that meme that's afoot

[chanter1944]

Yoinked from muccamukk.

Give me a character you know I know, and I will tel you:

1. How I feel about this character
2. All the people I ship romantically with this character
3. My non-romantic OTP for this character
4. My unpopular opinion about this character
5. One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon.
6. Random pet theory about this character that you won't convince me is not true.

One limit I'm putting in place for this one. Please don't ask me anything Stargate? I can't bear it right now.

Comments

[alexseanchai]

I'm torn between Émilie Agreste and Mylène Haprèle.

[chanter1944]

I can so very answer both. XD ... Tomorrow, when I'm not falling asleep.

[chanter1944]

Soooo, now that I'm awake and have brains to spare: Mylène Haprèle.

1: I'm really quite fond of Mylène. She grew on me the more I saw of her, and I'm now firmly of the opinion that she deserves a full story of her own. Surprise surprise, huh? :)

2: Ivan Bruel, because they are adorable together.

3: ... Oh jeez. Mylène & Nino while he's being Carapace, Mylène as either Multiflora or Doormouse, depending on universe, & Nino as Carapace, Mylène as Multiflora and Kagami as Ryuko... this is harder than it looks. Plus there's always the giant platonic polygon that is much of the class getting along.

4: Are there unpopular opinions about Mylène? I don't know that the idea that she's got a broader character beyond the few traits canon makes a point of showing is exactly an unpopular idea...

5: A storyline not entirely built around fear/courage. Mylène clearly has strong family connections, thoughtfulness to spare, concern about the wider world... I'd love to see canon run with some or all of that.

6: I credit alexseanchai for planting this idea in my head via a fic with trans Mylène in it. That connected with the wish to have more queer characters of multiple stripes in canon, and then morphed/evolved, and one of my headcanons became intersex, female-identified Mylène. We have no canon evidence to the contrary, and I doubt we ever will, so I am totally rolling with it.

[alexseanchai]

*happy squeaking*

Multiflora? reasoning please? also unless you're angling for a pun involving closable room entrances, the spelling is D O R M O U S E, which is a beautiful Rat!Mylène name in and of itself. fits with all Bunnyx's Alice in Wonderland references, too.

[chanter1944]

*beams*

Multiflora is a play on the flower called a multiflora rose, riffing off Mylène being the one to organize planting trees by the river during "Party Crasher". Suitable only for canon mouse!Mylène. As for the other, Dormouse - ooooops! I never had a clue. I thought it had something to do with being small enough to hide behind or squeak (ahem) through gaps beneath/around doors. Will fix! Although... should I? Either one could fly, given [spoilers for the alterna-mouse].

[alexseanchai]

Ooh cool!

Actual etymology of 'dormouse' seems to connect to 'dormant', since these little rodents can apparently hibernate six months of the year. If you want to keep the pun, though, by all means keep the double O.

[chanter1944]

I might play with the pun when the name is being created, even. I've headcanoned that Rena Rouge has at least a little English, since she twigs to another, as yet unrevealed superhero name [hecka spoilers for the alterna-verse this way lie!] being a case of wordplay, so maybe she questions the origin/meaning of Dormouse/Doormouse and Mylène runs with it?

[alexseanchai]

Foreign language study starts in French schools when they start middle school equivalent. What year the show says they're in contradicts itself, but their whole class has definitely already had at least two years of a first foreign language. And at least one year of a second.

Most French students, that first foreign language is English. Marinette's definitely is, else why would "Ladybug" and "Lucky Charm" be English phrases in the French dub? I don't know if we have any solid reason to believe Alya's is or isn't anything in particular, but English is definitely plausible.

[chanter1944]

Ooh, good to know. Also you've got a valid point re English phrases in the French dub. With Rena Rouge (and also Firewall, actually), I was going off Alya and Nora's Caribbean connections and the likelihood of bilingual or trilingual English/French/Creole knowledge, if not full fluency in English.

Émilie, by the way, I'm headcanoning as having very iffy English at best. I will get to answers for her, by the way.

[chanter1944]

Oooookay: Émilie Agreste.

1: Call me odd, call me expectedly biased, but I'm extremely fond of Émilie. I know I'm probably equal parts projecting who I wish I were, dreaming up character traits that don't have any basis in canon, and running with scant canon information in directions the showrunners will probably never touch, but... I worry that the projecting is the most obvious, and that it crosses into self-insert Sue territory.

2: Gabriel, honestly. I'm of the belief that pre-canon Émilie both saw and encouraged his better aspects, but was not at all immune to his worse traits. The woman loves who she loves, and she's not a fool, but she is human.

3: Duusu, because oh my goodness that friendship makes me squeeful. They are so adorable. Tsurugi Tomoe, as Bladescale in the Not Alone 'verse (no spoilers).

4: silveradept and I have discussed this one a little, but I'm inclined to believe that Émilie was not on board with Gabriel's insistence on little Adrien's confinement and isolation, beyond what would be reasonable security measures for a publicly famous child. There are a number of fics out there that portray her as if not actively enacting, then at least tacitly approving of, Adrien's treatment as a child, and maybe that's true of many versions of Émilie, but it's not true of mine. That fact spawns some stealth on her part, as well as bringing her into open conflict with Gabriel more than once, but to say more would be spoilerific for the Not Alone 'verse.

5: Canon will very likely never do this, but I would so watch a whole series with Émilie as peafowl Miraculous wielder abroad as a subtle (or occasionally not subtle) hero in Paris. This is assuming that the peafowl Miraculous was not damaged when she acquired it, but took damage later on... and here I get into my theory of just how that happened. It's been all but confirmed by canon that Émilie was wielder of the damaged Miraculous, so a series with her as bright-aligned peafowl wielder both prior to and post the event, all about her friendship with Duusu, her attempts - successful or not - to hide her dual identities from Gabriel, his attempts to hide his own dual roles from her, their conflict in and out of costume and the eventual overlap... I know, yeah right.

6: I've got it in my head that Émilie is demisexual. Also that there's at least a little English in her family, which I blame on the Graham in Graham de Vanily. Also that she had relatives active in the Résistance in Paris during the war, knows it, and is understandably proud of and inspired by the fact.

[alexseanchai]

*bounce bounce*

[chanter1944]

*beams*

Do my concerns about reaching self-insert Sue territory make any kind of sense, though? Whether or not I've got reason to be concerned is quite another question. I mean, I'm *not* a wealthy young Frenchwoman with a twin sister and a blossoming acting career (to say nothing of the fully functioning eyeballs), but as far as certain aspects of personality go, there's no small amount of me in Émilie as I write her. There are parts of her, quirks and mental processes and ways of doing things, that match me. Does that tell? If it tells, does it detract from stories a la badfic inserts, or add to them? ... Ah frak.

[alexseanchai]

Do my concerns about reaching self-insert Sue territory make any kind of sense, though?

I mean.

(you're fine, don't worry)

[chanter1944]

*reads* ... Ah. :) Thank you, for that. <3

[muccamukk]

Bill Guarnere.

[chanter1944]

I *wondered* if you might go there! I confess to letting out a cackle of pleased surprise when you did, loud enough that I thought someone else in the house might ask what the heck was up. Apparently no one was close enough to hear me. XD

1: At first, Bill actually put me off a little. The first episode I ever saw was "Replacements," and in the scene where he's educating the newbies in Randleman's squad, the man's downright prickly, which I'm known to be sensitive to. Darned if he didn't grow on me after a little while, though. It's the ferocity mixed with honesty, I think. He takes no crap from anyone, but he's all heart, though you won't catch him admitting that aloud. Before I knew it, he'd endeared himself to me for that.

2: Definitely Fran, of course. Occasionally Toye, though I'm not sure there's romance so much as a lack of it involved if those two get entangled.

3: Bill & Babe are brothers forever. <3

4: ... Do I have an unpopular opinion about Guarnere? Well, shoot,. I'm not sure I have.

5: I wish we could have seen more of him in canon post war. Not his rehabilitation, but his life, his connections with the rest of Easy. I wish that for them all, honestly. These are the sort of men I'd happily watch having adventures all over the map, and I know that doesn't mesh with RL for most of them.

Alternately, I kind of wish we actually saw WTF he got up to with a crashed motorcycle. I mean! :)

6: I'm fairly sure I picked this up from reading one too many fanfics, but I've got it in my head that Guarnere's a better than average cook when the situation calls for it. If you don't like an Italian flare to things fancier than scrambled eggs, however, you're out of luck.

[muccamukk]

I firmly believe that the show is missing two episodes, one between Replacements and Crossroads about second platoon, and one basically splitting Why We Fight in half, so one half is Nixon, the other is Liebgott.

OH WELL. we always have the books and fanfic.

[chanter1944]

It is missing episodes! There was one, if I'm remembering correctly, titled "Aldbourne". No idea why they were snipped out of canon. Fanfic to the rescue! :)