I am awake and at work and so on and so forth.

[camwyn]

And running email archive searches for backfile ingestion to ensure compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley record keeping requirements. This is the non-programming equivalent of "Sorry, compiling!", so... meme time!

1. Give me a canon (or character from a canon)


2. And I will give you FIVE things that, in my opinion, make that canon super special shiny and awesome. They may be characters, crowning moments of awesome/funny/heartwarming, particularly epic music or animation, or just things that make me out and out squee every time.



(Or, because it sounds a little hilarious, I can even attempt to take it meta for you. Give me a character and a canon, and I will tell you from that character's pov what their five favorite things about a specific canon [theirs or any other] would be.)

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[antepathy.livejournal.com]

Because I miss him so: Weighted Forward.

[camwyn]

Is this 'five things that make the character awesome' or more 'WF's take on a particular canon'? I can do either.

[antepathy.livejournal.com]

Well, both are pretty cool, but I already think he's pretty awesome so maybe his take on the canon? :D

[camwyn]

A'righty, then!

1. The war is over. Finally. The killing has stopped and the San 'Shyuum lies have been exposed. No one has to die for any more lies.

2. The humans... they build machine intelligences. Machine minds, that I can touch and hear and talk to. That they let me touch. The Covenant never trusted thinking machines, so there were hardly any- but the humans let them run whole cities. And ships. And they let me speak with them.

3. The humans innovate. In the Covenant even the Sangheili would not go beyond the Forerunners' devices, or ask us to. To change too much from the machines and technology of the Forerunners was blasphemy to all of them. I was happy to work with the machines of the ancient ones, it was good and it felt like home, but... now I get to see new things and new thinking, and it comes from those who should have succeeded the Forerunners, and it is good.

4. Even the stuff which the humans aboard the Spark In Darkness assure me is very bad food is still interesting to eat. Better than what most Covenant ships have.

5. No Yanme'e. The Yanme'e have never been fond of my people and would harass many of us if they had the chance. I never liked them much. Even the Kig-Yar were more respectful. I don't have to avoid drawing Yanme'e ire any more.

[gehayi.livejournal.com]

Ray Stantz.

[cameoflage.livejournal.com]

Inspired by your avatar: Ray Stantz's thoughts on Girl Genius.

[gehayi.livejournal.com]

Actually, can't you just picture Ray stumbling through a portal into the Heterodyne-verse? He would have such a fantastic time! Mad science everywhere! All right, there would be a lot of danger, but come on, he ran into that in New York!

[camwyn]

1. Ray's enthusiasm. This is a man who absolutely loves his work and throws himself into it with the glee of a small child who's just been told that Mommy and Daddy filled the wading pool with Jell-o. I appreciate reluctant heroes and temperate responses, but sometimes it's just good to deal with someone who's enthusiastic about what they do.

2. Ray's fscking brilliant. He's the only person who can keep up with Egon, and he's got his own ideas and contributions and theories. The cartoon tended to blot this out because you can't have two smart guys in a kid's show, although Straczynski-writen episodes tended to be better about that. I like my heroes smart. And building on that...

3. Ray is both smart and emotionally human. Egon's got the stereotypical emotionally repressed scientist vibe going on, but Ray feels everything and isn't afraid to show it. Which, awesome.

4. He uses professionalism as a defense mechanism when things get majorly hairy. 'Duly designated representative of the city, county and state of New York' indeed.

5. And there is something kind of awesome about his fail when a plan falls through, or when he gets halfway into a situation and realizes he's run out of plan. "Get her. Nice one, Ray."

[leeshajoy.livejournal.com]

Not to be too predictable, but: Gordon Freeman. :)

[spooky-lemur.livejournal.com]

I'd be curious as to Ray's take on either his own universe or the Marvel universe.

[crazyfurries.livejournal.com]

Since he's new and someone's already snagged Ray....

Varric. and either the five crowning moments of win or the five favorite things.

[ceitfianna]

Tell me about the Belgarion and if you want Belar's takes on being Security in Milliways.

[duane-kc.livejournal.com]

Ellen Park's perspective...on Milliways.

[miss-yt.livejournal.com]

Okay, give me five reasons why Snow Crash is awesome. :)

[camwyn]

1. Sumerian automatically results in an increase in awesome. Anywhere.
2. The Rat Thing came back for the girl that used to be his human when he was an ordinary dog. Even if he exploded. *sniffle* YT, you had a good puppy.
3. To this day, I can't look at people with smartphones constantly checking their Facebook and their email and everything else on the bus between their work computer and their home computer without thinking, "Gargoyles."
4. Hiro's climactic ad placement. Well done, sir.
5. Vic's lines here:

"It's, like, one of them drug dealer boats," Vic says, looking through his magic sight. "Five guys on it. Headed our way."
He fires another round. "Correction. Four guys on it."
Boom. "Correction. They're not headed our way anymore."
Boom. A fireball erupts from the ocean two hundred feet away. "Correction. No boat."

[vincentursus.livejournal.com]

Hellblazer.

[vincentursus.livejournal.com]

Ooh, noticed the bit at the end. Okay, make it Vimes' thoughts on Hellblazer.

[batyatoon]

Five awesome things about Ghostbusters. GO GO GO.

[milkshake-b.livejournal.com]

Fallout in general (I HAVE NEW VEGAS! Except I cannot let myself play it until I properly finish Fallout 3, which my roommate is not helping by playing it herself, and ooh my that guy they hired who did the bastard mod for Oblivion has done an impressive thing, hasn't he?). Or perhaps John Constantine's thoughts on the Harry Potter universe, since I reread Hellblazer: Hogwarts the other day and am mourning its unfinishedness again, which is not at all a hint in the slightest bit.

[chanter1944]

Aww beans! Batya got to Ghostbusters before I could. ... Seconded? XD

How about Whistler's take on... hmm, Milliways.