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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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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?