Tl;dr Mega Meme Bonanza

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THE TL;DR MEGA MEME BONANZA

Comment with a list of your characters, receive questions, or just tl;dr on your own unprompted! Here's some suggestions. ◘ What does your character think of mine? ◘ What goes on during our handwaved CR? How much handwaved CR do we have? ◘ Canon information, for those unfamiliar with your canon. ◘ All sorts of headcanon questions-- sleeping positions, childhoods, past sexual or romantic history, etc. ◘ Would your character date mine? ◘ If they were put under a truth spell, what would come out? ◘ Where do you want to go with your character, story arc wise? ◘ Give an example of their daily routine in Keeliai. ◘ Who do they miss most from home? Would they go back if they could? ◘ What kind of music do you listen to while tagging? What does your character listen to ICly? ◘ Elaborate on what you've been working on improving in your writing style lately. ◘ What would their daemon spirit animal be, as from His Dark Materials? ◘ What have been your favorite threads with me? ◘ What do their dragons look like in Flight Rising? And much, much more! Go wild! I recommend making a plain top level comment with just your list of characters, and replying to yourself to fill out things on your own.

Comments

[urbanmagic]

If Una had someone she would rather never appear on the turtle, who and why?

[una_persson]

There's a few someones that Una would never want to see on the turtle, but the two she would be most worried about are Bishop Beesley and Miss Brunner, who are characters from the Cornelius Quartet. Both represent forces of corrupt order—Beesley is a hideously decadent man of the Church, and Miss Brunner is an authoritarian programmer/schoolmarm/evil genius of the Margaret Thatcher sort.

Beesley, at least, would have the benefit of being amusing. He consumes sweets like drugs (I think I vaguely recall him snorting sherbet powder like cocaine at one point) and is so grossly, comically awful that at least Una would get some entertainment out of watching him try to get on and make something of himself.

Miss Brunner, on the other hand, can make herself worryingly plausible, and would be well able to insinuate herself with the science-y types to suit her own ends. In The Final Programme, she creates a supercomputer into which the sum total of human knowledge is fed, and which combines her and Jerry Cornelius into this fabulous, amoral hermaphrodite who eventually leads the populace of Europe to drown in the Black Sea.

(Have I ever mentioned how weird Una's canon, particularly the Cornelius Quartet, can be?)

So yeah, either of those two would mess up Una's day pretty badly. Both of them would ruin her year.

[urbanmagic]

... Una what is your canon even. I am vaguely intrigued by the candy man over there.

[una_persson]

Her canon is a weird, weird place. Bishop Beesley is revolting, but also a pretty great comedic creation. In one of the later stories, he's working as a Gandalf (think a shopping-mall Santa Claus) on the former site of the World Trade Center. He also has a daughter, Mitzi, who is a complete dingbat.

I haven't even gotten to Jerry Cornelius himself (assassin, physicist, rock star), who spends the entirety of one book basically a negative image of himself (black skin, black teeth, white hair), or the people of the End of Time, or the alternate worlds from the Nomad of the Time Streams books. The Cornelius Quartet was kind of my first proper exposure to experimental fiction when I was 14-15, and I've never really recovered.