For Thor, uh, obviously there's Asgardian technomagical babble! I can get by a lot with the fact that Thor's not a nerd or an expert, and with "the term Thor uses in the Allspeak is somewhat more precise than what it translates to," but every so often I do have to juggle some nouns in my head and come up with soul-embers or a spark-net or something.
For Enjolras and Cosette, they're from a historical canon; their lives may be fictionalized, but the era is quite real. So it's not so much technobabble as societal detail babble. For Cosette, that's actually pretty minor, but for Enjolras, I spend a lot of time hastily googling political events and philosophies and people to toss into a thread, in what's basically the same function as technobabble: the meaning is important to the character, but it's mostly the feel of having those specific mentions that matters to the reader (and writer).
Kazul gets some magic babble -- not too often, because it's not really her conversational focus, but she does toss off offhand mentions every now and again.
Doctor Dinosaur is all about the technobabble. He's from an ACTION SCIENCE canon, which is basically all about reversing the polarities, crossing the streams, and bouncing the graviton particle beam off the anti-gravity crystals. My key rule of thumb for Doctor Dinosaur is that it shouldn't make a lick of sense.
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For Enjolras and Cosette, they're from a historical canon; their lives may be fictionalized, but the era is quite real. So it's not so much technobabble as societal detail babble. For Cosette, that's actually pretty minor, but for Enjolras, I spend a lot of time hastily googling political events and philosophies and people to toss into a thread, in what's basically the same function as technobabble: the meaning is important to the character, but it's mostly the feel of having those specific mentions that matters to the reader (and writer).
Kazul gets some magic babble -- not too often, because it's not really her conversational focus, but she does toss off offhand mentions every now and again.
Doctor Dinosaur is all about the technobabble. He's from an ACTION SCIENCE canon, which is basically all about reversing the polarities, crossing the streams, and bouncing the graviton particle beam off the anti-gravity crystals. My key rule of thumb for Doctor Dinosaur is that it shouldn't make a lick of sense.