fic bunny: Wesley

Eons ago, I wrote my Ripper part 0 - the prequel for my Ripper series. It brought Wesley back from the dead and put him in charge of the Watchers. But it also skimmed right past the details of how that worked, because it wouldn't be relevant to Giles and the main plot of that story. So there was to be a Wesley story that explained all.

That... hasn't so much happened.

But I had a big bunny for it.
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So Wes and Buffy team up and go to LA to rescue Angel and the rest.

Problem - LA had a little bit of an apocalypse. That one Wes helped spark off.

But the army, helped by Riley and his lot, and a whole lot of new Slayers, have it all contained.

So Wes and Buffy meet Riley and head into the quarantine zone that used to be LA.

Around then theres kind of a 7 circles of hell theme kicking in.
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Trouble is, writing any of it means writing tons of characters I've not put much thought into. I think it could be all kinds of cool, but I also think it would need someone not me to make it so.
Which is basically why I stalled out on writing it.


I could attempt to find a writing partner, but since my contribution would basically be all that plot bunny up there and maybe some encouraging noises... seems unworky.


I always have this trouble. I love the worldbuilding, coming up with the setup, the whole LA=hell post apocalypse bit, but the actual words on paper part?
*sigh*

so, anyways, plot bunny up for cowritten type adoption. apply within.

or just say if the bunny looks interesting. whatever. is all good.

Drabble (ish): Methos Lives

Five thousand years alive.
One thousand with brothers, as a horseman.
Four thousand alone.
Immortals stay in one place maybe 10 years unnoticed.
Double that, perhaps, if they love that life enough to risk the questions.
Two hundred different lives.
Married sixty eight times.
One hundred thirty two without a wife.
One life with Byron, once a slave, once a doctor treating them. Then the Watchers, befriending, or being.
One hundred twenty seven without a trace.
Untold teachers, students, lovers, friends, mortal and Immortal...
In the dojo, back away and tell her, "You don't know me."
Hundreds of times true.


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fic bunnies part 2

previously in this bunny:
So thats Wesley, Buffy and Riley, Connor and the Groosalugg and maybe Anne running around LA on a quest for useful bits, fighting demons, to get to the center of this new hell, the alley that last fight happened in.

So I was thinking, why those characters? How do they fit? How do they contrast?

Wes and Riley surprised me with having actually quite a lot in common - former golden boy, booted out by organisation they were dedicated to, tried to continue the mission alone. Ended up needing a team. Riley's team was pretty much who he joined up with in the first place, Wesley's... really not. But in my fic, Wes is now back with the Watchers, so they've ended up with that similarity too. But from the different routes and attitudes, lots of contrast too.
Also in contrast, Riley has MarySue!wifey, but Wes got left all alone. Since Riley's wife was pretty much designed to make all the single people feel bad, there's plenty of angst to go around in that group.

Wes and Connor, both raised by somewhat dark father figures to be weapons in the fight against evil. Connor was rather worse off of course.

Connor and Groo have the whole almost-human in a hell dimension thing to work with. Both made a name for themselves. Groosalugg is a title, the undefeated. Connor was the Destroyer. Both dated Cordy. Both have issues with Angel.
Both have strength and speed and such to make Riley feel all inferior again.

Wes and Anne... Anne I'm not entirely sure is in the group, but they've got some stuff in common. Wes went through a lot of changes. Both been bit by vampires, spent time in a demon dimension, got attacked by zombie cops, took money from W&H. Anne got out rather cleaner and less injured than Wes.

Buffy and Anne were meant for a compare/contrast back when she was Lily. Now she's being Anne, Buffy's middle name, and helping the helpless. But in a totally non-Slayer way. With caring, and home, and looking after people.



So I'm sort of throwing characters at each other at semi random, but then finding ways they fit. So now I'm vaguely wondering if any two characters can do this.
I mean are there actually any 2 characters anywhere with nothing in common?

Memeage

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open it to page 161.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.

Prime Chaos, by Phil Hine

there's a half sentence at the start, so the 5th is one of these 2 depending how you count:

We'd come with stuff which wasn't part of the ritual: who we were, what was going on for us. Sometimes it could be left, sometimes we met at the right point,but when we didn't, things felt weird, false.


also, since figuring 'nearest' is fiddly when I've got two whole bookcases in arms reach, I just reached out without looking and grabbed a book.


Now I'm wanting to fic based on those lines...

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Today I watched a couple of DVDs worth of Babylon 5
ending up with TKO
which... is sort of not the best to end on, but is late now, so end I shall for the night.

There's some episodes of some shows where I tend to forget that the A & B stories are in the same episode. Usually because one of them is weak, or lame, or totally doesn't match the other. Timeless is obviously about Methos & Alexa, except technically the A story is that newbie Immortal woman. The Girl In Question could have worked better if the halfs were in quite different episodes. Not that I'd have hated the Rome stuff any less, but, less whiplash in the comparisons. TKO? Incredibly lame boxing thingy, paired up with Ivanova having this big emotional story with her father. The Ivanova parts make me cry. The boxing parts... more with the wincing. And the way they switch between? *facepalm*

I can sort of see a vague connection, in the fighting and great heart bits, but... No. Those two did not go together.
So in my head the Ivanova story tends to migrate to another episode.

Like the conversation where Connor and Ramirez compare bullet holes. I always forgetting its in the lame movie, because that was funny.

This time of watching I get a feeling a bit like looking at a half finished statue, like if you pushed this bit and shaped over here a bit I can see what they were trying to do. But on the whole... I very nearly skipped the ep, and I probably nearly will next time I watch them too.


The rest of what I watched had all sorts of neat stuff in it. Worldbuilding, cultures, character building, all kinds of nifty cool. And the Shadows arrive for the first time. "What do you want?" Excellent cool.

I also remembering how much B5 stomps through my Issues sometimes. Garibaldi and drink and Ivanova and grieving and just... Issues central. Which may be another reason is been so long between rewatchings.

The DVD box is all falling apart, the glue not holding the plastic bits in. And the outer box had stuck to the shelf. Blue painted shelf, now blue stripes on box. Oh dear. Been a long time since I moved it then. *sigh*

Is a good series.

But I'm sort of balanced between the fannish pleasure of knowing where everything is going so it means more, and the less fun knowing where everything is going so the mystery rather isn't.

I think later episodes will work better for me. For a start I haven't had them so long so I've got them less memorised...


Interesting day.