I know what I'm doing tomorrow...

[gryphonrhi]

My favorite Highlander has a birthday coming up -- his 495th, to be precise.  (Connor MacLeod, born January 1st, 1518; still with us.  What fourth movie?)  So I thought I'd spend the day before Connor's birthday writing short fics* -- a few sentences, three or four paragraphs -- if you guys wanted to give me prompts, other characters for him to

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[just_ustas]

o, happy birthday to connor, immortal hero!
in my childhood i was absolutely smitten by this film and i fall in love with highlander universe. then were duncan and methos, joe and amanda... but connor invited us in this world. it was start of the great adventure.

[gryphonrhi]

He's a glorious imperfect man! Many happy returns of the day!

[keerawa]

I'd love to read a sci-fi or magical crossover fic where Connor is a bystander in a crowd and accidentally outs himself as Other when something insane/impossible/horrifying happens because he is completely calm or possibly even amused by it.

[gryphonrhi]

...how do you feel about Avengers? Say, set in the Opportunities-verse?

[keerawa]

Ooh, sounds fantastic!

Can't Get Behind The Line When It's A Cluster(f*ck), pt 1

[gryphonrhi]

Bloody LJ... I like the DW comment lengths better! Okay. Here. Have part 1!

His quickening crawled suddenly, spiking in surges until it felt like someone was yanking barbed wire under the skin. It was all Connor could do to hold silent, bent over his mug and wondering if someone had dropped something in his coffee, if the government had gone mad enough to try some new energy weapon in the middle of Manhattan… and then it leveled out

[springwoof]

Given your incredible Due South/Buffy crossover, it would be amazing to see Connor interacting with characters of either show.

Snow Bound

[gryphonrhi]

"You're trespassing, I'll have you know."

The intruder ignored him -- rude, that; Bob could tell this one had heard him -- and kept building up the fire. He knew what he was doing, Bob'd give him that much at least. Minimum of kindling and paper, maximum air flow to start the fire blazing quickly, and then he had enough sense to leave it alone to grow properly.

Meanwhile, the man nodded and started stripping out of his wet clothes. Well. If he was that soaked, Buck wouldn't mind the loan of his cabin, even if it had taken him a month of weekends to fix up the damage from the wendigos. Then he took a better look at the knives strapped under the clothes.

"Well, well. Beautiful steel in those. Gomai layering?"

That brought him around. No shame about being naked either, just a narrow-eyed glare. "You can see through sheathes

Re: Snow Bound

[springwoof]

Oh yeah, very cool!

I especially liked:

Buck wouldn't mind the loan of his cabin, even if it had taken him a month of weekends to fix up the damage from the wendigos.
Bwahahahaha!

and

"...Bob Fraser. Sergeant, actually."

That got a quick grin. "...Nice to meet another sergeant, then, even if you are a Fraser." Bob started to take offense, right up until he heard, "I'm Connor MacLeod."
..."Hmm. Well, that explains your manners...."
HA! and Ha ha!!

Delightful, m'dear!

Re: Snow Bound

[gryphonrhi]

::laughing:: It's good for Bob. Saves him waiting on Buck for pinochle games when Caroline's got Bob sleeping on the metaphorical couch again.

Yeah, it was pointed out by Dragon that I had just put a MacLeod coping with a Fraser. ::grins:: Those lines were last second additions. Glad you liked them, I snickered too!

Thanks!

[mackiedockie]

Excellent! Just like Connor to know how to raise a clan against marauders with no warning, training or time. Fury will have his hands full!

[gryphonrhi]

::laughing:: Connor didn't even raise them. They just congregated around him and then took directions because his made sense!

Fury definitely will, but given SHIELD's losses in that movie, I daresay they *are* recruiting now! Glad you liked!

[nessa5]

:)

[gryphonrhi]

::laughing:: I'm not sure which you liked, but I'm glad you liked it/them!