The Misconceptions Meme

[pantheraliam]

Don’t
Believe Everything You Hear

So, your reputation precedes you, and maybe that isn’t the best thing. People make their judgments about you before even getting to know you, and you’re sick of it. It’s time to set the record straight once and for all. Or maybe you just want to lay to rest some common misconceptions about your profession, hobbies, lifestyle, etc.. This is the place to do it.

Directions:
1. Post a TL with your character name and canon in the subject line, and use the top level to address a common misconception about your character - or at least what they consider to be a misconception; include preferences in top level of desired
2. Post around on other characters’ top levels, responding to the misconception they address, whether that be disagreeing, calling them out, learning more, or just chatting
3. Have fun, be respectful, etc., etc.!!

Open to all fandom characters, OCs, AUs, CRAUs, etc.. Tagging around is highly encouraged!

Comments

[tridens]

[ Finnick knows enough about reading people to know that he's making the other kid uncomfortable, but he has no particular need to play nice right now. It's not part of his deal.

He doesn't actually have to be so confrontational, so he actualy dials down the biting sarcasm that's become basically his speaking voice. ]

Gained it. Money, fame, mansion, the lot.

[procidens]

How?

[For Whelk, curiosity has always been a comfort.]

[tridens]

I won it. Only real way for a poor kid to get rich where I'm from.

[ He could have fished day and night without sleep for his whole life and never made the sort of money victory brought. Even in Four, which some of the other districts think of as rich by comparison, most people will never make enough money to become anything but what they already are. ]

[procidens]

Some sort of contest then? Lucky you.

[tridens]

Yeah. Lucky.

[ There's nothing in his voice that suggests he actually agrees. There'd been some luck involved in his victory, but it had mostly been the luck of his looks. Most of the rest was skill, and good mentoring, and winning over enough sponsors to stop anyone else getting any.

The odds had been in his favor. Even so, it hadn't been lucky. Not when he hadn't known what victory would cost him. ]

There was some skill involved.

[procidens]

So you earned it then. [Whelk’s expression has become somewhat disinterested. He absent-mindedly picks a piece of lint off of his sleeve and flicks it away.] What was the contest?