Rational Twilight: Luminosity

Thanks muchly for the courtesy links.

Also, dang, Raw Power, looking for a career in sound design?

If only I spent half the time I spend here learning how to actually write and compose shit. Then shit would be different. Ooooh yeah. Y'know, at one point back when I was young and naïve, I dreamed of being the first politician to use songs and musical numbers instead of speeches. I dreamt of making an incendiary discourse against an opposing party in the shape of a memorable "The Villain Sucks" Song.

I actually think it's feasible. Arabs used poetry for politics extensively, it played the same role as advertising nowadays. People would remember a funny poem, and tell it to each other, and it spread like gunpowder, and if you pissed off a sufficiently vicious and talented poet, your reputation was over. You were politically dead.

Oooh, you know what else might be awesome? A Luminosity M o R crossover. Vampires exist in cannon potterverse, but are not elabroated upon. Presumably, wizards don't want to be turned into awesome beings with enhanced superpowers, and vampires don't want to learn magic. At least the members of both communities who know about each other.

So. Vampire Quirrelmort. Vampire Potter? (NOT in the style of My Immortal, anything but that) Vampirism is pretty unsustainable if you want to immortalize all of humanity, and halflings require the vampirization of all of their mothers... and the fathers would follow suit. Then there's the Quileute master race and their many many drawbacks, including but not limited to the imprinting and the hivemind.

"A Luminosity M o R crossover."

I've heard this proposed before, but I don't think the guy who thought it up first is likely to actually write it. I'm not going to either and wouldn't expect it of Eliezer, but anybody who'd like to try it is welcome to.

Sounds more interesting than most debates. Imagine, judging a politician on the quality of his voice or the complexity of his meter!

I don't see why Potterverse wizards wouldn't want to be turned into vampires (aside from the whole dependent-on-blood and subservient to the Volturra thing), or why the Volturra wouldn't seize on any advantage they could get. Quirrelmort, at least, might see it as an advantage - and hey! He wouldn't have to split up his soul. Although there might be some legitimate confusion, seeing as Yudkowsky calls his "special" people witches already.

ETA: Not to mention clearing up the different kinds of werewolves. But we know from Twilight there's different types there - you've got the Quileute andthen you have the Children of the Moon over in Asia.

edited 26th Nov '10 10:32:51 AM by Maridee

Bu that's it. Vampires live The Maskerade in the Muggle world, while wizards live in a completely separate system, absolutely isolated and ignorant of Muggle technology and awesome. The witches that are at the Vampires' disposal to "bewitch" are not powerful enough to be wizards, otherwise they would have recieved a letter from whatever equivalent there is of Hogwarts in their country. Though it is a bit miffing to know that Hogwarts is the best wizarding school in Magical Britain, yet we never ever hear of other inferior schools. Is this the potterverse version of Ivy League for Everyone? We also never hear of other schools besides Durmstrang and Beauxbâtons, and why is one all-male and the other all-female? Where do the French dudes and the Eastern European gals go?

I am sure no-one else has thought of asking these questions before.

Back to Twilight, perhaps an easier crossover would be with X-Men. Witches and "mutants" really seem to work the same way. Again, Mutants could be a weird sort of semi-wizards with extremely specialized wandless magic but... And Professor Xavier and Dumbledore have a lot in common... And Voldemort is a lot like M Agneto... if it weren't for the generation gap...

I sense a Fan Fic Chop Suey...

edited 26th Nov '10 11:55:29 AM by RawPower

Durmstrang and Beauxbatons aren't actually single-sex schools. That was a movie adjustment.

edited 26th Nov '10 2:30:25 PM by Accela

Oh.

Then again that was the suckiest HP movie I had seen yet.

Haven't read Twilight. Luminosity was interesting, but something about reading Radiance makes me dizzy.

I have to say, Bella's description near the end of the first fix reminds me of Darth Sion. And I think my WMG is that the locket is a phylactery.

I'm trying to figure out the vampire consumption rate. It was one a week? Fifty a year. Per vampire. But spread out over a wide range?

edited 26th Nov '10 6:42:36 PM by DrRockopolis

Oh, almost forgot, what happens if a vampire spits in the water supply?

• Racoon City, USA. Population; Fabulous!

Chapter 10: Doctor

Jokes aside, a Breather Episode where we get some exposition and some Character Development. It's kinda depressing, but never dull.

edited 28th Nov '10 9:06:53 PM by RawPower

I'm just gonna pop in this thread to say:

GET BEHIND ME, DOCTOR!

edited 28th Nov '10 9:00:41 PM by RocketDude

Didn't make me dizzy. Maybe reading the entire story all at once was a bad idea.

Argh...that Bella-shield. I just see her as a flaming pile of ashes held together in human form by sheer determination. And Metal.

Heavy Metal

Or HeavyMetal

Vengeance would be a pretty nifty theme for Radiance.

edited 29th Nov '10 12:32:20 AM by DrRockopolis

... It would suck for Eslpeth though.

True.

I have to say, I was wondering if Radiance was going to start with Empty Quiver. Or is that for the third one; Luminosity, Radiance, Brighter Than A Thousand Suns?

I do wonder how many people per year get eaten by vampires...

Vampire Batman/The-Punisher is fucking awesome concept.

Chapter 11: Soldier

I'm gonna pop in again to say:

MAGGOTS!

Whoa, captured, again. It's a pity, I was hoping to see Demeteri bust out his hunting monocle and pith helmet. I wonder what Bella's going to be doing? 'Mmph,mph!'.

• Although in hindsight, all these Team Fortress 2 gags are making "He punched out all of my blood!" even more hilarious. And the Cullens are rich enough to afford a gun that costs four hundred thousand dollars to fire for twelve and a half seconds.

I could see Bella as The Terminator...

Chapter 12: Welcomer Don't hate me please.

The link doesn't seem to work, and neither does the one on the table of contents. It just takes me back to "Liar".

Though I can see it on the "read the whole book on one page" link.

edited 2nd Dec '10 8:35:15 PM by Haven

Yeah, I can't seem to load it either. Should we start hating you?

Edit; Can't read Whole Story on one page, unfortunately; my phone apparently can't completely load large pages.

edited 2nd Dec '10 8:40:06 PM by DrRockopolis

The fanfiction.net version should work.