Headcanon Facts
Jacked from supercaptain182, who is awesome and started this, so blame her. Also, dedicated to roxymissrose: hon, here's some distraction for you, should you need it. *HUGS*
What things do you hold sacred regarding your favorite characters? List five characters from your various fandoms. Provide all the facts that their shows, movies, books, etc. have failed to develop, though they serve as canon for you. Post pictures to support your head!canon explanations.
In no specific order:
1.) Godric, Who is in Fact Older than Your Jesus (direct quote).
Godric is a Celt, born sometime after that people's expansion across most of Western and Central Europe -- so we're talking, meh, approx. 400 B.C.E. or after. Godric is the third son of his father, but the only child born to his mother. Fearchar, Godric's pop, had a total of three wives, and Godric is the only child of his second wife.
Poor guy’s barely 15 when he crosses paths with Eimhir, his Maker.
She turns him, and together they travel for a little more than 350 years across Europe, until Eimhir plays it too fast and loose by acting uber-Roman around the recently, still-fresh-in-memory conquered Gauls. Folks get angry, and torch Eimhir, but Godric escapes. Needless to say, from that point on he’s a little bitchy when anything having to do with the French comes up.
Godric wanders around Northern Europe for a very long time after Eimhir’s destruction, eventually winding up in what is now Sweden just in time to encounter a certain Viking’s force battling against another’s. It’s want/envy at first sight for Godric, who at that point in time has been “alive” for more than 1,000 years and yet in many ways is still that barely 15-year-old man-child. So when Eric, the leader of one of the fighting groups, is injured and pulled away from the battle by his men, Godric follows and kills Eric’s men, and in a way kills Eric for himself.
He has a thing for blonds.
He Turns Eric, and they live happily ever after, travelling the world, killing people and animals and drinking their blood -- you know, good Vampire times. At least, in my headcanon they do. The show tells a different story, but we all know they just can’t help but get some stuff wrong.
So, Eimhir gleefully deflowered Godric, and took great joy in trying to corrupt him over the years. Essentially, Eimhir was a vicious, sadistic bitch, but she had good reason to be, and as formidable as she was. . . she provided for Godric and did genuinely care for him, in her own way. Then, when Godric Makes Eric, he becomes the dominant one for the first time. As a mortal, Godric was a lesser son of the somewhat hated second wife of a decent warrior in the clan, said warrior taking too much pleasure in forcing his (many) sons to compete for his attention/regard.
As a young Vampire, Godric was certainly more powerful than he’d been, but still controlled and manipulated, and, yes, to our eyes abused, by Eimhir. As Eric’s Maker, though, Godric is the Master, the one who calls all the shots.
This barely pubescent kid runs the show for more than 700 years, telling a 6’4” former Viking what to do and, more importantly, what not to do. And, oh yeah, those two are totally screwing the whole time. “Father, Brother, Son,” Godric says to Eric in the show, but it was really actually, “Father/Brother/Lover/Son.” *nods* It’s true. No, seriously. :)
Also, it’s pretty much a fact that the Insular Celts were, shall we say, kinda free with themselves. Women were badasses, fighting and leading, and, yes, fucking whomever they chose and could get. As for the men? Apparently they tended to hang out together, and “preferred to sleep amongst themselves,” as well. I don’t think it a stretch at all that Godric would be game for some sexy-times with Eric, and Eric seems like he would’ve been down with anything as long as it was fun.
2.) Adam Milligan, Who Always Gets the Worst End of the Bargain.
Adam’s the only child of Kate Milligan, but the third son of dear ol’ John Winchester. (Hey, kinda like Godric! XD Yes, you’ll notice a theme here, especially with numbers 1, 2, and 4.) Adam was raised by Kate alone, however, only actually meeting John when he was 12 (on his birthday, and at his own request).
Adam’s a good kid, not Sam-smart, but just as hardworking, and with more people skills and empathy than the other three Winchester men (combined). He’s his mother’s son, after all, and Kate Milligan was a nurse for more than 20 years. Also, Adam had that “normal” life both Sam and Dean missed out on, and that John had seen go up in flames upon Mary’s murder.
Now entering AU Land:
Adam majors in Psychology at college, minoring in. . . Folklore, because he is just that awesome and his family plays a huge part in his adult life, whether he wants it to or not. (He does.) I see Adam being especially good with, and deriving the highest sense of accomplishment from, working the more traumatic cases. He’ll have a private practice where he can make his own hours to a certain degree, and a partner in said counseling practice, Derek, who has no idea what his bud Adam gets up to during his semi-frequent “family emergencies,” but is capable of running the business alone whenever Adam disappears or holes up in his house doing research for days, sometimes weeks on end.
Adam grows up to have one foot in the hunting world and one in the “normal world” he spent the first 12 years of his life living, filling the same role for Sam and Dean that Pastor Jim did for John. Adam’s closer to Bobby than even our Winchester boys are, and between the two of them (and Cas), Adam and Bobby manage to keep Sam and Dean alive and relatively (for them) sane over the years.
Adam’s also been in love with Dean since he was about 13, and although eventually this comes to light (to Sam, Dean, and Cas, but thankfully never to Bobby), nothing ever comes of it. It becomes the elephant in the room, and it takes Dean and Adam a long time to get back to anything resembling the stable relationship they’d had before the big revelation. Sam, not surprisingly, is very understanding.
That’s all I’m going to say about that. Reading between the lines. . . yeah, I think you get it. :)
On a separate note, take a look at these two photos of a young JDM, and tell me he and JA don’t actually look somewhat alike. Maybe that casting wasn’t as far off as we all had thought, huh?
3.) Jack Mercer, a.k.a Cracker Jack, a.k.a. The Little Fairy, a.k.a. The Guy Who’s Someday Going to Knee Bobby in the Nuts in Public.
Jack is the fourth adopted son of Evelyn Mercer, “the sweetest woman in the goddamn world.” He’s a musician, guitarist, in a rock band, and is the tag-along participant in his older brothers’ quest for revenge when Evelyn is murdered. The Mercers grew up in Detroit, and thus the search for “justice” unsurprisingly leads them to the door of organized crime. Jack is caught out in the open when the shit really hits the fan and a shootout occurs on the Mercer house. Jack is shot in the chest at close range.
Now entering AU Land:
Jack was removed from his home at the age of four when police responded to reports of shouting, followed by shots fired. Officers found Jack’s mother dead, Jack’s father dying, and signs of a robbery, along with a dismantled meth lab out back in the shed. Jack was taken into the custody of the State, and ran the gauntlet through six foster homes, his expulsion from the last (at the age of seven) resulting in his file landing on Evelyn’s desk. Evelyn of course delved a little deeper into Jackie’s history, at which point she read a doctor’s report stating, among other things, that Jack had been brought in from his original home with signs of having been sexually abused. She then takes it upon herself to look after Jackie, adopting him two years later.
Jump to: years later, after Evelyn’s death, at the shootout on the house -- Jack is shot five times, and sustains severe and lasting damage to his lungs. He has trouble breathing for the rest of his life, often having to resort to the use of an oxygen tank, and Jack’s career as a singer is pretty much over from that day forward.
He survives, though. Jack’s brothers come through for him, particularly the oldest and the one whom he’s closest to, Bobby. Jack’s band -- his music and bandmates -- also help him through feeling like shit, both physically and mentally. Randy, his right-hand man and best friend, is the one who sees Jack at his worst time and again and never gives up, and eventually the two morons realize they’re in love with each other and live happily ever after.
The band does awesome; Jack and Randy weather everything together, including being “outed”; the other three brothers have successful careers of their own, and: Scene.
It occurs to Jack some years down the road, however, that it’s time they, as a family, gave back. So, in the spirit of Evelyn Mercer, her boys, Bobby, Jerry, Angel, and Jack, start a non-profit organization dedicated to helping foster youth just like them.
Jerry’s wife, Camille, heads the Evelyn Mercer Foundation for many years, with Jerry himself eventually going into local politics.
Their two girls graduate high school, but only the youngest, Amelia, goes on to college, eventually earning her Master’s in Public Relations and helping her mother with the Foundation.
Angel is honorably discharged from the military and goes into private sector security.
He starts up his own firm, and he and his wife, Sofi, have a total of five kids -- three girls and two boys. Their first-born, a daughter, they name Eve, and four of the kids go on to receive higher education, with the youngest son, William, attending Yale.
Bobby plays hockey for the Detroit Red Wings for a whopping seven years, and then retires.
He is involved in the running of the Foundation more than anyone else, except Camille and later Amelia. Bobby often takes groups of the kids to the local rink and on field-trips, eventually earning himself the title “Uncle Bobby.” Bobby never marries, is rarely seen with a date, and unbeknownst to his friends and family, is asexual. He spoils his brothers’ kids ridiculously, and has a three-legged bulldog he names Robo, in honor of Detroit’s own Robocop.
4.) Julian Luthor, the Brother Who Never Was (Although, he shares that title with Lucas Dunleavy, and don’t even get me started on Tess, man! Damn, but Lionel got around.)
Julian is the second son born to Lillian Luthor by her husband Lionel Luthor.
Julian takes after Lionel in terms of appearance, but is more like Lillian in manner and personality. He’s highly intelligent, handsome, and good with people, but is less ambitious than his brothers (of which there are either two, if you’re talking Show canon, or three if we’re doing my Colin Luthor!Verse canon -- see: below), and definitely less ruthless. He’s also, from all appearances, sane.
Now Entering AU Land (my personal canon -- CL Verse):
With Lillian’s death little more than a month following his birth, Lian never knew his mother. This affects him greatly, and colors all his interactions with women. He grows up in a household dominated by men, and by his overbearing, sociopathic, sadistic father, primarily. Lian learns from an early age that in order to avoid confrontation/punishment, he must make himself easy to overlook and generally non-threatening. So Julian follows all rules, no matter his opinion of them, and puts great stock in always knowing what’s going on, what his place and purpose are.
He is doted on and spoiled by his two brothers, Lex and Colin, and even when the two aren’t speaking to each other, their shared concern remains Julian’s welfare.
In turn, Lian comes to identify and react to his brothers as though they are his parents, idolizing them and seeking guidance and solace in the two, especially Colin, who lives in the same household as Julian during their childhood years. When it is discovered that Lionel, for years, has been not only experimenting on Colin, but also sexually abusing him, Julian feels betrayed by his own “code of conduct,” as following Lionel’s “rules” did nothing to prevent the suffering of Julian’s dearest brother/friend/surrogate parent.
Through a series of incredible events, Julian finds a new home in another household dominated almost entirely by men, though infinitely more compassionate and upstanding ones this second time around. Lex takes over guardianship of both Lian and Colin, and all three wind up living with Bruce Wayne for a time in Gotham. Eventually, Lucas Dunleavy is brought into the mix, being the Luthors’ half-brother, as well as Colin’s fellow test subject at the hands of Lionel.
Julian acts towards Lucas as an older brother, even though he is his junior by more than eight years. This relationship with Lucas is the first one Julian has where he’s on an even footing with someone else, and the two, Lian and Lucky, are in some ways closer to each other than Lian is to either Lex or Colin.
Less than three months after the fortuitous death of Lionel (at the hands of Lucas), Lex, Colin, and Lucas all leave the Wayne household, the former two returning together to Metropolis, while the latter, Lucas, takes up semi-permanent residence in Smallville. Julian remains in Gotham, in Bruce’s care, but still under Lex’s guardianship. If Lex is Lian’s surrogate father, and Lin likewise his substitute mother, then Bruce would be the equivalent of an uncle, and Alfred the grandfather. Soon Richard Grayson comes to live at the mansion, and he and Lian get along more as actual brothers than Lian does with his actual brothers, apart from Lucas.
Because he is so young when he finds out what has been happening to Colin at the hands of his father, as he grows up Lian has problems being accepting of any and all homosexual behavior, and is quite internally homophobic (for awhile). In later years, Julian attempts to rebel against his brothers’ influence, much like “normal” teenagers do with their parents, but when Julian is told (by Lucas) that Colin and Lex are sleeping together, the result is an escalation in disregard and disrespect.
He reacts badly to the news, and even worse to feelings he begins to recognize he’s having for the son of a family friend. Lian finds himself attracted to Arkady Jameson, and what starts out as a tentative, uncomfortable friendship, eventually -- with help from Dick, and after Lian is forced to confront his issues regarding Colin and Lex’s relationship, as well as what happened between Lionel and Colin all those years ago -- develops into a lifelong relationship.
Arkady marries some years later, but the marriage is relatively “open,” and Lian over the course of his lifetime is romantically involved with a handful of people (of both sexes), but none of these relationships last. The two men stay close, however, Lian even living with Arkady and his wife, Elizabeth, for almost a year at one point, and on several occasions sleeping with them both. Lian is godfather to Arkady’s daughter and designated her guardian in the couple’s wills.
Julian holds many jobs over the years, but his longest and most well known career is as Editor of The Daily Planet. He works at the newspaper for more than 20 years, and by the time he retires Julian is famous for 1.) his dedication to printing only the strictest of factual information, and 2.) his delight in events that, when reported, incriminate the rich and powerful.
Years later, Julian undertakes the task of writing his memoirs, attempting to put down the exact events of his childhood and adult years, without omissions or use of metaphor. He reaches the point at which Kon-El, Lex and Colin’s “son” from another universe, arrives, but dies from old age before he can finish the record. Colin, as a tribute to his beloved brother/son, writes the rest on Julian’s behalf, his eidetic memory ensuring the accuracy, and agony, of the endeavor.
The book is published as co-authored by Colin and Julian Luthor, and is blunt to the point of being ridiculous. The validity of the events described in the book is heavily debated in the following years, as no one alive can confirm whether the claims are factual or fabricated -- all members of the Luthor family at that point being listed as deceased, with Julian the last one on record.
Some theorize that Superman is the only one still alive who does know the full extent of the truth, and yet after Lois Lane and Julian Luthor die, no one from the press is ever able to get an interview with him again. He never says one way or the other.
The dedication reads as Julian wrote it:
“To those dearest who have gone before, I hope to one day join you.
To those beloved who remain behind, I pray you one day follow.
To those of you soon to learn the truth, I ask you forgive us our lies.
For it is not easy living always at the edge of a maelstrom.”
And that, my friends, is Julian Rei Luthor (as he could have been).
5.) J.D. McCoy, the Boy Who Could (Have) Be(en) King.
Joseph David McCoy, Jr., more commonly known as JD, is the only son of Joe Sr. and Katie McCoy.
Born and raised in Dallas, Texas, JD’s a football prodigy, and his parents (namely his father) have the money to pay for personal trainers, the best equipment, and, when he’s a freshman in high school, even go so far as to relocate to Dillon, TX, in order to get JD on the team being coached by the famous Eric Taylor.
Joe Sr. is an asshole, an overbearing, authoritarian, dominating man who brooks no argument and has no problem with “cheating” to win. In Joe’s mind, the ends always justify the means.
Katie McCoy, on the other hand, seems to find herself at a loss when confronted with just how ruthless her husband actually is. She’s learned how to play the society game, and quickly ingratiates herself with the Head Coach’s wife, Tami, but when Joe Sr. physically lashes out at JD, shaking and hitting him several times in a restaurant parking lot, Katie is genuinely shocked and horrified. The Taylors, Eric being the Head Coach of the football team and Tami Katie’s somewhat close friend, witness the incident in the parking lot and Eric breaks it up. Katie and JD are then taken back to the Taylors’ house, where Katie sobs on Tami’s shoulder, saying she doesn’t know what to do, and JD appears to be in a state of shock as Eric tries to talk to him.
Now Entering AU Land:
Because he was used to being ordered around, as well as having almost every detail of his life planned out without his input, after his father’s “episode” in the parking lot and his parents’ separation and eventual divorce, JD is at a loss as to how to function. He quickly becomes withdrawn and depressed. Katie, his mother, has no idea what to do to help, and so turns to Tami, her friend and also the high school’s guidance counselor.
Tami suggests therapy to Katie, but also broaches the subject of JD with her husband, Eric, JD’s football coach and the mentor to many of the team’s players. Coach Taylor sees in JD someone in desperate need of a friend, even a brother of sorts, and so can think of no better candidate than another one of his “troubled” players, Tim Riggins, who grew up in a physically and emotionally abusive household, and now lives with his older brother.
Coach Taylor talks to Tim about JD, (having previously brought him over to his house the night of the McCoys’ “falling out” to look after JD while the three adults -- Eric, Tami, and Katie -- figured out the best course of action for Katie and her son in the face of Joe Sr.’s 1.) abusive nature, 2.) as well as his money, resources, and influence on a large scale).
Tim, a senior at that point, takes JD, a freshman, under his wing and attempts to get him out of his funk.
He soon realizes, however, that JD needs not a friend, but someone willing to tell him what to do. JD is submissive to men in positions of power -- his father, his personal trainer Wade, Coach Taylor, the principal of the school -- to such a degree that when he is not told how to act, or what to do, he falls into unhealthy practices, such as training too hard for too long, not eating, not sleeping, etc. JD respects women, his mother and Tami Taylor foremost, but from personal experience (and Joe Sr.’s influence) sees them more as equals than authority figures.
Tim gradually cottons on to the situation, the real breaking point occuring when JD becomes so depressed he is unable to get out of bed, and Tami, in a last ditch effort before she and Katie would drag JD to the ER, calls Tim and has him come over. Near the end of the resulting one-sided conversation, Tim tells JD to get out of bed, and JD does.
Once Tim graduates from high school, he goes into business with his older brother in a mechanic shop. JD and Katie continue to live in Dillon, where Katie opens up a party planning business, JD attends school and, under Eric Taylor’s coaching and guidance, leads the Dillon Panthers to two State Championships.
JD goes on to attend college, and plays football for University of Texas (Austin) as a Longhorn for all four years. He graduates with a Bachelor of Art in History and Government, with plans to attend Law School. However, JD had decided to retain an agent of his own (former Dillon Panther, and once NFL-hopeful himself, Jason Street) earlier.
And so JD is drafted for the next season to the. . . Dallas Cowboys. (God help him.)
JD is awesome, and he of course moves fast up the ranks. He stays in close contact with his mom, and his agent, Jay, who’s like an older brother to him, and the Taylors of course, who always get good tickets for the home games.
Oddly enough, though, when JD started school in Austin, Tim Riggins just happened to move out that way, too. People heard that boy became a licensed nutritionist, or physical therapist, or trainer, something like that. Finally turned his life around, that kid did.
Riggins was always friends with that Jason Street, too, remember?
And he and that JD McCoy sure got on well. Wonder if they see anything of each other. Ol’ Billy Riggins, the brother, he sure makes a lot of trips out Dallas-way.
I assume you’ve got your slash-goggles on, in which case. . . oh yeah, baby. It’s what you think it is. Heh heh. Good ol’ JD and Timmy. *snerk* Some rawr kinky action goin’ on there!
And thus ends Story-Time. Now you guys don’t even have to read the fics! I just told you what happens. :)
What things do you hold sacred regarding your favorite characters? List five characters from your various fandoms. Provide all the facts that their shows, movies, books, etc. have failed to develop, though they serve as canon for you. Post pictures to support your head!canon explanations.
In no specific order:
1.) Godric, Who is in Fact Older than Your Jesus (direct quote).
Godric is a Celt, born sometime after that people's expansion across most of Western and Central Europe -- so we're talking, meh, approx. 400 B.C.E. or after. Godric is the third son of his father, but the only child born to his mother. Fearchar, Godric's pop, had a total of three wives, and Godric is the only child of his second wife.
Poor guy’s barely 15 when he crosses paths with Eimhir, his Maker.
She turns him, and together they travel for a little more than 350 years across Europe, until Eimhir plays it too fast and loose by acting uber-Roman around the recently, still-fresh-in-memory conquered Gauls. Folks get angry, and torch Eimhir, but Godric escapes. Needless to say, from that point on he’s a little bitchy when anything having to do with the French comes up.
Godric wanders around Northern Europe for a very long time after Eimhir’s destruction, eventually winding up in what is now Sweden just in time to encounter a certain Viking’s force battling against another’s. It’s want/envy at first sight for Godric, who at that point in time has been “alive” for more than 1,000 years and yet in many ways is still that barely 15-year-old man-child. So when Eric, the leader of one of the fighting groups, is injured and pulled away from the battle by his men, Godric follows and kills Eric’s men, and in a way kills Eric for himself.
He has a thing for blonds.
He Turns Eric, and they live happily ever after, travelling the world, killing people and animals and drinking their blood -- you know, good Vampire times. At least, in my headcanon they do. The show tells a different story, but we all know they just can’t help but get some stuff wrong.
So, Eimhir gleefully deflowered Godric, and took great joy in trying to corrupt him over the years. Essentially, Eimhir was a vicious, sadistic bitch, but she had good reason to be, and as formidable as she was. . . she provided for Godric and did genuinely care for him, in her own way. Then, when Godric Makes Eric, he becomes the dominant one for the first time. As a mortal, Godric was a lesser son of the somewhat hated second wife of a decent warrior in the clan, said warrior taking too much pleasure in forcing his (many) sons to compete for his attention/regard.
As a young Vampire, Godric was certainly more powerful than he’d been, but still controlled and manipulated, and, yes, to our eyes abused, by Eimhir. As Eric’s Maker, though, Godric is the Master, the one who calls all the shots.
This barely pubescent kid runs the show for more than 700 years, telling a 6’4” former Viking what to do and, more importantly, what not to do. And, oh yeah, those two are totally screwing the whole time. “Father, Brother, Son,” Godric says to Eric in the show, but it was really actually, “Father/Brother/Lover/Son.” *nods* It’s true. No, seriously. :)
Also, it’s pretty much a fact that the Insular Celts were, shall we say, kinda free with themselves. Women were badasses, fighting and leading, and, yes, fucking whomever they chose and could get. As for the men? Apparently they tended to hang out together, and “preferred to sleep amongst themselves,” as well. I don’t think it a stretch at all that Godric would be game for some sexy-times with Eric, and Eric seems like he would’ve been down with anything as long as it was fun.
2.) Adam Milligan, Who Always Gets the Worst End of the Bargain.
Adam’s the only child of Kate Milligan, but the third son of dear ol’ John Winchester. (Hey, kinda like Godric! XD Yes, you’ll notice a theme here, especially with numbers 1, 2, and 4.) Adam was raised by Kate alone, however, only actually meeting John when he was 12 (on his birthday, and at his own request).
Adam’s a good kid, not Sam-smart, but just as hardworking, and with more people skills and empathy than the other three Winchester men (combined). He’s his mother’s son, after all, and Kate Milligan was a nurse for more than 20 years. Also, Adam had that “normal” life both Sam and Dean missed out on, and that John had seen go up in flames upon Mary’s murder.
Now entering AU Land:
Adam majors in Psychology at college, minoring in. . . Folklore, because he is just that awesome and his family plays a huge part in his adult life, whether he wants it to or not. (He does.) I see Adam being especially good with, and deriving the highest sense of accomplishment from, working the more traumatic cases. He’ll have a private practice where he can make his own hours to a certain degree, and a partner in said counseling practice, Derek, who has no idea what his bud Adam gets up to during his semi-frequent “family emergencies,” but is capable of running the business alone whenever Adam disappears or holes up in his house doing research for days, sometimes weeks on end.
Adam grows up to have one foot in the hunting world and one in the “normal world” he spent the first 12 years of his life living, filling the same role for Sam and Dean that Pastor Jim did for John. Adam’s closer to Bobby than even our Winchester boys are, and between the two of them (and Cas), Adam and Bobby manage to keep Sam and Dean alive and relatively (for them) sane over the years.
Adam’s also been in love with Dean since he was about 13, and although eventually this comes to light (to Sam, Dean, and Cas, but thankfully never to Bobby), nothing ever comes of it. It becomes the elephant in the room, and it takes Dean and Adam a long time to get back to anything resembling the stable relationship they’d had before the big revelation. Sam, not surprisingly, is very understanding.
That’s all I’m going to say about that. Reading between the lines. . . yeah, I think you get it. :)
On a separate note, take a look at these two photos of a young JDM, and tell me he and JA don’t actually look somewhat alike. Maybe that casting wasn’t as far off as we all had thought, huh?
3.) Jack Mercer, a.k.a Cracker Jack, a.k.a. The Little Fairy, a.k.a. The Guy Who’s Someday Going to Knee Bobby in the Nuts in Public.
Jack is the fourth adopted son of Evelyn Mercer, “the sweetest woman in the goddamn world.” He’s a musician, guitarist, in a rock band, and is the tag-along participant in his older brothers’ quest for revenge when Evelyn is murdered. The Mercers grew up in Detroit, and thus the search for “justice” unsurprisingly leads them to the door of organized crime. Jack is caught out in the open when the shit really hits the fan and a shootout occurs on the Mercer house. Jack is shot in the chest at close range.
Now entering AU Land:
Jack was removed from his home at the age of four when police responded to reports of shouting, followed by shots fired. Officers found Jack’s mother dead, Jack’s father dying, and signs of a robbery, along with a dismantled meth lab out back in the shed. Jack was taken into the custody of the State, and ran the gauntlet through six foster homes, his expulsion from the last (at the age of seven) resulting in his file landing on Evelyn’s desk. Evelyn of course delved a little deeper into Jackie’s history, at which point she read a doctor’s report stating, among other things, that Jack had been brought in from his original home with signs of having been sexually abused. She then takes it upon herself to look after Jackie, adopting him two years later.
Jump to: years later, after Evelyn’s death, at the shootout on the house -- Jack is shot five times, and sustains severe and lasting damage to his lungs. He has trouble breathing for the rest of his life, often having to resort to the use of an oxygen tank, and Jack’s career as a singer is pretty much over from that day forward.
He survives, though. Jack’s brothers come through for him, particularly the oldest and the one whom he’s closest to, Bobby. Jack’s band -- his music and bandmates -- also help him through feeling like shit, both physically and mentally. Randy, his right-hand man and best friend, is the one who sees Jack at his worst time and again and never gives up, and eventually the two morons realize they’re in love with each other and live happily ever after.
The band does awesome; Jack and Randy weather everything together, including being “outed”; the other three brothers have successful careers of their own, and: Scene.
It occurs to Jack some years down the road, however, that it’s time they, as a family, gave back. So, in the spirit of Evelyn Mercer, her boys, Bobby, Jerry, Angel, and Jack, start a non-profit organization dedicated to helping foster youth just like them.
Jerry’s wife, Camille, heads the Evelyn Mercer Foundation for many years, with Jerry himself eventually going into local politics.
Their two girls graduate high school, but only the youngest, Amelia, goes on to college, eventually earning her Master’s in Public Relations and helping her mother with the Foundation.
Angel is honorably discharged from the military and goes into private sector security.
He starts up his own firm, and he and his wife, Sofi, have a total of five kids -- three girls and two boys. Their first-born, a daughter, they name Eve, and four of the kids go on to receive higher education, with the youngest son, William, attending Yale.
Bobby plays hockey for the Detroit Red Wings for a whopping seven years, and then retires.
He is involved in the running of the Foundation more than anyone else, except Camille and later Amelia. Bobby often takes groups of the kids to the local rink and on field-trips, eventually earning himself the title “Uncle Bobby.” Bobby never marries, is rarely seen with a date, and unbeknownst to his friends and family, is asexual. He spoils his brothers’ kids ridiculously, and has a three-legged bulldog he names Robo, in honor of Detroit’s own Robocop.
4.) Julian Luthor, the Brother Who Never Was (Although, he shares that title with Lucas Dunleavy, and don’t even get me started on Tess, man! Damn, but Lionel got around.)
Julian is the second son born to Lillian Luthor by her husband Lionel Luthor.
Julian takes after Lionel in terms of appearance, but is more like Lillian in manner and personality. He’s highly intelligent, handsome, and good with people, but is less ambitious than his brothers (of which there are either two, if you’re talking Show canon, or three if we’re doing my Colin Luthor!Verse canon -- see: below), and definitely less ruthless. He’s also, from all appearances, sane.
Now Entering AU Land (my personal canon -- CL Verse):
With Lillian’s death little more than a month following his birth, Lian never knew his mother. This affects him greatly, and colors all his interactions with women. He grows up in a household dominated by men, and by his overbearing, sociopathic, sadistic father, primarily. Lian learns from an early age that in order to avoid confrontation/punishment, he must make himself easy to overlook and generally non-threatening. So Julian follows all rules, no matter his opinion of them, and puts great stock in always knowing what’s going on, what his place and purpose are.
He is doted on and spoiled by his two brothers, Lex and Colin, and even when the two aren’t speaking to each other, their shared concern remains Julian’s welfare.
In turn, Lian comes to identify and react to his brothers as though they are his parents, idolizing them and seeking guidance and solace in the two, especially Colin, who lives in the same household as Julian during their childhood years. When it is discovered that Lionel, for years, has been not only experimenting on Colin, but also sexually abusing him, Julian feels betrayed by his own “code of conduct,” as following Lionel’s “rules” did nothing to prevent the suffering of Julian’s dearest brother/friend/surrogate parent.
Through a series of incredible events, Julian finds a new home in another household dominated almost entirely by men, though infinitely more compassionate and upstanding ones this second time around. Lex takes over guardianship of both Lian and Colin, and all three wind up living with Bruce Wayne for a time in Gotham. Eventually, Lucas Dunleavy is brought into the mix, being the Luthors’ half-brother, as well as Colin’s fellow test subject at the hands of Lionel.
Julian acts towards Lucas as an older brother, even though he is his junior by more than eight years. This relationship with Lucas is the first one Julian has where he’s on an even footing with someone else, and the two, Lian and Lucky, are in some ways closer to each other than Lian is to either Lex or Colin.
Less than three months after the fortuitous death of Lionel (at the hands of Lucas), Lex, Colin, and Lucas all leave the Wayne household, the former two returning together to Metropolis, while the latter, Lucas, takes up semi-permanent residence in Smallville. Julian remains in Gotham, in Bruce’s care, but still under Lex’s guardianship. If Lex is Lian’s surrogate father, and Lin likewise his substitute mother, then Bruce would be the equivalent of an uncle, and Alfred the grandfather. Soon Richard Grayson comes to live at the mansion, and he and Lian get along more as actual brothers than Lian does with his actual brothers, apart from Lucas.
Because he is so young when he finds out what has been happening to Colin at the hands of his father, as he grows up Lian has problems being accepting of any and all homosexual behavior, and is quite internally homophobic (for awhile). In later years, Julian attempts to rebel against his brothers’ influence, much like “normal” teenagers do with their parents, but when Julian is told (by Lucas) that Colin and Lex are sleeping together, the result is an escalation in disregard and disrespect.
He reacts badly to the news, and even worse to feelings he begins to recognize he’s having for the son of a family friend. Lian finds himself attracted to Arkady Jameson, and what starts out as a tentative, uncomfortable friendship, eventually -- with help from Dick, and after Lian is forced to confront his issues regarding Colin and Lex’s relationship, as well as what happened between Lionel and Colin all those years ago -- develops into a lifelong relationship.
Arkady marries some years later, but the marriage is relatively “open,” and Lian over the course of his lifetime is romantically involved with a handful of people (of both sexes), but none of these relationships last. The two men stay close, however, Lian even living with Arkady and his wife, Elizabeth, for almost a year at one point, and on several occasions sleeping with them both. Lian is godfather to Arkady’s daughter and designated her guardian in the couple’s wills.
Julian holds many jobs over the years, but his longest and most well known career is as Editor of The Daily Planet. He works at the newspaper for more than 20 years, and by the time he retires Julian is famous for 1.) his dedication to printing only the strictest of factual information, and 2.) his delight in events that, when reported, incriminate the rich and powerful.
Years later, Julian undertakes the task of writing his memoirs, attempting to put down the exact events of his childhood and adult years, without omissions or use of metaphor. He reaches the point at which Kon-El, Lex and Colin’s “son” from another universe, arrives, but dies from old age before he can finish the record. Colin, as a tribute to his beloved brother/son, writes the rest on Julian’s behalf, his eidetic memory ensuring the accuracy, and agony, of the endeavor.
The book is published as co-authored by Colin and Julian Luthor, and is blunt to the point of being ridiculous. The validity of the events described in the book is heavily debated in the following years, as no one alive can confirm whether the claims are factual or fabricated -- all members of the Luthor family at that point being listed as deceased, with Julian the last one on record.
Some theorize that Superman is the only one still alive who does know the full extent of the truth, and yet after Lois Lane and Julian Luthor die, no one from the press is ever able to get an interview with him again. He never says one way or the other.
The dedication reads as Julian wrote it:
“To those dearest who have gone before, I hope to one day join you.
To those beloved who remain behind, I pray you one day follow.
To those of you soon to learn the truth, I ask you forgive us our lies.
For it is not easy living always at the edge of a maelstrom.”
And that, my friends, is Julian Rei Luthor (as he could have been).
5.) J.D. McCoy, the Boy Who Could (Have) Be(en) King.
Joseph David McCoy, Jr., more commonly known as JD, is the only son of Joe Sr. and Katie McCoy.
Born and raised in Dallas, Texas, JD’s a football prodigy, and his parents (namely his father) have the money to pay for personal trainers, the best equipment, and, when he’s a freshman in high school, even go so far as to relocate to Dillon, TX, in order to get JD on the team being coached by the famous Eric Taylor.
Joe Sr. is an asshole, an overbearing, authoritarian, dominating man who brooks no argument and has no problem with “cheating” to win. In Joe’s mind, the ends always justify the means.
Katie McCoy, on the other hand, seems to find herself at a loss when confronted with just how ruthless her husband actually is. She’s learned how to play the society game, and quickly ingratiates herself with the Head Coach’s wife, Tami, but when Joe Sr. physically lashes out at JD, shaking and hitting him several times in a restaurant parking lot, Katie is genuinely shocked and horrified. The Taylors, Eric being the Head Coach of the football team and Tami Katie’s somewhat close friend, witness the incident in the parking lot and Eric breaks it up. Katie and JD are then taken back to the Taylors’ house, where Katie sobs on Tami’s shoulder, saying she doesn’t know what to do, and JD appears to be in a state of shock as Eric tries to talk to him.
Now Entering AU Land:
Because he was used to being ordered around, as well as having almost every detail of his life planned out without his input, after his father’s “episode” in the parking lot and his parents’ separation and eventual divorce, JD is at a loss as to how to function. He quickly becomes withdrawn and depressed. Katie, his mother, has no idea what to do to help, and so turns to Tami, her friend and also the high school’s guidance counselor.
Tami suggests therapy to Katie, but also broaches the subject of JD with her husband, Eric, JD’s football coach and the mentor to many of the team’s players. Coach Taylor sees in JD someone in desperate need of a friend, even a brother of sorts, and so can think of no better candidate than another one of his “troubled” players, Tim Riggins, who grew up in a physically and emotionally abusive household, and now lives with his older brother.
Coach Taylor talks to Tim about JD, (having previously brought him over to his house the night of the McCoys’ “falling out” to look after JD while the three adults -- Eric, Tami, and Katie -- figured out the best course of action for Katie and her son in the face of Joe Sr.’s 1.) abusive nature, 2.) as well as his money, resources, and influence on a large scale).
Tim, a senior at that point, takes JD, a freshman, under his wing and attempts to get him out of his funk.
He soon realizes, however, that JD needs not a friend, but someone willing to tell him what to do. JD is submissive to men in positions of power -- his father, his personal trainer Wade, Coach Taylor, the principal of the school -- to such a degree that when he is not told how to act, or what to do, he falls into unhealthy practices, such as training too hard for too long, not eating, not sleeping, etc. JD respects women, his mother and Tami Taylor foremost, but from personal experience (and Joe Sr.’s influence) sees them more as equals than authority figures.
Tim gradually cottons on to the situation, the real breaking point occuring when JD becomes so depressed he is unable to get out of bed, and Tami, in a last ditch effort before she and Katie would drag JD to the ER, calls Tim and has him come over. Near the end of the resulting one-sided conversation, Tim tells JD to get out of bed, and JD does.
Once Tim graduates from high school, he goes into business with his older brother in a mechanic shop. JD and Katie continue to live in Dillon, where Katie opens up a party planning business, JD attends school and, under Eric Taylor’s coaching and guidance, leads the Dillon Panthers to two State Championships.
JD goes on to attend college, and plays football for University of Texas (Austin) as a Longhorn for all four years. He graduates with a Bachelor of Art in History and Government, with plans to attend Law School. However, JD had decided to retain an agent of his own (former Dillon Panther, and once NFL-hopeful himself, Jason Street) earlier.
And so JD is drafted for the next season to the. . . Dallas Cowboys. (God help him.)
JD is awesome, and he of course moves fast up the ranks. He stays in close contact with his mom, and his agent, Jay, who’s like an older brother to him, and the Taylors of course, who always get good tickets for the home games.
Oddly enough, though, when JD started school in Austin, Tim Riggins just happened to move out that way, too. People heard that boy became a licensed nutritionist, or physical therapist, or trainer, something like that. Finally turned his life around, that kid did.
Riggins was always friends with that Jason Street, too, remember?
And he and that JD McCoy sure got on well. Wonder if they see anything of each other. Ol’ Billy Riggins, the brother, he sure makes a lot of trips out Dallas-way.
I assume you’ve got your slash-goggles on, in which case. . . oh yeah, baby. It’s what you think it is. Heh heh. Good ol’ JD and Timmy. *snerk* Some rawr kinky action goin’ on there!
And thus ends Story-Time. Now you guys don’t even have to read the fics! I just told you what happens. :)