It's time for Beginnings, the podcast where writer and performer Andy Beckerman talks to the comedians, writers, filmmakers and musicians he admires about their earliest creative experiences and the numerous ways in which a creative life can unfold.
On today's episode, I talk to musician Katy Davidson AKA Dear Nora. Originally from Arizona, Katy has been making music for decades now under the name Dear Nora, starting with the Make You Smile 7" in 2000 on Magic Marker Records. They took a long break from the moniker after 2008's Three States, but picked it up again with 2018's Skulls Example which is one of the best albums Katy's ever recorded. Their new album, Human Features, will be released on Orindal Records at the end of October, and it's fantastic!
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Riordanverse race/nationality headcanons (Main characters and background characters alike)
This may be a very long post, and I’m throwing in little tidbits about appearances, so with no regard to any particular order, strap in:
(Seriously, this is a huge post)
Edit: Changed Luke from just Korean American to mixed Argentinian/Korean American, inspired by @tagthescullion
The Seven (Including Nico and Reyna):
Percy Jackson: Biracial White/Latino, Cuban American (Sally was born in Havana, she had Percy shortly after moving to the US)
Annabeth Chase: Biracial Black/White, Irish/African American (with Swedish, Ghanaian and Polish descent)
Jason (And Thalia, by extension) Grace: White German American (Beryl moved from Germany to the US)
Piper McLean: Native American, Cherokee
Leo Valdez: Latino, Mexican, Born in Texas
Hazel Levesque: Black, African American, New Orleans (1940's French Creole)
Frank Zhang: Chinese Canadian, Vancouver
Nico Di Angelo: White, Italian with Russian descent, 1920’s Venice
Reyna Avila Ramirez Arellano: Latina, Puerto Rican
Camp Half Blood:
Will Solace: Biracial White/Bangladeshi American, Texas
Luke Castellan: Mixed Argentinian/Korean American (Born in the US, May (or Mi-Hee) grew up in a Argentine Korean community in Buenos Aires before she moved to the US and met Hermes)
Malcolm Pace: White with albinism, Scottish, Glasgow
Travis and Connor Stoll: Mixed Scottish and Laotian, Edinburgh (Source: @freddie-77-ao3)(I think in the TV show, they cast two Asian boys as the Stolls, so I've made them Asian)
Alice Miyazawa: Japanese American, Los Angeles
Julia Feingold: White Luxembourger, Luxembourg City
Cecil Markowitz: White Austrian/Northern Irish (Born in Graz, grew up in Belfast since he was two, has dual citizenship)
Katie Gardener: White Scottish, Aberfoyle
Castor and Pollux Vintner: Black, Irish (Pollux is Albino, Castor wasn’t), Donegal
Michael Yew: Mixed Irish and Chinese, Limerick (Granny moved from China)
Lee Fletcher: White Irish, Donegal
Clarisse La Rue: Mixed French/Pakistani American, Arizona (Mother moved from France)
Chris Rodriguez: Afro-Latino, Nicaraguan (Moved to the states when he was seven, lived in the same neighbourhood as Clarisse)
Silena Beauregard: Blasian, African American and Filipino, Mississippi (French descent)
Charles Beckendorf: Black, African American
Jake Mason: White American, Wyoming
Harley Smythe-Davidson: Biracial White/Aboriginal Australian (Source: @freddie-77-ao3)
Nyssa Barrera: Latina, Panamanian, Panama City
Shane O’Doherty: White Irish, Laois
Christopher Chalkevas: White Greek/English (Born in Larissa, moved with his mother to Hackney, London at age five, has dual citizenship)
Clovis Karlsen: Wasian, Welsh (Welsh/Norwegian grandad, Indonesian granny, Source: @ashthenerdtheythem)
Chiara Benvenuti: White Italian, Florence
Alabaster C. Torrington: British Indian, English, Westminster
Lou Ellen Blackstone: Black with vitiligo, British Ghanaian, Birmingham
Drew Tanaka: Japanese American, New York City
Valentina Diaz: Latina, Colombia
Mitchell Singh-Donovan: Mixed Indian and Irish, Cork
Lacy Alfsen: White Danish, Copenhagen
Ethan Nakamura: Japanese, Tokyo
Damien White: White Irish, Northside Dublin
Miranda Gardiner: Vietnamese American, Massachusetts (Distant Irish ancestry)
Billie Ng: Wasian, Irish/Thai Canadian, Toronto (She grew up in Longford till she was seven, then she and her mortal dad moved to Canada)
Sherman Yang: Chinese American, Alaska
Marcus (Mark) Dooley-Wallace: White Irish American, Georgia
Ellis Wakefield: Black, Algerian
Holly and Laurel Victor: Sri Lankan American, Seattle
Meg McCaffery: Wasian, Irish/Vietnamese American
Camp Jupiter:
Dakota Cheshire: Black, Bermudian
Gwendolyn Nunez: Hispanic, Spanish American
Bobby Herrera: Latin American, New Mexico
Lavinia Asimov: White Russian, born in San Francisco
Larry Schumacher: White American, North Carolina
Leila Grunfeld: White American, Colorado
This has been a very exhausting post to make lmao. I gave some of the characters who don’t have canonical surnames my own Hcs for their surnames. Also, I am yet to read through trials of Apollo, so maybe I’ll come later back to add more Roman names to the list.
Tagging my moots that I like to see their opinions for this (as well as the ones I tagged within the list as well):
@aki-bara @ravingcoffeeaddict @ebony-reine-vibes @squiggle3worm @sleep-needer
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Dropout Does The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals
So my theory about overlap of Dropout and Team Starkid seems to be accurate, and people seemed to like my Dropout does Nerdy Prudes Must Die post, so I'm back for another. Same method and criteria as my previous post, you can go see that if you want to know what they are. Also, I have previously done a similar list with Internet Personalities that included a handful of Dropout people, but I'm gonna try to make this one different.
Also spoilers for potentially anything in the Hatchetfield verse
Paul: Ross Bryant
Ross is a great straight man (in the comedy sense, I don't know his sexuality) while being very funny in his own right, and I think, while Paul has a lot of his own funny moments, it's very important that his character is also the more normal guy reacting to the madness around him. Also, he would slay the Jekyll and Hyde homage that is Let it Out.
Emma : Siobhan Thompson
I think one of the essential parts of Emma's character is an underlying exhaustion with the world, and that is very Adaine Abernant and Ruby Rocks, so I think Siobhan would embody that very well.
Charlotte: Vic Michaelis
I don't think I've ever heard them do a transatlantic accent before, but I just have this gut feeling they'd be so good at it.
Ted: Ify Nwadiwe
While I do genuinely think Ify would be great in the part, if I'm being fully honest, this casting is because I (despite my better judgment) find Ted Spankoffski hot, so casting arguably the hottest man in Dropout in this part makes me seem less damaged for being attracted to the self-proclaimed sleazeball. Also him and Vic seem like they would be great playing off each other.
Bill: Brian "Murph" Murphy
He just has "refuses to drink during the apocalypse so he can be the DD" energy.
Mr Davidson: Brian David Gilbert
Since I'm splitting up all the parts, this basically turns Mr Davidson into a Princess Track where the actor just shows up, sings about desire and being choked while he jerks off, but laments how he can never achieve his dreams, and then pretty much leaves, and I don't know why, but that seems right up BDG's alley.
Melissa: Lisa Gilroy
Lisa Gilroy seems nice, but also kinda scares me, and those are the correct vibes for Melissa (#heymelissacore)
Sam: Jacob Wysoki
My only concern about this casting is that he'd go SO HARD in You Tied Up My Heart that he would keep breaking the handcuffs and/or chair, but that's fine, it would be worth it.
Nora: Katie Marovitch
The "Decaf?" parts of Cup of Roasted Coffee already sounds a bit like her TBH.
Zoey: Rehka Shankar
I feel like Zoey is such an underrated, funny side character in the show (I know she's a very small part, but like every line she has is a banger) and I feel like Rehka is a very underrated performer, so this is a good match.
Greenpeace Girl: Persephone Valentine
Making up the Save the Sea Turtles campaign is such a Sam Nightengale move, and also she would eat up Lah Dee Dah Dah Day.
Alice: Surena Marie
She's got a bit of a baby face (I thought she was like 25) and I think she would handle the change from Alice to Hivemind Alice really well.
Deb: Emily Axford
I'm definitely not just casting this because I want Emily to be my protective and caring girlfriend...
Professor Hidgens: Josh Ruben
I don't have an explanation for this one, this is vibes alone.
General MacNamara: Brennan Lee Mulligan
"Wear a Watch" and a song highlighting how the hivemind is essentially fascist and using the military to destroy any resistance to their regime is so Brennan core.
Homeless Man: Ally Beardlsey
I just feel like this is the part they'd want.
Dan Reynolds: Lou Wilson
Icons play Icons.
Donna: Aabria Iyengar
Icons play Icons
Hard Cuts:
Jacob Wysoki as Ted
Mike Trapp as Paul
Emily Axford as Emma
Jess Ross as Charlotte
Lily Du as Zoey
Grant O'Brien as Professor Hidgens
Grant O'Brien as Ted
Ally Beardlsey as Ted
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