Question to ponder about the future of the canon...

[lavinialavender]

Hello wonderful baby fandom!

I'm really pleased to see how this community and the fandom is thriving - so much wonderful art, fic, and impromptu collaborated medleys. I've never been part of such a small fandom, especially in its infancy, so this is a neat experience.

I greatly enjoyed TDL - really, it's a stunningly good first novel from an author

Comments

[skirmish_of_wit]

I've thought about that, too, and I hope that it is something that she addresses later

[lap_otter]

or that conflicts could just be handwaved

I have a guess at what this means based on context and personal experience, but why don't you tell me what it actually means and I'll see if I'm right?

[skirmish_of_wit]

Well, I was primarily talking about the fact that Nick doesn't like Jamie, so if at any point they're going to work together without Alan being there, it will require a good deal of explanation and not something like "And Nick was so angry that he turned to Jamie and said, 'Let's kill these f'ing magicians,'" upon which they become a magic crimefighting duo. And also about the fact that Nick doesn't really seem to function as a human without Alan, so there would need to be a lot of groundwork laid to justify his reacting to Alan's death without basically blowing up the world

[lavinialavender]

Nick doesn't really seem to function as a human without Alan
Excellent point. I too wonder if another arc of the series will be how Nick's level of humanity develops - if Alan seeks to work with him on that or not.

Although if she's of the school that asks, "What's the worst thing that could possibly happen to my main character?" and then does it
ACK - I never got the impression she had a trend for being that sadistic from her fanfic.

Random musings

[caecandy]

I think the real question is whether Nick returning to his body negated Alan freeing him.

If it didn't, he may be free in the world after his body dies, or able to keep it from aging-- or maybe try to prevent Alan aging? I'm sensing a fic here.

If it did negate it, then he'll go back to the demon world when he dies and from there the question would be if Alan and his memories would keep Nick from trying to get back to the human world. Would he keep possessing people?

Or would Alan re-free him before he dies? Could Nick recreate a body and live as an immortal being? ...would he want to?

Re: Random musings

[glorafin]

That's the real question. I had the impression that Nick having been freed once, he was onw free to leave and re-enter his body at will, but maybe it doesn't... We know so little about what demons can actually do that it's difficult to know for sure.

Re: Random musings

[karaethon]

This is something I've been thinking about in great detail, since I'm in the process of writing a fic based on almost this very subject. I noticed when Nick returned to his body, a mention of the sensation as being like "putting too much water into a cardboard box. It felt for a moment as though the body might burst." Or something like that anyway. I don't have it in front of me. It's hard to say what exactly that means. Is it just Sarah's description of what the demon feels during possession? Possibly

Wait! New idea...

[caecandy]

Okay, since we've already narrowed it down to Alan early death=bad, Alan old man death=bad, but possibly just curl-in-on-self bad rather than kill-everyone-in-the-world bad, I have a new idea!

What if Alan were to get married? We know he wants to. One day Alan will have to move on-- unless, of course you are an Alan/Nick shipper... like me. Will Nick be alone or moved in like Olivia as the Really!Angry!uncle? Could Alan have a child that Nick grows to like? A little wide-eyed one that talks to him and reminds him of Alan so much he can't hate it.

I'm thinking Family!Heirloom!Nick, an uncle that is pretty much immortal watching over each of the kids, because Alan and Alan jr. have diluted the anger a bit and even when he doesn't like the kids, the fact they are related to Alan keeps him there, keeps him in check. (And maybe one day when the body dies he'll be like one of these family guardian spirits (The type they don't really believe in any more, but the old people swear by.)and watches over Alan's bloodline? Plot Bunny! *hinthint

[out_briefcandle]

(um, hi, I'm new...)

I've been wondering about that as well, but I think the really important thing to remember is that, despite his long existance as a Demon, as a human he's really only sixteen years old. He turned sixteen what, a month before the book began? A sixteen year old for whom his brother is his whole life, which would be true for any boy raised as he was regardless of whether he was a demon or not. He rarely lived in any one place long enough for physical landmarks to become familiar. Since he was nine Alan was all he had. He wouldn't be anything like well-adjusted even if he was human. That's the state he was in when he was freed by Alan, and he returned for his brother's sake

[evelynlela]

http://community.livejournal.com/lexiconfiction/
um there, a comm for fic and what not, I'll get back to setting it up.