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So, apparently there is this thing called...fun!
How long has it been since I had fun on this journal instead of offloading my woes onto y'all? Or, you know, bitching about how our mutual canon got it wrong?
Okay, so let's do something fun.
Character Headcanon Meme
Give me a character & I will tell you
Pick any character you know I know. If you want to be adventurous, then pick one I don't know and...I will invent something. (Come on, it could get interesting! For a non-Whedon value of interesting.)
How long has it been since I had fun on this journal instead of offloading my woes onto y'all? Or, you know, bitching about how our mutual canon got it wrong?
Okay, so let's do something fun.
Character Headcanon Meme
Give me a character & I will tell you
- How I feel about this character:
- All the people I ship romantically with this character:
- My non-romantic OTP for this character:
- My unpopular opinion about this character:
- One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon:
- my OTP:
- my cross over ship:
- a headcanon fact:
Pick any character you know I know. If you want to be adventurous, then pick one I don't know and...I will invent something. (Come on, it could get interesting! For a non-Whedon value of interesting.)
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How I feel about this character:
I liked Kara, but not as much as Lee or Sharon/Athena. I enjoyed her gung-ho attitude, but she was a bit much for me as a character. And I felt she made so many bad decisions. So. Many. Terrible. Personal. Decisions. Maybe that was the attraction of her for other fans, but watching her screw things up over and over and over was not my jam.
All the people I ship romantically with this character:
Kara/Lee is really about it. I didn't mind her and Anders, particularly because he seemed good for her, but I'm Kara/Lee at heart.
My non-romantic OTP for this character:
Kara & Helo; partly because I think she was the one who'd go off half-cocked, and Helo was more of an anchoring type of character.
My unpopular opinion about this character:
I really didn't get the whole "she came back from the dead and turned out to be a ghost" storyline. It wasn't an angle that I enjoyed at all - first she's gone, then she's back, and then at the end she's gone again. I can't even.
One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon:
I was hoping that it would turn out that Kara was the daughter of the 'sweet' Cylon who #1 killed. I think it was Daniel, or #7? There was the song that she inherited from her father, and it would have been such an interesting twist given how the Cylons were so desperately looking for children - and then, hello! There's one in the midst of them!
my OTP:
Kara/Lee from the start, and I never quite got over them being thwarted multiple times.
my cross over ship:
You know, I think I'd like to see Kara Thrace/Sam Wilson. That would be hella fun.
a headcanon fact:
Hm... Kara turns up on Earth again: More Than Missing.
Or Daniel-the-missing-Cylon is her dad.
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As for Kara/Lee vs. Kara/Sam ... especially after we found out in the Caprica TV series that the Colonies had polyamory, I was like "well then WHY did we have all that drama and jealousy and love triangles when both couples could have just gotten together in one big quadrilateral marriage?" I mean, it would still have been a disaster (because while Kara was the most messed up of them, she wasn't the only one who was messed up), but at least it would have been a novel and interesting disaster.
I too headcanon that Daniel is her dad. Bigtime. It would explain so much!
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And now I'm thinking a sedoretu.
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(THEY TURNED MY GIRL INTO A PIGEON)
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She dies in mid-S3, comes back in late S3, and kind of helps to lead them home with whatever magical number/musical sequence she remembered from her father playing the piano? I think? It all got a little bit confused along the way.
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So all the Kara fans were PISSED and like "KARA THRACE IS NOT A PIGEON," and Moore said in an interview
Kara, I think, is whatever you want her to be. It's easy to put that label on her: Angel, or Messenger of God, or whatever. Kara Thrace died and was resurrected and came back and took the people to their final end. That was her role, her destiny on the show... We debated back and forth in the writers' room for a while on giving it more definition, and saying, definitively, "This is what she is," and we decided that the more you try to outline it and give voice to it and put a name on it, the less interesting it became. We just decided this was the most interesting way to go out, with her disappearing without trying to name what she was.
So a lot of people think she died and was resurrected and was a literal Angel who led the last of the Humans and Cylons to their final destiny &c &c., but the creator doesn't want it to be literal? IDEFK. It was so disappointing.
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The friend I was watching it with and I both agreed...it was a pretty weird ending.
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//has the DVDs, will still die mad
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(I don't blame you! And yeah, the ending was...so many ways they could have taken it and just so much stuff they fucked up...)
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(INCLUDING MCU)
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Or maybe it's just the side-effect of loving the characters whom TPTB don't love, or who they think are expendable. *ugly sobbing*
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I'll give you Spike.
How I feel about this character:
I enjoyed Spike as an antagonist in S2. He had a wonderful viciousness about him up to and including 'Becoming'. When he reappeared in S3 (and S4?) I was less impressed, and even less when I saw him in S6 and S7. For me, characters like Spike go a long way with very little, and I wasn't too fond of Spuffy so...I could take him or leave him.
All the people I ship romantically with this character:
Drusilla, of course. Faith, maybe? More as a spite/fuck-buddy thing than out of any real affection; they'd strike sparks entirely too much.
My non-romantic OTP for this character:
Definitely Spike and Faith, or Spike and Angelus.
My unpopular opinion about this character:
Like I said, with characters like Spike (Rodney McKay, Daniel Jackson, Tony Stark) a little bit goes a long way, and I don't want the story to be all about them.
One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon:
Don't know that I ever thought too much about this.
my OTP:
If I had to pick one, Drusilla/Spike.
my cross over ship:
Not sure I have one for Spike.
a headcanon fact:
...sorry, don't think I have one for this question either!
Okay, so maybe I will answer Dawn's questionnaire, too!
How I feel about this character:
I liked Dawn, like I said wasn't hugely into Buffy when Dawn turned up, so I thought that whole thread was quite interesting to see where it was going.
All the people I ship romantically with this character:
Dawn/Connor (Angel's son) - that's really about it.
My non-romantic OTP for this character:
Dawn and Faith? Sisters to Buffy (in a way) and kind of the 'extraneous' one in some ways.
My unpopular opinion about this character:
Don't have one.
One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon:
I imagine she became a Watcher. Actually, I wrote a story where she became a watcher. Two of them, actually, one with Kate-the-cop-from-Angel, the other one with Faith where Wes comes back to life after dying in the End Of Days showdown.
my OTP:
Dawn/Connor. I actually wrote several fics about them.
my cross over ship:
Don't have one.
a headcanon fact:
I'm going back to Dawn reinvigorates the Watcher's Council. Possibly fighting Wyndham-Pryce Snr for control of it and leaving the old man choking on her dust.
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Dust From A Distant Sun - Kate Lockley, Dawn Summers
Watcher, Resurrected - Faith Lehane, Wesley Wyndam-Pryce, Dawn Summers.
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Aww. Man, we never did see too much of Dawn and Faith together, did we? That would make for some nice dynamics.
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Man I miss them.
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How I feel about this character:
Look, I've been accused of over-investing in Maria as a character, projecting my own issues onto her, but over the years I've realised that my favourite is not usually the 'gung-ho, all-feminist, out-there character' but the woman who gets cast as 'second string'. A leader, yes, but secondary to the storyline. Someone who gets the job done. Someone constrained by the rules but pushing them where she can and doing a really good job of it when she does.
I'm so disappointed the MCU never went anywhere significant with her. Like, there were plenty of really good 'ins' to use her with and...not a one. Nada. *sigh* And she didn't even get anything significant in Agents of SHIELD which double-bums me.
All the people I ship romantically with this character:
Romantically? Steve, Bucky, Natasha (sort of), Clint... Truthfully, I can kind of ship Maria with anyone except Nick Fury and Phil Coulson. And possibly Melinda May. I think it's the degree of direct in-line authority that squicks me on this front. Maria just wouldn't.
My non-romantic OTP for this character:
Maria and Fury. 100% BFFs.
My unpopular opinion about this character:
She's way underused. And "Oh, she's mentioned in my fic" is sloppy seconds at best. If I had a dollar for every time someone told me that Maria was mentioned in their fic, I'd have enough for a first-class ticket to the USA. Both ways.
One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon:
Should have been one of the major players in Civil War, should have been used as a human counterpoint to all the heroics going on around her - including Clint's. And, you know, I'm always up for the Steve/Maria angle. :)
my OTP:
Steve/Maria. Duh.
my cross over ship:
Thinking back, a dynamic I wrote once but never elaborated on was Maria and Wesley Wyndham-Pryce from Angel. Not as lovers, but as compatriots - both the 'second string' and the 'responsible ones' while their heroes go off to fight the big bad.
a headcanon fact:
Maria was a Marine for a few years before she switched to S.H.I.E.L.D because of the Madripoor Incident.
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I know the headcanon is that she's military (and it's even canon?) but I hadn't thought of her as a Marine! I like that. That fits in with her toughness and self-reliance and stoicism. ....man I'm still so pissed we never got the setup after TWS that SEEMED like Maria was going to be Pepper's right-hand woman in running SI.
(I really liked your sedoretu longfic about her too, I downloaded it.)
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I like the responsible ones who occasionally run wild.
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I both liked and was annoyed by Hermione. In her own context, she's your typical teenaged girl who sticks to the rules because she knows them and they're safe, and yes, she's clever and thorough and inventive and she learns to let go a little. But, yes, she's the sort of person who I'd enjoy hanging around for a while and then wish was elsewhere.
All the people I ship romantically with this character:
Ron and Draco. Maybe Ginny? Never Harry.
My non-romantic OTP for this character:
Hermione and Harry, I think. I can't see them as lovers, but as best friends.
My unpopular opinion about this character:
Too many of the bookish set over-identified with Hermione for me to particularly like the fanfic I came across much. Frankly, she reminds me too much of me and I know I was an excellently loyal friend, but an absolute PITA when I went on a tear.
One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon:
I can't really think of anything off the top of my head.
my OTP:
Ron/Hermione. I know it's not popular etc. etc. but I like the idea that, yes, they meet when they were teenagers, but they grew with each other as they got older (but for a brief blip) and become a comfortably married couple who occasionally embarras their children by being 'icky, oh, no, Mum, Dad, ewwww'.
my cross over ship:
Don't think I have one for Hermione. But someone pretty easy going would probably have to be the ticket with her. Hm. Actually, I could see her with Ben Whishaw's Q from James Bond.
a headcanon fact:
Buckle in. This is going to be A Ride. I've had these thoughts for about ten years now...
Ron and Hermione go through a rough patch a few years after the Second War. Ron is a good man, but he exasperates her. Hermione wonders if she really wants to stay with him - they’ve gotten into a rut. They have a screaming fight and she goes off on furlough for a while - travelling through Europe at a time when Ron can’t because of his work with the Auror office and WWW. Encounters Draco whose family went to the continent in the wake of the Second War - ends up in bed with him. An affair that lasts a month, but if the sex is good, their perspectives out of bed are bad. Small things, like his unrepentant Obliviating of Muggles, his casually careless treatment of people below him, the way he says she’s not all bad without Potter and the Weasel about - implying that he dislikes Muggleborns, but she’s an exception.
Thinking about it early one morning when an owl finds her from Ron. Says he misses her and wants to talk. He understands if she doesn’t, but figures he has to ask anyway. She packs up and leaves before Draco wakes up, with only a note for him. It’s been fun, but it’s over.
Back in her apartment, finding Ron in her bed. He’s repentant and she’s repentant too. Missed him as well, but doesn’t let herself just slip back into bed with him. He tells her the news, knows her, knows what she likes and what she’s like. Asks her to marry him and says she can think about it for a while. Until Christmas maybe. But if she doesn’t want to marry him, he’d like to know by the New Year so he can make a clean break of it. “This is so...rational for you.” “I’m kind of quaking in my boots, actually.” “You’re not wearing boots.” “Oh, yeah.” She’ll tell him someday.
Hugo goes to school and that year Hermione tells Ron about the fling she had with Draco seventeen years ago. Ron angry and jealous and hurt, Hermione asks if she’s ever given him reason to worry. “You have now. Malfoy? Of all the guys in the world... I’d have preferred Krum, actually.”
Ron sleeping elsewhere for a while. Sometimes not coming home, but over at Ginny and Harry’s, until one night he’s not. Hermione learns when Harry lets drop that Ron’s no longer staying overnight. She realises he’s spending his nights elsewhere, and thinks he’s having an affair.
He comes home briefly, and Hermione smells something new on his clothing - bundles it into the wash fast. They avoid each other and argue, and then he starts not coming home at all. She thinks he’s having an affair - that she’s really broken her marriage over a fling she had seventeen years previously. Sits down at her table and sobs.
Is interrupted by the visit of Viktor Krum - still friends, a widower now, with children of his own - Ron easier with the friendship now. He’s surprised to find her crying, and challenges her - she’s always known her own mind. Even when they were children, she had her heart set on Ron. Now does she want her husband back or will she let him slip through her fingers? “If you loved me, Hermione, I would still have you in an instant and not let you go. But I am not so blind as your husband; I know where your heart is given.”
Hermione goes after Ron - hunts him down with the LampLighter, finds him in a tent out in the forest where they camped while fleeing Voldemort. His fears - old ones - that she could have had better, that he wasn’t good enough for her. And wondering why she told him now - almost wishing she hadn’t said anything. “I could Obliviate you.” Laughter and tears and tenderness. She admits she thought he was having an affair. He’s startled. “Who’d have me?” “I would.” “Yeah, but we both know you’re bonkers.”
And then Rose and Scorpius get involved with each other (they were friends at school in spite of the careful parental edging around each other) and Draco is "No, you are not marrying that woman's daughter" and it all comes out. Draco tries to throw the old affiar in Ron's face, only Ron's made his peace with it. "You can cling to that month if you want, Malfoy. I've had the twenty-five years since."
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*squishes him*
I love his loyalty and practicality, the sense of anchoredness about him. He hasn't had a good life, but he's made hay with what he does have, and the scars don't dominate him.
All the people I ship romantically with this character:
Bucky. Mostly Bucky. Maybe Maria?
My non-romantic OTP for this character:
Steve & Sam, Sam & Natasha.
My unpopular opinion about this character:
Sam should not be everyone else's therapist.
One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon:
I'm not sure I have anything in this column. Oh, wait, I'd have liked to have seen Sam's friendships with 'side characters' - Bucky, Maria, Pepper, Rhodey - those guys. I know the focus is on The Avengers (and mostly on Steve and Tony) but I would have loved to see more interaction between the 'minor' characters.
my OTP:
Sam/Bucky
my cross over ship:
I mentioned Kara Thrace/Sam Wilson above, but...I think Sam would go with any competent woman in my collection of favourites.
a headcanon fact:
I don't know about fact but I waver between Sam and his partner Riley being BFFs and being lovers. Sometimes they are, and sometimes they aren't in my head and I can't actually decide which.
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AMEN HALLELUJAH SING IT SISTER.
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A few options, since I'm not sure which of these you've heard of: Ahsoka? Gertrude Robinson? Wen Qing?
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How I feel about this character:
Look, I really would love to get to know Ahsoka better, but the prospect of umpteen seasons of Clone Wars as well as the book kind of puts me off.
Is it true that Rosario Dawson will be playing Ahsoka in The Mandalorian?
All the people I ship romantically with this character:
Nobody. Apart from romantic entangelements being 'forbidden' to Jedi at the time of the Old Republic, I kind of feel like Ahsoka's experiences would make her wary of attachments. Don't ask me what those experiences are, I don't know! But she just seems like someone wary and prickly and probably not that open to romantic relationships.
My non-romantic OTP for this character:
Ahsoka & Anakin? This is the problem when you don't really know the canon very well! I almost think, though, that I should like to see Ahsoka working with Bail Organa, or maybe with Cassian Andor.
My unpopular opinion about this character:
I don't know what's popular, so I don't know what's unpopular about Ahsoka.
One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon:
She worked quietly at the fringes of the Rebellion during the years of the OT and when the Rebellion became the New Republic started working with Leia (and a little bit with Luke).
my OTP:
Nope.
my cross over ship:
Nope.
Although I'd like to see Ahsoka working with characters like Maria Hill or Ziva David - the quiet women in the background, so often overshadowed.
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my brother's keeper - a gift written for me by
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You know how I feel about this character! :D
I love Mako, as much for being a major Asian female character in a blockbuster action movie as for being courteous and polite and reserved on top, and absofuckinglutely fuming furious about everything under the surface! I wanted so much more of her. *sigh*
All the people I ship romantically with this character:
Mako/Raleigh, definitely. Raleigh/Mako/Chuck in an arranged threesome occasionally.
My non-romantic OTP for this character:
Hm, I imagine Mako and Tendo being excellent friends together, particularly with Tendo taking on the role of the older brother/young uncle.
My unpopular opinion about this character:
I don't think I have an unpopular opinion about her, but then, my exposure beyond the circle of Mako-fans is pretty small. Oh, wait, she could 100% kick Chuck's ass. That'll piss off the Chuckleheads.
One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon:
She'd survived Uprising? I wish we'd gotten to see more of her, follow her journey pulling everything together. I think that was what was missing from the first movie: the character continuity. I mean, sure, Newt and Hermann, but...they're the comic relief, not the gravitas. To really anchor 'Uprising' they needed one of the original 'serious' characters to be in there, doing their thing. And without that, it was a great CGI action movie, but the heart and charm of the first wasn't there.
my OTP:
Mako/Raleigh, of course!
my cross over ship:
Don't think I have one. I mean, I've written the MCU fusion into the Pacific Rim universe, but Mako's still a teenager during that period and I can't imagine her with any of the MCU characters...
a headcanon fact:
Mako and Raleigh took a year off after the Battle of the Breach, hiding out from the fame and adulation, until they absolutely had to be dragged back. Raleigh decided he wasn't going back into the PPDC as a Marshal or anything 'big and public', so he went to get a construction ticket instead and was part of the Shatterdome redevelopment program. And Mako survived the helicopter crash, but they kept it quiet because they can't hunt you down if they think you're dead.
SO CROSS ABOUT UPRISING.
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