Jonathan Suffers Surprisingly Frequent Stage Injuries For Someone Who Barely Makes It On Stage.
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rionaleonhartA final batch of questions from my Tumblr, mainly about The Goes Wrong Show! (Well, final unless more people ask me things; I'd be delighted to receive more questions about this stupid show.)
Anonymous: do you have any headcanons for personal issues that cornley crew might struggle with outside the ones that are presented in canon?
Oh, hmm! Here are some scattered thoughts on the Cornley crew's personal issues. Some of these are veeeery obvious (wow, Chris has mother issues and Dennis struggles with socialising, can't wait to get my character analysis trophy), but I might as well throw all of them together.
I've tried to speak in general terms rather than giving clinical explanations for anything; I certainly wouldn't be surprised to learn that, say, Dennis is autistic or Robert has narcissistic personality disorder, but I don't really feel qualified to give diagnoses!
( A handful of Cornley personal issues. )
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the-red-thread-that-strangles: Who among the Goes Wrong crew gets injured the most, and who gets injured the most severely?
I feel the answer is probably Trevor in both cases! Vanessa is pretty accident-prone, but, as the one responsible for the set and props, Trevor is actively obliged to throw himself into harm’s way when things go wrong. I think Trevor falling through the roof in Harper’s Locket is the most severe canonical injury I can think of off the top of my head. Wait, second most severe; I just remembered Jonathan’s piano.
(As a follow-up Dreamwidth-exclusive thought, Jonathan also has a serious fall in Peter Pan! He might rival Trevor for the 'most severely' crown.)
Anonymous: Thoughts on a Cornley school/college au but it's set in 2010s/2020s??
Huh, this is a tricky one for me! School or university AUs serve two main functions: a) they put all the characters in the same place if they’re scattered across canon, and b) they let you explore what characters from other worlds would be like in a real-world setting. But the Cornley crew are already in the same place and in the real world, so it’s hard to think of where to take an AU where they’re in education! (I suppose they are in education in early canon, come to think of it, given that it’s a polytechnic drama society to start with.)
Anyway! In a ‘they’re all at university and there’s no drama society’ AU, Chris, Robert, Sandra and Vanessa are all drama students. Annie and Trevor are doing engineering and have been roped in to build a set. Max is not a student, but he likes to sneak into university classes because he thinks it’s funny. Dennis is also there, although nobody quite understands why; he is not doing the drama course and doesn’t seem certain of what he’s actually meant to be studying. Jonathan is an economics student who wanders into the drama room by accident and cannot open the door to leave. They all end up trapped in there overnight and bond extremely weirdly.
I need you to know that I am trying really hard not to take this in the direction of If We Were Villains, a novel about a close-knit group of theatre students who end up murdering one of their own. I don’t want the Cornley crew to murder one of their members! (Who would get murdered, though?) (Robert impulsively murders Chris in order to get the lead role and then goes '...it’s possible that I’ll regret that’?) (I DON’T LIKE THIS CONCEPT)
marysue_thesparkle: Assign your current blorbos an animal pretty please :3
Robert Grove of The Goes Wrong Show is one hundred percent a rhinoceros. He’s large and aggressive and powerful and, much like a rhinoceros, will unintentionally cause a lot of destruction when you put him on a stage.
Thinking about it, a couple of my longstanding blorbos are already assigned animals by their canons: Squall of Final Fantasy VIII is a lion, and Ellie of The Last of Us is a moth. Personally, I think Squall is more of a domestic cat than a lion, but don’t tell him that; he won’t be happy about it.
As for Light Yagami of Death Note... hmm. He’d think of himself as a raven, something winged and impressive and associated with death. In fact, the moth fits him better, for the same reason it fits Ellie; they’re both inescapably drawn to the flame, unable to stop battering themselves against the promise of their own destruction.
(Dreamwidth-exclusive addition: I cannot assign James Sunderland of Silent Hill 2 a non-human animal. I've tried! But he is inescapably a sad man. Human through and through, for better or worse.)
Anonymous: do you have any headcanons for personal issues that cornley crew might struggle with outside the ones that are presented in canon?
Oh, hmm! Here are some scattered thoughts on the Cornley crew's personal issues. Some of these are veeeery obvious (wow, Chris has mother issues and Dennis struggles with socialising, can't wait to get my character analysis trophy), but I might as well throw all of them together.
I've tried to speak in general terms rather than giving clinical explanations for anything; I certainly wouldn't be surprised to learn that, say, Dennis is autistic or Robert has narcissistic personality disorder, but I don't really feel qualified to give diagnoses!
( A handful of Cornley personal issues. )
I feel the answer is probably Trevor in both cases! Vanessa is pretty accident-prone, but, as the one responsible for the set and props, Trevor is actively obliged to throw himself into harm’s way when things go wrong. I think Trevor falling through the roof in Harper’s Locket is the most severe canonical injury I can think of off the top of my head. Wait, second most severe; I just remembered Jonathan’s piano.
(As a follow-up Dreamwidth-exclusive thought, Jonathan also has a serious fall in Peter Pan! He might rival Trevor for the 'most severely' crown.)
Anonymous: Thoughts on a Cornley school/college au but it's set in 2010s/2020s??
Huh, this is a tricky one for me! School or university AUs serve two main functions: a) they put all the characters in the same place if they’re scattered across canon, and b) they let you explore what characters from other worlds would be like in a real-world setting. But the Cornley crew are already in the same place and in the real world, so it’s hard to think of where to take an AU where they’re in education! (I suppose they are in education in early canon, come to think of it, given that it’s a polytechnic drama society to start with.)
Anyway! In a ‘they’re all at university and there’s no drama society’ AU, Chris, Robert, Sandra and Vanessa are all drama students. Annie and Trevor are doing engineering and have been roped in to build a set. Max is not a student, but he likes to sneak into university classes because he thinks it’s funny. Dennis is also there, although nobody quite understands why; he is not doing the drama course and doesn’t seem certain of what he’s actually meant to be studying. Jonathan is an economics student who wanders into the drama room by accident and cannot open the door to leave. They all end up trapped in there overnight and bond extremely weirdly.
I need you to know that I am trying really hard not to take this in the direction of If We Were Villains, a novel about a close-knit group of theatre students who end up murdering one of their own. I don’t want the Cornley crew to murder one of their members! (Who would get murdered, though?) (Robert impulsively murders Chris in order to get the lead role and then goes '...it’s possible that I’ll regret that’?) (I DON’T LIKE THIS CONCEPT)
marysue_thesparkle: Assign your current blorbos an animal pretty please :3Robert Grove of The Goes Wrong Show is one hundred percent a rhinoceros. He’s large and aggressive and powerful and, much like a rhinoceros, will unintentionally cause a lot of destruction when you put him on a stage.
Thinking about it, a couple of my longstanding blorbos are already assigned animals by their canons: Squall of Final Fantasy VIII is a lion, and Ellie of The Last of Us is a moth. Personally, I think Squall is more of a domestic cat than a lion, but don’t tell him that; he won’t be happy about it.
As for Light Yagami of Death Note... hmm. He’d think of himself as a raven, something winged and impressive and associated with death. In fact, the moth fits him better, for the same reason it fits Ellie; they’re both inescapably drawn to the flame, unable to stop battering themselves against the promise of their own destruction.
(Dreamwidth-exclusive addition: I cannot assign James Sunderland of Silent Hill 2 a non-human animal. I've tried! But he is inescapably a sad man. Human through and through, for better or worse.)
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