I think that the Illyria love is like the imprinting of a baby chick (like someone said earlier) She didn't know what else to do, so she tried to make her guide happy (like when she went with Wes to the sorcerer's house)
Wash: Were I unwed, I would take you in a manly fashion. Kaylee: 'Cause I'm pretty? Wash: 'Cause you're pretty.
'Heart Of Gold'
Angel 5: Is That It? Am I Done?
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Vortex - May 20, 2004 11:40:32 am PDT #1111 of 3531
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Micole - May 20, 2004 11:41:24 am PDT #1112 of 3531
I've been working on a song about the difference between analogy and metaphor.
I think Illyria loved Wesley with a selfless love.
I think Illyria loved Wesley with a baby duckling love.
No, seriously. He was her guide. He made the world make sense to her. She imprinted on him, she loved him, she followed him -- in an infantile way. I don't mean this as an insult. I mean, literally, that she depended on him as much as an infant depends on its mother, although her needs were emotional, psychological, and philosophical, rather than emotional and physical.
Micole - May 20, 2004 11:41:43 am PDT #1113 of 3531
I've been working on a song about the difference between analogy and metaphor.
Ha, X-post.
Jessica - May 20, 2004 11:42:00 am PDT #1114 of 3531
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I mean, by those lights, Connor should have boffed him, not Cordy.
Now I'm just trying to figure out why, of all pairings, Connor/Wes is setting off my squickometer.
[eta: And word to the baby duck comparison. Illyria needed Wes, but I don't know if she was emotionally mature enough to feel what I'd call love.]
P.M. Marc - May 20, 2004 11:44:08 am PDT #1115 of 3531
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Now I'm just trying to figure out why, of all pairings, Connor/Wes is setting off my squickometer.
Heh.
I tried to write it, and it made mine go pingpingping.
And everyone KNOWS mine's broken.
Dana - May 20, 2004 11:49:32 am PDT #1116 of 3531
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
You people are sick. It makes perfect sense.
sumi - May 20, 2004 11:53:43 am PDT #1117 of 3531
Art Crawl!!!
I think that the point of making Angel sign the agreement is his willingness to do so -- I don't know that he has any actual power to refuse a shanshu if it's not actually being offered to him at the time.
Micole - May 20, 2004 11:53:46 am PDT #1118 of 3531
I've been working on a song about the difference between analogy and metaphor.
I'll be in the corner with Dana. Or, you know, in my bunk.
Jessica - May 20, 2004 11:55:32 am PDT #1119 of 3531
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I'll be in the normal freak other corner with Plei.
Micole - May 20, 2004 11:57:17 am PDT #1120 of 3531
I've been working on a song about the difference between analogy and metaphor.
Angel issues. Daddy issues. Betrayal and the face of failure and a love-starved kid being the focus of all of Wesley's scary need.
I'm just sayin'.