thisbluespirit | 15 Characters Meme: the Reveal (Part 1)

Thanks everyone for all the questions! Here's the first round of answers:

1. Regina Mills (OUaT)
2. Jenkins (The Librarians)
3. Rumplestiltskin (OUaT)
4. Silver (S&S)
5. Twelfth Doctor (DW)
6. John Seward (1968 Dracula)
7. Death (Discworld)
8. Holly (Red Dwarf)
9. Uljabaan (WtOVPIC)
10. Padme Amidala (SW)
11. Charley Pollard (DW)
12. Jenna Stannis (B7)
13. Lynda Day (PG)
14. Michael (Good Place)
15. Carolyn Knapp-Shappey (Cabin Pressure)

ermingarden: Regina and Death team up to catch a greased pig. What result?

LOL. What did that pig do? 0_o Anyway, Regina, being a queen and bit more refined than that, lets Death get on with dealing with the pig. Presumably the Death of Rats is on holiday? If Regina can't get out of helping and can't use her magic, there's a lot of undignified falling over and threats to murder the pig, and if anyone ever mentions this again, they're going to pay for it.

theseatheseatheopensea: Rumple and Uljabaan are flatmates. Who does the washing up?

I'm trying not to say "Belle and the Minions," but you know it would be. That is a devious, manipulative, unscrupulous pair of flatmates! It's lucky Rumple has magic and/or might possibly be reformed, depending.

If it has to be done by hand, then actually, Rumple would probably just take his turn. He can do household tasks okay, even if he prefers to do it by magic or sort-of-abducted princess. What he would not be fine with is a flatmate who never does any of it himself. And trying to get Uljabaan to understand the concept of doing his fair share of the chores is a lost cause, really. He might wipe up one time and think it a great achievement or something, but it would take a loooong time for more improvement than that.

Uljabaan better hope this is a depowered or reformed Rumple, or something very nasty, and probably darkly amusing will happen to one (1) invading alien overlord.

el_staplador: It's sports day! Who wins the sack race, who drops their egg in the egg and spoon race, who gets sunburned, who's the ridiculously overcompetitive parent, who gets tripped up by whom in the running race, and who's serving watery orange squash?

Lynda is canonically barred from the egg and spoon race (after that time she stuffed the egg down someone's mouth for beating her in it when she was four), so she can just report on the outcome in the Junior Gazette. It should at least be a good story.

Uljabaan trips up Jenna in the running race. (He's a cheat. He is very soon a cheat running away from the track and the annoyed space smuggler.)

Holly is occupying a food dispensing machine and dispensing watery orange squash on the sidelines. It's really rubbish orange squash and nobody, least of Holly, is sure about what they're doing there.

Jenkins wins the sack race (he is an immortal knight).

Regina drops her egg in the egg and spoon race, and blames the egg.

I'm not sure who would be the overcompetitive parent. The Doctor, maybe, in a fit of inordinate pride about some of his companions' abilities?

persiflage_1: Holly and Carolyn Knapp-Shappey are trapped in a lift. How does that go?

Holly is trapped in the lift's circuits and operating it, which explains how Carolyn also gets trapped in it, because as Holly says, it's just not the same as a deep space mining vessel. Bound to take her a while to get the hang of things!

There are a lot of threats issued while Holly investigates the problem, until finally Holly works out that she may just have panicked a bit because someone stuck chewing gum between the doors.

It's very, very lucky, that Carolyn is not in any way armed, and that Holly is just a face on a screen in a blonde wig.

[->Somehow I feel this is definitely Hilly Holly in this scenario.]

Silver and Jenna are fake married for A Plot. Do they both make it out alive? Do they actually fall in love?

I don't think actually falling in love is on the cards for an element, but Jenna is a competent space pilot with a mental link to a special space ship. I think they will navigate the Plot and make it out alive and whoever instigated the Plot will be Sorry.

Would I like Death if I met them IRL?

Well... I mean, Discworld Death is hard to dislike, but at the same time, you really, really would not want to meet Death in real life! I don't want you to meet Death!!

So, no, and yes, and no no no no no...

What's Uljabaan's favourite food?

Cake!! I mean, probably? It is, isn't it?

kalium: Charley receives a message stating they're about to inherit a large sum of money, on the condition that they get married in seven days. Carolyn Knapp-Shappey is the only person they can get hold of in that timespan. How does it go?

Well, it could be worse! I mean, Carolyn is permanently in need of cash, so she might just possibly be up for the marriage of convenience on a purely business level, but whether or not they could make it up the aisle before Carolyn decides the money isn't worth it, I don't know. (No offence, Charley. That's just Carolyn.)

romanajo123: Which character on the list would you most want on your side in a zombie invasion?

There are a lot of people who'd be very useful indeed. I would not, though, want Death hanging out with me in those circumstances. Or Uljabaan, who'd probably agree with that joke about you just have to outrun your friend, not the ~~lion~~ zombie. Rumple would depend, but Regina, Jenkins and the Doctor would all be excellent people to have around.

I think I'll go for Regina this time. She tends to use fire magic, so she can dispose of the zombies with a minimum of rotting carcases left lying around afterwards.

Rumple, John Seward & Padme are on a road trip. Who sits in the back?

Dr Seward! Can't have him fainting up there in the front. Does Rumple actually drive with his leg when there's no magic? I think he doesn't? But never mind, I'm sure Padme will cope with earth combustion engines! She can fly a spaceship just fine. /hand waves (I mean, at least Dr Seward has a reason to faint, so there's that. Anyway, congrats on choosing three characters who all probably can't drive! What could possibly go wrong?)

Regina & Carolyn Knapp-Shappey must team up to defeat Holly, the new big bad. Will they succeed?

Yes. Holly is notoriously incompetent and would probably forget to enact parts of their plan anyway, although, of course, that in itself can make an actually quite intelligent if rusty computer hard to defeat. But it's hard to imagine that their heart was in it. Their programming was probably hacked. Regina and Carolyn could potentially be a formidable team, but there's going to be a massive sarcasm-off and explosive rows going on. They will probably enjoy the experience, but never ever admit it.

corvidology: Lynda, Twelve and Michael are locked up in a dungeon together. They have to decide amongst themselves who dies, who has to marry Jenkins and who gets to escape.

Look, Jenkins never asked for this! Why are you giving his hand away in marriage like that?

The Doctor gets to escape. That's what the Doctor does. Lynda isn't marrying anyone who's not Spike, thank you. Or, indeed, anyone she didn't ask to marry and who doesn't actually want to marry her. Michael will marry Jenkins, because it's a human thing he hasn't tried, and if someone's got to in order to get out of the dungeon, then why not? I'm sure Jenkins will be happy to promise to lay off any gross stuff and won't be too fazed at the former demon bit. He will, though, be officially, Deeply Unimpressed with whatever magic made this happen to him, and hoping that a bunch of Librarians will turn up to object with all force possible before he makes it down the aisle. But he and Michael meet occasionally for coffee afterwards.

hamsterwoman: Jenkins, Rumple, Twelve, Death, and Charley are taking a class from Lynda. What are they learning, how is Lynda as a teacher, and how does the group presentation they have to put together for the class go?

Well, just as I was about to say, that's a tough crowd, featuring several people who a) usually do the lecturing themselves, b) are immortal/super clever and/or c) are death incarnate, but then again, Lynda doesn't know the meaning of the word failure. She will damn well give the lecture! It will be a great lecture, on how to run a newspaper.

Charley find it very entertaining. Death is a surprisingly apt pupil and takes notes... somehow. They just seem to ... appear on something that maybe isn't paper in front of him? Everybody else finds this weirdly disturbing in ways they can't put into words. The Doctor stays because Lynda reminds him of someone, and also he thought the pink rabbit at the funeral anecdote was great. Jenkins has had to do worse things, and no doubt needs info from Lynda's lecture for Plot Reasons. Rumple just poofs out of there in under a minute, because the Dark One does not attend lectures.

The end presentation features a lot of arguing, though, and does not go well, even after Death takes over, because while he's clear and, again, a surprisingly apt pupil, the auditorium is empty before he's got past two full sentences. All the rest of his team are convinced they could have done it better themselves if everyone else had been more willing to co-operate.

astrogirl: Silver, Holly, and Charley have to spend the night in a haunted house. Do they survive? Do the ghosts survive? Are they traumatized? Unimpressed? Newly possessed of Wisdom from Beyond the Veil? And what does Uljabaan have to gain from putting them up to it?

Well, obviously, this is another of Uljabaan's experiments to see what humans do under various circumstances, but not one of the better ones (are there better ones?), since at least two of them aren't human. They survive just fine. It's pretty much the day job for Silver, Tuesday for Charley, and Holly will recover all right from any creepiness. If it gets a bit much, they can always just wipe their data and forget it all. Except for these weird creepy messages that sometimes appear on their screen sometimes, which they refuse to believe is a thing because they never notice it.

Michael gets a Twitter account (whether Twitter actually exists in their universe or not). What do they post on it?

But of course Michael gets a twitter! It's such a human-y thing! So much timewasting of time you don't have to waste and mundane annoyances and yet genuine connections between strangers! It takes him a while to get the hang of it, but once he does he gets a niche little following because here's some guy posting about how he got to open a door for someone the other day and do the whole "after you, NO, after YOU!" dance and he seems, like, genuinely excited about it?

In between tweeting about having to queue and how amazing it was, he posts deep philosophy quotes and random retweets and jokes that nobody else understands.

(I laughed a lot at this one, because

astrogirl randomly selected a prompt that sounds exactly like a fic that

astrogirl might have written, and that I now very much wish existed. XD)

Regina gets amnesia and completely forgets who they are and where they belong. They stumble across Lynda Day. How does that go? Does Lynda help them get their memories back? Who does Regina decide they are now?

What, again? Presumably it's another curse, so I'm not sure Lynda is the best help, but she will at least go to every possible limit to get a story, and Regina's seen off this kind of thing at least three times before, so I think they'll get there. Regina will remember! Lynda probably won't get an actually printable story, but she knows how to deal with that sort of crisis by now.

Why and how it happened, nobody knows for certain, but Lynda is probably right in assuming it must have been something to do with Colin.

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I wouldn't mind meeting Discworld's Death on the same basis that Sam Vimes does - by managing not to die after all! 💙

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