snippets of headcanon [various fandoms]
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anghraineBecause I don't already have enough fanwank to go around.
Okay, that sounded really gross. Anyway.
Mansfield Park
Henry and Mary Crawford are fraternal twins. They don't make a point of it; although they're twenty-four during the Mansfield Theatricals and Associated Disasters, Henry likes to present himself as a few years older than that, and Mary as younger. In fact she's twenty minutes older than he is.
Doctor Who
After a very very long series of adventures and misadventures involving at least two regenerations, Romana returns to the main universe (somehow -- I don't know, it just happens). She goes through the inevitable soul-shattering grief, is convinced that she's the only Time Lord left in the universe, and embarks upon a life of flying around rescuing people. And eventually, she and the Doctor end up trying to rescue the same people at the same time and their reunion is the happiest thing that has ever happened in the history of theshow universe.
Star Wars
Force-users rarely channel at their full capacity. They imagine that they do, but there's almost always that bit more -- just a hair, a smidgen that they find themselves grasping at in even greater emergencies. Some of them, though, fill themselves with the absolute end of what they can bear, the deep gold of the Force creeping into their eyes.
Force-ghosts aren't bound to the ghosts' appearances at death, but rather, how they perceive themselves. Obi-Wan, who's been mentally sixty since he was about four, always manifests that way. Yoda thinks of himself as ancient and so he is. Luke never quite stops thinking of himself as young and naïve; his ghost never looks much over thirty. Anakin's, however, shifts around. At first, he tries the form he would have liked to die in -- an elderly man, comfortable in old age. Then he tries the youthful form that his life ended in. And in the end, he just settles on the age Luke's father ought to be, always appearing twenty-three years older than his son.
Harry Potter
When Dumbledore said the Dursleys were Harry’s only family, he not only couldn’t mean that they were his only relatives (James must have had dozens of them), he didn’t. He rushed to place Harry with the Dursleys because Harry had other relatives, few of whom could be trusted at all, let alone with the care of the Boy-Who-Lived.
If Dumbledore had gone through the proper channels, Harry would have been a ward of the Malfoys before sunset.
Narcissa Malfoy wouldn’t have even needed to bribe anyone. Harry was her second cousin; she had the strongest claim to him anyway.
Chronicles of Narnia
When the Pevensies first came to power, King Lune naturally took them under his wing -- four children saddled with the cares of a kingdom. His wisdom and beneficence was invaluable to Peter and Susan, but his heart went out most of all to young, golden-haired Edmund and Lucy. He guided them and protected them and loved them, and even once they were grown-up, he was the closest thing they had to a father.
(Members of both courts often suggested a marriage between Queen Lucy and Cor or Corin. Cor seemed uncomfortable, but Corin always looked violently sick at the very idea.)
Middle-earth
By the time that Prince Eldarion marries the Lady Míriel of Ithilien, the houses of Eorl and Telcontar and Húrin and Dol Amroth are so tightly bound together in so many ways that the grandchildren are forced to look elsewhere for spouses. Barahir, who travels the breadth of Middle-earth in his search for new tales, ends up marrying a lady of the North who is almost no relation to him at all.
Okay, that sounded really gross. Anyway.
Mansfield Park
Henry and Mary Crawford are fraternal twins. They don't make a point of it; although they're twenty-four during the Mansfield Theatricals and Associated Disasters, Henry likes to present himself as a few years older than that, and Mary as younger. In fact she's twenty minutes older than he is.
Doctor Who
After a very very long series of adventures and misadventures involving at least two regenerations, Romana returns to the main universe (somehow -- I don't know, it just happens). She goes through the inevitable soul-shattering grief, is convinced that she's the only Time Lord left in the universe, and embarks upon a life of flying around rescuing people. And eventually, she and the Doctor end up trying to rescue the same people at the same time and their reunion is the happiest thing that has ever happened in the history of the
Star Wars
Force-users rarely channel at their full capacity. They imagine that they do, but there's almost always that bit more -- just a hair, a smidgen that they find themselves grasping at in even greater emergencies. Some of them, though, fill themselves with the absolute end of what they can bear, the deep gold of the Force creeping into their eyes.
Force-ghosts aren't bound to the ghosts' appearances at death, but rather, how they perceive themselves. Obi-Wan, who's been mentally sixty since he was about four, always manifests that way. Yoda thinks of himself as ancient and so he is. Luke never quite stops thinking of himself as young and naïve; his ghost never looks much over thirty. Anakin's, however, shifts around. At first, he tries the form he would have liked to die in -- an elderly man, comfortable in old age. Then he tries the youthful form that his life ended in. And in the end, he just settles on the age Luke's father ought to be, always appearing twenty-three years older than his son.
Harry Potter
When Dumbledore said the Dursleys were Harry’s only family, he not only couldn’t mean that they were his only relatives (James must have had dozens of them), he didn’t. He rushed to place Harry with the Dursleys because Harry had other relatives, few of whom could be trusted at all, let alone with the care of the Boy-Who-Lived.
If Dumbledore had gone through the proper channels, Harry would have been a ward of the Malfoys before sunset.
Narcissa Malfoy wouldn’t have even needed to bribe anyone. Harry was her second cousin; she had the strongest claim to him anyway.
Chronicles of Narnia
When the Pevensies first came to power, King Lune naturally took them under his wing -- four children saddled with the cares of a kingdom. His wisdom and beneficence was invaluable to Peter and Susan, but his heart went out most of all to young, golden-haired Edmund and Lucy. He guided them and protected them and loved them, and even once they were grown-up, he was the closest thing they had to a father.
(Members of both courts often suggested a marriage between Queen Lucy and Cor or Corin. Cor seemed uncomfortable, but Corin always looked violently sick at the very idea.)
Middle-earth
By the time that Prince Eldarion marries the Lady Míriel of Ithilien, the houses of Eorl and Telcontar and Húrin and Dol Amroth are so tightly bound together in so many ways that the grandchildren are forced to look elsewhere for spouses. Barahir, who travels the breadth of Middle-earth in his search for new tales, ends up marrying a lady of the North who is almost no relation to him at all.