*cracks knuckles*

[rivkat]

Okay, I need something to get my fannish writing muscles back in shape (we aren't going to talk about the rest of me). So, from bop_radar:

Name a character (from a show I'm familiar with) and I'll give you three (or more) facts about them from my personal canon/fanon.

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[norwich36.livejournal.com]

Lex Luthor.

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1. Lex absolutely hates having to lie to people who have any business knowing the truth. Thus, he avoids it whenever possible. He just slants the truth, or says things that sound like answers but aren't really. He is an excellent witness in depositions when LuthorCorp gets sued, because he never gives up a thing.

2. Lex doesn't remember it, but he used to believe in God. He stopped when his mother's mental state didn't improve after he took the blame for Julian's death. That was supposed to be the deal. And other than Clark Kent, Lex doesn't give second chances.

3. One reason Lex is so focused on the alien threat is that it gives meteor mutants a potentially decisive role in saving the world. And whenever people say "meteor mutants are dangerous," Lex knows they're right and knows they're talking about him. It's important to be dangerous for a reason.

[alwaysaddled.livejournal.com]

Dana Scully

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1. Scully generally voted Republican. Her dad always did, and she's never seen any reason to reject his judgment. (Eventually she stopped voting, but that was painful for her, even though she knew by then it didn't matter.)

2. Scully wore frumpy clothes at first because she thought it would help her be taken seriously. Then she wore amazing clothes because she thought it would help her to be taken seriously. And then she dressed well because it was time to stop waiting to be taken seriously.

3. By the time William came, Scully was so far from rational on anything conspiracy-related that she was almost back to sane. She knows -- and would even tell anyone who asked, if there were anyone to ask -- that giving William up was scant protection. Of course any of their many enemies could easily find him. But the fact of the matter was that she couldn't take care of an infant and do her job, and plenty of people could keep William alive, but she was it for Mulder. If she could get William back now, when he wouldn't require constant care, she would.

[samsom.livejournal.com]

Alex Krycek!

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1. Krycek didn't know who he was working for half the time, and it pissed him off. Not as much as Mulder did, but a lot.

2. He thinks that Scully shooting Mulder was the most hysterically funny thing he's ever seen. He's pretty sure that, if Scully had been the one with the obsession over Samantha, she might even have found her. And yeah, he'd do her.

3. Krycek is not dead. But his missing arm still itches and he'd kill at least ten people to scratch that itch.

[harriet-spy.livejournal.com]

Buffy Summers.

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1. Buffy knows quite well the difference between dumb and ignorant, and knows that, with regard to many things the world values, she is the latter. For a while it was a "why bother?" thing with her, since all she was ever going to do was be the Slayer. To some extent that's still true, since she's going to be doing the leadership thing until she dies for good. She'd like to try college again, or at least she thinks about it wistfully from time to time, but she'll never do it. And that's one reason she doubts she and Angel will ever work it out. That little flash of disappointment in his eyes when she missed some cultural reference never stopped hurting, and it never will.

2. She thinks about Willow that way sometimes. Knows it would be a mistake. Never thinks about Faith that way, because even if it would be a mistake it might not matter.

3. She once asked Giles how old the oldest Slayer got. He changed the subject. She figures she's been it for at least three-four years.

[legionseagle.livejournal.com]

Mal Reynolds?

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1. Mal likes wanting Inara because it can't happen, so it won't. There's a great comfort in having something to put his back against. He knows how that's supposed to feel. The fact that it hurts to want her and not get her is less pleasant, but it's part of the deal.

2. Mal isn't sly, but if he were, he'd go for Jayne a hundred times before Simon. No doubt Simon's prettier, but who wants to work that hard? And Simon would be all concerned for Mal's pleasure. A man wants to be with someone who's enjoying himself. Bed's not a place for helping others. (Kaylee's entitled to her choice, of course. But she's always let her head be turned by pretty things.)

3. Not that he wanted to get shot and nearly die. But it makes him feel right, deep in his bones, that Serenity's got nearly as much of his blood in her as he does.

[giandujakiss.livejournal.com]

Scully!

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1. Scully totally slept with Ed Jerse. The pantyhose? A continuity error.

2. Scully cheated on Jack once, about three months before they broke up, with a guy she knew from med school. What did you think "resentful" meant?

3. Scully never once cheated in school, though she was sorely tempted one time when she had to make up a really tough organic chemistry test and was left alone in the professor's office, where there was a copy of the textbook. She didn't because she knew she'd never forgive herself. She got an A in the course anyway.

[mecurtin.livejournal.com]

Martha Kent.

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1. Of course she thought about Lionel, how it would be with him, even when Jonathan was alive. A woman would have to be dead not to, when Lionel was standing so close and touching her all the time. That doesn't mean she did anything wrong or ever would have. She was raised to understand very well that there were lines not to be crossed, boys not to be brought home -- and even if she did marry one, she knew that a lot of them shouldn't be brought home for a reason. Thinking never hurt anyone; acting often did. So she behaved with the utmost propriety, and brought that extra energy to the place it belonged, the bed she shared with Jonathan.

2. She had a cat named Snowball when she was a girl. It was a white Persian-mutt type, nearly blind, and it got hit by a car when she was twelve. She's always wanted another cat, but cats haven't thrived in Smallville since 1989. Maybe they have some special vulnerability to Kryptonite. (Given what she knows now, she tries not to eat much food grown in Smallville unless it's from their farm, which she knows is clean.)

3. Jonathan taught her to use a shotgun, but what she really wants is a handgun. Despite what happened to Senator Webb, she's seriously thinking about getting a concealed carry permit for when she's in Virginia, where she has a brand new tiny apartment.

[moonprincessnat.livejournal.com]

Fox Mulder

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1. Mulder reads poetry. Modern poetry, even. The search for meaning, for patterns, in what seems to most to be obscure is something that always interests him.

2. If he were king of the world, Mulder would drive a red convertible. The only passenger allowed would be Scully.

3. Mulder knows he is happier in hiding with Scully than he could be anywhere else. He's not all that happy. People who think that happiness is the main goal of life just haven't figured out the stakes.

[geekturnedvamp.livejournal.com]

Christian Troy.

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1. There is a big part of Christian that believes that Kimber was the only woman with whom he could have spent his life. He thinks about her almost every day -- but only for a few seconds. Then he goes looking for the next piece of pussy.

2. Christian cannot imagine himself getting really old. He expects, however, that surgical techniques will continue to improve, so that he won't have to look like a death mask to hide the wrinkles.

3. Christian thinks that, if Wilbur wants to be a doctor when he grows up, that will mean that Christian is a good father.

[ladydey.livejournal.com]

I couldn't choose so:

House - 3 Facts about: Wilson

(and/)or

Angel the Series - 3 Facts about: Lindsey McDonald

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I will try Wilson if I can; for now, Lindsey:

1. Lindsey's favorite class in law school was tax. It's complex but orderly. There are right answers. And the smarter you are, the better you are at finding the one path through all the regulations that will save your client money. It's a little like playing guitar -- you need skill and practice, but then to really do well there's an artistry to it, a feel that can only be innate, not learned.

2. One of Lindsey's favorite perks at W&H was the laundry service. People would just come to his apartment, pick up his clothes, and return them the next day clean and pressed. For big parts of his childhood, Lindsey didn't even have a washing machine, and cleaning his own clothes always made him feel incompetent. Having service so he didn't need a washing machine meant that he'd really arrived.

3. Another of his favorite perks was the sex. After he left home, he'd been so busy clawing his way up that he'd rarely had time for courting, which left him with the type of girls who'd go home with him from bars just because he was really hot. That was fine for what it was, but the staff at W&H was very good-looking, and generally prepared to enter into long-term arrangements in order to improve their own security. So Lindsey had better choices at W&H, and he took advantage of them.

[fenwic.livejournal.com]

Dean Winchester.

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That's a hard one, because I'm not sure I have a handle on Dean yet. (And isn't that a shame.)

1. Dean is not as upset about Sam's powers as Sam thinks he is. Dean kind of likes the idea that Sam will get new powers if he practices. Sam's going to need all the help he can get, especially a year from now.

2. Dean likes Buffy more than Angel. In his world, supernatural is almost always evil, and he didn't much approve of how Angel blurred the lines (Buffy too, in later seasons). He's barely willing to give Lenore the benefit of the doubt, and he doesn't approve of fiction that gives civilians the idea that demons and werewolves can be fluffy bunny-types. Nonetheless, he'd totally do any of the women, especially Faith and Cordelia. Maybe not later-seasons Buffy, when she'd lost all her padding; he likes girls he can really get a grip on. (Buffy still has a special place in his heart; he wants to be a fireman when the floods roll back too. But physically, she's less his type than Faith and Cordelia.) He never really got into Firefly, but he likes that the Reavers are irredeemably dangerous. Doesn't matter how they got that way; might even be a sad story and not their fault. They can't be fixed. They can only be dealt with. He really gets that.

3. Cherry pie is classic, but rhubarb pie is better.

[amandajane5.livejournal.com]

Clark Kent!

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1. Clark loves Shelby because Shelby loves Clark, unconditionally. His mom loves him unconditionally too, but that means something different for humans. It means that even if she's disappointed in him, she still loves him just as much. Shelby is never disappointed in him. He is all love. From what Clark knows of Kryptonians, the spectrum of loving goes dog -- human -- Kryptonian. He guesses that the concept of unconditional love was pretty much unknown on Krypton. In later years, he will occasionally think to himself (though never admit to anyone else, not even Lois) that a big reason to save the Earth is to keep the dogs around.

2. Clark loved geography in middle school. Now it's important to know where things are so he can get there at top speed, wherever "there" is, and so he's memorized a bunch of atlases. It's less fun now, because it's work, but he still really likes contour maps. They're so orderly.

3. There are things Lois loves as much as she loves him, and that's what makes her who she is, the person he can love. But Lana loved him more than anything else, and sometimes he misses that mutual obsession even though he knows it wasn't good for either of them, or for the world.

[shiba-inu.livejournal.com]

Willow (Rosenberg?). The red-headed witch from BUFFY.

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1. There really aren't naturally red-headed Jews. Willow is pretty sure that none of her Sunnydale friends knew that. Tara always ignored the boxes of dye in the bathroom, whereas Kennedy helps her do touchups. Now that she's had a magical dye job, Willow is more committed to red hair than ever, achieved by good old-fashioned chemical technology. It's an assertion that she's not just made of magic, after all.

2. If she weren't a witch, she'd work at Google.

3. Gonzo is her favorite Muppet. He may be crazy, but he's not ashamed. Willow admires that. Sometimes she envies it.

[chase820.livejournal.com]

Gregory House

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You do pick the tough ones!

1. House has a box with every holiday card in it Wilson ever sent him. If it were ever discovered, he would claim he was just keeping evidence of how supremely emotionally over-the-top Wilson is -- a man so in need of emotional rewards from other people that he, not his wives, always took charge of holiday cards. But it's not ever going to be discovered.

2. It's not that it means something to him to live at 221 Baker Street. It's an amusing coincidence, no more. Nonetheless, the address is what caught his eye in the paper, all those years ago, and he did turn down a place with a slightly better location. But that was only because the landlady at Baker St. at the time was really hot.

3. House can shave himself with a straight razor, though he doesn't. Sometimes he imagines what it would be like to do for another person.

[hulamoth.livejournal.com]

Hi, you don't know me at all, but I'm a fan or your stories and I just wanted to tell you how much they mean to me before I go and delete my journal.

I've only read what you've written for The X-Files fandom, and I know that was a long, long time ago, so I don't know if they even matter to you anymore, but they're important to me, and I wanted to thank you for writing them and sharing them. It's some of the best fanfic I've come across in any fandom, with the most consistently good writing. I liked the stories because they were fun to read, but I never felt like I was wasting my time - even though fanfic is, to me, just an escape.

The stories were interesting conceptually, and I could actually believe that Scully and Mulder were the intelligent people the show would have had us believe them to be.

So again, thanks for writing. I hope you continue - in whatever fandom - because you are a talented writer.

[rivkat.livejournal.com]

Thank you! The stories definitely matter to me, and I'm really pleased to hear that they still mean something to you. I always believed Mulder & Scully were just as smart as they were supposed to be, and if that made them a little crazier, that was just part of the deal.

[attaccabottoni.livejournal.com]

I can't make up my mind, so pick either: Lana or Lionel. :D

[rivkat.livejournal.com]

Great icon!

1. Lana never thought she looked all that good in pink. But until Lex sent her to Paris, she was dependent on Nell for a shopping budget, so even when she wanted to change how people saw her she was stuck with the wardrobe. It's one of the things that makes her appreciate just how valuable money is, not merely for buying things but for being things.

2. Lana wanted a baby girl. Lana was going to raise her to do whatever she wanted and damn what other people thought about it. Lana was going to take her to museums all over the world, and spend almost no time in Smallville. Lana was going to give herself a second chance.

3. She still has all the gifts her stalkers over the years gave her. She keeps them in a box and never opens the box, but it goes where she does. She even took it to Paris.