Yoinked from the spiffy mariagoner.

[cygna_hime]

1. List up to 20 characters that you like to write. (Original characters are welcome)
2. Ask your friends to comment to this post with questions directed to the listed characters.
3. Reply to your friends' questions in character inside your own "head canon."

1. Touya Kinomoto (CCS)
2. Kero (CCS)
3. Regulus Black (HP)
4. Salazar Slytherin (HP)
5. Helga Hufflepuff (HP)
6. Ozma (Wizard of Oz)
7. Pel, Duke of Galstan (Dragaera)
8. Vladimir Taltos (Dragaera)
9. Edmund Pevensie (Narnia)
10. Shasta (Narnia)
11. Maedhros Feanorion (Tolkien)
12. Denethor (Tolkien)
13. Auron (FFX)
14. Jecht (FFX)
15. Gippal (FFX-2)
16. Vossler (FFXII)
17. the Judges Magister Gabranth (FFXII)
18. Judge Magister Drace (FFXII)
19. Gramis (FFXII)
20. Reddas (FFXII)

And if you cannot find someone on this list from a fandom you are interested in, I declare myself confuzzled. (Or maybe I just don't have much headcanon for them.)

Comments

[limyaael.livejournal.com]

8) So, Vlad, if you had the opportunity to shut Loiosh up forever but still retain his abilities as your familiar, would you?

11) How much work was it to convince people to work with you to form the Union of Maedhros?

[cygna-hime.livejournal.com]

8. I--well naturally I'd leap at the chance to have some peace and quiet in my own head for once (it's getting crowded in here, what with one thing and another). And not having to explain all my plans to a wiseass lizard whose urge to poke holes in them clearly stems from jealousy over my opposable thumbs would be nice.

...

Okay, so I wouldn't. Happy now? Aw, boss, I didn't know you cared. Ah, shut up.

11.

To be completely honest, it was the hardest thing I had ever done before, nor did I do anything more difficult afterward. Merely persuading Findarato and Turkafinwe, among others, to so much as consider an alliance, no matter how temporary, was an enormous task. As for sitting everyone in one room to discuss battle plans-!

I owe much of what I did accomplish to Findekano. It was he who convinced me that my mad idea was possible, he who sent the emissaries that finally convinced the others that I meant no more and no less than what I said, he who--

The name it has been given is not entirely fitting. It was my idea, but it was his support that made it possible. I would argue the point, save that it was my idea and my fault.

[limyaael.livejournal.com]

8) Aw, I think someone is fond of Loiosh!

11) Who was the single most difficult person to work with, then?

[cygna-hime.livejournal.com]

8. Lies. Lies and slander. *coughs*

11. Without a doubt, my own brothers. Not, of course, Makalaure, who encouraged whatever alliance we could muster, nor indeed Ambarussa, to whom it was all one anyway. Perhaps we protected them too much, being the youngest as they were. But Turkafinwe...he and Curufinwe were a great trial always. Sometimes I imagine that, if not for their violence, we might have found stronger allies in Nargothrond and in Doriath, and things might have been otherwise. I should have controlled them more strictly, or treated them as their deeds deserved. It was my weakness that I could not bring myself to treat my brothers so, no matter how great their crimes.

[sakuracorr.livejournal.com]

Kero, why not take over the world? And say you were, how would you go about doing it?

[cygna-hime.livejournal.com]

'Cause it's way too much work, and then you haveta rule it after, and stuff. (That's what Clow always said, anyhow, and he was mostly right about the big things.)

If I wanted all that work, I'd get the Cards to help spread the word of my incredible awesomeness. Once word got out, you bet I'd have people falling all over themselves to worship the super-cool sun Guardian!

[laurus-nobilis.livejournal.com]

1. How did you realize that not everyone could see spirits like you and your mum?

2. Did you ever actually manage to make Clow angry?

12. What do you love most about Gondor?

[cygna-hime.livejournal.com]

1. I'm not exactly sure. Mom told me when I was little that the spirits should be our little family secret, so I didn't tell anyone. I guess I was eleven or twelve when I really got it. Before that I knew Dad and Sakura couldn't see them, but I didn't know it was more rare than that.

2. Only once, 'cause Clow mostly has a good sense of humor unlike some people I could name. But this one time this half-baked wannabe sorcerer came after Clow, something about "absorbing his powers", and they started having a fight. The guy was even more of a loon than usual so Clow was actually having to work at it, plus there were other people around he had to protect (well, not had to, but he was Clow, so he had to). He was trying to tell us to stay out of it but Yue was only sort of listening and I wasn't listening at all. I lost a couple feathers when I (valiantly, of course) lifted Clow out of the way of a blast he said afterward he'd seen coming. He was furious--blasted the nutjob right there and then gave me the lecture of a lifetime. He's scary when he's mad.

12. What I love most? That is a difficult decision to make; there is much about my country that I love or have learned to love. Ithilien will always be dear to me as any land should be to one given lordship over it, but in truth too much of bitterness have I found there to love it most of all. Again, I doubt that I will ever forget childhood visits to Dol Amroth, when all seemed a joy, but that is not my land, nor do I love the past so much better than the future. Minas Tirith will always be my home, nor will my fealty to the White City ever waver, but even without tower and wall I would love Gondor. For what I now understand I love most in Gondor is its people, my people whom I have fought to protect and without whom I would not now be alive.

I love Faramir. He's sweet.

I feel very eloquent today!

[laurus-nobilis.livejournal.com]

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[mariagoner.livejournal.com]

How do I resist this?

Helga: Do all those rumors of a saucy love affair gone bad with Salazar ring the least bit true...? ;)

Edmund: Your response to the idea of Penvensie-cest? XD

Vossler: Seriously. How could you not have realized Ashe wouldn't exactly greet the idea of negotiating with her Archadian captors happily? And was it the youngest prince of Archadia that lured you into negotiations...?

Gramis: Assuming you could see into the future beyond your death... what would you think of the sort of man-- and ruler-- your youngest son would someday become? And what would you think of his rather unorthodox marriage? ;)

[cygna-hime.livejournal.com]

Quoth Helga:

No. Not in the least. First and most important, no matter what I find these people saying, nothing ever went bad between the four of us (except regularly when Salazar and Rowena disagreed on a translation or Salazar and Godric had one of their "fights" or Rowena got tired of Godric's obsession with glory or they all managed to grind my last nerve).

Second, by the time I met him Salazar had two wives already (not that we knew this at the time, but we found out after a while), and he didn't seem to miss them much, seeing as how he left them in Spain for the better part of a decade and went off to England where he never so much as spoke of them to us, and if Khadija hadn't taken it into her head to visit we never would have known they existed. And they didn't miss him that much, either. Khadija was more curious than anything else about what he said in his letters. This is not a good advertisement.

Third, to be fair Salazar was a decent enough husband, and a girl could do worse than a handsome Moor, but he didn't miss his wives any more than they missed him. He was a dear friend, but all the same I feel no embarrassment in telling you that he barely noticed I was female, much less Rowena, when it wasn't brought to his notice. Getting him to pay attention to a woman at all would take serious work, let me tell you. "Saucy" is not the word.

Fourth, he's not my type. Never stirred a flutter, I'm not at all sorry to say.

Translated from the awkward Latin into modern English.

[mariagoner.livejournal.com]

Oh Helga. So many lost opportunities for scandal and bigamy between you and Salazar, lost forever! ::tear:: Well, at least we'll still have the rumor mongering that inevitably goes on after a few centuries, yes? ;)

[cygna-hime.livejournal.com]

From the desk (okay, battered notebook paper) of King Edmund the Just:

WHAT?!!!

Maybe if I hide, it'll go away.

...

Still there. Drat.

I--um--what? No, seriously, what? What kind of--what kind of a question is that to ask, for starters? "Oh, hey, what do you think about people writing stories where you--" It's just too disgusting to think about.

To be strictly fair, you have a perfect right to write anything you want. As long as I don't have to see it.

I need to go to Narnia. I'm old enough to drink there.

[mariagoner.livejournal.com]

::dies of laughter::

Trust me kid, Solidorcest? Makes me feel the same way. XD

[cygna-hime.livejournal.com]

Vossler, writing from beyond the grave (not that he ever got one, as such):

While I never expected Her Royal Highness to meet the idea of negotiations with joy, I perhaps overestimated the effect of the previous two years on her position. Many members of the Resistance, personally known to her and otherwise, died during that period to no great effect, and I presumed, perhaps foolishly, that such a demonstration of the cost of our methods would persuade her of the advisability of another way. Possibly I protected her too much.

It seemed likely to me that her anger would eventually be tempered when she realized that there were truly no alternatives. Further, once she had been placed on the throne, we could have taken steps to gain true independence. I had conferred with her noble uncle on this point at some length, and his support for such a method would have made my arguments more persuasive. I thought and still think that I could have made her understand the value of a breathing space, given time. Unfortunately, time was the one thing we lacked.

As for your other question, I had been considering negotiations for some time. It was Lord Larsa, however, who first gave me hope that any offer I might make would be considered by the lords of Archadia. I owe him much, both for what he tried to do then and for what he did later.

[mariagoner.livejournal.com]

I suppose that, in the end, it wasn't at all your fault that you didn't know Vayne Solidor was a moral monster and insane meglomaniac that would happily reduce Rabanastre to rubble as long as it let him "straighten History's weave." There's no trucking with the mad, Vossler, and it's a shame you never got the chance to realize that. ::sigh::

[cygna-hime.livejournal.com]

Missive from Gramis Gana Solidor, His Excellency the Emperor of Archadia, Duke of Lanya's Reach, et cetera:

I do not entirely comprehend under what authority you make these inquiries, but I respond nevertheless. Larsa has in the future, as he always has had in the past, my fullest support in all his enterprises. Much though it pains me to admit it, I do not fully understand him, my dearest son and the only one of whom I ever need make such an admission. How he can rule without conquest, without the unification that only war can bring, in such a land as Archadia (for dearly though I love her, I see that she is flawed and wild, able to be tamed only by a great force), I have wondered many times without answer. Yet it is true that he can do this impossible thing, as well as many more.

He trusts too much, I fear, and those who should fear and respect him he causes to like him instead. As I watch his life, I fear every day that it will not be enough. Each day when those he calls friends despite all the reasons why he ought not do not betray him, I am amazed. Such trust, such gentleness even to those with little cause to love House Solidor, is weakness, yet he does not falter. Archadia grows strong, her allies grow legion, and she knows peace as she has never known it in my memory or my father's. It is without reason.

The weaker ruler is the better man, so I was told and told myself often, and as Larsa is weak even though it harms none, so he is better far than ever I was. He is like his brother Ceraano, yet unlike, for Ceraano could not have reigned and survived so. All that is best in House Solidor is in him, in one form or another, as befits his family's only heir. I could not have asked for a better heir, or a better son, or a better man.

As for the question of his marriage, I turn to seek out the damage he has done by this momentary passion, yet, as with his other weaknesses, I find none. Assuredly his wife is faithful, his sons and daughters grow strong and happier than I have any right to expect, his alliance with Dalmasca is strong, and all goes well in his household. This low-born wife of his I find a better diplomat than many of better blood I have met, a good advisor besides, and devoted to him beyond doubt. More, she makes him happy. How could I claim this an ill thing?

[mariagoner.livejournal.com]

Total love for your Gramis. Total love. Reading this, I can very well see why Larsa loved him so much... and also why losing him was so devestating for Larsa. And it's really sad to read this and think that in canon, Gramis never got the chance to see the sort of man Larsa grew up into, even though he died with the hope of seeing Larsa do all the things he couldn't.

And yay for a happy ending for Larsa and Penelo! I like emo and all myself but occasionally, it's nice to think that they can have a happy ending, yes? ;)

Horsies!

[(Anonymous)]

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http://30toseoul.livejournal.com/266258.html