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[lavanya_six]

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[clockwerkchaos.livejournal.com]

For the following fandoms (Sailor Moon, Avatar, Evangelion) as well as any others you are involved in.

1. What fanon things do you have as your personal headcanon?
2. What fanon things annoy you the most in each fandom?
3. Are their any bits of fanon that arn't your headcanon, but you really enjoy?

[lavanyasix.livejournal.com]

>1. What fanon things do you have as your personal headcanon?

In Sailor Moon, I always liked the fanon explanation that the reason no one recognized the senshi is that, while transformed, they have a glamour that obscured their appearance.

I'm not aware of any headcanon I consciously use in Evangelion. Maybe that Yui Ikari is the biggest magnificent bastard in the series? Although that verges into Alternative Character Interpretation or Wild Mass Guessing rather than fanon. I'd sometimes use Mari as the name for Touji's sister, but with the new Mari from the Rebuild movies I won't be using it anymore. I'd retcon Mari's name out of Taking Sights if I could be bothered to deal with the hassle of reformatting and re-uploading the chapters.

In Avatar? I always liked Omoni's take on Aang in The Innocence of Youth where he already knows what sex is, and I've adopted it as headcanon for how I write Aang. I also like Loopy's take on Sokka and how he deals with problems: namely that he deals with what's in front of him and suppresses his worries of things beyond his control (his mother's death, what happened to Suki after she met Azula).

>2. What fanon things annoy you the most in each fandom?

Nothing in Sailor Moon fandom.

In Evangelion fandom, probably the insistence to give Shinji a spine. He's not that much of a coward in canon, and only breaks down after some seriously bad events near the series' end, and if you make him a generic badass then you're gutting the characterization of a character who was meant to be a deconstruction of a generic giant mecha hero. Ritsuko/Maya also annoys me because it's the go-to happy ending for Ritsuko.

In Avatar fandom, I don't really have any fanon that annoys me. That's probably because the fandom is still young enough that its fanon hasn't calcified into cliches.

>3. Are their any bits of fanon that arn't your headcanon, but you really enjoy?

Nothing in Sailor Moon or Evangelion fandoms. I sometimes go for Azula being lesbian/bisexual.

Addendum

[lavanyasix.livejournal.com]

For Avatar personal headcanon, I like the idea that Aang holds back in his fights. We've seen him fight a volcano and win, something Roku himself failed to do, so he's not lacking in raw power as a bender. Yet when Azula or Zuko show up to tango, he often ends up with his back against a wall. I think Aang really handicaps himself in fights, trying to use the least amount of force necessary because he's aware how easily he could hurt/kill even someone like Azula.

When he fought Ozai, we saw Aang purposefully miss redirecting lightning back at Ozai for an easy kill shot, and Ozai was in the process of burning down the Earth Kingdom. That's the strength of the personal morality that drives Aang to restrain himself in all his fights.

Re: Addendum

[clockwerkchaos.livejournal.com]

Confession? I really don't like the lightning avoidance. I don't have a problem with Aang trying to to hurt people when he has the power to do so, and when his life is on the line. But when the lives of millions of people hand on his decisions... yeah, I kinda have a problem. Yangchen was in some ways right. Once he had Ozai subdued, I like that he didn't kill then, but sabotaging his own fight, when the fight threatens the lives of so many, honestly, I don't like that.

Re: Addendum

[lavanyasix.livejournal.com]

I'm neutral about the lightning avoidance, mostly because it's a kids show and they'd never actually have Aang kill Ozai. I just meant it as an example of his bone-deep restraint.