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I watched Pacific Rim about a week or so ago. I enjoyed it, the fight scenes were cool and so were the Kaiju. Mako and the Wei Tang triplets were awesome, and so was Dr. Hermann. I’ve seen a lot of posts talking about the significance of PoC and people with disabilities in the film, and that’s wonderful. I love those posts and they’re really fun to read.

However, there was a point in the movie that utterly… disappointed me. Now, I haven’t looked at the fandom a lot on tumblr, so maybe someone has already made a post about this that I haven’t seen. Okay well that’s cool. I still want to talk about Hannibal Chau.

Mild spoilers/long post under the cut:

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So I still have to go and write up all my head canons for just about every aspect of this movie, but one of my BIG HUGE THIS IS SUPER IMPORTANT DUDES head canons is that that man is NOT Hannibal Chau.

Spoilers below.

My biggest point towards this head canon is that while Perlman makes the glib remark of “my favorite fictional historical figure and second favorite szechuan place in brooklyn”, at no point in the film does he ever actually state “I am Hannibal Chau”. Newt makes that assumption, and Perlman rolls with it. 

Personally, I think the guy in charge of a Kaiju black market trade wouldn’t be stupid enough to put himself in a position where a Kaiju could eat him. That’s bad business. After the third watch through I came to the conclusion that Perlman’s character is the “Production Scheduler/Supervisor” for the retrieval of parts; he directs the minions on what is most likely to sell and therefore what is the most important to harvest for the biggest profits. They may have some interested buyers waiting in the wings for certain parts (such as Newt and his need for the secondary brain), but for the most part the Kaiju trade is probably based entirely on what sells for the biggest profit and making sure that is harvested and preserved first.

The balding guy that Newt first spoke to is the “production lead hand”— he’s kinda in charge in that he runs the “production teams”, and directs the minions on the ground towards what’s needed first. I don’t know why a lead hand would be working the cash counter, but maybe they’re just short staffed. Or all the Asians are too badass to deal with stupid ass customers. Yeah, that sounds good to me.

Anyways, when Mister Lead Hand/Cashier says “Good Luck,” to Newt upon opening the wall, I like to think it was a case of “He’s not here, but I’ll let you deal with my boss because it’ll be funny.”

Who is the actual Hannibal Chau, head of the Hong Kong Kaiju Black Market? I don’t know, but I kind of like the idea that he’s related to the Wei Tang Triplets somehow. 

(Maybe that 4th brother Guillermo Del Toro originally wanted)

So sometimes I have ridiculous and complex head canons. Frequently, they are influenced by outside sources, then twisted about to suit my own needs. 

This one started because of 188 Hugs (specifically part 6), wherein Toothiana’s little faerie helpers are nameless, and their relationship to Toothiana herself is compared to a bee hive. And then Jack (accidentally) named Baby Tooth, splitting her off from the “hive”, and giving her a personality and identity separate of Toothiana’s. 

In 188 Hugs, Baby wears a little snowsuit to keep warm and tends to stick to Jack’s side (or rather his hood). I proceeded to take it a touch further than that. 

As Baby is spending all of her time with Jack in the cold and snow, developing her identity, her personality quirks, and maybe even a touch of her own magic, she starts to adapt. Toothiana’s avian half is a hummingbird, but then Toothiana spends the majority of her time in warm climates. Baby develops thicker plumage and like in 188 Hugs, she starts growing bigger than her sisters. 

Every time she molts, a few more green feathers turn blue or white, until her markings resemble the birds that live around Jack’s pond year round: blue jays. (because blue reminds her of Jack, and they’re quite pretty birds) Her fairy wings don’t change, however. They’re still the bright iridescent shades her mother sports, and the green and gold crown feather remains as another tie back to Toothiana. 

Her teeth collecting days are hardly behind her; she’s just normally found picking up the teeth lost during winter (mis)adventures (or hockey matches. Those Canadian kids play pretty rough when there’s no one around to stop them!)

She’s a bit of Jack, a bit of Toothiana, but all Baby Tooth.

Like I said, I get carried away from time to time.

Novak Family Headcanon

Another note for my Claire rp journal headcanon, but as it actually pertains to more than just Claire I figured I’d make it a Novak Family thing.

Like her dad, Claire didn’t get a whole lot out of being a Vessel. No super powers, no epic knowledge, nothing that sets her apart from the rest of humanity.

Amelia, on the other hand… with the way that the demon was forced out and killed, there was a residue left behind. Its not enough to give her any fancy powers but its enough that she can feel an angel’s grace as a creepy crawlie feeling along her spine.

The worst part of it is that she can feel the remnants of Castiel’s grace in Claire, and she lives in constant fear that Claire will disappear the way Jimmy did.

headcanony stuff for Claire

mashing the stuff from the young!Claire I play into the list of stuff I’m slowly putting together for the future!Claire I want to play.

 it almost broke Claire when Castiel told her he wasn’t her father

  • even later, when she knows it wasn’t Jimmy, it still stings
  • because this is an angel and they are supposed to be loving representatives of God
  • and he broke her for most of year; made her think her father didn’t want her

 she was raised as a devout Christian. 

  • she wasn’t totally interested in it, but it made father happy for her to go along with it
  • and then Jimmy left
  • and Claire prayed every night that he would return
  • she tried to be a better Christian, thinking that would make him return
  • but it freaked Amelia out whenever she got too into it
  • because Amelia was afraid she’d have the same sort of break with reality that Jimmy had had
  • when daddy came home, Claire knew it was because she had prayed so hard
  • so when Castiel asked to use her body to save her parents, she said yes. 

 she spent at least a year on the run with Amelia

  • from both police and demons
  • what with Roger’s dead body left in their house
  • and with however the demons knew Jimmy was empty, Amelia was afraid that they’d know Claire had briefly been a vessel
  • Amelia drained her bank accounts, Jimmy’s accounts, even Claire’s savings account to fund them through the year
  • which flagged the police, who were treating Claire as a kidnap victim
  • (the police had a theory that Jimmy came home, kidnapped Claire & Amelia, possibly killing them the way he killed Roger, but they had hope they’d find at least Claire alive)
  • it was a really rough year on both of them
  • Claire will never tell anyone how hard it was

 Daddy Issues! because supernatural wouldn’t be complete without them.

  • she spent a year thinking it was her fault that daddy left
  • and then there was that guilt that she was afraid of Jimmy when he was just trying to protect her from demons
  • and the guilt over Jimmy giving up his body to Castiel on a permanent basis so she wouldn’t have to
  • it’s an awkward ‘I love him for saving me, hate him for abandoning me’ back and forth 

 she’s over protective of Amelia and Jimmy. and even Castiel

  • because as much as she hates Castiel for taking her father away, she wants to believe that it was for the right reasons
  • she gets a little bitchy when people bad mouth her mom
  • she can barely control her temper when Jimmy is brought up

 she’s scared of Castiel

  • she doesn’t remember much of anything of her 10-minute possession, but she remembers the feeling
  • she refers to it as being “the virgin in the volcano”
  • because she only thinks of angelic possession in terms of sacrifice. 
  • his possession of her wasn’t long enough for her to get anything out of it, just the knowledge that he is vast and powerful

 Claire is Castiel’s “True Vessel”

  • That “As it is in heaven, so shall it be on earth” thing (aka the “Why Sam is Lucifer’s Vessel but not Michael’s” reasoning) threw a bit of a wrench into that; in order for Claire to mature into the True Vessel, she would have to be closer in experience to Castiel;
  • In other words, her father would have to go missing with no sign of ever returning, and she would have to go hunting for him.
  • When Castiel actually took her as a vessel, she was only beginning to go down that road, so it’s not quite a perfect match, and why Castiel was willing to take Jimmy back instead of staying with Claire
  • as a side note, even if Castiel and Claire ever meet again, it’s unlikely that Castiel would give up Jimmy’s body for hers.
  • after everything that Castiel and Jimmy have gone through together, Jimmy’s body & soul have grown into something more than any “True Vessel” could ever be.

 Hunting was never Claire’s intention

  • all she wanted to do was find her dad
  • she followed a trail of dead angels, but never seemed to catch up to Castiel or the Winchesters
  • after awhile she started putting together the signs of demon possession and started trying to use that to find them
  • slowly she actually started to learn about more “normal” supernatural entities, and how to protect herself
  • leading in to how to protect other people when they started getting in over their heads
  • and finally taking a proactive role in protecting people by actively hunting the supernatural
  • looking back on it, she laughs about “going about things backwards”

There will probably be more to come, but I’m being distracted by TVtropes.

    THIS WAS NOT WHAT I MEANT TO WRITE. But you can have it anyways. Headcanonish stuff for Claire

    characters:  Claire Novak
    series: Supernatural
    words: 429
    summary: (Five times the victim)

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    The first time that someone used her father’s disappearance to taunt her, all Claire could do was cry.

    Daddy’s last words to her rung in her ears, echoing the nasty girl’s voice: her daddy didn’t want her. Her daddy left her because she wasn’t good enough for him. She is the reason that daddy is gone.

    She’s only ten. She has no idea what it is that she did wrong, but she promises that if he comes home she’ll do better, be better. She’ll go to mass every day, and say grace, and she won’t even complain about it. She’ll make sure to change out of her Sunday best after church before she goes out to play. She promises all of this in her bedtime prayers, begging and pleading with God to bring her daddy back.

    The second and third times that her classmates torment her, she locks herself into the girl’s washroom to escape it. She’s crying and heartbroken, but she’s also so mad that she throws her bag at the mirror and screams at daddy for leaving them. Why? What did she do that made him hate her so much that he left?

    Mom tries to explain to her that it’s not her fault. She tries to tell her that daddy had been having some problems and just needs some time to himself, but Claire knows she’s lying. She’s heard mom crying late at night, and heard the phone calls, seen the flyers. Mom is trying so hard to find him, but he’s just gone.

    The fourth time that some girl tries to make her cry, Claire hits her. It’s an accident in all honesty. The girl had backed her into a corner, and in trying to escape, she caught the other girl across the face with her hand.

    The rules were pretty straight forwards: bullying was bad, but you got into a lot more trouble for fighting, and Claire was sent home while the other girl went to the nurse. Her mom wasn’t happy in the slightest. She yelled and cried and it made Claire feel terrible for putting more stress on her mother. She promised not to fight ever again.

    Except that the fifth time that someone brought up her daddy, it wasn’t one of the girls in her class. It was the older brother of the girl that she’d hit, and when he started in on the same tirade, Claire lost it. With tears streaming down her face, she threw herself at him; biting and scratching and just trying to make him shut up.

    The bullying didn’t stop.

    But Claire eventually stopped crying.