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thewunderkind) wrote in insertmeathere2011-08-19 08:00 pm
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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!
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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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.
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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.
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The setting he comes from is fueled by RIDICULOUSNESS.
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