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Data - Apparently very odd. They hadn't quite gotten his programming right, and there were still some things he had trouble working out. For example, apparently he couldn't for the life of him understand the need for clothing.

Lore - A lot less sinister. Emotional and curious.

Rosalie - Spoiled, strong-willed and bossy.

Eiji - Pretty much exactly the same.

(And MM peeps...)

Julia - Almost completely opposite from her current personality. Warm, emotional, curious, and friendly. Liked pretty, girly things, and cared about everything and everyone.

Frederick - I'm anxious to know more about his childhood, myself. ;)

Augusta - Crankier and a bit more calculating (from what I've gathered). Had long, dark hair and hated having to wear dresses.

Both of them were a lot less... focused. Less serious. I'm trying to see what more I can get out of them.

Kain changed much earlier than Felix did, I know that. So many of Kain's issues stem from years of hearing how awesome his father was.

Bobby was very much the same as he is now, but smaller.

Mallory was a little tomboy daredevil who always ran headlong into trouble, but worked hard to keep her brothers from doing the same.

Mother Nature was never a child.

Rapunzel was curious and something of a free-spirit (or as much as she could be with a witch for a 'mother').

KK and Karl were precocious and stayed close to the other Freakangels, before they were even called Freakangels. The rest of the people in their village were either afraid of them or in awe of their uniqueness, and so they kept to themselves.

Also it's my birthday! I am officially old.

Happy Birthday! :D

WRONG JOURNAL SORRY >///<

Happy Birthday!!!

And you're not old, the rest of the world is just too young. ; p

Happy birthday! You are one year closer to being able to sit on a porch rocker with a shotgun telling kids to get off your lawn!

And seriously, that would be AWESOME.

Raven: Exactly as he is now, but smaller.

Dean: Pre-fire he was a normal kid, silly, ridiculous, quick to be annoyed and just as quick to get over it. Post-fire he tried his best to be a tiny adult at all times. Except when he really really really had to snipe at Sam.

X-23: She didn't talk. She was very, very passive, following any orders she was given. Anything outside of her usual routine meant that she waited for someone in charge to confirm that she was supposed to/allowed to do whatever had been set in front of her.

Michael: The stick up her ass was much bigger. Also, she was in a male body.

Galadan: He was never very open with his emotions, but his affections were completely unmoderated. Bam, you were in all the way, or Bam, you were right out. Forever. Also he had a very 'gimme gimme gimme' attitude that he has probably never quite lost.

Nynaeve: She was a tomboy. A complete and total tomboy. Also bossy.

Sam Tyler: He was a pretty regular kid, maybe a little quiet sometimes. Loved football. He looked up to his dad like anything.

Wonder Woman: She was always cheerful and open and gregarious. Serious about her lessons. She came to responsibility a little late, I think the Amazons enjoyed her response to freedom and so they were a little lenient with her. (This depends on which retcon/backstory you go with. But that's the one I picked.)

Jordan is still a kid! Moot point!

Mordin was one of a lot of children- salarians reproduce by mass egg-layings and have different family structures from humans. His childhood was also pretty short, since the salarian lifespan is short and the metabolism is fast, but for the few years he was considered a kid rather than an adult he had to be peeled off the library walls regularly.

Vergil came into consciousness as a physically smaller but otherwise fully adult Huragok, a process natural to his species since each new one awakens with copies of all their parents' memories already in their own systems. Vergil was quiet, curious, and prone to poking at things.

Quite a few people would say Belar has never really stopped being a child, and they're probably right. The Gods of his universe don't age/develop/change the way humans do and Belar has always been a boyish, boisterous type.

Gordon was an angry little kid with an older brother who never understood why he just wasn't into competitions and sports and all those things, and at one point when he was six or so punched out two of his older brother's teeth when his older brother just wouldn't leave him alone. After quite a bit of family counseling he wound up channeling most of that into competitiveness and developing a tendency to get very quiet before saying or doing anything that might be either violent or ill-considered, and eventually it wound up solidifying into a lifelong habit of minimizing talking. Among other things.

Adrian was the kind of little kid whose parents would be in the emergency room on a regular basis if they could afford all the visits. You know, the one who kept sticking his hand in holes full of creatures who didn't want to be disturbed, poking wasp nests with sticks, bringing home unhappy things with fangs, half-drowning in the local creek, getting into a contest with his brother to see who could fit the most peas up their nose, etc. That kind of kid.

I don't know what Medic was like as a kid except that he read too much above his grade level when he wasn't doing whatever his rather strict grandfather required of him in the way of studies, violin practice, etc.

Ray was a very impressionable little kid who had his copy of the complete works of Edgar Rice Burroughs taken away after he tried to vine-swing on a weeping willow in his parents' backyard and broke two of his ribs. He tended to memorize whatever he read and was not allowed to watch TV until he was five. He tended to take things apart to see what made them work, at least until he did it to his father's pocketwatch and got badly surprised by an uncoiling spring. He was also really not good at all at reading other people's body language.

Will get to Arcade and Ellen later, RL having a problem.

ETA: Okay, got that dealt with, relaxing now.

Arcade was a studious little kid who very much wanted his father's approval, a habit that continued even after his dad died while Arcade was very young. He did his best to help his mother with everything after that, and probably grew up faster than was really good for him. He internalized 'children should be seen and not heard' early on.

Ellen was a friendly little kid who liked to read a lot, but didn't seem to have many friends in the Vault, possibly because their parents didn't really encourage them to get friendly with anybody from outside. She was an extremely trusting little kid as well, a habit that carried over clear until she got dumped into the outside world at age 19 and found out that the central figure of her life had been a big fat stinking liar, and so had everybody else. So, yeah.

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Main Canon Ben was a total punk who followed his big brother around and joined a street gang.

Ult. Ben was/is a total jock who's into Grunge but who stands up to bullies...any bullies.

Jessica was a very curios and precocious child. Or a spider depending on which comic you read first as canon.

Val was into everything. Nothing could satisfy her curiosity. She did tend towards shyness which she over compensates for now.

Thalia was grumpy but (Spoiler white-text for Lost Hero follows) .

Castiel: Largely as he is now, I think, since he was more 'brought into being' than 'got born and grew up.'

(I did once, however, read a hilarious fanfic of Dean and Gabriel sitting around telling embarrassing stories about things their little brothers did when they were little that included the time Castiel removed the horns from all the unicorns because "they made the horsies look funny.")

Luna: She's only just turned fourteen, so true childhood isn't far behind her. I think she was a little less fringe-y when she was smaller, before her mother died. A little more engaged in the world around her. But I think even back then she was very much Luna.

Parker: Was the child that gave her parents premature grey hair. Extremely active, extremely talkative, and a daredevil. She was totally the kid who jumped off the garage roof wearing a homemade cape.

Mia and Lucas are both very alike in their childhoods (though one could argue about whether Lucas is still a child or not; he feels very much like one but his lifestyle is far from childlike): meek children with that particular tendency to hide behind their mothers' skirts when meeting new people.

Mia was already a mini-nerd, probably because I doubt Ghaleon would baby her the way others would in their choice of words or bedtime stories.

Lucas is the farm kid that likes just spending time with the animals when he wasn't running around with his daring twin brother.

Jack: Oh lord. Cute kid but the kind that would make a mother pull her hair out. "Because I wanted to see what would happen" would be a common answer. Eager to please his father, crushed when he couldn't, until he learned not to care.

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Carl was the quiet-and-geeky type. And then he discovered computers and the rest was history.
Larry has always had his head in the clouds; the main difference is it was a lot cuter when he was five than when he dropped out of college and had a son to support.
Part of my headcanon for Cosmo is that at least one of his parents, if not both, was a Holocaust survivor. As soon as he was old enough to understand what happened, he developed a strong sense of 'the world is full of injustice.' 'And I should fix this' came later.
Cata was enrolled in the Assassins' Guild by the time she was ten, and just informed me that it came about after her penchant for seeing what would kill off her parents' house's rat problem led to a younger relative being poisoned. She won't say whether she did it on purpose.
Moist, there's canon for. He's always been the quiet, slightly-dorky, friendless type, even though it used to be friendless for having unusually dry skin. His parents weren't the world's greatest people, either; I'd say he's incredibly well-adjusted for what he's been through.
Conflict Diamond was a lot more open and carefree before her little brother got kidnapped.
There's also some canon for Sam. He had a very hard childhood even while his mother was alive, as she was too mentally absent (spoiler: so she couldn't tell anyone that Mizzamir had raped and impregnated her...) to really provide for herself and her kid. Getting into the Guild after his mother's death actually made his life a lot better, as he had a group of like-minded people.
Claudia's always been too smart for her own good, and given that her brother tried the compass just to prove he could teleport, I'm inclined to say impulsiveness is a Donovan family trait. She really packed on the abandonment/lack-of-real-family-and-home issues after Joshua disappeared, and that's just now starting to turn around.
(You know, until canon happens.)

Jacob was one of those kids who got given a drum set and was consequently never quiet again. As a Storyteller he knows he was human at some point, but is unable to remember exactly who, what kind, when, or where, or most of what happened.

Micah was a normal kid for Missouri; hunting, high school, family. (We don't get a whole lot of backstory on him from before he was turned other than apparently he liked hunting.)

Nori was perfectly normal for a Japanese kid, liked comics and internet and got good grades until she manifested. Then her whole world kind of went to shit.

Pavel still is a child, but I'd imagine he was the kind of brainy one who'd stand outside at all hours of the night to map the constellations and try to tell them part from the satellites and spacedocks, without benefit of having remembered a sweater.

We're given precisely squat on Charles as a child other than that he knew before he left school that he wanted to be an LC as having an 'instinctive need to please people'.

Finvarra might as well still be a teenager; he parties, he flirts without meaning it, his usual relationships last about the length of your average recess...

Kida is a child. (No, really.)

Ganymede as a child was pretty normal for the times and his status. As the son of a ruler he probably didn't have a whole lot of childhood friends or spend aa lot of time being coddle by one or the other parent.

Alyx was the sort of child who was all about Learning Stuff and Making Stuff. She asked questions about everything, read anything she could get her hands on, and took apart anything that could be disassembled with simple tools. After the Black Mesa Incident, post-traumatic stress dampened her enthusiasm a bit--she didn't speak a word for more than six months after the Incident, and remained extremely clingy for a long time after that. (Arguably, she still is.)

D0G as a 'child' was pretty much the same as he is now, only smaller and quadrupedal.

Gus was a little bastard, always trying to test the limits of how far he could go before getting into trouble. Not much has changed, there.

Nicholas was rather quiet, except for in instances where someone was breaking the rules. Then he'd totally try to stop them. Again, not much has changed (I love that this is canon).

Travis' early childhood was spent having to find ways to entertain himself. He didn't really know what to do with himself for the most part. It wasn't until he reached his teen years that he realised all the various ways in which a person could properly raise hell.

Tim was also very much the way he is now. He was into sci-fi and comics and art, and ran around with Mike, generally getting in and out of trouble.

Penn was a surprisingly quiet kid, and spent most of his time reading. If you get him to a point where he's really comfortable around you, you can still see this in him.

Teller was also rather quiet. Not the way he's quiet now, but in that he preferred to stay lock in his room for hours on end, doing god knows what. Okay, he does still do this on occasion.

Mycroft loved being an only child, and was quite annoyed when shortly after he turned seven, Mummy brought him a new little brother. He may or may not have tried to poison the little monster a few times. But that's all right, because ~~the little monster~~ Sherlock has apparently tried to poison him on more than one occasion as well.

Rusty was a very insecure child, always trying to make his father proud, and forever failing. Apparently, when he was nine, Jonas made him kill someone with a house key (totally canon).

Brock's the only one I'm really not sure about. I know he lost his virginity at 13 (canon), but I hesitate to make any guesses, because this canon loves to go back in time and screw with itself.

I'm going with the twin theory on Elros and Elrond with Elrond as the older twin. So he was a happy and care-free older twin and then Daddy went away on his ship and Mommy threw herself off a cliff (and she became a bird Elros, she did, I promise she did) and things just got very grim.

A serious little child, a serious adolescent. And very lonely after his brother left.

Rachel's sisters don't have canon ages, but based on their behavior, I kind of figure that they go in stages of three. So Rachel was three when Jordan was born, six for Sara. Her parents divorced shortly after Sara was born and are both serious workaholics. Rachel's been in gymnastics since she was three and has always been a good student.

That's all more or less canon. Which makes me think that Rachel was a serious little girl with a lot of pent up energy and excitement that couldn't be let loose because her parents didn't have time to deal with it, what with younger siblings and jobs and responsibilities. And part of her job has always been to babysit the younger kids.

I imagine there were more than a few instances of locking her sisters in closets so she could go play and still tell mom she was totally looking after them and they were safe the whole time, no really!

Will didn't have much of a childhood since he grew up in a hard time, but he was once one of seven kids, who ended up cut down by the fact that when you're poor in a medieval world things are against you. He was quick and was always poking into things and running away.

Sameth was quiet, Ellimere was the louder sibling but at one point they were really close. Then their lives separated as their roles became clearer and he also discovered the forge and how to make things. He had friends around Belisaere and at school, but I think he's always been a thoughtful child.

Demeter was never really a child just smaller. I like putting it that way.

Moist was always curious and loved the dogs that his grandfather bred. He got into trouble and learned quickly how to get out of it with the right word or look. He spent a lot of time being bored since when he was there Uberwald was dangerous for a human.

William isn't that far off from being a child and he's always taken care of his brother and he's angry since there's so much he can't control. Dime novels and riding provide some ways to escape but he can't escape what he has to do.

Jane was always questioning and reading, I think she annoyed her mother a lot and now worries her mother. She just wants to do as much as Henry can do.

Tumnus was a happy child who loved reading and simply being. I have yet to figure out how old he was when the Witch arrived but I think he was still growing at that point.

The Pirate King was a complete troublemaker.

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This is how I see Kate a good portion of the time. Fiery, stubborn, strong, self-willed, challenging, independent little nightmare. The kind of girl who'd sneak away from her studies and mount up her horse (all while Jim, the stable master back home, would notice and let her, much to her father's chagrin) and beat it out for the desert, just because she needed to stretch her wings and the walls were hemming her in.

Ickle!Kate should meet Ickle!Sunshine.

:D?

Yes! :D

I love that image of Kate and I gave William a stable sort of post. Though its rather lost on the front page but still there. I just really enjoy how you've filled out her past more.

Thank you! :) Her past has been some of the most fun threads/OOMs to write, for sure. It just leaped from the page, completely unplanned and undrafted. So it's nice to hear that others have enjoyed it as well.

I will look for William's EP, though I'm not sure how available I'll be for threading. Should we catch each other later, or do you mind the slowness?

I'm always good for slowtime. He's just being generally loud at me so no worries. Its dropped down the page and if not this one, another one.

I shall take a look when I'm caught up, then! :)

Gene's childhood is pretty much defined by three things - the war, the poverty of the time and his violent father. So when he was very young, he was actually pretty quiet until his father beat the sensitivity out of him and he learned to use his own fists. Then he was pretty much a typical lad of the times, at least to outside viewing - cheeky and got in a lot of fights and a little hard nut that stood up for himself and his mates.

He never bullied people for fun. He exacted retribution on kids who had hurt his mates. And he was loud and had a sharp tongue and was clever enough to determine that, with his background, setting his sights too high would only lead to disappointment. So he loafed around in school and hung out with his friends. Then went home at night with his brother where they got beat up by their dad and never, ever told anyone.

Until he was thirteen that is, then him and Stuart stared fighting back. He learned not to take shit from people from then on, and that gave him confidence to grow into the bloke he is now. Pretty damn fearless, or at least, equipped with the sort of bravery that doesn't let fear stop him doing stuff. And a strong sense of sympathy for the underdog that he'll never lose.

Of course, ask this question again once we've played canon out in-bar and the answer might be a bit different. :\

Do gods have childhoods? I dunno, Amascut was born, that's about the extent of what I know.

There is a in-game quote that says something to the effect that she was never exactly "friendly". She probably took her duties as a death goddess too seriously to form relationships. The was helpful, useful, but not friendly.

She's still helpful and useful, just in a different way. (That's what she tells herself, at least.)

Evil Chicken may have just popped into existence.

It's not clear whether The Cheats have childhoods, and it's my understanding that gods of death don't.

The Brothers Chaps have given us glimpses of what Strong Bad was like as a budding bad guy. The main change is that he used to get along better with Strong Sad.

Hiro, according to canon, was an Army brat. Growing up on military bases, he and his peer-group found that "Army brat" as a culture overrode any ethnic or cultural expectations their parents might have otherwise had.

Even the EU doesn't start following Obi-Wan until he's just about done being a youngling, but judging by the prequels and what I remember of the Jedi Apprentice books, he's summed up reasonably well by Qui-Gon's description in recommending him for the Trials: "He is headstrong and has much to learn of the Living Force, but he is capable."

Rukia, canonically, went to Soul Society as a baby and grew up on the mean streets of Inuzuri (Howling Dog) District, the 78th South Alley of Flowing Spirits in the Rukongai. We get a glimpse of her in a flashback Renji has right after getting his ass flattened by Ichigo (at the end of volume 11 of the manga, episode 32 of the anime), and we see that she could switch easily from "adorable princess" to "loveable street oyster" as circumstances required.

We have to assume Divis Mal and Jennifer Landers had childhoods, but we learn nothing about hers and only vague hints about his. I tend to assume the perkiness that made Slider "the world's sweetheart" lasted right up until she found out what Project Utopia's left hand was doing that the right hand wasn't supposed to know about, and that young Michael Donighal was too serious for his age.

Edward was a golden, ebullient little boy. (As seen by the record appearances of five and six year old entrances done in bar) Well-behaved, loyal, mischievous, fast to smile. Quite indulged by his mother, and with a kind disposition.

Marian actually isn't very far off of this one at all either. She was far more reckless though. A dress-ruiner, and prank-player, with Robin and Much. But the beloved 'Little Lady' of Nottingham.

Esme's childhood was very hard. Very. She wanted more than she had, and she settled for contenting herself with what she did. She spent a lot of it climbing trees and dreaming and reading.

Peeta was a bright and wining boy. The baby of his brothers, his whole family. Always quick to make friends. In love with making cookies more than eating them. He learned early how to take burns and bruises (and how to ignore the pain of both), both accidental and purposely given.

Star was never a child in her own memory, and Illyana either is still or never was and she'd rather avoid than split hairs.

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