I've always seen the basic tension between Ethan and Giles as acknowledging that the underlying attraction/affection is still there (and one can run that as non-slashy as you like, it could be a brother thing--no, really!) despite the vastly different roads they've taken. The bond that existed in the Eyghon days and reflected in the two of them getting plastered together as they relived the old days is strong, but the two of them get close to each other and panic.
A journey, of sorts, reflecting them traveling around finding the potentials. Learning to trust each other again, if they ever truly did, while resisting the impulse to lash out and keep their distance from each other.
I think I'll send that theme wandering around the mental thesaurus, see what words stick.
Different lines and scenes from Deb's stories have been running through my head each time I wake up
I've been thinking about it all day, too! And even as Deb is asking Connie for more, I'm still waving my "Deb, Please Write More Amanda!" flag.
Maybe just a play on 'Potential'. It can refer to the Potentials, it could refer to the reawakened relationship...
The best titles are all portmanteaus.
Crap, you just cannot use the word "faith" in anything without people expecting The Other Slayer. Mmffh.
Will get food, continue to think.
The more I think about it, the two iconic images from connie's story are the exploding library and the two-faced coin.
If this were part of a
funny
series, "Ethan Rayne, Agent of J.A.N.U.S." would be cool.
"Fighting Chaos with Chaos" keeps leaping to the top of my primal soup, but I don't like the flow of the syllables.
Gods, it feels so pretentious to wonder if Shakespeare paced around trying to come up wtih titles. Sure, "The Tragicall History of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark" is easy, but "Much Ado About Nothing," how long did it take to come up with that?
Connie, I like something handles the two-faced aspect, myself. It's like the old college philosophy prof says, "you can't see both sides of a coin at once without a mirror. And even then, you can't see its edge."
Huh. Never even occurred to me before to write anything more about Amanda; where would that go? I mean - she was young, she was Rupert's honey, she was the first Slayer in history who was born to Other Things (a more powerful witch than she was slayer) and she was physically handicapped at about twenty. So, where would that story be - in terms of her life, that is? Post-spell screwup, her travels through other dimensions? Amanda the Teenaged Witch-Slayer?
I'd like to hear about her relationship with Giles (because I have a soft spot for Giles -- hell, who doesn't?), how her time as Slayer was different than all the others b/c of her witchy powers, and/or her travels through other dimensions.
I'm just utterly intrigued by her.
