wasting time when I should be working

[vaznetti]

So I am at work, and marking exams, as happens at this time of year. Remind me of why I want to know whether my students are actually learning anything, again? And I know that I still have a couple snippets to go from the last meme (working on them!), but I require short-term distraction at the moment.

Ask me about any character whom I have written, and I will tell you three pieces of personal fanon about them. It is fanon, rather than "personal canon," isn't it? You can try characters I haven't written, but I can't guarantee that I'll have the same kind of knowledge about them.

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[musesfool.livejournal.com]

Zoe Washburne

[vaznetti]

Contrary to that missing scene, Zoe was not raised on a ship; she was raised on-planet, in an orphanage. She came there at the age of three, and doesn't remember much from before that.

She joined the Independents because she didn't have anything else to do -- not many skills and no place to go. It was just a job and a way off-planet, and the first time she met Mal she thought he was crazy for believing so strongly in the cause.

She still suspects he'd be happier if he were more like her about that.

[musesfool.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm not thrilled with the Zoe-was-raised-on-a-ship thing, so I mostly ignore it myself.

[phantomas.livejournal.com]

John Winchester :)

[vaznetti]

Heh. Only three?

John doesn't get angry very easily, but once he's angry he takes a long, long time to calm down. So he didn't lose his temper much with the boys when they were kids, but it probably took him about a year to get around to actually regretting kicking Sam out. (At least, for emotional reasons -- I suspect that there already were strategic reasons for wanting to keep Sam close.) I think he knew what Sam was planning, and kept waiting for him to say something, and he never did -- and that was the really unforgivable thing, in John's eyes.

Which does not to say that John does not have serious anger-related issues, but he killed monsters on a regular basis for 23 years. He didn't need to take them out on his kids.

He knows that he pisses people off. He just can't be bothered not to. I think John is fairly self-aware: I mean, he knows that he should tell Sam and Dean more than he does, but he just can't bring himself to do so.

[phantomas.livejournal.com]

No surprise I ADORE your John, you imagine him so well, and it makes me go: "yes yes yes" :)

Also, yes, yes, on the anger-related issues, he can certainly take his anger out on the monsters...and totally YES! to the last one as well, he can't be bothered, being secretive is just second nature by now.

Three more? *makes puppy eyes* :D

[rez-lo.livejournal.com]

Marita C. (because I don't know her very well).

[vaznetti]

Well, with Marita it's all fanon, since we know so little about her. But let's see.

My Marita is a good long-term thinker, but once she's made a plan she doesn't improvise well; in this she is the complete opposite of Krycek, who is a magnificent improviser, but who can't make a plan that isn't guaranteed to blow up in his face.

She loved him, but never trusted him. At least, that's what she tells herself; it isn't quite the truth.

She had a very sheltered upbringing; her parents were involved in the Consortium. They're dead.

I've just realized that I've written at least one story in which the first of these isn't the case. Oh well.

[rhi]

Malcolm Reynolds.

[vaznetti]

Hm. I actually find Mal hard to read; for me he's all surfaces and smooth talk.

Mal has managed to shake off a lot of what he believed in when he was younger, but not all of it, and that's why he finds Inara so hard to face -- he can't see what she does as respectable, and but can't help but respect her. It's hard for him to see her as a person.

He knows that it isn't gentlemanly, but that doesn't seem to help. And anyway, he knows he's not a gentleman.

He loves Serenity more than anything in the universe, but he'd trade her in a minute for one of his crew. And then figure out who to cheat got get her back.

[zarahemla.livejournal.com]

Remind me of why I want to know whether my students are actually learning anything, again?

So you can get paid, of course. (I can't think of any other reason.)

[vaznetti]

But I'm pretty sure I could get paid if I just gave them all As without testing them at all. Well, maybe someone would catch me eventually and make a fuss, but I'm not sure.

[zarahemla.livejournal.com]

Well heck, then I can't think of anything ! :D

[vaznetti]

You see my problem! *g*

[jcalanthe]

Oh, so many to choose from! Anna Espinosa. Or Sark, or Lauren from Alias. I could go on and on. :)