Ethan plot bunny (and laws of character emotion)

I have this Ethan plot bunny that keeps trying to turn into a story. Which would be yaaay, but it was somebody elses bunny. Indeed, someone elses story, which I read and disliked very much.

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Basics of bunny - season 6, after Giles leaves, Ethan turns up on Buffy's doorstep and tells her TPTB sent him and he is her new Watcher. Then they have sex. And a baby.

So anyways, that bunny got in my head and wouldn't leave.

See the fun part is, The Power That Be telling Ethan to do things is *Janus*. In the series, mostly known for changing everyone into their costumes. But I did a lot of research, wrote an essay, and found out some extra bits yesterday in reference books at college.
(Yes, I spend college library time on Janus research. Yes this explains some of why my homework remains unfinished. Moving on...)
There are a lot of good reasons in the RL mythology that Janus might actually help Buffy.
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These myths link Janus to vampires by way of Carna-Cardea.

And Ethan worships Janus.

So we get an actual logical reason Janus might send Ethan to help the Slayer.

And that, to me, makes it a fascinating bunny. Ethan on a mission from god? Comedy *gold*. And serious plot fuel too.

So everyone would react to Ethan in their individual ways, not trust him as far as they could spit to start with, all of that.

Interesting thing, right before Giles leaves, in Tabula Rasa right after everyone loses their memories and wakes up as someone else, we see a two faced statue of Janus in the Magic Box. It wasn't there the episode before, and we don't see it until after the transformation. Did Anya buy it? Or did Janus just turn up to watch the fun?
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Then, in the original bunny, there is sex and pregnancy.
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If you go all 'happily ever after' at that point its very snuggly sweet.

But this is *season 6*. The geek Trio are still out there.
Warren would still buy that gun.

What if Buffy was *pregnant* when she got shot?

That's the kind of thought so nasty it of course belongs in the Jossverse.

But with all the options in the 'verse, the outcome is not necessarily nasty at all.
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So everyone would be alive at the end of the story and having to deal with consequences.
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Lots of big, yet logical, differences. Everyone staying together. Willow with more access to magic, and dealing with the 'Willow sometimes likes to hurt people she thinks deserve it' issue rather than the 'magic is crack!' non-issue. And with a god in her head.

Maybe the god who empowered Slayers in the first place.

We could lose the Axcalibur plot device entirely, or keep Axcalibur but give it a longer runup and some depth.
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So, this is why this plot bunny continues to eat my brain.
It could be so cool!

But I have this completely different Epic I was planning to write, so I write this up in much abbreviated bunny form. Which probably looks lame now. *Sigh*

But - Ethan on a mission from god to help Buffy. Fun!

Seven Soldiers

now *this* is all about unique voice
characters and plots, all unique

I liked some quoteage from Zatanna

"There wasn't much to being a superhero.
It was all about finding yourself in a position where you're the only one around who can save the day."

which is why its a really uncomfortable job, being a hero. because what if you don't want to save that particular day? what if you'd rather read a book or something? But you can't leave it to someone else.

police and ambulance and fire trucks and all that have to deal with that too. I mean in general they can leave it to other emergency service people, but when they turn up and something needs doing if they don't do it it doesn't get done, and very bad things happen.

of course that's true for everyone all the time - do what is needed or bad things happen - emergency service people just get the training, equipment and backup so they can be running to all the needed places. but if they don't be getting there, regular people get to be the superhero of the hour.

not comfortable. I much prefer boredom.

"If risking your life could save the lives of everyone else, what would you do?"

simples it up a lot. I liked what I read about Doom Patrol - the whole team died to save 15 people they never even met. That's getting right down to cases. Save the world is always a no brainer- its where you keep all your stuff. Even evil!Spike can figure out saving the world is of the good. But saving a dozen people? A half dozen? Just the one, and you have to risk your whole team?
Then is when you have to figure out what is the right thing to do.

Emergency services don't save the whole world at once. But they risk the team to save the few, every time. Like firefighters go in to find the one person in the burning building. Real hero people they.


So that's the big thoughts section.
In the less big thoughts - she couldn't wear even a jacket this time? I mean fishnets, yaay, but everywhere? Does she not get cold?


Anyways.
Seven Soldiers: Zatanna, all good.


Frankenstein, on the other hand, spent the whole issue setting up the bad thing, and none of it making the title guy a character. So, nice creepy scary story, but no particular interest in the character yet.
Yes, I'm saying too much plot. Wierd.
Shall see what happens next.

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funny lines in Poirot-
Someone on the phone to a club, man goes to tell Poirot
who?
"Emily Arundel."
"She is dead, mon ami."
"You'll have to take that up with her yourself."


:)


I like the Poirot stories. He's so precise. I keep watching the craft the actor puts into it, the little gestures that make the character.

Plus the details that make the setting. Lovely houses and deco details everywhere, mirrors and such.

I'll have to decide between the last half of this and Alien Nation. I'm fairly sure I've seen it before, but long enough ago I don't remember the end. But I don't reckon it'll bug me much to not know. Shall see.

eta: As it turned out I managed to watch both shows, due to the commercials being in different places. Missed bits of both but found the killer on Poirot and saw the resolution on Alien Nation.


My posts are very seldom answered. I wonder if I'm uniformly boring or just with the bad timing.