Thursday DE

[needsmoreresearch]

As a book-end to yesterday's DE: what's the nicest thing canon has done for your character? Take it as meta or as in-the-text as you want. Surviving something they shouldn't? Unexpected happy ending? Getting to be a real hero for once?

Comments

[oldmancreed]

Tess, probably being accepted by Clark and Oliver as a team member.

Rose, being allowed into the real world instead of an adult facility.

Kylo, [spoiler] [spoiler] [spoiler].

Creed, hah. Continued existence?

[just_cant_lose]

Let him die with a moment of satisfaction, and holding Sherlock's hand. :/

[mightbeagoodone]

(Sherlock: D'aww, bb. I'll hold your hand any time.)

[just_cant_lose]

Jim: *beams happily* Love yoouuuuuuuu. *mwah*

[quick_clean_pure]

He lived and wasn't traumatized :D

Also he got laid in a deleted scene, that was pretty cool.

[electro_kinetic]

Noriko: well it didn't kill her off, just didn't feature her in anything else. So that's...good?

Ganymede: Canon-wise...got him away from Zeus? (Headcanon is that the best and worst things are the same, namely his age.)

Micah: Nothing. Literally nothing about his canon is a net positive, it's a trainwreck.

[boundxkitty]

*hugs Micah and runs away*

[chartreuse_eyed]

Liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiizzz!! omg we should really have them talk again. as soon as I stop being so damn dissatisfied with his PB. can't pick a good one. :/

[boundxkitty]

=DDDDDDD! Yesssss! She just recently got back. Yrael is easing her into just how damn long she's been gone because I legit have her from like six months since she was last in bar. So nothing much is happening in her world and mean while head exploding in Milliways! heheheh

Awww he's a hard one to pick for.

[chartreuse_eyed]

He is! I've brought him in before he officially appears in canon, so he's still under Chimera and bound in the bar while I work out what to do with him. Maybe Liz can help.

[boundxkitty]

oOo! That will be interesting because she's from an altered future just after the events of Incubus Dreams. She's gonna be all. o.O at him not being part of her Pard yet! so fun!

And she's totally grown as a cat, so she'll be happy to help! She says they should totally run and hunt too.

[bjornwilde]

Scrapper: Thor: Ragnarok

Selina: Meeting Bruce and moving up in the underworld of Gotham.

Ahsoka: Surviving Order 66, being part of the Rebellion. Meta: Getting new canon! And her learning from the Jedi's mistakes in the Clone Wars.

Izana: Meeting Nagate, Yuhata, and a new character which will be coming soon. How things work out romantically for them. Cybernetic upgrade! They also find a way to be very valuable to the fighting efforts of SIdonia that fits who they are.

Sam: Meeting Steve and then getting his wings back.

Tybalt: Finally getting through to a certain someone.

[i_am_your_host]

Thor: Ragnarok was also the nicest thing canon did to fans.

[garde723]

It really was. = }

I hope we get more Thor and Waikiki. Like, I want Waikiki..err, Waititi rather, to direct a Lady Liberators movie now!

[i_am_your_host]

Emcee: ummm...Alan Cumming was cast in the role? I think that's pretty damn nice. And Emcee gets to prance around with half naked men and women onstage so I'd say he'd consider that a perk.

Floki: he had Helga's love. And then he discovered the land of the gods (Iceland), so I'm glad we're getting to see how one such as Floki sets up a hippie commune.

Pam: she had her eternity with Eric, even after all the shit canon put them through to break them up. They're also making billions since taking over the company that produces TruBlood. So that's extra sweet.

Cassidy: meeting Jesse and Tulip, because they keep him focused. They give him a reason to connect with people on a more sincere level and to try and be better, even if he'll eventually fail again, as usual. But he does go out of his way to protect them as fiercely as he can. (That's a vampire thing, isn't it? They develop attachments to certain humans and kill anyone who tries to hurt them. Hey, so he fits some of the bill after all.)

[camwyn]

Ellen? The entirety of Broken Steel. Seriously. The original Fallout 3 main game plot gets you to a point where either you have to go into the Fatally Fatal Room of Fatal Radiation or you have to tell the Brotherhood second-highest-ranking-officer-lady who has accompanied you this far to go into the Fatally Fatal Room of Fatal Radiation. No excuses, no variations, no exchanges, nothing. You can have a robot companion who is immune to radiation, a ghoul companion who is immune to radiation, a super mutant companion who is immune to radiation, or a brainwashed crazy willingly-accepts-orders-from-whoever-holds-her-control-collar slave companion, and it won't help- not one of those characters will accept being told to go into the Fatally Fatal Room of Fatal Radiation. Either you have to die or you have to make Sentinel Lyons die, and if you make Sentinel Lyons die then Ron Perlman calls you an awful human being in the final narration. The game ends with one of the two of you dying, period, end of sentence.

Broken Steel gives you the ability to send the supermutant- none of the other possibilities, just the supermutant- into the Fatally Fatal Room of Fatal Radiation instead. If you choose to go in anyway, or send Sentinel Lyons in instead, the screen goes white and then black and Ron Perlman does a narration piece and then you wake up and it's a week later and despite the fatally fatal radiation your bones haven't melted and your hair hasn't fallen out and you still have all your teeth, so get your ass in gear because you're back in the game.

Nothing else canon does can quite compare to that.

[iprotectyou]

Canon gave Chirrut to him.

[venerable_ibis]

....aww jeez

[vive_lavenir]

....awwwwww

[inlovewithwords]

Eriond: Horse

Lois: at 16 she is already on-track to her dream job and her true love. Pretty sweet.

Evelyn: ... er... gives her a chance at happiness in the form of a romance plot and lots of great friends? Oh! The game of Wicked Grace! That is a very nice thing.

R2-D2 and Anakin Skywalker, meta: made them two of the most iconic and beloved characters of movie history.
R2, in-world: apparently he's just impossible to kill (so far, I'm tempting fate, I know)
Anakin: Padme, and because of that relationship, the two (in his highly biased opinion) best children any universe has ever seen, with a daughter who is the most terrifyingly badass person ever and a son who has more love than is healthy for him, whoever had such children, really.

Tavi: Kitai. Everything else nice is qualified by downsides.

[genarti]

Enjolras: FRIENDSHIP

HIS FRIENDS ARE THE BEST YOU GUYS

...also, like, on a more meta level Enjolras has some arguments with Victor Hugo (as do all of their friends), but a lot of the visibility that Les Misérables gave to issues like poverty and tyranny and what the '32 revolt was all about is nothing to sneeze at; Hugo had a lot of star power that he threw behind that in a fairly risky and controversial fashion.

Cosette: she loves Marius and all, but I think it has to be her unlikely and genuinely life-saving rescue from her childhood of horrible abusive effectively-slavery by Valjean, who thereafter dedicated his life to giving her all the happiness he could.

Thor: Hmm. This one's kind of hard for him -- not because there aren't plenty of nice things canon gives him, but because there's not a clear favorite, and a lot of the good stuff is tied up with some bittersweetness.

I mean, I could start from the beginning, and point out that being a nigh-immortal super-powered extremely charismatic quasi-god who loves doing the things he's socially rewarded for doing and has never wanted for material goods or for self-confidence is a PRETTY SWEET DEAL, all told.

Kazul dude, she's a dragon. Again, A PRETTY SWEET DEAL. (She would agree.) For more specific events, she got to become king right around when she was getting seriously fed up with the then-current king's refusal to do anything about the growing wizard problem, and thus got empowered to do things about the most annoying problems in her life (like wizards).

Doctor Dinosaur: Okay later it went off the rails and his plan went up in flames, but that shining moment when he had a remote-controlled Futuresaurus Rex rampaging around the CERN collider under his control was pretty darn satisfying.

[inlovewithwords]

Nice things in Kazul's life should maybe merit mentioning: getting new extended human family after having that very nice employee who knew how to make cherries jubilee. Like, that seems to have been a pretty rare skill and came with lots of bonus awesome.

[dragon_dealt]

VERY TRUE. Cimorene was a great find in so many ways!

[onceholyknight]

Being allowed to put down his Sword while he was still alive and go back to running his construction company and being a family man.

Yeah, he came out of it with permanent crippling injuries and chronic pain, but he was alive. Michael calls it a win.

[childofrebellion]

Cassian: Kay then later Jyn and the rest of the Rogue One crew and in a way the Rebellion, they're complicated but also one of the few solid things in his life after his father's death. Also that he's a pilot, such a key part of his character and it gives him freedom.

Charles: Raven, Erik and all the other X-men and his telepathy.

Quentin: Toby, Raj, May, the Luidaeg, getting him to Shadowed Hills

Will S.: Robin and the Merry Men, saving his life

William: His brother's still alive and his father didn't die during the war.

Moist: His unmemorable face and quick mind

Ivan: His family and the fact that he's not closer to the Barrayaran throne

Demeter: Her daughter

Tumnus: Lucy and the Pevensies

[mightbeagoodone]

Arguably, canon gave Sherlock a mended family. No more "dead" sister they don't talk about; instead the entire family can be together again, even if it's on a prison island with some very questionable security issues. Also, Rosie. There's a little blip in the final montage where he's holding Rosie, and the joy in his face just makes me so happy. (And I don't ship Molly/Sherlock, exactly, but that there's a chance they could be together kinda ... works for me.) There are a lot of problems with series 4, but I do like that they tried to make it a happy ending.

Canon gave Steve Bucky again.

[configuration_birdwatcher]

Ganymede, and consequently the chance to do something with their life other than lay siege to Stuttgart twelve years too late. (Meta-wise, it was very nice to get The Last Bastion; it's the only fully rendered CGI short so far that didn't involve a former Overwatch member. The Junkertown one was built out of in-game assets and thus does not count.)

[clayforthedevil]

Gringoire not only gets to survive his novel, he gets a goat! And gets paid! The goat is really Better for him in the long run, probably.

Steven gets to be friends with Connie! who is the best! Yeah, he's also got superpowers and all, but an actual Best Friend is still The Best.

Joly gets a really good deal, generally, up until the point he dies (and arguably even then-there are Worse Ways To Go than Fighting Heroically For Your Ideals, many right in his own canon)--lots of friends and good times-- but his partnership with Legle is still an exceptional Canon Bonus on top of that.

Bahorel, uh...has the usual friends-and-good-times-until-dying-heroically deal the Amis all get, but he also notably has Money, Family Money even. Which is nice in-universe, but metacanonically even more so, since the guy he's based off was both a good friend of Hugo's and very much Did Not Have Money, as most sons of giant peasant families don't; it's hard not to see it as a very intentional post-death fix-it fic move.