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[muji]

Unknown talents of muns and pups: What can you (or your characters) do that we (or other characters) don't know about?

I can/do:

1. Remember every phone number my family has ever had. (Including the one year we lived in California when I was three.)
2. Put my ankle behind my head.
3. I'm sure there are others. I forget.

Mal can/does:

1. Not suck at piano.
2. Finally figured out how to turn a heel. \o/

SARAH can/does:

1. Have weapons capability. >_>;;

Sallie can/does:

1. ...Actually, I think she's pretty transparent as to her capabilities.

Ned can/does:

1. ...Same here.

Eduard/Eisenheim can/does:

1. Make wooden puzzle boxes! Wait, the Cullens know that already. Shit.

Comments

[withherhands]

Mal can/does:
...
2. Finally figured out how to turn a heel. \o/

LOL Next time we have breaking-the-fourth-wall threads in the back room, Mal and I totally need to do some sock knitting together.

Actually all the knitting muns and pups should have a stitch 'n bitch. :D

As for Jack? Must ponder this one.

[muji]

Yeah, I haven't figured out how to turn a damn heel. How am I supposed to write it?

[ashen_key]

I can/do:

- curl my tongue
- ...I think I've told folks about the swordfighting. Bother.

Marlowe can/does:

- read, write and sing off musical scores (the latter is what got him into Cambridge)

Medusa can/does (or will):

- navigate via stars (...okay, so, her triplets know. No one in Bar knows)
- have a talent for patterns and mathematical codes

Esfir:

- turn a cartwheel
- recite the Bronze Horseman word-perfect.

Kore-Persephone:

- I think by now Hades and her mother know pretty much everything.

Dara of Chaos:

- cook without magic

John Aversin:

- burn water.

[muji]

Eisenheim would like to subscribe to Aversin's newsletter.

[timjr.livejournal.com]

It would surprise most folks that Hercules is able to use a computer quite well.

Ummm, that's all I got.

[miss-yt.livejournal.com]

He has a MySpace page, right?

[imthegoodguy.livejournal.com]

"Unknown talents" is part of Ben's character. I'm sure the last two seasons of LOST will reveal more things we so didn't know Ben could do.

[cassildra.livejournal.com]

Faye can: cut hair, which all of her friends at home know, but no one in Bar knows! At least, not yet.

Natalie can: gamble with the best of them and is recovering from addiction. (I don't know if Monk knows or knot. My Monk-fu is not so good aksualie.)

The FSM can: not ogle every female he meets. He just does it because he finds it hilarious.

Aika can: BAKE COOKIES. no srsly.

Also wait what you play Eisenheim? I read the short story that inspired the movie for my book club! However I cannot seem to get the movie to work.... :( Need moar Edward Norton plox.

[muji]

I just picked him up this month! eisenheimhaus! He's all awkward but I am enjoying him atm. WE ARE ALSO GETTING A SOPHIE AND AN UHL HEE.

I'm playing him far more moviecanon than story, though I'm stealing the Passauer rivalry, among other things.

[innerbrat]

I can:
Actually, anything and everything I can do I've probably told people a bajillion times.
I can make really good apple crumble.

Mel can:
Sew. Mike taught her dressmaking.

Will can:
Make fiddly silverwork things.

Francesca can:
I'm not going to fact check, but assuming the sort of Jane Austen accomplishments expected of young women in England at her time are common to Venice? She can do them. She can do a lot of everything she turns her mind to, just is interested in philosophy.

Dinah can:
Draw.
In canon briefly she was a successful fashion designer.

Death can:
tapdance

Karolina can:
Cook. Really well.

Claire can:
Sing. Because Haddyn Panettiere can and one of my pups shuold be able to.

[muji]

I want apple crumble. :(

[aberration]

Elle:
Draw and sing decently. But no one had ever asked her to, really.

Six:
Hmm. I'd think that specific talents like that are probably common among all the copies of a certain model. But Caprica-Six would probably be better than the other copies at something like following a Pyramid game.

Me:
I can cook pretty well. I just... choose not to bother most of the time.

[muji]

I'm with you on the cooking business.

[naelwyn.livejournal.com]

Revan can...

Actually, I don't think anyone in Bar knows a lot about what Revan can do. He's a pretty private guy. But the most scariest bit that I don't think anyone knows about him is that he can create a thought bomb. And, from Wookiepedia, "the thought bomb sucked the souls of its victims into a sphere of dark side energy where they were trapped in an orb of dark torment until the end of time."

Nice stuff, that.

Artemis can...

Do lots of things really well. Eoin Colfer made him quite the Gary Stu Renaissance man. He's pretty straightforward about what he can do though. Except for, y'know, when he's being pretty vague about it.

Scorpius can...

Dance a traditional waltz thanks to his Mum teaching him how, amongst other ballroom dances. Also, speak fluent French. And finish off a pumpkin pastry in ten seconds flat.


As for me, I'm very good at not being able to access my own talents?

[kotorjedi-amaya.livejournal.com]

RE: Revan: Wait, SERIOUSLY? Is this one of those things that was kind of-sort of alluded to in KotOR II, but not said outright? (Like the Genohardan scheme against the Exile, all that stuff on Malachor, the droid plot, etc, etc?)

[pheliskougra]

Me: I can cook, wash, clean and do all housework really well. I can also twist my arm and turn my palm to line up with my elbow, bending the elbod backwards a few degrees.

I can pick staples out of stapled papers without damaging the paper using just my bare fingers.

The Wandering Jew is a shoemaker, and a good one.

All my other pups already divulged far and wide their talents.

[camwyn]

Ray can/does:

1. Cook a respectable curry. The things you learn in Nyissa.

Harry Wells can/does:

1. Speak ancient Greek, albeit with an atrocious up-country hick accent.
2. Plan on entering his dogs in Schutzhund competitions starting next year- the ones he trained himself to meet appropriate criteria.

Annie Wells can/does:

1. Know enough aikido to deal with people who startle her on dark and quiet nights.

Ironhide can/does:

1. Know every single storyline and statistic of World Wrestling Entertainment for the past five years.
2. Speak/read most Terran languages- if a language is on the Internet in a large enough sample size, the Autobots downloaded and learned it upon arrival.

Bumblebee can/does:

1. Know the majority of the porn on the Internet on sight. (He tried to learn about what was important to humans based on its prevalence online, and, well... yeah)
2. Know every song and movie Anita Mui ever sang or starred in
3. See #2 under Ironhide

Whistler can/does:

1. Have both perfect and absolute pitch
2. Not know how to dance (but then, everyone who saw Sneakers knows that)

Belar can/does:

1. Know how to operate and run an Arctic crab trawler, without having to fall back on godly mojo

The Medic can/does:

1. Have an extensive background in small animal care, primarily rodents and rabbits
2. Know how to cook very, very well (if you don't mind the horrible cardiac consequences, but he figures he can always fix that later)
3. Have an excellent singing voice

Gordon can/does:

1. Play a mean game of ping-pong
2. Speak and read a reasonable amount of German (he studied in Innsbruck for more than a year, and I don't think you can get away with reading translated copies of advanced physics papers when you're on the premises)
3. Have some very basic lapidary skill; he was something of a rock hound in high school

ETA: Oh, and as for me:

I can remove all the pins and other bones from a side of salmon, and say 'I am very sorry, I am only an American' in Finnish. (Olen pahoillani, mutta olen Amerikkalainen, for the record.)

[grumpyseer.livejournal.com]

Bob: Plays a mean guitar.

Dominic: Can DANCE--or at least he could before he had his leg blown off. He's also an excellent cook.

Artie: Speaks twenty-five languages fluently and is working on learning his twenty-sixth.

Alyx: Can draw surprisingly well given that she's never had any formal training.

D0G: Makes a very good radio antenna.

[happy_kender]

Oh god, yes, I am tagging this with Tas' journal.

I can:
Annoy the crap out of people. Write. I am capable of anilitical thought. I can sew, and draw, and paint, and read a little French. I can also cook, and work a little bit of leather, and do needlepoint, and dance, and I have an uncanny talent to tear words appart. Aside from all of that I am good for nothing.

My pups:
Raziel can read... I don't think he has many other talents other than trying to kill people.

Rem: Gardening, despite her being a God of Death. Oh, and teaching, you know she taught Atilla how to read.

Daniel Jackson: I have no clue.

Hex: Is Hex.

Courage: can do a lot of things. He can use a computer fairly well, and he has a knack for getting out of tight spots.

Tegid: is a Bard. He can read and write in the Ogham script and likes to cheer people up.

Seras: I haven't thought about that much. But I know she's a music junky.

[gorgonfondness]

I can/do:

1. Minor knitting, crocheting, and sewing projects. By these powers combined, I am making my own Halloween costume this year!

2. Play the flute and figure out songs by ear.

3. Dance pretty well thanks to a Ballroom/Latin/Swing class I took in college, though the most impressive dance I have from there is the Men in Black dance.

4. Sing a decent mezzo soprano range, though once I made an All-Region Choir on a 1st soprano part.

Homestar Runner can/does:

1. State mathematical and scientific equations if you ask him certain questions at the right time. He once correctly stated Coulomb's law when asked, "What's two plus two?"

2. Trick out his propeller cap.

3. Outsmart others. Yes, he's done this.

Mia Ausa can/does:

1. Use magic that isn't related to fire or ice. Everyone studies all sorts of magic in Vane; they just usually find something that works better for them than anything else and stick with it.

2. Ummm, usually she lets people know what she can or can't do anyway...

Nash Rumack can/does:

1. Spin a comb in his fingers so fast it will buzz.

2. Wire up a toaster now! He's very proud of that.

3. Like Mia, can use magic that isn't related to electricity.

[hero_farmboy]

I... don't really have any special skills.

Neither does Clark. Well, not ones that aren't at least OOC or meta knowledge.

Sikozu can sing, as can Celaeno. I suspect Charlie may be a bit of a poet, but he'd be hard pressed to admit it. Vanth is a rather good dancer.

[remindmeofthe.livejournal.com]

Cal can:

Remember the name of anyone he's introduced to. His memory isn't so hot on a lot of things (years of drug use do take their toll on the brain tissue), but on names, he never fails. Unless they are WEIRD RUSSIAN NAMES that he doesn't quite catch on the first meeting.

Alan can:

Skateboard! And he does it very well. Okay, this doesn't exactly qualify as a secret talent, since it's canon and all the other characters know, but it's still cool! He's just such a dad, one would not expect him to be able to participate in a sport people tend to associate with youth.

Dorothy Jane can:

Write poetry. I mean, she's fourteen, so most of it right now is godawful, but as she gains practice and life experience, her innate talent for it will become more and more clear.

[rowanberries.livejournal.com]

The only one that's coming to mind right now is that Havelock canonically performs faultless sleight-of-hand tricks with no prior preparation. Also he juggles, but he's never tried that before. Oh, and he can do the Disc equivalent of sudoku in his head. That's pretty special. (I love canon.)

Ummm... I can cook pretty well? I think that's pretty well-advertised, as is everything else I do, though.

I think my pups and I are far too keen to show off our abilities. *Grins*

[muji]

CAN HAVELOCK TEACH EDUARD TRICKS PLZ PLZ IT WOULD BE GLORIOUS

[kotorjedi-amaya.livejournal.com]

I can/do:

1. Play the violin, and figure out songs by ear (I have absolute pitch). As well as other artsy things, like 3D modeling and drawing.

2. Do Calculus like no one's business.

3. Memorize any and all random factoids. Especially if they are video game and/or fandom related. I am going to go on Jeopardy some day (hopefully this year), and hand people's asses to them. I've watched Jeopardy since before I could walk.

Teddy Altman can/does:

1. not make a souffle without it collapsing. He's tried, even turned off or unplugged every radio-wave emitting device in the house. And it still didn't work. It unnerves him, to a degree.

2. Solve a Rubik's Cube in under twenty seconds, since he's memorized the algorithms. He tries it a different way every time, which accounts for the variation in times.

3. not figure out how his shifting works, exactly. In terms of: I am gaining more mass it breaks The Law of Conservation of Mass. He's just accepted it, at this point.

Chell Johnson can/does:

1. Hmm. Is there one I haven't mentioned? She probably has a lot of talents that she doesn't know about, simply because she hasn't really had a chance to explore anything.

Barney Calhoun can/does:

1. Play the electric bass. He was in a band in high school, but hasn't really played since then. It was a ZZ Top clone.

2. Chemistry pretty well, but no one ever asked him to, and not being able to go to college kind of killed any ambitions there.

3. Curse in Japanese. It was a thing.

Dr. John Vattic can/does:

1. Play the jazz trumpet. Only Lorne and people who read that thread know that, so I figure it's worth putting up.

2. I'm thinking that eventually he'll develop the ability to either do pyrokinesis or levitate post-canon, because it just makes sense.

3. Do a really good Admiral Ackbar impersonation.

The Heavy can/does:

1. Sing and dance well.

2. Grill anything, ever. (If the Pyro doesn't go crazy at the Team RED lawn parties...)

3. Whittle. He used to make dolls for his younger sister during the winters.

[saphyria.livejournal.com]

Me:
1. I can make a mean pizza and bake delicious home-baked bread.
2. I can knit or crochet stuffed animals without a pattern.
3. Um... I know enough French to survive a day in Paris.
4. I learned to play the Enya song "No Holly for Miss Quinn" on the piano by ear.

^_^

Yrael:
1. He can make things, both magically and mundane. He helped with the creation of the Wall in the Old Kingdom, and, much more recently, built the piano that graces the bar room.
2. He can actually take the shape of animals other than a cat. Srsly.

Black Rider:
1. Damn, that man knows how to work a committee. ^_^
2. Knows how to command a ship (though he hasn't in the past three hundred years or so)
3. He knows how to get bloodstains out of just about any article of clothing.
4. He knows how to get all his black clothes to match.
5. He can throw his voice.

Zelgadiss:
1. He carries a lockpicking kit worthy of a professional thief. And knows how to use it.
2. At need, he can be used as a servicable anchor for a ship.
3. He is an expert shot with a gun, though they are not his preferred weapon and he rarely has the need to use one.
4. ...he can break off pieces of his wirelike hair and throw them as weapons.

[anold-soul.livejournal.com]

I: can touch my tongue to my nose.

Tommy can: cook and bake like a gourmet, design and sew intricate and flamboyant outfits, play pool/bowl/golf/arrange flowers at a professional level, sing (even in harmony), dance, play the guitar, play every card and board game known to man (and a few which are not), fluently speak any language which is spoken to him first, kick a guy's ass, create authentic fake documents and ID's, hack a computer (using a shower cap), recreate authentic Shakespearean sleeping potions, and reanimate the dead through science.

[muji]

I feel like Tommy should move to Eureka.

[mm_madb]

I can:
1) Can cook gourmet meals from scratch without recipes. However I cannot heat up leftovers without Bad Things happening.
2) Discuss German grammar better when drunk/on medication than I can sober.
3) Draw erotica well enough that a 65 y/o ex-nun told me to make a professional portfolio of it.

Lissar can:
1) Do a little herbalism. (Canon)
2) Upgrade her own drones.

Spoon can:
1) Speak Greek with an even worse, and different, accent than Harry.
2) Relate any trauma ever to cows.

Hel can:
1) Sew stitches small enough humans wouldn't notice them.
2) Understands the US Tax Code.

Fury can:
1) Sing.

Suzi can:
1) Identify every penguin species in the world at a glance. She's attempting to learn penguin from Mumble.
2) Knows how fast and hard to slit a throat to make sure the other person never feels it.

[alt-hulk.livejournal.com]

I still love that Hel can understand US Tax Code. Hee.

[agoodshinkickin.livejournal.com]

I can
Play saxophone badly, clap with one hand, whistle, knit.

Mike can
Sew, cook, juggle, swing dance, use nunchaku, rock climb down head first, and all the other things that come with being a ninja.

Raph can
Trim a Christmas tree with butterfly swords, tango, burn water, amplify sound using his sai, and the various other things that come with being a ninja.

[sliceitwithwind.livejournal.com]

Xaldin can bake.

[magic_ferret]

Yunno can act as a cell phone. It gives him a headache, and he can't so anything else at the same time, but the option is there.

Jerry can cast spells in Greek and Egyptian traditions and will pick up Norse in the second book. Probably.

[misslucyjane]

I can knit (though I can't follow patterns, so I only knit simple stuff), cook without recipes, play piano (with sheet music), play saxophone, sew (with patterns), and sing.

Ianto can sing (because GDL does, yummy), and, of course, make the best coffee in the world.

1941!Jack knows how to use a divining rod. Yeah, I was surprised too. Basically anything that you learn in Boy Scouts, he can do. (I had three brothers in scouts. Who know it would come in handy.)

[ceitfianna]

I can play the flute, cook and do a decent job of accents when acting or during Larps, also do stage makeup.

Will can sing, knows how to butcher most animals you'd eat in Sherwood though he's not allowed to cook them.

Demeter can relate almost anything to sex.

The Pirate King can actually read Latin and French, he had a good education just he ignores it a lot.

Tumnus knows how to do some fairly basic food and music magic, but he'd much rather study history.