your canon?

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[a1enzo]

Cyberspace doesn't have weather. Why would it, after all? There are slightly cloudy patterns moving across the surface of the sky, and that's about it. Temperature is determined by a system's processes and cooling apparatus.

I did, however, decide (solidified during Hiccup's visit to Mainframe) that they do occasionally get snow, but that's not really weather, it's electromagnetic noise and technically a malfunction (but mostly harmless unless it gets out of hand, and ski parks generate it deliberately). It's really only there so snowglobes can be a thing.

[jjprobert]

The weather is rather symbolic in Jack and Max's canon. Certain natural events occur because of events that trigger the plot. I won't mention any more, because Spoilers.

Batman Begins uses pathetic fallacies all over the place (where the weather mimics the mood of the moment).

Ender's Game takes place IN SPACE, so there's no weather there. The rest of the shadow series doesn't really do anything symbolic with the weather.

And then there's the MCU. Where they've done everything ever with the weather. Although, thunderstorms do tend to imply a certain God (or Asgardian, as they prefer) is around.

[1nv1nc1ble]

With the number of weather manipulators in the Marvel Universe(s), I've always wondered how they manage any sort of atmospheric stability at all. I can only assume that there's a secret cabal of weather manipulators, stronger than Storm or Thor by an order of magnitude or more, who spend their days keeping the weather of the planet stable.

[fluffiest_archadian]

For Sherral, who probably has the most interesting answer to this out of my pups: He's from a very cold part of the Archadian Empire - nearly arctic, so he's used to snow, ice, long periods of darkness, and more snow. Also, ice monsters. The parts of Archadia you visit, which is generally the Southern part of it, are roughly like Italy and the South of France - quite warm and balmy.

Rabanastre, however, is located in a desert. It's warm and dry most of the time - however, the desert to its south, the Giza Plains, does get a localised rainy season. This actually becomes a game mechanic: Every four hours of gameplay time, the Giza Plains switches between Dry and Rainy - monsters are stronger (and different) during the Rainy season, thunder spells are more powerful, and the areas South of the Plains can be accessed (and need to be, for plot), whereas they can't in the Dry season.

Weather has a gameplay effect in other places too, but usually less of one: Most places have two weather types, with certain monsters only showing up in certain weathers, and certain spells being stronger in certain weather (sunny weather makes fire spells stronger, rainy weather makes thunder spells stronger). In the Foggy weather that some places get, magic recharges faster.

[1nv1nc1ble]

Mark lives in California. Weather is something that happens to other people, in other places. That being said, weather doesn't particularly affect him in any case (headcanon says that the vacuum of space feels like being immersed completely in a cold pool of water; the coldest places on the planet almost don't even register). Kirkman doesn't really use weather as a mood setter/reflector in Invincible, though there are some global climate changes in the future canon as a direct result of characters' actions.

[camwyn]

Gordon was born and raised in Seattle, Washington, but his canon started off in New Mexico (I have placed Black Mesa not far outside Espanola, as there is a Black Mesa Golf Course in the area) and then moved to wherever City 17 and White Forest are (the game indicates Eastern Europe but due to not wanting to go insane doing geography research every time I OOM, we millicanoned that City 17 was actually Newark, New Jersey and that White Forest was in the Catskill Mountains- on the site of Sullivan County's White Forest Zen Buddhist Monastery). Weather doesn't really play much of a role in Gordon's canon, though. It's purely atmospherics.

Shephard's canon takes place almost entirely indoors, and what isn't indoors is mostly in Xen. That being said, he's from West Virginia mountain country, which is where the Resistance has ultimately moved in Millicanon. The weather in Preston County is pretty nice, although due to Combine atmospheric manipulations it's cooler than it used to be and the winters are more vicious.

Ellen is from the Capital Wasteland. The first Fallout game to actually have weather was Fallout New Vegas, and even then it only appeared in the add-on Honest Hearts; I suspect this was a limitation of the game engine rather than meant to represent the actual weather of her world, since you can make the game last over a year if you're careful and even the Atacama Desert has more precipitation than that. That being said, rain in the Capital Wastes is a perilous thing that tends to come in fits and starts, mostly during winter, and mostly in the form of brief but torrential storms. It's even money whether the rain is dangerously contaminated or not, and even when it's not contaminated it tends to be acidic, so people have to be careful. Summers are hotter than they were before the War. Fortunately sandstorms are not that much of a hazard; the Wasteland is scrub desert, not a Sahara-type open sand kind of place.

Stacker is from London. Most of the weather we see in his canon is Hong Kong weather. Since this is a Guillermo del Toro movie, the weather is mostly empathically responsive whether the characters know it or not, and it never really gets clear and bright until the Breach is finally sealed.

Edward Kenway is from Swansea by birth, Bristol by upbringing, but we only see him in the Caribbean (and later in canon, briefly in Africa). The weather in his canon periodically features storms of various magnitudes including a couple of fleet-wrecking hurricanes, but occasionally just weather nasty enough to make the ship and its crew unhappy, so there's that- oh, and fog, they have actual fog so you can have stealth segments despite being at the helm of a full-sized pirate ship.

[sdelmonte]

There's no weather in space. So Kirk hasn't dealt with it often. But on Earth, in his day, they've found ways to modify the weather (but not control, as that would be too energy-intensive). So he's seen all the usual sorts of weather in Iowa and San Fran, but nothing too rotten.

Knox and Charlie both come from cities with dramatic weather. I guess Denny O'Neil loved Gotham's storms and rain so much that he had to send them to Hub City. I figure that Gotham is essentially Philadelphia, which is just north enough to get blizzards often and just south enough to be as humid as Washington, DC. And Hub City is in the Midwest, aka Tornado Alley.

Howard lives in LA for a reason. The occasional drenching winter storm is much better than the snows of his Michigan youth. Which is why I plan to get him stuck in New York next Christmas when the '47 blizzard hits.

Cyborg's Jump City is always beautiful. I have no idea why.

And Gibbs lives in the tropics and loves it. Hurricanes notwithstanding.

[kd7sov]

Felix comes from Vale, which I figure is vaguely equivalent to Idaho, weather-wise. The only time weather is actually relevant, though, is after Jupiter Lighthouse is lit, and things keep getting colder when it's supposed to be coming into spring.

Fluttershy's world has strict weather control in the form of the pegasi, Everfree Forest excepted. Though they do mess up (see: "skipped a scheduled sprinkle last week" in 1x08), there is a weather schedule, which means events are very unlikely to get rained out unless sabotage is involved. (I suspect that'd make for an interesting episode, if this were a different kind of show.)

Kain... I have no clue. I don't think weather ever happens in the game, and it's a wrap-all-ways world map so there isn't even latitude.

[death_gone_mad]

Most of the fairies on Zanaris are involved in controlling Gielinor's weather. There are other actors influencing the weather on the planet, but on the moon the weather seems to be under the complete control of the fairies. I am not sure what the weather is like, except that grass, trees both deciduous and coniferous, and mushrooms seem to do really well there, especially the conifers, which can be grown close enough together to form WALLS. I guess there is a bit of wind to help out the conifers and fungi, but not enough to drive a windmill. Mills rely on water wheels and cows on giant hamster wheels for power. Then again, cow powered mills are used planetside too.

Down on the planet, well, it's a planet with many climate zones. Amascut usually hangs out in the Kharidian subcontinent, which is mostly arid but the high country probably has bigger seasonal and daily temperature shift than the low country, naturally. All the moisture that would have fell in the Kharidian subcontinent probably falls on Morytania to the northeast and makes it a perpetually overcast swamp, but there are some humid places still remaining on the Kharidian east coast. The rest of the main continent is modeled on Europe. I figure Kandarin is like France, Misthalin is like Germany/Austria/Prussia-ish. The Fremennik Provinces and Trollheim are Scandinavian, I think. The Fremennik culture is definitely Scandinavian inspired, though. Tiranwnn might be Spain, if Spain were dominated by Welsh speakers instead of Latin speakers and Goths and Vandals, so I suppose it is Spain-like. That would put Arposandra's poison wastes in Andalucia, unfortunately.

Ogre Country, south of Kandarin and the Feldip hills, is quite tropical as is the island of Karamja, which is probably big enough to be a continent of its own. Maybe I can get away with saying Ogre Country is a lot like South America and Karamja is a lot like Sub-Saharan Africa? I dunno, it isn't a totally straight analogy.

Forinthry is something else altogether. Maybe Iceland, if it were bigger and more volcanic and more nightmarish?

[inlovewithwords]

Eriond gets to see all kinds of weather; Gara is actually not uniform, although sections of the world get stereotyped likely beyond what is actually reasonable for weather. It is, however, something of a plot point that hypothetically weather works the way it should. The Vale itself (the closest one could get to 'where Eriond's from') gets a nice and distinct four seasons, though I expect summers are not too brutal and winters can get fairly frigid. The weather definitely plays in, at least the times someone plays with it for their own purposes...

Henry I will only address Storybrooke: Hypothetically, it's just Maine with possibly the occasional 'magic changes something' or magic fog of scary.

Lois hypothetically lives in approximately normal-except-for-the-DCU-bits Kansas.

Tavi, of course, comes from a world where weather is a tiny bit alive, at least in his corner of Carna. It definitely plays into things a lot: people stir up weather and make it worse or try to calm it down, or use it as a weapon, whatever. For those with the power to play with it--especially Sextus--weather is definitely just another tool. Alera itself has climate variance: the north is freezing with a permanent Icewall only somewhat less imposing than Westeros's, while the southwest is swampland and there seems to be a rainforest of some kind--temperate or tropical is unclear--in the southeast. Tavi's native Calderon is pretty cold and dreary in winter, and probably even in summer sometimes--mountains, northerly, isthmus, psychotic storm system. We do also hear some about other continents; there seems to be a lack of warm-climate desert in extant canon maps, though given the frigid north tundra is likely somewhere close.

Both books 1 and 6 mention particularly Thematically Difficult Winters cropping up, and anything set in Calderon Valley (1, 2, 6) tends to deal with Thana Lilvia, the semi-sentient storm system of psychotic. Books 2, 3, and 6 have actively militarized weather. In Book 2, Canim stirring up hurricanes to wear down Sextus on a personal level and help allow for pirate activity and stuff on the coast. In Book 3, the Canim create semi-permanent cloud-cover for the duration to mess with furycrafting and keep Alerans from using their aerial combat. In Book 6, Tavi unleashes Thana as a doomsday weapon (Kitai reins it in after), immediately post-canon Alera's weather is about to go totally haywire, and Tavi forcibly freezes the northern two provinces of the Realm and holds back spring a few weeks, triggering what will in some hundreds/thousands of years result in drastic climate change and an ice age.

So Butcher tossed in some ~Commentary~ on top of, you know, letting the two most personally magically powerful people in that world somewhat totally break the weather. (Belgarath would doubtless have ~Words~ for Tavi and possibly Sextus as well--not that they'd give a damn.)

[bjornwilde]

Jess, Hank, and Anton come from the Earth next door and weather is the same. Jess and Hank usually deal with generic weather on page/screen, though in Jess's case they sometimes show snow or rain for seasonal or emotional atmosphere. Anton's writer is pretty good about bringing in the weather as part of the landscape.

Andrea lives in Atlanta and weather is typical for the city, although there is one street that is covered in snow year round thanks to weird magic.

Quinlan lives in space but Star Wars is riddled with single biome planets. I am sure they have their own weather patterns but I equally sure it would be subtle to us.

I can't remember Once Upon A Time ever showing anything but temperate summertime conditions in FTL but I could be wrong. There has to at least be rain given how green everything is.

[ceitfianna]

Will, William, Jane and Charles all come from fairly normal earths where weather isn't too big of a deal. Storm hasn't become a main pat of Charles' canon so isn't bothering the weather too much.

Moist is from the Disc where in places like Uberwald, the weather pays attention and gives you a thunderclap when you need it. Moist misses that sometimes out on the plains where the weather is kind of boring.

Ivan's from Barrayar which has pretty normal weather for a sci-fi planet, when its Winterfair, there's winter weather and all. The stranger weather is on other planets that are less terraformed like Komarr.

Sameth is from the Old Kingdom which seems to be kind of based on Scotland, which means the norm is cloaks for rain and cold. A lot of the clothing for the Old Kingdom involves layers.

Demeter chooses to live in Southern France because while she's from Earth as who she is, she doesn't like cold and avoids it unless she brings it. Gods are confusing.

Tumnus is used to normal weather since Narnia now has proper seasonal weather but long winters always make him a little nervous.

The Pirate King is also from a fairly normal weatherwise England, but he's aware of it because he's on a ship.

[ashen_key]

Natasha lives on Earth, in both the 1950s and 2010s, with all the weather that implies!







Well, admittedly, this seems to be a world where Moscow endures freak snowstorms while New Yorkers are walking around in short-sleeves, but generally, I try and ignore that (oh, IM2, WHY DID YOU DO THAT)