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How Wars Are Won

Jun 08, 2014 07:03

Title: How Wars Are Won
Author: punch_kicker15
Rating: PG/FRT
Characters: Giles, Willow
Timeframe: Lies My Parents Told Me/Orpheus
Summary: Genfic. Giles and Willow have a conversation before Willow leaves for LA.
Word count: 1817

( How Wars Are Won )

rating: pg/frt, z_creator: punch_kicker15, fic type: gen

Comments 22

sunclouds33 June 9 2014, 03:46:07 UTC

Great story. I love fill-i-the-blank canon fic. I am also amused that from a distance with only the barest bone facts, AI *purposefully* bringing out Angelus and losing the jar for his soul just confirms Giles's feelings of contempt toward Wesley.

punch_kicker15 June 9 2014, 04:25:38 UTC

Thanks, I'm glad you liked it! One of the interesting parts of writing this was watching both episodes focusing only how much Willow knew and when she knew it, and it's really not very clear what she knew other than the barest bones. And with the barest bones, it looks pretty bad, especially when Giles already had a negative impression of Wesley.

rbfvid June 9 2014, 10:30:35 UTC

Absolutely awesome missing scene. And these parallels with s2 - exactly how they could be from Giles' perspective.
And that Wesley remark... Now I would really love to see the sequel where Giles and Wes actually meet)

punch_kicker15 June 10 2014, 04:01:27 UTC

Thanks! I'm glad you liked it.

0_ruthless_0 June 9 2014, 19:25:16 UTC

Very nice filler, with both the voices spot on, from Giles's reluctance and aprehension, to his acceptence, and Willow's patent Willow-ness. :).

Nice job, and thanks for sharing.

punch_kicker15 June 10 2014, 04:02:52 UTC

Thanks! It's great to hear that I got the voices right.

gilescandy June 10 2014, 05:51:38 UTC

Excellent work. Both characters are very well done. I always loved how Giles and Willow would try to protect each other, but they knew each other too well to get away with it. You showed that perfectly. I also loved the glimpses into Giles thoughts about Angel and Spike. His actions were always so logical to me, I never got why most people freak out. Beside, I think, if Giles really wanted the job done right, he would have done it himself.

punch_kicker15 June 11 2014, 03:30:56 UTC

Thanks, I'm so glad you liked the Willow and Giles dynamic here. I know how passionate you are about these two. :)

I'm also in the small minority that thinks that Giles' point of view here makes much more logical sense than Buffy's. I just don't get what her plan was to protect people from triggered Spike when he wouldn't work on the trigger and wasn't being restrained in any way. I get that killing Spike is a non-starter with a lot of fans, but it honestly felt to me like Buffy and Spike were recklessly disregarding everyone else's safety for no good reason, and Buffy wouldn't even talk about any alternatives.

There's a lot of criticism about Giles undermining Buffy's authority/going behind her back. But Willow is also going behind Buffy's back in the same freaking episode re: Angel, and I don't recall seeing any criticism of Willow on that issue ever, even by people who love to hate her. It's weird.

littleotter73 June 10 2014, 12:59:14 UTC

Great missing scene! I've only managed to get through 1.5 seasons of Angel before I had to turn it off (I know, bad Whedon fan), but there have been enough spoilers in fic and on tumblr, that I know enough of what transpired in the show. Anyway, spot on with the characters. They felt very real and I particularly liked how Willow called Giles out on his weird and distant behaviour. Nice way to address that. :) Well done. I really enjoyed it!

punch_kicker15 June 11 2014, 03:13:08 UTC

Thanks, I'm so glad you liked it, and am delighted to hear that I got the characters right.