vanillafluffy | Head-canon meme

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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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It's been a couple decades since I read any of the books, and I don't *think* I read all of them. This may have been addressed in canon, but my take on it is this:

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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*bounces excitedly up and down*

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!

I vaguely recall that one of the later books dealt with a reunion of the Quiz Kids (I'm mostly sure that was the name of the show, but I could be wrong) in some kind of competition. Jupe was pressured into playing dumb and losing, although the exact details elude me.

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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I'm sure you're right. I have the original series, which was #1 through #43. After that they were written by different people (not Robert Arthur) and some 'updating' changes were made. The stories I re-read the most were the early ones, probably #1 through #12 or thereabouts. So I honestly don't recall the details of the later books as well. If you need something looked up, though, I'm your gal!

Yeah, there were fewer than 20 out when I was reading them, I kinda went off them after Hitch died and they invented whatsisname, Hector Sebastian? (That does scramble my canon and theirs, though, since Hitch died in the mid-70s and in order to be younger than Spencer, Jupe would've had to be born in the mid80s.)

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Right, again. After Hitch died and was no longer included in the books, some of the stories also ... suffered. The plots weren't as interesting, at least to me. I still *adore* the original series but I enjoy the first half or so (1-20) way more than I do the latter half.

Yeah, I definitely need to snag a few the next time I'm at the library. It's been way too long!

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