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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?

Does Wesley's Father have any fans?
Or fic?

I was just thinking, practically every character who shows up on BtVS or Ats has fans and fic and stuff. But Wesley's Father is a character I wanted to hit since before we ever met him. So, I'm not seeing the fan potential. Plus the whole thing where technically it wasn't him we saw.

Yet there are stories to be made of a man who truly believes that how he acts is the correct and indeed only way to be, a Watcher who was probably raised the same way he raised Wes. A guy Wes could have grown up to be?

So now that little bit of story in RFJ 0 which was about him is threatening to turn into a whole worldview from his pov.

And this was sparked from seeing an icon of him and Wes, only with Wes out of focus so it was really just him.

Pictures make thoughts.


and also, its 0330 in the morning, which makes its own kinds of thoughts. Like, 'I should really go to bed'.

Name research of the day

Wyndam looks like 'win damn', which kind of suits the trouble Wesley gets into by winning. But the surname probably comes from Wymondham, the Norfolk town. Which is just down the road from me. I've only heard the word said, so that seemed pretty obvious to me, since it is said just the same. You can see a satellite photo on Google Maps if you look at Wymondham, Norfolk, NR18.
It probably either means 'Wymund's home' (Why world, or Why man) or home on the winding path. Or alternatively the town "might take its name from its pleasant situation, for 'win' signifies a chosen or beloved place so the 'win-munde-ham' is a village 'on the pleasant mount' and the situation exactly answers." It is a Saxon name.
There's a book full of Windhams here, but they only time they spell it Wyndam is when they list all the variants. Windham is most usual in the USA, Wyndham in the UK and Australia.

Pryce looks like the modern word Price, cost, but it probably derives from Ap Rhys, son of Rhys. Rhys means "enthusiasm" in Welsh.


Wales was never conquered by the Anglo-Saxons. They built a bit of a wall instead, apparently.

But later Welsh history gets rather depressing.


And I spent far too long finding all that out instead of writing.