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[labellementeuse]

OK I GIVE UP, I HAVE TO KNOW.

WHERE IS THE CANON THAT SAYS JOHN (Sheppard, SGA) COMES FROM A MILITARY BACKGROUND? where where where where where? Did I miss it in my marathoning? was it one of the tidbits you miss when you watch television at four in the morning? Or did the SGA fandom make some kind of collective decision? Have some kind of hallucination/revelatory vision? What?

Comments

[blademistress.livejournal.com]

It's fanon as far as I can tell. We know pretty much nothing about Sheppard. I think it came around because of the assumption that he would have been kicked out had his father not pulled strings and got him to Antarctica to save from a dishonorable discharge.

[ariastar.livejournal.com]

...My god, it really is just fanon.

As far as I know, the only canon stuff we know about him is [a] he was in Afganistan, where he screwed up bigtime and consequently got sent to Antarctica, [b] he used to be married (!!!), [c] he likes American football and Ferris wheels and things that go very very fast, [d] he's indecisive enough to make life-changing decisions on a coin-flip, and [e] Ancient chicks dig him. Fanon provides him with [f] Rodney McKay, [g] mystical powers somehow relating to his insane hair, and [h] that damn military background.

[sixth-light.livejournal.com]

So count me really surprised that that's not canon. I guess that's what you get when you've seen precisely six episodes out of three seasons of a show and read a lot of fic, but I sort of assumed it had to be canon because it's in every damn fic. The fact that the details varied wildly clued me that it had to be a reasonably late-canon or sketchy detail, but I never guessed it was just fanon.