So, go down to feed and medicate my dog, and there is someone other than my parents to bounce the crazy plot bunny off of.

This plot bunny has fangs and several years worth of where it wants to go.

Because the whole bloody thing is going to end up spanning from the time frame of Arrow’s Fall through to at least Storm Breaking. Possibly a bit later. And all this because I was contemplating an OT3 because I can.

Also, adding to the head canons:

Ivan (Vanko) is a Karsite Sun Priest with mage-talent, who once Karse and Valdemar are no longer enemies, ends up meeting Tony, and they fall into a rivalry over whether magic or technology are better. Sometimes good-natured, sometimes vicious and painful.

Coulson is a hertasi, Fury has mage-talent and some mind-speaking, and they’re both coming up with the people with the gryphon from the far south (I know who, I just cannot for the life of me remember their name and how to spell it, and I’d rather describe who they are then mess up spelling).

Still haven’t figured out any headcanons about Loki, nor have I figured out headcanons about any other villains from the movies.

And while I’m thinking about it, Sam is coming from the far south too, because I can, and because that gives me a way to have him doing things in the air readily without making him a gryphon. Because I don’t want to do that to him. Species-swapping Coulson, yes. Doing that to Sam, no.

Also, Hydra can go rot, Ancar and company are quite nasty enough without giving them any extra oomph.

*wanders off to go read more*

Ended up talking to mom about this plot bunny because she’s in the midst of a reread of the Arrows trilogy.

*grins very widely*

So. Alternate and additional headcanons to my original thoughts on this whole idea.

Thor and Loki as Companion and Herald (this time), who have been functionally trading off who gets to be Herald and who gets to be Companion over many many many lifetimes ‘cause it’s fun. They remember this when they’re dead, and have a vague idea of it while Companions, but not a clue while Heralds.

Loki tends to be a all the damned Gifts except Healing, and Thor tends to be all the damned Gifts except Bardic, and the first time they did this Thor was one of the early Heralds and Loki walked out of the Grove, and they have been a hot mess of a relationship ever since. Bickering, swapping roles, driving various other Heralds to distraction, making everyone around them nervous.

(Also, when Thor is Companion, at a gallop, people tend to wonder where the fucking thunderstorm is, the sky is clear, what the fuck?, and while Loki is Companion, people get nervous around him and cobblestones because his hooves fucking spark.)

Natasha as instead of a Karsite ex-extremist, as a former spy for the Eastern Empire who found herself going “what the fuck?” when she found herself with a Companion (because she tries very hard to be a good person, and also she’s not really sure she ever wants to go back, and just Reasons), and is functionally working with Alberich and later Kerowyn.

Clint as one of Skif’s friends, who just kinda tagged along with Skif because hey, he’s bored, and maybe there’s something better where his friend who is going to be a Herald, of all things, is going. He’s going to end up one of Natasha’s students, ‘cause reasons, and also, because spies that aren’t Heralds can be useful in places where it’s not safe to send a Herald to spy.

(ok, so I may not keep all of these, and instead keep the ex-extremist Karsite bit for Natasha, and she can still pick up Clint, but he keeps this backstory, and he’s mostly with her because he’s traveling and collecting information and reporting back to Alberich and later Kerowyn)

Steve and Bucky grow up in villages on either side of the Valdemar-Ruthwellan (sp?) border – Bucky in Valdemar – and Steve gets Chosen (because it can happen to people not born of/in Valdemar), and Bucky goes with him to Haven and joins the Guard, because there’s no way he’s letting Steve – skinny little scrap who will fight anyone who is being an ass – go off to be a Herald in a “shoot me now” uniform without him. Even if he can’t be a Herald himself.

Bruce. Bruce is someone who lived in the lands of the Hawkbrothers (mostly using that name for them because I forgot how to spell the proper name, damnit), who got into an area where the magic hasn’t been tamed/healed/fixed yet, and got changed. He’s very tall and very broad and very annoyed by this change, but he’s still otherwise the constantly curious person who wants to learn everything he can that he was before. And generally gentle and kind, even if most people are at least mildly terrified of him.

talk to me about boromir

lynati:

notbecauseofvictories:

Ten Things About Boromir the Bold That Never Made It Into the Red Book of Westmarch

I. His strongest memory of his mother was the smell of the sea she carried in her hair; how dark and tall she stood, looking towards a west Boromir would ever only long for in her honor.

II. Boromir did not ever doubt that he was loved. He was the first son of Gondor, swaddled in a walled citadel and rocked in Pelennor’s arms. He did not question why his father’s love was like stone, nor why his brother looked to him like he was the highest point of the ramparts. They were a city, and how else was a city to love?

III. For Boromir’s fourteenth year, the master of hounds promised him a pup of his own—One of Huan’s own line, the man swore, As befits a prince. What Boromir received, however, was the runt of that spring’s litter, a wheezing, stumbling thing that Boromir stubbornly nursed with a cheesecloth dipped in milk, then fed meat from his own plate.

Bellas, he called her, and ignored any who dared laugh.

Bellas never grew taller than Boromir’s knees, but she was strong and stubborn and loyal—for three years, Boromir went nowhere without her shadow at his heels. Bellas slept at the end of his bed; waited patiently during Boromir’s lessons; loped after his horse when he went riding.

Boromir was seventeen when Bellas was killed, her neck broken by an orc who had stumbled into their hunting party. She had put herself between her young master and the interloper, and afterwards, Boromir had carried her in his arms all the way back to Minas Tirith.

He buried her beneath a sapling tree on the slope of Mindolliun, and wept where no one could see him.

IV. Faramir looked west, and dreamt of great waves. Boromir watched him, heart heavy in his chest.

V. He had been in love with—well. He never said.

VI. Boromir was ill at ease in Elrond’s house, feeling too rough with travel, and heavy—all of Gondor on his shoulders, the knowledge that Faramir’s fine speech and strange visions might have meant something here, where Boromir, Protector of the City, did not. But he burned when they dismissed Gondor, his fingernails biting into his palms when the strength of Men was so questioned. (He had not seen any Elves come to Osgiliath’s defense, nor heard of any wizard-craft that kept the Corsairs from their brazen pillaging of Langstrand and Belfalas. What had these mighty peoples done to battle back the Shadow in the East except sit in their cool green palaces and speak in riddles?)

VII. He liked the Hobbits best, even after. They reminded him most of his own men, with their stubbornness and light-hearted complaints, their love of food and pipe-smoke and story. Three of them had left behind the whole of their world, to walk into darkness beside just one, and—yes, Boromir could respect such brotherhood.

VIII. (Aragorn remembered when Boromir was only a child, rosy-cheeked and happy to leave his mother’s side, to follow Thorongil around the citadel burbling in some tongue only Denethor and Finduilas could decipher. It was strange to meet the man that child became, to stand at a height with him, to wield a sword at his side, to listen to him speak of peace for Minas Tirith like other men spoke of lovers.

It made Aragorn feel very old, an ache deep in his bones that had not been there before. Careful, he wanted to caution the man, as he had once cautioned the child. Reach too high and you will fall.)

IX. One rainy night, when Boromir was keeping watch over the sleeping Fellowship, he sketched it out in his mind—the streets he would lead Aragorn through, the hidden corners of the palace he would show to Merry and Pippin, the great gates of the city whose craftsmanship he might justly boast of to Gimli. How Minas Tirith, that shining city, would chase the sorrow from the Fellowship’s faces, might shield them, might give them rest.

The rain dripped down his neck, cold, but he was gone to Minas Tirith—This is my home, he imagined himself saying to his companions, his brothers. This is home, may you always be welcome.

X. His last thought was of Faramir.

(Brother, little brother, I—)

TOO SOON.

I WAS USING THOSE FEELS, DAMNIT!

Methos would absolutely have a tumblr account

Methos would have a tumblr account full of shitposts and memes and cat videos, with the occassional vagueblogging about his Immortal friends, Watchers, and whatever anon hate has lately graced his askbox. Which he cheerfully deletes without posting, because he’s too old for that shit.

And he keeps his current life’s brick-space activities off his tumblr, because tumblr doesn’t need to know his current brick-space life, and he doesn’t need his current brick-space life to find his tumblr.

straight-outta-hobbiton:

As someone who headcanons Harry Potter to be of Indian descent it pleases me to think that his name is actually Hari, and that Aunt Petunia just Anglicized it because foreigners.

According to the interwebs, ‘Hari’ is a Sanskrit name meaning… Lion.

So yeah. Hari the mixed race savior of the Wizarding World.

sabertoothwalrus:

when making ace characters/headcanons please remember:

not liking romance =/= being ace

not liking sex =/= being ace

ace =/= cishet

ace = no sexual attraction

“lol their sexuality is pizza” fuck you

but seriously ace people are not obsessed with food

some ace people like sex. some are just neutral. some are sex-repulsed. it’s not a unanimous thing.

“I think this character is ace” “but they’re gay!” yeah what’s your fuckin point

being ace =/= not gay

don’t infantilize ace people. being ace doesn’t make someone uwu pure

it’s okay to headcanon kids as ace. it’s not like you’re not allowed to be ace until you hit a certain age. If I had more information about what being ace was when I was a kid, I have no doubt I would have been calling myself ace way earlier.

however: your reasoning for headcanoning a kid as ace shouldn’t be because they’re not having/interested in sex. Well, yeah, duh. Of course they aren’t. They’re a kid.

ace people can’t be “cured” by “the right person”

writertobridge:

brinnanza:

jazzypizzaz:

i-fought-space:

essyltinexile:

For generations now humankind has had more than enough food, and yet you go about your eating as if you were afraid someone was going to come along and snatch away your plate….Fear of starvation amid plenty. It points to some dark secret hidden in the human soul. A gnawing hunger, perhaps. Someone should do a study.

一 Elim Garak, a man who’s clearly never stood in a public school lunch line, or had a job with a half hour lunch break.

This is kind of surprising, though. Garak functioned in an authoritarian, fascist society for most of his life – yet they still had longer culturally acceptable times to eat… assuming this is a ‘Cardassian vs Human’ thing and not just a ‘Garak flirting with Bashir in the guise of giving him grief’ thing.

I’m surprised more people haven’t headcanoned all over this.

it’s relevant to note that this is right before Garak blows up his shop while he’s in it, because he suspects that someone is killing old Obsidian Order operatives and wants to get other people to help him investigate, etc.

He’s nervous about the explosion and that his life is in danger– he wants to draw out the lunch as long as possible to enjoy Bashir’s company, in case it’s their last together.

(As is often the case with Garak, who knows whether there’s a kernel of truth about Cardassian society in there or not, lol.)

that may be but garak is 100% concerned julian is going to dash off before he can witness the spectacle of garak’s shop exploding and be tenderly concerned about garak’s well-being

Now I’m just imagining that Garak brought this up now simply because he knew that his shop was going to blow up and he was really getting tired of Julian’s “eating too fast” bullshit. So he says it here, goes to his shop, and blows it up. Then, later, they have a conversation and Garak’s like, “Really Doctor, if I had died, our last memory together would a rather rushed lunch and that would be unfortunate, wouldn’t it?”

But to elaborate.

I wouldn’t be surprised if Cardassians eating slow is a cultural thing. You’re talking about a group of people who value family over almost everything else. They likely sit together and have long conversations over meals about the day, future events, politics, art, science. I know my family dinners last eons longer than dinners by myself, and that’s because we talk and eat.

And in an authoritarian society, there’s likely scheduled times for these family meals, whether it’s breakfast, lunch, dinner, or a combination of the three. The “perfect family breakfast/dinner” scenarios are probably far more likely to appear in a Cardassian home than a human one.

I also firmly believe that Garak’s using this moment for manipulation. He’s probably seen this abhorrent behavior in Julian for months and he sees this as the perfect time to put a stop to it. If Julian’s potential last memory of Garak is Garak scolding him for eating far too fast, Julian’s going to remember that every time he eats with anyone. He’ll slow down.

Isn’t it fun to look back on puppy-days Bashir knowing he’s one of the successful genetic enhancement patients? His crush on Dax was a huge embarrassment squick for me (stop brain the teens were bad for everyone), but in retrospect his behaviour makes so much sense. I love the scene where Dax is working on the holographic meditation puzzle and lets Bashir try it, and this holographic floating sphere just clamours and pops. His character development is fantastic, one of my absolute favourites.

I love Julian’s character arc, and yeah, his crush on Jadzia was, even the first time, so very much hitting my embarrassment squick, as well.

And that episode!

I watched it, and was giggling with glee at that part, because it makes so much sense to me – I’m pretty certain that what his parents did to him took him from one part of the spectrum to another, instead of making him neurotypical-but-better. And if his brain as it is in canon works anything like mine, there’s no way to be quiet enough to achieve what Dax did with that puzzle. His mind is never going to be quiet, even leaving aside that he has to keep thinking about how well he’s keeping up his mask, his front, the illusion that he’s “normal”.

I… may have some headcanons, influenced by some fantastic fic by other people, about Julian having been autistic before the genetic enhancements, and ADHD after, particularly in the manner that tends to be overlooked because he’s so good at mimicking what other people expect. That he manages to hold down a job and something of a social life, could very easily be that he’s more extrovert than introvert, and otherwise careful management of what he lets other people see.

At least, that’s where my brain is at on things.

(Also, regularly muttering “Oh, my love” at my computer with exasperated fondness, both at him and at Garak. I’d love to be able to sit both them down and give them all the cuddles and hugs they have missed out on all their lives. Because the only more touched-starved person on that station is Odo, as far as I can tell.)

Random AU headcanons

morgynleri:

Because I can, because I hurt, and because last night, I spent a couple hours making a list of potential names for wargs in the AU where Frerin survives Azanulbizar, and later brings home a warg puppy (he thought it was a regular puppy) for Thorin.

1. Wargs from the north have a roughly human lifespan, barring injury or illness or genetic defects. Most of them don’t actually live that long because orcs and raiding and an environment that really doesn’t lend itself to living that long. (Wargs like those in the southern Misty Mountains have an entirely different physiology, just going from the movies, and thus may well have a different life-expectancy, and I’m not dealing with them right now.)

2. The first warg is Little Thief, usually called Rab because that’s an easily shouted syllable from the khuzdul for that same name.

Rab sneaks off three separate times and comes home pregnant because clearly her people need more wargs to keep them safe, because they do not have enough. And bringing home adult wargs is probably Not Safe.

In total, 13 live pups over three litters (4, 7, 2), with three that are important enough to have names** (Lucky, called Salu; Queen, called Melin; and Little Warrior, called Miza). Rab dies in 2875.

3. Salu dies in the same orc-raid that Víli does, when Kíli is a year old. They find Víli’s body half-under Salu, as if the warg was standing over him when killed. (They’re not wrong thinking that.)

4. Melin has 7 live pups over two litters (3, 4), with one that bears a name (Rabbit, called Ginush). Melin was very protective of Fíli and Kíli when they were little, and was often regarded warily by any adult dwarf because she was not above attempting to use those she thought were a danger to her tiny dwarves as furniture. (She’s well aware that actually chewing on them would get her killed, and then who would look after the little ones?)

5. Miza has 16 live pups over three litters (5, 6, 5), of which four did not survive to adulthood, and two are named (Storm, called Lâk; Iron-Tooth, called Zirakh). She preferred to spend most of her time patrolling the edges of the settlement, and tends to think of intruders as chew toys. Orcs killed her in 2898 while she was further out than usual.

6. Ginush was named Rabbit by a very tiny Fíli, and grew up with the boys. She dies in 2935, six years before Thorin goes to take back Erebor. She has at least two offspring, but I haven’t figured out more than that about her yet.

7. Lâk wanders off and brings home a mate, to the consternation of pretty much everyone, his mate included. She thinks dwarves are dangerous enemies, they think she’s going to eat them, Lâk is a very confused warg. He and his mostly stay at the edges of the settlement, because it is safer for everyone that way. Of the 9 live pups (4, 5), one has a name – Ember, called Liwiz.

8. Zirakh is Thorin’s companion warg at the time of the Quest, and has taken Liwiz under her wing, so to speak, and is training him up to be Thorin’s companion when she dies, like Miza did her, and Rab did Miza. Thorin still finds this whole thing disconcerting, because the pup Frerin dumped on him a century and more ago was supposed to be just a hound, not a blasted orc-bred warg.

9. Yes, I’m treating the wargs like actual characters with thoughts and plans and intelligence and sentience. Because I can. Because I like that headcanon. Because I’m pretty sure there’s stuff in canon that supports it if I have the energy to go hunting it down again.

10. There are only going to be two wargs on the quest to take back Erebor, because Thorin is not going to take the whole damned pack, they’d be too obvious. As well as making him – and everyone else – nervous, despite knowing these wargs are theirs and not enemies.

11. This is going to make life interesting on the quest.

12. I have not at all figured out what it means for them in the settlement, and if it means that Thorin and others end up living a bit away from the others, because wargs.

**Granted, all of the wargs are actually named in the AU, they just don’t all need names for the story, only the important ones right now. I’ll name the others later, if I need to.

yol-ande:

meabhair:

yol-ande:

meabhair:

yol-ande:

yol-ande:

I just had the crackiest time travel plunnie, and then I went and made it sad

@meabhair Since you asked…

Ok, so this AU is basically a weird bastard child of R2-D2 Unfucks The Timeline AUs and a plot device from my Fuck It Up In New And Exciting Ways AU.

Basically: Force reacts in truly weird ways at explosion of Hosnian System and Force Ghost!Ben Kenobi gets sucked by one of the cracks and spewed out on different side… Right into a body of R2-D2 in the first days of Naboo’s invasion.

Knowing his luck, corporeal and very much alive Qui-Gon Jinn and very young version of himself is the first thing he sees.

This is weird, but let’s be honest here – it’s not the weirdest thing that happened to Obi-Wan Kenobi. I am like 80% sure that it wouldn’t even rate five top places on his weirdometer. So Ben Kenobi – now as R2-D2, but still very much Done With Everything™ – just goes on his sweary way, causing mayhem and unfuckening wherever he goes, and making Palpatine deeply uncomfortable.

The weirdest thing about this situation is a fact that he and C-3PO actually become good friends.

Which leads to canon divergence from Battle for Coruscant, where R2-D2 caused malfunction makes sure that Palpatine gets disintegrated into tiny pieces and scattered across the whole planet.

The Galaxy is saved. His purpose in life was fulfilled.

He still stays around, because he remembers not-so-fun times of the rise of the First Order and knows that someone need to keep an eye on Skywalkers. Also, someone needs to make sure that twins will live to adulthood with Anakin raising them.

For the sad part: Obi-Wan always loved Anakin. But as R2-D2 he learned to love him in new, more desperate ways. You need to appreciate a man that treats you like his equal, even if you appear to be nothing more than a droid.

Obi-Wan always loved Anakin, but he understood him only after becoming R2-D2.

I know I asked for this, but why would you do this??? Obi-Wan needs a (fuck-ton of) hug(s) and he’s even less likely to get them as a droid.

But! Other than that A+

Especially the swearing. All the swearing. It could be one way Obi-Wan has petty revenge, blaming people for corrupting his innocent circuits
Also, perhaps also electrocute maul a few times before he gets to theed 😉

Actually… Ok, I didn’t watch all episodes of The Clone Wars, but looking at gifs floating around I think that R2-D2 is touched with affection more often than Obi-Wan? Anakin pats him, Ahsoka hugs him, etc. Meanwhile, Obi-Wan’s rigidly in-check body language practically scream “DO NOT TOUCH”, so… They don’t touch him if they can help it.

Wow, this is fucked up.

Ok, as an introvert I get not wanting to get unannounced touch, but thinking about how Obi-Wan was raised – Qui-Gon did not seem to be tactile at all. Even when he was dying, it was like finger tips rather than the easier palm of hand to the cheek.

If you never get hugs, only get weapons training / aggressive bad guys bad touch that would give you a serious flinch reaction. Look at how he deals with Dex, who opens his arms and let’s Obi-Wan step in to a huge hug. Maybe Anakin never figured that out

^^ Exactly my point. He might not appreciate unanounced touch and flinch reaction after being raised like that (and with heavy dose of PTSD, also torture-related) is rather given. He might like or want to get hugs (no one can convince me that he isn’t touch-starved), but he’s never going to ask for them, and Anakin is complete and utter shit at reading his needs, so he just leaves him alone instead of working around his issues.

Dex is a darling and I love him, especially for care he shows for Obi-Wan.

myowndeliverance:

Listen, if you want to specifically go out of your way to talk up how you headcanon a character as aroace, headcanon it. Like actually TALK about it. Don’t just tack it on the end of your three thousand words about your fave ship or whatever to justify leaving characters out. Either don’t bring it up or bring it up and expand on it.

Because first of all, it’s often very clearly a pattern throughout some people’s fandom habits. The female characters they can’t demonise, the characters of colour who never seem to get a look in at slash juggernauts- they seem to get a one line “they’re aroace!!!” dismissal constantly. And second of all, aroace people have lives that are impacted by their being aroace and such a thing is worth showing and talking about, not using as a get out of jail free card!

Aroace headcanons are cool. It’s a shame fandom doesn’t actually tend to have them so much as they just skip over them. Like oh, you see Finn as aroace? Or Rey? Talk about it! Or just admit you ship something else and just get on with that! Don’t act like it’s a token you can pull out for extra points or w/e, it’s patronizing as hell.

(Good job to the people out there bringing us fun headcanons they actually care about though. It’s always a great surprise to see one someone has actually thought through for a character they really care about.)