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I think what I want to do today is start compiling a list of "personal canon" facts for my fic, things that I believe happened in the show/movie I'm a fan of. Normally I'd compile the entire list and then post, but I am not on my laptop and do not want to lose the link I have right now.
Once Upon A Time
▫ Prince Charming's mother told him that true love follows the ring, that she loved (came to love?) his father, and that Charming would have love with his bride when he gave the ring to her. by "follows", I assume she meant that if Charming gave his bride the ring, they'd come to love one another, but the ring wouldn't have caused it. But what if the ring is causing/encouraging the love? (when taken out of its holder/purse, it magnifies any feelings of attraction between the two people closest to it - if there are no feelings of attraction, maybe it shifts other feelings to being attraction). Charming didn't show the ring to his affianced, he showed it to Snow White (who til then was perfectly happy to club him and rob him) - who put it on, and ended up marrying him. (source)
Doctor Who
▫ How Rory copes with Melody being taken.
▫ Rory’s never been religious or spiritual or anything like that, so those all go out the window. Furthermore, it wasn’t just what you had faith it - it was more what you idolized. Little Amy spent years believing in and waiting for the Doctor and never truly forgot him, and then when he came back, she went with him and he showed her all these magical and amazing places, which only cemented her belief that the Doctor was this surreal hero in her eyes. That’s why the Doctor is her downfall - because she idolizes him in a way that is similar to religion. Rory doesn’t idolize the Doctor or time/space travel, he never has. Even when he walked into the TARDIS for the first time, his response wasn’t ‘oh, it’s bigger on the inside’ - It was ‘it’s another dimension,’ so those are off the table too. He’s realistic in everything he does. He loves Amy enough to wait 2,000 years for her, but he doesn’t idolize her or put her up on a pedestal. He loves her for her, not what he thinks she should be or what he imagines her to be. He loves her not only despite of but also because of her every fault and issue, which is why he doesn’t end up having a hero-worshipping amount of faith in her. He’s a simple man. So when he’s in the hotel, he’s shown the exit. There’s nothing he worships, nothing he prays to, nothing he has an unusual amount of faith in. He just is. (source)
▫ Rory and Amy have more children, and he loves them all very much, but he never forgets Melody. So every year on Melody’s birthday the entire Pond family does something special (though never a birthday party) and in the evening Rory finds River waiting for him and he wishes her a happy birthday and gives her a gift, until the year that River isn’t there because she’s met with the Tenth Doctor. That’s the year when he buys the tombstone for her and has her birth date and that year’s date put on it, as proof to the world that Melody Pond lived.
▫ Oswin Oswald backstory.
Sherlock
▫ Jim’s little diguises - Rich Brook and Jim from IT - have one thing in common: They’re both total sweethearts. They both have a gentle demeanor and seem to care about the women they’re fooling. They’re both anxious around Sherlock. They’re both inoffensive and fuckingadorableohmygod. They both have a heart. No one is that good of an actor. The one thing you can’t fake is a heart. If he was heartless, Molly would be dead. She saw Jim’s face, she was a liability. Why didn’t he kill her? He’d heard all Molly’s stories, he knew she was important to Sherlock, if only a little, so why didn’t he kill her? Why didn’t he threaten her with the gunmen during Reichenbach? I’ll tell you why. Because Molly is lovely and he cared about her. He purposely excluded her from the threat because he didn’t want to hurt her. Even during their first meeting at the pool, Jim showed an unusual lack of self restraint “THAT’S WHAT PEOPLE DO!”. His face wasn’t blank, it wasn’t a pokerface like Sherlock’s. He was expressive. He was emotive. He was human. Jim has a heart.
I think that on the roof during Reichenbach, Sherlock realised this. He realised that Jim wasn’t acting. He realised what Jim really wanted: to not be alone; to find someone just like himself; to find someone not-ordinary. Most of all, he wanted that person to be Sherlock. Sherlock saw the level of frustration and disappointment and, let’s be honest, sadness on Jim’s face when he thought Sherlock was stupid and ordinary, and when he thought Sherlock would jump to save his friends. That’s how he beat Jim. The way he asserts himself on Jim, moving right up into his personal space. Think about it. He never does that. He’s attacked people, usually in self defence, but never anything quite so personal, quite so intimidating. He’s risking John’s life by doing this. He’s risking the lives of all his friends and he doesn’t care. In those moments, Jim is his primary focus. But then, listen to his voice, listen to the things he is saying. Ordinary people have hurt Jim, there’s no doubt about that. Sherlock is telling Jim that he isn’t ‘one of them’. He isn’t ordinary. Sherlock isn’t being cruel, he’s being gentle.
We’re just alike, you and I.
And they are just alike, apart from that one little thing that they don’t have in common: Sherlock is the good guy who doesn’t have a heart, and it’s his biggest weakness. Jim is the bad guy who does have a heart, and it’s his greatest tragedy. (source)
Marvel Movieverse
▫ At some point Steve gets Fury to look Peggy up and finds out she’s in an old folks home and she’s lonely. She did get married after the war and had kids and grandkids but they don’t really take care of her or stay in touch with her, and in her old age she’s gone back to thinking about him and the war and the romance that never had a chance to happen. And then one day a nice young man in a suit named Phil comes and talks to her and very gently breaks it to her and explains everything and says steve would like to visit and although she’s completely shocked she manages to say yes. So Steve comes over and he brings flowers and chocolate and some old Glenn Miller records and after the tears and the talking they finally have their ‘date’. Steve helps hold her up, and they finally have that dance. It’s Steve’s first. It’s Peggy’s last. (source)
▫ After the team take up residence in the newly renovated Stark Tower they notice that Steve spends a lot of his free time in a room he claimed for himself when they moved in. No one is sure what he does in there and he’s rather tight-lipped when questioned about it. Of course Tony is the first one to give in to curiosity and one day while Steve is out he has JARVIS open up the room for him. Tony is mildly disappointed when all he finds is a drawing desk and what appear to be comics pinned to the walls; however, curiosity is hard to kill and Tony approaches the desk to get a closer look. No longer disappointed in what he’s found Tony goes through everything on the desk and when he’s finished he goes to look at what Steve has pinned onto the walls. Just as Tony is about to leave the forbidden room the door opens revealing an annoyed looking Steve Rogers. “He would have loved it,” is all Tony says as he walks out the doorway partially blocked by Steve.
Instead of being angry about Tony violating his privacy Steve simply nods and a sad smile appears on his face. Once Tony is out of sight Steve closes the door and goes back to work on his comic about a little boy named Cole Phillips, who dreams of superheroes and eventually grows up to be a different sort of hero, an everyman without any superpowers of his own, a hero known simply as “The Agent”. (source)
Once Upon A Time
▫ Prince Charming's mother told him that true love follows the ring, that she loved (came to love?) his father, and that Charming would have love with his bride when he gave the ring to her. by "follows", I assume she meant that if Charming gave his bride the ring, they'd come to love one another, but the ring wouldn't have caused it. But what if the ring is causing/encouraging the love? (when taken out of its holder/purse, it magnifies any feelings of attraction between the two people closest to it - if there are no feelings of attraction, maybe it shifts other feelings to being attraction). Charming didn't show the ring to his affianced, he showed it to Snow White (who til then was perfectly happy to club him and rob him) - who put it on, and ended up marrying him. (source)
Doctor Who
▫ How Rory copes with Melody being taken.
▫ Rory’s never been religious or spiritual or anything like that, so those all go out the window. Furthermore, it wasn’t just what you had faith it - it was more what you idolized. Little Amy spent years believing in and waiting for the Doctor and never truly forgot him, and then when he came back, she went with him and he showed her all these magical and amazing places, which only cemented her belief that the Doctor was this surreal hero in her eyes. That’s why the Doctor is her downfall - because she idolizes him in a way that is similar to religion. Rory doesn’t idolize the Doctor or time/space travel, he never has. Even when he walked into the TARDIS for the first time, his response wasn’t ‘oh, it’s bigger on the inside’ - It was ‘it’s another dimension,’ so those are off the table too. He’s realistic in everything he does. He loves Amy enough to wait 2,000 years for her, but he doesn’t idolize her or put her up on a pedestal. He loves her for her, not what he thinks she should be or what he imagines her to be. He loves her not only despite of but also because of her every fault and issue, which is why he doesn’t end up having a hero-worshipping amount of faith in her. He’s a simple man. So when he’s in the hotel, he’s shown the exit. There’s nothing he worships, nothing he prays to, nothing he has an unusual amount of faith in. He just is. (source)
▫ Rory and Amy have more children, and he loves them all very much, but he never forgets Melody. So every year on Melody’s birthday the entire Pond family does something special (though never a birthday party) and in the evening Rory finds River waiting for him and he wishes her a happy birthday and gives her a gift, until the year that River isn’t there because she’s met with the Tenth Doctor. That’s the year when he buys the tombstone for her and has her birth date and that year’s date put on it, as proof to the world that Melody Pond lived.
▫ Oswin Oswald backstory.
Sherlock
▫ Jim’s little diguises - Rich Brook and Jim from IT - have one thing in common: They’re both total sweethearts. They both have a gentle demeanor and seem to care about the women they’re fooling. They’re both anxious around Sherlock. They’re both inoffensive and fuckingadorableohmygod. They both have a heart. No one is that good of an actor. The one thing you can’t fake is a heart. If he was heartless, Molly would be dead. She saw Jim’s face, she was a liability. Why didn’t he kill her? He’d heard all Molly’s stories, he knew she was important to Sherlock, if only a little, so why didn’t he kill her? Why didn’t he threaten her with the gunmen during Reichenbach? I’ll tell you why. Because Molly is lovely and he cared about her. He purposely excluded her from the threat because he didn’t want to hurt her. Even during their first meeting at the pool, Jim showed an unusual lack of self restraint “THAT’S WHAT PEOPLE DO!”. His face wasn’t blank, it wasn’t a pokerface like Sherlock’s. He was expressive. He was emotive. He was human. Jim has a heart.
I think that on the roof during Reichenbach, Sherlock realised this. He realised that Jim wasn’t acting. He realised what Jim really wanted: to not be alone; to find someone just like himself; to find someone not-ordinary. Most of all, he wanted that person to be Sherlock. Sherlock saw the level of frustration and disappointment and, let’s be honest, sadness on Jim’s face when he thought Sherlock was stupid and ordinary, and when he thought Sherlock would jump to save his friends. That’s how he beat Jim. The way he asserts himself on Jim, moving right up into his personal space. Think about it. He never does that. He’s attacked people, usually in self defence, but never anything quite so personal, quite so intimidating. He’s risking John’s life by doing this. He’s risking the lives of all his friends and he doesn’t care. In those moments, Jim is his primary focus. But then, listen to his voice, listen to the things he is saying. Ordinary people have hurt Jim, there’s no doubt about that. Sherlock is telling Jim that he isn’t ‘one of them’. He isn’t ordinary. Sherlock isn’t being cruel, he’s being gentle.
We’re just alike, you and I.
And they are just alike, apart from that one little thing that they don’t have in common: Sherlock is the good guy who doesn’t have a heart, and it’s his biggest weakness. Jim is the bad guy who does have a heart, and it’s his greatest tragedy. (source)
Marvel Movieverse
▫ At some point Steve gets Fury to look Peggy up and finds out she’s in an old folks home and she’s lonely. She did get married after the war and had kids and grandkids but they don’t really take care of her or stay in touch with her, and in her old age she’s gone back to thinking about him and the war and the romance that never had a chance to happen. And then one day a nice young man in a suit named Phil comes and talks to her and very gently breaks it to her and explains everything and says steve would like to visit and although she’s completely shocked she manages to say yes. So Steve comes over and he brings flowers and chocolate and some old Glenn Miller records and after the tears and the talking they finally have their ‘date’. Steve helps hold her up, and they finally have that dance. It’s Steve’s first. It’s Peggy’s last. (source)
▫ After the team take up residence in the newly renovated Stark Tower they notice that Steve spends a lot of his free time in a room he claimed for himself when they moved in. No one is sure what he does in there and he’s rather tight-lipped when questioned about it. Of course Tony is the first one to give in to curiosity and one day while Steve is out he has JARVIS open up the room for him. Tony is mildly disappointed when all he finds is a drawing desk and what appear to be comics pinned to the walls; however, curiosity is hard to kill and Tony approaches the desk to get a closer look. No longer disappointed in what he’s found Tony goes through everything on the desk and when he’s finished he goes to look at what Steve has pinned onto the walls. Just as Tony is about to leave the forbidden room the door opens revealing an annoyed looking Steve Rogers. “He would have loved it,” is all Tony says as he walks out the doorway partially blocked by Steve.
Instead of being angry about Tony violating his privacy Steve simply nods and a sad smile appears on his face. Once Tony is out of sight Steve closes the door and goes back to work on his comic about a little boy named Cole Phillips, who dreams of superheroes and eventually grows up to be a different sort of hero, an everyman without any superpowers of his own, a hero known simply as “The Agent”. (source)