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  • Pick a character that I have written, or that you know I have substantial headcanon about, and ask any five questions about him/her.

    Fic Update amberfocus 2009

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  • What fans of a story or piece of media (show(s), movie(s), book(s) etc.) tend to imagine happened (though unspecified by the creators). Headcanons are usually, but not always, actually plausible to the story, though some fans tend to headcanonize things that are contradictory to the word of the creator or the show itself.

    December 19, 2017

  • I'm spotting this online lately. Same definition as below.

    December 15, 2021