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Meme: Headcanon!
Yes. We had a meme yesterday. (Erin beat me to the posting) And yes we did a Fandom headcanon of sorts not too long ago. But on XKCD yesterday this happened:
So therefore? Headcanon Meme!
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.
Bonus points if you go over five!
Technically this one was last done in January so we should have plenty of new characters to take part in this, right?
And yes, Barry probably does have a cannon that can fit under his hat.
So therefore? Headcanon Meme!
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.
Bonus points if you go over five!
Technically this one was last done in January so we should have plenty of new characters to take part in this, right?
And yes, Barry probably does have a cannon that can fit under his hat.
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1. Barry is totally not the a-hole he was when he was eleven. After the events in the last issue (Swipe for spoilers since I know someone has bought the compendium: As a result Barry made an effort to be better towards people.
2. Unlike canon-Barry, my version gets at least an hour of sleep of night. Otherwise he'd be awake whenever weird things happen in Fandom and I love me a good wake-up post. Or will when that happens.
3. Barry's not a total vegan/vegetarian but he eats organic foods and has a strict exercise regimen that he follows. I figure any genius who can clone people would know exactly what foods to eat to be healthy.
4. Upgraded technology. What Barry used in the comics was all desktop and laptop computers common in the early 00's. He'd totally have his own tablet and phone device that he created himself. Probably based on Android OS because he likes to tinker.
5. Barry and magic don't mix. This is mostly because I want him to have limits with what he can do on the island which is not always about the tech.
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6. He's 5'7". One because that's how tall Josh is and also because he always looked tiny in the comics than anyone else around his age.
7. He may look like Josh Hutcherson but in my head he sounds more like Seth Rogen. Especially when he says "fuck" or "Really?"
Real Canon:
1. As a ten/eleven year old Barry was not only a genius but a one man army. Able to beat hundreds of opponents single-handedly. Including aliens, savages and art thieves.
2. He really does swear that much. Actually he's cruder than the way I portray him.
3. Is extremely unscrupulous. The bulk of his initial fortune began with lots of computer fraud. He probably would have killed his BFF Jeremy a couple times over if he wasn't his only link to humanity.
4. He's built several different androids to replace him from going to elementary school. Eventually he gave up as they always had problems and he decided social interaction was the only way to keep himself from going insane.
5. His father was once sucked into a portal Barry accidentally created and was evolutionary regressed to a neanderthal like state. Barry's mother didn't notice because apparently it made Barry's father a sex god. Barry let him stay that way for a while to keep his parents off his back.
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Headcanon:
1. The first time Rapunzel saw the floating lights on her birthday, she was only four, and decided they were for her, then. Gothel immediately regretted telling Rapunzel what her real birthday was, considering it obviously really was for her. Oops. She has since ignored that particular Corona tradition in the hopes that Rapunzel would just forget about it.
2. When Rapunzel got her first pimple at twelve, Gothel told her that her face was going only go downhill from there, and that that first zit was just the beginning of a terrible pox, probably. Rapunzel went through all five stages of grief, only to discover that her face was back to normal the next morning. Gothel thought it was hilarious.
3. Rapunzel found Pascal on her windowsill one rainy day, and brought him inside to dry off. She still has no idea how he got that high up.
4. Gothel treated her to about two new books a year, so Rapunzel's read everything in her own personal library at least a dozen times. Sometimes she reads things backwards, just to make it different.
5. Sometimes Rapunzel goes to bed with paint or chalk still on her hands and doesn't realize it. She wakes up in the morning with somewhat tie-dyed hair as a result, and it always makes her think about actually dyeing it, if it wasn't such a huge process.
Real canon:
1. She can talk to animals. No, for real. She doesn't necessarily understand exactly what they're saying, but she'll hold whole conversations with your pets if you let her.
2. Tangled is actually a misnomer; the last thing Rapunzel does every morning is brush her hair, probably for quite awhile. ("And then I brush and brush and brush and brush my hair, stuck in the same place I've always been....")
3. Eventually, Rapunzel will charm an entire tavern of actual medieval thugs into doing a musical number with her, and they'll hide her from the cops as a thank you. It's pretty much the best thing ever.
4. Gothel calls her 'Flower' because that's what makes her hair magical -- Mama Rapunzel actually drank special magic flower soup or tea or something when she was pregnant with Rapunzel, and the powers transferred into the unborn baby. So it's kind of sick, because when Gothel is being affectionate with Rapunzel, she almost always addresses her hair -- calls her 'Flower,' rubs her face along Rapunzel's hair lovingly, and most fucked up of all, will say, "I love you most," while kissing the top of Rapunzel's head. GOD I CANNOT WAIT TO GO THROUGH CANON.
5. Rapunzel's weapon of choice is apparently a cast-iron frying pan. I have have have to find a reason for her to whang someone with one in Fandom.
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Oh. We can make that happen. :)
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That's why he gets to be tied up in her hair instead. :D
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I love this SO MUCH.
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Gothel: Lol it was a joke omg lighten up.
Rapunzel: *THOUGHT SHE WAS DYING*
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1. She can predict the immediate future based on the various ticks and twitches of her body.
2. She runs a fortune telling business in Ponyville, in which she DOESN'T USE the above power.
3. Her prefered driving method involves sitting in the back and letting the vehicle drive itself.
4. She grew up on a rock farm where nopony ever smiled.
5. She has a sister named Maude who is working on her rocktorate in geology.
6. She is a long-lost distant cousin of the Apple family. Maybe.
7. She once had her mouth and nose removed by an evil wizard. This made her very sad, but otherwise did not entirely ruin her day.
8. She thinks in felt.
9. She can break the fourth wall, both directly and indirectly, allowing her to "luckily guess" complex, absurd events in her friends lives.
10. She has curly hair specifically because of her cutie mark and her special talent's affect on her personality.
OKAY I LIED it's all real canon. I really seriously pretty much never have to make up anything about Pinkie. Nothing will ever top what she does on the actual show.
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Hard Canon
1. Eleanor's mother, Sofia Lamb, was sstationed as a missionary in Hiroshima, Japan when the atomic bomb was dropped in August 1945. She survived, but many of her friends did not.
She heard the Allies cite "the greater good" as their reasoning -- that the loss of life would be less than if they had staged a full-scale invasion of Japan -- and it's implied that this pushed her over the edge.
2. Sofia Lamb used a sperm bank to impregnate herself, with Eleanor, for the express purpose of raising the Messiah. You can find an audio diary that Sofia recorded, while pregnant, explaining her future daughter's role in the future of society.
3. Eleanor is very clever. Some of this can be attributed to the fact that, as a child, she was given piles of books and no other hobby than to learn, but there's a blackboard in her childhood room that has algebra problems she was solving. When she was seven.
4. Eleanor has a clipped British accent -- her VA is Sarah Bolger. She sounds more like Sarah as Princess Mary Tudor in The Tudors than she does as Princess Aurora in Once Upon a Time, but they both have Eleanor characteristics.
5. The entire cult believed Eleanor was the coming Messiah. I mean like really believed it. There is graffiti throughout Rapture with things like WE WILL BE ONE IN HER and THE PEOPLE'S CHILD IS COMING. They set up shrines outside Little Sister vents, outside her room, anywhere she had once been.
Canon That I Tweaked
Most Big Sisters are apparently 6'10". Not even joking. I have tweaked this because Eleanor does not tower over people in cutscenes in freakish I AM NEARLY 7 FEET TALL ways, so I settled on 5'10" for her since she's not quite a typical Big Sister anyway.
Headcanon
1. In canon, Sofia states explicitly that she tried to raise Eleanor in as detached a manner as possible -- the Messiah shouldn't prioritize her mother over any other human being, so Eleanor shouldn't be attached to her mother. As a result, she tried not to love her daughter.
My headcanon is that she failed. I think deep down, she does love her, and that makes her all the more determined to never show it.
2. Eleanor, on the other hand, is convinced that her mother doesn't love her. And deep down, she wishes that her mother did.
She will never admit that one out loud. Ever.
3. Sofia never explained interpersonal relationships, friendships, tact, sexuality, or any of that nonsense to Eleanor. The Messiah has no need of becoming close to anyone, ever.
I figure she knows the basic anatomy (because, see above in re: educated and clever) but nothing of the emotional / personal side of things.
4. In canon, Eleanor harvests Delta's ADAM when he dies, so that a little bit of him will "always be with her." Normal Rapture citizens get memory "bleed" from ADAM, but Little Sisters can index and catalog the memories and access them however they'd like.
My headcanon: whenever she's lonely in Fandom, she pulls out Delta's memories of their time together -- her harvesting corpses and him thundering after her -- and watches them.
5. Eleanor can't access his memories from before he was a Big Daddy. So she doesn't know his name. She wishes it didn't bother her, but it does.
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1. Once caused a theater blackout in London when she was twelve, and Hector had decided to leave her in the dressing room rather than take her out with him and Celia actually threw a fit in response. She had to spend the rest of the night repairing all the gaslamps while her father distracted the theater manager.
2. Is a very heavy sleeper -- she's had to fall asleep backstage dozens of times as a kid, not to mention Hector coming in at all hours and making tons of noise. Girl can sleep through just about anything, provided she's actually tired.
3. The fairy godmother powers are real canon -- the fact that Celia gets dressed every day using them is headcanon, though it's pretty heavily implied. Hector doesn't let her use her hands for nigh unto anything. I can only imagine that with as many laces and ribbons as Victorian clothes tend to use, she's gotten good at tying bows and arranging her hair with her mind, too.
4. Has way more knowledge about sex, opium, alcohol -- the seedier underbelly of Victorian life -- than you'd expect out of a sixteen year-old girl from her time, because of her father's general bad behavior and the fact she was brought up in theaters. It's pretty hard to actually scandalize her, because she's heard about it all...except when it comes to her own personal life. Then she can flail herself into a coma because that's different, omg.
5. Celia stopped trying to make her father love her around age fourteen. That was when he broke her wrist with the paperweight, and that was when she finally realized that no matter how many times she called him, "Papa," she'd never had a father; she just has a magical handler, who happens to be related to her.
It's easier for her to think of it that way. Otherwise, she gets angry.
Real canon:
1. Had no memory of her mother until the AU BDE last spring, and even that's kind of fuzzy. Hector taunts her about this, because Celia will insist she remembers her, but Hector actually does.
2. Hector will eventually turn himself intangible and invisible to follow Celia around when she joins the circus. Because that's not creepy or invasive at all, right?
3. Absolutely hates having wet skirts, and will use her magic to repel water off herself if it's raining. She still usually carries an umbrella just for show, though.
4. Her favorite tent, once she joins the circus, is the Ice Forest, which is exactly what it sounds like. (It's part of why she's so fascinated by Elsa's powers, honestly -- sparkly-snowy-ice-stuff appeals to her like crazy.)
5. If she wasn't in Fandom right now, Celia would be a "spiritual medium," using her powers to capitalize on the occult craze of the late 19th century. Canonically she hates it. Canonically, Hector doesn't care, and makes her do it anyway.
(Yes, I'm editing a day later because I realized I got my dates wrong, shh.)
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1. Charles semi-hypnotized his parents into thinking Raven is their actual daughter. Because he did this when he was a little idiot, it didn't stick terribly well, and thus Raven's foster parents frequently don't remember she actually exists.
2. Her powers are actually way crazier and more flexible than she's really realized, yet (especially if you throw comics canon into her mix). Right now she's stuck primarily on the "I can look like any other person or animal" part, and has only just begun experimenting in the "I can turn my hands into cutting and stabbing tools" bit, thanks to the AU plot.
3. She's had at least one semester of charm school, because when her foster mom remembers she exists, she wants her to be a proper society lady.
4. She secretly loves that she spends at least 99% of her time completely naked and nobody knows.
5. When she was tiny, she wanted to grow up to be a great Hollywood actress, and thus would spend time playing as Rita Hayworth -- by looking exactly like Rita Hayworth. There is a whole town full of people in suburban New York who have Rita Hayworth autographs that look like they were scrawled out by a twelve year old girl.
Actual canon
1. She's been able to change her shape since she was very, very small, possibly since birth -- this is unusual for mutants.
2. Once she's full grown, she'll age incredibly slowly. By retirement age, she'll still look like she's around 30, even in her natural shape.
3. She's ridiculously flexible. It's been stated in behind the scenes interviews that one theory for this is that she can actually shift her internal organs out of the way in order to bend in places a regular human wouldn't be able to.
4. She does regular weight training, though she hasn't yet had it pointed out to her that she could actually get more value out of it if she did it in her natural form, instead of her "normal human" disguise.
5. She kills for the first time in her twenties, when she goes after Trask and his sentinel program. And then, depending on the timeline, she gets stopped before she actually gets to the point of killing him, thanks to her foster brother and his megalomaniacal boyfriend who happens to be her ex. In Fandom she'll probably get there a bit faster, though. There's just more things that need killing, around here.
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1. Most of his feminism. In canon he has his more progressive moments (and I still love his whole "You don't want him to judge you, but you're totally down with judging him" speech), but he also engages in some pretty gross homophobic attacks that he totally didn't go for when I ran him through it a few years ago.
2. He used to be a football player jock type in his middle school and early high school days, but got sick of the elitism and bullying that were part of that culture and decided to transform himself into a crazy hippie-punk guy instead. He still thinks about who he might have ended up being if he hadn't had that epiphany. He's pretty sure he'd be an asshole, and has spent a fair amount of time trying to karmically make up for that potentiality.
3. Of course, now he also knows that he could have been a pyromaniac thug with sociopathic tendencies if he and Dinah had gone down the wrong road. So he'll be karmically making up for that, too.
4. His interest in cooking and nutrition. In canon, he's the short order sandwich cook. In Fandom, he's on track to becoming a registered dietician.
5. He got sent to boarding school because he decided to set fire to his khaki pants in protest. He's not actually sure what, precisely, he was protesting. If you'd asked him at the time, he would have told you "the establishment", but not have entirely understood what that meant.
Actual canon
1. He's crazy into conspiracy theories. Half of his dialog that doesn't involve hitting on Tish involves some theory or other. I've had him grow out of that, here.
2. His friends refer to having to "babysit" him when they're hanging out together.
3. He has good instincts about people. He can spot a douchebag when they walk in the door, and while he's willing to let his friends make their own mistakes, he's also there to defend and help them out when they need it, too.
4. "There's too many enemy tampons. I'm bailing."
5. He drives a boxy old jeep, usually with the music turned up way too loud.
Honestly, Priestly's canon doesn't give him that much. I have had to extrapolate a lot with him.
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1. He's constantly thinking about Evan (the Light Adept) and Rebecca (the mentally disabled woman who showed him that fairies and magic exist, who represents the Mother aspect of the Triple Goddess), and measuring his actions and making his choices based on the idea that they could be checking in on him at pretty much any time, and he doesn't want to look like too much of an asshole in front of them.
2. He still keeps in touch with Daru, Rebecca's social worker. They spend a lot of their time despairing at the state of the balance between Light and Dark in the world, today. He's not sure how to tell her that she's the embodiment of the Maiden aspect of the Triple Goddess but just doesn't remember. Mrs. Ruth, the Crone, appears to have dropped off the face of the earth entirely, and he's not sure how to feel about the fact that that's a relief.
3. He was kind of thinking when he left Toronto that he'd eventually hook up with his friend who travels the Renaissance Faire circuit, and though it was more his magical harp's idea that he stop in Fandom than his own, he still feels guilty that he hasn't tracked her down, yet.
4. He still has no idea what he's supposed to do with the whole "bard powers" thing. Saving the world was really great and all, but he kind of feels like all he did was happen to sing the right song, and the only thing he knows for sure how to do with his abilities right now is project pretty pictures into the air.
5. He refuses to go into Caritas because he knows there are zombies there. He's had enough of dead people talking to him to last the rest of his life, thank you very much.
6. Much like his aversion to actual regular employment, he doesn't do well with the concept of living on his own in a place that he is ultimately responsible for. He'd much rather rent from family members or crash with friends, thanks. Responsibility is terrifying. And he's faced down giants, dragons, vampire elf people, and bears. (They were also terrifying. Oh god, why is everything scary?)
Actual canon
1. His guitar's name is Patience (I'm always halfway to calling it that instead of "his guitar", but I don't want to confuse the people I'm pinging with). She was the very best he could afford at the time, but she's not actually very high quality. He refuses to give her up, though.
2. He cannot hold down a job. He's tried more than a few times, mostly at the urging of his uncle Tony, but he starts to go a little bonkers when he has to do the same thing over and over and listen to other people telling him what to do or what to play.
3. He hates cats. Which makes it extra irritating that he owes his life to one.
4. He's at least slightly bisexual. Though he's really only into sort of twinkie punk guys who are the physical manifestation of the dimension of Light.
5. He loves baseball. This is something I pretty much never do anything with because baseball bores me to tears.
6. He is terrified of cops. This stems from trauma from his teenage years, when he was beaten for "resisting arrest" and ended up spending a night in jail with multiple broken ribs -- because his jacket got caught on something while they tried to put him into the patrol car.
So it turns out that Roland is the character of mine I could go on about for days. This is probably because, though he doesn't get out as much as he should, his is the canon I've known the longest, and gone back to repeatedly over the past (oh god) 20 years.
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1. He loves Fandom's stairs. In his grumpy, Eliot way.
2. He's secretly thrilled that he might get the chance to learn the proper way to fight off a vampire or a werewolf or a pink pony.
3. He's actually pretty torn on whether or not to show Fandom to Parker and Hardison. On the one hand, he'd love to see their reactions -- Hardison's head would explode in that non-literally, entertaining way -- on the other, he's pretty sure they would both get their asses killed, and it's pretty nice to have a space away from the team when he needs to go to ground to protect his big bad killer image.
4. Every morning when he gets up, he has an argument with himself as to whether or not he should get in touch with one of his contacts and have Damien Moreau killed in his San Lorenzo prison.
5. He's trying to keep the fact that he's on the East Coast a secret from his buddy Vance, because otherwise he'll get constant calls to join the secret operations Vance runs in the name of national security.
Actual canon
1. He trained as a chef in order to learn how to deal with the PTSD and identity crisis issues he got from doing wetwork and black ops for the US government and -- others.
2. He's not out for redemption. He knows it's too late for that, for him. He does what he does not to try to make up for the terrible things he's done, but just to make sure that other people don't have to do terrible things, or have them done to them. (This is alluded to in canon, and stated in commentary on the DVDs.)
3. He's a good listener, and picks up on lots of random facts about various careers just by dating someone who works in them. It's possible this is because you never know when you're going to need to fight a flight attendant or a nurse, but it's probably just because he likes knowing things.
4. He's much, much smarter than most people give him credit for. This is because he's carefully crafted the persona of just being a hired thug.
5. He once responded to a break up by liberating Croatia.
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1. She started testing her boundaries the second she got to Xavier's, but since no one ever called her on it she burned out on acting up before she got to college.
2. Is sort of surprised she managed to get through that "wearing not a lot of clothes and getting piercings" phase without a tattoo. She just doesn't know what she'd get that she'd want forever.
3. Kind of wants to have a conversation with her Clint to see how he reacts to her, but purposely keeps away from finding out what's going on with him because she thinks it'd be weird.
4. Doesn't really drink because she's worried she'll phase through the bed while she sleeps.
5. Is in contact with someone back home almost every day. She has no idea how she managed cutting everyone out of her life for so long.
Real canon
1. Started taking college classes at age 13 and when she started going as an adult, studied astrophysics and engineering.
2. Speaks Russian and Japanese fluently, and knows enough Latin, Hebrew, Shi'ar and Skrullos to get by.
3. Total geek. Reads comics, plays video games, used to make Star Wars references on the regular.
4. Has met several AU's of herself. After seeing herself as a Nazi, there is no AU Fandom can throw at her that will weird her out more than that.
5. The first baby she ever babysat was Cable, who was also her best friend's alternate universe half-brother born to a clone of her mother, so yeah Fandom is not the weirdest place Kitty has ever been.
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1. Irene slept with Sherlock, after he ~rescued her~ in Karachi. This is less headcanon and more my adopting a fic (http://archiveofourown.org/works/338793/chapters/548891) I read as canon because it was really well-written and hot. (Hat-tip to
2. Sherlock is the only man she's slept with, actually, and the only one she has a real interest in. She tells Watson she's gay, and it doesn't seem like she's joking about it, but she's obviously attracted to Sherlock, so. (She's had plenty of male clients, too, but that's not actual sexual intercourse in the strictest sense.)
3. She had a fairly nice upbringing, I think, and mostly got into her line of work because she realized she's good at (a) manipulating people using her looks and sexuality, and (b) loves bossing people around. But I think she had a fairly normal, upper-middle-class London upbringing, went to private school, went to college, and probably started working in the sex industry there, once she realized she had a knack for it and could make heaps of money with it.
4. Has a wee little handgun strapped to her upper thigh at all times, if she's wearing enough clothes to cover it. It's sexy and smart and a good precaution, all at once!
5. Sometimes she does like to watch trashy, stupid crime movies or TV, and read mysteries, because she tries to solve it quickly and then see how wrong she was.
She's usually close, if not entirely correct on the details.
Real canon:
1. She slept with Kate Middleton. I mean, OKAY, IT'S VAGUE IN CANON, but it's totally Kate Middleton.
2. She's faked her death twice. Or at least, Sherlock faked it for her the second time.
3. She has absolutely no problem being naked. If anyone ever wants to drop by Irene's apartment to visit, there is a really good chance she might answer the door naked, particularly if she wants something out of you and is trying to shock you into giving it to her.
4. She sent Sherlock fifty-seven texts over the course of knowing him, and only ever received one back.
5. She's a big advocate of deerstalker caps.
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Headcanon:
1. Philadelphia born and raised. Loves that city with a passion and so did not want to leave it.
2. Youngest of the family which includes four brothers which is why she's really a tomboy at heart.
3. Pretty sure she became a cop because her father was one and wanted to follow in his footsteps. Her brothers never did.
4. Was a bit of a party girl and loved to hang with the guys and go out drinking after the football games in high school. She constantly got into trouble and had to have her dad bail her out on more than one occasion.
5. Her party attitude didn't change when she became a cop and had to work hard to overcome her initial impression to others.
6. She got to be a homicide detective on her own ability and skills. But deep down she wonders if the only reason she got the position is because she had an affair with her senior officer.
7. She says she takes off her wedding ring so as not to hurt others if she has to punch someone but... deep down she doesn't want to wear it and enjoys the attention when someone hits on her. Unless that guys is a complete creep.
8. Does not have a crush or burning forbidden love for Walt Longmire. Judging by the way the show is going this may blow up in my face. Need to get caught up on the last two shows.
1. Is actually brunette and dyes her hair.
2. Married her husband Shaun/Sean (Depending on where you see his name spelled) as a direct result of her bad affair with Ed Gorski. He seemed safe and non-threatnening only to realize later it was a mistake. She's committed to the relationship though and keeps trying despite all their arguments.
3. Is a Philadelphia Flyers fan. She has flyer hats, mugs, t-shirts and keychains. I am not a hockey fan so this goes largely ignored unless she is dealing with someone screwing around with her favorite mug. (ie Ralph)
4. Had an affair with her senior officer Ed Gorski when she was still in uniform. It got scary and when she broke it off it turned into a stalker thing.
5. Was once sent out by Walt to arrest a bear named Waffles.
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1) Cosette is an absolute and total nerd; it's canon that she was raised largely in isolated circumstances but with a lot of books, so I take that as her being socially awkward but well read. It's also canon that she will go out and learn absolutely everything she can get her hands on about a subject and make herself an expert on it if she damn well pleases, which if you ask me is an awesome, total nerd thing to do. (There's a production of the musical running in Dallas right now that's a modern-day adaptation where she is an actual glasses-wearing, pigtailed, awkward nerd and I love it.)
In Fandom this has parlayed itself into her addiction to surfing the internet on her phone. Which she has taught herself to be proficient in using, of course.
2) While it's canon that her childhood before Valjean rescued her from the Thénardiers is pretty much a blur to her, the AU BDE -- where he never found her and she grew up alongside Éponine and Azelma -- has jogged a few memories.
She tries to repress them, though, because they are pretty traumatic.
3) This is directly related to why she so aggressively
or would if I had more timetries so hard to do nice things for people.4) It's also part of why she avoids Éponine in Fandom. (Or it's a convenient IC excuse.) She's not sure if the Thénardiers in the actual timeline ended up as badly off as they did in her timeline from the AU BDE, and she doesn't want to ask. The truth is that if she thinks about that part of her life she resents it, and she's uncomfortable with that but hasn't quite worked out how to bring herself to forgive any of it. She's trying, but it's hard.
5) Related to that nerd thing, she's starting to discover that she really likes science. It's canon that Valjean gives her ALL THE BOOKS EVER but it's never specified what they are; there was some discussion going around the fandom about it a while back that brought up the possibility of them being books about the sciences because it's not like Hugo ever said otherwise. That was too appealing for me not to adopt it.
Actual Canon:
1) She occasionally chopped the heads off flies to amuse herself when she was very young and still living with the Thénardiers, because the only toy she had was a little tiny knife.
BECAUSE THIS IS TOTALLY AN ACCEPTABLE CHILD'S TOY AND A HEALTHY PLAYTIME ACTIVITY. The Thénardiers are the worst guardians ("parental figures" is way too generous) ever.
2) She has no concrete memories of her mother at all, and has this half-formed belief that her mother's soul passed into Valjean, so she really does think of him as both her father and her mother.
3) Learned to play the piano and sing while she was in the convent school and is actually quite good at both.
Apparently so good that she can sing an ensemble number from Euryanthe all by herself; WTF Hugo did you just pick a song title at random? (His chronological inconsistencies and weird detail errors achieve Xena-esque levels sometimes.)
4) When Valjean first brought her to the Petit-Picpus convent and asked the sisters to take her on as a student, they weren't entirely sold on the idea until one of the nuns said she'd probably grow up to not be very pretty and therefore be a likely candidate for a novice.
5) They were wrong, because she did grow up to be ridiculously pretty. As we know because Victor Hugo (as with many topics) will not shut up about it ever so, sigh, it's actual canon. Like the only character whose prettiness he feels the need to talk about even more exhaustively is Enjolras.
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1. Totally watches Smile Time and Sesame Street because it's helping her learn the language better.
2. Is so happy whenever she recognizes one of Crichton's pop culture references in real life. Doesn't show it.
3. Toooootally had a thing with her friend Henta back in the PK days. Seriously, they couldn't have played that slashier if they made out.
4. She's going to be hung up on John for a whiiiiiiile. She'd have to give up hope on getting home before anyone else would even ping on her radar. (Until sex pollen happens again, anyway, but that doesn't count.)
5. Misses Moya more than she misses the Peacekeepers, and isn't sure what to feel about that.
6. Once got injected with Pilot DNA that's stayed with her ever since. In her more repressive moments she blames that for #5.
Real canon:
1. Has only ever met her mother once. All she knows about her father is his name.
2. Kind of a natural when it comes to kids.
3. Has actually learned how to cook (though she probably doesn't understand Earth ingredients too well yet).
4. Carries an insane amount of weapons on her. Everywhere.
5. Is fully aware that she was not a good person as a Peacekeeper, and feels bad about it now when she thinks about it.
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1) Politically, she's nominally a Bonapartist, or at least that's what she claims to be because her father claimed to have fought in Napoleon's army. This is a very generous, shall we say, interpretation of robbing the bodies of dead soldiers at Waterloo. (And accidentally saving the life of Colonel Georges Pontmercy in the process. This led to Georges leaving a request in his will for his son Marius to repay his life debt to Thénardier . . . and to Thénardier bragging for years afterward that he saved the life of a general. This is a tangent but it amuses me too much to leave out.)
2) To prove to Marius that she'd had some education and wasn't completely ignorant, she wrote "The cops are here" on a piece of paper on his desk. This inadvertently saved Valjean's life later on when Marius was spying through a crack in the wall
because he is a creeping creeper who creepsat Thénardier threatening and trying to extort money from a tied-up Valjean. He panicked and took the paper and threw it through the crack in the wall, where Thénardier read it, recognized Éponine's handwriting, and assumed it was a warning.. . . and then while they were arguing over who got to escape through the window first, Javert busted in and arrested them all. It actually is a pretty funny moment.
Éponine was, uh, busy with Montparnasse at the time, but he arrested her afterward. But Montparnasse managed to avoid arrest, how fair is that even?
3) She does tend to wander off at night and avoid going home because would you want to go home to that family, either?
4) Yes, Marius did ask her to find Cosette's address for him (not creepy at all, really, well done there, Pontmercy). Coincidentally, Patron-Minette asked her to do a little recon on a house that might be a good target for a robbery. That house being Valjean's, it was very two birds with one stone.
Since the key members of Patron-Minette were in prison at the time, she sent back a biscuit (code for "nothing useful here," basically) to try and deter them from robbing the house. It's all very muddled-motivations.
5) While she was dying at the barricade, she heard her brother Gavroche singing, and her reaction was "He mustn't see me. He'd scold me."
Headcanon:
1) Canonically, she's super imaginative. I like to take this to mean she has an inclination towards storytelling and might have been a writer under different circumstances.
2) Eats really quickly, sometimes to the point of rudeness. It's just habit, because whenever she did manage to get food she had to eat it fast before someone else tried to take it.
3) Those muddled motivations from #5 in actual canon? She's always had a little bit of a thing for Cosette. It's just complicated, okay.
4) That's why she's always kept the five franc coin she got from the Cosette in her timeline for delivering a letter to Marius (which she meant to intercept, but had a change of heart at the end). She always keeps it in her pocket, and frequently fiddles with it.
5) After she gets out of prison, Hugo says you can see a "mixture of fear and sorrow that a prison experience adds to misery" in her face. In my headcanon, while she was in prison at Les Madelonettes following the attempted kidnapping/exortion of Valjean, the wardens took her habit of singing and frequently talking to herself as a sign of insanity, and it got her a few beatings and a couple of stints in solitary confinement.