my own personal fanon - meme

[fearlessfan]

There are lots of things I should be doing but I feel the need to procrastinate, which is usually when I end up writing a story, but I'm stuck in the middle of the one I'm working on now and can't figure out where to go next. So I turn to a meme!

Name a character and I'll tell you three (or more) facts about them from my own personal canon.

Off to stare at the hateful story.

Comments

[lyr]

Hey, how about Eddie Arlette?

[fearlessfan.livejournal.com]

Okay! It's weird - he's one of my favorite TV characters of the past ten years, and for some reason I found his really difficult to do.

1. Eddie is a good tipper. When he was in New York, he always left twenty percent, and the one time he miscalculated and left ten percent (he and his partner had been having lunch, and had just figured out the answer to the key question at the heart of their case after getting the check), he went back the next day and left the waitress the other ten percent, plus a few dollars. He didn't tell his partner about going back because he knew his partner would think it was stupid, and actually Eddie thought it was kind of stupid, but he couldn't help it. He still tips the same in London, even though Fiona and Pippin are always telling him that ten percent is plenty.

2. Eddie has been shot once, in the leg, by a scared kid whose finger slipped on the trigger. The kid threw up at the sight of the blood spreading through the material of Eddie's jeans, and Eddie ended up consoling the kid while waiting for backup to come. He has come up with an elaborate story to use on women relating to the scar, but when it comes time to reveal it, he always tells the truth.

3. Sometimes, Eddie thinks about getting his own place. He worries about the stability of his current situation (what happens if Fiona's parents decide to come back to London?); after all, all he does fight with Fiona all the time, and one of these days Pete is going to eat her cat, Eddie just knows it. But he never gets further than thinking about it, because really, fighting with Fiona is fun (most of the time), and it's nice having someone there to see at breakfast or at the end of the day, even if the best she sometimes offers is a dirty look and a snide remark.

[lyr]

Nifty thoughtful answers! Thank you very much.