Wednesday DE: Between science and superstition

[angry_friendship_wolf]

Borrowing this one from a conversation between Saph and Fi in chat a while back:

What does your pup find weirdest about Milliways?

As an extra question: What's the weirdest thing in your pup's own world?

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[configuration_birdwatcher]

The number of people who think it's cool that they're a robot with built-in heavy weaponry and aren't the least bit frightened or distrustful of them. That's disorienting as hell. (The forest being the most dangerous part of the place is also weird and a lot more straightforwardly unpleasant.)

The weirdest thing in their world is probably Hammond, alias Wrecking Ball, an uplifted hamster and self-taught mechanical engineer who was born on the moon, escaped to Earth when his fellow uplifted animals were rebelling against their creators, and repurposed the escape pod thingy he built as a battle mech upon landing in a Mad-Max-like post-disaster rural Australia so that he could collect the prize money from mech fights to spend on upgrading his mech for long-range travel.

Lucheng Interstellar's animal uplift program has spawned a lot of weird shit, honestly. (The timeline placing it as having started in the middle of the Omnic Crisis is also weird. Conducting it on the moon makes sense to me if there was already moon infrastructure to host them, though; it's a way to contain the damage in the event that the experiment gets dangerously out of control and the uplifted animals try to escape, which it did and they did.)

[skyhigh_seance]

The sheer number of people who a) believe him about the ghosts and then b) are completely on board with his drug use. Before now, no one (except Ben, for obvious reasons) believed what he's said about how his powers work - though I have a suspicion he never told his siblings that dear old dad wasnt truthful about Klaus' abilities, so. People are nice in Milliways, and it's so weird.

In his own world, the weirdest thing is no one seems to really connect the kid Hargreeves with the adults. Sure, Vanya wrote a book but it didn't push her to stardom, Allison's marriage fslls apart due to the rumoring but there isn't a huge 'she didn't deserve this role' scandal, three of the kids flat-out disappear... where's the 60 Minutes 'where are they now' investigative piece? The random 'Spaceboy us my babydaddy' Sun articles? The John Oliver piece on Last Week Tonight??

OMG can you even imagine?

"And tonight: the Umbrella Academy, tragically not a finishing school for actual umbrellas, get it together Gary, you're getting everyone soaked, this is not how you behave in polite society!"

[childofrebellion]

For Cassian, how trusting people in Milliways are of those in power or are even in positions of power themselves and how few aliens there are. Oh and how often they go, you're with the Rebellion, cool. The weirdest thing, *eyes SWs canon*, to me I think the whole Force being embodied by the father, brother and sister. Beautiful episode of The Clone Wars that felt like it had dropped in from another canon. There are other weird things, but that was one which had me going o.O for a while.

For Quentin, how few people are actually bothered by his being a Faerie. The weirdest thing, this is another hard one, but I think the character of the Luidaeg. All her wonderful contradictions as old and powerful yet still likes donuts and tries to live a quiet life.

Charles, how accepting and at the same time not accepting people in Milliways are of mutants but not of telepaths. Also all the different variations on worlds with X-men in them. *eyes X-Men canon* I haven't read enough comics but I sort of feel like gesturing at the entire X-Men canon for the weirdest thing.

Moist, that people will believe many of his lies but have trouble with anything to do with Discworld like the fact that its a Disc. I'm honestly not sure what the weirdest thing in Discworld is, its very subjective.

Sameth, that there are Dead people just walking around, he's more used to that but its still weird to him. I think Yrael and Dog are probably the weirdest parts of the Abhorsen canon. Powerful beings in the shape of cute animals. Animals that will still bite and claw you but also ones you might want to snuggle.

Will S., so many parts of Milliways used to be weird to Will before he adjusted to them but I think he comes back to all the different futures and how Robin is known in many of them. With second being having both gods like Pan and demons in the same place, its disconcerting.

William, hm, I'm not sure, probably that his father is in Milliways, but Ben Wade can also walk in the door.

Demeter, Milliways actually isn't that weird to her, she finds the dead walking around odd, but not that odd.

Tumnus, so many things, I'm not sure any one jumps out.

Ivan, the lack of space travel and that no one really knows about Barrayar except for a few exceptions. Its disconcerting and takes away many of the things that dictate his interactions.

[irish_vagabond]

The weirdest thing about Milliways for Cassidy is that vampires from other worlds exist here, and they're all so different from him. Also, most people he's met are pretty much okay with him being one. But he's so low-key about it to begin with, though, which is a precaution against both strangers and friends freaking out on him.

What's the weirdest thing about his world? LOL. Uh. It's hard to choose. And the things are hard to describe. I've tried typing this out multiple times because they're all so terrible, ahaha. A demon and an archangel having a baby that is more powerful than God and is now living inside Jesse Custer giving him the power to command people IS NOT the weirdest thing.