five thousand more - Highlander - PG, gen, Methos

[tigriswolf]

Title: five thousand more
Fandom: Highlander
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: spoilers for everything?
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 290
Point of view: third
Notes: inspired by pprfaith’s “ a storyteller’s prerogative”; hers is better

Comments

[marbleglove]

Very, very nice. 5,000 is such a round number, especially when no one knows when he was born exactly, that it's easy to imagine that millenia just slipping by without anyone noticing. (I wonder when some enterprising watcher will look at a thousand-year-old document referring to the 5,000-year-old Methos and begin to think.) This story/character study shows what it's like for Methos once he's stopped counting. He's just old. He's always been old. He always will be old.

Wonderful.

[tigriswolf]

Thank you so very much!

[pprfaith]

I like it. Especially the 'strip away civilization' part and, sue me, but I love the title. You are so much better with titles than I can ever hope to be.

[tigriswolf]

I really like titles. *hee*

Thank you!

[romyra]

(He’s been five thousand and he survives.)

Somewhat chilling but in a good way.

[tigriswolf]

Thank you for reading!

[trovia]

This is quite beautiful. I enjoyed it a lot.

[tigriswolf]

Thank you!

[zigsternenstaub]

Perfect, perfect, perfect! I've read other stories in which Methos is older than five thousand, but always there was an element there of the author being tired of this number, of it not being old *enough,* whereas your story is more about how people fail to notice the passage of time, fail to adjust their myths accordingly, and Methos fails to correct them.

[tigriswolf]

Thank you so very much!