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karaokegal.
How about headcanons? Reply with a name, along with a topic, or word and I'll tell you my head-canon for it.
List of fandoms I've written for at one time or another is on my profile page, and interests may also suggest topics. Please bear in mind, some fandoms may have fallen by the wayside and I'm not necessarily current with them (I stopped watching House MD, for instance, during the Tritter arc).
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karaokegal.How about headcanons? Reply with a name, along with a topic, or word and I'll tell you my head-canon for it.
List of fandoms I've written for at one time or another is on my profile page, and interests may also suggest topics. Please bear in mind, some fandoms may have fallen by the wayside and I'm not necessarily current with them (I stopped watching House MD, for instance, during the Tritter arc).
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*makes puppy eyes at you*
Backstory to warm your heart
And I think I've got Three Investigators listed in "Interests", so....
Agents are being encouraged to use their accumulated vacation time, and Spencer has quite a bit accumulated. He goes to conferences, presents papers and winds up in LA.
Jupiter was planning to attend Spencer's LA lecture, but Aunt Matilda had an episode (she's on the decline) so he was forced to forego it. He's resourceful; he finds out which hotel Spencer is at, calls and invites him to dinner in Rocky Beach. Knowing an FBI agent is going to be wary under the circumstances, he offers the RB chief of police as a reference.
Being prudent, Spencer gets Garcia (also involuntarily vacationing) to look up this unknown person who's just contacted him. He's getting tired of hotel rooms, and as long as Jupiter Jones isn't some kind of nutjob, it sounds like a congenial diversion. Garcia's epic google-fu pulls up some of the Three Investigators more prominent cases, as well as some of Jupe's own achievements. (He's certified in scuba and has a private pilot's license.) She gets a call on her other line before she can fill him in on the Baby Fatso years, which is a Good Thing.*
They meet up at a seafood restaurant called Neptune's Reef. The owner, Stavros (formerly Steve Jenks) was Jupe's first relationship. Jupe doesn't go into details about that; instead, he recounts how he and Steve recovered the treasure that allowed him to quit being a caterer's assistant and open his own place.
Spencer's impressed and a little wistful. Here's this guy who's a couple years younger than he is, and he's had all these adventures! Look at all the cool stuff he did while Spencer was hitting the books! What are a handful of doctorates compared to finding treasure and solving mysterious puzzles? (What he does for a living doesn't count. That's all serious, life and death stuff.)
For his part, Jupiter is intrigued by Dr. Reid, who's younger and cooler than he expected from reading his published papers. And he has HOW many degrees? Jupe envies that; his Uncle Titus died shortly after his high school graduation, he bypassed college to help Aunt Matilda. (Although he's sampled the local community college and taken online courses.)
When Jupiter gets a call that Aunt Matilda is having difficulties, their dinner is cut short, but they've exchanged info and promise to keep in touch.
* In one version, Jupe also joins the Bureau as a consultant. Garcia makes the mistake of fangirling Jupe as Baby Fatso, which earns her a death glare and ongoing hostility until she can assuage his ire.
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Re: Backstory to warm your heart
*tries to remember to breathe*
Oh man, I need you to WRITE this because I need to READ this SO f-cking bad. Seriously, you have no idea.
*goes back to read it over again. and again. and again*
Edited to add: you do NOT have Three Investigators listed as an interest. Just so you know!
The Baby Fatso years
Jupiter's mother Belinda was one of the thousands of young women who flocked to LA wanting to be in the movies. She never even got to be Cafe Patron #4. When the office she was temping in closed down, she met Tobias Jones, a would-be astromomer who was working at his older brother's salvage yard. Brother Titus has purchased the office furnishings from Belinda's boss.
Smitten, Toby persuades her that there are more employment opportunites in the resort town of Rocky Beach, and his sister-in-law just happens to have a room to rent.
Fast forward a couple of years: Belinda and Toby have a bouncing baby boy, who really is named Jupiter. He weighed in at 11 pounds, 2 oz, which their obstetrician said was a record. Toby suggested Jupiter, and Belinda, who was still a little woozy, forgot that she'd wanted to name him Kenneth, and agreed.
Odd name, adorable baby. Belinda gets stage-motheritis and starts taking him to auditions. Maybe he'll have the career she never had, and at least it's a way to get out of that grubby salvage yard and away from her termagant SIL.
It's disappointing at first; Jupiter is in the background in a playground scene here, a nursery school class there, nothing noteworthy. Toby indulges his wife; when he spends time with his son, he shares his own defered dreams, setting up his telescope and showing his boy the stars.
Jupiter's big break comes when Belinda leaves him alone for a moment to use the restroom. Jupe goes in to the casting director alone and impresses him with his charm and vocabulary. He's just five, but he can read the script without help and remembers the lines perfectly. He gets the part on Quiz Kids, and Belinda couldn't be prouder.
Jupe enjoys working on Quiz Kids. The other kids are okay, but he especially likes talking with the technical people and learning about their jobs. Things like operating cameras, using microphones to capture sound, how lighting can affect mood...he soaks it all up like a young sponge.
Midway through the second season of filming, Belinda and Toby are killed in a car accident while on a weekend getaway to celebrate their tenth anniversary.
Titus and Matilda are Jupe's next-of-kin/guardians, and Matilda isn't going to put up with all this TV-star foolishness. She pulls Jupe from the show (they recast, but it isn't renewed for another season) which is a blow. School is a little intimidating after lessons on the set, and the standardized curriculum is boring. Jupe decides if he can't follow his mother's dream, then he'll study scientific things like his dad.
One good thing to come out of his show biz days, aside from a certain self-confidence, is the money Jupe earned. It was held in trust for him, and has come in handy for things his salvage yard earnings don't cover. On the whole, though, Jupe prefers to rebuild and refurbish rather than buy new.
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I'm LOVING THIS - you don't even know!!
Alas, I can't shed any light on how much of Jupe's early days were addressed (other than a mention now and then of Baby Fatso) because it's been far too long since I read the books. *stares wistfully at the entire series sitting on my shelf* I will have to rectify that!
Re: The Baby Fatso years
I'm pretty sure they didn't go *that* deeply into backstory, other than raised by his aunt and uncle. This fits with what we saw of Matilda, who was fond but firm.
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Edited to add: Or here (http://www.threeinvestigatorsbooks.com/)?
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Honestly, he's never really been able to tell the difference between single-malt Scotch and the cheap version. He keeps the "good" stuff oon hand for guests, but when it's just him, he pours the common stuff. The first sip always burns going down.
It's a useful social lubricant when it comes to the female sex. Women these days are less inhibited than they used to be, but sometimes, they need a little Dutch courage...yeah. Just enough to relax them. He's circumspect about his own intake; he's found out that too much has humiliating results.
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