Thursday DE

[needsmoreresearch]

Going from yesterday’s DE: who in your character’s canon would be likeliest to document/recount the canon adventures? What’s the format, what’s the title? A series of blog posts, a biography, a thinly-veiled fictionalization, a heroic ballad...?

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[clayforthedevil]

..Horribly, it might be Marius. With a long, digressive novel.

ETA: And clearly the title is All My Friends Are Dead.

[mightbeagoodone]

Canon! "The blog of Dr. John H. Watson."

Sherlock also has a website, or had a website. Alas, the social media department of the BBC has taken it down. Hopefully it'll return with series 4; it was hilarious in places.

[just_cant_lose]

Still up!

[mightbeagoodone]

Oh yay! I couldn't find it the last time I looked. Must have used bad search terms.

[freedom_is_grey]

Epic.

[mightbeagoodone]

My favorite thing on the whole site is "I'd kill you all for a cigarette." That may turn up in a T-minus memo someday.

[angry_friendship_wolf]

Yamato: Canonically, Yamato's brother Takeru eventually becomes a novelist who writes about the team's adventures, among other things.

Hawke: Again, canonically, he gets a novel written about him by Varric. It has some embellishments.

Sherral: And once again canonically, canon is recorded for the history books by Marquis Ondore in what - might be his memoirs? Might just be a really biased history book? Sherral doesn't have a big part in canon, so he probably has, like, a single appearance in Chapter 8 or something.

[sdelmonte]

There are bound to be dozens of biographies and other creative examinations of the life of James T. Kirk. Odds are the definitive version is by some Starfleet-trained scholar with access to most of the classified files, and the title would simply be: James Kirk, A Biography. But whether some former crewman who served under him dares to write a tell-all bio with all the details about both Jim's (not entirely real) affairs with alien babes and their trips to places like the Guardian of Forever remains to be seen. (And I suspect that just like MI5 officers trying to write all the secrets of Tony Blair are slapped with gag orders, the same would happen to anyone going public with the Guardian of Forever.)

Some hack from the National Enquirer is busy writing a series of "exposes" about the Louisiana Swamp Monster.

[freedom_is_grey]

Ysalwen has a bunch of ballads and songs written about her, as well as historical notes, and doubtless someone will write a novel or two someday. There will probably be torrid love triangles, which are entirely false. Like Garahel I expect she is going to enter into the historical record for awhile. Leliana probably wrote at least one ballad. Oghren, too, but he was drunk at the time and it was mostly burping and sad stomach-pain noises.

X would write her own, and it would be a tell-all about the Facility and everyone she has ever found working for it. It might be called Sins of the Father, but probably not.

[bjornwilde]

Rollo will have a court scribe tell his tale as he is certain Ragnar or his sons will not get it "right". He will try to make it into a saga but the Frankish scribe will mangle it I am sure.

I can see Alfred or maybe Bruce writing a history of the rise of vigilantes in Gotham, but once Selina found out they were doing it, she'd find a ghost writer and tell her own side. Again because they wouldn't get it "right".

I don't know what records of the Clone Wars and the Jedi Council Luke will find after the Battle of Endor. I do know Obi-Wan kept a journal during his time on Tatooine, but I also head canon that Ahsoka wrote a journal of what she remembered of her master so that Anakin may be remembered despite Vader.

Amelia will write her own book, thank you. Or the ifrit princess NPC I made up with do it. I really need to find a name for her.

And that's all I got for now.

[crabbycustomer]

The author of Homestuck appears in the comic, as the author of Homestuck; eventually, the main villain murders him and takes over storytelling duties with a savage parody, while the real storyline continues in Intermissions. So, uh, there's a canonical answer for that.

(icon is apropos)

[i_am_your_host]

Cliff Bradshaw, the American novelist who visits Berlin, meets all its denizens, and subsequently regrets all his decisions. It occurrs to me now that the entire Cabaret story could very well be his own telling already, instead of the story he's about to tell with his last lines as he escapes Berlin:

There was a cabaret. And there was a Master of Ceremonies.
And there was a city called Berlin, in a country called Germany.
It was the end of the world.
And I was dancing with Sally Bowles. And we were both fast asleep.

[student_of_impossibility]

First of all, I have a major tl;dr on yesterday's question, because it was super-interesting to me. However, I got interrupted rather suddenly. Just finished it. If you want to read the epic tl;dr, it's here.

Eriond: probably lots of scholars will write ~Scholarly Books~ with ~Research~ on the subject. They will be laughable. Religious people will also do so. If they are harmful, then he'll pay attention. Divine "You know, that's not very nice to tell people that. I'm not like that at all! You should maybe stop doing that. You'll really be much happier if you don't hate so much" is... something.

Lois: So many versions by so many people, they are innumerable. Sensationalist stuff, Serious Biographies, thinly-veiled fictionalizations galore (it's totally coincidental about that superhero and that journalist in that movie, really...), any number of things. And if it is during her lifetime, she will enjoy correcting stupid things or, in the rare case that she likes them, actually vocally recommending it (especially as a "Good, they saved me the effort." I think maybe a family member--whether through Lucy or if she and Clark get lucky in SV and have a choice to have kids (in which case they totally would), one of their grand or great-grandkids will be the one to do The Actually Correct Version. Also the general events will be covered by articles as they happen, many by Lois. So... lots of ways.

Evelyn: "I HATE YOU, VARRIC. Hawke, why have you not killed him?!" More seriously, besides Varric, there are 100% going to be songs and ballads--I bet Leliana will do one if she has time, probably one 100% accurate but with political emphases--and whole libraries about the Inquisition and obviously the figure at the heart of them. Most of them will be shit. Evelyn just hopes she'll be dead (thanks, Solas) before she can yell and scream about how much they get wrong.

R2-D2: He writes the sole Fully Accurate Version of Events. It will be written in binary and incomprehensible to most humans. Almost no one will ever think to check it.

Anakin: First, see above about Artoo. Second: everyone, really. More or less. Everyone writes their own accounts of canon. Even just his lifetime. Especially if one ends up including a future where he may or may not be a Force Ghost and hopefully stalking Kylo Ren trying to explain to him that he made Bad Life Choices and Kylo shouldn't make them. If he is, then suddenly we have Endless Canon. The First Order definitely has their own version, though. Jerks.

Tavi: Again: everyone. At some point there will probably be some descendant of his who doesn't get it too wrong, and the Canim are going to be a huge resource given their lifespan of centuries. But seriously. Alera went boom and basically all of it because this one guy was murdered for political and personal revenge, and his kid accidentally lit everything on fire before taking the remains and stitching it all into something new and better, and there is endless politics surrounding it. Everyone has their own version. Even Tavi, but he doesn't publish that.

[athelstanthescribe]

Ichabod would like to, but nobody would believe him.

Athelstan actually might do it, in the traditional chronicle style.

[notapilot]

I actually first thought the answer to this was Athelstan for Rollo and the Viking crew, until I remembered canon.

[athelstanthescribe]

He could still do it in Milliways, if you want him to.

[notapilot]

That could be very interesting and a way for Rollo to tell his side of season 04. Let's see if the others are interested, or maybe it will be just Rollo. = ]

[yakalskovich]

Teja's canon has Procopius, the main source for it, as a character in the novel writing his books about what is happening, while Teja himself embodies the oral tradition of the 'barbarian' people, and the one to carry on with it in their new home in Gotland will be Adalgoth, whom Teja taught. The bits and pieces of Goth history that trickled into Norse sagas would canonically have come through him.

Hannibal has oodles of reports written about him by Alana Bloom and Jack Crawford, and of course the sensationalised accounts by Freddie Lounds.

Ragnar gets mentioned historically in quite a number of medieval sources, and within canon, there additionally is whatever Athelstan wrote about it all; as we never saw Ansgar die, I am still convinced he got away and took some of those writings with him, whence they got into the works of Adam of Bremen. It's a subtle case of historian on board, just as Teja's canon is a blatant one. And of course there are skaldic ballads, now lost to us, about his great exploits.

Father Harman probably gets some minor government contractor who gets a glimpse of the great secret and writes a sensationalised account of it, which absolutely nobody believes and which even might get them sectioned. Harman makes sure they get good pastoral care in the mental hospital.

Lady Margolotta gets mentioned in the Ankh-Morkpork times far too often, as William de Worde will stop at nothing, never mind that he only started his rag out of the reports he wrote for her. Humans. What can you do?

Dorian Grey is mildly amused at just how wrong Oscar Wilde got him, and how that silly man could not let go of his conventional morality in the end.

[athelstanthescribe]

People only get sectioned in England now if they're a threat to themselves or others, not for writing sensational and bizarre newspaper reports, or else the whole staff of the Sport would be in mental hospitals - although somebody might pull strings to make it happen in this case, to put others off digging for the truth.

[witchfinder_general]

Father Harman's canon is from 1998, though. But yes, somebody might pull strings to make it happen.

[genarti]

Enjolras and Cosette: Pilf covered it! Besides Marius's meta-inclinations towards Victor Hugo-ness, however, there's also the fact that Jehan Prouvaire is canonically a poet. I suspect there have already been some heroic ballads! However, much of the cast is, alas, kind of barred from publishing in their own canonical world by the end of the book. Certainly there wasn't really time to document the stuff from the 1832 uprising. (Which is why it falls to Victor Hugo, who's definitely implied to exist in his own fictional world, to raise the whole uprising back into public awareness 30 years later, really.)

Kazul: Telemain, in the form of a series of scholarly monographs about magical minutiae.

Barring that, probably Kazul when and if she retires. I could see her as an old dragon settling down in a warm study to write her memoirs for future historians. I'm sure there are ballads and tales of any and all of the protagonists floating around too, written by third parties.

Thor: ...Not Thor, that's for sure. Jane in scientific articles! Roughly a gajillion journalists, once the Avengers kick into gear! Possibly Erik Selvig writing his own retirement-project memoirs someday! Tony Stark's vast social media presence, some of which he even does himself! Okay, Thor actually probably does plenty of his own social media-ing once he's living on Earth, but I see him as a twitter and instagram kind of guy more than a long blog posts guy. And he'd be a lot more inclined to talk about his sandwich and the valiant toddler he saw at the park than about big canon adventures; singing tales of his valor is for other people, you know?

[athelstanthescribe]

...the idea of Thor encountering valiant toddlers at the park is delightful and should be fic'd.

[nocarename]

[selfie picture of Thor in jeans, tshirt and cape with a small boy in jeans, tshirt and beachtowel tied as cape. Both are smiling. The two are otherwise as different as possible, even the towel is green to the red of Thor's cape.]
Granted the freedom of the day by his elders, Thomas chose to seek evil to vanquish. With such courage, I know that Midgard will remain in good hands.


...Darcy Lewis: *reblogs*