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* TheAestheticsOfTechnology: A Genius' Aesthetic is a manifestation of how they think super-advanced technology should look. For some Geniuses, their Aesthetic is their idea of RuleOfCool, others use an Aesthetic with a sense of irony, or a [[{{Postmodernism}} postmodernist]] examination of what it means to be mad science. Unmada can't do this; their belief is that their worldview is The Truth, and so their Aesthetic reflects that, and making a Wonder in a different style ranges from difficult to impossible.
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* MadScientistLaboratory: Every Genius or Collaborative worth their salt has one, and they come in every style you can imagine.
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* MadScientistLaboratory: MadScientistLaboratory:
** Every Genius or Collaborative worth their salt has one, and they come in every style you canimagine.imagine.
** The traditional movie version is an Aesthetic of its own, called Universal (named after Franchise/UniversalHorror) and built around Jacob's ladders and 19th-century glassware. Almost nobody actually makes labs like this anymore, but many labs over a century old still look like this.
** Every Genius or Collaborative worth their salt has one, and they come in every style you can
** The traditional movie version is an Aesthetic of its own, called Universal (named after Franchise/UniversalHorror) and built around Jacob's ladders and 19th-century glassware. Almost nobody actually makes labs like this anymore, but many labs over a century old still look like this.
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* LifeEnergy: Some kind of "vital force" does exist in the World of Darkness. However, it's not really scientifically testable, and Geniuses who try just create another theory to use with Inspiration and Mania.
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* LanguageEqualsThought: Linguistic determinism (the strong Sapir-Whorf hypothesis) is an alternate science that can be the basis of Wonders. It's particularly popular among Nazis, Phenomenologists...and Directors.
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* DiscreditedTrope: InUniverse, even most ''Lemurians'' think that phrenology[[note]]the idea that you can determine someone's psychological traits by examining their skull structure[[/note]] is racist tripe.
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* PhlebotinumDuJour: Every Genius has a different idea of what this is or should be, and any item on the list can be the source of a Genius' power. {{Flame War}}s inevitably ensue.
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* AtomPunk: Using this as your aesthetic is almost mandatory for Atomists and almost verboten elsewhere. RaygunGothic is likewise classically Etherist, though there's a few non-Lemurian geniuses who just want a fishbowl space suit and a ray gun.
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* RaygunGothic: Named as a possible aesthetic for mad scientists. The Etherites, in particular, like this.
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* RaygunGothic: Named as a possible aesthetic for mad scientists. The Etherites, Etherites in particular, particular like this.this, but even some peers just want a raygun and a fishbowl helmet. The Atom Punk variation is almost mandatory for Atomists and pretty much verboten elsewhere.
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* DaChief: Mister Shark ''is'' this trope, despite being a Maori navigator from the 17th century. He runs the TimePolice responsible for the 16th through 21st centuries mostly on force of personality and is an extremely powerful Genius in his own right.
** And he has a time-travelling ''[[ShoePhone canoe]]''.
** And he has a time-travelling ''[[ShoePhone canoe]]''.
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* DaChief: Mister Shark ''is'' this trope, despite being a Maori navigator from the 17th century. He runs the TimePolice responsible for the 16th through 21st centuries mostly on force of personality and is an extremely powerful Genius in his own right.
**right. And he has a time-travelling ''[[ShoePhone canoe]]''.
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* HumanoidAbomination: How Mages see Geniuses, how Geniuses see powerful Clockstoppers, and how everyone sees the Illuminated (which usually includes themselves).
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** How Mages see Geniuses, how Geniuses see powerful Clockstoppers, and how everyone sees the Illuminated (which usually includesthemselves).themselves).
** The residents of the Metahuman Empire, one million years into the future. They look like humans, but are Geniuses of (by modern standards) limitless power with no connection to human morality.
** How Mages see Geniuses, how Geniuses see powerful Clockstoppers, and how everyone sees the Illuminated (which usually includes
** The residents of the Metahuman Empire, one million years into the future. They look like humans, but are Geniuses of (by modern standards) limitless power with no connection to human morality.
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** The Future Timeline contains just about every genre of science fiction known to mankind, with the core tropes of each setting distilled and on display.
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* AngryBlackMan: A lot of members of the Malcolm T. Washington Fellowship qualify. It's a Fellowship for African-Americans who like to work with arthropods, and a lot of Black Geniuses' Breakthroughs were shaped by racism and inequality. The resulting Fellowship has its share of Grimms and Neids who want to use giant bugs to either change the world for the better, or just get some payback.
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* UnequalRites: There's a lot of snark wars fought over Aesthetics, since the style a Genius uses to create is often an expression of their philosophy of mad science. {{Steampunk}}ers and [[EverythingIsAnIPodInTheFuture Pod People]] are chronically at odds over both "which is cooler" and over whether the Pod People are obsessed with form over function. And the Aesthetics most associated with the Lemurians ([[CrystalSpiresAndTogas Crystal Future]], [[AtomPunk Oscilloscope]], and to a lesser extent [[RaygunGothic Ray Gun]]) will draw side-eye from Peers, who are probably wondering if [[IWantMyJetpack you want your jetpack]] just a little too much.
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* AppropriatedAppellation: "Pod People" was originally derogatory slang for EverythingIsAnIPodInTheFuture. Pod People themselves started using it later.
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* EverythingIsAnIPodInTheFuture: The "Pod People" aesthetic, which is currently quite the "in" thing with Directors.Directors and gets crapped on by Steampunkers. According to an editorial cartoon drawn by a critic of the style, a "Standard Pod People Death Ray" is an [=iPod=] with its controls replaced by a single large button marked "KILL."
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* RulesLawyer: InUniverse, the Hermetic Order of the 28 Spheres are a Fellowship based around rules-lawyering the idea that Science is Science. A Wonder works according to some theory's laws of physics, and the Hermetics are the kind of people who want to stretch what "some theory" means well beyond the breaking point.
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* AlchemyIsMagic: The traditional form of the Alembic aesthetic has Geniuses do Science in what looks like a traditional alchemical laboratory complete with mortar and pestle. Sometimes they add glowy runes and other overtly "magical" elements to this; most Geniuses think that that's kind of silly.
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* AlchemyIsMagic: AlchemyIsMagic:
** The traditional form of the Alembic aesthetic has Geniuses do Science in what looks like a traditional alchemical laboratory complete with mortar and pestle. Sometimes they add glowy runes and other overtly "magical" elements to this; most Geniuses think that that's kind ofsilly.silly.
** The Ten Thousand Fans are a Program (independent Foundation) whose organizing principle is including Chinese alchemy and traditional medicine in their practice, and their Axioms focus on restoration and transformation. They're getting big enough that the Peerage is considering offering them membership and recognizing their alchemy as "mad chemistry."
** The traditional form of the Alembic aesthetic has Geniuses do Science in what looks like a traditional alchemical laboratory complete with mortar and pestle. Sometimes they add glowy runes and other overtly "magical" elements to this; most Geniuses think that that's kind of
** The Ten Thousand Fans are a Program (independent Foundation) whose organizing principle is including Chinese alchemy and traditional medicine in their practice, and their Axioms focus on restoration and transformation. They're getting big enough that the Peerage is considering offering them membership and recognizing their alchemy as "mad chemistry."
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*** The Hermetic Order of the 28 Spheres especially focuses on the fact that All Theories Are False, since Geniuses don't do real science, and all their theories (as long as they're self-consistent) work equally well as frameworks for Maniacal devices. Therefore, it honestly doesn't matter ''what'' theory you base your Wonders on, because everything works. They have a lot of fun with this (while simultaneously trolling more serious-minded Geniuses. Most of their raison d'etre focuses around subverting expectations and testing the limits of what Mania considers a "workable theory".
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* SpiritCultivationGenre: The Celestial Dynasty (year +50,000 in the future timeline) is this RecycledInSpace. A billion worlds exist within the River of Heaven, and people channel [[ClarkesThirdLaw sufficiently-advanced technology]] that appears to be KiManipulation, becoming immortal and splitting moons in half with their bare hands.
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* PlanetaryRomance:
** The Martian Empire is a bardo created from the dream of life on Mars; an ancient and decadent civilization, technologically-impoverished but with libraries full of ancient wonder, built around canals that don't exist. They tried to invade Earth once, but now they're content with being a tourist trap for Geniuses and trying to trade for their knowledge.
** In the future timeline, Year +100 Million is described as the Solar Wastelands. [[HumanitysWake Humanity is extinct]], but the various posthuman races exist in a Solar System of "barbarism, sorcery and super-science," from the jungles of Venus to the alien moons of Jupiter, all watched over and manipulated by [[AIIsACrapshoot ancient, mad AIs]]. +500M is the age of the Solar Transformations, which also take inspiration from this genre; it's a reborn Earth full of strange and wondrous new species like arboreal octopodes, mostly primitive but with some enclaves of super-science.
** The Martian Empire is a bardo created from the dream of life on Mars; an ancient and decadent civilization, technologically-impoverished but with libraries full of ancient wonder, built around canals that don't exist. They tried to invade Earth once, but now they're content with being a tourist trap for Geniuses and trying to trade for their knowledge.
** In the future timeline, Year +100 Million is described as the Solar Wastelands. [[HumanitysWake Humanity is extinct]], but the various posthuman races exist in a Solar System of "barbarism, sorcery and super-science," from the jungles of Venus to the alien moons of Jupiter, all watched over and manipulated by [[AIIsACrapshoot ancient, mad AIs]]. +500M is the age of the Solar Transformations, which also take inspiration from this genre; it's a reborn Earth full of strange and wondrous new species like arboreal octopodes, mostly primitive but with some enclaves of super-science.
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* SpaceOpera: One billion years into the future is the Age of the New Concordat. The Solar System resembles the ''Film/StarWarsANewHope'' cantina scene; there's more aliens and posthumans around than you can shake a mug of space beer at, living in a society that's largely the twentieth century RecycledInSpace.
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* DoctorsDisgracefulDemotion: Some [[MadScientist Genius]] have this trope in their background. Indeed, some were so angry at losing their license or their patients that it was their Catalyst.
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* RealityEnsues: Havoc. All the incredible things Geniuses build just can't ''work'' in the real world, and that's a constant source of frustration.
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* WorthlessYellowRocks: Sapphires-- [[AllThatGlitters imaginary sapphires]] made of Mania, that is-- aren’t that expensive on Mars. Then again, the Martians think we fit this trope by undervaluing water. Naturally much [[RealityEnsues trading ensues]].
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* TravelCool: The definition of Skafoi.
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* MagicIsAMonsterMagnet: Mad Science Is a Monster Magnet: Maniavores called Pretas are always on the lookout for their next meal, and while they can consume mundane intelligence to an extent, the best sources of energy are [[SupernaturallyDeliciousandNutritious the Inspired and their Wonders]].
* MagicAIsMagicA: More like "Science A is Science A", but this is how Wonders operate. You can't just dump Mania into something and expect it to go "because it's enchanted". You must ''build'' the Wonder, following a specific theory or idea - even if that theory or idea is utter gibberish to anyone but you, as long as ''you'' think it works, it ''will'' work. Once the Wonder is built, it will continue to work ''exactly as you said it would work'', without deviation or alteration. Two Geniuses can build two separate Wonders to do the same thing, using completely different ideas and viewpoints, and they'll both work exactly as their builders designed them to, even if the theories are utterly incompatible - but there ''has'' to be a theory.
* MagicIsAMonsterMagnet: Maniavores called Pretas are always on the lookout for their next meal, and while they can consume mundane intelligence to an extent, the best sources of energy are [[SupernaturallyDeliciousandNutritious the Inspired and their Wonders]].
* MagicIsAMonsterMagnet: Maniavores called Pretas are always on the lookout for their next meal, and while they can consume mundane intelligence to an extent, the best sources of energy are [[SupernaturallyDeliciousandNutritious the Inspired and their Wonders]].
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* AGodAmI: Some Illuminated think of themselves this way. Given [[TheUnfettered what they]] [[RealityWarper are]], that may not be entirely inaccurate.
* AGodAmI: Some Illuminated think of themselves this way. Given [[TheUnfettered what they]] [[RealityWarper are]], that may not be entirely inaccurate.
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* NamesTheSame: In approximately ten-thousand years, the most brutal dictator ever known to mankind will seize control of civilization. What does this despotic mastermind call himself? [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yao_Ming Yao Ming.]]
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* ClockPunk: The Elders of the Third Law, a fellowship tracing its roots to Leonardo Da Vinci, prefer to use clockwork wonders. They tend to be [[NewTechnologyIsEvil pessimistic about more newfangled contraptions]], e.g. cybernetics, nanotechnology, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking steam.]]
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** The Elders of the Third Law, a fellowship tracing its roots to Leonardo Da Vinci, prefer to use clockwork wonders. They tend to be [[NewTechnologyIsEvil pessimistic about more newfangled contraptions]], e.g. cybernetics, nanotechnology, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking steam.]]]]
** The Baroque Aesthetic combines this with 17th-18th century rococo fashions. An InUniverse ForgottenTrope that was most common among Victorian Geniuses, for whom it had much of the same retro appeal that SteamPunk has today.
** The Elders of the Third Law, a fellowship tracing its roots to Leonardo Da Vinci, prefer to use clockwork wonders. They tend to be [[NewTechnologyIsEvil pessimistic about more newfangled contraptions]], e.g. cybernetics, nanotechnology, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking steam.
** The Baroque Aesthetic combines this with 17th-18th century rococo fashions. An InUniverse ForgottenTrope that was most common among Victorian Geniuses, for whom it had much of the same retro appeal that SteamPunk has today.
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* SteamPunk: The latest fad among mad scientists. Actual Victorian Geniuses looked nothing like this, though many adopted a Baroque look; a retro style based on the 17th century which looked nothing like actual 17th century mad science.
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** Just as amusingly: The actual Actual Victorian Geniuses mostly generally looked nothing like this. Those who didn't adopt a [[ClockPunk Baroque]] Aesthetic most commonly didn't use a conscious Aesthetic at all, and their laboratories looked like something out of a Franchise/UniversalHorror set. Nowadays, that's called the Universal Aesthetic; it's not used standard contemporary aesthetics instead of brass goggles, much anymore, but some went for elegant baroque styles there's still many old laboratories in that also reflects an stylised past that also never actually existed.style.
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* BioPunk: There's actually a couple different Aesthetics that do this. Black Plastic is the kind evolved from {{Cyberpunk}}, using an organic black rubber look even on non-organic stuff; it's designed to be creepy and Gigeresque, and some Geniuses meld it with Trash Praxis to make something that looks like anime-style BodyHorror. Home Grown is a more ecological Aesthetic, originally for underwater-focused Geniuses, with warm bioluminescence and plants everywhere. It has elements of {{Solarpunk}}, and combining it with Alembic was a brief fad that's now considered extremely dorky.
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[[http://eoinsstuff.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Genius:_the_Transgression_(2nd_Edition) A second edition is currently in production]] by a different creator. It is technically unofficial, but given the game's origins...
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