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Meme: Headcanon vs. Real Canon!
Because I feel like meme today, and we haven't done this one since October. Instructions, borrowed originally from ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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sith_happened:Even the most obsessive of canons (yes, Star Wars, I'm looking at you) leaves some gaps in information as you play a character. But canon also provides some truly random factoids. So today's meme:
Provide us five bits of things you totally made up headcanon for your character, as well as five things that are, sadly, canon but could sound like you made them up.
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1. She can and will eat just about anything, after living with the Dothraki. They mostly eat horse. And...well, you'll see. She's had worse than whatever Karla's cooked, believe me.
2. She likes braiding her own hair here in Fandom because it reminds her of when she'd play with Drogo's braid.
3. Has like, no modesty whatsoever. I mean, canon basically implies this, what with how she dresses, but I'll go so far as to say that Dany kind of thinks people here are a little prudish. God help us all when it's warm enough for her to really run around barely clothed.
4. She finds Words With Friends really frustrating because things like 'septim' and 'shieraki' aren't recognized as words.
5. She counts herself lucky to have been married to Drogo as young as she was. Not because she grew to love him -- though she did -- but because she knows it could have been so, so much worse, and she got away from Viserys as early as she did.
6. Doesn't really hold with any one religion at the moment, but she'll swear in all of them.
Actual canon
Oh, this canon.
1. Once ate an entire, raw horse heart seconds after it had been carved out of said horse, during her pregnancy. It was supposed to make sure she had a boy and that said boy was strong. She did manage to keep it all down, and I for one am SO IMPRESSED BY THAT.
2. She found out she was pregnant on her fourteenth birthday.
3. Will go on to accummulate a truly impressive number of nicknames/titles amongst the people of the Free Cities and Essos. (Daenerys Stormborn, The Unburnt, Mother of Dragons, Breaker of Shackles, and then there's the various official titles, as well.)
4. Never knew either of her parents; Daddy was killed by Jaime Lannister (hence the fact that Dany's completely terrified of Lannisters in general; Tyrion's a nice surprise) and Mommy died giving birth to her while a storm hit their home of Dragonstone.
5. Her family is literally descended from dragons, and her brother Rhaegar was the last one before her.
6. All the Targaryens have white hair and violet eyes. And since I think white hair is Sueish enough, thanks, I'm sticking with the show-canon light green ones.
7. Her son would have been named Rhaego, a namesmush of her dead brother Rhaegar and her husband Drogo. I weirdly like this and don't find it as irritating as some baby namesmushes I could name in some other canons, ahem.
8. She's bilingual, yes, though she knows English as 'the Common Tongue' at home.
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1. Is one of the few women in the Mad Men universe not charmed by Don Draper. She sees him for what he is, and sort of thinks of him as a lost puppy.
2. The reason she turned down her roommate's lesbian advances was because she knows that she doesn't want a life that difficult. She wants the security of a man. It wasn't because she couldn't see herself with a woman, ever.
3. She's a natural red, but there's a little enhancement there, yeah.
4. She has vague aspirations of quitting smoking, here, but only vague ones. She's pretty sure that these surgeon generals are making things up, just like back in her time. God.
5. She hates that Roger left Mona for that twenty-two year-old skank, but she never wanted him to leave his wife for her, either. She just values marriage as an institution more than actual personal happiness.
Actual canon
1. Got drunk on crème de menthe the night of Kennedy's election. With the rest of the office. There was a lot of neon green throwup in the wastebaskets the next morning.
2. Has slept with her gynecologist.
3. Will eventually be the only person to keep her head when a runaway lawnmower runs over an executive's foot in the office. During her going-away party. Yep.
4. She took it really hard when Marilyn died, because they have a lot in common. (When categorizing the office women into Marilyns or Jackies, we got the memorable, "Well, Marilyn's really a Joan," quote. This is a two-for-one fact!)
5. Is the only woman in her office who understands how a two-way mirror works. As a result, she once had her ass saluted by a group of junior executives.
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1. Had to pass a special Watcher-only sort of test in the same vein as how Slayers have to pass the Cruciamentum (http://buffy.wikia.com/wiki/Cruciamentum) test on their eighteenth birthdays. It involved directing a blindfolded Potential through a fight with a vamp. Wes got nervous and failed, getting the girl hurt, and he's never forgiven himself for it.
2. Had his first kiss in the Council library when he was thirteen. They were working on a project for a class, and went right back to talking about Kungai demons immediately afterward. It was quick and relatively painless, and all in all far less awkward than the next kiss he had after that, with Cordelia at Sunnydale High.
3. Has a favorite reference text, Gunderson's Index of Demons, that he regards as a security blanket of sorts and occasionally flips through when he can't sleep. (I've gotten a lot of mileage out of this one. Hi, last year's Velveteen Rabbit plot.)
4. Still gets a bit nervous while talking to people from Sunnydale, especially Buffy and Willow. Giles less so, but still enough to create tension.
5. Worries a lot about what kind of father he'll be. Doubts he'll make a very good one.
6. Is sort of a nerd about mythology, and even though he knows it's tacky and there are a million classier things to nerd out about, has always kind of liked learning about dragons.
Real Canon
1. Once tried a resurrection spell on a bird that had flown into his window. He was six.
2. Eats breakfast for dinner after late-night evil-fighting (and, headcanon, whenever he's super stressed). It's comforting, and it's Angel Investigations tradition, and come on, it's breakfast for dinner.
3. Drinks scotch when he's depressed or grieving or overwhelmed. Sometimes to excess. In the dark. On the floor.
4. Speaks a ton of languages, including dead languages, demon languages, et cetera, et cetera.
5. Has a grandfather (http://buffy.wikia.com/wiki/Geoffrey_Wyndam-Pryce) who fought alongside Angel during World War I. (Headcanon: Grew up hearing this story, juxtaposed with the Council party line of "vampires are evil, no exceptions" and started to give it some thought.)
6. Is a terrible dancer.
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1. Peter drinks the local soft drink wherever he goes. He feels that as (future) Hegemon, he should be a citizen of the world - hence.
2. Peter doesn't watch movies, and generally has no idea about pop culture in his time or any other time.
3. Stopped torturing squirrels when he realized he wasn't just controlling them, but physically causing them pain. He's kept himself in check religiously since.
4. Has always felt rejected by his parents, and in return, never allowed his mother to mourn Ender while he was around.
5. Will actually be a really good father some day.
Headcanon
1. He's going to be a good parent because the one thing he can't stand is seeing a child treated the way his parents treated HIM.
2. Was reading ancient military and political treatises while all the other kids watched movies. Hence all of his references and jokes are about world leaders and nations.
3. Likes fancy clothes and will be upgrading to suits soon, because they afford him the illusion of power.
4. Likewise, grooms himself obsessively.
5. Doesn't keep anything personal in his room - he started because he didn't want to give Val an advantage (actual canon) but now that's just habit.
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Headcanon:
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1. Was bullied pretty badly as a kid and, with that on top of just being smarter than everyone around him, sort of wrote off interaction with other people as a result.
2. Is pretty well-off, to the point of never really having to pass up something he wanted to buy.
3. Spent most of his time before Fandom bouncing from prep school to prep school as part of his parents' efforts to find him a school where he could have friends and be challenged intellectually. If Fandom hadn't worked out, he would've just gone ahead and skipped to senior year somewhere so he could apply to college early.
4. Has a form of Asperger's.
5. Toured NASA once as a kid and wandered off. Three hours after he disappeared, his parents and some frantic security personnel found him experimenting with the settings on one of the computers. This was the first time he was ever grounded, but since he could still sit in his room and play on his computer, it had zero effect on his life at all.
6. Has humanities professors for parents. Does their taxes.
Actual canon
1. When he crushes, crushes hard, with a side of hero worship.
2. Has a tattoo on his ankle that reads NCC-1701, or in Fandom I guess the meta equivalent of it. Also, wears a bracelet that says "kill your idols."
3. By the time he's grown-up and working at the Dollhouse, keeps a collection of trinkets on hand: a trampoline, a soda machine, toys, a Buddha statue, a Whack-a-Mole machine, games.
4. Even as an adult, eats like a ten-year-old: keeps a "drawer of inappropriate starches" fully stocked with things like Doritos and chips and things. Regularly sends his assistant out to get things like juice boxes and beef jerky.
5. Will grow up to play laser tag at work. Because he can.
6. Is pretty agoraphobic, as well as being afraid of rats, the dark, excessive physical intimacy and (well, at a certain point in canon) weapons being pointed at him. He's kind of a mess.
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1. Was once arrested under the name Toni Soprano.
2. Had the street name of Meow-Meow. Does not admit this most of the time.
3. Was taught poker by her dad (very well).
4. Took ballet until she was around 10-ish; guess of her age based on a photo her aunt had of her in tutu and tiara.
5. Speaks fluent Russian.
Head Canon:
1. Had sex with one boyfriend in a car they were stealing.
2. Couch-surfed among various friends and relatives for the two years after she ran away.
3. ... but did spend several months living in abandoned buildings with other kids her age, too.
4. Decided at some point to simply Not Have Issues about her mom choosing her abusive stepfather over her. She's seen kids who had it way worse, and while she doesn't forgive her mom or her stepdad, she considers them irrelevant forever more.
5. Will cut you if she has to.
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1. The written language of Equestria is not quite the Roman alphabet, but is made up of pictograms and squiggles. This is based on visual evidence from canon, but never made entirely explicit.
2. The laws of Pinkie's physics are whatever happens to be funniest/weirdest in that context.
actual canon:
1. Pinkie thinks in felt
2. She can then manifest that felt in reality
3. Also, she can manifest extra hooves
4. And she has her own fortune telling business -- which has nothing to do with her Pinkie sense.
5. When she gets scared, she writes songs about it
6. Her self-esteem is based on whether or not she can make you smile
7. She does aerobics
8. And stand-up comedy
9. Nopony else understands her, either
10. She stashes balls around in case of ball emergencies. Also, eyepatches
10. Oh yes, and she breaks the fourth wall (there's a reason why fanart of her and Deadpool is a meme, okay?)
Yeah, most of Pinkie is canon. Because MLP:FiM is 20% cooler than pretty much any other show out there.
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1. Bruce is an out and out fanboy for The Gray Ghost. He watched it with his dad when he was little, so it holds a special place for him. He actually has a GG costume in his trophy room as an adult and uses parts of it as a disguise in Batman Beyond.
2. The things that set Bruce off more than anything: guns, posing a threat to children, the parent thing. You'd think he's a hypocrite because he followed up turning a 10 year old into Robin by turning a 12 year old into Robin, but just remember: Robin can kick your ass easily.
3. Ridiculously paranoid. Once he meets Superman, he always keeps a bit of Kryptonite in a lead-lined pouch on his belt. If he's prepared to fight the Man of Steel at any moment, he's ready to fight you.
4. Bruce doesn't drink. He chooses to never be chemically impaired so that he's never at less than peak mental efficiency. This clashes with his party boy facade, of course, so he fakes being a drunk.
5. Bruce is surprisingly cool when people learn his secret. He shrugs it off when Superman uses X-ray vision on him and returns the favor immediately. He has fun with Lois's annoyance when she finds out. He makes Tim Robin and, later, Terry Batman after each of them found out. He told Barbara when Dick was having a nervous breakdown over his secret life. Seriously, for a guy who protects his identity that much, he barely flinches about it being exposed. Hell, even when Hugo Strange found out, he just enacted an easy cover.
Until it's the Joker who finds out. And then we have the flashback scene in Return of the Joker. And it's brutal.
Head Canon
1. Bruce's early romantic history in Fandom was redhead after redhead. His mother was a redhead. Just sayin'.
2. Bruce actually does believe that capes are crucial to a good costume. Blame this on the Gray Ghost.
3. Up until recently, everything Bruce did in Fandom was in some way prep for his future. That includes whatever social life he had. But Fandom got to him over time and is now trying to take things like friendships and such just a little more seriously on their own merits instead. Yes, he decided to do this two months before graduation. That way he doesn't lose much training time.
4. Bruce doesn't really care if people know his future or what he can do in the present. But it's good form to not find out too much about potential futures and good practice to hide the truth from people who don't know.
5. He's a little annoyed that he's not the most brilliant inventor on the island. Or the best fighter. But he thinks that nobody is as good at him in as many fields, so he can settle for a couple silver medals if it gets him the all around gold.
Seriously, the sacrifices he makes....
Morrigan
• Loves shiny things. A lot. Total magpie.
• Morrigan doesn't actually like people. At all. She thinks them a blight on the land, but can't help being fascinated by them.
• DOES realize that how she grew up is kinda messed-up. No little girl wants to hear about how her mother seduces Wilder men and then kills them for power (and daughters).
• Really does believe in survival of the fittest. She has been apostate, shapeshifter, and run with too many animals in the Wilds to ever consider otherwise.
• Does not feel bad about the Chantry-priests/templars she has lured to their death at Flemeth's hands.
Head Canon
• Knows herself to be the true-born daughter of Flemeth and not a snatched village child; how common are yellow eyes and magic? Seriously?
• Knows Flemeth can take multiple human forms, as evidenced during PW. However, all are Flemeth, and none are truly Flemeth...
• Fluent in modern & ancient Dalish, Orlesian, and can get by in Antivan.
• Actually a very very good cook.
• Doesn't keep office hours because she doesn't like being inside stone walls and cut off from nature.
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1. She's bisexual. This is based on a throwaway moment from her first episode when her landlord remarks that she hasn't seen Claudia bring any boys home -- or any girls, either.
2. She once got kicked out of a foster home for stealing her foster parents' catalytic converter to use in an experiment
3. All her closest friends are at least mentally way older than she is. -- Okay, actually, this could count as canon, too, it's just a different set of closest friends.
4. She considers herself first and foremost a physicist, then a hacker, then a general scientist.
5. She doesn't think of college as an option for herself in part because she doesn't think it's necessary -- she already knows she just wants to keep working at the Warehouse -- but mostly because she's not sure she could fit in with and get along with a bunch of students her age who aren't all from wacky dimensions.
actual canon:
1. She's turned on by tech speak
2. She plays guitar well (this is, I think, something that Allison Scagliotti does that they then added to Claudia's character about midway through season two, and didn't go full on with until season three)
3. She forms attachments to people really fast, and is really not very good at letting them go.
4. She can be vicious when the people she loves are in danger/hurt. She has serious issues with people getting trapped somewhere else (especially alternate dimensions/inbetween spaces)
5. She's a master hacker and tinkerer
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1. She deals with babies by screaming at them. We've never actually seen around a child as young as DB for any substantial length of time, which is probably for the best.
2. She has a collection of hammers.
3. She has a go to war bellow. We see her shout before launching into it on occasion in canon, but Fandom!Sam acknowledges it as a war bellow
4. She secretly wishes she was a better person, more like her twin sister, but she knows she doesn't have the patience needed to be genuinely nice to people.
actual canon:
1. She can tap dance. She learned how for the talent portion of her childhood beauty pageants
2. She was born on a bus. Her mom's not real good at planning.
3. Like the other members of her canon, she can occasionally break the fourth wall, though doesn't do so habitually. It usually comes off more as a general genre awareness than actual wall breaking.
4. She can knock out a trucker with a carton of milk. And I will never get tired of how specific that description is.
5. She has a reoccurring dream (possibly her only one) about a monster stealing her soup.
6. Her mother used to give her black coffee when she was a baby to make her dance funny. (Did it? Yes!)
7. She's the kind of girl who will use fourth graders as sweatshop labor to make a profit.
8. Her favorite relatives are both in prison. It's not super particular why, but she has mentioned that her uncle is the one to go to to "make people go away".
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1. Deliberately plays up the accent sometimes, because he thinks the ladies like it.
2. Really just wants his father's approval, despite the constant put-downs that pass between them.
3. Prefers French rum, but'll drink anything you put in front of him.
4. Plays rec-league hockey on the mainland a couple nights a week.
5. ...idk, man, canon's actually given me lots to work with.
Actual canon:
1. Has a fictional character very very loosely based on himself. Haaaates this.
2. Hates guns with a passion, thanks to his ex-partner (who is a dead-ringer for Fraser, and yeah, that was one hell of a Jossing) killing a prostitute in front of him.
3. The above is why he quit being a cop the first time, although he'll tell people it's because he hated the stupid hats.
4. Broke a guy's leg at least three times during the course of one episode.
5. Scared a police dog into retirement.
6. Claims he can't speak French, but CLEARLY KNOWS MORE THAN JUST "MON LIVRE" AND "LE STYLO".
7. Has owned at least two of the exact same car.