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[personal profile] majoline earns my eternal gratitude by prompting: favorite headcanon?

Six days left for claiming, or else I'll start making up my own questions!

Fantastic prompt! I hope [personal profile] majoline prompted others with this same question, because I love this kind of stuff.

I've talked a bit about this one elsewhere, but it's in the background of the story I'm working on now: Sherlock's view of sexuality is totally warped by a disastrous relationship at a shockingly early age.

I see him having been fully consenting and enthusiastic, but not very far into his teens, when he got involved with a boy only a year or two older. From him, Sherlock absorbed all sorts of childish attitudes towards sex: "Don't try to touch my prick; that's dirty." "What, you want to look? What a perv! (or whatever the equivalent slang would be in England)." "You take too long to get off. It's not normal, the way you are."

A lot of this stuff moved into an unexamined part of his brain, the way things you're told as a kid sometimes do, but if he examines them, he's likely to come to the conclusion that they're correct: "Well, I'm not normal, John. Surely you can't argue with that."

I imagine the two of them meeting up with this guy now -- he's an upstanding citizen with a wife and kids who remembers it all as a bit of childhood experimentation and says cheerfully, "Well, I was a filthy little beast at that age. All boys are."



Another bit of headcanon, not so specific, is that there must be a reason why friendly, warm, easygoing John Watson didn't have a single friend or lover to come home to after he was invalided out. I have varying theories about why that was, some of them cuddlier than others.

Moving to other fandoms, I believe that Eames is not English. Eames has that accent because he learned to speak English someplace like Africa or India. His parents were missionaries from someplace like Oklahoma, and he grew up traveling to all the places where American missionaries go to try to 'save' people. He was a prodigy as a child, a great actor, good at languages, and from the time he was about five, his parents used him in miracle scams -- having him pretend to have leukemia or have been born blind or something and be miraculously healed. This only ended when he began (1) pushing back and (2) having an actual libido, at which time they tried exorcism and when that didn't work abandoned him on the streets of Mombasa at about fourteen.

I believe that one of the ways Hawkeye and Black Widow bond is that they have much the same taste in women.

And I'm sure I'm not alone in believing that the romance between Tony Stark and Pepper Potts is adorable and significant but not remotely monogamous.

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Date: 12/7/13 10:25 pm (UTC)
kass: Sherlock and John. (Sherlock)
From: [personal profile] kass
Your Sherlock headcanon seems entirely reasonable to me, as does your Stark/Potts canon.

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Date: 12/7/13 10:28 pm (UTC)
laurenthemself: Rainbow rose with words 'love as thou wilt' below in white lettering (Default)
From: [personal profile] laurenthemself
I can't speak to the Sherlock canon, but the Avengers stuff made me go YES GOOD.

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Date: 12/7/13 10:39 pm (UTC)
jesse_the_k: BBC Sherlock steps outside and shoots a pistol to draw police (SH starter pistol 999)
From: [personal profile] jesse_the_k
Zomg yr Sherlock head canon makes my mouth water! Rest assured that no matter what happens in s3, I'll eagerly await your fic!

Also, great point about John--it opens up an entire Eye-ful of possibility.

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Date: 12/7/13 11:48 pm (UTC)
majoline: picture of Majoline, mother of Bon Mucho in Loco Roco 2 (Default)
From: [personal profile] majoline
Yes, actually! I've been asking everyone about their headcanons; it's fascinating!

I can see all of these, especially the Eames and Tony/Pepper one.

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Date: 12/8/13 06:28 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] taliahale
Hmmm, interesting all, but wow, yes, I'm incredibly on-board with the Avengers headcanons.

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Date: 12/8/13 05:44 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] armadillo1976
Just to let you know that if you wanted to elaborate on the John Watson bit, I'm all ears!

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Date: 12/8/13 10:08 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] armadillo1976
Yeah, I think the way he is portrayed in the actual show is closest to this last interpretation. Sad, though, isn't it? Makes me love all the fics which take this approach and append it with "...until Sherlock" all the more!

About the armed forces - I think not so much? As far as I am aware, a military career is also much less of an escape from proverty in any UE country. Also, in Europe in general, in my experience, there's nowhere near the level of public respect for soldiers (pride in them?), compared to the US. It's like we know we have them, as a society, and that they are useful, but we push them out of our collective consciousness. The kind of bumper stickers like "My sone is a Marine" or equivalent? Never seen them here, but it would be met with confusion.

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Date: 12/8/13 06:00 pm (UTC)
minxy: Teal'c raises a hand to say "hey". (Default)
From: [personal profile] minxy
Oh wow, I love all these!

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Date: 12/8/13 10:39 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] out_there
Another bit of headcanon, not so specific, is that there must be a reason why friendly, warm, easygoing John Watson didn't have a single friend or lover to come home to after he was invalided out. I have varying theories about why that was, some of them cuddlier than others.

Hee. I always put it down to the fact that John Watson is actually quite angry and prickly when we first meet him. Oh, he's a good guy, no doubt, and absolutely more capable than Sherlock of appearing friendly and courteous, but my headcanon says he came home angry and sharp. That seeing him in the pilot with Mike Stamford is John at his absolute best behaviour.

Moving to other fandoms, I believe that Eames is not English. Eames has that accent because he learned to speak English someplace like Africa or India. His parents were missionaries from someplace like Oklahoma, and he grew up traveling to all the places where American missionaries go to try to 'save' people. He was a prodigy as a child, a great actor, good at languages, and from the time he was about five, his parents used him in miracle scams -- having him pretend to have leukemia or have been born blind or something and be miraculously healed. This only ended when he began (1) pushing back and (2) having an actual libido, at which time they tried exorcism and when that didn't work abandoned him on the streets of Mombasa at about fourteen.

Oh, that's interesting.

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