Headcanon

[aiyokusama]

This is a term I heard from Dragonbat2004 when we were talking last night.  Headcanon is how a given fan makes sense of canon in their own head.  There's nothing official about it.  It's just what works for the individual.  And it got me wondering.

We all have our own for given characters.  For example my headcanon for Cass doesn't include the

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Well... since I inspired this post...

[dragonbat2006]

Ditto on excluding Beechen!Cass. My Tim never got to be quite so cold. I'm so far reading DCnU but with very minor exceptions, not really incorporating the changes in backstory/personality. In other words, do I accept that Babs is Batgirl again? Yes, but for me there's no ambiguity-she was Oracle, and she, BC, Huntress and later Zinda formed the core of the BoP. I have no problem with the new team, or believing that Babs basically resigned leadership of it when she went to South Africa to have her surgery/rehab, but it used to be her team, dagnabbit!

I can accept the de-aging. Nervously. But I'm not tossing out any arcs/villains/plot points that I feel were defining moments.

As for Bruce? Heck, even before the reboot his personality depended on who was writing him. I became a Bat-Fan in the Jim Starlin days, and I liked Rucka, too. So my Bruce is probably around there. Not Silver Age camp, not Frank Miller (well... maybe Batman:Year One, but not DKR). Someone who would rather have his loved ones live hating him than die by his side, but who can't stop letting them back in anyway. That's how I always explained his acting like a jerk: he wanted people to walk out of his life before a bullet took them out.

Re: Well... since I inspired this post...

[aiyokusama]

The reboot for Babs in general annoys me. So in my headcanon she's still in the chair and still Oracle.

I hear you Bruce. My Bruce has communication issues and fails at demonstrating his feelings, but he's not the heartless monster some of the writers make him into. Also the whole final crisis/time skipping thing doesn't exist for me. I mean I can't STAND that. If I need him to have been out of things for a year, then I have him being poisoned in RIP and in a coma for a few months, then having to work to get himself make in shape before he can resume the mantle.

Damian....I stick to Streets of Gotham Damian. He has anger and control issues, but he's not devoid of empathy and he IS learning how to have fun, even if he's awkward as hell at it. I mean his time with Dick HAS to have counted for something. The mess he currently is in B&R is a bloody travesty.