CANON INFORMATION NIGHT!

[thewunderkind]

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!

<b>Character:</b> <b>Canon:</b> <b>Interesting things about the character:</b> <b>Interesting things about the canon/fandom:</b> <b>Anything else?:</b>

Comments

[carrieswar.livejournal.com]

I approve of this post x5000.

Master Who

[syncopath]

Character: The Mister Master!
Canon: DoctorMaster Who

Interesting things about the character:

• He's a Time Lord, so he's basically a very old alien who can also regenerate, or transform every cell in his body upon 'death' to create a fresh new body for himself.


• He's a villain, but he used to be best friends with the Doctor. In fact, the Doctor's been known to call him 'my best enemy'. And it can be argued the Master's favorite pastime is basically going around the universe trolling the Doctor. You know, by threatening his loved ones and taking over Earth and such. Because that's what you do when you're obsessed with your space boyfriend.


• He likes aliases. His most recent one was Harold Saxon, but usually they incorporate the word 'Master', in one language or another.


• He hatches crazy, complicated plots. Once he was elected to Prime Minister. He then proceeded to take over the Earth with flying death balls. Another time he gave everyone on Earth his genetic code so that there could be six billion Masters to laugh madly at the Doctor.


• He also once killed someone with a plastic chair.


• He has a tendency to act flippantly, especially in front of humans. But he's pretty manic anyway, mostly to keep up with the Doctor's quirkiness. He likes awful pop music or even glam rock like the Scissor Sisters and enjoys children's television.


• In New Who he acquired an auditory hallucination: a drum beat that plays constantly in his head. He thinks it's a call to War. It isn't, but I don't want to spoil the surprise because it's just too depressing.


• He has a laser screwdriver, which is so much better than the Doctor's ratty old sonic.


• He had a wife! Which is interesting in itself because he rarely takes on companions. Also, she was a collaborateur, totally on board with his going round killing Earthlings and taking over the planet.

Interesting things about the canon/fandom:

• It's a super long-running show, mainly because the Time Lord regeneration aspect meant they could keep replacing actors to play the Doctor. Also, the show just rocks and it's embedded in British culture.


• Did you know it's actually supposed to be a kid's show? Though Moffat seems determined to change that...


• I mean really, if you take out the alien time traveler stuff it's about an incredibly old man who picks up young people, usually girls, and stuffs them into a police box to go on 'adventures'.


• In some ways the show is total wish fulfillment. This guy can go wherever he wants and whenever he wants and never has to worry about food, lodging, or money. For most of us it's a dream come true, even given the monsters.


• And oh, are there some incredible monsters. The classic episodes (anything before the 2005 reboot) especially feature some really cheesy low budget costumes and effects.


• Like Stacy, the Doctor's TARDIS is a sentient being. It's also bigger on the inside, which means you get the potential for some fabulous interiors like this:
  
  
  
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• Companions have included a warrior woman, a penguin, a shapeshifting android, a tin dog, a teenager who's also sort of an ekrixiphile, and a pansexual, ultra-charismatic space captain (who got his own series now. It's called Torchwood).

Anything else?: The fans are crazy.

Re: Master Who

[makeherblue]

I almost think you need to link the plastic chair thing. That one's just...special. Like bubble wrap special. 8D

[does-not-afraid.livejournal.com]

In fact I would say it sometimes gets in the way of funtiems. Blast!

[zouichi.livejournal.com]

He was created by a corporation called Toha Heavy Industries, along with about nine other Synthetic Humans like him. Unfortunately, odds are the others are DEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAD. Along with all of the scientists from his company and everything.

...

Look and see how he sparkles
It's the last unicooooooooo~rn

PLUTO

[tetsuwan-atom.livejournal.com]

Character: Tetsuwan Atom
Canon: Pluto

Interesting things about the character:
- Rocket-propelled flight!
- Super strong!
- Fires lasers!
- Also I guess he was called Astro Boy over here or something.
Atom was created to replace the dead son of a famous roboticist, Dr. Tenma. Unfortunately, Tenma decided he wasn't up to the par and sold Atom to a circus. BEST DAD EVER

Interesting things about the canon/fandom:
- Murder mystery IS THE KILLER A ROBOT OR A HUMAN?
- Robot rights!
- What Measure is a Non-Human?
Pluto is based on Tetsuwan Atom/Astro Boy by Tezuka Osamu. Most of the major plot comes from The Greatest Robot in the World storyline, but themes appear to be taken from many different Atom stories. Robots in Atom's world cannot hate, lie, or kill a human being... yet somehow, a string of murders has occurred that seems impossible for a human to have carried out. Who or what is Pluto?

Anything else?:
(http://www.flickr.com/photos/65137250@N03/6061982964/) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/65137250@N03/6061982990/)

Re: PONIES PONIES PONIES PONIES

[mylittlelolny.livejournal.com]

OH CRUD I FORGOT ABOUT THAT

YES NEVER EVER EVER READ CUPCAKES

[azora-mysta.livejournal.com]

beautiful post. It's so intriguing, all of it. But I'm still too scared to play.

Re: Beyblade

[azora-mysta.livejournal.com]

Beyblades sound pretty cool. It's nice to finally know more about it!

Re: Kamen Rider W

[thisclinchesit]

One of the sillier moments of the show! Background song is Finger on the Trigger, and it is pretty rad. :D

[azora-mysta.livejournal.com]

lol. I love him already.

[fattynoparents]

YOU SHOULD PLAY. It is wonderful and beautiful and full of robots.

Re: Stargate and Stargate SG-1

[iselldrugstothecommunity]

OMG James Spader looks like John Denver.

TWENTY LANGUAGES? Jesus, Daniel, overachiever much?

Re: Master Who

[iselldrugstothecommunity]

I was about to demand more information on the plastic chair too.

Re: PLUTO

[iselldrugstothecommunity]

*goes to read on strength of those pages*

Re: Stargate and Stargate SG-1

[hi_there_aliens]

KIND OF.

Okay it might be over 23, but yes. Maybe. 8P

Re: Stargate and Stargate SG-1

[iselldrugstothecommunity]

...How many of those are dead languages? Inquiring minds want to know.

Re: Stargate and Stargate SG-1

[hi_there_aliens]

Lucky for me, someone else took the time and listed whatever the show or movie mentioned for Daniel.

"Daniel's languages - spoken
Ancient Egyptian, also spoken on Abydos (Stargate the movie, Children of the Gods, There But For The Grace Of God, Serpent's Song, Forever In A Day). Fluent.
Unas (The First Ones, Beast of Burden, Enemy Mine). Learned from scratch by talking to Unas. Has a basic knowledge of the language and a limited vocabulary.
Arabic (Childen of the Gods). Spoke one word.
German (1969). Fluent.
various Goa'uld dialects (Brief Candle, Within The Serpent's Grasp, Fair Game, Serpent's Venom, The Curse, The Light, Summit). Fluent enough to trick Goa'uld system lords.
Russian (1969, The Tomb, Lockdown, Full Alert). Fluent. Also knows proverbs and swear words.
Spanish (Evolution I). Fluent.

Daniel's languages - read or recognized
Middle English (Demons)
Mayan (Crystal Skull). Recognizes spoken words.
Latin (The Fifth Race)
Greek (Holiday)
the Ancients' Language (The Fifth Race, Window of Opportunity, Full Circle, Fallen, It's Good to be King). Learned it from scratch. Fluent.
The Ataniks' Language (Upgrades). Learned it within a few minutes while under the influence of Atanik technology.
Linear A (Brief Candle), which is related to Goa'uld. Is now the only man on Earth who can translate it.
Runic script (Thor's Chariot), which is also the Asgards' script, even though the Asgard language has nothing in common with Norse or Germanic (The Fifth Race). He knows enough about runes to be able to tell their numeric value.
the language of the people of Orlin's planet (Ascension). Learned it from scratch without known references within a few days.
Babylonian Cuneiform (The Tomb). Reads and translates fluently.
Phoenician Ugaritic Cuneiform (Serpent's Venom, The Tomb). Reads and translates fluently.
Sumerian and Akkadian Cuneiform (Fire And Water). Reads and translates fluently, without reference material, which makes him one of about half a dozen people on Earth who can do that.
Berber (Stargate the movie)
Chadic (Stargate the movie)
Omotic (Stargate the movie)
Ancient Welsh (2001). Has basic knowledge, doesn't know all the words."

Re: Stargate and Stargate SG-1

[iselldrugstothecommunity]

Oh, well. As long as he's not fluent in Ancient Welsh.

BTW he and Eva totally need to converse in Spanish at some point.

Re: Stargate and Stargate SG-1

[hi_there_aliens]

You can almost hear the footnote "Yet" at the end of the sentence.

They should. My Spanish, on the other hand, is incredibly rusty.

Re: Stargate and Stargate SG-1

[iselldrugstothecommunity]

My Spanish is a teetering amalgamation of dirty words and Neruda quotes, so probably we should just write out subtitles. XD

Re: PLUTO

[tetsuwan-atom.livejournal.com]

I love this author, NGL.

PUELLA MAGI MADOKA MAGICA

[clockworkrepeat.livejournal.com]

Reposted bc that video was huge omg
also spoiler warning.

Character: Homura Akemi
Canon: Puella Magi Madoka Magica

Interesting things about the character:
- She used to be a very meek and awkward girl; through her magic she slowly desensitized herself and became the (outwardly) stone cold girl she is now.
- Homura's magical powers are time related. She can rewind to a very specific moment in time, and can completely stop time with her magic.
- She's a time traveler in case the above didn't make it obvious.
- She canonly googles/searches "how to make a bomb".
- Her parents are Mysteriously Absent.

Interesting things about the canon/fandom:
- MadoMagi is a deconstruction of the Magical Girl genre. It takes just about everything you automatically think of when you think "magical girl" and makes it grimdark.
- The magical girls' powers are based on the wish they make when they form the contract to become a magical girl.
- The bad guys the girls in this series fight against are in actuality other girls, just ones corrupted by magic.
- There are a lot of heavy implications (in the actual show and in interviews) towards girls' love in this series, so shipping girl/girl is not hard to do!

Anything else?:
Not too much of a spoiler, but imho the best fight scene in the entire show and also Homura's crowning moment of badass:

Re: Master Who

[8wings.livejournal.com]

It's from 'Terror of the Autons', unless they did it again in the new series.

CHAIR DEATH BY POPULAR DEMAND

[syncopath]