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).

Comments

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

Simon Tam.

[astrogirl2.livejournal.com]

Hmm, OK... Matt Parkman.

[elyssadc.livejournal.com]

The Ninth Doctor.

[yahtzee63.livejournal.com]

Marcus Dixon, please!

[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]

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.

[rivrea.livejournal.com]

Connor, please.

[geekturnedvamp.livejournal.com]

Alfred Bester.

[thesecondevil]

Ace

[aycheb.livejournal.com]

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

[wee-warrior.livejournal.com]

Debra Morgan from Dexter!

[sizequeen.livejournal.com]

Lee Adama

[mymatedave.livejournal.com]

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

[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.

[astrogirl2.livejournal.com]

Heh. #2 is amusing and totally believable. #3 is rather sad, really. Aww. So is #4, I suppose, but its effect on me is lessened by the fact that I never had as much liking or sympathy for Candice as most folks seem to. And #5 is interesting. I do like the dynamic between those two. (And the "we'll never talk about that again!" thing cracked me up. :))

[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]

a)

1.) Angel had a crush on LaGuerta once, but he got over it without anyone noticing, including her, for which he's profoundly grateful. Talking Spanish with her still makes his day a little brighter now and then.

2.) Reporting Doakes for shooting that Haitian was the hardest thing Angel ever had to do, and that includes signing his divorce papers. Sometimes, he suspects this means Nina was right in wanting a divorce.

3.) He hates the late Rudy/Brian a little more than your avarage crazy serial killer because of what he did to Deb. If Deb hadn't gotten a grip on herself after nearly shooting that kid, Angel would have dug out Rudy's corpse and personally driven a stake through it.

[selenak.livejournal.com]

Okay, this stuff is also in my fanfic, but hey, that's what "fanon" means:

a)

1) G'Kar, like most Narn of his generation, is fluent in Centauri. (They had to be.) He hasn't spoken it since the occupation ended, except for a), his affair with Mariel, b) the time he was trapped with Londo in the transport tube - then he sang his little ditty in Centauri, just to rub it in a little deeper - and c) when he told Londo "my people can never forgive your people - you understand that, don't you? But I can forgive you."

2) G'Kar did have sex with Lyta at some point during their travels together, but they both called the wrong name.

3) G'Kar's thing for human women is a Narn-acceptable version for his thing for Centauri, which is really a fetish you don't indulge when you're a member of the Kha'ri.

[silverblade219.livejournal.com]

Sharon from Battlestar or Elle Bishop from Heroes

[watervole.livejournal.com]

Vic Fontaine

[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.

[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....

[kernezelda]

Excellent! I like Angel very much, and think he's a wonderful foil for Doakes' darker nature, LaGuerta's ambition, Debra's angst and Dexter's cheerfully homicidal nature.