Meme: Headcanon vs. Real Canon

[filleauloup]

Because obviously what I needed while I'm still catching up after a week off work was meme distraction. And we haven't done this one since last August.

It goes like this:

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.

"Five," it says, but haha, like most of us can stick to five. Go wild.

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[throughaphase]

Real Canon:
1. Is a Game of Thrones fan. Gonna guess Dany's her favorite. For some reason.
2. Is also a Star Wars geek and a comics fan. (She was the POV character for a generation here, people.)
3. When she was 14, she beat Loki by yelling at him a lot.
4. Was a Little League pitcher, and apparently pretty decent at it.
5. Lived in the UK for a few years with Excalibur, and butchers the English accent when she tries to imitate it.
6. The thought of being a grown up scares her.
7. Used to be all solid and could make herself intangible till an injury screwed that up. Now she's intangible and makes herself solid by being really really stubborn.
8. Likes bartending because she's a social person and genuinely likes listening to people.
9. Was taking college level classes at 13.
10. Kept up with dancing because she had trouble relating to people her own age due to things like #9, but physically she was always on their level.

Headcanon:
1. After she got kidnapped by Stryker she started training regularly again, figuring she was going to keep ending up in those situations so she might as well be prepared.
2. Has lost enough people by now that she won't call anyone her best friend, in case that works as a jinx.
3. Totally keeps dog food at her apartment, just in case Lucky's over. Well, in case he's over and they're not ordering pizza. I know, crazy talk.
4. Would definitely do karaoke without needing to be drunk or gremlin bit. Would definitely be terrible at it.
5. The only reason she ever cleans her apartment is because Clint sees it. The. Only. Reason.
6. Has more or less outgrown the revealing bar outfits, but she likes the reaction it gets sometimes.
7. If she's taken an embarrassing photo of you, that is definitely the picture that shows up when you call her.
8. Is very jealous of those of you in college, but is pretty sure she's not going back to it.
9. Got her bellybutton pierced on a whim when she was in California last because I forgot she was supposed to have it.
10. If it's cute, be it a baby, puppy, kitten, tiny anything, she will play with it. She's probably lost hours of her life to Too Cute on Animal Planet.

Hannibal

[sharp_as_knives]

Oo, okay. (Stuck at car shop; might as well do memes!)

Seriously, the whole "likes to feed people other people" is sort of cracky anyway, but hey.

Five Six odd canon things:
1. He can smell encephalitis and stomach cancer. (Seriously, WTF?)
2. In book canon, he (at least) once fed someone their own brain. (It was delicious.)
3. He actually does contribute to anti-hunger campaigns. Or at least, goes to concerts that support them.
4. In book canon, he's nobility; his title would technically be Count, if there was still anywhere to be Count of. (Again, WTF Thomas Harris?)
5. He (at least) once talked a guy into killing himself by swallowing his own tongue.
6. He really does like helping people and is a good psychiatrist. (Presumably unless you're rude.)


Five made-up headcanony things:
1. He's asexual/demisexual, in that while he doesn't mind sex, he can take it or leave it, and there are other things he'd rather do with his time.
2. He's a bit of a danger junkie. (Not sure if this is canon, but it's not explicitly stated, anyway.)
3. While he loves music and can play instruments, and he can carry a tune, he doesn't have a good enough voice for really awesome singing. Therefore he doesn't do it (well, not voluntarily). Because he won't do something unless he can be the best.
4. When not killing his own food, he believes in ethically and ecologically sound methods of food production. (While he mentions in canon that he gets food from an ethical butcher, I'm pretty sure he's being facetious. But since he is "very careful about what I put in my body", I liked the idea.)
5. He keeps more than enough day-to-day money in a US account, but most of his assets are in Switzerland. Because you never know when you might need funds that can't be legally frozen.

[filleauloup]

Real Canon:
1) Used to dress up her cat in doll clothes (the cat hated this, of course), and tell her sister to pretend to be a friend she was visiting, who was surprised at how strange her child looked. Actually I have to just quote this bit because OMG.

"It's much nicer than the other kind of doll because it really moves, and it squeaks and it's warm. I'm going to be a lady and this is going to be my baby that I'm bringing for you to see, and when you see that it's got a moustache you'll be very surprised, and when you see its ears and tail you'll be more surprised than ever, and you'll say, 'Merciful Heavens!' and I'll say, 'It's my little daughter, madame, and that's how she was born. Little girls are all like that nowadays.'"

2) Barely even remembers her two youngest brothers exist, because her mother pawned them off onto someone as fast as she possibly could.
3) Has an odd fixation with mirrors/reflective surfaces.
4) She and her sister Azelma got their names because their mother was obsessed with really bad romance novels.
5) Is really, really proud of her ability to read and write.
6) Used to get to go to plays sometimes because her brother Gavroche was friends with actors, and would get her free tickets.
7) Went to prison briefly for being an accomplice in her father's scheme to kidnap and extort Jean Valjean, but was let out early for being underage.
8) Is actually largely to blame for the entire family getting arrested in that particular incident, since she was supposed to be keeping lookout for the cops, but abandoned her post to go bang Montparnasse. Oops.
9) Got hold of her workman's disguise because she found a guy who liked dressing in drag and traded clothes with him.

Headcanon:
1) Loves reading. Really loves reading, and making up stories in her head.
2) Related to the above, if she'd grown up under gentler and better circumstances, would have been a quiet, shy little bookworm.
3) [Actual Canon] Was given a five-franc coin by Cosette as payment for delivering the letter telling Marius that she and Valjean were abruptly moving to England. (Not that she did, since her entire plan was to intercept it.) [Headcanon] She has kept that coin ever since, because despite the raging jealousy and resentment at their mutual reversal of fortune since childhood, she's been half in love with Cosette her entire life. (This has actually been my headcanon for at least 16 years.)
4) . . . which is why her cat is named Alouette; Cosette's childhood nickname was "the Lark."
5) Has a habit of eating very, very quickly, though not so quickly that she's swallowing her food before she can even taste it. It's just that she got so accustomed to getting one meal every three or four days and having to eat it before anyone could take it away from her, but since she only got to eat once or twice a week she made damned well sure to enjoy it.
6) Also has a habit of sleeping with her back to the wall and sort of curled in on herself protectively, courtesy of having to sleep under bridges and on the streets a lot.
7) Has developed a real fondness for tequila since she's been in Fandom. Thanks, Kitty.
8) Is a little bit addicted to Bejeweled now since Kenzi put it on her phone, but has a burning ambition to read more books so she can expand her vocabulary and beat people at Words With Friends.
9) Had childhood ambitions of being an artist, and would probably be a decent amateur if she got to practice at it now.
10) Still defaults to music-hall songs and ballads from her time period when she breaks into one of her frequent fits of singing to herself, but if someone at the post office has had the radio on for too long or something she's more than likely to end up earwormed with One Direction. (IDK, I just thought it was hilarious.)