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meme: headcanon vs real canon!

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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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Headcanon:
1. The pizza addiction. Thanks, Biff.
2. Doesn't own any contemporary clothing other than what she's bought while shopping with Renee and Faith. She always wears her Imperium clothing while teaching, and a Fremen tunic/pants when lazing about her suite.
3. Her Sayyadina abilities, including herbalism. It's canon that Chani had the training, so I extended it to Ghanima.
4. Used to get up just so she could watch Leto sleep, then slip out to play with the scorpions in the rocks just outside Tabr.
5. Does not actually understand television, but watches it anyway because she thinks the people are funny.
6. Her bisexuality. Herbert hints at the fact that both Ghani and Leto are... flexible, given they have male and female tao memories, but it's never outright stated.

Random Canon:
1. The subtext with Ghanima and Leto? Text. Totally text. ILU, Frank Herbert.
2. Will totally stab you in the back. Literally.
3. Loves butterflies.
4. Has no problems with plotting murder for the Greater Good, or just because you pissed her off. Hint: Don't mess with her brother.
5. Her name means 'spoil of war' in the language of the Fremen:

In the subtleties of the Fremen tongue, the word meant "something acquired in battle" and with the added overtone that the something no longer was used for its original purpose. An ornament, a spearhead used as a curtain weight.

Ghanima loves to play word-games based on this, especially ones that play on her station and temperament.
6. She's legally married to Leto, yup.
Despite her jokes about Farad'n being her 'fiance never,' Herbert married her and Leto to each other to preserve the legality of the Atreides line and prevent any of the Great Houses from trying to gain power through offering either of them a marriage

Headcanon:
1. Sticks with the leather pants and blouses/corsets from home while here. Doesn't have the same hang-up about hemlines as SOME witches, just doesn't like the fabrics. They itch.
2. Is actually a pretty decent cook. She's been on her own so long, she HAD to have figured out how not to poison herself by now.
3. Always has at least four blades on her somewhere. Yes, even when sleeping.
4. Keeps her mother's stiletto - her favorite blade - vanished at all times, to reduce risk of losing it.

Random Canon:
1. THE MAGICAL COCK RINGS. Totally canon, and Surreal is forever happy that she's a witch and not a Queen and doesn't have to ever deal with them.
2. The skill with poison. Surreal knows LOTS of ways to make people die.
3. Styles her hair to hide her pointed ears. She knows she'll never fully blend-in, but she takes steps to keep her anonymity.
4. Sleeps with both men and women for work, but won't have a relationship with a male until she's almost 350 years old. Because Issues.

Canon
1. The Jedi seem to really be so used to her running off and doing her own thing that they just shrug and go with it now. It's probably easier than trying to stop/punish her.
2. Has had her lightsaber since she was fourteen. She's never lost it, never broken it, it's always been the same one.
3. Tinkers with things when she's upset.
4. Has decent fashion sense.
5. Cannot flirt when she tries to. No, really, she is very bad at it.
6. Her parents have a ~~hilarious~~ habit of oversharing with her.

Headcanon
1. Having to resign from the military still upsets her, because that meant giving up the career she actually chose.
2. Trains for hours every day despite not having to do anything here. She takes the Sword of the Jedi title really seriously now.
3. It totally bothers her that she's not doing more with it, and that she's not ready to do more with it.
4. Not a big drinker, because she likes keeping her head clear. She's actually glad no one tries to get her go out and get drunk anymore.
5. Has a thing for trashy daytime TV. She doesn't actually watch them except to glance at it and feel better about her life, but she likes having it on for noise.
6. Likes teaching a class because it feels like training a squadron. Doesn't so much like on on one teaching because it doesn't feel anything like training a squadron.
7. Seeing how powerful Jacen got has made her realize she has the potential to be really awesome, but has extremely different goals.

Canon
1. Pretty much raised herself. Her mom's addicted to pills and her dad is very much absent.
2. Getting pranked at school by a total bitch is what triggered her powers.
3. Her Twitter icon is Ms. Marvel.
4. Her room at the mansion was decorated with unicorns. Yes, really.
5. When she and the others were stuck in Murderworld, she was the only one who managed to turn the tables on Arcade and get free all by herself.
6. Figured out how to possess a demigod pretty much on the fly in order to eventually save her own life.
7. Has no confidence in her own abilities anyway.

Headcanon
1. She knows she should be going out and doing all these things while she's still able to actually, you know, touch things, but she's really not ready for them.
2. Still keeps in touch with the kids at Avengers Academy, because she genuinely misses most of them.
3. In fact, rooming with a dinosaur makes her feel a little at home, in a way.
4. It still freaks her out that everyone here is nice. Not that she wants to be bullied, just, wow town.
5. Between not having a life back home and being sheltered at the mansion, she really doesn't know what to do with all the freedom she has here.
6. Says she's most recently from New York because ~~I have no canon for where she's from originally~~ she's trying to get far away from her old life.

Canon
1. He was, apparently, born on Alderaan. God help us if he ever finds out what Anakin did.
2. He has this ridiculously irrational hatred of droids, going deep enough to pretty much be a phobia. Because they break, okay?! In the head!
3. Is so good at playing the fool that nobody really knows if he's actually a fool, or he's doing it to throw them off. This gets stated repeatedly in canon. (Considering how much discipline it takes to keep out Force users the way he does, I'm leaning towards the latter.)
4. Fell in love with the Jedi who pulled him back from the Dark Side, but insists it wasn't like that - he just loved her.
5. Is absolutely freaking terrified of the Force and of what embracing his Force-sensitivity might mean. He's absolutely convinced it'll hurt. A lot.
6. In true Star Wars tradition, he's a pilot (level of aceness debatable on how avoidable you think those crash landings are), a decent engineer and a skilled hacker.

Headcanon
1. Pretends to drink a lot to go along with the seemingly inane pazaak obsession. The hook-ups are also at least partly about keeping his cover.
2. Spends a lot of time immersing himself in the local culture of wherever he lands - currently, Earth - just in case he has to dash for it and pretend to be a local for a while.
3. Lost his dad when the man got stuck in the Outer Rim during a business visit. Lost his mom while he was already serving in the Republic army. He doesn't just blame the Jedi but himself, too.
4. Thanks to #2, he actually knows a shitload about Earth culture already. Sometimes he lets it show. Other times he pretends he doesn't get most of it. Yes, that includes Santa.
5. Kind of likes dogs. No, shut up. You shut up. Not that he'd ever get a pet. He can't afford it.
6. Is totally into heavy metal on Earth; back home he's kind of partial to the noise the Gamorreans put out. He hates Bith music on principle.

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Real Canon
1. She doesn't know chicken parmesan isn't vegan.
2. She doesn't remember anniversaries. At least with Scott. (She probably does with Todd, though.)
3. Oh, and she (at least thinks she) loves Todd Ingram with all her heart, despite not having even seen him since they were eleven.
4. One of her rock star outfits is described as being worth fifty million dollars. Let's assume that's hyperbolic, though.
5. She's going to stop responding to the name Natalie in a few years, except for few very specific exceptions.

Headcanon
1. ... Yeah, her parents will always get to call her Natalie.
2. Speaking of her parents, they're called Abigail and Dominic, and although they have different shades of that ol' Adams mildness going on, if you hurt their daughter, she's going to send a vicious lawyer to ruin your life, and he's going to mess you up personally.
3. She knows she could pursue a career in music, but doesn't think it a smart choice. Oh how that will change.
4. Only smokes when she's feeling moody or ambivalent, or is about to do something that will hurt someone someway. (Scott Pilgrim has a running gag about smoking being evil.)
5. She loves the arcade because the sounds and the atmosphere remind her of home.

Canon
1. Turned 14 in space, thinking she was going to die. That was the same trip where she met a certain alien dragon bff.
2. Picked her own code name, because before that she was Sprite. Sprite.
3. Kept up with dancing because when it was like the only way to relate to people her own age.
4. Has an interest in politics, because there are things she'd like to see change. (Hint: it's mutant rights.)
5. Formed stronger familial bonds with the X-Men than with her own parents.
6. A picture of the costume she came up with when she was 13 totally exists. (And I will find a way to get it to Fandom.)

Headcanon
1. Every once in a while she'll look into colleges in the area, and then dismiss them because the program she was in before spoiled her with awesomeness.
2. Keeps a bag of dog food at her place for when Lucky's over. She just likes knowing he has an option besides pizza.
3. Sometimes thinks she's outgrowing the "let's let everyone in the bar see my midriff" phase, but it also makes her feel kind of badass and she misses that feeling.
4. Really, genuinely doesn't want to rejoin the X-Men, but would help them in a second if they called. Actually, that's canon, too.
5. Still has nightmares about killing people. Actually, that's pretty canon, too.
6. Would totally sing karaoke. Should also not do it because she's terrible.

Headcanon
1. Always has her nails painted (usually blue, duh) to keep her snake-tooth from being obvious.
2. Has a scar on her lower abdomen from a radscorpion attack.
3. Has a pet dinosaur because her boyfriend is ridiculous.
4. The hemline freakout. The books have a kind of Victorian feel to them, but that's about it.
5. Her ability to sing, though I'm actually basing that off her PB

Canon
1. She really did blow up a kitchen with Jaenelle once.
2. Briarwood
3. Safframate
4. Virgin Nights/magical hymens
5. Will one day sass and kiss Daemon Sadi and not get murdered for either. \o/
6. Her habit of biting and kicking people when she's pissy at them
7. Arcerians defecate on their enemies to show their contempt
8. Karla's love for trashy romance novels is extrapolated how certain books that make Saetan blush make the rounds of the coven

Headcanon:

1. Her utter fail at domesticity has as much to do with the fact no one ever taught her (and a strong discouragement to learn anything beyond the most basic among the Mord'Sith) as lack of skill. The fact she also has a complete inability to either admit this or ask for advice doesn't help.
2. Her sister Grace (who would be much better at this kind of stuff even if Cara wasn't a complete failbot) was the one who altered her leathers. There may have been very awkward questions about the cleavage before they were done.
3. She's both extremely tactile and touch-starved. Half the reason she misses Mord'Sith baths is the loss of regular skin-on-skin contact that's not necessarily sexual.
3b. Likes the feel of different fabrics against her skin but is too uncomfortable/awkward as fuck wearing anything other than her leathers, given half an opportunity she'll start stroking other people's clothes instead.
4. She and Denna spent far more time as peers, than one being an a clear position of power over the other, and even then a lot of the time it was mostly nominal (basically Cara as the Quinn to Denna's Sandi). Denna played it for all she was worth, Cara mostly ignored it. Shockingly, this led to rather a lot of hatesex.
5. In addition to the fact she's just generally bolshy, a decent amount of the verbal poking and prodding she did when she started travelling with Team Seeker was trying to find the point where Richard turned on a dime from cheerful puppy to violent smack-downs just because. She's still kind of disturbed that barring the influence of Powerful Magic^TM he doesn't seem to have one.
6. Her father's death was about as messy and ugly as you'd expect when you just shoved a weapon in the hands of a nine-year-old who'd previously never considered so much as hurting another person and told them to go at it. She didn't like to think about the details even when she still believed he deserved it.

Canon:

1. Kind of lacks skills at poetry until the subject is torture, then she can be scarily good.
2. Bisexual and kinda toppy. Given how quickly AU!her started bossing around AU!Leo, it's not just a Mord'Sith thing.
3. Had a (mostly) sekrit baby fathered by Darken Rahl, who had him murdered the same day he was born.
4. Was a zombie once. Got better.
5. If she could be any bird, it would be a Blue-Tailed Seahawk.
6. Surprise snowfalls make her grin like a dork.

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meme: headcanon vs real canon!

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