meme: bland headcanons!

[notconflicted]

Mondays are stupid, I have no work, a portion of the game seems to be sick, so let's meme. Last night on Twitter there was a discussion from someone I follow that Bland Marvel Headcanons is actually not bland enough, and how it should be more about the minute details of the characters' lives, like how/whether they iron their socks, etc. Soooo...

Let's hear the minute details of your characters' lives! List 5 absolutely trivial pieces of information that you've made up about what your kids do, whether they have to shower at a certain type of day, or if they've read a certain book more than once, or what their favorite number is. And if you want to list more than 5 things, go for it!

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[notaweenie.livejournal.com]

Barry:
1. Reads the Literary Starbucks (http://literarystarbucks.tumblr.com/) tumblr first thing in the morning before he does anything else. This will go on for a month until he finds another tumblr that's more active and interesting.
2. In between experiments he writes horrible fan fic drabbles for popular shows or book series in order to start flame wars.
3. He has to eat oatmeal with lumps in it or the rest of the day is shit. It's the way his mom made it.
4. He'll say his favorite number is Pi or 69 but it's really 7.
5. In the evening before he goes to bed, Barry will send a text with some cutesy meme involving puppy dogs to Jeremy. Jeremy will send him nude pictures of girls back which Barry promptly deletes.

[brainfreediet.livejournal.com]

1) Flash still plays Tecmo Super Bowl religiously. Even though he loves to play as San Francisco for some Montana-to-Rice play, Bo Jackson is his favorite to use. As a QB, he dares not speak this shame.

2) He has "R" and "L" Sharpied onto his artificial legs.

3) He uses women's shampoo because it makes his hair smell pretty. He tries to macho it up with men's conditioner, though.

4) During Jets games, he must flip through the channels on the TV at every time out or else they'll lose. The fact that they lose a lot means that either he's missing a channel or that fans of the other team are doing the same thing in reverse and countering his karma.

5) Flash still isn't sure he's spelling "Corporal" correctly.

[wildandbrave]

Number 4 is the best thing ever and I'm not just saying that because I have indulged in similar rituals.

[brainfreediet.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that one is personal experience. I eventually stopped when I could finally admit to myself that the Cubs being the Cubs was stronger than whatever karma I could pass on through channel flipping.

I still occasionally turn my cap clockwise at opportune moments, just in case.

[notconflicted]

1. Watches the news at least once a day because it's good to be informed, but finds it really depressing and rarely sees it for longer than half an hour.
2. Does not understand Earth pop music at all, but finds Taylor Swift catchy against her will.
3. It's not so much that she skips breakfast, it's that by the time she's gotten everything in her morning routine done, it's time for lunch.
4. Has to put her own cream and sugar in her coffee because the baristas at the Perk never ever get it exactly right by her standards.
5. Spends more time than you'd expect cuddling her dog. Also spends more time than you'd expect getting dog hair off her clothes.

[dauntless-four.livejournal.com]

1. Hates running. Haaaaates it. Does it at night because if the choice is "sleep in" or "get up to go running", running is never, ever going to win.
2. His comfort food is still boiled chicken, brown rice, and steamed veggies. No, he won't explain why.
3. Thinks knife-throwing is deeply stupid, but he's good at it anyway.
4. Secretly addicted to the Weather Channel. He can't believe how big the world really is.
5. Has a mug of hot chocolate every night as a reward for the horrible running.

[throughaphase]

1. Kitty usually straightens her hair in the morning, or it goes curly. Keeping it straight is just easier to manage and frizzes less.
2. Unless she knows people are coming over, she keeps the doors in her apartment closed. Phasing through them is just cooler.
3. Actively tries to get better at cooking, even if it's just trying something she saw on a product's label, because between her and Clint one of them should be able to do it.
4. You probably have to take her by the hand and drag her away from the Apple Store or anything like it when shopping.
5. Totally watches Galaxy Quest reruns with Cyclops.
6. Her favorite day of the year is the day of the Cubs home opener, because she's an optimist at heart.
7. Has grown out of the need to dress up and experiment with clothes, but still has a few pairs of ridiculous printed socks just for personality's sake.

[giveherahand]

1. Mara is obsessed with spicy Asian food now.
2. She's trying to figure out if she can wear yoga pants as part of her assassin uniform.
3. She can't kill anyone with a pencil, but she's trying to figure out how she could.
4. She's written self insert fanfic about her and Face. She's beyond embarrassed now that she's met him, mostly because her characterization was off.
5. She prefers the in-town gym to the one the students use because she doesn't want her fellow classmates to know how competent she really is.

[fracknotfrak.livejournal.com]

1. Goes to the shooting range once a week religiously to keep practice.
2. The only time she goes shopping for food is when her fridge runs out of beer.
3. Has a vast collection of cereal which she eats for breakfast and dinner. Usually eats lunch out.
4. Is a Flyer's fanatic and will watch every hockey game in her lucky hat.
5. Has no idea how to use the defrost option on her microwave so she just leaves food to defrost in the fridge and forgets about it so she ends up throwing it away.

[not_every_mage]

1. Anders' parents own a small farm and sell beeswax, honey and candles at a market stall in a village a hundred miles from Denerim. If he wasn't a mage, he might well have spent his life making and selling candles.

2. He recently bought a packet of briefs on a whim, loved them, and may wear them forevermore. He does not know this is uncool.

3. He thinks a bag of cookies is a perfectly good dinner.

4. He can't watch fantasy shows on television because he spends too much time arguing with them. He likes space shows, though.

5. He only ever owns one hair tie at a time. When he loses it, he wears his hair down until he finds or buys another one.

[not_a_moonie]

1. Alana reads alpha/beta/omega fic on AO3. She started doing it to mock it but now she's sort of addicted.

2. She exercises first thing in the morning because otherwise she won't do it at all.

3. Her favorite Earth food is fish tacos doused in green Tabasco.

4. She owns three pairs of shoes: Sneakers, Doc Marten-style boots, and (grudgingly) basic black pumps. The sneakers are for running in, the pumps are for parties and the boots are for every other second of her life.

5. She keeps lists of potential baby names she likes. Not because she wants a kid soon or anything, just because names are neat.

[not-called-icky.livejournal.com]

1. Ichabod really likes modern hair-care products. He doesn't know how he will survive without them when he goes home.

2. His favorite website is wikipedia.

3. Has secretly bought a modern t-shirt and tried it on. It looked ridiculous.

4. He loves fountain pens. They are much more practical than quills, and the writing still look nice, unlike with ballpoint pens.

5. He keeps a diary written in ancient Greek.

[stacyexperiment]

1. Can easily spend between half an hour to an hour getting ready in the morning, with most of it spent on makeup and accessorizing.
2. She's still getting used to the fact that she has a new eye color thanks to the clone thing, but she sort of thinks she might like the blue better than before?
3. Talks to May and/or Peter every single day in some form.
4. Most of her FB status are vague "Something's wrong, don't ask me about it" statements. Or complaining about people who post those kinds of statuses.
5. Has written more than one terrible angst poem in her life, but stopped because she decided it was cliche.

[ultimatehottie.livejournal.com]

1) Johnny regularly tries to see if he can make his flame different colors, but he doesn't understand the chemistry well enough to make it happen.
2) Wants to one day have a fan convention devoted to him. Wants it to be named Torchapalooza. Has considered creating a sock puppet on Tumblr to suggest this, but has not done it. Yet.
3) Vaguely recalls having a hamper. It is buried below dirty clothes in his closet.
4) Occasionally wonders if he could pull off being just 'John Storm.'
5) One time watched gay porn to see if it did anything for him. Then switched to lesbian porn. Wondered if that made him a lesbian. Realized that was dumb. Didn't share that thought with anyone.

[stacyexperiment]

Dead of 5.

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

1) Bruce prefers punching criminals with his right fist.
2) Prefers kicking criminals with both feet, at the end of a grapple swing or long distance drop kick.
3) Wears heels in his Bat-boots to add a couple inches to his height, even though you'd think the giant ears would be enough.
4) Favorite radio station is police scanner.
5) Has never made sweet, sweet love with the mask on, no matter what Frank Miller wants you to believe.

[sith_happened]

1. Uses Rory's shampoo and lies about it.
2. And her conditioner.
3. Not the body wash, though.
4. Wishes he had more time to spend at the gym--his abs are getting middle aged and depressing.
5. He'd totally give Juliet a lightsaber right now if Rory wouldn't kill him dead for it.

[professor-lyman.livejournal.com]

1. Has set up a lobbying group to aid Undead Americans vote.
2. Thinks of vampires as Undead Americans.
3. Is addicted to House of Cards, though he wishes the House was half that competent.
4. Reads five newspapers a day and has a Twitter feed that he is NOT ALLOWED TO REPLY ON ANY MORE, JOSH. There have been flamewars.
5. Still has fansites devoted to him. They are old and out of date, and he worries that means he is too.

[pasunereveuse.livejournal.com]

1. Takes her coffee like she's five years old, with more cream/sugar than coffee. She's going to go absolutely insane for holiday coffee drinks (though she doesn't really get it up for pumpkin spice.)

2. Most perfumes make her sneeze.

3. Her secret shame food is cereal with little marshmallows straight from the box. It's best that way. Milk and bowls are for other people.

4. Any time she hears the name 'Miranda,' she makes a face. It's not even conscious, she just does it.

5. She thinks bras are pretty much obscene, but still owns one. (But only one. For emergencies.)

[craftyladyparts.livejournal.com]

... I really hope you don't know many five year olds who drink coffee.

[solo_sword]

1. Actually got really spoiled having her own two-bedroom place in Fandom. Having her own little sparse quarters at the Temple since then hasn't really felt right.
2. Has totally dyed Allana's hair while babysitting, because Han and Leia let her roots grow out too much and it makes Jaina nervous.
3. Refuses to check what people are saying about her in the media. She just figures it's never good and goes on with her life.
4. Started incorporating more color into her wardrobe after everything with Jacen, and when she got back together with Jag. It wasn't a conscious decision, just something that happened.
5. She routinely calls random numbers on Earth just to make sure she can still get through and hasn't been shut off again.

[imnotgoodatnice.livejournal.com]

1. Orders things by pointing at the menu, or ordering whatever the person in front of her in line got. She's discovered some great new things this way.
2. Devotes a good portion of every day to trying to figure out the reading things.
3. This also means she watches Smile Time daily. No shame! ...Because she doesn't know that'd be worth shame.
4. Sees the way people dress in Fandom and gets self-conscious sometimes that she looks wrong.
5. Sets off the smoke alarm trying to cook enough that it's almost a competition with herself on how fast she can turn it off.

[sharp_as_knives]

1. He doesn't have much of a sweet tooth at all; his preference is for savory things or complex flavors. But he's learned to make excellent sweets because so many people do like them.

2. The reason he sometimes wears his hair completely slicked back? Everybody has a bad hair day from time to time. When it just won't behave, he drowns it in product and slicks it all back.

3. He prefers paper for his records (more secure, these days), his tablet for newspapers (ugh, newsprint), and a really lovely hardcopy for books if he can get one; otherwise, electronic is just as good as a cheap paperback.

4. He ate the last hairdresser who tried to insist he dye his hair.

5. He does not, in fact, iron his socks. He washes them and folds them promptly so they don't get wrinkled, but honestly, there are better uses for his time than being that obsessive.

[voiceoverdue]

1. In high school (the first time), used to secretly sneak non-municipally-approved books out by the shack behind the school with his friends. It was a teenage rebellion thing.

2. Isn't a slob, but isn't exactly a neat-freak, either.

3. Has really, really horrible fashion sense. Even in Night Vale, furry pants are not normal. They're just tolerated the same way all the other weirdnesses (what weirdnesses?) in town are.

4. Loves neon and bright colours and metallics and flashy things and...well, see #3.

5. Can be a bit of a klutz sometimes, especially if he's flustered.

[kenselvren]

1. Sometimes still catches her reflection and is disoriented by the white hair.

2. Is very neat by training, but not by nature.

3. Hates modern socks. And underwear.

4. Spends her free time researching modern politics and (not modern) temporal physics.

5. Still doesn't realise that not everybody can see nearly to gamma waves.