Line #62 DarthWiki/TheHarmonicsVerse


1	The Harmonicsverse is an original MundaneFantastic [[TheVerse verse]] created by Tropers/{{Floria}} as the setting for several original writing projects, which currently exist at varying proportions of "purely theoretical" to "actually has something written down."
2	These include:
3	* Venus Envy: a four-piece Canadian all-woman punk band, most active in the late 1980s through the 1990s. Consists of a RedOniBlueOni lesbian couple, a transgender drummer and a Scottish-Canadian punk rocker, and an EruditeStoner werewolf who can see ghosts. Very loosely inspired by ''Film/HardCoreLogo''.
4	* Maenad: they've had the most written about them, and have their own page [[Literature/DestructiveHarmonics here]].
5	* Seax: [[MultinationalTeam Multinational]] Scandinavian [[FiveManBand five man]] Viking Metal band, noteworthy for the fact that their normal lineup is all guys, although they do have a female manager and had a female guest vocalist on one album. They're not weirdness prone in the way that Maenad is, but they do have an odd habit of accidentally summoning things.
6	* The {{Differently Powered Individual}}s: Venus Envy's bassist is a werewolf (which is treated like an exotic medical condition in this universe) who can see ghosts, Seax's guitarist and drummer can sense spirits, and the drummer can also astrally project (powers he inherited from his Siberian shaman ancestors). Then there's Mockingbird, a music savant mutant with sound-manipulation powers, who sometimes hangs out with Seax, and Karma, a mutant healer who manages to benefit from both sides of her EquivalentExchange based healing powers. There's also a quirky group of low tier semi-superheroes who occasionally do in fact fight crime, although they spend more time on various sorts of mercenary work and exploring their own interests.
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8	See the CharacterSheet [[Characters/DestructiveHarmonics here]].
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10	!! Contains examples of:
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12	* AbusiveParents: Dani's stepfather, Delilah's dad.
13	* AllDrummersAreAnimals: Averted across the board. Zandra of Venus Envy is the sensible, feminine TeamMom, Musa TheSmartGuy of Maenad, and Hallbjorn of Seax is a relatively calm and spiritual GentleGiant.
14	* AlwaysChaoticEvil: averted. Vampires, werewolves, and demons are all capable of being perfectly nice people, although you wouldn't want to push them too far.
15	* AuthorAppeal: music, exotic pets, lesbians...
16	* BlessedWithSuck: Delilah's HealingFactor has saved her life on multiple occasions, but having a body that heals away any alterations and processes drugs super-efficiently is a mixed blessing for someone contemplating gender transition.
17	* BrandX: Glacial Geyser bottled water.
18	* BunnyEarsLawyer: most creative types.
19	* CanonWelding: Maenad, Delilah and her associates, and Venus Envy's stories were originally in separate continuities.
20	* CaptainErsatz: the Shogglets are based on the Shoggies from Webcomic/TheUnspeakableVaultOfDoom, although they can't talk and are written more as the CosmicHorrorStory version of the RidiculouslyCuteCritter.
21	* CooldownHug: Delilah winds up giving a lot of them, since if the person she's trying to calm down winds up violently freaking out on her there won't be any lasting damage.
22	* CreepyChild: Billie Jiang was a mild example in her youth, due to odd mannerisms and an aura of eeriness rather than anything actually dangerous. Didrik might also have qualified, given his OracularUrchin tendencies, except the adults around him were too wrapped up in their own affairs to notice any subtle weirdness about him.
23	* CrossesTheLineTwice: Thanatocide's entire body of work.
24	** Also, the Anna: She Wolf of the GOP series of porn movies, which feature a NoCelebritiesWereHarmed [[StrawmanPolitical evil Republican]] dominatrix having her evil way with a wide variety of victims before [[{{Gorn}} dying in a spectacularly gory way]].
25	* EveryoneIsBi: or at least most of the women.
26	* ExtremeOmnivore: Shogglets. They have a particular fondness for oatmeal soap.
27	* FakeBand: loads of them.
28	* FictionalMedia: quite a bit of it.
29	** The musical output of the various Fake Bands.
30	** Dee Savage's movie career, from soft-core Swedish PornWithPlot to HairMetal {{Mockumentary}} ''There Will Be Glitter''.
31	* FriendlyEnemies: Victoria and Tea. They're sort of a sexually ambiguous female version of Magneto and Professor X.
32	* GeniusDitz: Amalthea Hunter would be an extreme example, as she's a musical savant but actually mildly developmentally disabled.
33	* ImprobablyFemaleCast: the Maenad and Venus Envy stories in particular, but women in their mid-thirties and younger who range from "attractive in their way if you like that type" to outright beautiful do make up a rather large proportion of the cast.* InformedAbility / TakeOurWordForIt: side effect of being a musician in a non-auditory medium.
34	* InspirationallyDisadvantaged: as a disabled celebrity, Amalthea Hunter gets a lot of this sort of treatment from the media. She doesn't usually mind, except when reviews of her latest album spend six paragraphs talking about how darn inspirational she is and only one on the actual music, but sometimes she finds it confusing, since having Williams Syndrome doesn't make singing any more difficult.
35	* IntelligenceEqualsIsolation: Niobe Hunter has, at times, resented the fact that her younger sister Amalthea has half her IQ but twice as many friends.
36	* HoYay / LesYay
37	* LighterAndSofter: Venus Envy is less of a Dysfunction Junction than Hard Core Logo, even allowing for the fact that the Hard Cores didn't have to deal with a band member's lycanthropy.
38	* {{Moe}}: Violet, Didrik, and Amalthea are the most overt examples, but even the less deliberately adorable characters can have their cute moments.
39	** Sigyn Solefald is a subversion, as she looks girlishly pretty and can be quite charming when she's is a good mood, but is also an unstable sociopath with prejudices against most human ethnic groups (including other Scandinavians) who, despite her talent and charisma, wound up alienating most of her friends and attempting to murder one of the few who continued to put up with her.
40	* MundaneUtility: standard for Differently Powered Individuals in this setting.
41	* NorseByNorsewest: the Venus Envy cast is the only group that has no connection with Scandinavia.
42	* OscarBait: Discussed by Amalthea. "So, does that mean that if I played a tone-deaf person who was good at math, they'd give me an award for it?"
43	* OurMonstersAreDifferent
44	* PornWithPlot: Delilah's brief career in "Swedish experimental films."
45	* ReedRichardsIsUseless: averted in various small ways due to the prevalence of Mundane Utility - for instance, medical technology is somewhat more advanced, and most dead languages that left sufficiently large samples of written text have been deciphered thanks to the work of a DPI scholar with universal translation powers.
46	* SeriousBusiness: Black Metal fandom, despite the fact that, unlike the situation with Maenad, nobody believes that Sigyn Solefald et al are going to bring about the end of the world anytime soon.
47	* SliceOfLife
48	* StealthParody: despite their Punny Name, some intentionally ridiculous lyrics and the conspicuous levels of Camp in their stage show, some people believed that Aryan Heresy were actually Neo-Nazis.
49	* TakeThat: An in-character example occurs when Amalthea's watching a friend play VideoGame/MetalGearSolid.
50	-->"Honesty, stop whining about how horrible it is having recessive genes. I have deleted genes, and I'm pretty sure that's worse, and you don't hear me complaining."
51	** Since Amalthea has [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williams_syndrome Williams Syndrome]], this is technically true.
52	* TeamMom: Zandra Mackenzie, for Venus Envy.
53	* ThereAreNoTherapists: Averted, although plenty of characters who probably need help still aren't getting it, and the one therapist to get much characterization has plenty of issues of her own.
54	* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Kate Cadaver and Zandra Mackenzie
55	* {{Tykebomb}}: Glory, one of Delilah's associates during her time as a superhero.

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