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Weekly Inquiry 8: SCIENCE! MAGIC!
🕑 Added 2019-03-18 20:13:21 +0000 UTCQuiet straight forward inquiry, what’s your preferred “mechanism” for a TF?
Magic or sciences?
I tend to lean more to the second because it’s an easier way to find narrative reason to justify the TF without having to explain too much, but what’s your opinion, lovely patrons, about this core question?
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Senor
That's what I mean with them being better for some plots than others, it depends quite a lot about the focus of the tale. Of course, you can also "break the rules" and have for example a science TF driven by emotions (maybe because a drug?) and a very detailed step by step magical one. After all, art doesn't works well with absolutes. XP
Siegmar
I'm more in favour of science, although some aspects of science look more like magic to the untrained observer. If the transformation takes place slowly, you can easily explain it with scientific methods, nanotechnology, genetic engineering. But if the transformation is to be emotionally controlled, magic would be more appropriate, because scientific methods cannot explain why the transformation only develops when the animal's urges are given free rein.
Senor
I would say that, from a narrative point, the difference radiates in how much you have to explain, with science you have to give at least a “plausible” explanation, but with magic it can just happen. Admittedly, the difference between she transforming because some hormonal yada yada or because she had a moment of weakness may not seem huge, but I think that one works better with some types of tales than the other and viceversa.
Gee-chan
I mean, what really is magic but sufficiently advanced science? Or is that science is just sufficiently primitive magic?
