Argh. Must go back to work.

[itsallovernow]

C'mon Gas Company. I've got a blueline on my desk and y'all are taking frelling forever.

While I wait:

Name a character and I'll tell you three (or more) facts about them from my own personal pseudo-canon.


Feel free to ask for characters I don't write, although everything I say will be made up in my head:)

Comments

[kerlin.livejournal.com]

AHAHA! First!

Aeryn, please. :)

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

1. Aeryn still doesn't understand half of the specifics of what John says, and unfortunately while a grandly symbolic (and she tells herself, somewhat idiotic Chritonesque) gesture, learning English didn't help that much. She can tell from the way he holds his body, tilts his head, walks, pauses, touches her, touches anyone what he means. But she likes the sound of his voice, the way it races over her skin, and it's convenient when she doesn't want to actually listen to him.

2. Aeryn still, and will always, think of herself as a pilot first. She gets the whole more thing, but being a pilot was never anything less.

3. For the first year of their marriage, Aeryn wakes every day wondering if she could make the choice that Xhalax made. If she could choose her son over John. Motherhood is baffling, frustration, occasionally disgusting, intermittently amazing, and still somewhat of a mystery to her, like a new duty roster that she can't quite shake. There's a day, though, when she knows, when her heart lurches and sticks in her chest and she understands how you trade one great love for another. She thanks and curses John in equal measure for this gift, frells him senseless and won't tell him why because Xhalax is not something they speak of. She doesn't want him to understand that yes, she gets it now.

Bonus: Aeryn does not regret leaving Moya when she did. She does not regret surviving, and she does not, completely, regret using Scorpius to facilitate that. She'd have changed it if she could have. But she was out of options. She's not like John, she can't make options appear out of nothing. She's a soldier. The best she's ever been able to do is use what's in front of her.

[pellucid.livejournal.com]

These are all great, but I adore number 3. But then again, I'm always a sucker for mention of Xhalax. ;)

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

Thank you!! I think the most personal canon one is the bonus, but I honestly believe #3 as well:)

[ainsley.livejournal.com]

Cam, please.

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

1. Cam is not originally from Kansas. (Rolls eyes. C'mon SG-1 writers. I mean really).

2. He went to the Air Force Academy (which I think actually may contradict cannon, but it makes me happy so I don't care. I adore minervacat's academic backstory for Cam and am happy to take that as equal canon, but truthfully, having him attend the academy lets me have him know places that are in Colorado Springs better than he would otherwise and I enjoy that too much to give it up. Plus, my relationship to the cadets was always more hate than love growing up and it makes me kind of happy to have someone like Cam imaginarily within their ranks).

3. Cam really does believe he has the best job in the world, even when no one listens to him. But it has been a struggle how to lead a group of people who were following him by choice, not just because of his rank and position. As a squad leader, his men followed his orders because he knew how to make the right decision, because they trusted him. He resents the position O'Neill put him in, and his initial reaction was to just do it himself. It takes him nearly a year, and heavy losses to figure out how to really lead THIS team. Weirdly enough, adding Vala to the mix helps because she will do what he tells her (when it pleases her to do so), but she adds an element of both chaos and shrewdness that helps. She is less focused on any one aspect of her role or mission and that adaptability, that flexibility helps Cam figure out how to finesse a particular response, how to better utilize the resources in front of him and to follow their lead as well.

Bonus: He would completely sleep with Vala, given the right circumstances or situation. Sometimes, it's so nice to have someone just as new as he is, just as much in the learning process. Plus, she's hot, and a little scary, and he likes her. He just genuinely likes her, even if she is utterly nuts.

[ainsley.livejournal.com]

I have a weird thing for the service academies, so Cam going to USAFA after high school in NC works for me. Because him being from Kansas is obviously wrong--so obviously Shanks called bullshit on it.

I take it you've spent some time in Colorado Springs?

Though...it's Vala. Who WOULDN'T sleep with her? (I do find your analysis of that relationship compelling.)

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

I grew up in Colorado Springs:)

And dude, it's so true. Who WOULDN'T sleep with Vala?

[ainsley.livejournal.com]

Ah. So of course you'd have an opinion on the cadets. Why were you anti, if I may ask?

[pdxscaper.livejournal.com]

Vala, please! ;)

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

1. Vala does not feel as bad as she should for making the villagers worship her when she was no longer a host. If a bunch of people were willing to rub your feet, and provide you with fruits and entertainment and sexual favors and elaborate spectecals and do what you told them to do, wouldn't you take advantage? She does not discuss this with Daniel, but she thinks Mitchell understands, particularly the part about everyone doing what they're told.

2. Vala has made genuine friends over the years - male and female. She has had lovers whom she cared for, it's just that her need to keep moving, to not be vulnerable was always more important. And it's easier to leave people behind if you don't geuninely care. If she weren't so heavily invested in answering the Ori threat (for personal reasons), she'd be looking for a way to move on from her current situation. Or at least that's what she keeps telling herself.

3. The bonds she's formed with each of her teammates are equally important to her, as is their goodwill and regard. They are alien to her, and she's enjoying the adaptation process, and she tries to please them when it pleases her. But she's never going to let her skills lapse. Because you never, ever know when you're going to have to cut and run.

Bonus: Vala does feel particularly attached to Daniel, but that wouldn't stop her from sleeping with any of her team members without guilt. And she doesn't necessarily see her attachment to Daniel as a sexual or romantic one, either.

[6beforelunch.livejournal.com]

Since someone already called Vala, I'll go with Daniel. *g*

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

1. Daniel knows that fearing change and needing something new are two facets that can exist simultaneously. When he finally got over (as much as one gets over something like that) the loss of his wife, he didn't quite know what to do with himself. He'd defined his actions, his reactions, his purpose around her loss for so long that he didn't feel free so much as lost afterwards. He didn't realize that he'd forgiven her, or himself or anyone for the absence until one day, he was able to look forward and see opportunity. He may still be afraid to take it, but it's there. He's seen that possibility in everyone close to him - all of his teammates, even Vala. He just hasn't decided what he's going to do about that.

2. Yes, he is still pissed off about Atlantis. Do not be asking about it unless you want to hear him rant in several languages (which doesn't impress anyone, they just think he's being pretentious, but then, most of them can only be pissy in one, so there.) He's frankly enjoying having something to be pissy about these days and Atlantis is easier than being pissed off at Jack, or Mitchell, or Vala because Atlantis is a concept and it doesn't blink or wince or hit back or cry when he's pissy about not going. He wanted to go because he wanted to leave first. He wanted to have a say in his own destiny, and to have it interrupted by Vala (who he didn't know then, who was all just lies and sex and chaos and theivery. Who was all these things he didn't get and didn't want, to have her interrupt that choice still stings. And it is not a small amazement that when she falls asleep, head on his shoulder or drolling on Mitchell's or Teal'c's, he doesn't throttle her in her sleep). But she woke him up to the fact that you have to grab agency, grab opportunity. You can't wait for it.

3. Daniel's tired of the whole thing. He's kind of ready to go be a shlubby academic in a place with tenure and a good wine bar and decent hummus. Except he's got all these... people he can let go of, even when they let go of him. And he can't go be a shlubby academic if Air Force planes are going to drop by to visit him, or aliens in crazy costumes are going to stop by his office hours (and he knows that he can't take Vala to a university because frankly, she'd be seducing the boys and teaching inappropriate classes and getting the Dean's wife drunk, and trying to explain to the bursar how to better funnel money through a secret system, but nor can he quite leave her behind).

4. Daniel loves his teammates, Jack and Sam and Teal'c, but it's not just that they don't need to talk anymore, don't need to say words outloud, that they can't. And he misses that, doesn't know how he lost it. If it's all of them, or just him, or if there's fault and blame, or just too much damage. He finds Mitchell irritating at first, and later, finds him a surprising friend. He's grateful to Vala in ways he can't explain for being someone he can say absolutely anything to, who he doesn't need any sort of filter or pretense around, not so much that he's being himself as that she doesn't give him the time or brain power to be anything else.

[6beforelunch.livejournal.com]

Oh, I like all of these, but especially #2 and #3.

[cofax7]

Mal Reynolds. Or Zoe Washburn.

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

Zoe:
1. She is a better soldier than Mal, always was. Had as much heart, as much desire to be free. And she's his second because she's never known another man she was willing to follow like she is Mal. That being said, if he gave her an order that she knew would do more harm than good, she'd ignore it. Zoe's lines have everything to do with loyalty, but she's not a fool.

2. She's never going to forgive for Wash. Not Mal, nor Simon, nor River, nor anyone. That's hers to carry, and she knows she should, but she's just not going to.

3. She and Wash would have had beautiful babies.

4. Zoe didn't fight initially because of harm to her or hers, she fought because it made sense, because she believed, and then because she was good at it. Later, it would be about her and hers, and by then, it was too late to change much of anything. She knew before Serenity Valley that her life was going to be tied up with Malcolm Reynolds, because after Serenity Valley, there wasn't any reason to go home. She had one, and Mal didn't, and so they made one together and it grew and grew.

[cofax7]

Yes indeed. Excellent.

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[simplystars.livejournal.com]

Geoffrey. [and/or Geoffrey/Oliver *vbeg*]

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

1. Geoffrey misses being an actor, but he doesn't necessarily miss acting. (His whole life is acting, or at least, his whole life is playing the role of Geoffrey Tennant and frankly, he doesn't have any room left for anyone else. He will, he could, and when he does, he realizes, that he no longer wants to be an actor anymore. He wants a different fate than Charles Kingman).

2. Geoffrey really was that good. Geoffrey was also really that young, and sometimes the two get mixed up. It's so easy to imagine being anyone when you're only learning who you are. At this age, Geoffrey would be a lesser actor, but he's a better man and for the first time, he thinks that's a worthwhile trade-off.

3. Geoffrey knows (now, and then, even if he'll never admit it) why Oliver did what he did. That love makes fools of us all. Geoffrey wanted a father, wanted Oliver's guiding hand, Ellen's luminescence, her presence, and they wanted HIM. And it was heady and giddy, and all a little too much. He knows now that it's all just family, too much too little, too soon, too late, and he's grateful for the time he has with them.

4. He loves Ellen more now, loves her differently as she's matured - as she's lost her girlishness, as her habits have become annoying instead of charming. He loves her like a person, instead of like an abstract, and while it makes them both a bitch to live with, it is, in the end, better.

[life-on-queen.livejournal.com]

Veronica Mars.

Also, I'll return the favour.

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

1. Veronica is still very much processing the trauma's of the year after Lily died. She's going to be doing so for a very, very long time.

2. Veronica knows that happiness isn't tied to romantic love, but sometimes it's nice to have someone share half the burden. Unfortunately, she can't quite shake the difference between what she wants and what she needs.

3. Veronica is not cut out for a career in structured law enforcement, which is not going to keep her from pursuing it. It's not going to end terribly well, but it will give her closure, open up her life to new paths.

4. Logan is never going to be good for her. She's also never going to quite be able to let him go because above all else, they're always going to have Lily between them.