Meme just because

[branchandroot]

Okay, I'm feeling restless, so I shall give myself something to do.

Mynon meme

Give me a character and I will tell you something about my personal canon for them, the backstory that lives in my head.

Comments

[dancing_serpent]

Shirogane

[branchandroot]

In my head, Shirogane was always the flamboyant one. (Most of this is based on the canon trend of kings being opposite pairs.) He was blunt to Ryuuko's softspoken-ness, uncompromising where Ryuuko is given to mercy, and generally less inclined to subtlety. This was both his nature and something of a game the two of them played, knowing themselves opposing principles. Now, however, Ryuuko is gone and he is, basically, trying to stand in for both of them, to support both of their sets of characteristics.

I also think Ryuuko's death, and the manner of it, left him with severe trust issues, but that's pretty much canon.

[dancing_serpent]

Fits completely into my own personal canon, too. *g*

[annotated_em]

Mmmm. Hibari, perhaps? Xanxus? Tsuna?

[branchandroot]

*grins* Hibari would almost be cheating, since we worked out a background for him together. I do like the notion that his oddity came from a bad experience of bullying in an earlier school, which caused him to decide that a) might obviously makes right and b) it was up to him to make the institutions work, because that was what was supposed to keep such things from happening.

So let's see... Tsuna, maybe. I think Tsuna has long been hungry for, not just an identity, but a very solid and definite one. His mother is sweet, but a total fluffhead (I mean, what kind of person really does tell her son that his father has disappeared when he's only gone off to a remote job?). Tsuna is a fairly serious sort, himself. This, in my head, is why he became Dame Tsuna, despite his obvious great native abilities. He wanted a sure identity that stood out enough to anchor him and the class klutz/loser was easier than the class star.

[fromastudio]

*thinks* Any KHR female. Bianchi or Lal Mirch for preferences, but any girl would be awesome.

[branchandroot]

Hmmm, let's see.

As a woman in an elite special forces group in an extremely macho culture, Lal has always had to be hard, to stay sharp, to be better than anyone else. She agreed to become arcobaleno because it was a natural extension of the way she'd been living her life: sacrifice and excellence. She's extremely conflicted over Colonello's interference. Part of her is touched that he would take a bullet for her. Part of her is pissed off that her student hadn't learned how to execute his plans better, and screwed up. A big part of her is outraged that he would try to take this excellence away from her, even as another part knows it's the sacrifice and curse he was thinking about. She's never told him that it almost broke her to be weakened in the way his interference caused, and she doesn't think he's ever realized. That is why, despite loving him back in her own way, she will never enter a relationship with him.

She respects Reborn's insight, and has since they met, though she swears she'll pound him into paste the next time he uses it on her personal life, really she will this time. He was the one who suggested CEDEF to her, after the ritual misfired, and she admits, only to herself, that, yes, she needed an organized group to be a part of now that she couldn't go back to COMSUBIN. It probably saved her life. She recognizes her debt to Reborn because of that, though neither of them has ever spoken of it or ever will.

[fromastudio]

ooh. oh wow. you wouldn't happen to have a Lal/Colonnello fic with the above headcanon? *_* because I so want to see that story now.

I love your Lal. She's so gritty and ouchy and complicated.

[branchandroot]

*wry* I don't have fic for them. I have sometimes considered trying fic for Lal, but her canon outrages me so much (like most of the women) that I have to find a hook for it that will allow me to write non-outraging things.

[kenllama]

Cordelia Naismith
and/or
Cordelia Chase (cf Buffy)

(wow, how much good could the former have done for the latter!)

[branchandroot]

(Oh wow, she so could...)

My personal canon for Cordy is kind of bound up in my general conviction that the premises of Angel and The Powers That Be in particular is nonsensical. So, according to my personal canon, Cordelia was tricked by beings that are not, in fact, benevolent, and is, in fact, spiritually incarcerated. And she's trying to pick the lock, because she's just that kind of stubborn, and is muttering under her non-celestial breath the whole time about how she should have known better and next time she will keep a proper grip on her cynicism and snark and look twice outside the box. And at some point she and Spike are going to or maybe already have had a meeting as not-exactly-heavenly beings and strike up a deal to help each other get out of dodge. This may well result in a life-long friendship or soul-mate-ship of snark which will make the world and afterworld, and especially Angel, quail.

[kenllama]

intriguing =)

I'm guessing that you're rather more familiar with the Angel side of things than I am, but I've seen enough to generally grasp the premises that you're foiling.

*love you*

[armadillo]

...hm. Yukimura?

[branchandroot]

*grins* Much of my early personal canon for Yukimura (that he's the strongest player of Rikkai, that he's got a ruthless streak you don't want to mess with, etc.) was later vindicated in canon, which makes me sparkle whenever I think about it.

On the other hand, I am convinced that by the time Konomi came to write Yukimura's actual tennis style he'd flat run out of ideas; I don't buy the 'yips' idiocy at all. So my current personal canon for him is that his effect on opponents is purely a result of kenki--of his swordsman's spirit being stronger than theirs. (This is so totally a samurai story, not a sports story; this is also my personal canon for the whole of tenipuri.) This matches the actual presentation a lot better than the lame explanations about yips, which doesn't fit at all.

[armadillo]

I agree! And yeah, your samurai theory makes tons of sense. Unless I'm mistaken, the samurai parallels are actually mentioned in one of Konomi's interviews, but I'm not 100% sure; in any case, yes, it works very well for me. And... oh man, don't get me started on yips. There are so many things I hate about this concept. I'm not even a huge Yukimura fan (although I find him interesting), but it bugs me so much.