User blog comment:Bluebutterflychan/Headcanon Corner: Science and Sorcery/@comment-3991308-20161208021533/@comment-30622263-20161208204955

I totally love everything you've placed out here, and I would most happily accept your offer of talking Sceince & Sorcery in EAH 24/7-- move over, Professor Rumpletiltskin! ;D

I definitely agree that magical elements shouldn't be made out of anything except for your standard protons, etc. (though I will confess to having considered the usage of antimatter as some sort of pseudomagical substance prior to W2W). I totally love the idea that their previous studies in alchemy and what constitutes a "pure" element have simply just stuck around in a different way, and especially the eventual disproving of the "magical force" paradigm.

Especially because this is a universe where people can be born with or have an innate talent for magic itself, I think it's pretty possible that people who can "sense" or "control" a certain type of molecule (for example, Pixie Dust) might view it as an element in and of itself, instead of perhaps some variety of naturally-occuring Cadmium conjugate (again, for example). This would lend strength to the previous alchemical theories, even if it is later discovered that Pixie Dust can't be an element because it is still divisible. I can totally, definitely see some fairy somewhere saying, "well, it might be made up of two MUNDANE elements, but Pixie Dust is definitely a MAGICAL element all on its own, otherwise fairies like me wouldn't be able to control it."

As for the (pretty awesome, if I might say) Turnus Wyllt, I'm totally on board with the way his magical malfunction works. Admittedly, I've thought way more about how magic works from a non-biological, purely-laboratory perspective than how people actually use and control magic themselves. There's obviously some sort of a willpower-related portion for most of it, since Raven, at least, has shown that magic can be connected to someone's emotional state. It would be particularly interesting if the ability to use magic was in some way connected to the nervous system? Then again, I might be grasping at straws here ^^;