Character meme

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I've seen people do such fantastic things with this meme lately. It looks like way too much fun; I just have to play too.

Name a character (from a show I'm familiar with) and I'll give you three (or more) facts about them from my personal canon/fanon.

Note: I'm actually familiar with more shows than I've fangirled about in here. And I'm kind of curious to see what happens if I stretch my fandom wings a bit. So for purposes of this meme, possibilities include SV, BtVS, Sports Night, Firefly, MASH, The West Wing (first two season only), and Slings & Arrows (ditto).

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Ellen

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Ellen:

1. She has a routine for opening nights, a strict regimen to keep nerves at bay. Starting when she gets up in the morning, every part of her day is ritualized: what she eats, what she wears, what kinds of exercises she does, everything, up to the vocal warmups in her dressing room. She does this every for every opening without fail, and has come to believe that if she misses any part of her routine, she will forget all her lines or fall off the stage or something equally disastrous.

The only time she has ever forgone her rituals was that ecstatic season with Geoffrey; he convinced her that the dangers of spontaneity could only enhance her performances. So for a few months she set herself free from superstition and embraced the impulse of the moment.

Onstage, she was brilliant. Offstage, it didn’t work out so well.
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2. There are myths of goddesses who take young men as lovers in order to feed on their youth. Ellen knows these myths, and while she doesn’t consider herself a goddess, she does find a certain resonance in the stories. Not that she’d ever admit that to anyone.
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3. Ellen has become unintentionally pregnant twice. Both times were with men she’d already gotten rid of before she discovered the pregnancy; both times, she took herself off to have an abortion with a minimum of fuss. She refused to get emotional about something she’d never wanted in the first place. Bodies are messy and can’t be trusted, just like the rest of life, and that’s that. Each time, she allowed herself exactly one night of drinking wine and eating expensive chocolate and being maudlin, and the next day she went back to work and tried to forget about it.

She’s never particularly wanted kids, but if either of her little accidents had been with Geoffrey, she’s not sure she could have dispensed with it so easily.

Re: Ellen

[kristiinthedark.livejournal.com]

Ohhhh. Great insights, seriously! And this: Bodies are messy and can’t be trusted, just like the rest of life, and that’s that. That's just very much Ellen. ♥