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selenakBerlin was... interesting; maybe I'll manage an extra entry, if I find the time. The AP's birthday is tomorrow, and then I'm off to Düsseldorf. So, the next three, each from a different fandom this time:
Five Secrets Rupert Giles will take to the grave, for![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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1) The little noises Joyce Summers makes when she’s having sex. He wasn’t in love with Joyce, though he liked her a lot and sometimes believes he might have come to love her, given time. But the memory stays with him, and he wouldn’t share it with anyone.
2) Ben’s death. (Never mind early drafts of a certain episode.) Talking about it would make part of the reason why he did it redundant.
3) The fact he used to have a crush on Quentin Travers for all of a month when they were young. It was almost a reverse to what happened with Ethan, because Giles was always more important to Ethan than Ethan ever was to him, and even during the times they were closest, he didn’t crush on Ethan, but shortly after returning to the fold, he did go through a period of feeling just this for Travers of all the people. In retrospect, he thinks what he fell for was the Watcher life style he had previously rejected. At least that makes the memory easier to bear. Travers never noticed anyway.
4) The fact he never regretted having agreed to letting Robin Wood kill Spike. This has nothing to do with the fact Spike turned out to be crucial in defeating the First Evil or with his feelings about Spike in general; actually, he liked Spike better than Buffy’s other beaus, especially Angel. But he thinks Spike and Angel are both ultimately no good for Buffy, and that Spike would never be able to do what Angel did, i.e. stay away from Buffy for good. Besides, he read Spike’s chronicles rather extensively, including Crowley’s report on Nikki Wood’s death. Privately, he thinks Robin had the right.
5) The fact he can’t remember what kissing Jenny Calendar felt like. Each time he tries, it’s actually Drusilla-as-Jenny he recalls, the taste of copper in her mouth giving it away. It’s something he’ll neither forgive Drusilla, or Angel, or Spike (who suggested the masquerade) for, but that’s something else he would never admit to anyone.
Five Things Charles Xavier Would Say to Scott Summers To Help Him Get His Head back in the Game [post-Astonishing 14, of course], forlikeadeuce
1) “Pity had nothing to do why I chose you as leader, Scott. Frankly, I needed you; none of the others believed in the team the way you did, or would be able to stay with the job even after getting disillusioned. Remember when you started to make decisions and I disagreed? I realized later you were right, and I was wrong, and told Warren as much. Since that time, you never stopped validating my choice.”
2) “I know that’s not what you want to hear, but Erik and I go through that on a regular basis.”
3) “Emma probably saved your life, because if she hadn’t taken you out, Cassandra would have, and Cassandra knows little would hurt me more than losing you.”
4) “It is our memories that make us what we were, Scott, but if you wish it, I could rearrange yours…”
5) “Scott, I always knew you were special. Only a very special man would get over his personal hell because of the terrible distress a friend is in. Logan’s mental agony is overwhelming. I keep hearing the word “moose”. Just mention it to him…”
Five things Vila (in the Scorpio days) misses about the Old Days, forthran
1) To quote Aretha Franklin, r-e-s-p-e-c-t, to know what it feels like. Not that he wasn’t the butt of jokes occasionally in the Old Days, too, but so was everyone else, and by and large, Blake might have manipulated him along with everyone else as Avon claims, but Vila never had the feeling Blake saw him as a joke.
2) Being allied with Avon against Blake; the comraderie they used to share, those “this last scheme of Blake’s is really crazy” and “why does it have to be us on that planet?” moments; with Avon as leader up to the crazy schemes, they’re gone entirely, and the younger crowd might think Avon is crazy, but they’d never think Vila is worth sharing that feeling with
3) Gan’s cooking. He really liked Gan, full stop, but Gan always used to shop during their stops on planets to get fresh supplies instead of those proteins Zen produced, and then he’d cook a meal. Gan was the only other Delta, and those Alphas and Beta’s can’t cook. Dayna probably can, but she might kill you for asking. Same with Soolin.
4) Jenna’s cleavage. What? Vila’s a guy. And Jenna used to display said cleavage quite often, in the vain hope Blake might notice.
5) Zen. Vila never trusted Orac even before Orac started to recommend Vila’s demise to Avon, and Zen really was something like a friend and a member of the original crew. Don’t get Vila started on Slave. Not least because sometimes, he’s afraid that Slave sounds like a parody of Vila himself.
Five Secrets Rupert Giles will take to the grave, for
honorh1) The little noises Joyce Summers makes when she’s having sex. He wasn’t in love with Joyce, though he liked her a lot and sometimes believes he might have come to love her, given time. But the memory stays with him, and he wouldn’t share it with anyone.
2) Ben’s death. (Never mind early drafts of a certain episode.) Talking about it would make part of the reason why he did it redundant.
3) The fact he used to have a crush on Quentin Travers for all of a month when they were young. It was almost a reverse to what happened with Ethan, because Giles was always more important to Ethan than Ethan ever was to him, and even during the times they were closest, he didn’t crush on Ethan, but shortly after returning to the fold, he did go through a period of feeling just this for Travers of all the people. In retrospect, he thinks what he fell for was the Watcher life style he had previously rejected. At least that makes the memory easier to bear. Travers never noticed anyway.
4) The fact he never regretted having agreed to letting Robin Wood kill Spike. This has nothing to do with the fact Spike turned out to be crucial in defeating the First Evil or with his feelings about Spike in general; actually, he liked Spike better than Buffy’s other beaus, especially Angel. But he thinks Spike and Angel are both ultimately no good for Buffy, and that Spike would never be able to do what Angel did, i.e. stay away from Buffy for good. Besides, he read Spike’s chronicles rather extensively, including Crowley’s report on Nikki Wood’s death. Privately, he thinks Robin had the right.
5) The fact he can’t remember what kissing Jenny Calendar felt like. Each time he tries, it’s actually Drusilla-as-Jenny he recalls, the taste of copper in her mouth giving it away. It’s something he’ll neither forgive Drusilla, or Angel, or Spike (who suggested the masquerade) for, but that’s something else he would never admit to anyone.
Five Things Charles Xavier Would Say to Scott Summers To Help Him Get His Head back in the Game [post-Astonishing 14, of course], for
likeadeuce1) “Pity had nothing to do why I chose you as leader, Scott. Frankly, I needed you; none of the others believed in the team the way you did, or would be able to stay with the job even after getting disillusioned. Remember when you started to make decisions and I disagreed? I realized later you were right, and I was wrong, and told Warren as much. Since that time, you never stopped validating my choice.”
2) “I know that’s not what you want to hear, but Erik and I go through that on a regular basis.”
3) “Emma probably saved your life, because if she hadn’t taken you out, Cassandra would have, and Cassandra knows little would hurt me more than losing you.”
4) “It is our memories that make us what we were, Scott, but if you wish it, I could rearrange yours…”
5) “Scott, I always knew you were special. Only a very special man would get over his personal hell because of the terrible distress a friend is in. Logan’s mental agony is overwhelming. I keep hearing the word “moose”. Just mention it to him…”
Five things Vila (in the Scorpio days) misses about the Old Days, for
thran1) To quote Aretha Franklin, r-e-s-p-e-c-t, to know what it feels like. Not that he wasn’t the butt of jokes occasionally in the Old Days, too, but so was everyone else, and by and large, Blake might have manipulated him along with everyone else as Avon claims, but Vila never had the feeling Blake saw him as a joke.
2) Being allied with Avon against Blake; the comraderie they used to share, those “this last scheme of Blake’s is really crazy” and “why does it have to be us on that planet?” moments; with Avon as leader up to the crazy schemes, they’re gone entirely, and the younger crowd might think Avon is crazy, but they’d never think Vila is worth sharing that feeling with
3) Gan’s cooking. He really liked Gan, full stop, but Gan always used to shop during their stops on planets to get fresh supplies instead of those proteins Zen produced, and then he’d cook a meal. Gan was the only other Delta, and those Alphas and Beta’s can’t cook. Dayna probably can, but she might kill you for asking. Same with Soolin.
4) Jenna’s cleavage. What? Vila’s a guy. And Jenna used to display said cleavage quite often, in the vain hope Blake might notice.
5) Zen. Vila never trusted Orac even before Orac started to recommend Vila’s demise to Avon, and Zen really was something like a friend and a member of the original crew. Don’t get Vila started on Slave. Not least because sometimes, he’s afraid that Slave sounds like a parody of Vila himself.
