Character Meme, from everyone

[selenak]

Am a) travelling again, b) trying to make a theatrical_muse decision and still deeply torn, so, clearly, it's time to give in to the power of the meme.

Name a character from one of my fandoms, and I'll give you either (a) three facts about them from my personal canon/fanon, (b) a reason he/she sucks, (c) a reason he/she is awesomecakes, (d) five things that never happened to that character or (e) five people that character never fell in love with and why. You pick the character. I pick the letter.

Fandoms available are the Jossverse ones, new Battlestar Galactica, Dr. Who (Old and New, but don't ask me about Two, Five and Six stuff if you can avoid it, because those are the Doctors I've seen the fewest adventures of), Heroes, Dexter, Alias, Babylon 5 and Star Trek (every incarnation except Enterprise).

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[eye-of-a-cat.livejournal.com]

Simon Tam.

[selenak.livejournal.com]

c) Simon is awesome because he meant every word of what he said to Jayne re: Jayne selling them out on Ariel (you know, the "you're my patient" speech), and he knew this would be far more scary to Jayne than if Simon had threatened to kill, harm or hurt him.

[astrogirl2.livejournal.com]

Hmm, OK... Matt Parkman.

[selenak.livejournal.com]

e)

1) Audrey. He thought about it, he liked her, and he was attracted to her, but it all was mixed up in his anger about Janice's affair, and he would have never known whether he'd have fallen in love with Audrey because of Audrey or because of Janice. Better to stay partners and friends.

2) Jessica. He had some guilty fantasies about Jessica after she threw him out of the window that one time. But he never made the mistake of confusing lust with love.

3) Mohinder. It's not that Matt is completely straight, though he always assumed he was simply by default and because the people he did fall in love with - the obligatory high school crush and Janice - were female, until he was assigned to a stakeout with someone who made him realize he could be attracted to a man. And of course their decision to raise Molly together and living in the same apartment means a non-ending streak of jokes at Matt's expense in the NYPD. He's not blind, either. But being a telepath, he knows Mohinder has a type, and Matt is not it. That, and he really doesn't want to put Molly through the inevitable breakup experience if he did fall in love with Mohinder.

4) 5YGverse: Candice. Bennet handed her over to him, Matt who already was in a very dark state of mind had a very messed up affair with her, and there was one point when she showed him her true shape as part of a mindgame, and they ended up having sex after without Candice going for illusions. He could have fallen in love with her then. But he found out she was stealing from him on the side, and the pettiness of it made him sign her over to internment after all, which in restrospect sealed her death-by-Sylar.

5) Nathan. No, nothing to do with the flying thing (they'll never talk about that again!), but he found it easier to talk to Nathan than with anyone since Audrey, including Mohinder, and after going through nightmare hell together, he considered Nathan like a fellow soldier in the war. It also helped that as opposed to Bennet or his superiors at the NYPD, Nathan didn't rub his superior intellect in every other minute. And there was a moment on the way back from Philadelphia where Matt looked at him and wondered, but then he made the mistake of asking "so, what do you think is worse, leaving someone or cheating on them?" and the thoughts that came with Nathan's non-reply to that one really were the end of any idle wonderings.

[elyssadc.livejournal.com]

The Ninth Doctor.

[selenak.livejournal.com]

One reason why Nine sucks (though he's awesome in other ways): because leaving Adam with that device in his head was both irresponsible and petty to a spectacular degree. Granted, so had Adam's actions been, but he wasn't the centuries old Timelord, was he?

[yahtzee63.livejournal.com]

Marcus Dixon, please!

[selenak.livejournal.com]

Among the many, many reasons why Dixon is awesome beyond belief: when he told Sloane in Hourglass that he prayed for him, he meant it, and not in a "pray for Sloane to burn in hell for ever and ever way". When he told Sloane in s4 that Sloane had no better angels in his nature, he also meant it. He was sincere both times.

[kernezelda]

Angel Batista, Dexter

[weirdofromafar.livejournal.com]

I hope you don't mind if I make a request? G'kar from Babylon 5.

[lovestories.livejournal.com]

Peter Petrelli. Heroes

[selenak.livejournal.com]

Okay, three facts from my Peter fanon, two of which have found their way into my stories:

1) While other families are dysfunctional in that parents compete over a child, the Petrellis have managed to come up with their own variation, in that Angela and Nathan compete over Peter, and Peter and Arthur competed about Nathan. Peter was afraid he had lost that competition after Dad's death (for the six months until the jump from the roof, but not after), and feels guilty about the fact this is the main reason he wishes their father was still alive, but there it is.

2) Peter's favourite movie as a child was E.T.; he still knows most of the dialogue by heart.

3) He's the only one of the Petrellis who actually saw a shrink, but not because he was more honest than the others about needing one; it was a gesture of rebellion at the time, and he didn't miss therapy once he dropped it.

[rivrea.livejournal.com]

Connor, please.

[selenak.livejournal.com]

Five things which never happened to Connor:

1) Angel, Cordy, Fred, Wesley and Gunn never made it out of the temporal loop backstage in Waiting in the Wings. This meant Connor got raised by Lorne and the Groosalug. It resulted in a mostly happy boy, still fond of fighting, and with more songs at his disposal than anyone without a good singing voice should know.

2) Connor made it back to Holtz in time to stop him from being killed by Justine and was about to kill Justine when it registered with him his father hadn't fought back and that the instrument she held left a very specific mark. Then he figured out what was happening. It shook his world, but it also made him determined not to leave Holtz, no matter what the man said.

3) Possessed!Cordelia waited a bit too long to reveal her pregnancy and renew her sexual relationship with Connor. This meant that when Faith, on an impulse and because she figured giving Angel's kid another chance elsewhere could be good for Angel, too, asked Connor whether he wanted to come along to Sunnydale to fight the First Evil, Connor said yes and left Los Angeles with her.

4) Connor didn't drag the girl to her sacrifice. This meant that by the time Angel had tracked him and Cordelia down, Cordelia wasn't ready yet to give birth. But Connor still couldn't let Angel kill Cordelia. The end result was that Jasmine never got born, but that both Connor and Cordelia died at Angel's hands.

5) Cyvus Vail's boys went a bit too far and Angel wasn't there in time, so they killed the Rileys, Connor's mindwiped "parents". This resulted in Angel taking Connor in but still not telling him the truth. Unfortunately, Wesley made his discovery of the W&H contract anyway, the orb was broken, the memories came back, and Connor, while still understanding what Angel had done and why, still couldn't bear staying around and went on a trek around the world, thus never knowing about the NFA-events...

[geekturnedvamp.livejournal.com]

Alfred Bester.

[selenak.livejournal.com]

Okay, using book canon (the Psi Corps trilogy) in addition to show canon here:

d)

1) He never became Alfred Bester. Instead, he was raised as Stephen Dexter and like his parents became a resistance fighter. This did not make him a less ruthless person, on the contrary. The "terrorist or hero" debates are still ongoing in the B5verse.

2) Clark found out about Bester's deal with Sheridan and made an example out of him, intending to hand him over to the Shadows as an operating system after a very public trial, but one of Bester's loyal sidekicks smuggled poison into his cell before that could happen.

3) Carolyn reported him so he'd be forced to leave the Corps and be on the run with her. Being a strong telepath, she was able to keep this from him for the first stage of the flight, but not after. By the time their child was born, they were barely speaking. What she didn't understand was that she had taken his family from him: not his wife and daughter - that had been a genetic pairing, and he hardly ever saw them - , the Corps who was the only family and lifestyle he had ever known.

4) Lyta Alexander killed him after Byron & Co. committed suicide.

5) When he offered her the return-to-the-Corps deal in s4, Lyta offered him another deal: she'd use her powers to wake up and stabilize Carolyn if he gave her the clearance to work as a telepath. Bester accepted. Lyta kept her word. He and Carolyn were happy together for another two or three years until the telepath war broke out, and they found each other on opposite sides.

[thesecondevil]

Ace

[selenak.livejournal.com]

Three fanon facts about Ace:

1) She never saw the 8th Doctor, mostly because of the Time War and because she was off on her own quest by then. She never met Nine, either, because Nine couldn't face ANY of his past Companions.

But after Ten destroyed the Raccnoss, he visited that Ice Planet/astroid/ship (can't remember right now, it's a while since I've watched Dragonfire) to the time shortly before Seven and Mel arrive, sat in the café and watched Ace chew out Fitz and be a grumbly waitress. He never said anything to her, and she never noticed him, either.

2) Ace ended up working for UNIT, and the only reason why she didn't succeed Cranberra as the Brigadier is that she just doesn't have the patience with people necessary to lead a group, as Alastair tells her when she visits him and Doris now and then.

3) In the Year That Wasn't, Ace nearly succeeded in blowing the Valiant up, AND managed not to get caught.

[aycheb.livejournal.com]

Audrey from Heroes (because I forgot to squee about her being back in Lansslide).

[selenak.livejournal.com]

Audrey is awesome for many reasons, not least because she both thinks that Matt is cute AND has the good sense not to get romantically involved with a married man. And for her dry snark. And for her determination to catch Sylar. Wait, I was supposed to just name one reason....

[wee-warrior.livejournal.com]

Debra Morgan from Dexter!

[selenak.livejournal.com]

Okay, three fanon facts about Deb:

1) Talking with Rudy about her father and mother on their first date made her realise that her resentment of Harry preferring Dexter goes hand in hand with the fact she never missed her mother, who didn't prefer Dexter and gave Deb all the attention of the world, as fiercely as she does Harry. She's not sure whom to blame for this, but it makes her feel guilty.

2) She has no idea that Rudy was Dexter's brother, but she is aware that Dexter didn't just arrive on the scene to save her from him, that Dexter and Rudy talked before she managed to open her eyes, though she didn't understand the words. Plus Rudy's interest in Dexter was kind of hard to miss. All of which made her conclude Rudy had a crush on Dexter, but missing your boyfriend is gay is rather minor when compared to missing he's a serial killer when you're a cop.

3) Deb is still short sighted, but she wears contact lenses these days.

[sizequeen.livejournal.com]

Lee Adama

[selenak.livejournal.com]

Ahhh, a challenge. Okay, lemme see, three Lee canon/fanon facts:

1) His mid season 2 and onwards depression was triggered by Roslin and his father ordering Kara to assassinate Cain. Yes, the order was ultimately revoked, but it made him face some things about both of them, especially Roslin, that he hadn't wanted to know, and the worst thing was that he could see the reasoning, because Cain as leader of the fleet really would have meant doom to them all. That was when Lee decided that, as he puts it in Crossroads, they were all a bunch of gangsters.

2) He really loved that book by Tom Zarek as a student. Somewhere on Caprica, in the apartment where he used to live, is a well-worn copy. If the nukes or the Cylons didn't get it.

He did not love Baltar's writings, and wouldn't have even in his young naive stage, but he did read them, every single line.

3) He's aware the fleet needs pilots more than it needs lawyers, but standing in court had a feeling of rightness to it, aside from everything else, that he never felt in a cockpit, not even that day he pulled off the one in a million shot from "Hands of the Gods".

[mymatedave.livejournal.com]

Londo, or if you've done him before, Lennier.

[selenak.livejournal.com]

Five things which didn't happen to Londo:

1) Morden picks G'Kar instead of Londo in s1. This means that when the Narn/Centauri war happens, the Centauri get basically wiped out, save for those who weren't on the planet at that time. Londo isn't the type to get an epiphany or become a religious icon because of this, but he does make a bargain with Sheridan that allows the remaining Centauri to stay on Babylon 5. He also celebrates when the Vorlons destroy Narn later, and then he invites G'Kar to a drink which is poisoned, from which he drinks as well. Which is how Vir finds them both dead a few years ahead of schedule.

2) Londo doesn't divorce his first wife, the dancer. The marriage doesn't remain happy, because he's always plagued by the big "what if?", and of course his political career never happens, either, but after a few years, he discovers a new calling as the author of immensely entertaining travel guide books throughout the galaxy.

3) Cartagia finds out about Londo's plans and finds new and spectalarly gory ways of torturing him to death. But not before torturing Vir to death in front of him.

4) Sheridan warns Londo about the Keeper in gratitude for Londo's help with the Alliance at the end of s4. This means Londo unearths the Drakh at home before they can frame the Centauri, and Centauri Prime never gets bombed. However, then the universe explodes, because Sheridan has created a time paradox. (If Londo and the Centauri are saved, then Sheridan never could have seen him with the Keeper in "War without End", and thus would not have warned him; if he had not warned him, it would have happened; if it had happened, etc, etc.)

5) After G'Kar invited him to a drink in "The Coming of Shadows", Londo tries to find Morden again to stop the attack on the Narn, but of course it's too late and Morden refuses at any rate. So does Refa when Londo contacts him. The Narn-Centauri war more or less happens the way it did on the show, but Londo never gets called to Cartagia's court; in fact, he gets disgraced and framed the way his friend Urza did, and at the same time.

Centauri Prime burns when the Vorlons arrive.

[deborah-judge.livejournal.com]

Alright, tell me about Rose. I'm having a tough time warming to her and would benefit from your take. Spoilers are fine, I already know she leaves at the end of season 2 (and I'm nearly there anyway).

[selenak.livejournal.com]

Honestly, I'm not a Rose fan, either. I mean, I like her, but there were Companions before I liked better, and I liked both Companions after better than her, too. I'm pretty much neutral with some mild fondness on Rose. But okay, three Rose fanon facts:

1) One of the things she did in the AU!universe was to look up Sarah Jane, despite the fact that AU!Sarah Jane obviously wouldn't know either her or the Doctor. But she wanted to, and they hit it off.

2) She meant it when she told Micky he was the bravest (human) man she'd ever known (in the s2 finale). (This includes Jack; sorry, Jack fans.) Incidentally, this doesn't mean she's sorry her romance with Micky ended, but sometimes, she thinks she loves him more now as her best friend than she did when they were a couple.

3) Rose really likes EastEnders. She made Jackie tape the episodes for her and takes the tapes with her on the TARDIS when she leaves again.

[silverblade219.livejournal.com]

Sharon from Battlestar or Elle Bishop from Heroes

[selenak.livejournal.com]

As you didn't specify Boomer or Athena, I'm going with Elle.

Three fanon facts about Elle:

1) She was the first of the previous generation's children to manifest. Before that, the Founders had agreed on bringing their offspring in for testing if this happened, but as it turned out, Bob was the only one who did, not because the others were better parents but because Maury had hit the road long before Matt manifested and Angela had a Petrelli as the ruler of the country in mind, which couldn't be accomplished if said ruler should turn too unstable to live unsupervised as the result of hearly manifestation and testing.

2) The reason why Bob assigned her to Adam and then Peter was because she couldn't kill them if she lost control. (The drugs dampened Peter's powers, but they didn't take them away completely.)

3) Elle knows that she could walk out and go anywhere she wants. She never got tagged, and she doubts Molly Walker would agree to find her in the theoretical case of Elle leaving the Company. But she won't. Especially if everything Bennet has said is true. Because as long as she's around, her father does not have a life outside of Hartsdale, either.

[watervole.livejournal.com]

Vic Fontaine

[selenak.livejournal.com]

Vic is awesome because of the grace and love he showed when letting Nog go in It's only a papermoon. *draws hearts around the episode*

[neuralclone.livejournal.com]

Vir.

[selenak.livejournal.com]

One of many, many reasons why Vir is awesome: he manages to pull of the really tricky feat of loving someone without doing so blindly or giving up his conscience. Now other people would have and did quit on Londo, full stop, because of what Londo did, OR they might have affection mean that they had to share his views and/or ignore what he did wrong, but Vir never gave up on Londo, nor did he ever stop trying to rectify the wrongs while the second Narn-Centauri war plus occupation lasted.

[wondygal.livejournal.com]

Niki Sanders, Heroes, please!

[selenak.livejournal.com]

Five things that never happened to Niki:

1) Someone reported Hal Sanders to the police in time to save Jessica's life. As a consequence, both Jessica and Niki ended up in foster care for about two years. Then someone noticed certain unusual things, and they ended up in the Company instead.

2) During her summer in Los Angeles as Gina as a teenager, she got work as a stuntwoman and ended up making a good life for herself in the City of.

3) Bennet and the Haitian did the kidnapping attempt with her instead of Nathan. This ultimately resulted in her being offered psychiatric treatment and a job within the Company a year earlier; she accepted.

4) She killed the guy who shot D.L. on the spot and went to prison for it, this time without anyone helping with her sentence, and because of the earlier business and the way she was cleared looking dodgy, she got life.

5) She managed to break off Maury's hold without injecting herself (or anyone else); that night, Nathan invited her for dinner before he caught a plane to Ireland in the next morning. They didn't have sex, but she kissed him again, and for the first time allowed herself to access Jessica's memories of that night without guilt.

[nevacaruso.livejournal.com]

Noah Bennet?

[selenak.livejournal.com]

Three fanon/canon facts about Noah B.:

1) He loves Sandra, but his idea of marriage and women is really straight from the 50s. When he told her in "Parasite" "I had no idea I could talk to you like that", he meant just that: he never, ever, not during the Claire-plus-mindwipe years and not in the years before, thought of her as an equal or a partner. He thought of her as someone to cherish and protect and keep as as far away from what he thinks of "the ugliness of reality" as possible.

2) If you asked him what Claire's favourite teddy bear was called, or her favourite movie or book as a child, he could tell you without hesitation. If you asked him the same thing about Lyle, he couldn't. This does not mean he would not die for Lyle as well as for Claire, but he really hardly knows him, and beyond gratitude that Lyle is a normal boy, it hasn't occured to hiim that there is something wrong about that.

3) He's really terrible at the civilian only life. Truly, deeply terrible. But he's good enough at compartmentalizing and repressing not to wonder whether this in addition to "keeping my family safe" is one reason why he started his "bring the Company down" mission.

[kate-swynford.livejournal.com]

Sorry to barge in: Nathan Petrelli?

[selenak.livejournal.com]

Three personal fanon facts about Nathan:

1) Niki in Vegas wasn't the first time he cheated on Heidi, but it was the first time since the accident.

2) By the time he was five, he knew that he both loved and hated his mother and suspected she didn't return either feeling in equal measure, but by the time he was 11, it didn't matter that much anymore, because from then on, he had Peter.

3) He really likes old movies. He doesn't much like golf, but golf is a must in politics, so after leaving the navy, he spent more time with the later than with the former. He suspects the fact Peter keeps giving him special edition DVDs of his favourite films for Christmas and for his birthdays is Peter pointing out the phoniness of the golf thing, and it irritates him, but of course he watches the DVDs with glee.