In The Conversion Bureau: The Other Side of the Spectrum, when the magical portal that transports the human character of the story into Canon!Equestria opens up over Ponyville, Twilight Sparkle remarks that everything tastes purple for a moment when she senses massive amounts of magical energy radiating from it.In one TRON-universe fanfic, a User describes his energy ration as looking like "Mountain Dew under a blacklight and een.".He claims that red candy never tastes like strawberry or cherry or whatever flavor it's supposed to be, it just tastes red, and he likes that. In Glee fanfic Story of Three Boys, Original Character Casey prefers red candy.An incomplete The Penguins of Madagascar fanfiction takes the idea a little further, having the resident smart guy invent a machine that will invoke this trope permanently. Shows up in My Little Denarians when Harry and Pinkie are navigating around the Outside.Nightmare from Nightmarefics asks for square-flavored licorice in one chapter.In My Immortal, Ebony says something "indigoally" at one point. Normally when trying to identify the various Sekirei's powers, this is pretty straightforward, however in Miya's case, one aspect of her aura, he can only describe as smelling like "remorse". In In Flight, Shirou's ability to sense magical phenomena is interpreted by his brain in terms of smells.In Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, Comed-Tea "somehow (tastes) green and fizzy".See also When Is Purple and Magical Sensory Effect. Not to be confused with Editorial Synesthesia where the characters sense things normally, it's just things have to be displayed differently for the viewer.įor the conventional taste of unconventional things see It Tastes Like Feet. May be related to Insubstantial Ingredients, where whatever they're eating actually contains abstract concepts. The character tastes something which rightfully does not have a taste at all, or experiences other synesthetic weirdness. Only include examples where a character is made to taste (or hear or see, but taste is most common) something which rightfully does not have a taste at all. And most of the color examples at Tastes Like Feet are metaphors: a food with color X is described as tasting like color X. The exception of course is those with the condition synesthesia. note A key difference between this trope and Tastes Like Feet is that normally it would be impossible for people to taste or hear colors, but it is quite possible for people to taste things like feet and motor oil. Often played for humor.ĭoesn't cover characters just speaking metaphorically. Aside from blueberries, which as George Carlin noted are "blue on the vine, purple on the plate," blue is a rare color in nature.) Either that, or purple is just an objectively funny color. note This is likely because it would be considered the most bizarre and unlikely in nature (Name any color, and you can probably think of a few natural foods that are of that color "tasting red" might lead to thinking of apples, or "tasting yellow" could lead to bananas or lemons. Related to and may be preceded by Non Sequitur, *Thud*. starts tasting, smelling or hearing colours or other variations. This is where a character, due to magic, poison, drugs, blow to the head, etc. Momentary tasting colors/ temporary synesthesia.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |