12 characters meme
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thesmallhobbit:
Pick 12 characters from any fandoms and list them before you read the questions that follow.
castiron's picks:
1. Polly Milton
2. River Song
3. Fiver
4. Jordan Cochran
5. Gonzo the Great
6. Aeron Aibhell
7. Faramir
8. Mrs. Hudson (ACD canon version)
9. Alys Vorpatril
10. Dame Philippa Talbot
11. Fanny Price
12. Joe Willard
Have you ever read a 6 and 11 fic?
No (for that matter, I don't think I've ever read a 6 fic). But I can actually see Fanny Price fitting very well into Keltia; her concept of duty would mesh well with their culture.
Do you think 4 is hot?
She's not the physical type that makes me go "okay, not 100% straight here". She is quite lovely, though.
What would happen if 12 got 8 pregnant?
If Joe's still single, he marries her, or at least offers to. If it's after Joe marries Betsy, I really can't see it happening, but on the off chance he did, he confesses all to Betsy. In any case, he works his butt off to make sure that Mrs. Hudson and the child are provided for.
Of course, the timeline doesn't work anyway...though, thinking about it, what if Mrs. Turner was the original landlady; Mrs. Hudson was her daughter, who had a brief marriage as a very young woman and who inherited the house on Mrs. Turner's death, and Watson was his usual unreliable narrator self, so Martha Hudson was actually in her early forties at the end of WWI, and they met while Joe was on leave or in a hospital.... Betsy would forgive him eventually, but it would bring home to her how she really can't understand what happened to Joe overseas, and it'd bug her more that she can't get her head around his experience (because she's a writer, and getting other people's lives into her head is what she *does*) than that he'd had a fling.
Can you rec any fics about 9?
Philomytha writes a lot of excellent Bujold fic, including quite a bit of Alys-centric fic; The Honey-Trap and On your right stands the queen in garments of gold are a couple to start with.
Would 2 and 6 make a good couple?
I'm not sure they'd make a *good* couple, but they'd make an *interesting* one, for values of interesting equal to "there used to be a universe here; what happened?"
Would 5 and 9?
Not on the romantic side, but I bet Alys could get a lot of Gonzo's theatrical acts to actually work....
Would 5 and 10?
Nope. Sadly, even my fic brain balks at this one.
Make up a summary for a 3/10 fic.
I am chickening out (which would be more appropriate for 5) and skipping the slash part, because no, just no. The non-slash fic: In her early days at Brede, during their recreational hour, Philippa finds herself talking to an undersized rabbit who mysteriously keeps showing up on one end of her walk.
Is there any such thing as 1/8 fluff?
There should be, and the timing for this one could actually work; get Polly (possibly with Tom) to England, or have Mrs. Hudson tour the United States by train and get stuck overnight in the small Ohio town where Polly and Tom live. Polly would love Mrs. Hudson's stories about her idiosyncratic lodgers, and Mrs. Hudson would appreciate Polly's sense and calm.
Suggest a title for a 7/12 hurt/comfort fic
"Through a Deadly Haze". Joe Willard, in the trenches in WWI, falls through a hole in time to help Faramir on the borders of Gondor. It's war; stuff happens. (If after his return Joe meets Lieutenant Tolkien in a hospital in England, he does *not* tell him the story.)
What kind of plot device would you use if you wanted Four to deflower One?
Jordan builds a sort of time travel machine that allows you to experience the past through a particular individual; it just so happens that her first test is Tom Shaw on his and Polly's wedding night.
Does anyone on your flist read Seven slash?
Undoubtedly.
Does anyone on your flist read Three het?
That would be implied Watership Down canon, so yes.
Does anyone on your flist write or draw Eleven?
I'm pretty sure someone on my flists has written Fanny Price, but I don't know about drawing her.
What might Ten scream at a moment of great passion?
"God, help me!"
If you wrote a song-fic about Eight, which song would you choose?
"I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Out of My Hair"
If you wrote a One/Six/Twelve fic, what would the warnings be?
Adultery or major character death.
What might be a good pick up line for Two to use on Ten?
"Excuse me, but I'm having trouble translating this Latin text; I think the author was actually using some Oscan loanwords. Could you take a look and tell me what you think?"
What was the last time you read fic about Five?
Several months back when I reread Follow That Star!
What is Six's super-sekrit kink?
Tying her lover's hands together with her own hair.
Would Eleven shag Nine? Drunk or sober?
Not even when high on pot, port, and Jacksonian aphrodisiacs. Though the more I think about it, the more I want Alys Vorpatril/Fanny Price to exist.
If Three and Seven get together, who tops?
I'm going to have to say Faramir, on the grounds that if the two met up in the wilds of Ithilien, Fiver would become supper. (And then Faramir would have terrible dreams that night.) Any other take on this requires more brain bleach than I have on hand.
How would you feel if Seven/Eight was canon?
Puzzled and intrigued. How Mrs. Hudson got into Middle-Earth or Faramir into Victorian London is going to be a good story right there, and the romance is just gravy.
thesmallhobbit:Pick 12 characters from any fandoms and list them before you read the questions that follow.
castiron's picks:
1. Polly Milton
2. River Song
3. Fiver
4. Jordan Cochran
5. Gonzo the Great
6. Aeron Aibhell
7. Faramir
8. Mrs. Hudson (ACD canon version)
9. Alys Vorpatril
10. Dame Philippa Talbot
11. Fanny Price
12. Joe Willard
Have you ever read a 6 and 11 fic?
No (for that matter, I don't think I've ever read a 6 fic). But I can actually see Fanny Price fitting very well into Keltia; her concept of duty would mesh well with their culture.
Do you think 4 is hot?
She's not the physical type that makes me go "okay, not 100% straight here". She is quite lovely, though.
What would happen if 12 got 8 pregnant?
If Joe's still single, he marries her, or at least offers to. If it's after Joe marries Betsy, I really can't see it happening, but on the off chance he did, he confesses all to Betsy. In any case, he works his butt off to make sure that Mrs. Hudson and the child are provided for.
Of course, the timeline doesn't work anyway...though, thinking about it, what if Mrs. Turner was the original landlady; Mrs. Hudson was her daughter, who had a brief marriage as a very young woman and who inherited the house on Mrs. Turner's death, and Watson was his usual unreliable narrator self, so Martha Hudson was actually in her early forties at the end of WWI, and they met while Joe was on leave or in a hospital.... Betsy would forgive him eventually, but it would bring home to her how she really can't understand what happened to Joe overseas, and it'd bug her more that she can't get her head around his experience (because she's a writer, and getting other people's lives into her head is what she *does*) than that he'd had a fling.
Can you rec any fics about 9?
Philomytha writes a lot of excellent Bujold fic, including quite a bit of Alys-centric fic; The Honey-Trap and On your right stands the queen in garments of gold are a couple to start with.
Would 2 and 6 make a good couple?
I'm not sure they'd make a *good* couple, but they'd make an *interesting* one, for values of interesting equal to "there used to be a universe here; what happened?"
Would 5 and 9?
Not on the romantic side, but I bet Alys could get a lot of Gonzo's theatrical acts to actually work....
Would 5 and 10?
Nope. Sadly, even my fic brain balks at this one.
Make up a summary for a 3/10 fic.
I am chickening out (which would be more appropriate for 5) and skipping the slash part, because no, just no. The non-slash fic: In her early days at Brede, during their recreational hour, Philippa finds herself talking to an undersized rabbit who mysteriously keeps showing up on one end of her walk.
Is there any such thing as 1/8 fluff?
There should be, and the timing for this one could actually work; get Polly (possibly with Tom) to England, or have Mrs. Hudson tour the United States by train and get stuck overnight in the small Ohio town where Polly and Tom live. Polly would love Mrs. Hudson's stories about her idiosyncratic lodgers, and Mrs. Hudson would appreciate Polly's sense and calm.
Suggest a title for a 7/12 hurt/comfort fic
"Through a Deadly Haze". Joe Willard, in the trenches in WWI, falls through a hole in time to help Faramir on the borders of Gondor. It's war; stuff happens. (If after his return Joe meets Lieutenant Tolkien in a hospital in England, he does *not* tell him the story.)
What kind of plot device would you use if you wanted Four to deflower One?
Jordan builds a sort of time travel machine that allows you to experience the past through a particular individual; it just so happens that her first test is Tom Shaw on his and Polly's wedding night.
Does anyone on your flist read Seven slash?
Undoubtedly.
Does anyone on your flist read Three het?
That would be implied Watership Down canon, so yes.
Does anyone on your flist write or draw Eleven?
I'm pretty sure someone on my flists has written Fanny Price, but I don't know about drawing her.
What might Ten scream at a moment of great passion?
"God, help me!"
If you wrote a song-fic about Eight, which song would you choose?
"I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Out of My Hair"
If you wrote a One/Six/Twelve fic, what would the warnings be?
Adultery or major character death.
What might be a good pick up line for Two to use on Ten?
"Excuse me, but I'm having trouble translating this Latin text; I think the author was actually using some Oscan loanwords. Could you take a look and tell me what you think?"
What was the last time you read fic about Five?
Several months back when I reread Follow That Star!
What is Six's super-sekrit kink?
Tying her lover's hands together with her own hair.
Would Eleven shag Nine? Drunk or sober?
Not even when high on pot, port, and Jacksonian aphrodisiacs. Though the more I think about it, the more I want Alys Vorpatril/Fanny Price to exist.
If Three and Seven get together, who tops?
I'm going to have to say Faramir, on the grounds that if the two met up in the wilds of Ithilien, Fiver would become supper. (And then Faramir would have terrible dreams that night.) Any other take on this requires more brain bleach than I have on hand.
How would you feel if Seven/Eight was canon?
Puzzled and intrigued. How Mrs. Hudson got into Middle-Earth or Faramir into Victorian London is going to be a good story right there, and the romance is just gravy.