headcanon!!!

[shootah]

hey guys i thought we could all share fun headcanon we have for each of our characters

or stuff we made up that canon doesnt elaborate on

stuff like that!!!

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[sansfear]

I did a lot of mish-mashing of continuity for this version of Harlock to play here, so a few things had to either be cut or altered or made up to make things cohesive for him, while still keeping true to his personality and focus from the canonpoint I brought him from. Here's some things -

• He gave the Earth military a second chance when the government gave him a second chance - that was when the Illumidas aliens invaded and the Earth needed more fightin' menfolk. Prior to, Harlock was marked an outlaw for refusing to cooperate with a human-machine truce/occupation of Earth. I decided he was a military guy back then, too, but was like "yeah no bye."

• He is pretty fail with romantic relationships. There's a woman in the movie named Maya that he's shown as close to in some sense, but it's never clarified what their relationship really is. My take is that it was a long-distance kind of affection that ran both ways, but was pretty accepting that neither of them would've settled down or compromised enough for a "normal" relationship. And then she got killed because of him which kind of dampens the whole drive to get involved with people too intimately, but screw you universe, he'll do what he wants if the mood hits him.

• Kind of a pushover for kids and animals. I mean, he stops thwarting a hostile alien takeover just to go find his goddaughter out in some deep-space nowhere planet. He risked falling into a chasm to save his dumb bird and cat (and fell anyway).

• Probably goes barefoot more times than canon would admit. Black pants and boots are sweaty. :( Of course, it'd be only around those he's most comfortable with.

• There are guys who are men of their word or whatever in words but not practice, but Harlock will seriously not break any promise ever. Even if it's a bad idea in hindsight. He'd rather die than break a promise, as Endless Odyssey showed.

• Apparently he's not a fan of knitwear. Funny episode for all the wrong reasons.

[saiyajinsoul]

What happened with the knitwear?

[sansfear]

It was in a later episode of the 1978 series where the evil aliens of the show sent a spy aboard his ship (it was later revealed that Harlock knew she was a spy the whole time because........idk it's his show and he can do what he wants man). She was this hot fair-skinned chick who boarded under pretense of fleeing from the government or w/e. So she gets free reign to wander around the ship because Harlock doesn't afraid of anything.

She derps around and gets slated with the task of trying to get info directly out of Harlock so what does she do? She pretends to have anemia and faints in the shower conveniently around the same time Harlock is walking by. HIM BEING THE GOOD GUY THAT HE IS bursts in and is like GET A HOLD OF YOURSELF WOMAN and she just like. Leaps up and macks on him.

So he picks her naked ass up off the floor and walks her clear across the ship with everybody gawking and drops her off at medical bay and is like "there is something wrong with this broad doctor go fix it" and leaves the bay smirking like a jackass

Somehow this makes her fall in love with him enough to betray her alien people???

And blabla the aliens are coming to attack and this spy chick decides she's got to go out there and atone for her sins or whatever and die. Who knows. Bitch is crazy. So she goes out and gets shot in space.

BUT NOT BEFORE LEAVING A FAREWELL NOTE...AND A GIFT....
IDK HOW MUCH TIME PASSED BETWEEN HER LEAVING AND THE ALIENS ARRIVING, BUT IN THAT TIME SHE MANAGED TO KNIT THIS AWFUL RED SWEATER FOR HIM. it was sad.

so somehow the pirates salvage her dead body and give her a proper space burial (which involves...jettisoning her body out to space why not just let her float dead where she was who knows).

what does harlock do

he buries her in that damn sweater
shoots coffin into space
knitwear rejected forever.

It was magnificent.

[saiyajinsoul]

DUDE.

Touching Burial and Rejection all in one. ROFLing here.

How is Harlock so awesome?

[sansfear]

just the right mix of badass romantic hero and jackass to please the crowds