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CANON INFORMATION NIGHT!

The game's pretty big isn't it? With so many characters it's sometimes hard to keep up with everyone's canon and character backgrounds. Not to mention that the apps aren't always placed in the character's journal, and it leaves you wondering how they are, or even where they come from.

WELL WONDER NO MORE! It's time for a canon and character night!

The idea behind this post is primarily an information exchange. Just fill in this form, and think about factoids and things in a list form. Remember, you're trying to sell your character & canon to others, so talk about what makes them unique and fun. With any luck, you'll learn some new things about other people's characters that you can base relationships or friendships on, or even find a new fandom which catches your interest!

Note: Please mark the top of your thread with the canon. This way, other people in your canon can add whatever they want to it, such as their character stuff, and other cool factoids about the canon that they might remember.

You are perfectly fine and more than allowed to ask questions about the fandoms to the other players if you wish as well!

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Character: Dhianeila Y Leisha Altoria Ol Yunos
Canon: Heroic Age

Interesting things about the character:
- Princess of humanity.
- Can read minds and feelings/intents very strongly and has telepathic powers.
- ^ So strongly that people and her can faint if they get too close.
- ^ Can't go near men as a result. :(
- Has the power to restore 'paths' (starways) between stars and planets across the universe. Can find lost planets and places that have no starways.
- Has two asshole brothers who RUIN EVERYTHING.
- Goes through seemingly impossible deadly ~space storms~ because she doesn't back down from tests of will.
- It was her idea to reach out to the races who wanted humanity dead because she was like "god we don't know crap about them do we? Let's go talk and learn and find out why the hell they want to kill us."

Interesting things about the canon/fandom:
- The big fighters of the series are, as TV Tropes describes perfectly, 20% Gurren Lagann, 30% Galactic Heroes, 25% Godzilla, 200% Dragon Ball.
- Seriously these things punch blackholes and nothingness.
- There's a guy who eats metal and starts eating some guys mecha.
- Some of the main characters have special abilities - teleportation, telekinesis, healing powers.
- Tons of Greek mythology names and references.
- One race is a race of GIANT BUGS.
- One race gives all of their emotions to one 'hoarder' because emotions totally get in the way, man.
- Has mecha aside from the giant godmoding badases!

Anything else?: The fandom is non-existent so watch it so I won't be lonely.

Character: Howard Bassem
Canon: Gone

Interesting things about the character:
-Howard's a resourceful little freak who turned an exercise machine into a set of restraints and cooked up his own booze out of improbable sources. He's also a drug dealer, in case the name wasn't a tip-off.

-Howard's the element of moral ambiguity in the series, along with a few other supporting characters. He's loyal to his one (1) friend, intelligent, a hard worker and can be very nurturing. He's also a self-centered little weasel who is unhelpful, rude and would sell you out for a candybar.

-Nearly left another kid to die so he could take a fully-clothed shower? Check. Also helped run a fire evacuation and broke down in tears the morning after because all the DEATH AND TRAUMA? Also check. MAKE UP YOUR MIND, DUDE.

-On that note, Howard's spent about 30% of his pagetime in the series either angsting or in tears. The other 70% he spends cowering and/or snarking!

-Howard can drive both a car and a motorboat, despite being thirteen or so at the beginning of the series.

-Howard has 'a peculiar genius for naming things'. Pretty much the only thing he HASN'T named in his canon has been the Supernatural Death Cough, and let's face it, he'd totally have thought of a cooler name.

-90% of Gone fans agree that he and his best friend, Orc, have eyebrow-raising amounts of Ho Yay. It does not help that the author keeps hinting Howard might be gay on Twitter. Unfortunately, the canon has yet to give any straight answers ~~no pun intended~~. The next book comes out in 2012, so Howard's not allowed to have chemistry with anyone, ever, for any reason, rarara, until then. :|

Interesting things about the canon/fandom:
-Gone has like a zillion characters. About sixty names come up in regular rotation.

-Gone is 4/6ths finished. The next two books come out in 2012. My plurk will be a spoiler minefield.

-The setting for Gone is a giant, inexplicable fishbowl full of teenagers and mutant horrors called 'the FAYZ'. The currency in the FAYZ is bullets. Also Monopoly stickers. And more bullets.

-The FAYZ features talking coyotes, flesh-eating worms, cannibalism, mob rule, mutant powers and a Big Bad. A Big Bad who is Space Jesus. With an army of beetles. You can't order better narm.

-Gone has the MOST BORING PROTAGONISTS EVER. Fortunately the supporting cast is awesome!

-It's empirical fact that Michael Grant drinks Plot-Holeade when he writes Gone. He then washes it down with a nice chug of Pseudoscience.

Character: Sonic the Hedgehog
Canon: Sonic the Hedgehog (games)

Interesting things about the character:
- Canonically, his top speed is unknown. Many say that it's Mach 1 (over 700 MPH), but it's very flimsy as to how fast he is.
- Has four transformed states - Super, Hyper (Sonic 3 and Knuckles), Darkspines (Sonic and the Secret Rings) and Excalibur (Sonic and the Black Knight)
- Suffers from a massive case of aquaphobia. How bad? In the first Mario and Sonic game, Sonic wears a lifevest in his swimming events!
- Remember how he loved to eat chili dogs in the cartoons and comics? Canon.
- Despite what you've seen, Sonic lives on Earth, not Mobius. As well, he wasn't brown when he first appeared.
Interesting things about the canon/fandom:
- Sonic's celebrating his 20th Anniversary this year! Happy birthday, blue man. He also shares this anniversary with the Super Robot Wars franchise!
- Sonic has had at least one appearance in every current next-gen game system.
- He has five animated series - Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, SatAM, Sonic Underground, the OVAs and Sonic X. He also has/had two comic series - the Archie and the Fleetway series.
- Next year is the 20th anniversary of Sonic 2 and the first appearances of Tails and Super Sonic. Also sharing that anniversary? The Tenchi Muyo franchise, the Sailor Moon anime and the Death of Superman storyline.
- SONIC The Hedgehog/Sonic 2006 is the most reviled game of the franchise, due to a shitstorm of mistakes, including a rushed game and the plot in which a human princess falls in love with and later kisses Sonic!
- Sonic's VA collection includes some well-known faces, including Jaelle White (Steve Urkel of Family Matters), Masami Kikuchi (Tenchi Masaki himself), Jason Griffith (4Kids VA) and Roger Craig Smith (amongst others? Chris Redfield)

Anything else?:

I've only played 2 and I LOVE 2 and one day I really need to play the rest of this series.

Also Leon is my favorite character. ;~; Why do I always love the shoutas who don't act like little kids.

erageth how boring are the main characters now I am curious.

2 was the game that got me into it. Even if it was a truly horrid translation for the PSX. It was great.

Yeah Leon was a GREAT character. I loved him lots.

I got sad for a minute because one site was like "lol we don't have this up anymore!" but then I found it on another site.

So now it is sitting nicely in my bookmarks for after I finish the stuff I am going through.

The main villain wants to recreate the Earth out of zombie meat because somehow that makes her immortal

ಠ_ಠ

BUT WHY ALENDIAN DOESNT WANT FRIEND

Character: Allenby Beardsley
Canon: MOBILE FIGHTER G GUNDAM

Interesting things about the character:
- Like any good Gundam Pilot she has a pretty sucky past--she was orphaned as a child and subsequently raised by the Neo-Swedish military to become the perfect Gundam Fighter.
- She can put away pretty impressive quantities of food (e.g. a grocery bag full of meat buns).
- Got mind-controlled twice in the series, which makes her detest even so much as an MRI. (most of her haaaaaaaaaate for Stacy stems from this.)
- She can jump around like a freaking grasshopper, punch so fast her fists are a blur, and throw beam energy from her bare hands because of TRAINING.
- She sees nothing wrong with her Gundam's design; all the other Gundams are just plain.
- She is all about loyalty to her friends! ...and not at all about paying attention to authority. As we have recently seen.
- Helped save Earth from a giant Cthulu-like humanity-hating Gundam... thing.
- Kind of becomes an unofficial member of the Shuffle Alliance (the five Gundam Fighters whose job it is to like... protect Earth and fair play and stuff).

Interesting things about the canon/fandom:
- It is made of lots of and not at all of like... reasonable physics. Or much reasonable anything.
- In fact, the director proudly said in an interview that he made a conscious decision not to worry about if it made sense, so long as it looked cool.
- This is the series with the Mexican Gundam with a sombrero, the Canadian Gundam that's a lumberjack, the American boxer-football-player Gundam, ETC. ETC.
- This is because the premise of the show is that after most wealthy humans move to space colonies, nations signed a treaty to hold a Gundam Fight every four years to decide which nation rules supreme. This acts as a replacement for real wars. BASICALLY it's the Olymics WITH GIANT ROBOTS.
- There is also a horse Gundam. Not a Gundam shaped like a horse, a Gundam that is piloted by a horse.
- People rise out of shadows in the floor, punch giant skyscrapers out of the ground, have their fists randomly burst into flame, and none of this is weird at all.
- IT ALSO HAS AN ENVIRONMENTALIST MESSAGE not even kidding.
- The series is watchable here (http://www.watchanimeon.com/anime/g-gundam/page/2)! It's the dubbed version, but even if you hate dubs it doesn't matter much because 1/3 of the dialogue is "GRRRRRRRRR!" and "RAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" anyway.

Anything else?:

Actual, official canon dialogue.

I have about 500 screencaps from this series (not exaggerating) so IF YOU WANT TO SEE SOME MORE EXAMPLES OF GREATNESS, do ask....

YEAHHHHHHH

It is licensed shhhhh

ARE YOU QUESTIONING HER LOGIC

/zaps you with mind powers

Dhianeila's brothers clearly missed their calling.

As part of a manzai comedy duo.

I KNOW I totally didn't find it online or anything I found it in a store legally, for realsies.

(can I dork all over you as I read it, I enjoy dorking all over people when I watch/read things and as an aside you can dork to me about HA or Xeno if you go to watch III in the same fashion :x)

Hahaha sure <3

Character: Punchy
Canon: Intimates

Interesting things about the character:

-Punchy attends superhero school! He got held back. We all wonder why.

-His powers are that he has a magical handpuppet. Possibly an alien handpuppet. No one knows for sure.

-He's been gradually becoming more and more of a hero, which is an arc I'd like to explore in the game. At first he's just a wannabe. By the end of the series, he's a slightly less twerpy wannabe!

-Punchy's hobby is luring sexual predators in online and turning them over the FBI. He also runs anarchist websites despite not really knowing what they are.

-Punchy has been banned from four different email services for mass mailing.

-Punchy habitually lies about his past, because his past is super boring. His mother teaches piano part-time and his father is a salesman or something. According to him, they're totally cool archaeologists like Indiana Jones.

-Punchy gets four hours of sleep a night and supposedly fasted through the spring semester of Seminary. Also he might be dead. Again, we all wonder why.

Interesting things about the canon/fandom:
-Intimates was a short-lived comic book series under Wildstorm. It utilized scrollbars, comics within comics, and flashback boxes to really push the boundaries of the medium and give each page an 'information overload' effect. As such, reading an issue of Intimates takes about three times as long as reading an issue of anything else. Except Watchmen, maybe.

-Some idiot had the bright idea to make the scrollbar white text on a yellow background. That idiot is probably burning in hell.

-The end of the series was a catastrophic trainwreck involving artists quitting, artists recycling pages from other projects, the editor quitting, and Joe Casey making passive-aggressive rambles in the scrollbar about how much he hated 1) the editors and 2) writing the scrollbar.

Anything else?: In my head, his theme song is "Pretty Fly for a White Guy".

get pointy ears and we'll talk frands

Imagine your generic everyman.

Now imagine Everyman falling for a hot blond girl and wanting to bone her, but she's not interested. So he pines and mopes and writes emo poetry.

Now imagine this storyline playing out over five hundred pages while, in all the other scenes, small children are being devoured by giant beetles and the city is on fire.

Now imagine this in every single Gone book.

That dialogue is beautiful.

NEEDS MOAR SPARKLY VAMPIREZ

Character: Vivio Takamachi
Canon: Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha

Interesting things about the character:
- The clone of a powerful ancient mage king known as the Saint Kaiser, she was originally created by Jail Scagletti in his quest of conquest, intending on using has as the power source of the Saint's Cradle.
- In StrikerS, she was strong enough to fight a Blaster-3 Nanoha to a standstill. By ViVid, a lot of her power was stripped away thanks to Nanoha's 5 Starlight Breakers.
- Speaking of the Starlight Breakers, Vivio indeed took five of them. AND STOOD UP AFTERWARDS. The girl has guts!
- Freaked out Fate-mama after she found out Vivio can still obtain her adult form.
- One has to wonder if Vivio/Einhart's gonna be canon in some way.
- It's implied that Vivio has actually copied attacks from the Nakajima sisters, Nanoha, Fate and Signum.
Interesting things about the canon/fandom:
- Lyrical Nanoha got its beginnings as a H-game. Seriously - Triangle Heart 3: Sweet Songs Forever. Look up YouTube for the Lyrical Toybox for what MGLN COULD have been!
- Vivio, like a lot of the StrikerS characters, is named after cars! The Subaru Vivio in fact XD

Anything else?:

In case you're wondering what's being said in that last touching moment before the Starlight Breakering:

Vivio: All my sadness, my pain, they were fake, created things. I can't be allowed to live!
Nanoha Takamachi: You're wrong. No matter how you were born, the Vivio that's there crying is not a fake or something that was merely created. She's the spoiled girl who cries all the time and can't even get up on her own when she trips. The girl who hates her green peppers, the girl who pats me on the head when I'm lonely... My beloved Vivio. I'm not your real mama, but I'm going to try my best to be. So don't say that you can't be allowed to live. Tell me your true feelings.
Vivio: I... Nanoha-mama... I love you! I want to be with you forever! Mama... Save me!
Nanoha: I will. Whenever, no matter what happens!

Oh, and when she comes to?

Vivio: D-Don't come. I... I can stand up on my own.

Edited 2011-08-20 01:54 (UTC)

Interesting things about the character:
- Clone, bioweapon. One of 669 of them. Was the leader of their force when he was a child!
- Ruined everything as their leader and they all died or went crazy. But it was either do that or destroy the planet, so that sucked.
- Is the main focus for a good part of Xenosaga II and has a lot of focus on Xenosaga III (each character gets spotlight in III)
- Can shoot bullets off of coins in mid-air.
- Prefers old-fashion guns to techy lasery beam guns. Mimics cheesy action flicks in battle and sometimes ruins a mission as a result.
- Quotes Dirty Harry in battle in the JP version. (Go ahead, make my day!)
- Co-runs a foundation with his brother for 'sub-humans' like them, clones, victims of life-recycling, etc. Commands their flagship and does their dirty work.
- Is 27, stopped himself from aging at 12. His brother is and looks 27, so Jr. acts like his son in public.
- Had an awesome red dragon tattoo in his unlockable swimsuit in the second game. But it was retconned and not in the first and third games.
- Quotes books like the Wizard of Oz and enjoys classic books from Earth. Squees over a restaurant called the Moby Dick looking just like the inside of the ship in the story.
- Can play a few instruments, but taught himself harmonica as a child.
- Has a 666 tattoo on his hand? (just in case nobody noticed, since it would be noticeable ICly XD)
- Pilots a giant robot.

Interesting things about the canon/fandom:
- Universe reset button. (not elaborating on that one because spoilers)
- Features actual Jesus.
- Futuristic space opera.
- Enemies are alien-like creatures who exist in imaginary space, so you need technology to actually be able to hit them.
- Many of the games relics and ~mysterious items~ are connected to or directly related to God.
- Xenogears references!
- One of two of the main characters is a godmode android who can summon guns out of hammerspace.
- All three games have funny sidequests revolving around a special attack in the form of a Power Rangers-esque ultimate giant robot.
- One character can behead himself and grow it back.
- Features synthetic humans.
- In the middle of the beamspam and robots there are two guys who swordfight.
- The captain of one of the two main spaceships in the series has a hat that says "I am a boozer. Banzai! Banzai!"
- Uh like shown in the comments above each game has unlockable swimsuits. :)

Anything else?:

Oh G Gundam you are a beautiful magical snowflake.

ISN'T IT?

Another 1/3 of the dialogue will include the following words or phrases in sentences: "communicate with your fists", soul, fists, battle, [insert unintentionally quasi-flirtatious dialogue between protagonist and one of his Shuffle bros], KING OF HEARTS, "martial artists", [insert someone's full name shouted at the top of the speaker's lungs], WITH THE HELP OF KYOJIIIIIIIIIIIIII!

Character: Soren
Canon: Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance, Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn

Interesting things about the character:
- Hates laguz
- Hates everyone
- Hates everything
- Except Ike
- Why aren't you Ike
- Seriously why
Soren is a powerful Archsage who ~~has maxed out all his proficiencies~~ is also a tactician. He basically follows his BFF Ike everywhere because Ike gave him a sandwich one time and did not throw rocks at him.

Interesting things about the canon/fandom:
- FIRE EMBLEEEEEEEEEEEEEM
- has a tiny fandom
- But not as tiny as Advance Wars
Fire Emblem is a strategy RPG type deal. Soren's two games in particular deal with crazed warlords, loyalty, betrayal, Fantastic Racism, and people making bad decisions.

Anything else?:
WAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

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