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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[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