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ways_back_room2014-04-15 07:28 am
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DE: It's filled with stars
Sorry for the late daily entertainment, troubled sleep plus no internet at home do not mix well. Did anyone see the eclipse?
Speaking of, what does your character think of astronomical events? Do they keep an eye out for them or just see them when they happen? Do they notice at all?
Speaking of, what does your character think of astronomical events? Do they keep an eye out for them or just see them when they happen? Do they notice at all?
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There are so many worlds in the Star Wars universe that I'm not sure how much attention is paid to astronomical events. Even a total solar eclipse would only affect a small portion of the galaxy.
Kreyu notices them, because they have certain effects on ritual magic and it's good to know if only to keep an eye out for someone who might be using that particular conjunction or what have you for nefarious purposes.
Annabelle does not keep track at all. If she happens across one she'll look at it provided nothing more pressing is going on, but that's it.
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Gordon is fond of watching meteor showers and spotting comets, and used to take a certain pride in spotting the Space Station or other orbiting craft when they were visible.
Shephard likes a good star-filled night sky away from city lights, but he's more concerned with land and sea navigation by the stars and how the moon affects animal breeding cycles than astronomical events (the whitetail rut usually happens around the time of the second full moon after the autumn equinox, for example).
Ellen grew up without a night sky and still isn't very clear on what to think of it all, although she finds it easier to deal with a dark sky full of stars than just the big blue ceiling during the daytime. Astronomical events tend not to register for her- I don't think she's ever seen an eclipse- although meteors tend to worry her, because she knows that there was at least one orbital bombardment platform still viable as of last year and who knows what else might still be up there waiting to fall.
Edward Kenway tracks the stars for navigation; otherwise he's mostly of the superstitious bent when it comes to comets, eclipses, etc. However, he strikes me as the Cohen the Barbarian type in that if his crew started wigging out about an eclipse or a comet, he'd announce that he was seizing it as their very own grand omen.
Not too sure about the others.
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My first thought with Quinlan is much like Ibani's above but then he spoke up and told me that, "No, he does keep his eye out for such things as they are part of the wonder of the universe." I suspect it's another way he tries to encourage the Light Side within him.
Jess enjoys them when they happen, if she is in a place where she can watch. She won't go out of her way nor make plans though.
Hank totally makes plans. I could see him having a calendar and even tracking satellites, especially given he's from a time when there were few satellites up.
I think Mulan would pay attention to such and see them as parts of the calendar, at least lunar occurrences. I don't know that it would be truly like western astrology but I can see her looking to the heavens for encouragement of auspicious times for her endeavors.
Brimstone always is aware of the heavens.
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Nita was canonically really into astronomy as a teenager, but I think her nightly telescope sessions tapered off as she got busier with school and wizardry.
Epimetheus IS astronomy.
Because Kim's magical system is frequently kind of arcane and alchemical, I suspect some spells are affected by moon cycles and possibly visible planets. Astrology is a load of poppycock, though.
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Helena was always looking to the stars, and still is. From the Earth to the Moon by Verne is one of her favourite books, and somewhat influenced her own writing.
Mark, Val, and Fantine aren't really stargazers.
Peter just uses stars to find his way around.
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Well, there is a sygyzy that plays a somewhat minor role in the Mahjarrat Ritual of Rejuvenation which Amascut may feel inclined to interfere with once in a while, but the lore makes it sound like the sygyzy is just a convenient way of keeping track of when 500 years have passed.
More relevant to everyone in canon is the upcoming solar eclipse, when Gielinor's moon, Zanaris, will cast a magical shadow over the world (at least some people speculate that it is magical, due to fairy magic and ECLIPSES DON'T WORK THAT WAY) and the second Battle Royale between the gods/Ragnorak will come to a momentary stop while the Trickster maybenot!god Sliske declares a winner. It's likely that is not all he will do since Sliske is Lord of Shadows and whatnot. So when the magical moon inhabited by fairies eclipses the sun, it might mean DOOM.
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Henry thinks they're cool but doesn't seek them out.
Eriond loves them. (He loves or at least likes most things...)
Lois is somewhat biased against them, as in Snallville that tends to mean radioactive meteorites.
Tavi thinks they're neat! He doesn't often have time for them; when he does he definitely takes the chance to see.
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Sunshine tends to keep up with upcoming astronomical events, because she wants to see them if she gets a chance. Yrael tends not to care enough to keep up with them.
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Elrond is an elf. He loves the stars. And has slightly more complicated feelings regarding one of them.
Eric likes the night. Stars are visible at night. Apart from that he's got nothing.
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Of mine, Will is aware of the night sky as in his era, a lot of navigating and stories are built around the stars.
Charles is interested in space since as a scientist of his era, space and the space race is a major thing. For him, there's also a sense of peace he finds looking up at the sky.
William does a good bit of navigating by the sky but he doesn't know a lot of astronomy.
Moist's stars are different and he doesn't pay them too much mind, they're up there and sometimes helpful.
Ivan had to study astronomy and navigation since he's from a sci-fi world, but I think for him, they're nice but not a big deal.
Jane enjoys looking at the stars and wondering how far away they are but she's more interested in people.
Sameth loves the peace of the stars but they're not a major focus with him.
Demeter knows some of the stars due to how her mythology works but she prefers the ground.
Tumnus finds something lovely in the stars but he hasn't studied them a lot.
The Pirate King navigates by the stars and considers them good friends.
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Fluttershy's easier; she enjoys astronomical events, but doesn't generally pay enough attention to know when they're going on unless Twilight invites her and the rest of their friends to watch together.
Kain tends to keep his view downwards. Part of that is his emotional issues; another part, the one he'd admit to, is that Dragoons
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Astronomy doesn't really figure into Jim's canon.
Leela is traveling through time and space now - I suspect the Doctor has shown her a supernova or two. But she was a warrior, not a shaman. Watching the stars was never her job.
I suspect that Kane might have had a hand in the advance of astronomy throughout the centuries. He likely needed some way to calculate the prophesied arrival of tiberium.
Caius knows his birthsign - the Tower - but otherwise doesn't think much of the moons, stars, and planets. Astronomy, of course, works rather differently in the Elder Scrolls 'verse.
Garyn doesn't think all that much about the night sky, but make no mistake, it's played a big role in his life. The Serpent crossed over the Tower on the night he was born - meaning he was born under a certain sign to uncertain parents, as was prophesied. (It's not clear how the Serpent constellation - which "has no season" - works, but this is how I'm choosing to interpret it. Plus "the serpent conquering the Tower" is something that has so much meaning in TES's awesomely oversignified mythology that I couldn't resist it. Dick-shaped metaphysical ideas FTW!) Later on in canon, an actual f'real Bloodmoon will play an important role in his life - marking the beginning of Hircine's Hunt, in which he has naturally been chosen to participate.
So yeah, being a hero of prophecy, he's gotta deal with a shitload of stellar symbolism. Not really surprising.
Marge doesn't think much of the stars. They're pretty and clear up in Brainerd, though, that's fer darn sure.
Thenardier - "And God in His Heaven
He don't interfere
'Cos he's dead as the stiff at my feet.
I raise my eyes to see the heavens
And only the moon looks down,
The harvest moon shines down!"
No other relationship between Thenardier and astronomy that I can recall.
And Sheogorath once threw a meteor at a city.
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David - Doesn't have time to think of celestial events unless they somehow relate to a case.
Olivier - would find the eclipse fascinating and would stay up as late as he could to watch. Or until it got too cold for him to stay out.
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Thor notices, and probably knows more about a lot of them than current human science (or at least knows different things), but unless it's a harbinger or confirmation of something ominous, he's just like "yep, sure is cool scenery!" Doubly so if this is Earth or another world, where the local sun and moon(s) and star configuration have a certain novelty factor.
Enjolras thinks they're great metaphor fodder, and also they fascinate his more science-minded friends in ways he finds baffling but endearing. (If you think this describes Enjolras's attitude to all KINDS of natural phenomena, you are correct.)
River lives in a spaceship. So! She notices some of them! Mostly she cares about a) whether they affect her ship and its space traffic, b) whether they adversely affect any of the planets or moons of her world, and c) the math underlying them, though -- she doesn't care all that much if something is pretty or a once-a-millennium event.
Regan also lives in a spacefaring world, so ditto River but slightly less immediate about it. She cares more about the prettiness, though. Unlike River, she doesn't hallucinate over top of them and she doesn't get her fill of staring out into the black whenever she wants. Whenever she is on a spaceship, she loves the chance to look out into the black; meteor showers and suchlike are a way to tap into a different version of that feeling.
Clare mostly goes "huh, how strange" and moves on, but she finds them compelling in a way she couldn't articulate to you, too.
Trowa's pretty well up on the science behind them, and doesn't spend a ton of time thinking about the aesthetics. He thinks about any repercussions for the colonies and space shuttles and stuff instead. He's certainly interested, but it's in a "stuff happening in my backyard" way, not a "wow, wonders of nature!" way.
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