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Conf Call - Pondering Nomenclature (Patreon)

Published:
2018-01-22 21:28:39
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2018-04-04 13:28:11
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2024-07
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Ever since I started posting on Patreon, I have been trying to figure out words that can as broadly describe what happens in my stories as possible and I think I might have hit on the answer with these few categories. EDIT: After conversations last night, I have updated this post. The categories listed below are what I believe I will work with.

The first two are mutually exclusive flags with regards to physical transformation and then there are Sex Changes which I want to flag as their own type of thing.

  • Biology Changes - Character experiences changes in stature, or fitness, as well as wide ranging physiological changes like sensitivity, amount of release, and the manifestation of meta-human abilities. Mutually exclusive with Demi-human Changes in that characters remain human, even if empowered. 
  • Demi-human Changes - Character experiences Species or Supernatural changes and any alterations to their body as a result of that shift in genetics or quintessence. Mutually exclusive with Biology Changes.
  • Sex Changes - A character's physical sex is modified or altered, growth falls under either above.

The other two are more subtle changes, but still things I want to highlight as they can occur independently of physical changes and may indeed be all that actually happens.

  • Psyche Changes - Character experiences alterations to their Gender, Demeanor, Sexuality, Intellect, or Awareness as well as adjustments to Libido and other such drives.
  • Reality Changes - This is three things: a character's transformation or actions cause the fabric of reality to bend around them, modifications to the setting are the diving force behind occurring transformations, and a character's memories are altered as to make their current existence their status quo. I feel like these are important distinctions to make since they can change the fundamental nature of a narrative.

What do you all think?


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Devi Lacroix

I get what your intent with "physiology changes," but it's a weird liminal zone between "physical change" and "mental change"; in my writing, I would treat all of your physiological change examples as by-products of physical changes. I'm totally in agreement with "reality change" being its own category, but I feel like it's as much a description of the transformation macguffin as it is a category of change. That is to say, I don't see it as a separate category, but an overlapping category that describes BOTH a specific type of change AND exists alongside physical/mental changes.

Roxxie Stone
>>9644778

I'm not able to express it well, but I would draw a distinction between physical and physiological, as macro/external vs. micro/internal subcategories of morphological change. As far as Reality Changes I have seen them divorced from all other types of categories in one way or another, as well macguffin doesn't sit right as it is often an effect of the story's given macguffin (magic, device, psychic force ...) and it's presence is fairly significant to me. I would call it a meta-motif, apart from narrative hand waving but not a manifestation in and of itself [hopefully that made any sense. (moved to be a proper reply)]

Misty F.

The point in breaking Reality Changes out on their own is because of stories like Quantum Amazon and Runnin' Hot, where characters have an amount of direct control of not only their transformations but how those transformations affect others. It is a, in a way, a kind of super dominance that I feel like some people would be considerably uncomfortable with--but kind of seems blase to me since the X-Men did that every other issue for a while. However, I think things like "Inferno" are indicative of what I am trying to sign post with "Reality Changes" What I ultimately want is to have as few buckets possible to convey as broad an idea as possible so that when you see "Physique Change" you know the story is probably just expansion or maybe sex changes. Perhaps it might be easier to break things down as Physique Changes, Psyche Changes, and like... Biology Changes?

Roxxie Stone
>>9645503

Makes sense to me, there's no exact dividing line per-say, but I would find such a label useful.