Movie and meme(s)
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lunasarielThings are finally quieting down a bit. Famous last words. I'm now more or less caught up with my reading, although it's still an effort to stay on top of it, which explains my lack of posting this past week. Of course, it's not just that I've been too busy to post; I've been too busy to do much of anything else, either. That means virtually no reading (although I did order my copies of Crucible of Gold and the Game of Thrones season 1 DVD, both of which are coming out early next month. Glee!) and no going out, except for classes and food.
There has been one exception to the "no going out" thing, though: I wore one of my Firefly t-shirts to ENGL 45B a couple of weeks ago, and another girl recognized it. We got to talking, and when I mentioned Sherlock (this was just after the s2 finale, when emotions were still running high), we spontaneously and simultaneously squeed. It turns out that we have a lot of the same interests, so we've been hanging out a bit since then. It turns out that we actually only live about a block away from each other, and last weekend we converged on her place to watch The Social Network (which was competent but not amazing, and probably not worth the OMGWTFBBQ Oscar-bait big deal that was made over it when it first came out) and exchange books. She gave me volume 1 of Black Butler, a manga, that I ended up being similarly "meh" about, and I gave her A Clash of Kings, since she'd both seen and read GoT and was looking to continue. She inhaled it over the weekend and gave it back to me on Monday, so yay, another convert! I've been extremely paranoid about spoilers this time around, but her favorites are Tyrion, Sansa, and Arya, so I figure that she's in for relatively little heartbreak.
On Saturday night, due to a combination of The Roomie's recommendation and my own inclination, I went to go see The Woman in Black, which was actually pretty good! There are quite a few theaters within walking distance (one of the many things I love about living in Berkeley), but UA7, the one I went to, was both the largest and the most familiar to me, as it's only a block away from the public library, and it's adjacent to the Starbucks where I did some interesting on-site anthropology for my Gender & Women's Studies class last semester. I judged my travel time by the amount of time it takes me to get to the library, but, as it turns out, I was off by just enough so that I had to scramble to get there on time and didn't have time to get popcorn or go to the bathroom. The theater itself is gorgeous. The foyer is marble (or at least something that looks very much like marble), open-air, and has the feel of a 19th century bank or something, very austere and imposing. The concession stand/bathroom area is more Art Deco-y, with a lot of potted plants and red velvet. The theater I was in had an Egyptian theme, with hieroglyphs on the walls, big statues of animal-headed gods (Horus and whichever one has the lioness head), and pillars bracketing the "stage" (which had an actual curtain). But the best part was, when the lights went dow, I realized that the celing was done up to resemble a starry sky, complete with constellations for those who know how to look (my astrological knowledge ends at Orion and the Big Dipper, both of which I'm fairly sure I saw). This was very, *very* cool, but also kinda distracting.
The movie itself was good, if not phenomenal. It delivered thrills, chills, and Daniel Radcliffe looking anguished, all as promised, but I don't see it becoming a smash hit. However, I love ghost stories, and this was a doozy! The special effects and makeup were all good, and the director quite rightly never let us see enough of the ghost(s) for our fear to wear off, and also never had the ghost(s) speak, which leant him/her/it/them an implacable, inhuman air that was truly scary.
Although Daniel Radcliffe gets top billing, and deserves it for his first big post-Potter role, Cíaran Hinds' character was my favorite. Daniel mostly runs around, just kind of reacting to events as they occur, with the occasional break for some pensive and soulful gazing, but Cíaran had some real depth and weight to him. His relationship with his wife was especially touching: we expected Sam (who had been set up as some sort of captain of industry or minor aristocrat, disdainful of and impatient with the lower class' "superstition") to be embarrassed and/or angry at his wife for having been driven more or less insane by the death of their son, but it's made clear that he loves her very much, and that he's grieving just as much as she is. Seeing as how he's the supportive buddy who Does Not Believe In Ghosts, and has a loyal dog besides, I was very much afraid for his (and the dog's, actually) survival, but...let's just say that he's about the only character in the movie who doesn't end up worse than he started out.
The setting had an approprate Edwardian gloom, with the monochromatic clothes, desolate marshland, dour villagers peering mistrustfully out of cottage doors (as they so often seem to do), and, of course, the requisite drafty, cobwebby old house, replete with shadowy corridors and creepy toys, as well as the also requisite attatched overgrown cemetary. My favorite part of a ghost story is reconstructing the ghost's (usually tragic) past life and reason for haunting, and the cemetary, in addition to the oddly well-preserved letters in the aforementioned old house, were good vehicles for this. The whole Creepy Child trope, which is awfully easy to muck up, was done very well, but I don't think it would have come off as half as scary if we hadn't known the whos and whys.
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hamsterwoman has been feeding me a steady diet of delicious, delicious character memes, so I've got a good few stockpiled, waiting to be finished in fits and starts when I absolutely cannot take any more incomprehensible Irish economic history or 17th century proto-novels. This time, though, I tried something a bit different: I did this particular meme all the way through using only villains, just for spice, but I liked it so much I went back and did it again with regular characters.
Villains-only version:
1. Lung Tien Lien (Temeraire)
2. Jim Moriarty (Sherlock)
3. Saruman (Lord of the Rings)
4. Bellatrix Lestrange (Harry Potter)
5. Gregor “The Mountain That Rides” Clegane (A Song of Ice and Fire)
6. Nephamael (Modern Tales of Faerie)
7. The Master (Doctor Who)
8. Drusilla (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
9. Lily Weatherwax (Witches Abroad)
10. Magneto (X-Men all incarnations, but especially McKellen!movieverse)
What would happen if:
1) Three (Saruman) had quite a big secret?
Regular version:
1. Alastor “Mad-Eye” Moody (Harry Potter)
2. Arya Stark (A Song of Ice and Fire)
3. Mycroft Holmes (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes/Sherlock)
4. Donna Noble (Doctor Who)
5. Ponder Stibbons (Discworld)
6. The Leanansidhe (Dresden Files)
7. Shepherd Derrial Book (Firefly)
8. Éowyn (Lord of the Rings)
9. Tenzing Tharkay (Temeraire)
10. Veralidaine Sarrasri (Tortall)
What would happen if:
1) Three (Mycroft) had quite a big secret?
He’d keep it perfectly, of course. Secrets are already his stock-in-trade, after all. Also, who would he tell? As far as the audience knows, the only person he communicates socially with is his brother, and that only infrequently.
2) Ten (Daine) and Six (Lea) did a workout together?
Lea would take great pleasure in showing up in a long, floaty gown and not even breaking a sweat as the human(-ish) Daine struggles to keep up. However, once Lea got bored with showing off, she’d just leave, loudly declaring that a Lady of the Sidhe doesn’t need useless exercises to stay in shape, even if mere humans do. Daine decides that trying to be friendly and bond with Lea was kind of a dumb idea to begin with, and goes to look for Onua or someone else a little more down-to-earth to finish her workout with.
3) Five (Ponder) noticed he/she wasn't invited to your birthday?
He’d secretly be pretty relieved, as he’s more comfortable with HEX and the High Energy Magic Building anyway. Also, after however many years of working with Ridcully, he’s probably developed a Pavlovian twitch at the word “party.”
4) Two (Arya) won the lottery?
GOT!Arya would give it to Ned to deal with, since she’s the daughter of the Lord of Winterfell, and so almost certainly wouldn’t need to pay for anything. Post-GOT!Arya, on the other hand, would set herself up with food, shelter, and ample weaponry and then squirrel the rest away in a series of small, secret caches that she can easily get to, in case she needs to go on the run again.
5) Seven (Shepherd Book) became a singer?
Heh, I can totally see him starting a Gospel choir at the abbey. He probably wouldn’t do much singing himself, but would be a great conductor/manager. He probably hums to himself while puttering around Serenity, though.
6) One (Mad-Eye Moody) discovers that he/she and Eight (Éowyn) have a daughter. How does Four (Donna) react?
A suppressed squeal of glee, because any child raised by possibly the greatest Auror in Wizarding history and the slayer of the Witch-King of Angmar is genetically pre-disposed to badassery. Neither of them strike me as particularly…cuddly parents, though, so Donna would periodically offer to take the kid off their hands for a little TLC.
7) Nine (Tharkay) and Two (Arya) go camping. But they forget food. What do they do?
Go hunting, of course! These two (and Daine) are probably the best-suited on this list to roughing it. Tharkay would send his hawk for a rabbit or two, and, well, Arya has already proven adept at foraging for herself, and the odds would only go up if she had Nymeria with her. Actually, Tharkay-plus-hawk and Arya-plus-Nymeria would have an adorable, big brother/little sister kind of relationship. They could go on dragon-related adventures and give each other self-esteem boosts!
8) What dream would Nine (Tharkay) have about Six (Lea)?
Either a revenge fantasy wherein Lea stands in for all the aristocrats who refused to accept him, or a nightmare in which she mind-whammies him.
9) What would make Five (Ponder) angry at Three (Mycroft)?
Re-programming HEX for the sole use of the British Government? Or maybe planting a useful (for Mycroft, at least), but AMAZINGLY STUPID AND DANGEROUS idea into Ridcully’s or the Bursar’s head? Basically, any of Mycroft’s usual Magnificent Bastard Big Brother tricks would drive Ponder nuts.
10) Where would Ten (Daine) meet Seven (Shepherd Book)?
Um…if Book went on some sort of meditation retreat out into the wilderness he might come across Daine running around with her wolves or something, but I see him as very much a city boy, and her definitely not. I guess that he also might have been hired to kill Numair or one of the Contés back when he was an assassin, and Daine would have definitely tried to stop him.
11) What would Eight (Éowyn) never dare to tell One (Mad-Eye Moody)?
That she deserted her post to fight on the Pelennor not because she knew about the prophecy, or that she had some other special knowledge or ability that would have made a demonstrable difference, but just because she really, really wanted to. He might get annoyed with her over that, although he would acknowledge that her heart was in the right place.
12) What would make Four (Donna) scared of One (Mad-Eye Moody)?
Moody’s single-minded determined-ness, paranoia, and not-so-secret love of mayhem and yelling might remind her of the Doctor when he was in a very, *very* bad place, mentally speaking, but otherwise, these two would be BFFs. They could shout at each other to their hearts’ content, and once the TARDIS had been sufficiently explained to him, Moody would love to take a ride and kick the living crap out of evil from one end of the galaxy to the other.
13) Is Nine (Tharkay) gay?
Not in the strictest sense of canon, and he’s already had one canonical heterosexual love interest. On the other hand, there’s an awful lot of subtext between him and Laurence, especially what with him following a disgraced Laurence halfway around the world “just because,” and Naomi Novik has stated that there are closeted characters in Temeraire, so I’d say the chances of him being at least bi are pretty good.
14) Four (Donna) is in a car crash and is critically injured. What does Two (Arya) do?
Assuming that she does anything at all (because, by this point, Arya is pretty much just trying to survive for her own sake), she’d probably run and go get a maester/doctor/The Doctor, because I don’t think a passing familiarity with poisons and where to stab with a variety of knives would do her much good here.
15) There's a freshly baked cake sitting unguarded on a table. Does Seven (Shepherd Book) share it with Five (Ponder)?
Of course! He’d insist that Ponder eat most of it, because that boy looks like he could do with some feeding up. This is assuming that the cake isn’t already spoken for, though, because Book would definitely be the type to prevent grand theft pastry rather than commit it.
16) Ten (Daine) and Three (Mycroft) must work together to save you from a tower. Do they succeed?
Yeah, probably. If it’s a high-tech/modern tower, Mycroft could easily disable the security, vent some soporific and/or toxic gas into all the areas that didn’t contain me, and then send Daine to walk in and fetch me while hesat around and waited monitored the situation. If it were a low-tech/medieval tower (as is much or likely), Mycroft would be pretty much useless, but Daine would be able to cobble together an effective rescue from her shapeshifting abilities and the rats that doubtless infest the tower. Either way, they’d pull it off somehow.
17) Eight (Éowyn) and Six (Lea) are trying to defy gravity! Do they succeed?
Lea does, effortlessly and smugly. Éowyn doesn’t, though, unless Lea deigns to help her, which I don’t think Éowyn would accept, or Gandalf does, which she would.
18) Four (Donna) and Ten (Daine) are shopping at a crowded mall. What sections are each likely to go to?
Donna kind of wanders aimlessly, stopping at whatever little store looks interesting, and comes back with half a dozen fascinating, although not always useful, doodads. Daine hangs out for a little while at the pet store to make sure the animals are being treated well (and gods help the store attendant if they aren’t), before pulling out her shopping list for groceries and other household necessities that Numair was supposed to pick up last time, but forgot. After wandering separately for a little while, they would meet back up at the food court for yogurt or something.
19) Will One (Mad-Eye Moody) and Two (Arya) ever kiss?
If Mad-Eye isn’t dead by the time Arya grows up, and if Arya isn’t killed off early and doesn’t become completely evil and/or crazy, I guess I could see it. Once, and probably only if Mad-Eye was de-aged or Arya was aged-up, although they're both paranoid action-y types, and so would probably push each other's buttons. After a lot of drinking on both sides.
20) Six (Lea) appears to be a player, breaking many hearts. What do you do?
Stand back and let her get on with it, because she’s both more powerful and more socially adept than me, so I really couldn’t do anything about it. In addition, she’s just not the kind of person that one should cross. I’d be a bit worried about her motives, though, as running around and breaking (presumably human) hearts only for the hell of it kind of goes against her character, so I’d ask Harry or someone to look into seeing if she’s possessed or has some larger scheme or something.
21) You had a haircut and Three (Mycroft) can’t stop looking at you. What goes on in your mind?
“Oh god, how bad is it?” Because both brothers at least claim to be purely asexual, and I’m sure that, even with a haircut, I definitely wouldn’t be Mycroft’s type.
22) Nine (Tharkay) is too shy to face you and confesses their love by sending an email. Now what?
Send one back, asking him out to dinner or somethingafter clearing it with Laurence, of course! This is a very Tharkay thing to do, and in the future I’d do my best to impress on him that, by the early 21st century, being biracial doesn’t matter, but being a snarky badass who’s good with animals and has a secret soft side is definitely in his favor.
23) You spot Five (Ponder) kissing Eight (Éowyn). How do you react?
“…Huh.” It’s been proven that Éowyn likes her men smart and military (in that order), and while Ponder definitely fulfills the “smart” criteria, he’s hardly a Ranger. Ponder, on the other hand, would be a little afraid of Éowyn, but would also be excited by her. Basically, I wouldn’t interrupt them, but I’d be prepared to pick up the pieces when it ended spectacularly, as it would.
24) You notice that Seven (Shepherd Book) and Eight (Éowyn) have been inside that hotel room for MORE than a few hours. What are you thinking?
“Sorry, Shepherd, but she’s not going to convert to Space Buddhism/Christianity, no matter how many Bible quotes about smiting evil you read to her. A for effort, though.”
25) Could Six (Lea) and Four (Donna) be soul mates?
Hmmm…I don’t think so. Friends? Maybe. Mutually impressed allies when necessary? Sure. But soul mates? Probably not. Lea always has to be top dog, and Donna is far too stubborn for that. Also, Donna’s underlying self-esteem issues wouldn’t be helped at all by constantly being around a beautiful, flawless, magic-wielding Sidhe lady who views most humans as insignificant anyway.
26) You can't stop laughing. What will One (Mad-Eye Moody) do?
Assume that someone has cast an overdone Cheering Charm or Rictusempra on me for some reason and attempt to break it, if only because uncontrollable laughter would almost certainly annoy him.
27) Would Seven (Shepherd Book) trust Two (Arya)?
Probably. He seems determined to believe in the inherent goodness of children, and he would feel sorry for all the tragedy Arya has seen already. Also, she would remind him of River in her various neuroses and penchant for stabbing things, which he would find endearing, in a sad way.
28) Five (Ponder) is bored and pokes Three (Mycroft). What happens after that?
Nothing for the moment. Mycroft just sits, calmly sipping his tea, waiting for Ponder to stop. Later on, however, maybe that night, Ponder would get a good scare when an “accident” almost killed him, but deliberately didn’t.
29) Ten (Daine) accidentally kicked Nine (Tharkay)?
She’d apologize and get on with her day, maybe getting a little ribbing from her friends over her momentary clumsiness. Tharkay might interpret it as latent hostility/xenophobia, but when he sees that it was genuinely an accident, and that she actually likes him (or at least likes his hawk), they’d get along fine.
30) Everyone is invited to Ten (Daine) and Four (Donna)'s wedding except for Three (Mycroft). How does Three react?
He might be a little hurt on the inside, but on the outside, he’d be far toolazy busy to attend anything less than a State wedding. He’d send them a nice bottle of wine, or perhaps some sort of interesting alien egg, as a wedding present, though.
31) Seven (Shepherd Book) and One (Mad-Eye Moody) get drunk and end up at your house. What happens?
They would both be very emotional drunks! Shepherd Book would end up hugging someone and tearfully confessing his past sins, possibly at the same time. Mad-Eye would at first object to being hugged, but would end up patting/whacking Book on the back and slurring something like “Yer arright, mate. Ya done some Dark stuff, yeah, but yer…yer arright.” Once they’d woken up and taken care of their hangovers, they would never speak of it again.
32) Nine (Tharkay) sends Two (Arya) on a mission. What is it, and does it succeed?
Probably on some covert intelligence-gathering trip where she hasn’t specifically been ordered to assassinate someone, per se, but if assassination were to happen in the course of her intelligence-gathering duties, nobody would get too worked-up over it. And yes, she would succeed admirably at the assassination part, although she might be a little cursory when it came to the intelligence-gathering part.
33) What would Five (Ponder) most likely be arrested for?
Accidentally almost re-writing reality. Again. But Sam and his coppers are used to dealing with wizards, and after keeping him in the holding cells for a few hours in an attempt to teach him a lesson (which, of course, fails miserably), they’d realize that trying to keep a wizard from his experiments is more or less useless, and let him get back to it with a stern, cheerfully ignored, warning.
34) If you had to walk home through a bad neighborhood late at night, would you feel safer in the company of Six (Lea) or Eight (Éowyn)?
Lea, I think. Éowyn would probably be the more physically imposing of the two, but Lea definitely has her beat when it comes to firepower, and would probably take the mere fact of being accosted enough to lay waste to the surrounding area without me having to actually arrange protection with her.
There has been one exception to the "no going out" thing, though: I wore one of my Firefly t-shirts to ENGL 45B a couple of weeks ago, and another girl recognized it. We got to talking, and when I mentioned Sherlock (this was just after the s2 finale, when emotions were still running high), we spontaneously and simultaneously squeed. It turns out that we have a lot of the same interests, so we've been hanging out a bit since then. It turns out that we actually only live about a block away from each other, and last weekend we converged on her place to watch The Social Network (which was competent but not amazing, and probably not worth the OMGWTFBBQ Oscar-bait big deal that was made over it when it first came out) and exchange books. She gave me volume 1 of Black Butler, a manga, that I ended up being similarly "meh" about, and I gave her A Clash of Kings, since she'd both seen and read GoT and was looking to continue. She inhaled it over the weekend and gave it back to me on Monday, so yay, another convert! I've been extremely paranoid about spoilers this time around, but her favorites are Tyrion, Sansa, and Arya, so I figure that she's in for relatively little heartbreak.
On Saturday night, due to a combination of The Roomie's recommendation and my own inclination, I went to go see The Woman in Black, which was actually pretty good! There are quite a few theaters within walking distance (one of the many things I love about living in Berkeley), but UA7, the one I went to, was both the largest and the most familiar to me, as it's only a block away from the public library, and it's adjacent to the Starbucks where I did some interesting on-site anthropology for my Gender & Women's Studies class last semester. I judged my travel time by the amount of time it takes me to get to the library, but, as it turns out, I was off by just enough so that I had to scramble to get there on time and didn't have time to get popcorn or go to the bathroom. The theater itself is gorgeous. The foyer is marble (or at least something that looks very much like marble), open-air, and has the feel of a 19th century bank or something, very austere and imposing. The concession stand/bathroom area is more Art Deco-y, with a lot of potted plants and red velvet. The theater I was in had an Egyptian theme, with hieroglyphs on the walls, big statues of animal-headed gods (Horus and whichever one has the lioness head), and pillars bracketing the "stage" (which had an actual curtain). But the best part was, when the lights went dow, I realized that the celing was done up to resemble a starry sky, complete with constellations for those who know how to look (my astrological knowledge ends at Orion and the Big Dipper, both of which I'm fairly sure I saw). This was very, *very* cool, but also kinda distracting.
The movie itself was good, if not phenomenal. It delivered thrills, chills, and Daniel Radcliffe looking anguished, all as promised, but I don't see it becoming a smash hit. However, I love ghost stories, and this was a doozy! The special effects and makeup were all good, and the director quite rightly never let us see enough of the ghost(s) for our fear to wear off, and also never had the ghost(s) speak, which leant him/her/it/them an implacable, inhuman air that was truly scary.
Although Daniel Radcliffe gets top billing, and deserves it for his first big post-Potter role, Cíaran Hinds' character was my favorite. Daniel mostly runs around, just kind of reacting to events as they occur, with the occasional break for some pensive and soulful gazing, but Cíaran had some real depth and weight to him. His relationship with his wife was especially touching: we expected Sam (who had been set up as some sort of captain of industry or minor aristocrat, disdainful of and impatient with the lower class' "superstition") to be embarrassed and/or angry at his wife for having been driven more or less insane by the death of their son, but it's made clear that he loves her very much, and that he's grieving just as much as she is. Seeing as how he's the supportive buddy who Does Not Believe In Ghosts, and has a loyal dog besides, I was very much afraid for his (and the dog's, actually) survival, but...let's just say that he's about the only character in the movie who doesn't end up worse than he started out.
The setting had an approprate Edwardian gloom, with the monochromatic clothes, desolate marshland, dour villagers peering mistrustfully out of cottage doors (as they so often seem to do), and, of course, the requisite drafty, cobwebby old house, replete with shadowy corridors and creepy toys, as well as the also requisite attatched overgrown cemetary. My favorite part of a ghost story is reconstructing the ghost's (usually tragic) past life and reason for haunting, and the cemetary, in addition to the oddly well-preserved letters in the aforementioned old house, were good vehicles for this. The whole Creepy Child trope, which is awfully easy to muck up, was done very well, but I don't think it would have come off as half as scary if we hadn't known the whos and whys.
hamsterwoman has been feeding me a steady diet of delicious, delicious character memes, so I've got a good few stockpiled, waiting to be finished in fits and starts when I absolutely cannot take any more incomprehensible Irish economic history or 17th century proto-novels. This time, though, I tried something a bit different: I did this particular meme all the way through using only villains, just for spice, but I liked it so much I went back and did it again with regular characters.Villains-only version:
1. Lung Tien Lien (Temeraire)
2. Jim Moriarty (Sherlock)
3. Saruman (Lord of the Rings)
4. Bellatrix Lestrange (Harry Potter)
5. Gregor “The Mountain That Rides” Clegane (A Song of Ice and Fire)
6. Nephamael (Modern Tales of Faerie)
7. The Master (Doctor Who)
8. Drusilla (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
9. Lily Weatherwax (Witches Abroad)
10. Magneto (X-Men all incarnations, but especially McKellen!movieverse)
What would happen if:
1) Three (Saruman) had quite a big secret?
Well, he does already (assuming this is before he revealed his treachery), but he’s a cagey old bastard, and is excellent at keeping secrets, so he’d probably be able to keep it under wraps more or less indefinitely, unless it suited his plans to do otherwise.
2) Ten (Magneto) and Six (Nephamael) did a workout together?
2) Ten (Magneto) and Six (Nephamael) did a workout together?
Nephamael would excel physically, so he would show off until he realized that he was lifting (iron) weights in a room full of iron workout equipment, and was needling a man who is famed for his ability to manipulate magnetism and metal. He would manage to beat a retreat before Magneto got annoyed enough to wrap him in iron torn from the surrounding machines, though.
3) Five (Gregor) noticed he/she wasn't invited to your birthday?
3) Five (Gregor) noticed he/she wasn't invited to your birthday?
First, I seriously doubt he would notice, as social niceties aren’t really his thing, and I seriously doubt he’s been invited anywhere (more than once, that is) in his whole life.
If he did somehow notice, however, he would crash the party on general principle.
4) Two (Jim) won the lottery?
If he did somehow notice, however, he would crash the party on general principle.
4) Two (Jim) won the lottery?
Kind of shrug, because A) it’s not like he’s hurting for money, and B) gaining money by legal means is a novel, and as it turns out, somewhat boring concept for him. As long as he has it, though, he treats himself to nice clothes and custom weapons.
5) Seven (The Master) became a singer?
5) Seven (The Master) became a singer?
At least one song on every album would be more or less explicitly directed at the Doctor, and it would turn out that it’s all part of some grandiose plot to take over and/or destroy the world via subliminal messaging or something in that vein.
6) One (Lien) discovers that he/she and Eight (Drusilla) have a daughter. How does Four (Bellatrix) react?
6) One (Lien) discovers that he/she and Eight (Drusilla) have a daughter. How does Four (Bellatrix) react?
Try to work out how they did it, given that one of them is a dragon, the other is a vampire (and thus infertile), and both of them are female, so that she could get a baby by Voldemort in the same manner. And then probably hurry on back to her world, because a draconic vampire child raised by either Lien or Drusilla would be downright terrifying.
7) Nine (Lily) and Two (Jim) go camping. But they forget food. What do they do?
7) Nine (Lily) and Two (Jim) go camping. But they forget food. What do they do?
Lily would go looking for helpful woodland friends to bring them a tasty selection of roots and berries, and then would kill and eat the helpful woodland friends along with the roots and berries. Jim would call Sebastian and demand takeout, even if it has to be delivered via helicopter. They’d both be set up very well eventually, though, and happily discuss fairy tales and the necessity of villains over dinner.
8) What dream would Nine (Lily) have about Six (Nephamael)?
8) What dream would Nine (Lily) have about Six (Nephamael)?
Actually, the question of whether Lily dreams, and if so of what, is a really interesting question. She’s already incredibly adept at manipulating archetypes and recurring stories, so I could see her not really being able to dream, but using that mental time for extra planning/thought. With regards to Nephamael, though, I guess she’d “dream” about how to incorporate him into her various schemes, possibly as the obvious Bad Guy for the protagonists to keep themselves occupied with while she gets on with the real plot.
9) What would make Five (Gregor) angry at Three (Saruman)?
9) What would make Five (Gregor) angry at Three (Saruman)?
Since Gregor’s baseline state seems to be “angry at everyone and everything,” it probably wouldn’t take much, but if Saruman was openly contemptuous of him, or purposefully used words too big for him to comprehend, it might tip Gregor over into a rampage.
10) Where would Ten (Magneto) meet Seven (The Master)?
10) Where would Ten (Magneto) meet Seven (The Master)?
Coinciding attempts to take over and/or destroy the world, or possibly when they accidently switch arch-enemies (Professor X gets a psychic hint of the Master’s crazy, or the Doctor receives a distress call when Magneto strikes London).
11) What would Eight (Drusilla) never dare to tell One (Lien)?
11) What would Eight (Drusilla) never dare to tell One (Lien)?
Nothing, really. Drusilla’s inner censor is almost permanently offline, and even if it wasn’t, she’d probably be fairly confident in her ability to handle Lien anyway.
12) What would make Four (Bellatrix) scared of One (Lien)?
12) What would make Four (Bellatrix) scared of One (Lien)?
Hmm…this is another one of those questions that I can’t really see, because Bellatrix is nuts enough to not really be afraid of anything. If Lien somehow managed to defeat Voldemort, though, that would probably shake Bellatrix at least a little.
13) Is Nine (Lily) gay?
No, she’s more asexual. She would probably see sex/love as just another way to control people, and thus would consider herself above it.
14) Four (Bellatrix) is in a car crash and is critically injured. What does Two (Jim) do?
Grin delightedly and order one of his snipers to shoot her in the head to finish the job, because he probably engineered the car crash in the first place, in order to remove the loose canon that is Bellatrix.
15) There's a freshly baked cake sitting unguarded on a table. Does Seven (The Master) share it with Five (Gregor)?
About a 50/50 chance, depending on how rational the Master is that particular day. I could see him finding Gregor interesting, and offering him cake in order to find out more about him, but becoming rather disappointed when he figures out exactly how one-note Gregor is, and then taking the cake back and finishing it himself.
16) Ten (Magneto) and Three (Saruman) must work together to save you from a tower. Do they succeed?
Probably. Saruman either owns or has a standing invitation to most of the towers in Middle-Earth, and even if he didn’t, metal would probably be involved in its construction somehow, so Magneto would be able to dismantle it pretty easily. Whether he would remember to do so without killing me, though, is another matter entirely.
17) Eight (Drusilla) and Six (Nephamael) are trying to defy gravity! Do they succeed?
Probably. I can’t recall whether Nephamael’s powers include levitation, but even if they don’t, he and Drusilla are collectively smart enough to come up with something.
18) Four (Bellatrix) and Ten (Magneto) are shopping at a crowded mall. What sections are each likely to go to?
Magneto stands in the atrium and contemplates how best to bring the whole thing down, but discovers a secret inclination to go looking for Hanukkah presents for his grandchildren, and is mildly horrified at himself. Bellatrix goes to an adults-only Hot Topic or something in search of some black and villain-y clothes to impress Voldemort with.
19) Will One (Lien) and Two (Jim) ever kiss?
Jim might kiss Lien’s hand (foreclaw?) when they were introduced, because that’s just what a gentleman does. He also might give her an ironic hello or goodbye peck on the cheek if they were allies. Of course, there’s always the possibility of Lien eating him, which I guess might technically count…
20) Six (Nephamael) appears to be a player, breaking many hearts. What do you do?
Find Corny and send him in, because being a horrible boyfriend is more or less what got Nephamael killed the first time around.
21) You had a haircut and Three (Saruman) can't stop looking at you. What goes on in your mind?
I’d wonder if he’s mad that my hair looks better than his, but after a quick check in a mirror, I’d be able to reassure myself that his is still the best.
22) Nine (Lily) is too shy to face you and confesses their love by sending an email. Now what?
I’d suspect a plot of some sort to manipulate me via a variation of the Cinderella story and contact Granny Weatherwax for advice immediately.
23) You spot Five (Gregor) kissing Eight (Drusilla). How do you react?
Duck and cover, because if Gregor tried to rape Drusilla (which is the only thing I can think of even tangentially related to the two of them and kissing), she’d most likely kill him, and I wouldn’t want to get hit with little high-velocity chunks of Gregor.
24) You notice that Seven (The Master) and Eight (Drusilla) have been inside that hotel room for MORE than a few hours. What are you thinking?
“I sincerely hope that Torchwood or someone has a good wiretap on that room, because the two of them can’t be up to anything good. Actually, who was stupid enough to introduce them in the first place?”
25) Could Six (Nephamael) and Four (Bellatrix) be soul mates?
Good question! I can’t really see Bellatrix devoting herself to anyone but Voldemort, but if he were out of the picture somehow, I think that she would find Nephamael an adequate, and much sexier, substitute.
26) You can't stop laughing. What will One (Lien) do?
Roll her eyes and walk away, or possibly just step on me to get me to stop annoying her.
27) Would Seven (The Master) trust Two (Jim)?
Good gawd, no. They would have enormous amounts of fun wreaking havoc and being frothingly insane together, but they’re too similar and too smart to trust each other. Actually, *these* are the two I could see as soul mates.
28) Five (Gregor) is bored and pokes Three (Saruman). What happens after that?
For Gregor, “pokes” probably translates to “bashes over the head,” but Saruman just sighs in exasperation at such crudeness and uses his magic to deflect the blow and hurl Gregor into a pit of Uruk-Hai, who he would get along perfectly with.
29) Ten (Magneto) accidentally kicked Nine (Lily)?
He’d try to pass it off as being on purpose, and might unwittingly start a war with her, but would never, *ever* admit to just being a little clumsy.
30) Everyone is invited to Ten (Magneto) and Four (Bellatrix)'s wedding except for Three (Saruman). How does Three react?
I could actually see him having a very Maleficent-like reaction and crashing the party to pronounce doom on the couple, who would quite happily tell him to bring it on. The whole thing would dissolve into one big fight, and would be considered a rousing success of a party by all.
31) Seven (The Master) and One (Lien) get drunk and end up at your house. What happens?
I’d put Lien in the back yard to at least try to keep her from crushing everything important, and then try to get the Master to watch TV or something else that doesn’t require movement, because he’s not all that coordinated at the best of times. Actually, if the two of them were sufficiently wasted, I might just pull out the Karaoke Revolution (this is a world where a dragon and an alien show up at my house and I have a back yard big enough for said dragon, so why can’t I have an Xbox while I’m at it?) to keep them occupied (the Master with J-pop and Lien with angsty pop ballads) to keep them out of trouble until they pass out.
32) Nine (Lily) sends Two (Jim) on a mission. What is it, and does it succeed?
She would want him to work his magic on the Lancre witches and remove people’s faith in them, which would strip them of much of their power. Jim is damned good at this sort of thing, and people already kind of dislike Granny anyway, so the witches might actually be hard-pressed to keep their status, and thus their power, in the face of his manipulations, but ultimately the three of them (especially if their third was Tiffany instead of Magrat or Agnes) would be able to defeat him.
33) What would Five (Gregor) most likely be arrested for?
Where to begin? Rape, murder, *mass* murder, war crimes, torture, patricide, matricide, infanticide, attempted fratricide, disturbing the peace, public intoxication, crimes against humanity…there’s a lot to choose from.
34) If you had to walk home through a bad neighborhood late at night, would you feel safer in the company of Six (Nephamael) or Eight (Drusilla)?
Drusilla, actually. Nepahamel would just laugh and disappear if I got into trouble, whereas, if I stuck close to her, Drusilla would probably end up kind of protecting me by default, as anyone attacking me would probably attack her, too, so protecting me might actually fall under the category of self-defense.
13) Is Nine (Lily) gay?
No, she’s more asexual. She would probably see sex/love as just another way to control people, and thus would consider herself above it.
14) Four (Bellatrix) is in a car crash and is critically injured. What does Two (Jim) do?
Grin delightedly and order one of his snipers to shoot her in the head to finish the job, because he probably engineered the car crash in the first place, in order to remove the loose canon that is Bellatrix.
15) There's a freshly baked cake sitting unguarded on a table. Does Seven (The Master) share it with Five (Gregor)?
About a 50/50 chance, depending on how rational the Master is that particular day. I could see him finding Gregor interesting, and offering him cake in order to find out more about him, but becoming rather disappointed when he figures out exactly how one-note Gregor is, and then taking the cake back and finishing it himself.
16) Ten (Magneto) and Three (Saruman) must work together to save you from a tower. Do they succeed?
Probably. Saruman either owns or has a standing invitation to most of the towers in Middle-Earth, and even if he didn’t, metal would probably be involved in its construction somehow, so Magneto would be able to dismantle it pretty easily. Whether he would remember to do so without killing me, though, is another matter entirely.
17) Eight (Drusilla) and Six (Nephamael) are trying to defy gravity! Do they succeed?
Probably. I can’t recall whether Nephamael’s powers include levitation, but even if they don’t, he and Drusilla are collectively smart enough to come up with something.
18) Four (Bellatrix) and Ten (Magneto) are shopping at a crowded mall. What sections are each likely to go to?
Magneto stands in the atrium and contemplates how best to bring the whole thing down, but discovers a secret inclination to go looking for Hanukkah presents for his grandchildren, and is mildly horrified at himself. Bellatrix goes to an adults-only Hot Topic or something in search of some black and villain-y clothes to impress Voldemort with.
19) Will One (Lien) and Two (Jim) ever kiss?
Jim might kiss Lien’s hand (foreclaw?) when they were introduced, because that’s just what a gentleman does. He also might give her an ironic hello or goodbye peck on the cheek if they were allies. Of course, there’s always the possibility of Lien eating him, which I guess might technically count…
20) Six (Nephamael) appears to be a player, breaking many hearts. What do you do?
Find Corny and send him in, because being a horrible boyfriend is more or less what got Nephamael killed the first time around.
21) You had a haircut and Three (Saruman) can't stop looking at you. What goes on in your mind?
I’d wonder if he’s mad that my hair looks better than his, but after a quick check in a mirror, I’d be able to reassure myself that his is still the best.
22) Nine (Lily) is too shy to face you and confesses their love by sending an email. Now what?
I’d suspect a plot of some sort to manipulate me via a variation of the Cinderella story and contact Granny Weatherwax for advice immediately.
23) You spot Five (Gregor) kissing Eight (Drusilla). How do you react?
Duck and cover, because if Gregor tried to rape Drusilla (which is the only thing I can think of even tangentially related to the two of them and kissing), she’d most likely kill him, and I wouldn’t want to get hit with little high-velocity chunks of Gregor.
24) You notice that Seven (The Master) and Eight (Drusilla) have been inside that hotel room for MORE than a few hours. What are you thinking?
“I sincerely hope that Torchwood or someone has a good wiretap on that room, because the two of them can’t be up to anything good. Actually, who was stupid enough to introduce them in the first place?”
25) Could Six (Nephamael) and Four (Bellatrix) be soul mates?
Good question! I can’t really see Bellatrix devoting herself to anyone but Voldemort, but if he were out of the picture somehow, I think that she would find Nephamael an adequate, and much sexier, substitute.
26) You can't stop laughing. What will One (Lien) do?
Roll her eyes and walk away, or possibly just step on me to get me to stop annoying her.
27) Would Seven (The Master) trust Two (Jim)?
Good gawd, no. They would have enormous amounts of fun wreaking havoc and being frothingly insane together, but they’re too similar and too smart to trust each other. Actually, *these* are the two I could see as soul mates.
28) Five (Gregor) is bored and pokes Three (Saruman). What happens after that?
For Gregor, “pokes” probably translates to “bashes over the head,” but Saruman just sighs in exasperation at such crudeness and uses his magic to deflect the blow and hurl Gregor into a pit of Uruk-Hai, who he would get along perfectly with.
29) Ten (Magneto) accidentally kicked Nine (Lily)?
He’d try to pass it off as being on purpose, and might unwittingly start a war with her, but would never, *ever* admit to just being a little clumsy.
30) Everyone is invited to Ten (Magneto) and Four (Bellatrix)'s wedding except for Three (Saruman). How does Three react?
I could actually see him having a very Maleficent-like reaction and crashing the party to pronounce doom on the couple, who would quite happily tell him to bring it on. The whole thing would dissolve into one big fight, and would be considered a rousing success of a party by all.
31) Seven (The Master) and One (Lien) get drunk and end up at your house. What happens?
I’d put Lien in the back yard to at least try to keep her from crushing everything important, and then try to get the Master to watch TV or something else that doesn’t require movement, because he’s not all that coordinated at the best of times. Actually, if the two of them were sufficiently wasted, I might just pull out the Karaoke Revolution (this is a world where a dragon and an alien show up at my house and I have a back yard big enough for said dragon, so why can’t I have an Xbox while I’m at it?) to keep them occupied (the Master with J-pop and Lien with angsty pop ballads) to keep them out of trouble until they pass out.
32) Nine (Lily) sends Two (Jim) on a mission. What is it, and does it succeed?
She would want him to work his magic on the Lancre witches and remove people’s faith in them, which would strip them of much of their power. Jim is damned good at this sort of thing, and people already kind of dislike Granny anyway, so the witches might actually be hard-pressed to keep their status, and thus their power, in the face of his manipulations, but ultimately the three of them (especially if their third was Tiffany instead of Magrat or Agnes) would be able to defeat him.
33) What would Five (Gregor) most likely be arrested for?
Where to begin? Rape, murder, *mass* murder, war crimes, torture, patricide, matricide, infanticide, attempted fratricide, disturbing the peace, public intoxication, crimes against humanity…there’s a lot to choose from.
34) If you had to walk home through a bad neighborhood late at night, would you feel safer in the company of Six (Nephamael) or Eight (Drusilla)?
Drusilla, actually. Nepahamel would just laugh and disappear if I got into trouble, whereas, if I stuck close to her, Drusilla would probably end up kind of protecting me by default, as anyone attacking me would probably attack her, too, so protecting me might actually fall under the category of self-defense.
Regular version:
1. Alastor “Mad-Eye” Moody (Harry Potter)
2. Arya Stark (A Song of Ice and Fire)
3. Mycroft Holmes (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes/Sherlock)
4. Donna Noble (Doctor Who)
5. Ponder Stibbons (Discworld)
6. The Leanansidhe (Dresden Files)
7. Shepherd Derrial Book (Firefly)
8. Éowyn (Lord of the Rings)
9. Tenzing Tharkay (Temeraire)
10. Veralidaine Sarrasri (Tortall)
What would happen if:
1) Three (Mycroft) had quite a big secret?
He’d keep it perfectly, of course. Secrets are already his stock-in-trade, after all. Also, who would he tell? As far as the audience knows, the only person he communicates socially with is his brother, and that only infrequently.
2) Ten (Daine) and Six (Lea) did a workout together?
Lea would take great pleasure in showing up in a long, floaty gown and not even breaking a sweat as the human(-ish) Daine struggles to keep up. However, once Lea got bored with showing off, she’d just leave, loudly declaring that a Lady of the Sidhe doesn’t need useless exercises to stay in shape, even if mere humans do. Daine decides that trying to be friendly and bond with Lea was kind of a dumb idea to begin with, and goes to look for Onua or someone else a little more down-to-earth to finish her workout with.
3) Five (Ponder) noticed he/she wasn't invited to your birthday?
He’d secretly be pretty relieved, as he’s more comfortable with HEX and the High Energy Magic Building anyway. Also, after however many years of working with Ridcully, he’s probably developed a Pavlovian twitch at the word “party.”
4) Two (Arya) won the lottery?
GOT!Arya would give it to Ned to deal with, since she’s the daughter of the Lord of Winterfell, and so almost certainly wouldn’t need to pay for anything. Post-GOT!Arya, on the other hand, would set herself up with food, shelter, and ample weaponry and then squirrel the rest away in a series of small, secret caches that she can easily get to, in case she needs to go on the run again.
5) Seven (Shepherd Book) became a singer?
Heh, I can totally see him starting a Gospel choir at the abbey. He probably wouldn’t do much singing himself, but would be a great conductor/manager. He probably hums to himself while puttering around Serenity, though.
6) One (Mad-Eye Moody) discovers that he/she and Eight (Éowyn) have a daughter. How does Four (Donna) react?
A suppressed squeal of glee, because any child raised by possibly the greatest Auror in Wizarding history and the slayer of the Witch-King of Angmar is genetically pre-disposed to badassery. Neither of them strike me as particularly…cuddly parents, though, so Donna would periodically offer to take the kid off their hands for a little TLC.
7) Nine (Tharkay) and Two (Arya) go camping. But they forget food. What do they do?
Go hunting, of course! These two (and Daine) are probably the best-suited on this list to roughing it. Tharkay would send his hawk for a rabbit or two, and, well, Arya has already proven adept at foraging for herself, and the odds would only go up if she had Nymeria with her. Actually, Tharkay-plus-hawk and Arya-plus-Nymeria would have an adorable, big brother/little sister kind of relationship. They could go on dragon-related adventures and give each other self-esteem boosts!
8) What dream would Nine (Tharkay) have about Six (Lea)?
Either a revenge fantasy wherein Lea stands in for all the aristocrats who refused to accept him, or a nightmare in which she mind-whammies him.
9) What would make Five (Ponder) angry at Three (Mycroft)?
Re-programming HEX for the sole use of the British Government? Or maybe planting a useful (for Mycroft, at least), but AMAZINGLY STUPID AND DANGEROUS idea into Ridcully’s or the Bursar’s head? Basically, any of Mycroft’s usual Magnificent Bastard Big Brother tricks would drive Ponder nuts.
10) Where would Ten (Daine) meet Seven (Shepherd Book)?
Um…if Book went on some sort of meditation retreat out into the wilderness he might come across Daine running around with her wolves or something, but I see him as very much a city boy, and her definitely not. I guess that he also might have been hired to kill Numair or one of the Contés back when he was an assassin, and Daine would have definitely tried to stop him.
11) What would Eight (Éowyn) never dare to tell One (Mad-Eye Moody)?
That she deserted her post to fight on the Pelennor not because she knew about the prophecy, or that she had some other special knowledge or ability that would have made a demonstrable difference, but just because she really, really wanted to. He might get annoyed with her over that, although he would acknowledge that her heart was in the right place.
12) What would make Four (Donna) scared of One (Mad-Eye Moody)?
Moody’s single-minded determined-ness, paranoia, and not-so-secret love of mayhem and yelling might remind her of the Doctor when he was in a very, *very* bad place, mentally speaking, but otherwise, these two would be BFFs. They could shout at each other to their hearts’ content, and once the TARDIS had been sufficiently explained to him, Moody would love to take a ride and kick the living crap out of evil from one end of the galaxy to the other.
13) Is Nine (Tharkay) gay?
Not in the strictest sense of canon, and he’s already had one canonical heterosexual love interest. On the other hand, there’s an awful lot of subtext between him and Laurence, especially what with him following a disgraced Laurence halfway around the world “just because,” and Naomi Novik has stated that there are closeted characters in Temeraire, so I’d say the chances of him being at least bi are pretty good.
14) Four (Donna) is in a car crash and is critically injured. What does Two (Arya) do?
Assuming that she does anything at all (because, by this point, Arya is pretty much just trying to survive for her own sake), she’d probably run and go get a maester/doctor/The Doctor, because I don’t think a passing familiarity with poisons and where to stab with a variety of knives would do her much good here.
15) There's a freshly baked cake sitting unguarded on a table. Does Seven (Shepherd Book) share it with Five (Ponder)?
Of course! He’d insist that Ponder eat most of it, because that boy looks like he could do with some feeding up. This is assuming that the cake isn’t already spoken for, though, because Book would definitely be the type to prevent grand theft pastry rather than commit it.
16) Ten (Daine) and Three (Mycroft) must work together to save you from a tower. Do they succeed?
Yeah, probably. If it’s a high-tech/modern tower, Mycroft could easily disable the security, vent some soporific and/or toxic gas into all the areas that didn’t contain me, and then send Daine to walk in and fetch me while he
17) Eight (Éowyn) and Six (Lea) are trying to defy gravity! Do they succeed?
Lea does, effortlessly and smugly. Éowyn doesn’t, though, unless Lea deigns to help her, which I don’t think Éowyn would accept, or Gandalf does, which she would.
18) Four (Donna) and Ten (Daine) are shopping at a crowded mall. What sections are each likely to go to?
Donna kind of wanders aimlessly, stopping at whatever little store looks interesting, and comes back with half a dozen fascinating, although not always useful, doodads. Daine hangs out for a little while at the pet store to make sure the animals are being treated well (and gods help the store attendant if they aren’t), before pulling out her shopping list for groceries and other household necessities that Numair was supposed to pick up last time, but forgot. After wandering separately for a little while, they would meet back up at the food court for yogurt or something.
19) Will One (Mad-Eye Moody) and Two (Arya) ever kiss?
If Mad-Eye isn’t dead by the time Arya grows up, and if Arya isn’t killed off early and doesn’t become completely evil and/or crazy, I guess I could see it. Once, and probably only if Mad-Eye was de-aged or Arya was aged-up, although they're both paranoid action-y types, and so would probably push each other's buttons. After a lot of drinking on both sides.
20) Six (Lea) appears to be a player, breaking many hearts. What do you do?
Stand back and let her get on with it, because she’s both more powerful and more socially adept than me, so I really couldn’t do anything about it. In addition, she’s just not the kind of person that one should cross. I’d be a bit worried about her motives, though, as running around and breaking (presumably human) hearts only for the hell of it kind of goes against her character, so I’d ask Harry or someone to look into seeing if she’s possessed or has some larger scheme or something.
21) You had a haircut and Three (Mycroft) can’t stop looking at you. What goes on in your mind?
“Oh god, how bad is it?” Because both brothers at least claim to be purely asexual, and I’m sure that, even with a haircut, I definitely wouldn’t be Mycroft’s type.
22) Nine (Tharkay) is too shy to face you and confesses their love by sending an email. Now what?
Send one back, asking him out to dinner or something
23) You spot Five (Ponder) kissing Eight (Éowyn). How do you react?
“…Huh.” It’s been proven that Éowyn likes her men smart and military (in that order), and while Ponder definitely fulfills the “smart” criteria, he’s hardly a Ranger. Ponder, on the other hand, would be a little afraid of Éowyn, but would also be excited by her. Basically, I wouldn’t interrupt them, but I’d be prepared to pick up the pieces when it ended spectacularly, as it would.
24) You notice that Seven (Shepherd Book) and Eight (Éowyn) have been inside that hotel room for MORE than a few hours. What are you thinking?
“Sorry, Shepherd, but she’s not going to convert to Space Buddhism/Christianity, no matter how many Bible quotes about smiting evil you read to her. A for effort, though.”
25) Could Six (Lea) and Four (Donna) be soul mates?
Hmmm…I don’t think so. Friends? Maybe. Mutually impressed allies when necessary? Sure. But soul mates? Probably not. Lea always has to be top dog, and Donna is far too stubborn for that. Also, Donna’s underlying self-esteem issues wouldn’t be helped at all by constantly being around a beautiful, flawless, magic-wielding Sidhe lady who views most humans as insignificant anyway.
26) You can't stop laughing. What will One (Mad-Eye Moody) do?
Assume that someone has cast an overdone Cheering Charm or Rictusempra on me for some reason and attempt to break it, if only because uncontrollable laughter would almost certainly annoy him.
27) Would Seven (Shepherd Book) trust Two (Arya)?
Probably. He seems determined to believe in the inherent goodness of children, and he would feel sorry for all the tragedy Arya has seen already. Also, she would remind him of River in her various neuroses and penchant for stabbing things, which he would find endearing, in a sad way.
28) Five (Ponder) is bored and pokes Three (Mycroft). What happens after that?
Nothing for the moment. Mycroft just sits, calmly sipping his tea, waiting for Ponder to stop. Later on, however, maybe that night, Ponder would get a good scare when an “accident” almost killed him, but deliberately didn’t.
29) Ten (Daine) accidentally kicked Nine (Tharkay)?
She’d apologize and get on with her day, maybe getting a little ribbing from her friends over her momentary clumsiness. Tharkay might interpret it as latent hostility/xenophobia, but when he sees that it was genuinely an accident, and that she actually likes him (or at least likes his hawk), they’d get along fine.
30) Everyone is invited to Ten (Daine) and Four (Donna)'s wedding except for Three (Mycroft). How does Three react?
He might be a little hurt on the inside, but on the outside, he’d be far too
31) Seven (Shepherd Book) and One (Mad-Eye Moody) get drunk and end up at your house. What happens?
They would both be very emotional drunks! Shepherd Book would end up hugging someone and tearfully confessing his past sins, possibly at the same time. Mad-Eye would at first object to being hugged, but would end up patting/whacking Book on the back and slurring something like “Yer arright, mate. Ya done some Dark stuff, yeah, but yer…yer arright.” Once they’d woken up and taken care of their hangovers, they would never speak of it again.
32) Nine (Tharkay) sends Two (Arya) on a mission. What is it, and does it succeed?
Probably on some covert intelligence-gathering trip where she hasn’t specifically been ordered to assassinate someone, per se, but if assassination were to happen in the course of her intelligence-gathering duties, nobody would get too worked-up over it. And yes, she would succeed admirably at the assassination part, although she might be a little cursory when it came to the intelligence-gathering part.
33) What would Five (Ponder) most likely be arrested for?
Accidentally almost re-writing reality. Again. But Sam and his coppers are used to dealing with wizards, and after keeping him in the holding cells for a few hours in an attempt to teach him a lesson (which, of course, fails miserably), they’d realize that trying to keep a wizard from his experiments is more or less useless, and let him get back to it with a stern, cheerfully ignored, warning.
34) If you had to walk home through a bad neighborhood late at night, would you feel safer in the company of Six (Lea) or Eight (Éowyn)?
Lea, I think. Éowyn would probably be the more physically imposing of the two, but Lea definitely has her beat when it comes to firepower, and would probably take the mere fact of being accosted enough to lay waste to the surrounding area without me having to actually arrange protection with her.
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Date: 2012-02-09 04:21 pm (UTC)The spontaneous and simultaneous squee was so cute! I'm glad to hear that you've found a friend who's into some of the same things you are.
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Date: 2012-02-09 09:24 pm (UTC)The spontaneous and simultaneous squee was so cute!
Thanks! Things like this happen to me comparatively rarely (IRL, at least), so it's extra fun when it does happen.
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Date: 2012-02-09 06:19 pm (UTC)her favorites are Tyrion, Sansa, and Arya, so I figure that she's in for relatively little heartbreak
Heh. I mean, this is certainly true, but considering what even those three fairly lucky characters go through... Yeah. :P
The villain meme was a lot of fun! I especially loved the question that paired a denizen of Faerie with Magneto (in a work-out room) and Saruman getting the tower question.
She’s already incredibly adept at manipulating archetypes and recurring stories, so I could see her not really being able to dream, but using that mental time for extra planning/thought
Interesting thought! It does seem like she should have an unusual relationship with dreams, which are the closest we come to unconsciously dealing with the same things that fairy stories do.
discovers a secret inclination to go looking for Hanukkah for his grandchildren
Awww! And LOL at Bellatrix shopping at Hot Topic. Also, in a world with no Voldemort, she an Nephamael would make rather an interesting couple. Actually, pretty much everything on the villain meme resulted in even more hilarious situations than usual with such things. I've got to try that one of these days!
Also, after however many years of working with Ridcully, he’s probably developed a Pavlovian twitch at the word “party.”
Heh. I bet he has!
Actually, Tharkay-plus-hawk and Arya-plus-Nymeria would have kind of an adorable, big brother/little sister kind of relationship
I was just thinking that when I saw the two of them paired in the camping question. Cute! (Also, I agree that Arya would remind book a bit of River.)
Book would definitely be the type to prevent grand theft pastry than to commit it
Hee! XD
“Sorry, Shepherd, but she’s not going to convert to Space Buddhism/Christianity, no matter how many Bible quotes about smiting evil you read to her. A for effort, though.”
LOL!
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Date: 2012-02-09 09:21 pm (UTC)Yep! It actually made me stop and think for a minute when I realized that Tyrion and the Stark girls are relatively safe characters to like, and what that says about ASOIAF as a whole. XD
especially loved the question that paired a denizen of Faerie with Magneto (in a work-out room) and Saruman getting the tower question.
These were some of my favorites! Saruman getting the tower question was pure luck, but I really like how it worked out. Also, I was kinda secretly hoping that Nephamael and Magneto would get to go up against each other, or at least interact, just to watch the ensuing fireworks.
And LOL at Bellatrix shopping at Hot Topic.
Bellatrix Lestrange shopping alongside a bunch of 14-year-old girls and elbowing them out of the way to get to the last pair of spiked black heels or whatever was probably my favorite part of this question! And, oops, that was supposed to be Magneto looking for Hanukkah *presents* for his grandchildren! Typos = XP.
Also, I agree that Arya would remind book a bit of River.
Definitely! I've thought before that Arya could really use a strong mentor figure, and both Tharkay and Book would do admirably, albeit in very different ways!