Oh, oh, oh, it's magic.

henry and I are working on this system for the way magic works that incorporates three things:

mind vs. matter, the color wheel, and the web of emotions (or emotion wheel.. or somethin)

I am a huge, huge fan of this structure henry imposed but I've been working on a few tweaks to its design.

some notes:

-"change", or "sadness magic" involves manipulating water. Water is a pretty common symbol of change, as it's a very prime example of matter that is very commonly seen in all three forms in everyday life (liquid, gas, and solid). Also, I like what barrett proposed earlier that instead of water being the typical "calm/serene" emotion it would be sadness and despair (with varying degrees of sadness being different types of water magic). additionally, there is room for different kinds of "change" that I'm still thinking about
-I'm exploring the possibility of combining emotions to to create a more intricate web of possibilities of magic that use emotions that might not be strictly one emotion and not another. some examples I'm thinking would be anger (energy, fire) + joy (air) = lightning (which is sort of fire/energy in the air). I'll post a model of this proposal soon
-power/conjuration magic is still being tweaked to be a bit more tangible/specific.
-some of the colors (specifically, orange for fear) I'm still considering changing. I might not in the end because I love how the complements seem to counteract each other both from their magical and emotional standpoints.
-the very middle of the circle is black... or maybe, a yin yang of black (hatred) and white (love). idk. Not sure about the yin yang not only cuz its cliche, but because yin yang implies a coexistence, like the black needs the white and vice versa. where obviously you don't need hate to love..lol

but yea. I think this has the potential to be very brilliant and creative.

also: I like how the text in each slice of the pie is colored in the complement of its background. heheh

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EDIT:
Here's some charts I threw together that were inspired by Henry's color/emotion wheel model

they have a very kirby 64/bionicle inspiration.

The idea is that anyone who has fire/anger magic can use ALL the fire/anger permeations: just as a fear/illusion magic user can use all the fear/illusion combinations and so forth.

A few notes: every permeation of magic abilities (i.e., the "fear" column of the "anger" row) is designed to not only have an emotion that captures both "core" emotions, but a magic ability that captures both. I.e., if it's air (joy) and energy (anger), the permeation is lightning.

The ONLY EXCEPTION is complementary abilities. The emotion/magic that is on the opposite end of the spectrum works differently for each type. For instance, a fear/illusion user's complement is peace. The peace permeation of the fear spectrum gives a FEAR/ILLUSION user invisibility magic. However, a PEACE/EARTH magic user, when using the fear permeation, they can create earthquakes.

This is a first pass so there's plenty of tweaking/work that needs to be done but I am very happy with this idea so far.

[HENRY MADE A PRETTY CHART AND I SIMPLY WOULD NOT ALLOW MYSELF TO BE OUTDONE]


(old pen/paper scribbles)

(additional note: the middle of the wheel would totally not be yin yang. just threw that in there cuz im silly)