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i. The Effect of Dimensional Transcendence on Mozzarella Cheese, or: Diane Duane writes fic about Five and Nyssa making pizza. (Complete with recipe at the end.) My heart. I am not-so-secretly shattered that DD hasn't written roughly a million Fifth Doctor novels. On the other hand, she has written a handful of Star Trek novels ...? And, like, novels about Spock. I may be kind of doomed.
ii. Also, because I am obviously feeling talky tonight: Name any character in any fandom that you think I would be passingly familiar with. In return, I will give you five pieces of my headcanon or a ficlet, my choice. (Or everyone can just reply 'Methos' because I will never, ever run out of headcanon.) Have at it!
ii. Also, because I am obviously feeling talky tonight: Name any character in any fandom that you think I would be passingly familiar with. In return, I will give you five pieces of my headcanon or a ficlet, my choice. (Or everyone can just reply 'Methos' because I will never, ever run out of headcanon.) Have at it!
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Okay, five more, as separate from those twenty other bits of Methos headcanon:
1. He only thinks he's about five thousand years old. But he didn't really start counting years until it became fashionable to do so, which makes for a lot of tricky guesswork. Also, he has the uncomfortable idea that he was estimating a few millennia quite some time ago. The time he carbon-dated his journals, though, the oldest dated at around 3100 BC, so his estimate probably isn't too far off.
2. He's an incurable romantic. Really, truly, tragically incurable. He tries swearing off love every few centuries, but by now he's mostly given up trying. Anyway, eternal foolish hope is a surprisingly good motivator.
3. He really hasn't felt guilt since the eleventh century; or, more precisely, while he's still fully capable of feeling obligation, he's discarded self-flagellation and apology. Feeling bad about something isn't going to erase it, and Methos has enough regrets that dwelling on them borders on dangerously unhealthy.
4. More or less by default, he's also applied this to his day-to-day affairs: he never apologizes for anything. His actions speak for themselves, and he's not going to waste time defending them.
5. The no-apologies-or-explanations policy sometimes collides with another of his defense mechanisms, which is deflecting pretty much everything with a glib retort. He's perfectly capable of honest conversation -- in degrees, of course; he was, for example, perfectly honest with Alexa -- but he needs a damn good reason to do so.
I COULD GO ON. /o\
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headcanon: hm. Eleven, please!
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1. She is, while not singlehandedly, still quite heavily responsible for shaping the Doctor into what he is now. She's committed enough to social justice and doing the right thing that she managed to talk the Doctor around to her way of thinking, which is pretty damn impressive.
2. She really, really loved traveling in the TARDIS. There was a short while when she was concerned that actually living history was going to be awful, but it turned out that academic fascination did come with a healthy sense of adventure attached.
3. She actually wasn't too fond of Ian before they were unceremoniously kidnapped by the Doctor. She was polite to him, of course, and thought he was a decent fellow, but all told he seemed rather too boring to be anything more than a colleague.
4. She is, therefore, quite surprised to find herself married to Ian only a few months after they finally return to the Earth of their own time.
5. She doesn't miss traveling with the Doctor, and she doesn't miss the two years they skipped on the journey home, either. She's learned how to make the best of wherever she is, and to her mild surprise, she's very happy.
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And, headcanon-- Spock, please?
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1. In the universe that existed before the Time War, the Master didn't have the drums in his head. He tries not to think about that too hard; he remembers having them since childhood, but they were only a real motivating factor since he was Yana, and boy, does that piss him off.
2. He still managed to go progressively more batshit insane before the Time War, though! He kept having these annoyingly flawed bodies and rebooting himself, and occasionally getting killed by angry subjects -- which, while annoying, was in fact quite useful, since obviously a version of himself that could be so easily assassinated was very flawed indeed -- and he ran out of bodies before he meant to, at which point he panicked and decided that somehow this was all the Doctor's fault.
3. He actually loved inhabiting Tremas' body. Not physically having a Time Lord brain was a little annoying, but having to keep working within one fairly fragile body made him much more creative than he would have been otherwise. Frankly, it was fun.
4. Lifetimes ago, the Time War would have been funny: the idiots on the Council actually loomed him a new Time Lord body complete with a full set of regenerations, and there's so much he could do with that opportunity ... but maybe there's a reason for the limited number of regenerations per Time Lord, or maybe all those years as Professor Yana fundamentally damaged him, but either way, before everything else now the Master is just damn tired.
5. He never stopped loving the Doctor, except perhaps the first time he ran out of bodies and then ran out of everything but hate. The nice thing about second chances and a new full set of regenerations is that this time, when he's falling apart and becoming not much more than a mad skeleton, he doesn't run out of love. Knocking the High Council back into the time lock is the most satisfying thing he's ever done.
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Eleven! Okay.
1. He really, sincerely believes that bow ties are cool. So is the fez, which goes without saying. He's thinking of taking Amy and Rory honeymoon shopping as an excuse to spruce up his wardrobe, and he hopes that Amy will be sufficiently distracted with her own shopping; he isn't sure he trusts her sartorial advice. And he really doesn't think he could pull off those skirts the way she does.
2. Sometime around when he bumped into River while she was masquerading as Cleopatra, Eleven discovered somewhat to his surprise that he liked her, and even trusted her a little, not out of guilt and obligation but out of genuine interest. His relief is immeasurable.
3. He's quite glad that he doesn't remember meeting himself when he was Ten. He's not very anxious to have that self-reflection. On the other hand, it's mostly out of kindness to himself: this is the first time in three bodies that he actually likes himself, and it's a good feeling.
4. He imprinted on Amy while he was still new, just as she imprinted on him as a child. He likes that. He'll be all right when she goes, but he hopes it's not for a while yet, and in the meantime, he really loves her.
5. This is also the first time in a while when he's not afraid to love: Amy, Rory, himself, the universe. It's freeing.
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Um. This was really difficult. George Cooper?
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Oh, don't get me wrong, I ship Ian/Barbara something fierce. Just not right away, because Ian is a dweeb and at the beginning Barbara is much too good for him.
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FEEL FREE TO YELL AT ME ABOUT BEING WRONG, THAT IS THE BEST PART. :D
1. He really hated family get-togethers when he was little. Bellatrix liked to practice her cursing on him. As a result, come Sorting time, he did just as much "Not Slytherin not Slytherin" as Harry later did; Sirius loved to encourage the popular opinion that he'd gone for Gryffindor out of rebellion, but actually, it was just to get the hell away from Bella.
2. Sirius wasn't really a total ass until he met James. Then they enabled the shit out of each other. It was awesome.
3. He stuck all those pictures of Muggle girls up in his bedroom to piss his parents off. A time or two he was also tempted to put up some boys -- or David Bowie, at the very least -- but if anyone was going to disown him from the Black family, it was going to be him, and expressing any preferences contrary to those that would continue the family line would've got him a fast kick out of there.
4. He really did think Remus was the one leaking Order information. Even years later he still had no idea whether he'd decided that because he was young and stupid and hurt that one of his best friends was being cagey about missions to him of all people, no matter what Dumbledore's orders about cell secrecy were, or if there really was just some werewolf prejudice still lurking in his hindbrain. Both options are equally awful.
5. He snapped when he realized it was Peter. Just went totally bonkers and started laughing and didn't even try to catch Peter. He's sure the ability to turn into a dog had something to do with his surviving Azkaban, but really? Azkaban probably made him saner. There was nowhere to go but up.
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She did? WHERE? How? What happened?
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*GETS READY TO YELL*
1. Anything Sirius does that is motivated by Bella is okay by me. :D :D
2. I think he was worse until he met James. I think he was this horrible, fucked-up, desperate little pureblood kid with half shitty opinions and half just wild confusion, and when he met James, James taught him to be better, but in all the wrong ways.
3. lol I like this explanation.
4. YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
5. ;faskdf;asd;fa;sdfasdl;faksd;flak
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Also, the ErrantryWiki has an entry on him, with photographic evidence, so you know it's definitely Five: Man in the Crossings bar. :D
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And for my character, I choose MEG THATCHER. (Come on, you're not surprised.)
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What is your headcanon about--oh, hell, I can't decide. Your choice--Methos, Peter Burke, Benton Fraser or Remus Lupin.
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OR JUNE I'M NOT PICKY
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And because we're talking about DD and you've written my favorite YW fics, Tom Swale.
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Meanwhile, without peeking at anyone else's character names: Merriman Lyon. (Unless...this is probably an extreme long shot, but for some reason my obscure-Canadian-TV-series memory jogged itself just now and mentioned Adderly. If that series ever crossed your radar, you can do Adderly instead of Merriman -- if not, as I suspect is much more likely, Merriman will do very well indeed.)
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That said, one should also not miss Dark Mirror, in which she visits the NextGen mirror-verse long before the TV franchise went there in DS9 -- and writes scarily convincing alternate Shakespeare in it. Also, there is a bit in that book that hints strongly at a connection between the Trekverse and the Young Wizards universe.
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1. Bowties ARE cool, esp. if you're skinny and young. Or, well, they're hipster. IDK, he's working it. I think he could work Amy's skirts too though, so. :P
2. YAY.
3. Oh man. *heartclutch*
4 & 5. Not enough awwww in the universe.
God, I like just having an *adorable* Doctor for awhile, you know?
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