YOINK - 10 Character Meme

[trinityvixen]

feiran started this ridiculously fun and challenging meme, and despite the fact that, at first glance, I appeared to be hopeless at it, I've come to love it. So I wanna play from the other side and I'ma stealing her meme!


The way it works is that I pick ten fictional characters, you invent ridiculous scenarios for the characters (e.g. 1 and 3 are trapped in a trash compactor, what happens?). I give the outcome, and you guess who the characters are. Interested?

I'll make a list of guessed characters here:

1)
2)
3)
4)
5) Trinity (The Matrix)
6)
7)
8) Stephen Colbert (The Colbert Report)
9)
10) The Dark Phoenix (X-Men)

There are no repeats; every character is from a different work/fandom. Let's play!

Comments

[fairest.livejournal.com]

Ha, I definitely did not start the meme; it's been around for ages and probably has official rules somewhere. But I'm glad you enjoy! :D

I'm'a steal some prompts I found amusing elsewhere, too:

3 finds a baby on his/her doorstep. What happens, and which of the other characters does s/he turn to for help?

1 and 6 are kidnapped by aliens and forced to fight to the death or both die. What happens?

Aliens make 4 and 5 do it (aliens apparently have a lot of agency in LJ memes). How does that turn out?

2 and 7 switch bodies for a week. Does hilarity ensue?

8, 9, and 10 watch Twilight. Why, and what happens?

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

3 would have a very hard time raising a baby on his own. Luckily, he does not have to. He has many friends, and not a few lady friends, who he could probably charm into doing most of the work for him. Alas for him, on this list, there are very, very few ladies who'd take that shit from him. His best bet would be to raise it himself, though 4 would be inordinately charmed by it and want to raise it, too. (It would probably be better 4 did not, however.)

If 1 and 6 fought to the death, 1 would absolutely win. 6 is tricky but typically unlucky and not all the competent, really. 1 is a seasoned killer, and however unstable, she would still manage to kill 6 without much effort. Stopping her from killing all the aliens afterwards would be the real challenge.

5 has absolutely no time for 4. 4, to her eyes, has a condition that is easily explained by circumstances only 5 is aware even exist, while 4 is tortured by his condition and cannot conceive of a world where it doesn't exist as a curse. 5 believes the aliens are part and parcel of the delusions that make 4 so goddamned emo. 4 is entirely too nice to survive 5's world anyway, and seeing as this wouldn't be his first I'm-being-experimented-upon rodeo, he'd probably just take it in stride. With lots of self-pitying and sarcasm.

7 would probably not love to switch bodies with 2. He would find it uncomfortably confining. 2 wouldn't probably give a damn and would use 7 innate abilities to kick some fucking ass a little harder and smarter.

8 watches Twilight because it is a threat to our society, and the only way to know how to stop it is to watch it. That, and if he doesn't stay hip, how will he relate to the children? 9 watches the movie because he secretly believes it's real, and he feels a lot of sympathy for the characters who just sort of make up the set dressing. The only way either of them could convince 10 to watch Twilight is if they promised her that so doing would amuse her and/or make her more powerful. Otherwise, 10 is so far above such petty concerns, she wouldn't bother with humanity, much less their diversions.

[edgehopper.livejournal.com]

I'll reuse a few questions from feiran:

1, 4, 5, and 6 are being sorted into Hogwarts Houses, one in each house. Which one goes where?

7, 8, 9, and 10 are on the TV show Baggage (a dating game type show hosted by Jerry Springer where the person choosing decides mainly based on the relationship baggage the 3 contestants have--note that the baggage is past incidents/personality traits that could harm relationships; they don't necessarily have to be relationships), with 10 choosing between 7, 8, and 9. What are 7, 8, and 9's biggest pieces of baggage, who would 10 choose, and what would 10 reveal as her baggage?

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

1 is hard to place. I'd have to saw Ravenclaw, though there are enough shady sides to her soul that she could be a Slytherin and enough fits of bravery to fit her with Gryffindor. 4 is mostly definitely a Hufflepuff, seeing as he toils away at thankless tasks while trying to keep himself sane and his friends more or less out of trouble. 5 is a Gryffindor, and a model one--trouble-maker-but-good, utterly unafraid, out to do what's right all the time, and damn the fallout. 6 is a Slytherin, but she's not evil. She's sly, willing to make a buck on the cheap, and lazy as anything.

10 makes for a piss-poor dating game contestant, as all that she has learned about love is that it is manipulative and useful for manipulating others. Her baggage is that one bad romance basically lead to her destroying billions as she realized evil is more satisfying than good.

7's baggage is that he is desperate to be loved, by friends as much as by any lover, but he is far too proud to admit as much. He's also very lonely, though he pretends otherwise because it's easier to think of himself as one against the universe than it is to think he might not have been wanted at all.

8's baggage? He doesn't have any. He's perfect. Ladies, you know you want this man. Alas, he's married, and he's all about the faithfulness in marriage. Especially when pointing that out makes people laugh.

9's baggage is that he thinks he's cooler than he is, but the second he gets trusted with any real responsibility, he folds. He's a total coward whose genre savvy insights are probably the only reason he's alive. He's occasionally really annoying and almost totally useless, though, if put right against death, he might do the right thing.

10 would choose none of them. She would incinerate them without a second thought, though, if forced to listen to them for any length of time, she would probably hate 9, find 8 either amusing or insipid, and have the most interest in 7. Particularly if 7 proved to be more resistant to incineration than the others. (Which? He might.)

[fairest.livejournal.com]

#10: Dark Phoenix?

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Well done!

[fairest.livejournal.com]

Also, hmmm -- could #6 be Chiana?

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Nope, but that's a good one. You've definitely got a feel for the character. You just don't have the right one.

[edgehopper.livejournal.com]

You're recasting Return of the Jedi with 3, 4, 7, 8, and 9. Who plays Chewbacca, Han, Luke, Darth Vader, and C3PO?

Ooh, fun!

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Well, 4 is obviously C3PO. He's entirely fussy in all the ways C3PO is, and he's constantly outraged at the injustices in this world while constantly feeling sorry for himself. Yep, C3PO.

9 would like to think he's Han or Luke, but chances are he'd be one of those pilots who gets blown up spectacularly while trying to take out the Death Star. If he's very, very lucky, he might be Wedge Antilles--around the whole time, not really ever the star.

3 is Han Solo. He's dramatic, fun, a definite ladies man, and he has been known to come to the rescue before.

8 would be Luke because he always considers himself the hero, constantly under assault by the evil forces of the oppressive nanny state. He's also a total nerd and fond of shooting videos of himself wielding what can be CGI-d into being a lightsabre.

7 is the only one capable of physically resembling Chewbacca, but then he would be able to look like any of the characters with a little effort, so that doesn't really recommend him for the role. Seeing as he tends not to choose sides, he'd probably be more the type to sit the rebellion out and offer his services to the winners.

Re: Ooh, fun!

[edgehopper.livejournal.com]

Then 8 is obviously Steven Colbert.

Re: Ooh, fun!

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

You got it! I thought he counted since his character is just that: a character. Was it the lightsabre comment that gave it away?

Re: Ooh, fun!

[edgehopper.livejournal.com]

That and the right wing part. Though this section: "He's perfect. Ladies, you know you want this man. Alas, he's married, and he's all about the faithfulness in marriage. Especially when pointing that out makes people laugh." was making me think of more fictional happily married husbands--Marshall Erickson on How I Met Your Mother, for example.

Re: Ooh, fun!

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I have yet to get into How I Met Your Mother, though every episode I've seen here or there has been cute. I might have to check it out.

It's easy writing for Stephen Colbert's "character". All you have to do is add EXTREME EGO to nerdery!

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

It's Valentine's Day--where are 9 and 10 taking their sweeties?

What hobbies do 7 and 8 secretly spend their time on?

Which clique were 1 and 2 part of in high school?

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

9 is taking his sweetie to an awesome restaurant in L.A. that he doesn't actually have reservations to. He's hoping that his star power will get him a table. (It won't.)

10 has been known to destroy the ones she loves. She's either going to rip his mind and body apart or ignore him while he cries over how much she's changed.

7, I think, would like things like topiaries, bonzai trees. They're simple to keep alive, not too obtrusive, and no one would actually accuse him of liking the activity very much (let alone the trees--this is why he doesn't have a pet). I could also see him sculpting.

8's hobby is watching the news and dissecting its liberal bias.

1 was too smart to stay in normal high school. She was too smart to really bond with any of her classmates on an age level, and, once she advanced past them into a more appropriate grade level, she was ostracized as something of a freak. (Oh how little they knew!)

2 I could see being a cross-clique presence. 2 is a jock, most definitely, but 2 is also clever and smart (the difference being that 2 can both solve book-learning problems as well as real-world conflicts). So 2 would be athletic, well known to any of a number of sports teams on which 2 participated, and most of 2's close friends would probably be on those teams. However, 2 dabbles in a smattering of art/science cultural activities as well. Maybe a language-based extra curricular or an engineering one. 2 gets along with everybody and is generally well-liked by everybody, despite the fact that 2 is so awesomely talented. The only groups that didn't like 2 are the politically-motivated types who can't see a way to use 2 to their ends (and who will never be as popular).

[edgehopper.livejournal.com]

Is 10 the Borg, or more accurately the personage of the Borg shown in Star Trek VIII? I'm having trouble thinking of female sci-fi villains who have destroyed billions...

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

No, 10 is not the Borg, but that's a good enough guess that I'm happy to give the clue that 10 has a similar relationship to humanity that many Borg do. That is to say, 10 is sort of human in the way that humans who become Borg are.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

And in case that wasn't vague enough: by "sort of human" I don't mean that 10 is necessarily a cyborg. Just that as Borg were once human (many of them), so could 10 be considered to be. But that might be having it backwards. So, really, I'm no help at all.

[edgehopper.livejournal.com]

Something Cylon-ish? I don't watch Battlestar, but that sounds familiar.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Nope. Not necessarily robots!

[neo-leviathan.livejournal.com]

Is #3 Tony Stark/Iron Man?
And #10 is one of the female Cylons. The Caprica model?

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I'm quite tickled by the guess for #3. I'd say you've got the right idea, but you're barking up the wrong fandom.

And #10 is guessed, but she is not a Cylon.

[neo-leviathan.livejournal.com]

Ah poo, double fail :)

I wouldn't have guessed Dark Phoenix until we got into her powers, when I saw "Female villain who has killed billions" Cylons was my only guess :)

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

It's definitely close. I inadvertently tipped the hints that way responding above by suggesting the Phoenix had a similar relationship to humanity as did the Borg. I just meant that though she is of humanity in the same way, she's infinitely different.

[neo-leviathan.livejournal.com]

4, 6 & 9 all have a premonition that a building downtown is going to catch fire. However, they are trapped in their home/lab/HQ with no outside communication until the fire starts. What do they do?

1, 2 & 5 all get transported into the middle of the Marvel Civil War. Who sides with whom, and who gets blown up before they even get a chance to choose?

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

4 would probably send his roommate to go investigate. She's handy for getting in and out of places no living human has any chance of getting in or out of. For backup, he'd send his other roommate. He'd also probably have puppies worrying about them both.

Unless money is involved if she does something, 6 is going to nap. Or steal food from the place when it's done smoldering.

9 is probably running in the opposite direction, even if it means he's just clawing the wall to get a millimeter further from what he perceives as his doom.

1 sides with the Captain America faction--no registration for supers. She has had some issues with trusting people to know what's best for society (and for her) in the past, and she's not about to hand over her freedom for anybody. She survives long past the end of the Civil War and is the one to slit "Tony Stark's" throat, exposing him as a Skrull. She knew all along because she was able to use her extrasensory abilities to know he's not human.

2 definitely refuses to register. 2 hangs with aliens and outlaws these days, so it's not much of a stretch for 2 to buck the government. 2 has pretty much been telling the government to go hang for a while now and is tired of having to march to their tune to get anything done. They want to make everyone who's even the slightest bit special register? They can come and get 2's signature. That is, if they can get past 2 and 2's crew. Good fucking luck. 2 manages to skate through the whole debate when aliens that can destroy whole planets (no, not Galactus) show up and everyone agrees to table the discussion until 2 can save them. Because 2 is the only one who can.

5 is another anti-registration advocate. She doesn't trust anyone with authority because she knows all authority in the world traces back to one source. And that source is both artificial and out to kill her. 5 is an escape artist, and she, in particular, drives the pro-registry zealots bonkers. She's never where she should be, and when she shows up again, it's almost not physically possible that she could have covered the distance in between. 5 also works with a whole network that thwarts the authorities, which makes her the tip of a very dangerous iceberg. Alas, she definitely bites it before the showdown.

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

Is 2 Luke Skywalker?

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

No, but I can see where you get that vibe. Right general idea, though. Space hero, and all.

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

Crichton?

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

That's another good answer. And you're, like, spot-on on the vibe. But no, alas, not John Crichton either.

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

Is 5 Trinity?

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Well done! #5 is, in fact, Trinity.

[neo-leviathan.livejournal.com]

Incidentally, meme yoinked!

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Be right there!

[neo-leviathan.livejournal.com]

Hrm. 3, 6 & 9 are all sent to he'll, where they are powerless against it's denizens. Which Of the seven deadly sins is their worst, and what is their ironic punishment?

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

3's is either lust or pride. He's lucky that, after many years under a very specific curse, flame doesn't bother him so much. His ironic punishment is probably having to watch his stuffed-shirt best friend score with the ladies.

6 definitely went to hell for greed and sloth. Her ironic punishment is being stuck in a situation where she has to run one mile for every dollar of debt she had in life. Naturally, she'll be running for an eternity.

9's sin is vanity. He fancied himself more famous than he ever was, with the ego to match, despite the fact no one knows who he is. His ironic punishment is to be constantly cast as the red shirt in a never-ending TV serial where his character is aware of how he will die but is helpless to stop it. He spends his eternity frightened and in pain.

[neo-leviathan.livejournal.com]

Hrm.

#6 Gets turned into what #3 most lusts after
#9 Gets turned into what #6 fears the most
#3 Knows the secret to the thing that #9 most wants in life

What does everyone turn into and what crazy shenanigans happens as a result?

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

6 would be turned into a sexy French maid (provided she were not cursed to be what said sexy French maid was cursed to be when both she and 3 were cursed).

9 would be turned into a capable, smart debt collector, hot on 6's trail.

3 would be turned into an agent with a multiple-picture deal, already signed and approved with paychecks and options in the millions, ready for 9 to sign. Alternatively, 3 might just turn into a groupie who actually knows who 9 is.

6 could easily rock the French maid look, and she'd probably use it to seduce 3 into distracting 9 long enough for her to escape. 9 would fall for it as any recognition at all would vastly inflate his ego and bolster his self-esteem.