Hmm, this looks interesting to try...

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Name a character I'm familiar with and I'll tell you three (or more) facts about them from my own personal pseudo-canon.

Be warned that if I don't have an elaborate picture of the character in my mind, I may make up stuff on the fly.

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[westmarked.livejournal.com]

Chiyo-Chan. Before she becomes the president of the United States, of course.

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1) Chiyo's mom is descended from Japanese nobility, which is where all the money comes from. Mrs. Mihama praises her husband as a "prince," "diamond in the rough," and similar as a playful emphasis on the fact that she actually fell for a pretty average guy; Chiyo took this and ran with it, which is why she holds her dad in such high regard.

2) Tadakichi also has a noble pedigree; his ancestors have been guard dogs for the family since the last years of the 19th century.

3) Chiyo's brilliance went unrecognized through elementary school because she got stuck with sucky teachers every year, all of whom were pretty much "phoning in" their lessons. Chiyo got ahead anyway by reading a lot. Then she took a competency exam in fourth grade, scored off the charts, and got her legendary five-grade jump.

[thunderphoenix.livejournal.com]

Re: #3. She's lucky she didn't have any REALLY bad teachers, or she may have developed telekinesis. (Name the reference.)

[eternalism.livejournal.com]

Fuujin! :D

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Ooo, a challenge.

1) Fujin didn't meet Seifer until the Garden, but she'd known Raijin since they were both kids. They attended a different orphanage than Squall and gang; Raijin attached himself to her and after he proved too stubborn to push away for long, she gave up and tolerated his presence.

2) "Fujin" is not her birth name; she and Raijin came up with their nicknames together. She refuses to give out her real name and if someone finds it out independently, she'll never answer to it.

3) Fujin lost her eye in the accident that made her an orphan; her parents and herself were victims of one of the worst train accidents in the history of Balamb. She remembers the event only very vaguely, but to this day the only way she can travel on trains is to close all the window shades and pretend the room isn't moving for the duration of the trip.

[qu-marsh.livejournal.com]

Hey, that's cool on #2. I've never had a good sense (either officially or in my head ;) ) about how Fujin and Raijin were supposed to be connected. Their names are obviously related ... but it doesn't seem like they're necessarily meant to be viewed as siblings, either. (They certainly don't look anything alike.) I like your take on it!

[thunderphoenix.livejournal.com]

I also figured whatever accident cost her her eye also damaged her throat somehow, which is why she normally speaks in a raspy shout.

[pretzelcoatl.livejournal.com]

Shepherd Book. Or Lucca, because she rocks.

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1) Book was an Alliance Intelligence officer during the war; his particular job centered around tracking down the Browncoat supply lines and cutting them off. When the war ended, he transfered that skill set to tracking weapon stockpilers who seemed to be getting ideas about rebelling all over again.

2) About six months after the Independents surrendered, he was assigned to get intelligence and perform interrogation for an Operative. The assignment lasted a month... less than a minute after it concluded, Book was sending his resignation to headquarters.

3) One day Book just started hiking into the hills of Persephone on a whim, feeling lost and wanting to become more so. Eight hours later (in what he would later describe as "divine accident"), he stumbled into a valley and found himself before an isolated monastery, and the rest is history.

(Maybe I'll do Lucca later.)

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I've never played Chrono Cross, so forgive me if I contradict it.

1) New people, especially unusual people, unnerve Lucca. Machines she can handle. Machines are controllable. People have too many variables.

2) Lucca's an unconvincing liar. If she wants to be tactful, she'll shut up completely.

3) Lucca once had a porno dream about herself and a humanized Robo. She has resolved never to mention this to anyone EVER.

[qu-marsh.livejournal.com]

*checks your userinfo*

how about ... the Prince of All Cosmos? XD

[pretzelcoatl.livejournal.com]

...If I had a drink in my mouth at the time I saw your icon, I would have done a spittake. Mostly because I was just going to play that game... at that particular part.

[qu-marsh.livejournal.com]

XD

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Oh, you're evil. :P Hmm...

1) The weird head shape is because that's where most of their vital organs are stored. Almost everything below the neck is pure muscle, which is why the Prince can move such huge objects.

2) Cosmos (or whatever their species is called) never stop growing; the King will always be proportionally the same size to the Prince.

3) The Prince rarely speaks because he's shy, not to mentioned cowed by how comparatively booming his dad's voice is.

[qu-marsh.livejournal.com]

Haha, awesome - nice work :) I especially like #1

[thunderphoenix.livejournal.com]

Morte.

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1) In life, Morte was quite good looking, and his voice was far less nasal when he had his larynx and tongue. His witty flirting was far more effective then.

2) Morte's ability to fly is a weird mystic side effect of being on the Pillar of Skulls; he's always at the exact "altitude" he resided.

3) Post-adventure, Morte has continued to meet with Kismaxi Adder-Tongue regularly to get into practice insult matches. Annah will often snarkily refer to these meetings as "dates." Grace suspects Annah's more right than she realizes.