Character list meme responses
Jan. 21st, 2014 03:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
healingmirthlist meme
1) Rachel (Justified)
2) Anwar (Sinbad)
3) Rosa (Brooklyn 99)
4) Abby Sciuto (NCIS)
5) Zoe (Firefly)
6) Allison Reynolds (Breakfast Club)
7) Keller (Oz)
8) Hilarion (Frontier Wolf)
9) Karen (Love Actually)
10) Eli "Weevil" Navarro (Veronica Mars)
11) Radek Zelenka (Stargate Atlantis)
12) Carlos 'Cougar' Alvarez (The Losers)
13) Matt Ferrell (Live Free or Die Hard)
14) James Hathaway (Lewis)
15) Eames (Inception)
Most of these got pretty long, yikes.
fromomens
4 (Abby) & 6 (Allison) adopt 8's (Hilarion's) baby!?
The guy seems... nice. He's the one that Abby sees first, because he's leaning against the plate glass window of the conference room in the lawyer's office. That's not why she likes him of course. Obviously you can't tell anything about a man from how he leans. Unless you're Gibbs. Gibbs could probably tell.
No lie, I totally would have actually written this story if I could figure out how to come up with a baby without killing some poor lady character off (or Hilarion, boooo) since I already did that for my Lewis fic. You don't want to know how much time I spent reading up on the restrictions on adopting children from Afghanistan or Iraq. Or trying to figure out whether I could make some sort of less-than-legal adoption work with Abby being law-enforcement-adjacent. Eventually, on Hilarion's side, I settled on a Western-ish sort of casual lady friend and an unplanned pregnancy. You didn't ask any of that! So, let's assume baby, and some manner of non-agency adoption through friends of friends and move on.
Because Abby would totally adopt! Allison would totally adopt! But I think they would also end up with a decent-sized foster family and probably adopt children who were older or otherwise harder to place. Which was brought me back to trying to figure out how that could jive with Hilarion without killing off the mother. or Hilarion. Boo. Maybe this is Hilarion's Big Screwup. And then he doesn't know, or at least thinks he doesn't know, at this point in his life, how to do anything but be in the Army, and even that's questionable.
And post-birth open adoptions can be tricky and confusing, but Abby hopes that it'll be something they can talk about with all their kids as they grow up, and so she spends a lot of time talking to Hilarion and the mother. A lot of time. Way more time than Allison has for other adults, and birth parents in particular, because even if she totally respects biological parents who decide that adoption is the best option for their unborn child, she's still absolutely got Issues. They're getting better.
1 (Rachel) & 5 (Zoe) - space pirates! how does that go?
Pretty well, I'd think!
No, but seriously, really well, right? Clearly Rachel is post-law enforcement because of some nebulous Corrupt Government reason. So they're pirates and probably the helpful sort of of secret human transport as opposed to the trafficking type.
They both kick ass and take names, and their ship is clearly also named something awesome that I can't think of right now. I'd like to think they find Wash and Kaylee anyway.
frommuccamukk
2 (Anwar), 10 (Weevil) and 15 (Eames) go on a quest. Who is the Chosen One, who is the loyal side kick, and who switches sides in the middle?
Eli's life can't ever be just normal, can it? Like, he's got about eight cousins who he sees at least once a year, and they're all fine. Eli? His high school career gets turned on it's head by Nancy Drew, and just when he thinks that's over, he starts having these stupid visions. With his luck, he survived high school just to die of a brain tumor, and even though he's actually got decent health benefits with his shitty job at Hearst, he avoids going to the doctor for a while, since he doesn't have, like, headaches or blood pouring down his face. He's busy enough avoiding it that he doesn't notice that his grandmother is watching him, but not much gets by his abuelita. She may have a bunch of beliefs that he doesn't exactly follow, but she's also sort of never wrong.
So. Eli. Visions. Quest.
Anwar is frankly sort of over this shit, but at least there hasn't been a giant serpent trying to kill him yet, and he does like to be useful.
There are a few people who can keep Eames in line - no, check that, there are a few people who can convince Eames that it's worth keeping himself in line, but in this case he was strictly hired for his expertise, and there's always room for a better offer, particularly with people who aren't all that well tied in to his other networks.
fromtaeli
Three (Rosa), seven (Keller) and eleven (Radek) are in a love triangle. Who ends up with whom? (Or, would they be able to exist as a triad? If so, full triad or V?) Why did they choose the way they did?
My perpetual headcanon for Keller - possibly not supported by canon, because I haven't watched an episode in ages, and I forget half of what he did - is that he'll do pretty much whatever to get what he wants, but he's not obviously a sociopath until it's useful, so in this universe maybe he avoids anything that ought to send him to jail for the next 500 years.
The problem with Radek is that Rosa can not get a read on him. He's sort of adorable, and detail oriented, which she appreciates, but there are times when she's convinced that he's totally in awe of her, and then there are whole weeks where she only passes him for five seconds in the hall, if that, and he doesn't even look up, much less respond to her greeting. Courtesy of the days when he won't shut up, she knows he's some sort of theoretical physicist in residence at Columbia, that he has family somewhere else in the city, Queens, she thinks - more recent immigrants than he is, but he's newer to the city than they are. And he loves them, but they drive him absolutely mad, so he needs to live more than a five minute walk away. He purposely moved to have the most annoying bus-subway-bus connection possible from their home to his apartment.
The building's superintendent, Keller, is less subtle, and not at all a puzzle she's interested in solving. He'd absolutely hit on Rosa when she moved in, but she'd always felt like he'd had an eye out any time they talked, making sure someone noticed that they were flirting. Well, that he was flirting. She's never been interested in being an ornament.
She's sure he's got a record, and like almost everyone with that sort of record, he's probably got at least twenty other things that he wasn't caught for. He's got a bit of a temper, even if she's only seen him take it out on inanimate objects. He'd probably be a great lay, but almost definitely not worth the hassle. Fucking your super is right up there with insulting your waiter before your food comes out.
Keller had likewise given up on Rosa in relatively short order, but Radek presents the same sort of puzzle to Keller that he does to Rosa. Any time Keller can catch Radek's attention, he'll get Radek backed into a corner, lean against the wall and watch him while he talks. If he stares at Radek's mouth long enough (and sometime it takes a good five minutes, but it's worth it) eventually Radek will notice, and he'll blush, and lose his place in whatever he was saying. This is all just fine, because Keller's never got any fucking idea what the words coming out of Radek's mouth mean, whether it's the physics, or the news from his cousin's job. Doesn't matter, Keller doesn't need to understand, he just wants the attention. Rosa's never going to look at him like that, and she may have the true patience for Radek that Keller lacks, but Keller's got focus.
Argh, polyamory is complicated when people have such different moral codes! There's no way that Keller would be willing to split Radek's time and attention, but he would obviously be in to having both Rosa and Radek. Keller would definitely "win" Radek without outside intervention, so it comes down to whether Rosa judges Keller to be worthy, and that's a total coin flip for me.
Fourteen (Hathaway) and nine (Karen) go on a road trip. They see thirteen (Matt Farrell) attempting to thumb a ride. Do they pick him/her up? What happens next?
Karen is by far James's favorite relative, even if relative is hardly the term - she's his aunt of some sort by marriage, since divorced twice over, on his mother's side. But once upon a time, when he was 16 and she was 35 at a do for his grandmother's 60th, she had caught him smoking and not told his parents, which he very much appreciated.
He's never been easy around children, but he likes them better when they can talk, and he has great faith in Karen's ability to raise children to not be horrid little twerps, so he agrees to go with her to drive them up to... Inverness? IDEK. Someplace far, and England takes more effort than I'm willing to put in, post that international adoption debacle I got myself into upthread.
Matt's hitching a ride back from, let's say some music festival, and James knows how that goes, plus he's fairly certain that he could take Matt in a fight. He's waiting at a rest stop that they pull into, and unsurprisingly still there when they're ready to pull out. Karen would never pick up a hitchhiker on her own, but she always wants to - they might be interesting, and it'd be a really good story! She convinces James to do it. James makes Matt empty out his pockets before letting him into the car.
And then... I don't know, Matt's probably just headed to Heathrow to fly back home, but maybe he's not. Maybe he's working some sort of project in the UK, and because there's a minor character in an episode of Lewis that I'm desperate to hook up with someone snarky, maybe Matt stops in Oxford and that happens.
1) Rachel (Justified)
2) Anwar (Sinbad)
3) Rosa (Brooklyn 99)
4) Abby Sciuto (NCIS)
5) Zoe (Firefly)
6) Allison Reynolds (Breakfast Club)
7) Keller (Oz)
8) Hilarion (Frontier Wolf)
9) Karen (Love Actually)
10) Eli "Weevil" Navarro (Veronica Mars)
11) Radek Zelenka (Stargate Atlantis)
12) Carlos 'Cougar' Alvarez (The Losers)
13) Matt Ferrell (Live Free or Die Hard)
14) James Hathaway (Lewis)
15) Eames (Inception)
Most of these got pretty long, yikes.
from
omens4 (Abby) & 6 (Allison) adopt 8's (Hilarion's) baby!?
The guy seems... nice. He's the one that Abby sees first, because he's leaning against the plate glass window of the conference room in the lawyer's office. That's not why she likes him of course. Obviously you can't tell anything about a man from how he leans. Unless you're Gibbs. Gibbs could probably tell.
No lie, I totally would have actually written this story if I could figure out how to come up with a baby without killing some poor lady character off (or Hilarion, boooo) since I already did that for my Lewis fic. You don't want to know how much time I spent reading up on the restrictions on adopting children from Afghanistan or Iraq. Or trying to figure out whether I could make some sort of less-than-legal adoption work with Abby being law-enforcement-adjacent. Eventually, on Hilarion's side, I settled on a Western-ish sort of casual lady friend and an unplanned pregnancy. You didn't ask any of that! So, let's assume baby, and some manner of non-agency adoption through friends of friends and move on.
Because Abby would totally adopt! Allison would totally adopt! But I think they would also end up with a decent-sized foster family and probably adopt children who were older or otherwise harder to place. Which was brought me back to trying to figure out how that could jive with Hilarion without killing off the mother. or Hilarion. Boo. Maybe this is Hilarion's Big Screwup. And then he doesn't know, or at least thinks he doesn't know, at this point in his life, how to do anything but be in the Army, and even that's questionable.
And post-birth open adoptions can be tricky and confusing, but Abby hopes that it'll be something they can talk about with all their kids as they grow up, and so she spends a lot of time talking to Hilarion and the mother. A lot of time. Way more time than Allison has for other adults, and birth parents in particular, because even if she totally respects biological parents who decide that adoption is the best option for their unborn child, she's still absolutely got Issues. They're getting better.
1 (Rachel) & 5 (Zoe) - space pirates! how does that go?
Pretty well, I'd think!
No, but seriously, really well, right? Clearly Rachel is post-law enforcement because of some nebulous Corrupt Government reason. So they're pirates and probably the helpful sort of of secret human transport as opposed to the trafficking type.
They both kick ass and take names, and their ship is clearly also named something awesome that I can't think of right now. I'd like to think they find Wash and Kaylee anyway.
from
muccamukk2 (Anwar), 10 (Weevil) and 15 (Eames) go on a quest. Who is the Chosen One, who is the loyal side kick, and who switches sides in the middle?
Eli's life can't ever be just normal, can it? Like, he's got about eight cousins who he sees at least once a year, and they're all fine. Eli? His high school career gets turned on it's head by Nancy Drew, and just when he thinks that's over, he starts having these stupid visions. With his luck, he survived high school just to die of a brain tumor, and even though he's actually got decent health benefits with his shitty job at Hearst, he avoids going to the doctor for a while, since he doesn't have, like, headaches or blood pouring down his face. He's busy enough avoiding it that he doesn't notice that his grandmother is watching him, but not much gets by his abuelita. She may have a bunch of beliefs that he doesn't exactly follow, but she's also sort of never wrong.
So. Eli. Visions. Quest.
Anwar is frankly sort of over this shit, but at least there hasn't been a giant serpent trying to kill him yet, and he does like to be useful.
There are a few people who can keep Eames in line - no, check that, there are a few people who can convince Eames that it's worth keeping himself in line, but in this case he was strictly hired for his expertise, and there's always room for a better offer, particularly with people who aren't all that well tied in to his other networks.
from
taeliThree (Rosa), seven (Keller) and eleven (Radek) are in a love triangle. Who ends up with whom? (Or, would they be able to exist as a triad? If so, full triad or V?) Why did they choose the way they did?
My perpetual headcanon for Keller - possibly not supported by canon, because I haven't watched an episode in ages, and I forget half of what he did - is that he'll do pretty much whatever to get what he wants, but he's not obviously a sociopath until it's useful, so in this universe maybe he avoids anything that ought to send him to jail for the next 500 years.
The problem with Radek is that Rosa can not get a read on him. He's sort of adorable, and detail oriented, which she appreciates, but there are times when she's convinced that he's totally in awe of her, and then there are whole weeks where she only passes him for five seconds in the hall, if that, and he doesn't even look up, much less respond to her greeting. Courtesy of the days when he won't shut up, she knows he's some sort of theoretical physicist in residence at Columbia, that he has family somewhere else in the city, Queens, she thinks - more recent immigrants than he is, but he's newer to the city than they are. And he loves them, but they drive him absolutely mad, so he needs to live more than a five minute walk away. He purposely moved to have the most annoying bus-subway-bus connection possible from their home to his apartment.
The building's superintendent, Keller, is less subtle, and not at all a puzzle she's interested in solving. He'd absolutely hit on Rosa when she moved in, but she'd always felt like he'd had an eye out any time they talked, making sure someone noticed that they were flirting. Well, that he was flirting. She's never been interested in being an ornament.
She's sure he's got a record, and like almost everyone with that sort of record, he's probably got at least twenty other things that he wasn't caught for. He's got a bit of a temper, even if she's only seen him take it out on inanimate objects. He'd probably be a great lay, but almost definitely not worth the hassle. Fucking your super is right up there with insulting your waiter before your food comes out.
Keller had likewise given up on Rosa in relatively short order, but Radek presents the same sort of puzzle to Keller that he does to Rosa. Any time Keller can catch Radek's attention, he'll get Radek backed into a corner, lean against the wall and watch him while he talks. If he stares at Radek's mouth long enough (and sometime it takes a good five minutes, but it's worth it) eventually Radek will notice, and he'll blush, and lose his place in whatever he was saying. This is all just fine, because Keller's never got any fucking idea what the words coming out of Radek's mouth mean, whether it's the physics, or the news from his cousin's job. Doesn't matter, Keller doesn't need to understand, he just wants the attention. Rosa's never going to look at him like that, and she may have the true patience for Radek that Keller lacks, but Keller's got focus.
Argh, polyamory is complicated when people have such different moral codes! There's no way that Keller would be willing to split Radek's time and attention, but he would obviously be in to having both Rosa and Radek. Keller would definitely "win" Radek without outside intervention, so it comes down to whether Rosa judges Keller to be worthy, and that's a total coin flip for me.
Fourteen (Hathaway) and nine (Karen) go on a road trip. They see thirteen (Matt Farrell) attempting to thumb a ride. Do they pick him/her up? What happens next?
Karen is by far James's favorite relative, even if relative is hardly the term - she's his aunt of some sort by marriage, since divorced twice over, on his mother's side. But once upon a time, when he was 16 and she was 35 at a do for his grandmother's 60th, she had caught him smoking and not told his parents, which he very much appreciated.
He's never been easy around children, but he likes them better when they can talk, and he has great faith in Karen's ability to raise children to not be horrid little twerps, so he agrees to go with her to drive them up to... Inverness? IDEK. Someplace far, and England takes more effort than I'm willing to put in, post that international adoption debacle I got myself into upthread.
Matt's hitching a ride back from, let's say some music festival, and James knows how that goes, plus he's fairly certain that he could take Matt in a fight. He's waiting at a rest stop that they pull into, and unsurprisingly still there when they're ready to pull out. Karen would never pick up a hitchhiker on her own, but she always wants to - they might be interesting, and it'd be a really good story! She convinces James to do it. James makes Matt empty out his pockets before letting him into the car.
And then... I don't know, Matt's probably just headed to Heathrow to fly back home, but maybe he's not. Maybe he's working some sort of project in the UK, and because there's a minor character in an episode of Lewis that I'm desperate to hook up with someone snarky, maybe Matt stops in Oxford and that happens.
no subject
Date: 2014-01-21 08:37 am (UTC)