meme cause I'm lazy
May. 26th, 2012 12:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
intrikate88I have actual things to post about probably, I dunno, but whatever, later. Here, have a meme until then. From rthstewart. (PS Rth I wanted you to check out this awesome lady because you could probably drop her in your fic somewhere or I dunno but anyway here.)
1. Pick a pairing or a character
2. Ask me my particular headcanon regarding something about them
3. Post to your journal to share your own headcanon!
1. Pick a pairing or a character
2. Ask me my particular headcanon regarding something about them
3. Post to your journal to share your own headcanon!
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Date: 2012-05-26 04:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-05-26 05:58 pm (UTC)Mostly, though, I still think that despite everything, that girl who had her baby taken from her, who told Elijah that life wasn't worth it without love, is still in there. But she had to change. She loves what she loves- and yes, I do think she loves both Salvatore brothers, just as Elena does. I don't think she's hindered by the morality of monogamy. But she is a survivor, and always has been; self-sacrifice never has been and never will be her style. You can work with her and you might get results, but you can trust her that she's only trustworthy as long as you're her best opportunity. She's a complete opportunist and the second a better deal comes along, she's on it.
I also think that there might be some small part in her that wants to mentor new vampire!Elena and show her the world
and have sex wtih her. But I think Elena would have to watch out that on this roadtrip of self discovery she didn't end up stranded on the side of the highway somewhere near St. Louis.no subject
Date: 2012-05-26 07:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-05-27 12:06 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-05-27 02:02 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-05-28 03:07 pm (UTC)River Tam... as a child she was never good at making friends; she flew too fast through levels of education to make them and the other students resented her anyway, which was why she was always so close to Simon: she'd never outgrow him. She struggled with knowing more than adults but still being a child, and treated as such; she wasn't always good-natured, and her parents got the brunt of her angry teenage years starting when she was about eight years old. The feelings confused her, since she could understand why they would still see her as a child, but something in her just did not understand why, when her intelligence most definitely exceeded theirs, they would not really listen to her. She was their prized genius daughter, but who pays serious attention to the assertions of a trophy? When the trouble began at the academy that she had had such high, such pitifully desperate hopes for, she sent coded letters home, and she was not surprised that her parents saw nothing wrong with them. She could have been writing meaningless Chinese words for all the attention they paid: once she was six and they no longer understood her, they could simply chuckle that she was just too smart for them and block their ears. But Simon never did. And so Simon was her only hope. There was literally no one else in the universe who could hear her.
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Date: 2012-05-28 05:56 pm (UTC)As for Black Widow and Edmund [shall we just call him Crow? He's Crow, isn't he?], Natasha is on to him within ten minutes of asking for directions to Rackeve because who else would speak Russian with a Moldovan accent except a British spy? That worries her because SHIELD thinks their cousins across the pond are riddled with high level moles and she's not going to trust this man as far as she could throw him. Edmund knows who she is, because who else could she be, and he's pissed because in a bidding war for that Soviet defector, the Americans are going to win. As it turns out, they are both being played by the KGB and barely manage to get a boat out of Pest in time.
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Date: 2012-05-28 06:10 pm (UTC)And the truth is, Edmund can speak Russian better than that, he can actually mimic about three different accents (Crow was always more than just code) and he knows the quickest way to find the Black Widow is to look like the kind of spy whose arse she could hand to him. Natasha's out for information because she knows that SHIELD wants her, British intelligence is probably as full of holes as Swiss cheese, both of them are as likely to trust a defector as they are a double agent, so if this British agent leading her on wants to think he's getting information out of her, she'll let him go on with the questioning- it's her best trick, after all
in bed.And as they hide under crates and watch Gellért Hill disappear around the bend in the river, they come to the conclusion that basically everyone they work for is terrible and then at some point get in a muddle trying to figure out how many years each of them has in espionage experience. Because it's definitely too much for a couple of spies in their twenties.
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Date: 2012-05-28 12:34 pm (UTC)Margaret Minton. Her childhood/education/their effect upon her character.
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Date: 2012-05-28 02:53 pm (UTC)She's actually me.Margaret grew up around a lot of men. For some girls, it would have driven them into a quiet female corner, never to be heard from in inappropriate times again, but she had a streak of rebellion and ambition in her that didn't allow for it. It got her into trouble as a child; it got her into far more trouble as an adult. She had a standard education but she read far too much, because she wanted to know everything. Sometimes she had to discover what she wanted to know for herself instead of waiting for books on it, so she did. (More trouble: she didn't care, and she learned several interesting swear words from her father because of it.) Another effect of being around so many men was that she never quite developed many boundaries of propriety when it came to them and sees nothing out of the ordinary with speaking up and making her desires known, even if they happen to be for Amelia's husband.
She sees that all of life is a competition. First she had to beat out O'Connell as the primary reporter on the Peabody-Emersons' doings, she had to compete with all the other male reporters, and she fought her way to Egypt as well. But the only thing about having to be better all the time and fighting for it is that you reach a very lofty, very alone place, where the only person who might be on your level is the backstabber coming from below. Which was why Sethos was so intriguing- yes, alright, the family connection to the man she first admired helped, but mostly that he wasn't competition: he was at the top of his own game like she was of hers, and he wasn't afraid of her. She could shout against his methods and he could kidnap her and lock her up when she's in danger, but it isn't because he's trying to push her out of his way, or to look down on her delicate female self; it's because he believes she's strong enough to put up with the drastic, dramatic ways he lives. They have complete faith in each other's strength and agency. They're forces that can't be stopped except by equal forces- and they really kind of like where they've stopped.
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Date: 2012-05-28 03:02 pm (UTC)I know she's you.Love. Love for all of it.
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Date: 2012-05-28 03:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-05-28 03:16 pm (UTC)