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[ahandsomeshark]

Simon is canonically a huge geek. The extent to which is only covered on his twitter, his facebook, and his youtube profile. However, what I've discerned is that he's a science fiction movie/television show fan, gamer, and reader of comic books. I'd also guess that he has at least a passing knowledge of Japanese media, but he seems more the type to

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[pondpuppy]

I'm fairly certain most of mine would apply.

Rory is from Doctor Who
Parker is from Leverage (which has a decent nerd following/con presence particularly since Jon Rogers is the creator)
Anya/Spider-Girl is from Marvel :B
Ned is from Pushing Daisies but eh, recognition is up to you!

(also i know you know where all my guys are from BUT JUST IN CASE)

I'M UP FOR ALL OF THIS. Though for Dairine, I'd rather not draw attention to her lindsey lohan-ness. But yeah. I mean. YOU KNOW THIS. WE COO'.

[katharon]

Who is Jon Rogers, again, and why is he relevant to Simon's interests

[pondpuppy]

He co-created Jaime/new Blue Beetle, is currently working on the D&D comic and created Leverage. He's also written a lot of comics for BOOM! Studios which I have definitely not read, but he's really active on Twitter/his blog and idk. MAYBE HE WOULDN'T BE RELEVENT He has just done a lot of things that I enjoy. Jaime, D&D comics, Cthulu Tales and Leverage are probably the main things though.

[katharon]

NOPE, he is definitely relevant.

[vampere]

Would he be likely to watch things that air on Syfy?

[katharon]

Yes! He's a fan of Battlestar Galactica, according to canon. He's very proud of it. ;;

[vampere]

In that case most of mine apply!

Tesla is from Sanctuary, which... is faaaaaaairly recent (read: in it's third season), although I don't know how popular it actually is. However, imdb tells me that the actor (this guy) played a bit part in Stargate: Atlantis. I'm cool with either recognizing him him as Tesla or hilarious mistaken identity antics.
Kuja is from Final Fantasy IX, and I know he can often be found pretty easily on the intertubes with a google search.
Gabranth is from Final Fantasy XII, but is probably a less-well known character? He's sort of mid-bossish if that helps any.

Stalking is cool for all of them, but idk how they'd react to out and out being told their fictional. Aaaaaalso, Tesla does have experience with people-who-can-go-invisible (he was friends with the Invisible Man) so he might pick up on invisastalking.

[dont_ingest]

Mass Effect is a relatively popular Sci Fi thing! On the other hand, though, "hey I recognize that you're fictional" meta is basically my least favorite thing ever.

[katharon]

IF YOU ARE NOT GAME FOR IT, even if I used Mass Effect in my keywords (haha, because I loved Mass Effect), I have no strict canon saying that he knows it, so we can definitely handwave. I don't want to make you uncomfortable. ♥

[dont_ingest]

WELL there would be like one thread where I try to grit my teeth and bear it to be a good sport and then my character will make ellipses at yours and I will drop the thread and probably never interact with them again so I guess it's kind of a moot point, but if this dude's into scifi stuff I can see him loving the crap out of Mass Effect because it's Babylon5StarTrekGalacticaFireflyRevelationSpace

[katharon]

MAYBE I CAN PUT HIM INTO A POST WITH GARRUS but not thread off Garrus and then he'll be consciously aware that Garrus is in camp, but knowing Garrus from canon, he would know not to creepy at Garrus.

EITHER WAY, he REALLY, REALLY wouldn't be bringing it up. So he wouldn't be down the post like, talking to ... idk, to use my character, Roxas, about how Garrus and Roxas are both fictional (though he'd also know Roxas wouldn't take that well). Simon, despite being a creeper, is very good at observing what people would be comfortable with and what to say to them. The most he'd mention it to is Nathan, and I can still make it so that there are SO MANY that he doesn't specifically bring up Garrus, haha.

Either way, you know I am actually with you on the meta thing, which is why I prefer to do what makes you comfortable.

[inthemoodnow]

So out of mine...

Maladict is from the Discworld series, which is more fantasy than sci-fi, but it tends to seem to have crossover following among geeks.

Rorschach yeah, I think we know about this guy.

Jack is yeah okay, we have the picture here, too.

Talk about fictionality is fine for all of them! And I'm OOCly fine with invisible stalkerness, though none of the characters would be particularly down with it if they found out it had been happening without their permission. Rorschach in particular would react violently.

[katharon]

Fortunately, Simon is not dumb enough to stalk Rorschach.

[inthemoodnow]

lolsob I failed at discipline so hard tonight and totally re-read Kiric and Sora's Loveless battle and their bed-fight aftermath

[katharon]

... ;;

... /goes to reread

[vaudevillainy]

So basically he is a fan of Stuff I App. I'm fine with both recognizing and stalking!

Harley Quinn and Blue Beetle (Ted Kord) are both prominent DC Comics (and now DC animated) characters. Brenda is from the 2006 Blue Beetle series, which was critically acclaimed but canceled and she only appeared MAYBE once outside of it.

Eliot Spencer is from Leverage. If you choose to have Simon know the most recent Blue Beetle series, he would probably at least know of Leverage since John Rogers left the comic to make this show.

Scott Pilgrim is from this little comic. I forget the name. You probably don't know it. :P

Shiemi is from a not very well known manga. What are you doing in this list, Shiemi! Get out, Shiemi!

[vaudevillainy]

SOMEBODY beat me to the John Rogers connection. SOMEBODY can just go to hell :(