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[skygiants]

Why not. *thieves meme, sells it on the black market*

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

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[shati.livejournal.com]

HRG!

[wickedtrue.livejournal.com]

Howl!

I know you are Sophie. I say HOWL!

[gramarye1971]

Archibald Craven. ^_^

[skygiants]

BENNET/SANDRA OTP AHOY.

1. He married Sandra because of her optimism. He also feels - or felt, at least - that contact with the Harsh Realities of the Cruel World would shatter that optimism beyond repair. Hence a large portion of the Teacup Philosophy.

2. His feelings towards Mr. Muggles are mixed. On the one hand, he's useless and irritating, and he occasionally suspects the Company to have put a camera or something in his collar. On the other hand, he's part of the family and therefore Must Be Protected, at lest until he becomes a danger to other, more important members of the family. This is also the reason that he kept on feeding Lyle's two pet guinea pigs long after Lyle himself had ceased to remember to care for them.

3. He seriously encouraged Sandra's interest in show dogs after they brought Claire home so that she would have somewhere non-Claire towards which to direct her maternal impulses. Just in case.

4. Every weekend that he isn't away, he makes sure to have Sunday afternoon free to spend with Lyle (though Lyle does not always take advantage of this, and Mr. Bennet doesn't push). This is because he knows that, of necessity, Claire takes up more of his attention.

5. Tangential to HRG, but there really is a camera in Mr. Muggles' collar.

[skygiants]

Also, that wasn't the icon I meant to use. This was! I am too lazy to fix.

[shati.livejournal.com]

You do much better HRG than I do. Feeding Lyle's guinea pigs! Ohhh, HRG.

[skygiants]

:O You make it hard! Um. *ponders*

1. He makes it a point to get along very well with Megan's husband, who is a very nice if not blindingly intelligent man who never understands why his wife gets so worked up over her little brother.

(That point is solely to annoy Megan.)

2. He stopped playing rugby because he no longer had the time, with his studies. Completely coincidentally, of course, this was around the same time that one of his teammates got his nose broken and spoiled his looks forever.

3. One of his favorite things about living in Ingary is that men can dress so much more interestingly there.

4. The reason that Sophie doesn't know why was so adamant about Sophie going to Wales to stay with Megan in Castle in the Air: he wanted her to have the baby in a hospital.

GWYNNE FEEL FREE TO TELL ME IF I AM BLINDINGLY OOC WITH ANY OF THESE.

[skygiants]

Ooooh. *giggles* This is hard, when I can never even remember how exactly he is related to the Lennoxes! (Well. I can remember. But book and musical canon are different, and I am afraid I have said different things at different times.)

1. At some point in the future he will of course want a grandchild. All the same, part of him hopes Colin will never marry. Too much risk (for Colin).

2. Colin was not the name of any family members of his; Lily picked the name.

3. He went through a phase when he was young when he would lie about his last name instead of saying that he was Craven.

4. Misselthwaite used to have a stables, but it hasn't ever since Archibald became Master. He can't ride - or doesn't, at least (though possibly he could if he tried) - and doesn't see the point of keeping one around, much to the eventual disappointment of Colin and Mary. It's now a storage shed.

5. Freud would have a field day with Archibald, but Archibald would find him a vulgar and irritating man.

[shati.livejournal.com]

*sneaks back in through the side door and looks cute* Claire and Xander?

[skygiants]

:O I am sure that is fale, but cannot rebut it until I have seen you do HRG. DO HRG!

[shati.livejournal.com]

I did HRG! Gen asked for him.

[wickedtrue.livejournal.com]

I know, I know, it's because I'm an evil person. I accept it. You still like me. It's just deep, deep down now.

Now you should tell me about Sophie. :D?

[skygiants]

.........well, as I have just requested another one of you, it is probably only fair. *heaves dramatic and put-upon sigh*

Claire:

1. She watched The O.C. religiously for the first two seasons (note: I do not watch The O.C., so I generalize), and occasionally wondered wistfully why her life and family couldn't be that interesting.

2. She had her first crush when she was seven, on Mario Lopez from Saved By the Bell (which she saw in reruns), and was more disappointed than she will ever say to find out that really he was, like, thirty.

3. Lyle tried to take one of her teddy bears once when she was nine and he was six (I may have ages off, but around there), and she defended it furiously. The argument ended in tears. A few years later, she felt guilty, and gave it to him for his birthday, but by that point he had outgrown them and was very visibly disappointed not to have gotten a Playstation game instead.

Xander:

1. He totally had a security blanket when he was five. It's still somewhere in his room.

2. He removed the picture of Principal Flutey from his ninth- and tenth-grade yearbooks, because . . . eugh, bad associations. This does not mean that he has never occasionally wished that hyena-people would eat Snyder.

3. Once, when he was pissed at Buffy and Willow, he spent hours ranting to Amy the Rat. When she turned back into a human he really hoped she had forgotten everything he said.

[skygiants]

- oh that's right! For some reason I doubled Gen's request for HRG with the request for Claude . . . in my head . . . ANYWAYS YOURS FOR HRG ARE GOOD. Teacups! Makes sense!

In that case, I request of you Mama Petrelli and/or Kimiko.

[shati.livejournal.com]

Claire's #3 BREAKS MY HEART.

And hee, Xander. At least a giant snake ate Snyder!

[skygiants]

Sophie I was prepared for. *dignified*

1. Lettie doesn't know that Sophie scared off at least two of her would-be swains when they were all in school, having decided that they would be Bad For Her.

2. One of Sophie's teachers in school told her once that fairy stories all carry useful life lessons. That teacher, Sophie thinks these days, has an awful lot to answer for.

3. Sophie actually had a sort-of sweetheart in school, before she had to leave. He was exceedingly proper and very dull, and she was somewhat relieved to be too busy to see him afterwards.

4. She keeps an eagle eye on the career of Jane Farrier and the Count of Catterack. Whenever they have an argument she feels guilty for hours. (Poor Jane Farrier, who doesn't know why she is the subject of such close scrutiny, thinks Sophie is exceedingly odd.)

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

I have to respectfully disagree with the first half of 1). Archibald doesn't actually like children. He never did. He thinks he'd be happier if his line died out.

(He wouldn't be, and he won't be, but that's a different story.)

Regarding 3): I'm not sure I see that one either. I don't know who he'd ever met who'd ask him about his name.

4) Yes, but he wasn't the one who commanded the stables be taken down. Dr Craven suggested it would be a good idea, and Archibald just went with it. He didn't care enough to make the decision himself.

You're absolutely right about 5), though.

[skygiants]

Bennetfamily storylines break my heart on a regular basis, so I figured it was appropriate. :(

Xander and Claire would get along so well, by the way.

[jezrana.livejournal.com]

*innocent* Rhea of the Coos?

[skygiants]

*giggles* Well, 5.) was easy.

I still hold out on 3.), though. I am thinking when he was a wee schoolboy of seven or so. Which means that there would be a lot of name-asking/sharing!

[shati.livejournal.com]

... *beams*

Xander: You know, it's funny. I used to have this other superpowered blonde cheerleader best friend.
Claire: Yeah, I used to have this other goofy dark-haired gay best friend!
Xander: Uh --

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

But he was never a schoolboy, that's the thing! He was too ill to go to school,so he had tutors.

[skygiants]

But you know most of my Rhea!canon already!

Namely:

1.) She's never had a child, but at one point she had an abortion. I think it was probably the first abortion she ever performed.

Also, it was Cuthbert's lovechild.

2.) She sold a lot of wives certain herbs to put in their husband's food ranging from unpleasant to fatal, but up canon-time or very close before she didn't do it unless she knew that there was a reason.

. . . it didn't necessarily have to be something that someone else would consider just cause for murder, but it would have to be enough to fill Rhea's personal standards.

3. Someone left kitten!Musty at her doorstep as a cruel joke - witches' familiar, etc. She kept him out of perversity. (The kid who left him met with an extremely embarrassing, though nonfatal, accident after.)

[skygiants]

. . . Xander would ask Claire to Homecoming, and Claire would happily say yes.


And then midway through the dance she would be UTTERLY SHOCKED to find out he was not in fact gay, and everything would suddenly get awkward.

[skygiants]

Oh, true.

Well, he would have if he'd gone! *stubborn*