meme: headcanon vs real canon!

[justwantsquiet.livejournal.com]

Look. I'm in another day of meetings, starting at 1. I am going to be majorly bored. And I'm trying to find something to do on my lunch break that's newbie-inclusive, and this is what I came up with since we haven't done it since March, and throughaphase recommended it. IT'S BREAK WEEK, WHICH MEANS IT'S MEME WEEK.

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.

Feel free to go over five. I know I probably will.

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[unburnt-queen.livejournal.com]

Headcanon:

1. Dany can and will eat just about anything, after living with the Dothraki. They mostly eat horse. And...look, she's had worse. Trust 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. Come on, people, they're just boobs.

4. 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.

5. Doesn't really hold with any one religion at the moment, but she'll swear in all of them.

6. Isn't really sure what kind of a queen she'll be. She tends to run with yelling about fire and blood and talking about claiming her birthright, but when it comes down to it, she worries about it all the time.

7. Misses her horse ridiculously, and takes this as a sign that she's really adapted to Dothraki culture -- her silver was part of her, and she'll never get her back.

8. Tends to swear in Dothraki, but use Westerosi religious curses. ('Seven hells,' etc.) She doesn't really know what to believe -- she was raised in one culture, but married into another, and she wonders if she'll ever make it to the Night Lands to see Drogo again.

Real Canon:

Oh, ASoIaF.

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. And then Drogo had sex wit her. In front of everyone. While people chanted and stuff.

I mean, it's very romantic.

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 (AGAIN, THE NEWBIE PICNIC IS GOING TO BE AWESOME) and Mommy died giving birth to her while a storm hit their home of Dragonstone -- hence why Dany goes by the utterly melodramatic name of Stormborn, sometimes.

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. She's bilingual, yes, though she knows English as 'the Common Tongue' at home.

8. Her dragons are named after her two brothers and her husband -- Viserion (Viserys), Rhaegal (Rhaegar) and Drogon (Drogo.) Drogo is the most aggressive, and I don't think it's drifting into head canon to say he's her favorite, too.

[notconflicted]

Headcanon:
1. She can win just about any argument against her father. This has nothing to do with him caving to her, and everything to do with her arguing her point until she can't anymore.
2. Sia keeps up with the goings on at home almost religiously. She can't do anything about it, but she wants to know what her family and friends are dealing with.
3. Knows how to defend herself and has been trained to resist torture, because seriously, she knows everything.
4. Has no real desire to be Empress and could totally just let the Sith have the throne and do her own thing, but cares about her people too much to be that selfish ever.
5. Sia's descended from the Solo, Skywalker, Fel and Antilles lines. There is no possible way she's not a good pilot. None.

Real canon:
1. She has relatives on Hapes, which quite possibly makes her related to all the big name families in current canon.
2. Her mother was killed by the only Imperial Knight to ever go dark at the start of the war.
3. The white streak is weirdly genetic for no reason, and only runs in the royal line; Roan's cousin doesn't have it.
4. She'll become an Imperial Knight around 18 or 19, and immediately start getting called Master, because that's like a rank now, and princesses rank high.

[hatesmoststuff.livejournal.com]

Canon
1. April speaks fluent Spanish.
2. Her parents call her "Zuzu," because that's not embarrassing at all.
3. She's a little bit bisexual. Enough to decide she'd bang a hot centaur version of her female boss, anyway.
4. She's hella competitive when it comes to games.
5. One of the first things she notices about guys is their eyebrows. Hey, some people like well-toned arms, some people like really well-sculpted arcs of hair below guys' foreheads. Don't you judge.
6. She has a whole bunch of useless skills like walking up down escalators really quickly, contorting her body into small spaces, going several weeks without speaking, and convincing her parents that she's adopted. Apparently.
7. Her apartment is a disaster zone. And she'd be perfectly happy only owning one plate, fork and knife. To share.
8. She has a younger sister named Natalie, who's about as lively and colorful as April is. Their parents, meanwhile, are friendly, welcoming, sunny-dispositioned people who love entertaining guests and don't allow shoes on in the house. It's bizarre.
9. Her favorite band is Neutral Milk Hotel. (Though it's possible that if multiversal internet ever made it so, she might conceivably go for some Clash at Demonhead.)
10. She really likes animals, especially the kind who are in need of extra attention (*cough* Pizza Dog *cough*). As she explains it, animals should be rewarded for not being people.

Headcanon
1. She's pretty kickass at card games that involve bluffing. I mean, come on. Can you read her poker face?
2. She's got the kind of insanely good willpower that leads to, say, resisting the Imperius Curse. Et cetera.
3. She doesn't really have an interest in casual sex; it's fun in a relationship with someone she's really serious about, or once in a while with a friend she really likes, but one-night stands with strangers don't hold any appeal for her.
4. She's not as good at holding her liquor as she'd like you to think. After a while of drinking she'll get a bit ridiculous.
5. She's a really, really bad driver. (Sorry, newbies taking the shuttle!)
6. If the squirrels ever tried to get her to do radio, she would literally just sit in the booth with her arms crossed without saying a word until they let her leave.
7. She'll pretty much always pick Dare over Truth.
8. She could live her whole life, quite happily, on pizza and root beer.
9. Every so often she sort of wishes she had close friends to do ridiculous teenager things with, like road-tripping out of state or marathoning Guitar Hero or experimenting with recreational drugs.
10. She does all her clothes shopping online. All of it.

[not_a_whiner]

Headcanon:

1. Kaidan spent a chunk of his young adulthood hanging around the less reputable parts of Vancouver. Maybe even the world. Partly to mess with his dad, partly to get his head in order after Jump Zero. It took him a few years, but he got it very firmly confirmed that that wasn't his thing at all.

2. Ashley dragged him and Shepard out to see one of the Blasto movies to get both of them to relax. Shepard liked it. He didn't.

3. He's not the hugest fan of casual violence in general. It's not that he can't sit through action movies, it's that he'd just rather not.

4. Has a whole bunch of candids from the first time Shepard, Ashley and him hung out on the Citadel, waiting for the Council's decision. He keeps one of them on his desk in his room. The others... he's been wanting to touch, but he's kind of afraid to.

5. He doesn't want to tell anyone how he got the scars on his mouth. It's a gruesome story and the important part is that he came out of it alive. Took him a while to get used to talking again after they healed.

6. His parents occasionally experimented with making wine. He... is not particularly fond of the beverage because of it.

7. I stole this from Bridgey: whenever he's in Vancouver he likes to go for nostalgic jogs around English Bay.

Canon

1. Prefers a nice steak sandwich and a Canadian lager or some whiskey, if you're looking to bribe him with edibles.

2. Both of his parents are alive. They have an orchard somewhere in the interior of Canada. They've never been off-planet. His mother harangues him about wearing sweaters. His father used to be in the military.

3. He got sent to humanity's first biotic training facility (Jump Zero/Brain Camp) when he was a kid. He fell in love with a girl called Rahna, lost his temper when their dictatorial turian teacher got in Rahna's face, and killed the teacher. That makes him responsible for ending the program, and he knows it. He's worked obsessively studiously on his self-control since, and it shows. A lot.

4. Is bisexual with a casual preference for women. He's not really interested in flings or one night stands or threesomes, though-- he's not holding out for True Love, exactly, but he's extremely picky and monogamous.

4a. Not that this matters on Fandom since it's canon he spends these two years too messed up over Shepard and Ash to really think about that anyway; his one date is a disaster.

5. Knows an awful lot about extranet fetish sites. Ahem.

6. Uses a Logic Arrest omni-tool religiously. I know, that tells you everything.

7. Before going on to Brain Camp, Kaidan grew up in Vancouver near English Bay. It's still his favorite place on Earth.

8. Likes stargazing. At least, I'm pretty sure that's what the third game's trying to tell me.

[craftyladyparts.livejournal.com]

Headcanon

1. She lets her hair grow really long the way Peter would if he could. But he has people who will force haircuts upon him. Advantage: being a girl. 

2. She's a loner around the Triskelion. Everyone on the SHIELD side is older than her. Everyone in the Ultimates is MUCH older and tend not to give Spider-People much credit (Stark and Thor excluded).  

3. She's kind of bi but it's all very confusing due to... well, everything. So she'd rather just avoid that entirely, thanks.  

4. Between breaking out of Roxxon and returning to New York before Reed Richards went evil, she worked as an assistant at a series of small labs. No place that could do a good job picking apart her falsified credentials, so it's not like the work was good. But it paid enough to live on. 

5. Jess kept the name given to her by Octavius and Roxxon partially because, well, it's the only name she ever had for herself and she wanted to make it her own. She kept the costume given to her by Octavius and Roxxon because they may be evil mad scientists, but they come up with badass costumes. 

Real Canon

1. Because the weirdness of this can't be stressed enough: she is the girl clone of Spider-Man an she can shoot webs from her fingertips. Basically, she swings from her own bodily fluids. That's healthy. 

2. Peter could never be drafted into SHIELD because he was a minor. Jessica gets an easy in because, well, she's a year-old genetic experiment created in a lab. It's easy to get around labor laws with that. 

3. There's another Spider-Clone in SHIELD custody. Jess doesn't know he survived. 

4. Despite all of the weirdness and confusion, Peter and being a Spider mean the world to her. She was created by evil people for a terrible purpose, but she was created from a completely decent person. She couldn't have asked for a better person to be cloned from. 

5. Only a handful of people actually know Jessica's true origin. Not included: Peter's family and friends, the Fantastic Four, and I presume the Ultimates. Fury kept a tight lid on the clone stuff and tried to do right by Peter with it. And that means doing right by Jess. 

[nottrivial]

Canon
1. Alec has East River blue eyes and no I will never get tired of mocking that ridiculousness.
2. Though he'll often fight with standard Shadowhunter weapons like seraph blades, his preference is for a bow.
3. He's never actually killed a demon; he's always too busy defending Jace and Isabelle to cover offense, and he's fine with leaving them to have the glory, anyway.
4. He's never been kissed. Never dated anyone, either.
5. He loves his family passionately, but he has a hard time relating to his younger brother, Max, who's eight I think. That's partly because Alec spends most of his time thinking about Very Serious Things like keeping Iz and Jace from getting killed, and Max is into... comic books. Alec can't really identify with that.

Headcanon
1. He knows more about first-aid than any almost-seventeen-year-old, even a fighty one, should really know. I wanna say there was maybe a scare of some sort when he was younger, and after that he determined that no one was ever almost dying on his watch.
2. He's pretty sure he'd be a terrible boyfriend, if anyone were to ever date him. But he also doubts he ever will date anyone, so that's not really an issue.
3. He likes bows because they let him keep enough of a distance that he can keep an eye on everything that's going on; that way, if someone's in immediate danger, he'll know about it and he can act fast.
4. He dresses specifically to hide his body wtf filming shots of him walking around sleeveless. It's not that he doesn't like how he looks, it's just that dressing in tight stuff makes him uncomfortable.
5. He's never told anyone that he's gay, but his sister figured it out because really it's a little obvious and let him know she knew. He's really, really not secure with it, though. At all.
6. His type is pretty much guys who put themselves out there all loud and expressive-like. Alec could never do that, like ever, so it's sort of a thing with him.

[robinonadderall]

WHY IS HE SLEEVELESS. WHY.

[dollpocalypse]

PROBABLY BECAUSE SOME IDIOT DECIDED THEY LIKED HIS ARMS.

THAT OR THE BUDGET RAN OUT BEFORE THEY COULD GET HIM SLEEVES.

[fewer_explosions]

Headcanon:

1. Actually likes airy human fashion - she grew up with a lot of super-restrictive asari styles. (Canon: when she gets older her outfit pretty much combines both.)

2. Is resentful that her mother seems to take to popularity so easily, that she always seems to know the right thing to say and the right thing to wear and... Goddess, she feels guilty about feeling that way.

3. Sometimes, Liara sits around and watches human television, and is completely perturbed by television shows because of their portrayal of gender. She just can't get her head around it. Gender is a weird enough concept as it is without bringing arbitrary roles into it.

4. She used to take singing and dancing lessons when she was younger, hoping it would make her more like her mother. It didn't.

5. Sometimes she feigns naivete about things because she doesn't know what else to say, so she asks questions instead.

Canon:

1. Her father left when she was very young, but Liara knows she's asari. She'll find out later that her father is Matriarch Aethyta, a half-krogan former mercenary.

2. When she was young, she used to dig around in parks looking for ancient artifacts. Back then, her mother thought it was cute. Not so much when she got older.

3. Her mother's nickname for her is 'Little Wing'. As it turns out, this is because her father used to say that her mother should stop treating Liara like a baby bird, because some day she 'was going to cause a storm with those little wings'.

4. She's an absolutely terrible liar... but she'll get better at it. By a wide margin.

5. Liara has several half-hanar half-sisters. Though asari biology doesn't Work Like That. Well. Exactly. Her sisters are asari but their father is hanar. Yes. ... asari procreation gets confusing.

[throughaphase]

Headcanon:
1. She lives on the top floor because in the case of accidental phasing she'd rather wake up in someone's apartment than the building's foundation.
2. Has no intention of bartending forever, but she has figured out she really likes running things.
3. Is a big fan of the geek channels: Discovery, NatGeo, Science (and not just because they show Lightning Bug reruns)...
4. The only mutant she's still in contact now with Shan, mostly by emailing whenever something big happens because she needs to talk about it.
5. Still has her therapist's number just in case. She hasn't called it since getting to Fandom.
6. Still has pictures of the people who've up and died on her up in her apartment. There's quite a few of them.
7. Practices dancing regularly. Fighting skills she has to encourage herself to do.
8. The bar clothes are totally a phase. When she's bored with it she figures she'll just chop all her hair off again or something.

Real canon:
1. Her alien dragon can talk (though Kitty doesn't know it), terrorizes boyfriends who aren't Colossus, and really does start hitting the bottle when Kitty "dies" for a while. He is fantastic.
2. Learned Japanese and Russian apparently telepathically.
3. Kitty really does go for older guys. Her first boyfriend was five years older (at 14) and her second was about ten years older (at 16,17).
4. Saw her dad right before he died via security feeds she'd hacked into. Because that's not traumatic at all.
5. Is really religious and can quote Scripture at you. (I cannot. Please never make me.)
6. Actually tries to get into politics for a bit. While dressing in Coyote Uglywear. I find this hilarious.
7. Was apparently a cheerleader. (I missed this one issue. I think I need to get it for the lulz.)
8. Gives the best Reason Why You Suck speeches ever.
9. Got involved with SHIELD because they were like "Only you can help us with our super bad computer problems!" and when she got there they only needed her to unlock the system and they were all "Well since you're here anyway, we're gonna keep you around a while."
10. She and Wolverine reference Star Wars at each other a lot.

[so_hawkward]

Clint appreciates both real canon #3 and #7, for reasons. #1, not so much.

[throughaphase]

I apologize in advance for PW.

[suitably_heroic]

Canon:

1. Atton's a huge fan of juma juice. It's his beverage of choice, anyway.

2. Will give smuggling a try some time. Hey, you don't want to half-ass the Han Solo, even if you're doing it to run away from something worse.

3. Spends every moment of his day playing cards in his head, thinking about atmospheric sounds, focusing on lust and anger and pettiness so that Jedi can't waltz in and figure out what's in his head. That takes a lot of energy, man.

4. Was an avid student of the Echani martial arts at some point in his life. He's damn good at it still.

5. His real name - or nickname - is Jaq. But that's all we know.

6. Is really, really good at hunting and torturing and killing Jedi - he's developed several techniques. He used to almost get high off it until SOMEONE finally broke him away from the dark side's numbing influence.

Headcanon:

1. He's not really as invested in the gambling and drinking and the womanizing as he looks; he just fell into the habit because it keeps up his cover. He could live without, if he needed to - dependencies like that are bad for your health.

2. His parents were killed at some point during the Mandalorian Wars, but not before several of their and Atton's friends went to war and wound up with their asses kicked.

3. Sometimes he can just feel the Force itching just out of reach. He refuses to reach out to it out of pure spite.

4. He actually does seriously believe a lot of the Sith philosophies are right; he just doesn't want to take them to their extreme anymore. Basically, in our world, he'd probably vote for the Libertarian Party.

5. He has nightmares sometimes. Sometimes they're bad enough that he thinks about ending it all. But while he can't think of a damn thing to live for, the thought of living itself is enough to keep him going. Every tortured breath is better than no breath at all.

[dollpocalypse]

Canon
1. He's afraid (to varying degrees of extremity) of rats, the dark, and huge open spaces.
2. He doesn't drink coffee. Blech, icky-tasting grown-up beverages. Juice boxes and Mountain Dew and the odd Red Bull are where it's at.
3. He has a NCC-1701 tattoo on his ankle (which I think wasn't on the show but came out in one of the comics I didn't read, or the tie-in promotional game or something), and a bracelet that says "Kill your idols."
4. He has a typically Jossian bottomless understanding of pop culture, geeky references and nerd jargon. Or he would if I shared that trait. I try, okay?
5. He's a hilarious drunk.
6. He sorta rocks the omnidisciplinary scientist thing: computer programming and neuroscience are both kinda necessary for his job, so he's all over both of those.
7. He flails his arms a lot when he talks. And sometimes when he's not talking. He's just a big flailer.
8. Oh, and the getting-punched thing? Yeeep, that's canon. A canon trait I was really not expecting to translate this well to the game, honestly.
9. He's never seen a football game.
10. His clothes and hands are always very, very neat and clean. Germs, man. His desk, however, is a disaster area.

Headcanon
1. His middle name is Andrew. Because it amuses me and brat_inslayage, okay?
2. Yes, his hair is like that on purpose.
3. His family has enough money that he's never had to worry about it -- think very comfortable upper middle class.
4. His parents are humanities professors at... somewhere Shanie decided for me, and he grew up on the west side of LA.
5. He was bullied kinda bad when he was a kid for being geeky and show-offy smart. This did not help his social skills.
6. He has Asperger's and ADHD. He's never felt the need to look them up or self-diagnose or anything, but yeah. Oh, and he also has asthma.
7. He's bisexual. The "eww, female nudity" thing is a phase he's going to grow out of. For the most part, he crushes on people's brains, not so much... the rest of them.
8. But being a brainy brunette doesn't hurt.
9. He will almost definitely die a virgin.
10. He still doesn't totally understand why everyone here seems to be so hell-bent on making him be considerate. He goes along with it mostly because acting on his instincts to be a dick isn't really worth losing his friends, but... the Umbridge reality's version of him isn't really that far off.

[so_hawkward]

I was going to say that he's totally not going to die a virgin, but... yes, he will probably die a virgin. UNLESS HE NEVER DIES, WHICH IS ALSO AN OPTION, I AM JUST SAYING.

[dollpocalypse]

OMG PUSHY.

[ultron_junior]

Headcanon:
1. Has no idea how old he actually is, other than that he guesses it's younger than five. His parents are the only ones who would have known, and neither of them is in a position to share anymore.
2. Thinks Molly Hayes is awesome, and that she'd be pretty cute if she wasn't, you know, 12. Probably will have a crush on her as soon as it's legal.
3. Is absolutely horrified by the fact his programming includes detailed scenarios on how to kill or incapacitate each of the Avengers ... but has not deleted the memories because he can see the information being useful someday.
4. Doesn't really like to eat Mexican food unless it's homemade or from one of about five places in L.A. Imitations just make him homesick.
5. Used to sometimes call his old friends to catch up when he had some down time away from the rest of his team, but there was so little to talk about after a while that he just quit bothering.

Real canon:
1. Is basically the worst roommate ever, between the snoring, the frequent bad dreams, and the preferring to sleep nude. Sorry, Alec.
2. Comes from a more working class background than the rest of his team, and sometimes seems self-conscious about it.
3. Says he'd rather be Spider-Man than any other hero in his very first sentence of dialogue. Later gets to eat sushi with Spider-Man.
4. Has a literal cast-iron stomach, to the point where he can swallow hatching monster eggs to no ill effect. Also likes pineapple-anchovy pizza.
5. For all the white hatting he does, he can be pretty ruthless in a fight and is perfectly capable of lying as part of a plan.

[dirtiest-skank.livejournal.com]

Naturally, the moment I posted this and finished Dany's replies, another teacher came to talk to me. FOILED.

Canon:

1. Olive's entire family is named after foods: Dill, Rosemary, Olive and her brother Chip.

2. She makes highly convincing sex noises, despite never having had sex. Similarly: very convincing fake drunk, despite not being a heavy drinker at all.

3. Her name is an anagram of 'I love pretend shag.' The 'I love' part is referenced in canon; the rest is for those of us playing at home.

4. Seems to be a great fly-by-the-seat-of-her-pants liar if you're not her family or a close friend; she's able to pull off just about anything with most of the school -- pretending to be drunk, pretending she meant part of a plant's life cycle when saying the word "climax," etc -- but when Rhiannon asks her this guy's name/details, Olive's response is a little less than believable. She's flawless if she's had time to rehearse it, though.

5. She really does do the reading for school, even when most of her classmates just watched the movie. (That being said, she will also watch the movie. Multiple versions, even.) She's totally a good kid who just wants to fly under the radar.

6. She has accidentally been to second base with her best friend's mom.

7. Has, apparently, changed drastically since 8th grade -- for some reason the movie recast her (and Todd) for their 7 Minutes in Heaven scene, despite the fact that they're supposed to be upperclassmen in high school and really should not look that different. (This is probably partly to blame by the fact that Emma Stone and Penn Badgely are both in their mid-twenties playing high schoolers, and so the jump from 14-24 looks crazy. SHOULD'VE JUST MADE 'EM UP YOUNGER, GUYS.)

8. Her parents are both bi, or at least Went Through a Phase (presumably separately.)

9. Will take the fall for anything, if it means innocent people don't get hurt. This includes, but is not limited to, telling people she has chlamydia when she doesn't. Oh, Olive.

Headcanon:

1. Oranges are going to make her homesick. Not that she's here yet, but they will. (Fun canon fact: there's supposedly an orange in every scene.)

2. She has another, older brother (besides wee Chip) who is named after a food that I haven't decided upon yet. This is like, half-headcanon and half extrapolation from real canon -- the initial "George" that Olive pretends to have sex with is a college guy who is supposedly a friend of her brother's. Seeing as how Chip is about nine -- they talk about him not hitting puberty yet -- and while he might be a Charles Wallace type, it's never referenced explicitly. So I'm going straight-up older brother who lives on campus at UCLA or something.

3. Olive's parents weren't able to conceive after having her (and the prior-mentioned older brother) -- she's their biological daughter, and while Chip is very obviously adopted, I like to think they took him in as an older kid. Mostly because it gives me the warm fuzzies to think of Rosemary and Dill adopting, like, a five year-old kid while in their mid-forties.

4. Olive doesn't like to drink or do drugs because she figures that she makes enough of an idiot of herself without them, and she only barely trusts her own judgement most of the time anyway. She's drunk beer and tried pot, though.

5. She actually sent Melody Bostic a text after the webcast, too, apologizing for fake-hooking-up at her house twice. Olive mostly figured she'd probably been grossed out by her sheets for nothing, after the Brandon incident, and wanted to make amends there.

[nomelancholy.livejournal.com]

Canon:

1. Blew up an Ironclad warship (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ironclad_warship") by rowing in to it with a bomb on a stick.

2. Speaks fluent Danish (...obviously), Swedish, German, and English, and decent French and Spanish. Also Amideutsch, which is the English/German pidgin that's popping up in the United States of Europe.

3. Has around two-dozen siblings, most of whom are illegitimate.

4. Has read what the history books have to say about his life in the original timeline.

5. Is kind of looking forward to his marriage with Kristina. Not because he's attracted to her (... she's nine, and homely is putting it nicely), but because she's crazy smart. He's always known that any marriage he'd enter into would be an arranged one, and his biggest fear was that he'd end up with someone boring. That- and the concern that he'd have stupid children. Neither of which will be a problem now.

6. Doesn't have the slightest idea how to go about cooking. At all. SHOLEH COME BACK HE NEEDS SOMEONE TO FEED HIM.


Headcanon:

1. Probably knows some Norwegian- the curse words, at least. Baldur. (No Finnish or Russian though, which is canon)

2. Since he learned English from an American POW with a canon D&D/fantasy/scifi obsession, is vaguely familiar with many pre-2000 genre references.

3. Having read those history books, is pretty damn glad things went differently.

4. Writes letters home weekly, partially because he'd rather avoid Kristina's rage (girl throws some epic tantrums) when they see each other next, and partially because he knows she likes learning new things.

5. He's really kind of relieved that nobody has yet asked him to check in on any family they might have left behind up-time.

[faithandscience.livejournal.com]

Canon:

1. Has a half-brother named Jasper (who he doesn't know exists) who is physically the complete opposite (blond, blue-eyed, tall) but is freakishly similar personality-wise.

2. Has a younger sister Susannah who entered a cloistered convent a few years ago.

3. Has a BFF named Edward Cullen. I am not even kidding.

4. Will go on to invent steampunk versions of everything ever.

5. Believes his father killed his mother.

6. Doesn't always remember that not everyone's as much of a geek as he is, and as such might not get his overly technical explanations.


Headcanon:

1. In book-canon he had a younger brother, Bertie, who was physically/mentally disabled and died pretty young. TV-canon hasn't yet said anything on the subject, so for now I'm assuming Jasper kind of took his place, but then... it took them like four years to even mention Susannah, so who knows.

2. Speaks a working-class dialect of Quebecois French called joual. The show retconned an earlier mention of growing up in Montreal to "the Maritimes", so whatever. I'M KEEPING IT MY WAY.

3. Still wears 18-century-style clothing, most of the time, although he's got a decent amount of modern wardrobe choices now.

4. Although his father was never physically abusive, he was a mean drunk, so I think it's not much of a stretch to say he was verbally so.

5. Finds coffee kind of gross.

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Canon

1. Tony is a fan of Dazzler. For non-Marvelites: Dazzler is like the bastard love child of Lady Gaga, Kesha, and a pair of roller skates. With mutant powers.

2. According to Rhodey, Tony is prone to fits of depression. Yes, this is still a kids show. Somehow.

3. Because the writers love a good throwback, Tony loves roller skating/rollerblading. I have an icon for this terrible joke.

4. When Tony really gets into a groove with his work, he will lose entire days and not even realize it.

5. At age 15, more than half of Stark International's products were developed by him.

Headcanon

1. Tony and Rhodey have dressed up as action heroes Iron Fist and Power Man for every Halloween since they were ten.

2. He has met at least three heads of state when he was a kid, but never cared beyond being forced into a mini tux.

3. People tend to avoid him at tech conferences due to both his age and name. This makes him a sad panda.

4. After his mother died, he and his dad spent her birthday away from the lab to watch bad movies and eat Chinese food.

5. Tony once called Mrs. Rhodes 'mom' and proceeded to have a minor panic attack that he was forgetting his mom.

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Canon stolen from comics... sigh, movie

1. His full name is Clinton Francis Barton. *pets him*
2. After his mentor turned on him (when Clint threatened to turn him in for stealing money from the circus) and broke both of Clint's legs, Clint's brother responded by telling Clint he should have kept his mouth shut, and deserting him as well.
3. He struggles a lot with the conflicting desires to be a leader and to be a loner.
4. He really doesn't eat very much. (IDEK, it was mentioned in narrative...)
5. He has a weakness for helpless and injured dogs, and for women who could beat the crap out of him.
6. He's been killed by the Scarlet Witch twice...
6a. ...but he had sex with her the first time he saw her after all of that...
6b. ...but she may have been a Doombot at the time.
7. He canonically kissed Loki. Loki didn't enjoy it very much.

Headcanon
1. That weakness for helpless and injured dogs extends to all helpless animals, and the only reason he doesn't have a menagerie of strays is because he's not around enough to take proper care of pets.
1a. This is also why he doesn't buy houseplants.
2. If people don't tell him to eat, or invite him to eat, or if he doesn't see people around him eating, he will totally forget to do it.
3. To be social, he will sometimes have a drink, but never more than one, because he doesn't know what the limit is before he turns into a scary drunk like his father, and he doesn't want to find out.
4. Part of the reason he falls for strong women is that he thinks if he ever does turn abusive, none of the women he dates would ever just take it without fighting back and stopping him.
5. While everyone else was dealing with turning off the Tesseract and helping Tony not kill himself, Clint went to Stark Tower and made sure Loki didn't get away. (Thank you to dollpocalypse for that idea.)
6. He remembers every. single. thing. he told Loki.
7. Sometimes, he misses the circus, because at least there he was only responsible to and for himself.