META ASKS: If Your OC Was Canon.
BASIC:
What changes do you think would be made between your muse as they exist in your head vs how they would be treated as part of canon?
What plot points would change due to the inclusion of your character in canon?
What role would your character play in the story? Are they a major player, or a one scene wonder?
If there are multiple adaptions/If they are part of a multi-part franchise, which ones would your character appear in?
Besides your face/voiceclaim, who do you think would be cast as your character?
If your character had a breakout show/film/comic, what would the plot be? Who would be in their supporting cast?
What headcanons/theories do you believe fandom would invent about your character?
FANDOM:
What do you think the fandom for your character would be like? Are they a fan favorite, a love to hate villain, derided for whatever reason, or something else?
What feelings does your character most often instill in their fans? Affection? A desire to protect? Open lust? A love/hate dynamic? Why do you think their fans feel this way?
By contrast, what would their haters dislike about your character? Is it a petty complaint? A mischaracterization of the character or their intentions? Are they just a woman in a largely male-centric series?
What controversies/drama would your character incite in fandom?
What fan-material would exist for your character in fandom?
Is your character the subject of āimaginesā or āx readerā style blogs?
Are there any tropes fandom would put upon your character, for better or for worse?
What would be the āincorrect but wildly popularā interpretation of your character in fandom?
What corners of fandom would consider your character blorbo material?
SHIPPING:
What do you imagine the most popular ship(s) for your character would be?
Are there ship wars? Are they a popular character to ship, or the kind of character that gets shuffled off and away from shipping for whatever reason?
How does fandom characterize/mischaracterize your characters ship in fanworks?
If your character isnāt designed for shipping/isnāt interested in shipping, how hard does fandom have to mangle them to make them shipping material/open to a relationship?
Be honest. What song is playing over an AMV/tiktok of scenes between your character and their love interest?
What is the wildest crackship you can imagine for your character, whether in-universe or in crossover?
What is the quote between your character and their love interest/whoever they might be shipped with that their fans would latch onto?
Whatās the discourse surrounding your ship?
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FETCH THE BOLTCUTTERS!
#100+ lyrics taken from the 2020 fiona apple album. feel free to tweak as needed.
I WANT YOU TO LOVE ME.
By that time, I hope that you love me.
I know none of this will matter in the long run.
I know a sound is still a sound around no one.
While Iām in this body, I want someone to want.
I want what I want, and what I want is you to love me.
I know that you do in the dark.
We donāt have to go back to where weāve been.
I am the woman who wants you to win.
Iāve been waiting, waiting for you to love me.
SHAMEIKA.
But ___ said I had potential.
I used to march down the windy, windy sidewalk slapping my leg with a riding crop.
I didn't smile, because a smile always seemed rehearsed.
I wasn't afraid of the bullies, and that just made the bullies worse.
He told me he'd describe me as pissed off, funny, and warm.
You said I'm a good man in a storm.
Back then I didn't know what potential meant.
She wasn't gentle and she wasn't my friend.
She got through to me and I'll never see her again.
I'm pissed off, funny, and warm.
I'm a good man in a storm.
FETCH THE BOLT CUTTERS.
Iāve been thinking about when I was trying to be your friend.
I was just so furious, but I couldnāt show you.
I know you and I know what you can do.
I donāt want a war with you, I canāt afford it.
You get sore, even when you win.
You maim when youāre on offense, but you kill when youāre on defense.
Youāve got them all convinced that youāre the means and the end.
Iāve always been too smart for that.
Fetch the bolt cutters, Iāve been in here too long.
I listened because I hadnāt found my own voice yet.
All I could hear was the noise that people make when they donāt know shit.
I grew up in shoes they told me I could fill.
A girl can roll her eyes at me and kill.
I got the idea I wasnāt real.
UNDER THE TABLE.
I would beg to disagree, but begging disagrees with me.
I told you I didnāt want to go to this dinner.
That fancy wine wonāt put this fire out.
Kick me under the table all you want, I wonāt shut up.
If I donāt want to go, leave me alone!
Donāt push me, cookie, donāt push me, donāt you push me--
You can pout, but donāt you shush me.
RELAY.
Evil is a relay sport.
I resent you for being raised right.
I resent you for being tall.
I resent you for having each other.
I resent you presenting your life like a fucking propaganda brochure.
I see that you keep trying to bait me.
Iād love to get up on your face.
I know if I hate you for hating me, I will have entered this endless race.
I used to go to the Ferris wheel every morning just to throw my anger out the door.
RACK OF HIS.
I followed you from room to room with no attention.
It was because I was loving you so much.
Itās the only reason I gave my time to you.
They donāt know what thy are in for and they donāt care, but I do.
I thought you would wail on me like you wail on them.
You know you wonāt like it when thereās nothing to do.
Iāve been used so many times.
Iāve learned to use myself in kind.
NEWSPAPER.
I too used to want him to be proud of me.
I just wanted to make amends.
I wonder what lies heās telling you about me, to make sure that weāll never be friends.
Itās a shame because you and I didnāt get a witness.
Weāre the only ones who know.
We were cursed the moment that he kissed us.
I grew concerned when I saw him start to covet you.
When I learned what he did, I felt close to you.
I felt close to you.
In my own way, I fell in love with you.
Heās made a ghost of you.
I wanna stand between you, but thatās not what Iām supposed to do.
I watch him walk over, talk over you, be mean to you.
It makes me feel close to you.
Youāre wearing time like a flowery crown.
LADIES.
Yet another woman to whom I wonāt get through.
Ladies, ladies, ladies, ladies, take it easy.
When he leaves me, please be my guest.
Donāt get rid of it, youād look good in it.
It belonged to the ex-wife of another ex of mine.
She left it behind with a note, one line.
I donāt know if Iām coming across, but Iām really trying.
Nobody can replace anybody else.
It would be a shame to make it a competition.
No love is like any other love.
It would be insane to make a comparison with you.
HEAVY BALLOON.
People like us, we play with a heavy balloon.
It always falls away too soon.
I spread like strawberries.
Iāve been sucking it in so long that Iām busting at the seams.
It grows relentless like the teeth of a rat.
Itās just got to keep gnawing on me.
The pressure grows instead of seed.
People like us get so heavy and so lost sometimes.
The bottom is the only place we can find.
You get dragged down to the same place enough times in a row, the bottom begins to feel like the only safe space that you know.
COSMONAUTS.
Your face ignites a fuse to my patience.
Whatever you do, itās gonna be wrong.
Be good to me before youāre gone.
When I met you, I was fine with my nothing.
I grew with you and now Iāve changed.
What Iāve become is something that canāt be without your loving.
Be good to me, it isnāt a game.
Now let me see, itās you and me.
Forgive? Good God.
How do you suppose that weāll survive.
You and I will be like a couple of cosmonauts.
When you resist me, I cease to exist.
I only like the way I look when looking through your eyes.
FOR HER.
See how seamless his frocks are!
Look at how long she walks and how far.
Was she lost?
Maybe she spent her formative years dealing with his contentious fears.
Sheās tired of planting her knees on the cold hard floor of facts.
Your strike my have been exact, but you know that you never really go to the mat.
You tie everything all pretty in the second act when you know that it didnāt go exactly like that.
You were so high.
DRUMSET.
Why did you take it all away?
I did nothing wrong.
I donāt believe your reasoning.
Now I understand youāre human.
Youāve got to lie, youāre a man.
Youāve got to get what you want.
Why did you not want to try?
ON I GO.
On I go, no toward or away.
Now I only move to move.
Ah, fuck, shit.
If I get there in the long run, it could be alright.
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