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Daily Entertainment: Terrible Things Edition!

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What is the worst thing that's ever happened to your character? Was it before your character's canon? Was it in your character's canon? Did you do it to your character yourself? Do you and your character agree on what the worst thing is?

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Joshua would say that the worst thing to ever happen to him would be the teleportation accident. He fucked up and left his sister alone. But then again, because of that, the Warehouse got one kick-ass tech chick. And Claudia ended up a better person. Nice going, sacrifice-boy.

Helena and I would likely both agree that the worst thing would be Christina's death. Not that good for actualfax canon either. *eyes the Trident of Doom*

Fantine would likely say that meeting the jerkface who got her pregnant with Cosette (as much as she loves Cosette) was the worst thing to happen to her. I would probably say getting tossed out of the factory, but the girl has a huge heart and a huge ability to forgive.

Valentine is in her canon right now. Most of the time I say that the worst thing to happen to Valentine Wiggin is Orson Scott Card. But that's a bit meta. In-canon, possibly Peter's manipulations, possibly Ender getting taken in the first place. She's currently mid-canon, so I don't know.

Knox: He got sucked into a war zone by the Bar and was shot in the knee and almost died from blood poisoning. He still has nightmares about it sometimes.

Kirk: Aside from his rather pointless death in a rather pointless film distinguished entirely by one scene with him and Picard? The death of his son. Followed by the deaths of three lovers (one of whom was pregnant with his child). Then the death of his brother and sister in law. And the death of Spock would come higher if Spock stayed dead. (Anyone who thinks Jim's had an easy time of it is wrong and doesn't know canon.)

Gibbs: He hasn't really had it that bad. I guess the worst thing was losing the Pearl at the end of the third film. And even then, it wasn't tragic.

Cy: Nearly dying and needed much of his body replaced with robot parts. Oddly, the comic book versions of him fare much worse.

Howard: In his specific canon, his untimely death when Tony Stark is a kid is the worst that will happen. But so far, suffering the deaths of friends like Capt. Rogers is the worst that's come his way. And in that, he is far from unique. I think he's suffered a lot more in the comics of late, though, thanks to some major retcons.

Charlie: He died of cancer. After being orphaned by an unknown mother, going up in poverty, being booted from college, and being in a passionate but doomed affair with the only woman he loved. Nothing that's happened to him since death comes close. (That might be why I brought him back to life. He earned it.)

Oh, God, where do I even START?

- "Congratulations. Everything you've been told about the world for the last nineteen years is a lie."
- Kidnapped by aliens and subjected to abdominal surgery while awake
- Forced to watch her father die pointlessly without being able to intervene
- Taken prisoner and subjected to pentothal-enhanced interrogation
- Exposed to enough radiation to drop her unconscious in seconds; survived due to experimental medicines and later United Federation of Planets medical intervention, but still
- While under the influence of hallucinogens, nearly had her skull cut open and was only saved through the intervention of her dog
- ANYTHING WHATSOEVER TO DO WITH THE PITT

Poor Ellen. I just want to hug her forever. Stupid video game canons.

I'd mention her mother dying when she was born, but oddly that's never really come up as an issue when I've written her. She was too young to remember and I'm pretty sure that the first time she tried to blame herself about it, her father defused that particular psych bomb right away.

So really it's just everything else, ever.

Gene - getting his head blown off.

Bruce W - parents being murdered.

Bruce Banner - AHAHAHA. Hulk.

Jean Valjean - Hmmm. See, getting sent to the galleys was baaaaad, but then he wouldn't have found God or had the love of Cosette without it. So, probably, Cosette getting married. At least, in his opinion.

Javert - Valjean freeing him at the barricade, and the hours that came after.

All is canon! My views differ on some of them - for example, when Banner realises he can control the Hulk under certain circumstances, he'll be able to use the power for good. And Valjean - dude, your daughter getting married does not have to be that bad. I understand your issues and we're gonna get you some help, but please, trust me. It's not that bad. *hugs him*

And Javert...*sigh*. Valjean freeing him from the barricade could have been the best thing that ever happened to him, but Hugo had to make his point, and yada yada. My personal idea of the worst thing that ever happened to Javert is his whole childhood - which is at least alluded to in canon - but that is still little excuse for him growing up to be such a raging arsehole.

That would be the destruction of Mainframe's twin city when Enzo was the equivalent of four years old. This occurred in canon, but only in brief flashbacks. The entire city exploded, with the shockwaves causing considerable damage to the remaining city as well. It appeared to be Enzo and Dot's father's fault, and since he was for all intents and purposes killed, he couldn't exactly refute this (and would probably have thought so himself). Enzo, and I daresay most of the surviving system, had recurring nightmares for days (years) after the event, and they still crop up on occasion under stress.

Second place, and the worst prolonged period in his life, was the war against Daemon, in canon proper, what with his entire universe almost being destroyed and all. It didn't help that he was thrown straight into it after being restored from backup, and consequently losing five years. Plus he wasn't even a cadet yet, so he spent most of it feeling helpless and unable to meaningfully contribute (which is basically the best way to torture him).

Well, that'd be when Mark found out that his father, a respected superhero for twenty years, was the advance scout for an expansionist alien empire that will be showing up sometime in the next 500 years to take over Earth. This was compounded by the fact that his father, a man he loved and respected, beat him almost to death and into a two-week coma.

Yeah. Not a good day.

Since I'm eating my breakfast...
Thalia - Zeus is her father. Neglectful mom. Jason (trying to be vague in case folks haven't read The Lost Hero). Being turned into a tree and losing a few years. Granted she'd be dead otherwise.

Val - Finding out her reality was erased. Then I threw her into Ellen's world when she hadn't even seen a dead body before.

Jess - She's her Daddy's little experiment...literally. Being raised by HYDRA. Watching Carol sacrifice herself for the world. Milli-wise, the worst I can think that I did to her was give her the IMDB flu where she thought she was Sara from Labyrinth but I never did anything much with it.

Mulan - See the ending of Quite A Common Fairy. Head canon: Finding her Father's school and the nearby village destroyed while she was away with the Emperor's army. This will come up in an OOM I am writing.

Brimstone - Tempted to say the years he spent in the pain pits but I think it was watching his apprentice get executed. Oh look I'm being vague again, must mean I'm dancing around a spoiler.

Andrea - All canon: Her childhood. Dying twice. Divine possession. Living BBQ. Order tribunal. There is more, so much more, but I can't think of how to be vague enough. Pets the traumatized pup.

Anton - Working for Boris Ignatyevich. At this point he might also add being fated to love a Grand Sorceress.

Quinlan Vos - Having his memories forcibly erased. Reading the memories of his parents death off his mother's pendant.

I have such happy, shiny pups!

Edited 2013-11-21 15:29 (UTC)

Hah.

Ahaha.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAaaaaa.

(I couldn't even pick which icon to use, because I've got about five or ten that each represent some horrible event in Gaeta's life -- all of which are canon.)

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Elle - Pretty much her childhood. I don't think anything I've done with her has been that terrible, or at least... that terrible as compared to canon, anyway.

Asami - From her current pre-canon perspective, it's her mother's murder when she was six. I headcanon that she didn't witness this herself, but her father did, and she could hear him. But once she's gone through canon, it will be nearly being murdered by her father.

Katara - Also her mother being murdered. She'll have other experiences that are horrifying, but that event was so life-defining for her that it would be hard to say anything else.

Marceline - She's kind of weird, but her worst experience was probably, when she was still rather young and not entirely able to comprehend what was happening, watching her friend Simon Petrikov become the Ice King.

Leslie - Her father (not mother for once!) died when she was ten, and I headcanon that this was due to a terminal illness. It is not actually on the same scale, but the events of recent episodes haven't been great for her, either.

Hiccup - His mother is also dead, though it's not clear how she died and I'm not sure I want to presume that yet. Other than that... it's probably the point in the first movie when his secret dragon is discovered and locked up. You'd think it might be losing part of his leg, but no, he definitely freaks out a lot more any time Toothless is in danger.

Oh, and Manny - He figures he should say dying, but at the moment what he feels worst about is Mercedes Colomar.

Edited 2013-11-21 16:13 (UTC)

For Amascut, that would most likely be whatever drove her mad way back in the Second Age, way before canon. I am not being vague on purpose, canon is being vague. A close second would be the day even her High Priestess got fed up with her crazy and lead a rebellion against her. Sure killing people and destroying temples at random is fun but when your goddess isn't sparing her own temples or priesthood, oh hell no, time to rebel. But the fallout from that rebellion is the reason Amascut is ailurophobic and piled another layer of crazy on top of the previous crazy.

Canonically, Fairy Fixit was the day the of the Fairy Mafia coup d'etat. Millicanonically it would be the day she was sent to secure the teleporter in the Lumbridge Swamp shed during the first battle of the new god wars. There was a danger of a god capturing her and using up her life force, ala final Fantasy magitek.

Edited 2013-11-21 16:37 (UTC)

Cata: Being whitewashed.

Sam: The stretch near the end of the book where he's depowered. And they have to finish the quest anyway.

Claudia: Thinking she actually needed psych treatment, mostly because she... didn't in fact need it.

Apollo: I'm not sure. But I do know he's lost people he really cared for.

Imp: MUSIC WITH ROCKS IN IT

Regulus: His mother. More specifically, he'd go for being terrorised into breaking his relationship with Sirius and turning down the House the Sorting Hat wanted to put him in. (The latter may not be as bad for him as he thinks, since he's not inclined to hide in the library for all eternity. XD)

Red: That awkward moment when she ATE HER BOYFRIEND. Made worse by the fact that if her grandmother had just told her why the cloak was so important, it was entirely preventable.

Woolly: Will just be over here muttering about pirates. (He maintains his little time-skip was actually worse for Helena, for all it seems to be working out now.)

So, for X-23 -- um. Canon had her raised in a lab with no affectionate touches, have her claws removed and re-implanted without anesthesia, shoved into a hard radiation chamber and then fried until her healing factor kicked in, be vivisected and de-limbed by Kimura in addition to regular beatings and bone-breakings, and being forced to kill her sensei when out of her mind on trigger scent (finding his body immediately afterward, for a given value of 'finding'), all before the age of 10.

The worst thing I have done was make her deal with the trigger scent, which was pretty traumatizing, but would have been worse if a lot of her emotional responses and connections had not been burned away by . . . all the other stuff. Um. 'Worse'. And all her years of growth since canon via Milliways has also helped! But. Yeah.

Dean spent 40 years in Hell! And he also had to watch Sam die. It is a toss-up which one was worse. My money is on Sam dying. (So is Dean's.) The worst thing I have done is, early on, giving Dean a dream where Sam turned into a monster and tried to kill him. This was before anything relate to demon blood had even become a possibility. Whoops?

That is all I have easy answers for at this time!

Edited 2013-11-21 17:03 (UTC)

Will: His hanging is still the awful defining moment for him but the entire Brand plot where one of his best friends and girlfriend tried to kill him is high up there.

Charles: At the moment, the Slenderman plot but later it will be seeing the world he was starting to build come apart, losing Erik, Raven and the use of his legs.

Sameth: Oh where to start, the attack on the cricket field, almost dying in Death, thinking his parents were killed and then having to go save the world.

William: His father's death and then thinking he'd lost him after the Allpocalypse.

Moist: Having Urquhart decapitated in his lap.

Jane: The end of the trip to London and having to have a world without Tom in it.

Demeter: Kore being taken and Poseidon raping her while she was mourning her daughter.

Tumnus: Being turned into a statue.

The Pirate King: I can't think of anything, he's from a fairly happy canon.

Canon-wise: Kid thinks he's Jafar when he's more like Iago--personality-wise and sidekick to a different master. He is shown the error of his ways several times, one of which involves being electrocuted.

Mways-wise: Anything and everything to do with zombies, or a certain cannibal who has a PhD in gaslighting.

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Ichabod Crane (Sleepy Hollow) - currently, the death of Arthur Bernard that got him into the whole secret war. A little later when he leaves the bar, discovering that everyone he ever cared about has been dead for centuries and his wife is trapped in some sort of purgatory.
Giovanni Bruni (Casanova movie) - hasn't happened yet, but seeing his twin sister standing on the gallows for being a free thinker will be it.
Richard Sharpe (Sharpe) - Teresa's death at the hands of his enemy
Harry Callahan (Young Wizards) - Betty's death
Nancy (Doctor Who: The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances) - Jamie's death and coming back wrong. She still has nightmares about that.
Jonathan Levinson (Buffy) - either the realization that Warren was actually seriously psychotic, or Andrew killing him
Michael Carpenter (The Dresden Files) - Charity being abducted and hurt by the Nightmare. Even his own later serious injuries don't matter to him as much as that.
Roshaun (Young Wizards) - His father abdicating and leaving him to be king.
James Norrington (Pirates of the Caribbean) - Realizing just what a terrible mistake he'd made signing on with Beckett. Which ties in with the news of Wetherby Swann's death.
Gavroche (Les Miserables originally, now Neverwhere-verse/Milliways native) - not sure if it would be watching Eponine die, or Meg's death in Milliways.

~~Henry Mills: FUCK YOU CANON~~

Eriond: ...Eh, probably not applicable. He's odd.

Lois: ......Yeah, her life keeps inventing new shitty things. Um. Comics, I'd say the Doomsday arc, the Imperiex war, losing Chris, or the entire New Krypton arc in its myriad and never-ending suckitude. Smallville, I honestly have no clue. There are several horrific in different ways...

Tavi: Despite the many shitty things in his life, I think he counts watching his aunt Cassea and his two cousins die of the Blight worse than anything.

Katya: ... It's actually part of canon that I have the option of diverging from since she's gotten into the bar before that point. And I think I probably will, because nooooo not my Tiger-girl. :( And she'd definitely agree it's the worst thing ever, worse than a Mirror Other in Moscow.

Haymitch: The worst thing was surviving the Games, and the consequences of being a smart-mouthed Victor from a district that wasn't supposed to win (especially not an important year like the Quarter Quell). Haymitch pretty much agrees on that score. If he had known what winning would mean, he would have picked a fight with the entirety of the Career pack on the first day and gone down swinging.

Glorfindel: The worst thing that happened to him was the destruction of Gondolin. He'd argue that though - he'd say it was the attack and aftermath thereof on Celebrian. This is when I start calling him an overprotective mother hen and he gets all huffy.

Bones: Taking his father off life support just days before a cure for his father's disease was found. I don't think he'll ever quite forgive himself for that one, Sybok or no.

Blakeney: To date, losing his right arm. But he's lucky, he has a good captain, a really good doctor, and someone in the Navy to look up to who has had the same injury.

Oswin: ....... Technically, it was the Daleks. Most days, she'd reply with 'The Doctor'.

Clara: Hahahahahah. Um. >.> Spoilers.

Simmons: ..... 'Alien Electricity Virus' comes to mind. >.> I'm getting the feeling Simmons is getting a bit less excited about alien tech. She and Coulson can have a club. A 'get your tech off my planet' club.

Balthazar: Probably the thousands of years of waiting. Injury, threat of death, those he can deal with, but... waiting. So much waiting, without any clue as to when the next piece of the puzzle would arrive.

Ace: ... I think she's the only one I've been evil enough to to outweigh canon. Dang. My evil!mun cred is slipping. I'd probably say for her, with her issues, the divorce from Tim Drake was the worst thing. But there's been so many things.

.... I thought it was Tim Hunter?

*facepalm* Yeeeees. This is why I need coffee before internets.

This is when I start calling him an overprotective mother hen and he gets all huffy.

I totally read that as "This is when I start calling him an overprotective mother hen and he gets all fluffy." Massive double-take.

*looks at Natasha*

Ahahahahahhahahahahahahhahahahhahah. Um. Ahahahaa. Yeah.

I'm nicer to her than comics, I'll say that much.

Jim: Getting shot in the ass by a six year-old.

Leela: Hearing her father's death cries as he was eaten alive by horda. Though if the Past Doctor Adventures are to be trusted, her mother and sister were also killed by horda when she was a child. The worst thing I ever did to her was have her get attacked by Slenderman. That's really bad, but it doesn't really compare to having your family devoured one by one.

Kane: Probably at least one of the times he was killed and defeated by GDI. I mean, he can shrug off death pretty easily, but failure doesn't sit well with him.

Caius: His early life isn't much explored in canon. As a spy, I suspect he's lost a few close friends and colleagues. But he's a good spy - much of his personal life he's keeping a secret even from me.

Garyn: Um, well, his life didn't get off to a very good start. You really can't start off much worse than "completely abandoned by your parents." Getting kicked out of the Chapel orphanage was pretty bad, too. And the Old Master wasn't the worst person who could have found him and raised him...well, let's just say that as a father he made an excellent drillmaster. So there's certainly no shortage of candidates. Still, at the moment, I think he'd say the worst thing that's ever happened to him was spending a year and a half wasting away in the Imperial dungeons. I'd be inclined to agree.

So the harshness of his life up to this point is kind of a combination of canon and fic. The game says you were just released from prison and that you have no idea who your parents were. So something like it must have happened - it's difficult to envision a good life that contains those two details. But I came up with the specifics.

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*hides face behind hands, takes off the whitetext, and takes a deep breath*

The short answer is the entire game.

If you want me to pick specifics, where do I even begin? Was it his mother getting killed after they had such a nice time at Grandpa's house? Was it his father going on a grief-induced rampage and getting thrown in jail? Was it Claus running away to avenge Mom and never coming back? Was it Dad leaving him alone for three years in one of the most well-meaning acts of parental neglect I've ever seen? Was it the mushrooms on Tanetane Island that made him hallucinate his worst nightmares? Was it learning from Leder that everything he knew about his life was a story fabricated by the survivors of the apocalypse? Was it learning the full extent of Locria's betrayal? Was it learning that all of this came about because an old man with the mind of a child was bored? Was it reuniting with Claus only to witness his twin brother commit suicide before his eyes and die in his arms? Was it destroying the world?

Once upon a time, three friends tagged along on a trip to a distant land. And then along on another trip to an even more distant and magical land.(No, not Tahiti.)
Then the arrival concourse was bombed by terrorists and everyone was scattered across the country-side.
The one of the three friends fell is with a strange sickness. To purchase the medicine to save her, all three sold themselves into indentured service at a cafe.
Then the one who got sick thought for a moment that, somehow, she would be saved by her crush from before everything when strange(r).
And then she found out that her crush was actually an age shifted pre-teen.

Ako had a good solid cry in the shower after all that. Thanks canon! (I mean, nobody else was having a great time of it either, but that last reveal was a bit of a gut punch.)

Oh boy....

The Ice King used to be an antiquarian named Simon Petrikov. Then the Mushrom War happened and he wore the crown more and more...and now he's a lonely old man with a princess fetish and a penguin army.

Steve lost both of his parents when he was young (his father before he was born), grew up sickly, and got beat up a lot because he wouldn't run away. Then he lost his best friend in war, most of his friends to time, and woke up seventy years in the future to a world that looks shiny but has a dark and unsettling underbelly.

Lydia's parents got divorced. The worst of canon has not happened to her in-bar yet, but it involves possession, a dead boyfriend, and finding out she's a banshee.

Cecil's darkest moment so far was when he thought Carlos had been murdered by the invading miniature army. That's the only time we've heard him actually break down, anyway; I am also worried about all the times he's mentioned being re-educated. He also has Lyme disease.

For Bilbo, I am going with the Battle of the Five Armies and all he'll lose as a result, as well as having to send Frodo, his beloved nephew, on the Ring quest.

I'm going to stop here. It's all too sad.

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