Time flows like a river. Fruit flies like a banana.

[yukie]

SO I'm poking at this afain in spite of my scattershot knowledge of Japanese. I WILL FIGURE OUT WERT DER FERK THEY ARE ALL ON ABOUT

SOMEDAY

YES

In the meantime I'll just sit here snickering immaturely at Dyluck going 'uguu'. And at Thanatos being the most condescending trolly bastard ever. And Popoie being a little punkass.

(And yes, stupid fanonkiddie who farted out nonsense all over TvTropes, that's how the kid's name is blasted well written in multiple places. Futher, 'Purim' is not and never was short for Primrose. Her name's written プリム. Randi's is ランディ. Popoie's is ポポイ. Your weeaboo nattering about ~overly literal~ transliterations is balls; you clearly have no damn idea how katakana even works. Furthermore, your personal fanon is not canon. Wiki-type databases are bad enough without pratty swaggerkids stanking them up with bad info, weeabunkum and fanon-craps.

I have my own damn fanon but I'm not going to go to TvTropes claiming Thanatos is an actual death god with a soft spot for cats and an undying love of goddamn vanilla ice cream. MINE is but in-game he's just mauve. Jesus hell, there's a time and place for that kind of a thing, and wiki databases are neither. A wiki is not your personal fanfic repository unless it is YOUR FANFIC REPOSITORY WIKI kthx bai.)

Comments

[silverr]

omg, TAGS. Tags as an art form.

(Laughing and laughing and not just because it's a wisp short of 4 am here)

[yukie]

I was laughing my damnfool head off while tagging this

everything is funny at 4 am XD

But yeah srsly people don't just up and write fanfic in wikis unless its your wiki for fic XD

[silverr]

yeah I don't hold no respect for that nonsense either - it's one thing if you've sort of blurred certain headcanon/fanon into canon to the point where you can't quite pick them apart (character motivations are a place where I can see this happening - I've done it myself) .. but the situation you're describing sounds more like a case of "wishful thinking trying to make it so" or thinking that if a certain fanon thing is repeated often enough it will propogate through the fandom and become so pervasive that people will believe it's canon.

[yukie]

(Porpogate: when a cetacean imitates Nixon's great Snafu.)

And--yeah, like, I have extensive and entrenched head-canons. I mean, the mildest example is Halduron at the Sunwell during the QD event--his comment about Lor'themar and Rommath being all LE SNEAKU is, to my mind's ear, teasing--he knows they can hear him, and Lor never struck me as huge on the finer points of politics--he does well enough, but sneaky he isn't. Rommath is the real subtle ninja.

So Halduron's comment, which makes -no- sense in context of the game and never goes anywhere, becomes this arched-brow overly-srs thing made on account of because Halduron's EXCITED about QD and is blowing off some steam and trying to set the likely-equally-punchy Lor and Rommath at ease by joking some.

Halduron is very much dry/deadpan humour meister in my head.

And man I could go on like this all day lol. hell, my mental versions of Garrosh and Varian have so supplanted the canon ones that they just sit around in my imagination/mind theatre being Statler and Waldorf at the game:
"Hey Wrynn, they think you were stupid enough to let your kid go to a new continent alone."
"They certainly think that Nazgrim fellow is a jackass, too."
"The day Nazgrim is mean to some kid for real? Is the day I give up bacon."
"That struck me as odd too. Good t see my first impression of him was sound. He's a hooligan much like yourself but not a perambulating twank."
"...Did you just say 'twank'?"
"...Ye...es."
"That is the best fuckin' thing ever. ...Wow what just happened even. This is the stupidest thing that's ever happened anywhere since I tried to fake out that one dragon that time."
"Why in the great sam hill did you think you could deke a dragon into a mountain anyhow, Hellscream?"
"It seemed really logical and plausible at the time. And okay these Sha are freaking me right the fuck out."

And so on XD

[silverr]

"Lor never struck me as huge on the finer points of politics--he does well enough, but sneaky he isn't."

Heh ... I think someone at Blozz agrees with you - have your HEARD his datamined voice for 5.1? (8eyeroll*)

"these Sha are freaking me right the fuck out"

Word on that.

(And for some reason I feel that you are the only person that might get a laugh out of my admitting that, until I paid attention to the emote in chat, I thought Chief Salyis was saying "Galoot and pillage!"

[yukie]

Oh god datamined stuff lol, I'm never sure what to think of it. They were idiotically stupidly slap-to-the-head-worthily omgsrs about the nonsense with Jaina, but they faked us all out on Rommath.

And I am giggling SO HARD at 'Galoot and pillage' XD

Randomly back on the topic of mental canon/headcanon, my most 'lol wtf aww' one yet has to be this: Gerard is full of crap, and Theresa isn't mind controlled. XD

(I actually have a basis for this, too--when Gerard's "explaining" what he did he makes the same mistakes I do when I lie--he either overdoes details, or he's too vague. Also, the ladies he's talking to just drop innuendo after innuendo at him (it flies over his head), and want to see his prior efforts, and - well they're not exactly nasty but you can read some tongue-in-cheek bawdy humour in there for sure.

So basically Gerard and Theresa have this oddball but completely healthy D/S relationship that's sort of Undercity's worst-kept secret (as in, everybody knows even if Gerard doesn't know that they know), and Sylvanas is fine with all this since Theresa is really good at dispatching wannabe invaders/heroes/what-have-you (she puts on the helpless waif act, waits for their guard to drop, and then misuses scalpels with great enthusiasm)--she may still be respiring but her loyalty's not in doubt.

SO YEAH lol I just turned a throwaway contextless derfy flavour text thing that very few people bother with into a couple of people with disabilities (Theresa is actually damn near blind, and Gerard's--well--Forsaken) in a happy healthy kinky intellect-boner relationship. :B Theresa is far from helpless or agency-free and the ~mind controlled servant omg~ business is an act--one which she and Gerard dig the heck out of.

I need to actually write this story out because my light-hippie Forsaken priestess is all asquee in my mind over the goth-cute of this relationship.

SOMUCHTL;DR why am i not sleepy i should be sleeping.)

[silverr]

re Gerard and Theresa: heee, that's awesome!

And isn't that one of the reasons to write fanfic? Taking little details like that and leaving an intricate little trellis between them, to "explain" them (all the while knowing full well that the details were most likely arbitrary)? Or taking contradictory bits of canon and concocting something that accounts for both?

(I did that latter in From Page 41, where I covered both the manga version of Crawford's death (after having his eyeball torn out by Zorc - er, I mean Bakura) and the anime version of "Oh he's just not feeling well, nothing to see here, move along."