Meme time!

[rthstewart]

I am going to see Avengers again!  knitress and econopodder are Avengers virgins so I'm excited and we WILL stay to the Very Last Scene.  You know the one, which I've so wanted to write but I figure there's more Shwarma fic at this point than Steve/Tony first time fic.  Also I've been to Budapest!  

There's been some interesting meta going about readers, writers, reviewers, entitlement, and concrit in lady_songsmith 's journal on Fandom Economy.

Anyway, then edenfalling presented this meme so tag, you're it!


1. Pick a pairing or a character
2. Ask me my particular headcanon regarding something about them
3. Post to your journal to share your own headcanon!

(And if you want to include OCs from fic and such, bring it on!)

Comments

[ilysia-039.livejournal.com]

Just to say: AVENGERS. Ahhh, yissssss, so lovely. My thoughts on that movie are, eloquently: ALL THE FEELS.

Have fun!

[intrikate88.livejournal.com]

JEALOUS. I want to go see Avengers again. And damn I want some good Budapest fic because I miss Budapest, it's a wonderful city and no fic I've read yet seems to be written by anyone who has even seen it.

Meme! If you know any of her backstory, what is your headcanon on Natasha Romanov and her view of love, and if you don't, what's your headcanon on how Leia's ideas of Darth Vader evolved after she found out he was her father?

(I've just been feeling more and more cheated lately that Luke and Vader got some resolution in their relationship but Leia who had even MORE history there got absolutely nothing.)

[lady_songsmith]

Hmm, meme! Tell me about Mara Jade and Karrde -- just their business relationship/history, not ship.

[lotl101.livejournal.com]

I just saw it for the first time yesterday and I'm already trying to find people to watch it with again.

And for the meme, what does Steve think of Tony? Not as a hero or anything like that, but as the son of someone he worked with.

[snacky]

I'm interested in your headcanon for Peridan!

[harmony-lover.livejournal.com]

Avengers was amazing. I want to see it again so much! Fantastic. As for headcanon, talk to me about Rilian. I know almost nothing re: your headcanon for him.

[rthstewart.livejournal.com]

The thing about Natasha is that she is Russian. So she knows all about the deep longing of the romantic Russian soul. She thinks it's utter crap. Yuri Zhivago was an idiot. There's nothing the least bit romantic about a dying swan and your lover throwing himself into a lake. Anna Arkadyevna throws herself in front of a train because Vronsky is sleeping around. The Wall coming down, perestroika, and glastnost were all very romantic too. What the romantic idealists didn't understand was that the cut off the head but the body remained and another head just grew in its place. All those romantic Russian souls end up dead and Natasha is a survivor.

As for Leia, she wracks her brain for months after Endor. She hopes that maybe when Vader interrogated and tortured her on the Death Star, when he stood and watched Tarkin give the order that destroyed Alderaan, that maybe, there was some hint of goodness, restraint or concern. There's nothing that can redeem him or his actions. Luke (says) he had those moments with the man their father was. Leia resents that, too. It's just one more way in which Luke was given what she was not -- training, a name, heritage. Yes, she had privilege and love, but in the end, Kenobi and that Jedi Master didn't train her. She didn't have a secret Jedi guard. Kenobi didn't give her their father's lightsaber.

Eventually Leia does her research. It is difficult because Palpatine destroyed so much. Anakin Skywalker was famous and people she knows now, people like Mon Mothma, knew of him then. Leia is not certain she likes the man she learns of. He sounds brilliant, impulsive and arrogant.

Han will tell her sometimes, when they are alone, when she is angry about the latest political stupidity or ignorant diplomat, that it's the Vader in her. That her husband can say this of the creature who tortured him speaks to Han's goodness. She might, with enough time, maybe acknowledge, as Luke does, that he died a redeemed man. The wrongs to herself she might forgive; but Leia can never forgive for what Vader did to Han or for standing by as Alderaan died.

[rthstewart.livejournal.com]

I NEVER ship Jade and Karrde. I think Karrde maybe, might have had a little crush on her, but not much. There's real loyalty there. He's her mentor and sponsor and he trusts her completely, which is something new for Mara. She rewards him with her loyalty. Once he learns of her Jedi abilities, he will certainly exploit them -- that's Karrde. But Mara stays because she really values Karrde. He respects her and she knows that's a rare thing. Apart from her husband and son, Karrde is the most important -- positive-- relationship in her life.

[harmony-lover.livejournal.com]

I love the headcanon for Leia! Awesome. Does she resent what Luke has and at the same time respect it? That is, does she love her brother more for the man he's become with all of that training, even though she resents that he's gained so much that she hasn't?

[rthstewart.livejournal.com]

Someone eventually points out to Steve that one reason why Tony was such a jerk was because he grew up with his dad obsessed about Captain America. Tony, when he was a little boy, tried using living room pillows and blue-rimmed plates as shields so that maybe his dad would like it and love him more. His dad got mad when he dropped the plate.

That helps Steve understand. Steve also understands better why Tony is so affected when Phil dies. Tony wasn't a solider committed to their cause. He is now. Tony changed over a day. He was willing to sacrifice himself to save them all and Steve respects that. Tony also recognized him as the leader of the Avengers. Steve still isn't sure how that happened, but he's grateful for it. He just won't tell Tony in case it's an accident.

[rthstewart.livejournal.com]

Rilian is a poster child for the need for medication and therapy. He doesn't get it and Rilian has a miserable life. He marries for the sake of his kingdom and is virtually impotent in his marriage. He dies young, still feeling the effects of the Lady of the Green Kirtle.

[rthstewart.livejournal.com]

Well, there's probably real Peridan from the books and then there's the Peridan I invented on the fly for H&M. In H&M and so I guess head canon, Peridan is a very disreputable actor by training. He grew up in traveling shows, I think, knowing magic tricks and performing roles and sneaking around during scenes under benches to pick pockets. He has enormous social intelligence and he's a chameleon, he can blend into any environment, play a role, and knows a lot about the polite cultures of Archenland, Calormen and the islands of the Eastern Sea. He speaks 6 different languages. He's loyal to Narnia for the moment because it pays well and it's a good gig. He is an alcoholic and will always be a bit of a thief. You always count the silver after Peridan visits.

[vialethe]

What's your headcanon on how Peter and Susan reacted to Edmund's birth? And do you think Edmund was a fussy, whiny child from the start, or did he only begin to become a little jerk once Lucy came along and took the baby status away from him?

[hungrytiger11.livejournal.com]

I would go for just about anything about any of your OCs...Mary and travel.

[rthstewart.livejournal.com]

Oh we've actually talked about this one before insofar as Edmund's relationship with his father is concerned -- in one of my stories, Edmund is off to America where John is and John has, to date, been an absolute ass in the story.

As for Peter and Susan, Edmund's arrival is a huge disappointment. The two of them were terrific babies -- they slept regularly, ate regularly, were beautiful, happy, shining babies and toddlers and met every milestone. Every night, they were presented to their father for a peaceful hour of play. Peter was the ELDEST BOY and Susan was THE BEAUTIFUL GIRL and it was all exactly as a father would wish it. Peter and Susan are SO EXCITED to have a baby to take care of. Susan would like a little sister so she can braid her hair and Peter really wants a brother so they can play with toy soldiers but Susan is still happy when Edmund is born. They are going to HELP Mum, they are going to take care of the baby and it's all going to be lovely.

Except Edmund is a fussy, difficult, colicky baby. He spits up a lot, he is a night owl, every piece of clothing itches and he just won't sleep unless Mum holds him. (Today we would say he has mild lactose intolerance and sensory intolerance). He won't let Peter hold him and or let Susan change his nappy. They are crushed. Father looses his wife and his ideal home is in chaos. Mum doesn't get more than 2 hours of sleep in a row for months.

And then Lucy comes along and she is sunny, happy, Peter and Susan get to be the big brother and sister they wanted to be while Mum still has to deal with the very slowly improving Edmund. This family dynamic will simmer for years, until Narnia.

[rthstewart.livejournal.com]

By the time she was 10, Mary had lived on three continents. Her mother died in J'burg (in childbirth), she had her appendix out in Hong Kong in a botched procedure that nearly killed her (she does not have a mole/wood knot on her back but does have a terrific abdominal scar), and Mary got in heaps of trouble at the natural history museum in Berlin -- they were constructing a brachiosaurus and she wanted to see the work in progress (and nearly brought down the humerus on top of her.) She knew that going into the Kem Kem basin alone to look for dinosaur bones was foolish so she did try to be sensible about it, but her Arabic was terrible. When the Arab man (she found out later he was from a tribe in Egypt) began discussing her plans, it was embarrassing. Mary had to concede that she really didn't know quite how far it was to the Kem Kem basin from Marrakech, that she didn't know know just how much water she would need for a day and she did not have a map. He never told her no, she couldn't do it, only that it would be foolish to do it like some silly English girl on a holiday romp. It took them two months of proper planning but then they did get to Kem Kem and she found some wonderful theropod teeth and claws. One day, Asim came back from a bazaar with some old Army packs. It took almost a year but they slowly acquired the materiel so that they were never without basic necessities should the opportunity for adventure suddenly present itself. Mary would never let an opportunity go by unseized.

[econopodder.livejournal.com]

Wow. Even *I* know that this is . . . exactly . . . accurate.

[rthstewart.livejournal.com]

Heh. I bet you feel like you walked into the middle of drunken cocktail party goers engaged in a vigorous conversation about... something.

And now my secret plan to lure you out for coffee last night becomes plain. We could have hashed all these out and harpooned that plot bunny about Artoo knowing all, seeing all, and saying nothing. Because I cannot believe that Leia would not want to know about her mother. Luke, well, that I could see because "the Force tells him so." But there's no way Leia is going to not want to learn more. Even the possibility that she was the product of rape would not faze her -- in fact, she probably expects that, given Vader, and so she wants to know about and maybe help the victim. She has vague memories of her mother (oh George, you screwed that up too) and Luke does not. Ahem. I need to get back to my other sandbox and there's no way I'd feel comfortable writing SW EU given how much this has all been tromped over, but... ok never say never. Seriously, I once started a fic that begins with Luke and Leia training and somehow they get the idea to ask Artoo the direct question. There are so many ways this knowledge could have come to Leia. Padme is pregnant. Everyone knows she is pregnant. Surely there are rumors of who the father might be. Assuming Jar Jar is still alive, he was there when Padme and Anakin met for the first time. Mon Mothma knows Padme and Leia really well. In fact the attempt on Padme from the beginning of AOTC would be known and probably that the Jedi provide her with protection. Her capture on Geonosis with Anakin and Obi Wan would be known. I think it strains credulity to invent ways in which someone wouldn't put two and two together.

Stop me. I am not going back to the EU. There's no way I'd ever get it right and people would ream me for screwing up EU canon.

Help.

[(Anonymous)]

'E'

The Pevensies first kisses, either in Narnia or England. Thanks!

[rthstewart.livejournal.com]

Oh gosh... I'm going to have to think about that one. And you didn't specify human, or whether or not it was romantic/sexual. Can I just say, "Mum" and leave it at that?

Probably not.

And it's LOVELY to see you!

[econopodder.livejournal.com]

I was so torn about coffee last night -- definitely wanted to, but also knew I needed to go home and collapse (esp. since I had to be at church by 7:15 this morning to coordinate on my Pentecostal reading in Welsh).

I think there's plenty of remaining tromping space (all senses meant). Nobody who matters would ream you, at all. And I do, do, do, want to read the fic I proposed about Ep4 from Artoo's viewpoint.

Oh. And as a playtoy for you and your friends here :-), may I offer this description from one of my FB friends of both Aragorn and Thor: 'Fierce, sweet, and scruffy.'

Enjoy playing with THAT one, ladies.

[adaese.livejournal.com]

Sallowpad the raven.

[harmony-lover.livejournal.com]

Poor Rilian! You don't think much of him, do you? It's hardly the poor man's fault that he would need therapy and medication after all of that.

[rthstewart.livejournal.com]

Ravens have been known to live in the Tower for as long as 40 years. Ergo, Sallowpad is a very long-lived Raven.

There's a colony of crows and ravens, away south, in Calormen, east of Ilkeen. One of the temples to Tash feeds the birds as part of a sacred duty. A colony of Crows and Ravens, refugees from Jadis' persecution, have settled there, sharing the food with non-speaking birds, listening for news at the ports, and biding their time.

The Crows and Ravens hide in plain sight. They never abandon Narnia. Two Ravens were at the first Council called the day Aslan sang Narnia into being. Another of their kind, the Jackdaw, told the first joke. The Black Birds remember that day, remember their duty to advise Narnia, remember that Jadis was there that very first day, remember the day she returned, and have vowed to one day see her gone.

So the Black Birds of the North wait and watch, Sallowpad with them.

By the time the Four arrive, Sallowpad has flown the width and breadth of the Known Lands. He has flown as far east as the Lone Islands and all the way north, to Ettinsmoor. He knows the Western Wilds and beyond. He knows ever tree and Tree of Narnia. When he hears the rumors that a Daughter of Eve arrived in Narnia and then a Son of Adam, he knows. He begins to whisper the words that stir every Narnian heart, "Aslan is on the move."

And when Aslan does arrive, Sallowpad has no compunction. He flies up to the Lion, bows low, and asks to take his place in the Lion's council.

[rthstewart.livejournal.com]

Seriously, I think Rilian had a wonderful childhood and then the Lady of the Green Kirtle takes him and uses him for ten years in the most unspeakable and terrible of ways and no, I really don't think that sort of trauma is something anyone would recover from. Certainly not easily. Her use of him is really, REALLY dark, really as evil as anything in the series, and I just cannot seem him ever recovering from it without the sort of aid that would not be available to him. It's tragic, but unfortunately, I think likely.