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

[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.