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[fajrdrako]

I got this from mos_self, who got it from fannish5, I think:

What five items owned by characters in your fandom(s) would you most like to own?

1. The nanogenes from the Chula warship owned (or at least appropriated) by Captain Jack Harkness on Doctor Who. Instant health!

2. Speaking of Doctor Who... I'd really like that Tardis. (A possibly acceptable substitute would be the flying carpet owned by the children in The Phoenix and the Carpet by E. Nesbit.)

3. The bronze dragon Mnementh owned by the Weirleader F'lar in Dragonflight by Anne McCaffery. Beautiful, powerful, fast, fierce warrior dragon. Woo. Nice.

4. The portrait owned by Dorian Grey.

5. The image inducer used by Nightcrawler in X-Men to make himself appear like anyone he wishes. The next best thing to being a Skrull shapechanger!

Comments

[wijsgeer.livejournal.com]

I'd like instant health. But I would find it a risky thing to submit mind and body to these 'untrained' nanogens, especially mind. How the hell is it supposed to figure out what the 'normal' is it has to restore my mind to? I have no clue myself, nor do my doctors I think (not on a molecular level at least).

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

In order to combat various physical ills, I think I'd be willing to trust the nanogens to leave my mind alone. It'd be a risk, admittedly.

[silverwhistle.livejournal.com]

Jack's ambulance-ship and nanogenes (properly trained) could be very useful...

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I think so. I always covet any fictional trick that will keep me healthy.

[silverwhistle.livejournal.com]

...And particularly useful if travelling through time... ;-D

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Maybe even necessary, if a person wants to come back.

[silverwhistle.livejournal.com]

After all, as a bona-fide Doctor, I, too, demand an attractive travelling-companion!

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Well, I should think so. I want Captain Jack! Though I was browsing a book on the history of Doctor Who and I see that some of the others were most attractive too.

[silverwhistle.livejournal.com]

I do occasionally refer to a certain person as my "beautiful assistant". Which he is, inspiring me to write his biography.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Yes - sometimes feel I am surrounded by a crowd from Outremer, encouraging me one way or another.

[silverwhistle.livejournal.com]

Remembering the magpie that was in my photo from Moncalvo, I sometimes wonder about the ones who sometimes chuckle at me through, and tap-dance on, the skylights (I have occasionally been woken by a thud and the silhouette of birdie-paws on the skylight above the bed!), or scuttle along the balcony parapet... I like to imagine there's some sort of magpie-post going on, with a line of communication back to Montferrat...

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

A magpie is a wonderful link to your historic past. I wonder what my link to the Luisignans could be.... Perhaps some celestial body, or some tree? The animals and bird are so different from one continent to another.

[sollersuk.livejournal.com]

(Looking round at room full of vast quantities of books etc) I'd settle for Rufo's box (Heinlein, "Glory Road")

As for the portrait, you might try contacting Johnny Depp. Wherever it is there is probably a slow-acting one of me next to it.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Re Johnny Depp: yes, he clearly has some anti-aging secret. If I knew what it was that keeps Methos and the other Immortals alive, I'd go for that secret, too!