Meme: 15 Characters

[graycardinal]

Borrowed from liviapenn (her results here):

I've made a list of fifteen (15) characters from a variety of fandoms.  Your job is to ask questions about various combinations of these characters (examples: What secret past do #8 and #14 share?  What if #2, #6, and #9 went on a road trip?  If #5 and #10 were having dinner, who invited who?), which I'll do my best to answer.

Notes:
Obviously, one shouldn't peek indiscriminately at the comments thread before posing a question, as there will be spoilers for who's where on the list as the game progresses.

OTOH, if some numbered characters are consistently overlooked, questions concerning these yet-unknown characters are encouraged so as to give everyone on the list a chance at the limelight.

Given the diversity of the list, there's definite potential for generating highly weird and improbable pairings based on the direction of the questions.  Management will do its best to respond to all queries posed, but reserves the right to designate some results Just Too Bizarre To Contemplate.

Let the game begin!

Comments

[graycardinal]

This chosen trio is, respectively, Professor Minerva McGonagall, Wesley Wyndham-Price, and Vala Mal Doran.

We'll suppose that they meet by happenstance in a posh London club, bond over drinks. We learn that Wesley's musical tastes run to classical, Prof. McGonagall's run to show tunes, and Vala mostly knows what she doesn't like (which takes in a lot of territory).

Eventually they manage to compromise on becoming a smoky jazz trio. Wesley, courtesy of many obligatory childhood music lessons, can play an absurd number of instruments but has a singing voice only a shower could love. Prof. McGonagall has a reasonable voice but does better at backup vocals; her lung power isn't what it used to be. However, it develops that Vala has the voice, lungs, and sultry magnetism of a classic torch singer. (We knew about that last part already, of course.)

Given their busy and conflicting work schedules, they only manage to play a handful of gigs a year, mostly at a different London club under assumed names. However, they develop a loyal cult following, produce a couple of CDs, and generate a surprising amount of Internet buzz in jazz circles....

[ticketsonmyself.livejournal.com]

Here from liviapenn. I like this jazz trio a lot, and I can totally believe this scenario (especially the parts about Wesley and - yay - Vala, who'd probably have an awesome perspective on types of Earth music).

[graycardinal]

Welcome to the nest; feel free to pose a question now that you're here (we've still got a lot of unmatched characters left).

As noted above, I couldn't really decide what sort of Earth music Vala would like -- but I could very easily see her giving Wesley grief for liking Boring Classical Stuff, making rude comments about the dissonance of heavy metal or the tackiness of rap/hip-hop lyrics, and so on. OTOH, anything that lets her play on her essential hotness would draw her like the proverbial moth, thus the "sultry torch singer" appeal.

[ticketsonmyself.livejournal.com]

anything that lets her play on her essential hotness would draw her like the proverbial moth, thus the "sultry torch singer" appeal.

Oh, absolutely! I expect Vala would be vociferous about any of her dislikes. And that "sultry torch singer" appeal goes both ways, as you've noted - if Vala loves being the center of attention, the audience loves her, too.