Meme Encore

[selenak]

From bimo and astrogirl2, with slight modifications.

Give me a character from any fandom you know I know well and I will tell you:

a. My favourite thing about that character.
b. My least favourite thing about that character.
c. Their favourite book/tv show/movie/play.
d. One crossover ship for them I think would be neat.
e. One crossover universe for them I think would be even neater.
f. Their ship from hell :)
g. Their Song.
h. The title of their biography or autobiography.
i. The last bad dream they had.
j. How they're gonna shuffle off the mortal coil, if they haven't already :)

Comments

[weirdofromafar.livejournal.com]

Angela Petrelli.

[selenak.livejournal.com]

a. My favourite thing about that character:

I always had a thing for cool intelligence and manipulativeness; Angela manages to combine it with elegance, which is rare.

b. My least favourite thing about that character.

Here I have to differentiate between Doylist and Watsonian approach. Speaking strictly as a spectator and from a meta pov, she utterly delights me, and it just frustrates me she's not a full cast member already. From an "inside" pov, i.e. taking Angela as another human being were I living in the Heroes universe, the fact she'd be completely willing to let me die in a gigantic explosion as a part of .07% of the world's population would tick me off, obviously, but other than that, it would be her utter inability to see her children NOT as instruments for a higher cause, and the damage that has done. Again, as a watcher, the screwed-upness of Petrelli family relationships is part of what I love about them, but if I knew Angela and the rest personally, I'd be appalled.


c. Their favourite book/tv show/movie/play.

I've written that fanfic.*g* And stand by my conclusion. Angela is a Hitchcock fiend, with Rebecca and To Catch a Thief battling it out for favourites, and she's a secret Dynasty addict.

d. One crossover ship for them I think would be neat.

Scorpius, from Farscape. I'd say they kill each other, but they're both so smart and good at survival that they might actually manage to avoid that. It would be scary and thrilling.

e. One crossover universe for them I think would be even neater.

Alias, absolutely. I can't decide whether she would be Sloane's sister or yet another Derevko, but it would fit.

f. Their ship from hell :)

Not taking the easy way out and choosing Sylar, because I think Sylar/Anyone is the 'ship from hell. So, person Angela Petrelli Would Least Like To Shag/Be Romantically Entangled With: Maury Parkman. Both because she's a snob, looks and background wise, and because she doesn't trust anyone who could get to her mind.

g. Their Song.

Coming Up From Behind, Marey Playground.

h. The title of their biography or autobiography.

Well, after her sensational arrest and confession she killed Kaito for sex and money, which made it to all the papers before it was retracted, some hack quickly threw out a biography titled "Black Dahlia: The Angela Petrelli Story". He hasn't been heard of since...

i. The last bad dream they had.

Nathan actually did what he was told and somehow this resulted in Peter holing himself up with yet another trashy blonde in Vegas and not talking to his family again, and then some lunatic killing that girl of Linderman's, getting her illusionist ability and killing Nathan, becoming President instead. It was an utter nightmare, very unrealistic, and she's completely blaming Maury for it, despite the fact Maury is in a coma. Or rather, obviously the coma makes him project wildly. The crucial clue that this dream is Maury's fault? In it, his son is the chief of Homeland Security. His son. Please.

j. How they're gonna shuffle off the mortal coil, if they haven't already :)

Nobody will ever dare to kill Angela, so she's going to die of old age.

[astrogirl2.livejournal.com]

Hmm... How 'bout Garibaldi?

[selenak.livejournal.com]

a. My favourite thing about that character:

His sense of humour.

Also that courage that enabled him to pick himself up all three times his life was utterly trashed, partly through his own fault, and make it through one day at a time.

b. My least favourite thing about that character.

Not too keen on his views on the death penalty, but I'm not sure that counts as a character trait, so: as many an addict and alcoholic, Garibaldi is able to be incredibly manipulative at other people's expenses to get what he wants, though I don't think he realizes this. Cases in point would be his guilt tripping Zach through much of season 4 (yes, that was Garibaldi influenced by Bester, but the Psi Corps programming just pushed existing traits to the fore), and making Franklin and basically everyone but Lochley look the other way in season 5 (which among other things completely screwed the Centauri over at a critical point). Now I'm a certified fan of manipulative characters, i.e. Bester, for example, but as I said, I don't think Garibaldi is aware of it, and again, true to profile, combines it with self-pity.

c. Their favourite book/tv show/movie/play.

We have canon on that.*g* He's a Warner cartoons addict, especially for Daffy Duck.

d. One crossover ship for them I think would be neat.

Garibaldi/Scully for the win! She's smart and gorgeous and prone to shoot down crazy theories. He's down to earth and obsessive and sometimes has bad habits. It would totally work.


e. One crossover universe for them I think would be even neater.

Michael Garibaldi, welcome to Moya.

f. Their ship from hell :)

Again, the easy answer would by Byron, due to my Byron dislike, so I'll pick someone I love: Bester. I know there is Garibaldi/Bester slash out there, but just... no. Yes, Bester likes to screw with him psychologically, but that's as far as it goes.


g. Their Song.

Andraste's B5 soundmix picked "Cartoon Heroes", and I'm always thinking of it when thinking Garibaldi ever since. Otherwise, I'd go with something from Bruce Springsteen, because Garibaldi is a Springsteen song character.

h. The title of their biography or autobiography.

After he married Lise and became a billionaire, someone paid by a member of the sacked board wrote: "Sleeping Through The Ranks: The Michael Garibaldi Story". The actually serious biography was called: "Garibaldi: Shadows and Light".

i. The last bad dream they had.

Jeff died like Frank had done, and it was all because Garibaldi was drinking again. Meanwhile, Lise bore Bester's child.

j. How they're gonna shuffle off the mortal coil, if they haven't already :)

Defying everyone's expectations, Garibaldi lives into a ripe old age. And then he goes back to Quadrant 13, the one with the time rift, where Babylon 4 disappeared all those years ago. Nobody ever found his body, but there are some strange scrolls about Valen and a stranger...

[ruuger]

Eilerson

[selenak.livejournal.com]

Maaaaax!

a. My favourite thing about that character.

He's really good at the art of the snark.

b. My least favourite thing about that character.

Doylist: too little of him in the few Crusade eps we have.

Watsonian: that smugness would drive me mad if I had to live with it!

c. Their favourite book/tv show/movie/play.

Max stands by his fondness for alien porn. "Snow White and the seven Narn" is an underrated classic. Other than that, only Cynthia knows he has a holo version of each of those great products of the 20th century, the Indiana Jones movies. Who do you think inspired his choice of profession?

d. One crossover ship for them I think would be neat.

Max Eilerson/Sikozu (from Farscape). She's an intelligent, sharp-tongued red-head who might or might not be an android. They'd be great together!

e. One crossover universe for them I think would be even neater.

New Battlestar Galactica. Because I'd love to have Max Eilerson engage in a mighty duel of sarcasm with just about everyone on the show. And because he'd be totally contrary enough to bond with Baltar.

f. Their ship from hell :)

Eilerson/Galen. Only in Max' deepest nightmares. Not just because he wants to be the sarcastic know-it-all in a relationship, but because Galen's tendency to risk dooming them all in a fit of emo freaks him out. (If it were for money, at least then one could make predictions, but stuff like abducting their ship just to make a nice gesture for the dead girlfriend...)

g. Their Song.

Max pretends it's Money: That's What I Want, but it's actually another Beatles song, Nowhere Man.

h. The title of their biography or autobiography.

"Stayin' Alive". People thought that was cheap sarcasm, but for once, Max was being sincere. He considers the fact he survived years on board of the Excalibur as one of his greatest achievements.

i. The last bad dream they had.

Gideon found his alien porn and didn't give it back. Or wait, that actually happened.

j. How they're gonna shuffle off the mortal coil, if they haven't already :)

In the middle of making a withering sarcastic remark to some young pub who thinks he/she invented xenoarchaeology, he has a stroke. His last words: "Shhhh, Mr. Kitty. No more fish today."

[rivrea.livejournal.com]

Noah Bennet, please.

[selenak.livejournal.com]

a. My favourite thing about that character.

Intelligence and strategic thinking are always attractive!

b. My least favourite thing about that character.

Doylist: the way fandom has taken to whitewashing him ever since "Company Man" aired. Especially since on of my favourite things about s2 was that the actual show didn't do that, kept him grey, and showed him doing the wrong thing repeatedly instead of giving us the infallible hero fandom seems to see.

Watsonian: if we're talking individual actions, mindwiping Sandra still tops them all, and no, I don't think "the Company made me do it/ I wanted to keep Claire safe" is an excuse; especially not since the show took pains to make it clear Sandra could not only handle the truth perfectly well but was far better than her husband and daughter when it came to the disguise, keeping their heads down business. One of the saddest moments on the show is when Noah, in "Parasite", says to Sandra, "I didn't know I could talk to you this way" i.e. as an equal, a partner. Now remember they were married years before Noah was given Claire and the mindwipes started, and think through what that means in terms of their marriage. Which brings me to Noah's control issues, which, if we're talking character traits instead of individual actions, are probably the most disturbing thing about him. Fascinating to watch, but disturbing. It's why he preferred to have a 50-s style "father knows best" marriage with Sandra, why he didn't tell either her or Claire the truth about the painting predicting his death until it was almost too late, why he wasn't kidding about tying Claire up and why going back to the Company was in his heart of hearts easier than he could ever admit. Yes, he wants to keep his family safe. But he also can't operate in a world where their safety is up to them, not him.

c. Their favourite book/tv show/movie/play.

As opposed to Thompson or Ivan, he's neither into Graham Greene or George Orwell. Claude introduced him to Monty Python, and that stuck. His favourite individual scene is the Roman guard correcting the Latin of "Romans Go Home" in Life of Brian.

d. One crossover ship for them I think would be neat.

I'll be obvious: Noah Bennet/Irina Derevko from Alias.

e. One crossover universe for them I think would be even neater.

Spooks. I want at least one withering exchange with Harry.

f. Their ship from hell :)

Well, my default answer for any Heroes character for that is always "with Sylar", so I must give a second one each time as not to make things too easy on myself. Noah would never cheat on Sandra - it would destroy his idea of himself as a family man, and he so desperately needs this image of himself to justify everything - but his feelings for Eden, deep down and repressed, weren't just professional and mentorly. Then there were the fantasies about slapping Candice, and on some level he is aware that wasn't just about punishing her. But who could actually be dangerous to him is Elle. He never would have behaved in an unprofessional way with Eden even if Sandra didn't exist because he actually liked her and he knew that she needed a genuinenly trustworthy mentor figure, and not with Candice because in the end, it would have been too easy, but Elle would be the perfect instrument to get back at Bob and the Company. But if he goes that way, he wouldn't just be unable to look Sandra in the face again but Claire, too. Hence nightmares about it (which aren't just nightmares) and ship-from-hell qualification.

g. Their Song.

Noah likes anything by Billie Holiday.

h. The title of their biography or autobiography.

Matt in an especially irritated mood while they were on the road together suggested: "Middle Management Kills".

i. The last bad dream they had.

See reply to f.

j. How they're gonna shuffle off the mortal coil, if they haven't already :)

Um... does that thing, you know which one, count?

[20thcenturyvole.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Severus Snape, please?

[selenak.livejournal.com]

a. My favourite thing about that character.

Most shades of grey character in the HP verse and proof that you can be a complete git and still one of the good guys, that the rule of most children's (and adult, for that matter) novels that all "good" characters automatically like each other and you can recognize the bad guys by the fact they dislike the hero(ine) can be broken.

b. My least favourite thing about that character.

Watsonian: You know, I really don't know what Dumbledore was thinking when making Snape a teacher, instead of a researcher at Hogwarts. I mean, I get that it had to be Hogwarts, both for Machiavellian and friendly reasons (as with Harry and Tom Riddle, Hogwarts was the next thing Snape had to a home), but he is awful as a teacher. I don't mean towards Harry, because you can always claim Harry is a special case: but look at the way he behaves towards Neville (and there you can't blame Snape's feelings for the parents, or for that matter Neville), or his cruel remark about Hermione's teeth in GoF. In the great scheme of things, Snape is a very brave and loyal man, and I love the character, but that doesn't negate he's also capable of petty cruelty towards children and teenagers. The fact it's verbal, not physical (a la Umbridge) cruelty doesn't make this better.

Doylist: Now I was convinced Snape killed Dumbledore on Dumbledore's orders in HBB back when it was published and argued my case, but some posts re: Snape afterwards gave me the "get away from my side, you're making my side look stupid" feeling. If I never read another post complaining about how mean JKR was to Snape and how she doesn't understand him as opposed to the fans again, it'll be too soon.


c. Their favourite book/tv show/movie/play.

Having grown up in the Muggle world, Snape did watch Blake's 7 in the late 70s. He loved it. Of course, Hogwarts doesn't have electricity and besides, he would have been horrified at the prospect of being thought of as having anything in common with Arthur Weasley, but back at Spinner's end, he had the videos. (This being just before DVDS were everywhere.)

d. One crossover ship for them I think would be neat.

Err. Severus? 'ship? ...okay then: time-line wise, I think just after the big first Voldemort defeat when young self loathing Severus S. pledged himself to Dumbledore, he could have run into young self loathing Rupert Giles of BTVS who had just gotten several of his friends killed and as a consequence pledged himself to the Watchers. It might have lasted a week or two.

e. One crossover universe for them I think would be even neater.

Pushing Daisies, because that universe is so sweet it's cloying my arteries and still amusing enough so I continue watching, but oh, Snape would be like a breath of fresh air on the one hand, and on the other, all the niceness and sweetness would nearly drive him insane...

f. Their ship from hell :)

Well, I'm against Snape/Any Student because that IS one of my few squicks (i.e. teacher/student relationships), even if we're assuming they're 16 and thus at the English age for consent - it's the power abuse potential there that makes it so squicky. But I also think it would be a disaster for them and him. If we're talking adults, well, I don't see Snape/Sirius (they hate each other; really, they do. And not in the fun way) leading to anything good, and never got where the Snape/Lupin came from, but wouldn't call it hellish, so I guess Snape/Sirius it is.

g. Their Song.

*imagines Snape's withering stare when asked for his song and giggles* "I am a rock" by Simon & Garfunkle.

h. The title of their biography or autobiography.

"I leave that kind of foolishness to Lockhart."

...mind you, Rita Skeeter followed up her scandalous Dumbledore bio with Sinister Sizzling Severus: The Snape Story.

i. The last bad dream they had.

What could be worse than the last year of his life, poor guy? (Well, except for the year in which Lily died.) He didn't have nightmares, he was living them. He had actually quite good dreams. The nightmare was waking up each day.

j. How they're gonna shuffle off the mortal coil, if they haven't already :)

Well, canon settled that.

[eryslash.livejournal.com]

Peter Petrelli?:)

[selenak.livejournal.com]

a. My favourite thing about that character.

Peter is a pretty unique mixture of genuinenly wide-eyed believer and manipulative button pusher (only within the family and in the second season also towards Elle, but he really can be if he wants to), plus he gets coded as the damsel in distress at least as often as the female characters (which soothes my ire about them being coded that way a bit) and even when he's being heroic, he usually is so in a way traditionally regarded as feminine (i.e. throwing himself with Sylar from a building, being defensive rather than offensive most times). The show does some interesting non traditional gender things with Peter which I don't think is realized that widely.

b. My least favourite thing about that character.

Doylist: it was pretty obvious that they had the Ireland storyline simply because, as with Hiro, they couldn't reintroduce Peter to the main storylines until after a certain point, which meant he didn't have much to do there.

Watsonian: Worst boyfriend since Angel graced the screens, though for different reasons. He doesn't mean to, but he is.

c. Their favourite book/tv show/movie/play.

Well, I used it in several stories (and so did other people) but it's still true: "E.T." was Peter's favourite movie as a child, bar none. As an adult, he developed a fascination for David Cronenberg's Dead Ringers. He wouldn't call it a favourite because he didn't actually like it, but he kept rewatching it. A film he genuinenly loved was "The Matrix" - he even made Nathan watch it with him - but he hated the sequels.

d. One crossover ship for them I think would be neat.

See above, re: Peter as girlfriend (or boyfriend, for that matter) kryptonite. Seriously. Unless we're talking short fling, in which case I think Dr. Gregory House might do. Peter likes being pushed around (to a degree) and dominated, after all, as both fanon and canon agree on. *g*

e. One crossover universe for them I think would be even neater.

I have this Heroes/Angel plot bunny which I'm not sure I'll ever write, but it certainly would be neat...

f. Their ship from hell :)

Other than Sylar (because to me, Everyone/Sylar is the ship from hell): back to the thing where Peter is girlfriend and boyfriend kryptonite. Even if the guy or gal in question would not get shot, be stranded in a virus-ridden apocalyptic future or lied to and left on a suicide mission in another apocalyptic future, she or he would have to put up with the fact that if you date either one of the Petrellis, you'll always play second fiddle to that brother of his. (And I don't mean in a slashy sense, I mean, emotionally.) Which with pretty much everyone would lead to disaster.

g. Their Song.

"The Scientist" (or is it called "Mad World?" I have a blackout right now) by Coldplay.

h. The title of their biography or autobiography.

Can't resist: "Ninth Wonders". *g*

i. The last bad dream they had.

Ha. Haaaaaaaahhhhhhaaaaa! Okay. Other than exploding in New York with Nathan as the first victim one: going home only to find he was permanently invisible and couldn't become visible again, and when he tried to touch Nathan and tell him he was there that way, his hands went right through Nathan and everyone else. His abilities had made him a ghost.

j. How they're gonna shuffle off the mortal coil, if they haven't already :)

Well, we had several canon deaths and resurrections, so...

[wee-warrior.livejournal.com]

On a whim: Nadia Santos. (You can invent an alternative j, if you want.)

[selenak.livejournal.com]

No, Nadia is great.

a. My favourite thing about that character.

Nadia can forgive people (and herself). (Not a strength of either the Bristows or the Derevkos.) However, she doesn't do so blindly; and she's reached her limit, you've made an implacable enemy.

b. My least favourite thing about that character.

Doylist: she died! And worse, she died in a stupid way. If she had to die, she should have died in the s4 finale, where it would have been fitting and tragic.

Watsonian:

Can't think of a trait or thing she did I genuinenly disliked.

c. Their favourite book/tv show/movie/play.

As a child, predictably enough, she ate up Oliver Twist, Little Lord Fountleroy et al. (No Telenovelas at the convent, not for religious reasons but because Elena would have been bored stiff.) As an adolescent on the streets, she went in the opposite direction... except that she developed a thing for James Cameron and her favourite movie became, no, not T2, but Aliens. When Roberto later made the obvious correlation, she went out of her way to avoid orphans-find-parent figure stories from this point onwards. Even after killing Roberto. But when she was in the hospital recuperating from Anna Espinosa's attack, Marshall send The Avengers on DVD (the Diana Rigg tv version, of course!), and she loved those.

d. One crossover ship for them I think would be neat.

Daniel Craig!Bond. She needs to get away from the Roberto/Jack/need to resolve my daddy issues types, and Bond isn't the best brotherly chum type, either, which alas Eric W. is for her, I fear. Plus it would be hot. And with an expiration date. Which is okay. A fling on a mission would be perfect.

e. One crossover universe for them I think would be even neater.

Heroes. *g*

f. Their ship from hell :)

Anna. Actually any Rambaldi follower, for obvious reasons, but Anna was the one who thought hot iron was foreplay, so...

g. Their Song.

"Stranger to the Rain" - there is a great Nadia vid using that out there. It's from a musical, I think, but I can't remember the musical title right now.

h. The title of their biography or autobiography.

"Damm you, Milo!" One Woman's Response To Rambaldi.

For some reason, the title of this book caused some confusion among fans of a certain tv show.

i. The last bad dream they had.

She was never quite sure what was a dream and what wasn't in her long coma. But her mind kept replaying the fight with Sydney, almost killing Sydney, and then her father shooting her, saving Sydney and the world; only sometimes she did kill Sydney and then her father instead, and the awful thing was how right that felt, both of it. And sometimes she dreamt that nobody tried to kill anyone and they were all still together. And then she woke up. Until she died a few days later, she was never quite sure she did, though: it could have been a new nightmare.

j. How they're gonna shuffle off the mortal coil, if they haven't already :)

*sob*

[mimesh.livejournal.com]

Anakin Skywalker

[selenak.livejournal.com]

a. My favourite thing about that character.

Two of my fannish archetypes are "clever Machiavellian" and "passionate, messed up person". Anakin is a great representative of the later.

b. My least favourite thing about that character.

That would be the killing people thing. Or to be more specific: buying into fatalism and the idea there wasn't a choice (and the responsibility that goes with it) to justify not just going but remaining dark side. Yes, there are a number of factors contributing to this, but ultimately, it was his choice, and he kept making it until the whole Luke experience made him realize he WAS still making it.

c. Their favourite book/tv show/movie/play.

This is where the whole GFFA thing presents difficulties. But I think Anakin would have never missed the pod race broadcasts and figured out a way to watch them even in the Jedi temple; fictionally, he probably was a total sap for love stories of the star crossed type, for obvious reasons, but I think his very favourite fictional thing is a copy of Isaac Asimov's Robot stories which somehow made it into the GFFA.

d. One crossover ship for them I think would be neat.

If one can get around the Padme factor in a sense-making way: Chiana from Farscape. Because it's Chiana, it would be brief, it would be great fun, and beyond the sex, they could befriend each other over the matter of having to leave your only beloved relation behind, as well as about living in a society that thinks passion is a bad thing.

e. One crossover universe for them I think would be even neater.

Firefly. Between them, Mal and River could keep him emotionally and talent-wise in check, and again, it would be fun.

f. Their ship from hell :)

Actually, I think that one is canon, not exactly in a sexual sense but in the sense of completely screwed up emotional entanglement - Anakin/Palpatine leading to Vader/Emperor, naturally.

g. Their Song.

*squints* I think Mr. Williams covered that. Twice.

h. The title of their biography or autobiography.

After word leaked out that Vader had been Anakin Skywalker, there were several being written, all with titles along the lines of "Man or Monster?" Luke and Leia ignored them. But Luke found something in Obi-Wan's hut on Tattoine, an essay written a by twelve years old entitled "Quest". Somehow, he thought that would fit.

i. The last bad dream they had.

Oy ve. As Anakin? Definitely the one of Padme dying. No dreams for a long while after, though he had them again now and then in the years between RotS and ANH. They weren't about losing his arm and leg and getting burned by the lava, though; no dream of that could ever top the reality of it. They were of killing the Younglings in the Temple and not feeling a thing, for the first time in his life, not even in the dreams.

After finding out who Luke was, he dreamt of Qui-Gon, of all the people, shouting at him, "Anakin, no", though he wasn't sure whether or not that was a bad dream. He also dreamt of Leia being for some reason present in the dream about the Younglings, maybe because Bail Organa was around the premises at that time, for why else would he dream of Organa's daughter being there? She doesn't stop him, she just looks at him, and even though she never saw him without the mask and he knows that even in his dream, he also knows she recognizes him. And that is when he starts to feel again.

It's the last dream he has before Endor.


j. How they're gonna shuffle off the mortal coil, if they haven't already :)

Canon covered that!

[lizamanynames.livejournal.com]

Arvin! (Though, uh, J is kinda problematic...)

[selenak.livejournal.com]

Yes, it is, so you get:

a. My favourite thing about that character.

He's an incredibly ruthless sociopath with the capacity to love a few people unconditionally. Also unrepressedly. (One of the differences between Jack and Arvin which have nothing to do with light side and dark side and grey side and what not is, imo, that Arvin might be in denial about other things, but not his emotions, and as opposed to Jack, has no problem showing them to the objects of his affection. He loves Emily, Jack, Sydney and Nadia (and that's where it ends, alas for the rest of humanity), and he never has a problem with either the show or tell.

b. My least favourite thing about that character.

Doylist: we all know I would have written s5 differently or ended his arc with the s4 finale, which would have been perfect.

Watsonian: Amazingly enough, not the late s5 actions because I think it's pretty easy to maintain he had a mental breakdown after Nadia died (especially since the writers confimed that ghost!Nadia wasn't meant as an actual ghost but Arvin's psychological self-punishment) and hence diminished responsibility. He is, however, utterly and completely responsible for all his actions before that, and has a singular gift for damaging the very people he loves best. Well, except for Emily, but he did ruin their chance for a happy ending all by his lonesome and when he finally chose her over Rambaldi, it was too late and led to circumstances that caused her death, so yeah, Emily, too.

Oh, and of course things like incinerating a lot of people in a church as a means to get an artifact are absolutely chilling, but we had that covered under "sociopath".

c. Their favourite book/tv show/movie/play.

Arvin is one for the classics. Casablanca.

d. One crossover ship for them I think would be neat.

Judi Dench!M from the current Bond movies.

e. One crossover universe for them I think would be even neater.

Spooks. Gimme "Jack and Arvin versus Harry", pleeeeaaaase!

f. Their ship from hell :)

You know, I once did a meme where the challenge was to think of a circumstance that would make your favourite character have sex with your least favourite character from the same universe, and I think I came up with Arvin Sloane/Michael Vaughn sex caused by a drug given by McKennas Cole as the ultimate sadistic torture...

Outside of crack!fic, though: any of the Derevko sisters, though not for the reasons that make the Jack/Irina OTP Forever! crowd object. (Actually, while Jack reads as remarkably straight to me, I think that if for some reason Irina was game, she and Arvin together would be able to manipulate him into a threesome. He couldn't resist both their wiles at the same time.) Elena has his worst traits without any of the redeeming ones, which is why he wouldn't be attracted to her to begin with, Katya definitely would not be attracted to him, and while I think that his affair with Irina was for many reasons (sexual attraction, her being Jack's wife, a chance for both of them to vent - because this was when he was still being a good CIA agent and she played Laura otherwise - and obviously on Irina's part the need for a second source once Jack indicated he'd give up the job for her), none of them romantic, he would have been capable to come to genuinenly care for her. And that would have ended in utter and complete disaster for both sides.

g. Their Song.

I'm influenced by a great Sloane soundmix, but: Lullabye for Cain.

h. The title of their biography or autobiography.

"Man of Faith", obviously. *g*

i. The last bad dream they had.

Before Nadia died, it was of giving her that final injection he refused to in season 3, and of lying among the shards in Siena without her coming back for him. He also had a dream of Emily and Jacqueline, but not a good one; in it, Jacqueline was a corpse, not the one of a stillborn child he actually saw but the burned corpse of a five years old, for some reason. Emily was covered in ashes, too.

[kangeiko]

Londo Mollari! (and j's a gift, there. *g*)

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a. My favourite thing about that character.

Oh, Londo, Londo, Londo. Nobody broke my heart as you did. Hm, let's see, favourite thing: So full of life, as Sheridan said, and when it comes down to it, in the direst of tests, not willing to shirk responsibility and let others pay for the terrible mistakes he made. Londo after the death of Cartagia could have made things easy on himself and ignored his promise to G'Kar about the withdrawal from Narn; it wasn't as if G'Kar was in any position to hold him to his word. But he didn't. Londo after discovering what was up with the Regent could have left Centauri Prime, and to hell with G'Kar, Delenn and Lennier; he could have told himself the Centauri were doomed either way, to more millions dead by bombardment or to unwitting enslavement to the Drakh. But he didn't. He was wrong about not having a choice: he had, but the very fact it wasn't even a question for him was, to me, Londo's moment of redemption.

b. My least favourite thing about that character.

Watsonian only: He knew what he was doing when starting the Narn/Centauri War. He didn't clue in to just what the Shadows were completely, but he knew very well any war between the Narn and the Centauri would cost the thousands of lives a war does, and he did it anyway.

c. Their favourite book/tv show/movie/play.

Don't tell G'Kar, but he did read G'Kar's book quite often. His favourite book is a collection of early Republic Centauri love poetry, though. And we all know his favourite artistic medium is opera.

d. One crossover ship for them I think would be neat.

Londo/Dax. She's old and experienced enough not to blink at the different anatomy, and they both have a great sense of humour and adventure.

e. One crossover universe for them I think would be even neater.

New Battlestar Galactica.

f. Their ship from hell :)

Welllllll, it doesn't get more twisted than Londo/Cartagia, imo, and I wrote that (sort of).

g. Their Song.

In Andraste's soundmix, he got "Berceuse pour un Lion", and kakadaimon suggested Aimee Mann's "Wise Up". Can't improve on those two.

h. The title of their biography or autobiography.

I'm still too fond of the trashy tell-all Mariel wrote (see icon) and of Londo's poor biographer Luc Deradi's resulting epic to think of other titles than the one I used in that story...

i. The last bad dream they had.

Ahhahaaahahaaaaa.

j. How they're gonna shuffle off the mortal coil, if they haven't already :)

Speak about unable to improve on canon...

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Owen Harper, topically.

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I'd add that for (j) you aren't allowed to refer to a certain retrospectively-erased timeline :-)

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Nathan Petrelli, please?

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a. My favourite thing about that character.

He's so out of place in the story he's in, as I said in my Nathan essay. Superheroes traditionally discover their abilities when they're teenagers or in their early 20s, and both lawyers and politicians are more often than not villains; Nathan in his late 30s and as a slick ambitious ADA with a majorly dysfunctional family who has what amounts to a metaphorical coming out story is like a HBO or Showtime character put in a superhero comic, and the result is fascinating.

b. My least favourite thing about that character.

That would be a certain tendency of "I don't want to know", contributing to his hesitation about what to do re: explosion (together with a big dose of fatalism and ambition), and also visible, for example, when DL and Jessica/Niki visit him. No, he didn't know Linderman had abducted Micah or was using him for the election. But Nathan is anything but stupid and very clear on Linderman's non-supernatural crimes, given he had intended to prosecute him, so he must have been aware that Linderman when saying "do you think I'd leave that to coincidence" meant he was going to so SOMETHING unsavoury to secure the elections. He just didn't want to know what. This, btw, is spelled out in his nightmare vision from "Fight or Flight" in s2 when his burned self accuses him of not doing anything etc.

Otoh, his three months of slowly dying from burns plus additional month and following weeks of grief and loss and pulling himself together again when teaming up with Matt both were probably an exorcism for this tendency.

c. Their favourite book/tv show/movie/play.

Going back to a fanfic I wrote about the Petrellis: "Citizen Kane". Though he also is in constant argument with "The Godfather", like his father though for slightly other reasons, and that in a twisted Petrelli way makes it a second favourite.

d. One crossover ship for them I think would be neat.

As a fling, I'm currently trying to work out the logistics for Nathan/Sydney Bristow from Alias. More than a fling with anyone, no matter from which universe, would run into the inevitable Petrelli difficulty of dating someone who will always love his brother more, plus in Nathan's case there would be the additional problem of two children and a not yet divorced wife he's probably still attached to.

e. One crossover universe for them I think would be even neater.

There is that Heroes/Angel plot bunny that keeps nibbling at me and in which he prosecutes a client of Wolfram & Hart's...

f. Their ship from hell :)

Again, default answer for any Heroes character is Sylar, but other than him: Noah Bennet. Because Claire doesn't need more material for the Jerry Springer show, as the Heroes Slash Manual once put it. (Also because there is neither interest nor chemistry on either man's part.*g*)

g. Their Song.

Something from Leonard Cohen. Can't decide on the exact song yet.

h. The title of their biography or autobiography.

In the 5YGverse, the official biography was titled: "Strength Through Adversity". In the "realverse", Peter before the Odessa trip, when Oliver Dennison said he didn't have a title for the interview yet, said it should be "Flying High" and Nathan just gave him A Look. When being drunk in a bar during ca. around "Four Months Later", someone recognized him and asked what happened, and Nathan said he withdrew from office to work on his memoirs, titled "Not Worth It".

...but Hiro, who has visited the future yet again and found one that was both virus- and explosion free, already knows it's going to be "Flying Man". What else could it be?

i. The last bad dream they had.

Thank you, Maury Parkman, for the dream that had the worst of both worlds, i.e. New York exploded and Peter still gone. The worst thing about it, though, was that brief moment of delirious joy when Nathan thought he had Peter back, because in that moment, he would have been willing to accept the other circumstances as being true, including the devastation of New York, and that would have been a betrayal of everything they both went through.

j. How they're gonna shuffle off the mortal coil, if they haven't already :)

....

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Rygel!

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a. My favourite thing about that character.

Every show needs a cynic, and what's more, one who isn't actually wrong all the time about the points he makes. Bless Rygel and his smart mercenary soul. And the part of himself that allows him to risk the high air to talk to Aeryn after Talyn!John died.

b. My least favourite thing about that character.

Doylist: Now those neon fart jokes the show pulled with him were a tad too silly.
Watsonian: if I had to live with him, the greediness would drive me up the wall.

c. Their favourite book/tv show/movie/play.

Ever since visiting Earth with Crichton, Rygel really digs the Ferengi episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. He thinks Quark should be the hero of the show.

d. One crossover ship for them I think would be neat.

...didn't someone already write that crossover where he meets Yoda? In a non-sexual way, mind. Hynerian crossover sex, imagine it I want not.

Besides, Rygel could never love another alien the way he loves John Crichton. *waves OTP banner*

e. One crossover universe for them I think would be even neater.

Labyrinth. As in, he'd take it over and become the new ruler, of course.

f. Their ship from hell :)

Grayza wouldn't, would she?

g. Their Song.

John says it should be "I just can't wait to be king" (Elton John & Tim Rice, I think), but Rygel pointed out that he is Dominar already, and what are kings by comparison?

h. The title of their biography or autobiography.

100 Ways to Survive The Unchartered Territories and John Crichton

i. The last bad dream they had.

There was no food anywhere, Durka was back, and somewhere, his usurping cousin was laughing. And the Crichton/Aeryn sprog was dying inside Rygel. Rygel denies that the last was the worst, of course.

j. How they're gonna shuffle off the mortal coil, if they haven't already :)

Raving about Earth chocolate to Little D's great granddaughter, a feeling of ecstasy comes over Rygel at the memory of his sugar high with Crichton in Kansas, and he dies.

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Jack Harkness?

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a. My favourite thing about that character.

Anyone who actually can pull out a gun of his ass must be really flexible.
...okay, seriously: much of the time, he's fun, and when he's not, he's oddly touching.

b. My least favourite thing about that character.

Jack, your people management skills really leave something to be desired. Stop the man of mystery schtick already, will you?

c. Their favourite book/tv show/movie/play.

One of the things that helped Jack making it through the 20th century twice: Noel Coward plays and Cole Porter musicals, and seeing them at their premieres. Jack's absolute favourite would be Design for Living (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_for_Living).

d. One crossover ship for them I think would be neat.

Jack/Chiana (from Farscape) is almost too easy, is isn't it? So let's make it Jack/ Zoe-from-Firefly-after-the-Big-Damm-Movie-When-Wash-Has-Died for contrasts. She needs someone to cheer her up, but not someone who will make any kind of demands on her, and Jack would be ideal.

e. One crossover universe for them I think would be even neater.

Jack Harkness, meet Buffy Summers. No, not that way.

f. Their ship from hell :)

Is there one for Jack? 'kay then, Jack/Master would be utter disaster. As I'm really not into torture porn, I doubt Jack is, and you know, I don't think the Master is, either. (As opposed to being into torture if it helps with messing with the Doctor.)

g. Their Song.

Isn't there one called "25th century man"? I think I saw the vid somewhere.

h. The title of their biography or autobiography.

"The early years of the Face of Boe, as revealed to Novice Hame".

i. The last bad dream they had.

He dreamed he ended up being a Toclafane.

j. How they're gonna shuffle off the mortal coil, if they haven't already :)

We saw that!

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For something different -- Brenda Chenowith (and you can change j if you don't like the canon answer :))

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a. My favourite thing about that character.

Given her family background, and then a lot of crap happening in her life, Brenda was bound to end up as a basket case. She didn't. Instead, she managed to nearly always keep a sense of humour about life.

b. My least favourite thing about that character.

Err, that would be her season 2 storyline, but that's too Doylist an answer, and besides, I don't mean it in the sense that I regard it as ooc or something like that, so: Brenda, if you're not ready to marry Nate, tell Nate. Passive-aggressive sleeping around doesn't help anyone.

c. Their favourite book/tv show/movie/play.

Well, we all know it was "Nathaniel and Isabel", book-wise, when she and Billy were children. I'm thinking Brenda later suddenly fell in love with "Ocean's 11", because it was utterly and completely unlike anything in her life and made everything look cool and easy in a clever way.

d. One crossover ship for them I think would be neat.

Brenda/Nathan Petrelli. Probably a one night stand or two, and he'd better use an alias because of the first name thing, but it would be fun, and they might become friends as a result, bonding over crazy families, younger brothers and being parents.

e. One crossover universe for them I think would be even neater.

Brenda, on the trip to find herself post season 2 and pre her return in s3, comes through Sunnydale and meets Giles.

f. Their ship from hell :)

Olivier. Really, no. Though despite his present with her mother and his past with her brother, he'd be completely capable of it. But does she need more stuff for therapy?

g. Their Song.

Bruce Springsteen, Hungry Heart.

h. The title of their biography or autobiography.

What can top the canonical Charlotte: Light and Dark? (Unless I got the title wrong...)

i. The last bad dream they had.

Err, again with the canon. Those dreams with Nate telling her the kid should die were really awful.

j. How they're gonna shuffle off the mortal coil, if they haven't already :)

I'm fine with her demise as an old lady, listening to Billy talking...

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Quark

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a. My favourite thing about that character.

We get the outside pov on humans/the Federation in every Star Trek show, but usually the character in question, whether it's Spock or Data or the Doctor on Voyager, has to learn to become "more human" in the course of the story, and/or sees being human as his highest aim. Not so with Quark. In every other ST show, Nog or Rom - both of whom I love as well - would be the central Ferengi character instead of Quark, i.e. the Ferengis who adopt Federation values, but on DS9, it's Quark, who is the conservative in a family of rebels and likes being a Ferengi, though yes, he is also a secret romantic along with being an enthusiastic businessman. He's not human (or Bajoran, for that matter), though, and he genuinenly doesn't want to be.

b. My least favourite thing about that character.

Doylist: Nothing. I love him.

Watsonian: On the other hand, were I one of his Dabo girls, I'd probably resent the hell out of his sexism and cheap wages.

c. Their favourite book/tv show/movie/play.

Vulcan Love Slave: The Revenge canonically is one of his favourite holosuite programs. He thinks Vic's is okay though doesn't understand why everyone is so wild about it - if they want to gamble and eat, they can do that at Quark's itself. Jadzia once forgot some crystal with recordings of some obscure Vulcan poet at his place, and he never returned them because he forgot - okay, so he checked out whether he could sell them as rarities, so what? Nobody bought them anyway. And then Jadzia was dead, and Ezri doesn't like Vulcan poetry. So Quark listened to them for the first time. And he liked them. Or maybe he liked the fact that you can hear Jadzia's voice at the points where the original recording breaks down, reciting the verses in between. But he hears them quite often.

d. One crossover ship for them I think would be neat.

I already wrote that Quark/Chiana (from Farscape) story...

e. One crossover universe for them I think would be even neater.

I'd love for Quark to meet the Doctor - not the Voyager one, the leading man from Dr. Who.

f. Their ship from hell :)

He loved Natima, he could have loved Pel, and he liked and was in love with Grilka - but actually living with any of them for longer than a year would have led to the kind of marriage his parents had, which means: misery for both parties.

g. Their Song.

"Come to Quark's, come! Don't walk, run!" (It's canon.*g*)

h. The title of their biography or autobiography.

"...but the stars are made of latinum!"

i. The last bad dream they had.

It's always the same one. Second occupation, only after Odo's betrayal, Rom actually dies because Quark can't pull off the breaking his brother and the others out of jail, and he has to watch the execution.

And then the Vorta won't even give him the remains to sell, as a Ferengi should, and Quark's own remains together with everyone else's are spread into space.

j. How they're gonna shuffle off the mortal coil, if they haven't already :)

As the successful proprietor of a moon and a lot of bars everywhere in the Alpha Quadrant, he makes one last trip to the Gamma Quadrant. Because, as the rule of Aquisition in question says, home might be where the heart is, but the stars are made of latinum, and maybe he wants to see that annoying shape-shifter again before he dies. And maybe just when he's arguing with some idiot who thinks he can pull a fast one over Quark about repair costs for the shuttle Quark is using, the chair next to him changes form and grows into a familiar shape with a rasping voice, and Quark says, satisfied: "Knew it" before his heart stops, and he falls forward with a smile, right into Odo's arms.

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Fox Mulder

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Oh dear. It has to be a decade since I watched The X-Files, and I only watched up to season 5 or very early season 6. Bearing this in mind:

And I've just put up a season 3 review for you to read.*g*


a. My favourite thing about that character.

Dry, deadpan humour.

b. My least favourite thing about that character.

Mulder could be unbelievably self-centred. Basically, both Scully and Skinner ended up making his wants and needs the most important thing in their lives, and he seemed to take that as his due.

c. Their favourite book/tv show/movie/play.

There is probably canon on this, but I don't remember, so, guessing: I always thought Mulder would have a thing for Raymond Chandler, especially The Big Sleep.

d. One crossover ship for them I think would be neat.

Over a decade ago, I read a great X-Files/Highlander crossover in which he was paired up with Methos, and to my amazement, that really worked.

e. One crossover universe for them I think would be even neater.

I'll go with the obvious and say Twin Peaks.

f. Their ship from hell :)

Mulder/Krychek. Not that they didn't have great chemistry, but it was an unholy mixture of murdering relatives and abusiveness, so...

g. Their Song.

"In My Life" by the Beatles.

h. The title of their biography or autobiography.

Jose Chung's Agent Renard - The Full Story.

i. The last bad dream they had.

For some reason, he was smoking cigarettes all the time...

j. How they're gonna shuffle off the mortal coil, if they haven't already :)

Nothing can top Clyde Bruckerman's prediction of autoerotic asphyxiation, so I'm not going to try.

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House.

(Have I mentioned yet that your watching this show pleases me? *g*)

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And I've just put up a season 3 review for you to read.*g*

Okay, House then:

a. My favourite thing about that character.

Intelligence married to snark married to messed up emotions pushes all the right buttons for me.

b. My least favourite thing about that character.

The stalking Stacy in s2 thing is still on the top though fighting with House being an emotional leech in general when it comes to Wilson (who is a self admitted enabler, but still).

c. Their favourite book/tv show/movie/play.

Considering House's thing for Puccini, I can't help but suspecting him of having read and loved Alexandra Dumas novels as a boy, with his favourite being not the Three Musketeers but The Count of Monte Christo.

d. One crossover ship for them I think would be neat.

Err. Define "neat" when combined with "House". *g* I can see a couple of people whom he could have interesting flings with, and some others he might conceivably fall in love with, but it wouldn't do either of them any favours. Okay then, just for the the fireworks: Irina Derevko from Alias.

e. One crossover universe for them I think would be even neater.

I loved and adored this House/Heroes crossover (http://futuresoon.livejournal.com/94667.html). Other than Heroes, I think BSG would be great. Between Laura's coming and going cancer, and the mystery of Cylon/Human procreation, House would have a few interesting medical puzzles to solve, and he could enter into snark contests with Cottle, and Lee could be his next Cameron.

f. Their ship from hell :)

House/Tritter. No contest. *veg*

g. Their Song.

House is a Rolling Stones man. Paint it Black.

h. The title of their biography or autobiography.

Gregory House: A Survival Guide, by J. Wilson. With footnotes by L. Cuddy.

i. The last bad dream they had.

He didn't dream of any cases gone wrong, or even of not having Vicodin or of his leg rotting. Instead, he dreamt of being back in school and not knowing any of the answers while the rest of the class stared at him.

j. How they're gonna shuffle off the mortal coil, if they haven't already :)

Undoubtedly while refusing anaesthesia and snarking at whoever is operating him, which causes a fatal slip...

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These are great! I so agree about the frustaion of Cristine not being a regular. And what gets me about her is how hell bend she is on keeping her secrets. She needs to learn her secrets do not protect her family -- her secrets have killed her family. But, when she still frustates me I still love her because I know it's just more stories about her in the future of the show to come.