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aww yeah it's question meme time
Time to bring back one of my old faves...
Simple and easy! Here's how it goes:
1. POST a top-level with your character name
2. REPLY to other people's top-level with a question for that character
3. ANSWER the question you were asked
4. ASK a question of that person's characters in return!
We go back and forth like this asking questions in a thread until one or both of us runs out of questions!
QUESTIONS CAN BE ANYTHING. Serious or silly as you want! What does Jane think of (x)? What does Sarah have for breakfast? How many times a day does Alex masturbate? What's Tom's dream job? The only limit for questions is your imagination.
Replies can be as monosyllabic or as tl;dr are you want; it's up to you. Go wild kids!
the QUESTION meme
Simple and easy! Here's how it goes:
1. POST a top-level with your character name
2. REPLY to other people's top-level with a question for that character
3. ANSWER the question you were asked
4. ASK a question of that person's characters in return!
We go back and forth like this asking questions in a thread until one or both of us runs out of questions!
QUESTIONS CAN BE ANYTHING. Serious or silly as you want! What does Jane think of (x)? What does Sarah have for breakfast? How many times a day does Alex masturbate? What's Tom's dream job? The only limit for questions is your imagination.
Replies can be as monosyllabic or as tl;dr are you want; it's up to you. Go wild kids!
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gpoy 24/7
OKAY SO Freddie broke the news partially because she's not the cruelest of the cruel. So he's been told "your BFF is the Ripper" as opposed to "your BFF is the Ripper and he takes his surgical trophies and then feeds them to people do you feel me" and since no one in this universe can rhyme until it's literally in their face he's still behind on the times about the dietary complications he's been having all along! So now he and Freddie have this weird understanding thing and no one else knows he's been told and that's how it has to be okay. Freddie gives him updates whenever serial killers start losing their shit (with great glee wow gurl you get that) and if/when she goes to talk to one (LUNATIC) and he gives her dates whenever he takes Abigail out of the picture for a while and they exchange numbers and it's just overall bizarre but not totally awful. They're a pretty functional team within the Baltimore crew when they need to be and with Abigail Hobbs back in action protect at all costs means get along with people even if you don't act like you do publicly play the game yo. He tried to hint that he knew more about stuff and things to Chilton but he got rightfully distracted by the idea of Will and Freddie having drinks being weirder than any of the shit that goes on back where they're from so whatever moving along I tried a little bit didn't do much good haha story of my life. He ended up giving Abigail a cat and the money to take care of it and they had a fun trip to a seaside cottage wherein she ended up meeting Kara and turning all the non-breakfast food to breakfast food including sausage and then Kara ate some and welp that sure wasn't the best idea. Not that she knew, of course. These things do happen. Better shake it off and get some more booze right. Except for if he's gonna talk to Hannibal, then it's bring the A game and smile and nod and be totally just as in the dark as before. Great!
So basically everything within in his cast is a clusterfuck and cannibalism fears are spreading outwards, which means business as usual, how does anyone function, this is terrible.
He's also privately dating April, wooing all her raccoons, and naming all the sharks they catch after her. So sweet. He spends the weekends in Heropa at her place after her work but in order to keep up appearances elsewhere, he's put the saddest, lumpiest futon in his bait shop so if anyone calls him in at short notice or thinks it's weird he's hanging out in Heropa when his shop's closed, he can be like nah I had stuff to do I've got a place to nap crickets need care okay I'm always on duty. Ideally, he'd be able to get Bader and Ace to chill out with each other but there's factors outside of him there so you know what, as long as they don't destroy neighborhoods and rip each other to shreds? GOOD ENOUGH. He's trying not to piss off John Watson more than he already has and is hopefully going to not leave Mary with the worst impression ever. Annie and he have a clearer/more open line of communication now and she gave him awesome shark teeth, he's trying for a more open one with Jayden without the shark teeth, and he and his pot dealing roommate get along ridiculously well despite the fact of the matter that Mike was a dog at one point and Will totally would've bathed him if he hadn't caught on that he wasn't a normal dog. Maybe the pot has something to do with that, who knows. Might be getting extra work from Karen in regards to grunt work, waiting to hear if Sasha got in trouble for breaking into the new job's vending machine, and why the hell is there a 3 year old talking about brain death like she knows WHY ARE THERE SO MANY WEIRD GENIUS PEOPLE HERE. He's considering going back to law enforcement pretty hardcore but teetering about it all. Also never thought he'd be grateful to not live with a dinosaur, but, again: these things do happen. They happen way more when someone spends time scrolling through the network because fishing seasons are changing/not like they were and also he has to keep eyes on people. His special eyes on totally special people.
Especially when totally special people do things that he thinks are totally inadvisable but a public chewing out doesn't do any good about that, now does it. Better let other people do that one. Otherwise, people might get the wrong idea and getting the wrong idea about things leads down roads that are no fun at all. No fun for anyone involved. The whole changes in world going on at the moment, welp. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
There is no time to masturbate. The dog days are over.
SKYE WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING
WHY ARE YOU DOING IT
JUST BECAUSE INTELLIGENT SERIAL KILLERS WOULD KNOW BETTER THAN TO FUCK WITH YOU DOESN'T MEAN YOU'RE LEGITIMATELY UNTOUCHABLE/IMMORTAL
CAN YOU NOT
WHO'S TAKING CARE OF THE DOG WHEN YOU PULL THIS
HUH
THINK OF THE DOG
If Skye had to be separated from technology in every single way for a full day for an outdoors adventure, what would she choose? Hiking, mountain climbing, fishing, wrestling polar bears, etc.
Least favorite type of junk food?
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I want a link to where Freddie told Will about Hannibal ok? Ok ok. Also omfg dating April in secret SO PRECIOUS. (I want Skye to find out somehow so she can tease him.)
Also Armin is taking care of the dog. Duh. (It's okay she only spent one night in the slammer, they cut her a deal. The real repercussion is that now everyone is really mad at her because she did a stupid thing. Oops.)
I think she would choose being separated from technology over an outdoors adventure. She doesn't really strike me as the camping type. At least with the former option she can kick back with a book or go to a bar.
Least favourite type of junk food is hard. AOS gives me nothing to work with whatsoever re: Skye's food preferences. Also we have different junk food in Australia to the US (except for like, Maccas and KFC). I think just in general Skye's also not terribly picky when it comes to food. I'm going to go out on a limb and say she doesn't like cola flavoured candy because that shit is NASTY.
What does Will like about April?
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As long as the dog is taken care of... (IS IT LIKE WHEN YOU GET OUT OF DETENTION AT SCHOOL BUT YOU STILL GOTTA GO HOME AND YOUR PARENTS HAVE ALREADY BEEN TOLD YOU SHOWED YOUR ASS?)
Goes camping, discovers a floppy disc, suddenly it's an archeological dig. And UGH THAT STUFF IS SO NASTY. Like. Do they think people can't get a coke/root beer/whatever else and would prefer their dosage of soda in a candy form? Is it so hard to get a can/bottle instead? Do you guys have those hard candies that are in the shape of a barrel and it's supposed to be root beer but they're lying this is not root beer this is terrible.
April was actually the first person he talked to and was supremely helpful without trying to be. Like she seems to not want to be helpful at all but she ends up being the most helpful ever. There's also the fun fact of the matter that April just tosses out shit constantly, forgets about it, and much later Will brings it up because super memory. AND SHE JUST ROLLS WITH IT. There's good communication between the two of them, even if she calls him "a dog fighting fish man" and he calls her "carmilla" or whatever, everybody's on the same page when it comes down to what really matters (like, what the want out of things is). That's important and appreciated. Suppose when aggressive apathy and aggressive empathy clash, they can form aggressive normalcy that functions really well. She also like pets his dog with her foot like someone who's truly confident and comfortable in not giving a fuck because come on, who hasn't foot petted their cat/dog when it was out of reach, who cares if someone's around to see it, the pet is being pet and the pet is happy and that is all that means anything. She does a really great (read: absolutely awful) impersonation of Natasha from Rocky & Bullwinkle, she confessed that "eh i never really hated you" as a reason to wanting him to stick around, she laughs at his terrible smiles, doesn't hang up/react with horror when he's talking about the prison jumpsuit in his dresser, and finds plenty of "gross" things awesome, like his vampire wolf roommate. Who she even volunteered to give a bath since it's all weird for Will now that he knows Bader is sometimes a human too why this. There is an inclusiveness with her that's not in line with the norm and, well. There are gonna be so many sharks named April, I s2g. A+ on top of an A+ on top of other A+s that are on smaller A+s
Could Mandrake's series actually ever hope to work out as a musical and, if it did, how many songs of his own would he get? Would he just get one that was really memorable, would he be in a lot but not one that was just his, would his be full blown one genre in the midst of a bunch of songs totally not from that genre, would he be the one part of the cast that actually never sings once ever? How does that work, tell me the design.
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Also no it really couldn't. I mean maybe someone could do it but I can't really see it. It would be terrible. Also Mandrake himself hates the theatre so there'd be a certain irony to that....
Speaking of theatre! Does Will ever watch tv/go to movies? Does he have favourite television shows/movies?
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I have actually never seen a TV in Will's house that they've shown. He doesn't watch it, the shots of his house don't include one, I just go with him not even owning one. He grew up super poor and constantly moving, I doubt his father made sure to set up cable TV in every new apartment/place they stayed, so he probably only watched TV elsewhere. No Saturday morning cartoons, no coming home from school and watching the new special movie that talked about teenage pregnancy/the perils of pot/whatever else. His favorite TV shows would probably end up being informative—like the NatGeos that could be checked out from the library. Or the more recent Too Cute thing on Animal Planet where they follow the lives of puppies/kittens from birth to adoption age it's so fucking adorable holy God. Most crime drama shows get chunked out a window. As for movies, probably older stuff (go figure) and nothing that's like super dark cops Se7en sort of thing. Or Old Yeller. HONESTLY he's so far away from all that stuff it seems like he just doesn't care. He knows plenty of references/he's not an idiot about pop culture osmosis ('cept rhyming with cannibal), he just doesn't make it a real fixture in his life, you know?
Skye is hella good at technology but if technology hadn't been a go-to for her...do you think there's something else she could excel at in the same way? That she could be just as good at if she had wanted to go for that instead of tech? Or is she one of those kinds that can excel at anything if she really wants to/has the opportunity?
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I think that's a hard question to answer-- I mean, first of all because we still don't really know a lot about Skye as a teenager or the actual reason why she dropped out of high school. I'm not sure we're ever going to get more explanation on the subject either, so I guess at this point I'm just extrapolating head canon based on the few hints we get from the show. SO, THE FOLLOWING COULD BE TOTALLY WRONG, but here goes.
First and foremost, I think it's hard to separate Skye's failure at high school from her shitty home life. The only concrete details we know about Skye growing up are: 1) she was moved around a lot, every few months or years, between foster homes, and returned to the orphanage she initially grew up in between, 2) she didn't know WHY, and consequently she came to believe that it was because no family wanted or ever loved her, 3) she dropped out of high school, 4) she refers her younger self as being really, really messed up, 5) she stopped caring about her foster families around age 9-10.
Based on that, I think it's fairly reasonable to assume that there were other factors affecting her academic performance than just not being smart or an unwillingness to try very hard. So it's hard to say how she might have done if she'd had a normal childhood. She probably got moved to a new school as often as she moved families, so lack of classroom continuity is probably a big factor there. Feeling like nobody cared about her also probably caused her to be really angry and rebellious, which, coupled with the knowledge that she could get away with anything because she'd be moving homes/schools soon anyway so there were no consequences for her actions? She probably skipped school a lot.
She didn't discover she was good at computer science until after she dropped out of high school, so lol. She says it was "the only thing that ever came naturally to me," so we can probably assume at least that she's not naturally gifted at other subjects. We also see she's definitely not naturally gifted at fitness stuff when she first starts training with SHIELD. But after a mission nearly goes badly, she changes her mind and decides she really wants this and dedicates herself to her fitness training. I don't think she'll ever excel at the things she's not good at naturally but she does have the capability to put her mind to stuff and do it if she has the right motivation. She just often... doesn't have it. Making her do something she doesn't want to do is an extremely tough challenge. She's stubborn as a mule and has a whole lifetime of "I'm only going to do what I want to do because nobody else cares" behind her.
I hope... that answers your question...
What's a canon you've been meaning to get into/watch/read for ages but just haven't gotten around to it?