Slow slide to slave

[lit_gal]

I'm in editing hell, so I did a snippet to revive my slowly dying muse. This is dark. And nasty. With a hint of hope (I think). Don't expect more.

Slow Slide to SlaveXander/Angel-Angelus

Comments

[saphicwicca]

It is dark and a bit nasty, but it's still kind of delightful. Not sure what that says about me, but...

[lit_gal]

I wrote it, so I'm not sure what that says about me, except that editing puts me in a foul mood.

[velvetwhip]

I LOVE THIS!

The craving for darkness... yes, I have it!

You did an excellent job at showing the awakening of Angel's demon and the way it's controlling the action. Xander's not the only slave, is he?

Gabrielle

[lit_gal]

There is darkness in this universe, and there always will be. In the next snippet, there's also some light.

And you're right that Angelus is getting his way with Angel and Xander.

[hawk_soaring]

Ooh... LOVED this. Rawr!

[lit_gal]

Thank you so much

[mulder200]

Hm. It looks like Xander isn't the only slave here. Angel is just as much to Angelus.

[lit_gal]

By not stopping the spell, Angel opened the door to a whole new universe here.

[anonymous]

Heh - I'm usually in the other camp - I prefer some hope to follow my darkness; but then again, I can't appreciate tragedy, so I clearly have no taste! :-D anyway, ithe story does it's job, so to each their own. :-)

Of cour you realize, I now can't help but offer up another idea for your muse to maybe nibble on. :-P

I've had this idea for months, that, for various reasons, the Claimings 'verse is a different reality or dimension - perhaps one slightly more 'demony' than ours' - and that Rownt psychology and even physiology would be perfectly compatible with them being part demon in their bloodline, albeit ones that 'tamed', or redirected, that part of their nature to more productive directions. I know all my prompts seem to come back to Buffy x-over, but I'd had the impression that your 'Claimings' series fealt more like your fanfic than your original work, and I think this is why. :-)

Hope your mother's doing well, and that you've had time to catch up on your 'to be read' backlog. *poke* *poke*. :-)

Joel

[lit_gal]

I think there is some hope here, but it is a darker universe, that's for sure.

And I can see that what Buffy calls demons could quite easily be called dimensional aliens. I've played with that idea in my STargate crossovers.

[anonymous]

Honestly, I think it's an unfortunate tick with some writers, the way everything not explicitly 'fantasy' type magic is defined as, well, not. I.E., one X-men fanfic I've seen mentiones 'new' mutants initially mistaking their powers for magic, and a couple or trek fics distinguish the powers of Q from Buffy type magic. And the practical differences would be...? I would venture that the same goes for 'inter-dimensional aliens/demons'.

By the same token, spells which, using certain ingredients under certain conditions, reliably produce the same, predictable result, shouldn't be automatically be written as that incomprehensible to a fair-minded man of science and logic. It's a rather different thing from a miracle, after all.

Both conventions are a bit silly, if you think about it. :-D

Joel