Aspects and ideas from fanfiction that are now your personal canon.

The Zeltretch VS Crimson Moon Brunestud fight happened played out exactly the way it did in Lunatique.

I am a newcomer to the rather small creative-fandom for Nintendo's Kid Icarus series of videogames. Call me a stray from Zelda fandom, except I'm still in Legend of Zelda fandom, too... Anyway, there's an idea I've got as a headcanon that I've used in my own fan fiction writing that I know I've gotten from other people's fics and from descriptions on fanart, and it's this:

"Pit is the reincarnated soul of the fallen Icarus."

- It makes sense to me that, his world, being loosely based on Greek Mythology, that Angel Land would have their own version of Icarus / the Icarus myth. Other fanfiction writers and fanartists played with that idea, and I sort of picked it up. This bit of headcanon also explains why Pit is different from the Centurions he manages - they seem to be less intelligent than he is, and less "willful," meat-headed "grunts" as Pit calls them. If he is a reincarnated human soul, that might be where his sense of free agency comes from. (I've seen other fanfic writers using that, so yes, another blatantly borrowed headcanon, connected to the first one).

I wish I could say I had borrowed headcanons for Zelda fandom, but I can't recall any specific things I ever borrowed from others there. I did borrow the idea of "Young Link in Ocarina of Time is illiterate" from a friend, but that was more of an AIM-expressed idea than anything she'd built up in fic that I'd seen. I have something of a minor Trigun idea stemming from a specific fanfic by that same friend, but it never really solidified itself into a hardened headcanon.

In which I attempt to be a writer.

I very much prefer Methods of Rationality to the canon books.

Also, very much prefer the short fic "Spiral's Beginning" as an explanation of the origin of the Avatar cycle. Something about the folk-tale-ness of the whole thing just strikes a chord with me. Plus the whole lack of Bryke shoehorning how we should be rooting for Wan even though he was kind of an ass and going on a "spirits good! harmony good!" even though what they showed us was humanity driven to near-extinction and barely eking out an existence on backs of giant walking animals due to the spirit menace.

This seems to bleed into general Fanon, but quite a few of the Bill And Ted fics I've seen bring in ideas about the dudes' biological mothers that I accept as personal canon; For Bill, his parents are divorced, with his mother being rather neglectful. For Ted, his mother is dead (For some reason she was usually hit by a drunk driver).

For Mystery Science Theater 3000, I accept the unfinished fic ...And Other Science Facts as Joel's origin story.

Since I stopped watching Family Guy years ago, I see the Megs Family Series as my preferred canon.

Everything that happens in A Different Lesson

One idea I really like is that Tom Paris from Star Trek: Voyager is Nicholas Locarno from the TNG episode "The First Duty" and that he entered the academy under an assumed name to escape the shadow of his father.

The idea that elemental affinities from Naruto are like muscles, their strength depends on how much you use them.

Super Robot! SUPER ROBOT! ◥▶◀◤ Also, if some of my posts don't make sense, please take note that I might lack slee

I have accepted all of Stoplight Delights works as canon, especially her Fullmetal Alchemist. For myself, in writing my collection of one shots for One Piece I've developed a whole canon surrounding Robin's past, especially her life on Ohara and why her aunt treated her like crap.

Common sense is a flower that doesn't grow in every garden

For me, Mandi Paugh's Humanoid Robot Act, or at least the political discussions therein, helped explain the apparent inconsistencies in Mega Man 9, i.e. why robots have an expiration date at all and why Roll, Auto, Rush, etc. aren't applicable to it.

Short Form, contains spoilers EDIT: and my own synthesis connecting the dots...:

The presence of even a single set of rules for robots was controversial on its face; two sets of rules, the second applying to "Living Machines", would have been right-out with the war-weary populace. The adoption of the "expiration dates" was the price Dr. Light and his allies had to pay to get the "Living Machine" clauses passed; and vice-versa for the anti-robotics faction. Also, the rules that applied to normal robots entailed that their owners were responsible for the actions of said robots. Although it's likely that Tornado and Splash were government owned and the other six were in the private sector, they all had the same creator; ergo, either it was a conspiracy, which turned out to be the case to some extent, or Dr. Light had to be culpable to some extent. Dr. Wily didn't have to say a word for the Feds to bust down Light's door in this case; though Wily playing the Wounded Gazelle Gambit would not be out of bounds.

It's not a panacea, but it solves many more questions than it creates. In fact, the only Plot Hole with that in play that I could see was already there, and much smaller: How were Roll and Auto still able to operate(?); under the act's 2nd provisions, I would imagine that Rush, Fliptop, and Beat would all be "owned" by Rock instead of Dr. Light. The original game has the plothole of "Why is Rock, Roll, Auto, et. al. active after Dr. Light was arrested?" And I would imagine that, in MMtS continuity, that Roll and Auto would be shut down, with Mega Man needing help from the Cossacks (as in Mega Man 5) or certain of her OCs.

edited 24th May '14 8:22:17 AM by DonaldthePotholer

Ketchum's corollary to Clarke's Third Law: Any sufficiently advanced tactic is indistinguishable from blind luck.

Indoctrination theory for Mass Effect.

it works quite well, and it explains the weird personality shift and colour-theme shift at the end of the game, not to mention the nonsensical explanation for the reapers and the Star Child. And it makes a tiny bit of foreshadowing from the first game more profound. Slow, patient indoctrination allows for higher mental function and people don't know that anything's wrong. You think it was talking about Saren, but...

It's still a downer ending, because it means the reapers win, but it's a downer ending i can live with. Better than the crap that actually happened.

edited 25th Jun '14 12:18:08 PM by willyolio

I have one for "Star Trek: Voyager."

The Borg baby, who mysteriously vanished onscreen, was adopted by one of the Equinox crewmembers (who also vanished after their episode). This comes from a ficlett called "A Little Piece of Paradise," by Aaunty Pasta.

I love the idea because it gives you the feeling that this ship really does have 150 people onboard, all experiencing their own life-changing events in the Delta Quadrant. I don't like to think that all the dramatic stuff only happened to the ten main characters while the other 140 crewmen just pressed buttons on the wall for seven years.

edited 21st Oct '15 7:50:20 PM by SallyShears

It is my personal Pokécanon that Brock's surname is Harrison, Misty's surname is Waterflower, and Misty is part of a Squirtle Scout company (I even drew art of her in uniform, with acknowledgement to CLGbases^note no relation to the well-known community of logo lovers of which I'm a longtime member).

Hrm... personal headcanon? I can't think of anything off the top of my head, but then again it's late here.

The Seventh Doctor doesn't really notice that Ace is aging, so he continues to treat her as a teenager (and she continues to act like one) even once she's an adult

The last thing you hear before an unstoppable juggernaut bisects you with a minigun.

Due to a surprising amount of fic based around it, I'll never see Bernard Black as anything but a lost scion/ disowned squib/ rebel muggle-lover/ expellee from Hogwarts of the Black family. Similarly, I can't shake the notion that Withnail and I is the 8th Doctor and alternate 9th living together in be-pocket watched squalour.

The reason Eraqus was so anti-darkness that he almost fell to it himself was that some of his fellow Keyblade wielders from his youth - his friends - turned to the dark side and tried to kill him, and a lot of death and destruction followed. This would have all been before Xehanort's betrayal, mind you.

Though granted, I have never seen this one anywhere. It's pretty much my own creation.

edited 4th Nov '15 9:56:23 PM by KarkatTheDalek

Oh God! Natural light!

In the same vein, I've got some headcanons about Magical Record Lyrical Nanoha Force.

Each Huckebein is in some way a Foil and/or Shadow Archetype to one of the Anti-Eclipse Corps members.

• Veyron and Thoma are Foils to each other ("guy who laughs at idealists" vs "total idealist", Weak, but Skilled vs Unskilled, but Strong), and the latter is a Shadow Archetype to the former (by Thoma reminding Veyron of himself when he was younger), but Veyron isn't an SA for Thoma.
• Cypha and Signum are Foils - the latter is a legitimate all-around Badass, while the former gets wreckt if her Superpower Lottery doesn't amount to an instant "I Win" button.
• Curren and Hayate are both the Moms of their respective Teams, guiding and leading their "kids" to victory, and both committed to their own ideas of justice. The main difference is that Curren's "justice" is more of the vigilante sort, as opposed to the TSAB's Lawful Good.

Admittedly I haven't got much else yet (though I'm sure there's some kind of interesting parallel to be drawn between DeVille and Fate, as well as between Arnage and Vita).

Also - this is partly fueled by one of Reinforce's comments in the second A's Portable game: Eclipse victims get their Poisonous Person tendencies as a result of the "seithr" that fuels their not!magic and other game-breaking powers - this is because seithr is extremely toxic to biological life-forms that haven't in some way been immunized/innoculated against it.

Also also, Thoma's boundless idealism and faith in the idea of redeeming the Huckebein is basically an attempt at paying forward the kindness and blessings that enabled him to rejoin human civilization and to escape being consumed by Eclipse, in addition to having a natural rapport with them due to his own personal experiences as a fellow Eclipse victim.

edited 4th Nov '15 10:23:40 PM by EvaUnit01

I was certain I posted in this thread before...Im confused! But anyway...I have one of my own. A Regular Show one. Skips did drugs while mourning Mona's death but now he's clean of it.

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Thanks to the Yu-Gi-Oh video games and several well-written fics that do this, my personal Yu-Gi-Oh universe mixes the manga and anime more often than not.

The Protomen enhanced my life.

That is, or at least was fairly common for Sailor Moon fandom back in the day. While the anime was better known, bits a pieces of information and backstory would be ported over from the manga at the author's discretion.

The Earth-16 version of Meloni Thawne came up with the plans for the time machine, and Bart used those plans to build it. Also, in Bart's future Tommy Terror was the Blue Beetle

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After seeing her portrayed that way in a lot of fan fiction and fan art, it is firmly my headcanon that Asuka from Neon Genesis Evangelion is fond of cats.

I once read a Pokémon fanfic that mentioned Cyrus of Team Galactic as being autistic. The story itself dealt with a Chikorita whose trainer had autism—it treated the condition very respectfully. Ever since then, that's how I've seen him.

I once read a short fanfic for the Pokemon anime told from Togepi's point of view, which depicted Togepi as being female (its gender was never established in the actual show). I've thought of Togepi as being a girl ever since.

- Emperor Ing (not me, the actual character)’s name is Roger.

- Morpha (Ocarina Of Time) is the same as Morpheel (Twilight Princess)

How unfortunate that you are attempting to deceive me.

Mephisto made everyone stupid in One More Day. Seriously, can't believe Dr. Doom gave up an opportunity to show his superiority to Reed Richards in OMD.