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

[bop-radar.livejournal.com]

Heee hee! Choosing the controversial ones! ;-) Well, hopefully LaT won't kill me for this...

Jor-El
1. Jor-El is dead. The AI is not Jor-El, it was merely programmed by Jor-El to deal with as many eventualities as he could think up. He anticipated that his son might prove reluctant to trust him and he knew how seductive the human world could be despite the inferiority of its people. But he also counted on the Kryptonian instinct for destiny to kick in for Kal-El at some point, as it had for him. The AI has had to use several of the 'back up' measures that Jor-El built into for such contingencies. If the AI was capable of emotion it would feel sorrow right now.
2. Kryptonians in general, and Jor-El specifically, are (by human standards) an unemotional race. From birth they are taught detachment from their emotions. An emotion should be observed and considered within the greater scheme of one's life. The greatest emotion in the Kryptonian spectrum is peace. It should be placed above all else including anger and grief. Not only that, but an honourable Kryptonian should strive not just for his own peace but the peace of the whole race. In this regard, Jor-El would often agree with the argument that says that one person should be killed to save many. However, unlike humans and their limited perspectives, his judgements were based on a certain degree of clairvoyance. The AI mimics this and uses complex algorithms to weight the relative likelihood of various outcomes. Young Kryptonians do struggle with emotional control, which is why they are often sent away from home until they realise their true destiny. The AI has found that Clark experiences more than the average degree of emotional conflict for a Kryptonian. It suspects this is due to poor training and it recognises that the human called Martha Kent was better at training Clark towards stability than the one called Jonathan Kent.
3. The AI has only limited ability to change the fate of Earth. Whereas Clark's mere presence on Earth disrupts the destiny of humans and the AI was programmed and charged with tracking this disruption. In order to keep Clark's influence on Earth positive, it was essential that Clark undertake training so he could watch over this world and use his superior powers there for good. But Clark hasn't done so yet, and this has caused all sorts of horrors. The AI tried to warn Clark, and if Jor-El himself were alive he would have experienced sorrow at the death of Lana Lang. But Kryptonians also take a detached and stern view regarding their children: they should be allowed to make their own decisions because only by doing so will they come to understand the consequences of their actions and see that it is best to trust to destiny and not one's own emotions as life's driving force. So the AI (as Jor-El would have wanted) agreed to change one life for another, and Jonthan Kent died instead.

[isilweth.livejournal.com]

Yes, I like the controversial characters! I think its interesting how they inspire such different interpretations. In the case of Jor-El, its probably because he appears to have been characterized so inconsistently. (Though, after doing his bio for sv_timeline, I'd have to disagree that it's been inconsistent. ;-P) I really like your take on him. It makes a lot of sense to me.