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Distress Signals by Peaceheather
Chapter: Airport, Male Bonding
08/26/2012 07:34 am
Nice to have a story where Xander is grown up and has learned not to hate and be so narrow minded - It takes life and time to teach you that.
I've gotten a lot of comments about my Xander; I'd read so many stories that showed him as an ass or an idiot, and I wanted to offer something different. Plus what I saw of him in season 7 suggested that this kind of growth was really possible.
02/19/2012 08:25 pm
Spike's reason for choosing the cane was fun. It's hard to create too much mayhem with crutches, but a cane has so many great possibilities.
Spike and Xander bonding is lovely. I much prefer them as friends. The "Well, I can bite you to ease your mind about having a diease" was just too funny.
I'm starting to wonder at Giles taking Buffy's shutting him out so well. Doesn't seem like him.
I have a friend with a black belt and he was required to train in cane techniques. That hooked handle is WAY more useful than I ever would have imagined it...
Giles isn't taking it well, but she's shut him out pretty effectively. It wasn't really within the scope of this story to include much from his side of the argument - I wanted it to be about Spike and Buffy as much as possible.
Glad you appreciated the Spike/Xander moments.
Giles isn't taking it well, but she's shut him out pretty effectively. It wasn't really within the scope of this story to include much from his side of the argument - I wanted it to be about Spike and Buffy as much as possible.
Glad you appreciated the Spike/Xander moments.
Saggit
02/15/2012 02:50 am
Very nice chapter: really good exploration of personalities and interactions for Spike and Mature!Xander. And just in general well written, with some lighter touches filtering in like the sun breaking through the clouds. Needed, after the angst that preceded it.
I'm really enjoying the full piece. Usually wait for a completed work, but the first two chapters, with Figg and Buffy's dealing with Giles, got me hooked. Reminds me just a bit in its quiet, meditative moments of an old favorite of mine, Bag of Bones, which I've read several times,. Will definitely do as much, here. Thank you. :)
I'm really enjoying the full piece. Usually wait for a completed work, but the first two chapters, with Figg and Buffy's dealing with Giles, got me hooked. Reminds me just a bit in its quiet, meditative moments of an old favorite of mine, Bag of Bones, which I've read several times,. Will definitely do as much, here. Thank you. :)
Your review prompted me to go and find Bag of Bones. I definitely see what you mean by meditative, but I'm not sure how many of those moments I really managed to capture. Still, it's a heck of a compliment compariing me to what I read last night. Thank you!
TwilightChild
02/14/2012 07:55 pm
I love the fact that you mentioned Jesse in this. I always felt that the series mostly forgot him. He didn't exist before the first episode and he didn't exist or never existed after his death. It made him a character that wasn't a character, or that was just there for convenience.
It's funny, leading up to mentioning him I was thinking about that... thinking about what Xander could possibly say and it's like your story read my mind. ;-)
Love this talk. Great character voices and everything.
It's funny, leading up to mentioning him I was thinking about that... thinking about what Xander could possibly say and it's like your story read my mind. ;-)
Love this talk. Great character voices and everything.
You're very kind. I haven't watched the entire show, so there's a lot I don't have in my brain, and what I do have seems to be a bit off-kilter from the general consensus. Hence, Jesse.
Glad you liked!
Glad you liked!
Jane
02/14/2012 01:59 pm
So the gangs back together again, I wonder what Gile's would make of it. All his chidren have grown up and basically denounced him. To a large degree his authority within the council was based on his relationship with Buffy and the Scoobs. I wish we could see his reaction to recent events. Great update
Not so much denounced as *re*nounced the manipulating and such. Giles' usual tactics are the kind of thing you can do with kids and sometimes need to, because they don't know any better, but which really don't fly with actual adults. The Scoobies are growing up and starting, finally, to break out of those old patterns.
Not sure I'll include Giles in here directly, though I do plan an indirect reference toward the very end.
Thanks again!
Not sure I'll include Giles in here directly, though I do plan an indirect reference toward the very end.
Thanks again!
02/14/2012 12:10 pm
You excelled with the conversation between Spike and Xander, I've never read a better view of X's feelings about vampires or Spike's explanations, absolutely brilliant. I hope Willow is being completely honest.
Wow, thanks! I've wanted to include that vignette for awhile and it never seemed the right time. I was starting to think I'd need to write it as a separate stand-alone thing, and then this moment came along.
Willow is trying her best. Whether or not she succeeds in future is not really within the scope of this story, unless I wanted to add about 50 thousand more words to it. And I DON'T. :)
Willow is trying her best. Whether or not she succeeds in future is not really within the scope of this story, unless I wanted to add about 50 thousand more words to it. And I DON'T. :)
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