Meme: Headcanon vs. Real Canon!

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Because I feel like meme today, and we haven't done this one since October. Instructions, borrowed originally from 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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Headcanon

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.