#Canon Jewish Character

[erikeisenhardt]

Scarlet Witch and Wiccan on the variant cover Scarlet Witch #6

[robbinggoodfellows]

A fun little Nischa holiday fic based on that video I saw of Gus Halper singing Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire

To Mischa the holiday season was a time of constant reminders from his adoptive parents that he was not wanted. Mischa's "parents" never gave him gifts, they barely gave him enough to eat or a warm bed to sleep in at night. And warmth meant a lot in Uranium, especially when the snow was blanketing the town and daring to invade Mischa's basement. So he spent the majority of this December in Noel's arms. With any moment the two had to themselves, Mischa would hold his boyfriend tighter than he felt humanly possible.

At first, this kind of affection which was far from unusual for Mischa was just sweet and endearing to Noel. He found it cute that Mischa wanted to lay directly on top of him, insisting he was Noel's blanket. But as the days leading up to Christmas crept up, Noel wondered why the two of them had not been at Mischa's house in weeks. It was normally their hangout spot because they had much more privacy than at Noel's house where his mother typically burst in to the room at the exact worst time. But as he was waiting for Mischa outside of his last class of the day before winter break, he tried to work up the courage to ask Mischa what was wrong.

Noel had the whole conversation scripted out when he realized Mischa would have normally been there by now. Noel looked around, making sure he was the only one within earshot before calling out "Mischa? Love, where are you?" His answer came in the form of sweet piano music from the choir room.

"Misch?" Noel was standing in the doorway of the room, smiling bigger than he normally did as Mischa stopped playing and looked up. "Hey." Mischa responded, his voice was adorably happy as usual, but a bit of pain found its way into his smile. "Chestnuts, huh?" Noel asked, sitting down on the piano bench next to Mischa and kissing his forehead. "Yeah, I fucked it up a bit though" Mischa laughed, and then he sighed and looked down at the keys. Noel wrapped an arm around Mischa's side, guiding Mischas right hand to the keys. He did the same with his other hand, lacing their fingers together and helping Mischa play the notes slowly.

"Chestnuts roasting on an open fire..." Noel started to sing, he waited to Mischa to continue.

"Jack Frost nipping at your nose" Mischa sang at a barely audible whisper, he was too focused on the piano.

"Yuletide carols being sung by a choir" Noel continued, "and folks dressed up like Eskimos"

Noel let go of Mischa's hands and Mischa barely noticed, he was staring so intensely at the sheet music in front of him.

"Everybody knows a turkey and some mistletoe," When Noel sang the word mistletoe, he paused to kiss Mischa's cheek,

"Help to make the season bright." Mischa's hand slipped and he accidentally played the wrong note. "Fuck..." He cursed under his breath. His hands were trembling and when Noel looked closer, he noticed Mischa's eyes watering. "Don't cry my darling, I'm not mad you messed up if that's what you're worried about." Noel reassured, kissing the top of Mischa's head. Mischa shook his head and rubbed his eyes on the back of his arm. "Is not you, my divine poet." Mischa mumbled. Noel thought maybe this was part of why Mischa was avoiding his house.

"Are your parents being worse to you now that it's the holidays?" Noel asked and that's when Mischa broke down. He hugged Noel so tight, face pressed into his lovers shoulder, sobbing. And Noel rubbed his back and reached his free hand up to wipe the tears from Mischa's pink cheeks.

"They say money is tight." Mischa explains, once he's calmed down a bit, "They said they want to have money to buy presents for the people they love and that spending money on a son they did not wish for was useless. So the meals got smaller and when I asked for a blanket they decided to lock me out of my room for whole week because I was 'ungrateful'" Mischa looked at Noel, who was frowning, Mischa cupped his cheek and pressed their foreheads together. "Do not be sad, love. You did not cause problems."

"I know I didn't make your parents shitheads but it still upsets me" Noel responded. "The holidays are stressful enough with all the socializing involved, I can't imagine how hard it must be for you." He added. Mischa just looked at the floor for a few seconds. "Do you think I can stay with you through holidays?" Mischa asked, to which Noel pursed his lips and nodded. "Can we go to my house first so I can get some clothes and maybe grab my backup binder just in case?" Was Mischa's next question. "We can do anything you want, love." Noel whispered.

"Remember Ocean wants us to do something with her for Hanukah so if you can find your mothers latke recipe you always talk about you should bring it!" Noel said cheerfully as Mischa broke the sliding glass door of his basement residence with a rock in order to get in. And if his parents decided not to fix the door, Mischa could make multiple cases for child endangerment from them.

Mischa and Noel went home to Noel's house, which was the only home Mischa would know in Uranium, and the two spent their night cuddled in Noels bed watching Elf. This was Mischas fist normal holiday season. He was so in love.

[minty-bunni]

I wonder about Sam's family in relation to that one comment about being Jewish in the Christmas episode.

Like, were both her parents raised Jewish? Is it a 1 parent is Jewish and 1 parent isn't situation so both Jewish and non-Jewish holidays get celebrated? What is the family history like? Is it only Sam who is Jewish or her entire family? Do they actively practice or is it a holidays and/or cultural thing like with some Catholics I know?

That one off mention left too many questions.

[inkvoices]

Restore My House by Arsenic

A Hanukkah fic rec. Gen, no AO3 warnings apply.

Summary: Kate used to avoid going over to Bruce's during the time of year when Hanukah falls. But, well. Clearly he needs to cheer the fuck up.

[kbirbpods]

Original Fic: Shield of my Forefathers by templefugate on ao3

Relationship: Willow Rosenberg & Buffy Summers

Rating: Teen and Up Audiences

Tags: Canon Jewish Character, Bechdel Test Pass, Canon Lesbian Character, POV Female Character

Audio Length: 1 minute, 22 seconds

Summary: What's so special about crosses?

[kesterite]

I shall bestow you with a name.

[fanfic-writer-and-rambler]

Kate asks her cousin an important question (also this is an interesting concept I learned about Bruce even if the comics will never bring it up):

Kate while reading a magazine: Bruce, you know our third cousin Linda?

Bruce, while looking through paperwork: The crazy one?

Kate: Yeah the one who hit her husband with her car. Her son's son is having a bat mitzvah this Friday, they invited us. You're going.

Bruce: I'm busy.

Kate: Oh, I'm sorry, what I said wasn't a question. It was a command, I'm not going alone.

Bruce: Why not?

Kate looking up from her magazine: I am a lesbian woman and cousin Linda will be there and has made it very clear that "Oh, it's just a phase, darling. You'll find the right man!"

Bruce: Why am I coming? I don't like her.

Kate: I'm bringing you so then she asks why you've adopted those kids and aren't married yet, but also dating a former bank robber. And some other things I informed her about you in the group chat.

Bruce: Oh, okay I have no say in the matter. Got it. What time are we going?

Kate: The party is at like three so we can show up at four. You bringing the kids?

Bruce sarcastically: That was a question, thank you so much for allowing me to answer that.

Kate: I can be nice like that.

Bruce: No, they aren't going. I don't even want to bring Damien to that. They aren't practicing and wouldn't like that side of the family.

Kate: I never asked, are you practicing Judaism?

Bruce: Nope.

Kate: Why, aunt Martha was Jewish, thought you'd do some fun-

Bruce: They died when I was 8 in an alley and you lose the spirit of anything when that happens!

Kate sighing: You use that excuse too much.

Bruce: My parents died!

Kate, silent for a second: And one of your sons shook hands with God, it's not a competition.

Bruce: The way Jason tells it he met Satan for some time.

Kate: Fair, are they aware you're Jewish?

Bruce: Yes, but again I'm not practicing. So it's like, yes, but no.

Kate: Oh so me. Cool.

She returns to reading.

Bruce: I enjoy the times we spend time together.

Kate: Aww, same cuzzo.

Second part

[jewish-sideblog]

I am sick and fucking tired of the fandomsphere's obsession with explicit canon. A character can be coded to hell and back and people will still refuse to acknowledge it unless the character looks directly into the camera and says "I'm [marginalized identity]."

The Spider-Verse movies made Peter B Parker Jewish and made Gwen Stacy trans. I don't give a shit if it's never said outright. It's canon. Peter B Parker has a Jewish wedding on-screen and shows off Hannukah bling in promotional material. He's Jewish. Gwen has a trans flag in her room and a trans-coded coming-out story that peaks with being cast in clear and intentional trans flag lighting. She's trans. Good on Spider-Verse for giving us solid representation without sacrificing time that should be spent on the characters' stories to bring explicit attention to their identities! The consequence is that you can't say he's Jewish or say she's trans in a public forum without having to pull out screenshots to prove your case.

Those are just two irksome examples from the same franchise, but this happens all the time across all fandom media. If you refuse to accept evidence and coding as proof, then you're perpetuating the idea that privileged identities are more normal and default than marginalized ones. Gwen shouldn't need to say "I'm trans" and Peter B shouldn't need to say "I'm Jewish" on-screen. No character should ever have to do that, because we never expect a character to reveal that they're canonically cisgender or goyishe.

[burning-sol]

chip art??? from me???? no freaking way!!!

[to-be-a-dreamer]

Hello Newsies fandom, for your casual viewing pleasure (and because apparently some people think headcanoning the Jacobs family as Jewish is antisemitic), here is the exact passage from the official Newsies novel that states Davey is Jewish and Jack is Irish :D

It's not a headcanon, it's literally written in the source material and, even if it wasn't, this fandom has been headcanoning characters' ethnicities based on their names since 1992. They're street kids living in New York City in 1899, they're going to be a diverse group and the best thing we have to go on is their names. I know my group of mutuals headcanon at least two other characters as Jewish, somewhat if not entirely based on their names.

Like, I don't know how else to explain that headcanoning a character with a traditionally Jewish name isn't "stereotyping" it's literally just being like "oh hey, this whole family has really common Jewish names, it would be fun if they're Jewish" and then we all move on with our lives because it's also literally canon. Like, it would be bad if we were headcanoning a character as Jewish purely because they exhibit behaviors that are also associated with negative Jewish stereotypes but that's literally not what's happening here. Also I'm pretty sure it's mentioned in the non-dialogue parts of the script somewhere but I don't have access to that.

In conclusion, don't be weird about people headcanoning characters as minorities, it's not stereotyping it's literally just people existing.

(Also, I am not Jewish, so I do not at all claim to be any kind of authority on representation. If any Jewish bloggers want to weigh in I will happily read and be open to learning!)

[groovy-lady]

Jewish Spock! 🥰✡️🖖🏻

[orwells-nightmare]

Imagine being Barney's therapist. At first you get normal stuff like "I've been feeling pretty dysphoric lately," "been having family troubles," etc. Then you get told shit like "yeah I died and saw my own corpse. Twice."

[doyouknowthisjewishcharacter]

Do you know this Jewish character?

[altschmerzes]

btw thierry gets involved bc he overhears roy and ted talking about hanukkah at roy’s with jamie and drums up the nerve to ask if he could come sometime because he hasn’t had people to celebrate with since he left home and it’s a bummer “but if it’s like. a family thing that’s totally cool haha” and roy is really taken aback for a second and then gets his act together and can see that he’s playing it cool but it’s really putting himself out there for thierry to ask so he’s like “yeah it’s a family thing so of course you can come” and thierry is kind of startled and then Very Touched and says oh cool thanks bro… i mean coach… (definitely a little bit choked up)

and he shows up with a menorah he packed with him from home that’s hockey themed and roy stares at it for a bit then pronounces it “the most canadian thing ive ever seen in my fucking life”

[birdiebats]

Wanda 🥺✨💕❤️🥹❤️🥰💕

[clamsjams]

i think law would have a love-hate relationship with passover bc on one hand no bread but on the other hand no other things like rice or legumes and stuff