Character meme

[bop_radar]

*takes a deep breath*

OK, radioreverie wheedled effectively... and clearly I don't have enough to do (*hysterical laughter*), so I'm doing that meme that's going around.

Name a character (from a show I'm familiar with) and I'll give you three (or more) facts about them from my personal canon/fanon. (Personal amendment: with characters you think I know well, you may also choose an aspect of their lives so I have a focus.)

ETA: You can ask for a character that's already been asked for--I don't mind. It might take me a while to get to them, but I promise I will do so.

Comments

[radioreverie.livejournal.com]

Lois Lane!

[frelling-tralk.livejournal.com]

Lana Lang

[bop-radar.livejournal.com]

I have no idea why these are the things that first came to mind.

1. Lois knows she's got no fashion sense. So she fills her wardrobe with outfits she already knows 'work' for her: jeans, bright tops (they make her feel cheery), boots. When she got started work with Martha she shopped methodically for a set of appropriate suits. But it doesn't come naturally. She avoids wandering into clothes shops on a whim--apart from the fact that she's got better things to do with her time, disasters usually ensue...
2. Sometimes Lois wishes she had been allowed to have a pet. On one of the bases there had been a dog, a mongrel cross of a thing, which she'd befriended. She secretly likes Shelby, though she'd never tell Clark that. She'd happily live with him despite her allergy--though she'd reserve the right to gripe about it.
3. Though she keeps her own counsel on this matter, Lois has a really bleak view of the world. She doesn't think world peace will ever be achieved, she thinks humanity commits more attrocities than acts of beauty. She thinks the western world is deluded in thinking its society is one of 'equality'. And yet rather than despair about this, it just makes her more determined to fight the minor injustices she sees in her own life. Lois is used to fighting losing wars: she finds that position familiar and comfortable.

*flees*

[radioreverie.livejournal.com]

Lovely! Especially #3. Brilliant. :D

[bop-radar.livejournal.com]

1. Lana doesn't put a lot of stock in appearances. She knows they can be deceptive. She admires courage in others, people who speak their minds and those who wear their hearts on their sleeves.
2. Since childhood Lana has felt alone in the world, despite Nell's affection and the goodwill of those around her. She thought she would never get used to that loneliness, but lately she's realised that she's shifted into resignation about it. Rather than bringing despondency, this shift has given her a certain steely strength.
3. Lana was never embarrassed with Lex's staff, but once when Chloe visited she'd asked Lana about it--if it was weird having 'servants'. It was only then that Lana wondered if she should feel more uncomfortable about them. She knew they got paid good wages with excellent terms--she'd asked Lex. But ever since then, she's avoided them unless she has a specific request (which she makes politely and decisively). The staff have got used to quietly moving out of her way as she moves around the mansion.

[radioreverie.livejournal.com]

*tiptoes back in*

Wesley Wyndam-Pryce

[skuf.livejournal.com]

Clark or Leoben - you can choose :o)

[latteaddict.livejournal.com]

I'll make it easy for you. Lee Adama. I would like to know your personal canon/fanon on his academy years :)

[http://users.livejournal.com/wisteria_/]

Ooh, I'm going to make this one tricky for you! Samuel T. Anders.

(I know you're not exactly a fan, so I'd be really interested to hear your take on him. Because of that, feel free to disregard this one. :)

[bop-radar.livejournal.com]

Eeep! You would do that to me... sheesh, Wesley's not a character I think a lot about. *scratches head* Accordingly, these are a leetle wacked.

1. Wesley reads extremely dry tomes on medieval warfare before he goes to sleep at night. He doesn't know why he does this.
2. Wesley likes exquisitely good fresh food--a perfectly ripe avocado, organic apricots that leave no floury aftertaste, freshly baked bread. These are pleasures he doesn't often have time to indulge.
3. Wesley runs like a girl. People told him this in high school. Once upon a time he actually practised running in a different way. But then he decided it wasn't worth the trouble. Now he just runs.

[bop-radar.livejournal.com]

Hahahaha! That's ... er... quite the choice.

1. Clark reads a lot of self-help books. He knows he doesn't really understand the way people behave so he takes what they have to say very, very seriously. But what he reads still confuses him.
2. Clark likes hitting things. Hard. He likes the way things feel crumpling under his fists. Most things in his life are too fragile, everything has to be so delicately handled, and there's no margin for error. Sometimes he imagines Metropolis emptied of all its population; he imagines running--superspeeding--through the streets and punching holes in the vacant buildings, watching them crumble. When he hits something that holds firm he sometimes wishes he could go on hitting it forever, until he felt something.
3. The one thing that Clark thinks about every day without fail is Lex. He feels guilty about this. It should be his parents (but he never knew them), it should be his father (but Jonathan's memory is so fixed, a part of him at a deeper level, he doesn't need to think about it), it should be his mother (but he loves her with words and deeds, not thoughts).

[skuf.livejournal.com]

Eh, maybe I don't get this meme: this isn't canon as much as fanon, yeah? I mean, you don't really think canon!Clark reads self-help books, right?

[bop-radar.livejournal.com]

Well yeah, it's personal fanon. But actually canon!Clark does read self-help books--remember Lex caught reading the one in my icon? As well as Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus. *lol*

[bop-radar.livejournal.com]

HA! That is not easy AT ALL! It's harder, in fact. *frets* I'm making myself do the meme because other friends said they found it rewarding, but it does not come naturally to me at all. When I think of characters outside of what we know in canon, I just see this infinite range of possiblities and kind of blank out on them. *whinges*

OK, ok, I might have to sleep on this one. *is pathetic*

[fionn-a-bhair.livejournal.com]

I had to ask - Kara Thrace!

[skuf.livejournal.com]

Dude, that's true, he did! My bad :o)

[bop-radar.livejournal.com]

Bop is not as batshit as you thought! :-p

[bop-radar.livejournal.com]

Cool! That one I'd love to do. *pounces* Sam perplexes me so I've no idea how this will connect with other people's thoughts on him, but I like the idea to 'put him in order' in my own mind. ;-)

1. Sam hates politics and political discussion. Back before the Cylons attacked he thought all politicians were corrupt anyway, and now there simply isn't time for that shit. He doesn't exactly trust the military either though--at the top they're just like politicians anyway. But at least they get stuff done.
2. Sam's always been a take-each-day-as-it-comes, seize-the-moment kinda guy. He's prided himself on it, and it's worked for him--both as a sportsman and as a fighter. But when he finds out he's a Cylon he wonders if he was programmed that way, programmed to keep his tread light and not get too entangled.
3. Sam's used to being liked. He was in the popular gang in high school, and he proved as good at the off-court publicity as he was at the on-court moves. But despite being likeable he's never had many close friends--just lots of acquaintances. He's used to people trusting him (sometimes he wonders why they do so so easily), but he's also used to them evaporating when he really needed something. That's why he never expected Kara to come back and rescue them.

[c-mantix.livejournal.com]

Martha Kent, because she's not really as much of an open book as I thought...

[serenography.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad you're doing this meme, boppy.
And c_mantix already called the one I wanted - Martha.
So, how about Chloe?

[literaryll.livejournal.com]

Lex!

[norwich36.livejournal.com]

Oh, I really like these, especially #3.

[norwich36.livejournal.com]

You are very brave! Despite your encouragement, I don't think I could do this meme. I'm not completely sure I *have* personal canon for many characters.

If you're up to doing another, I see no one has given you Lionel yet.

[slinkling.livejournal.com]

This meme really looks like so much fun. I'm going to have to climb on board too. And I've loved your answers so far; as always, you've made me like Lois more than the show does. (I adore your bit about her lack of fashion sense.)

What can you tell me about Angel? (Keeping in mind that I've never seen his spin-off show.)

[bradcpu.livejournal.com]

Faith.

I just had to ask.