OOM: Catchy titles

[yakalskovich]

 Your character is writing their memoirs / auto-biography. What is the book called?

Be as cracky or as serious as you like!

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[likeroaringlions]

...hm, if he's writing it himself it probably wouldn't be called "Kind of a Younger, Dumber Hotspur." Hmm.

[just_cant_lose]

Jim: there's a *dumber* Hotspur??? 0_0

Me: *slaps him down*

[never_promised]

Hal: lol ikr?

[just_cant_lose]

Jim: HILARITY. :D!

[harryhotspur]

Hotspur: -__-

[just_cant_lose]

Jim: *blows kisses*

[crabbycustomer]

THIS FUCKING GUY: THE AMAZING TRUE STORY OF HOW ONE TROLL RUINED LITERALLY EVERYTHING.

[sdelmonte]

I Only Worked in Space: The Life of James Kirk

Alexander Knox: A Reporter's Life in Gotham

Booyah! My Years with the Teen Titans, by Vic Stone aka Cyborg

The Green in the Balance: My Life and How We Can Save the Biosphere, by Dr. Alec Holland

Memoirs of a Masked Vigilante Who Prefers to be a Poker Player Sometimes, by Charles Victor Szasz

[feminine_menace]

YT is toying with the idea of writing an account of her recent noteworthy adventures (i.e., canon). She wants to title it How a Thrasher Saved Your Brain (With Some Help).

A few decades from now she might write a proper memoir/autobiography and call it Armed Blonde and Dangerous.

[abitofawildman]

The Entirely True And Not At All Embellished Epic Saga Of Bumi, Commander Of The United Forces And His Tales of Derring-Don't.

[fate_or_chance]

Caw Caw Motherfuckers: A True Story.

[bjornwilde]

Sam Wilson - On Your Right.

Ahsoka - 'Soka Out: My apprenticeship and seperation from the Jedi Order.

Sabine - This is My Weapon.

[genarti]

Enjolras: I have a difficult time seeing Enjolras writing any kind of memoirs, just because he prefers so much to talk about other people. I think it'd have to be a collection of his essays or some such collected by somebody else, in which case it's titled whatever they title it! Whatever it is, Enjolras probably makes a tolerantly pained face at its existence and title, which is undoubtedly grander than he'd do because what isn't.

Cosette: Hmmm. See, the question here is, what's her purpose in writing this up? Because there are two main possible approaches. One is something light and chatty and frothy that obscures all sketchiness and family secrets, and talks about the convent school and gardening and marriage and children and happiness, everything is so great and above reproach here!! And the other one is something that really argues for Fantine and Valjean as wronged saints and herself as someone with a good heart and desire for respectability who would have been lost without the one-in-a-million chances she got. Either way, the title is something ridiculously 19th century. Memoirs of a Lady Blessed by Providence After Childhood Unhappiness or something.

Kazul, unlike most of mine, would definitely be willing to write her memoirs someday, and possibly will. Unhelpfully, I have no idea what she'd call them, but... probably just Memoirs, by Kazul or something. This is less because she's uncreative, and more because as I recall most of the non-fiction books we see in canon have pretty straightforward titles; Kazul would definitely be writing more towards the scholarly side of the genre than the chatty hijinks side.

Thor's is just called THOR ODINSON: MY STORY or something. It's significantly ghostwritten. (Thor insists on the ghostwriter getting credit too, though, mostly because he's scrupulously honest.)

[merryeccentricities]

I don't know, I can imagine Enjolras pulling a Gautier and writing a memoir about his movement and his friends and oh yeah he was there too. A History of Republicanism.:P

[genarti]

...Okay, yes. This is true! A Memoir Of My Awesome Friends, Look At Them, They're All Super Awesome, Here Are A Number Of Times I Was Privileged To Watch Them Be Fantastic, by an author who okay has a name but seriously these guys, man.

I still feel like it would end up being a collection of political essays that happened to feature a lot of anecdotes about his friends rather than anything one would call a narrative memoir, though.

[andinfluencepeople]

...I don't know if any of mine WOULD.

Maybe Quatre, in an attempt to control public perception of his life story, but he'd rather no one even considered it. WHY WOULD YOU WANT TO KNOW ABOUT HIS FORMATIVE YEARS??? >.>

[genarti]

hahaha yes. I could see Quatre publishing, like, a few blog posts or magazine articles, much more easily than a full book-length memoir.

[misslucyjane]

Steve's Milliways-canon memoir is called The Adventures of Steve and Bucky :). This is a guy who named his shield "Shield," after all. Though I think if he were to write a serious one it would be Just a Kid From Brooklyn because that's still how he sees himself.

Sherlock would call his "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" but it's been used. Otherwise he leaves the clever titles to John.

Furiosa's is called The Fury Road, since the road has defined so much of what she's done and what she's been through.

Groot's is I am Groot, of course.

[brobrobrobrobro]

BROOOOOO

[student_of_impossibility]

Lois: Totally will at some point, multiple times over, there's a lot to cover. While I am (now, writing on Thursday, after Evelyn, R2, and Anakin yesterday) too tired to actually think of titles, one is probably on women in journalism in general, heavy focus on investigative journalism; there's probably a purely investigative journalism one and her memories of stories; one on what she can talk about relating to her frequent interactions with High Ranking People (presidents, ministers, army types, mob types, etc). One, obviously, is about her relationship with superheroes, probably with a surprisingly discrete lack of focus on one in particular. He gets mentioned, and frequently, but it's not told too personally.

Also somewhere in the Fortress of Solitude there is totally the mostly-serious one about them, because hey, one day that story might be important. There is also the Totally Not Serious One because it is written with Clark over her shoulder and basically full of marginalia and their flirting at each other, and god forbid any of the League sees it because so much mocking and marginalia (Bruce and Diana would be the worst about it) and generally hilarious. No one gets to see that one. Ever. Because no one wants to know certain details of their life.

Evelyn: Serious title would be Out of the Ashes or something, as her adventure really starts with the Temple of Sacred Ashes going boom and Justinia protecting her. Un-serious title one: How I Got Stuck Saving The World, subtitled "Someone else can have the job." Even more un-serious title: How I Got Stuck Cleaning Up Your Mess, subtitled "Varric is a shit and a liar, this is what happened."

R2-D2: Probably never does, but has extensive memory banks so there are actually something like chapter titles given file names etc.

Anakin: has several, because frankly there are too many parts of his life. A Jedi in Training is not a bad one for the first set. The Clone Wars and the Fall of the Jedi: A Retrospective. . . . Okay, so Darth Vader wouldn't ever publish his own, but a post-OT Anakin being Serious about things would probably go with "The Rise and Fall of Palpatine's Galactic Empire." Of course, really, the actual correct title for a book or series on his life? "Poor Life Choice: How Not To Be Me, Nobody Wants That."

Tavi: Well, hello from the other side. It is now Thursday, but this was such a good DE for me that I decide to post it anyway. Canonically all--or almost all--First Lords keep a journal. That said, those are heavily self-edited, as there are certain pieces of information (Alera's existence in particular) that are never written down. There is also quite a lot of philosophizing about life. Some of them are further edited and published; How that editing works probably depends on the First Lord. Some of them get a chance to do so themselves, probably if they can retire (and whatever they write after probably never sees the light of day). Some are obviously edited by political enemies (of their own House) or otherwise using them to push an Agenda. Interestingly, because Septimus was never First Lord, there isn't one for him.

Anyway, the point is: Every First Lord keeps a journal, and chances are good every First Lord has access to any that weren't lost. How many survived Alera Imperia getting nuked is a good question; I'll ask Butcher some day. Tavi also does. If it gets published, I don't know how much he or his child(ren?) will edit it. But generally speaking, he has a highly detailed auto-biography. It is not titled. Very few people will ever actually read it.