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Oct. 11th, 2024 09:52 pmDo you have any hard and fast headcanons that you will die defending?
Oh, hell, yeah.
I'll start by saying that very often, a piece of backstory for a character that comes up in the course of a particular fic goes straight into my headcanon and will keep coming up in future fics about that character. For example, my first ever attempt at writing Dark references an incident not seen on the show where right before Mads Nielsen disappeared, he and Ulrich got into an argument that was relatively trivial in the grand scheme of things (Mads listens in on Ulrich's phone conversation with Katharina, waits for him to say "I love you" and then blows a raspberry down the phone) but in the argument, Ulrich tells Mads to "get lost". When Mads then disappears for real a couple of days later, that argument comes back to haunt Ulrich and he blames himself. That incident has come up a few times in my Nielsen family fics, and will be referenced in current WIP (working title: The Last Words of Bartosz Tiedemann). Same also goes for Christmas Day in the 30th year after Mads disappears when Magnus and Mikkel have a minor spat about presents that reminds Ulrich of his fights with Mads, causing him to get very drunk and start getting the family albums from the 1980s out, and Mikkel in the past, in a school assembly where the principal says the Berlin Wall won't come down in his lifetime, standing up and shouting out "Bet you 10 Deutsche Marks you're wrong."
One Yellowjackets fic I wrote a couple of years back features a scene with Jeff and Kevyn bonding over the disappearance of the plane (Kevyn regrets not having told Natalie how he felt before she got on the plane, Jeff feels unable to admit the same re Shauna because as far as Kevyn's concerned, Jeff was in love with Jackie) - there was a moment in Season 2 where those two characters weren't exactly getting along and I just kept thinking "Why are you arguing like that? You were totally bonding in the locker room!" (even though so far canon hasn't addressed Jeff at home during the wilderness years.)
I reconciled myself to the "I think this flashback's mostly filler" story of Lost's Jack getting his tattoos in Thailand (not a popular one with fans) by imagining that he met Once Upon a Time's August Booth there (who cares that the timeline of both characters visiting Phuket doesn't quite add up - the number of times show writers have contradicted themselves over timelines with no explanation other than cockup makes me wonder why I bother trying to get it right sometimes!) and they spent a long drunken night bonding over their relationships with their fathers while August taught Jack how to play poker.
Ever since I made the connection that Walter Bishop's institution on Fringe was in the same town where Daniel Faraday was living when Widmore tracked him down on Lost, it's been my headcanon that they met in St Claire's.
I'll close on the one that it still bugs me 16 years on that it never appeared on screen (stupid strike) - it will always be my headcanon that Lost's Sayid and Desmond had a bonding moment on the freighter over Desmond's failed attempts to save Charlie and Sayid's failed attempts to save Essam.
Oh, hell, yeah.
I'll start by saying that very often, a piece of backstory for a character that comes up in the course of a particular fic goes straight into my headcanon and will keep coming up in future fics about that character. For example, my first ever attempt at writing Dark references an incident not seen on the show where right before Mads Nielsen disappeared, he and Ulrich got into an argument that was relatively trivial in the grand scheme of things (Mads listens in on Ulrich's phone conversation with Katharina, waits for him to say "I love you" and then blows a raspberry down the phone) but in the argument, Ulrich tells Mads to "get lost". When Mads then disappears for real a couple of days later, that argument comes back to haunt Ulrich and he blames himself. That incident has come up a few times in my Nielsen family fics, and will be referenced in current WIP (working title: The Last Words of Bartosz Tiedemann). Same also goes for Christmas Day in the 30th year after Mads disappears when Magnus and Mikkel have a minor spat about presents that reminds Ulrich of his fights with Mads, causing him to get very drunk and start getting the family albums from the 1980s out, and Mikkel in the past, in a school assembly where the principal says the Berlin Wall won't come down in his lifetime, standing up and shouting out "Bet you 10 Deutsche Marks you're wrong."
One Yellowjackets fic I wrote a couple of years back features a scene with Jeff and Kevyn bonding over the disappearance of the plane (Kevyn regrets not having told Natalie how he felt before she got on the plane, Jeff feels unable to admit the same re Shauna because as far as Kevyn's concerned, Jeff was in love with Jackie) - there was a moment in Season 2 where those two characters weren't exactly getting along and I just kept thinking "Why are you arguing like that? You were totally bonding in the locker room!" (even though so far canon hasn't addressed Jeff at home during the wilderness years.)
I reconciled myself to the "I think this flashback's mostly filler" story of Lost's Jack getting his tattoos in Thailand (not a popular one with fans) by imagining that he met Once Upon a Time's August Booth there (who cares that the timeline of both characters visiting Phuket doesn't quite add up - the number of times show writers have contradicted themselves over timelines with no explanation other than cockup makes me wonder why I bother trying to get it right sometimes!) and they spent a long drunken night bonding over their relationships with their fathers while August taught Jack how to play poker.
Ever since I made the connection that Walter Bishop's institution on Fringe was in the same town where Daniel Faraday was living when Widmore tracked him down on Lost, it's been my headcanon that they met in St Claire's.
I'll close on the one that it still bugs me 16 years on that it never appeared on screen (stupid strike) - it will always be my headcanon that Lost's Sayid and Desmond had a bonding moment on the freighter over Desmond's failed attempts to save Charlie and Sayid's failed attempts to save Essam.