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So I was *going* to spend this evening making my big 'back from roadtrip, read DH, ps lj is a bitch" post, but of course LJ went down, so I ended up reading the old!fic recs I had open in another tab instead.
This leads to the existential question:
If I do finally write that fic where Methos gets *really* annoyed about Richie dying on Ordeal, and decides to go give his old friend the Lone Power a good hard talking-to about it, should I set it *before* Deep Wizardry, so that Methos can team up with Ed'rashtekaresket, or *after* High Wizardry, so that Methos can team up with Dairine?
(the Young Wizards timeline is sufficiently ... ineffable ... that I can pretty much have Archangel slot in there wherever I feel like it.)
And should Methos have lost his wizardry long ago as a result of dealings with the Lone Power, or be the *original* Immortal Wizard who was tricked into giving up his Wizardry so that his peoples' Choice was never finished, or be an avatar of the Lone Power like Peach was of the Champion (but spent so much time in Duration that he's, well, *changed*), or have him not have come into his wizardry *yet* because he's only now ending his latency period, or have him be just a Really Old Guy with no wizardry at all who's seen a lot and knows where all the bodies are buried?
I'm tempted to go with the last one, or possibly the first one, because I get tired really fast of all the stories where Methos has Super Saint Glowy Powers, as if he's not special enough *already*. On the other hand, if I pick any of the others, I have a ready-made plot, as opposed to just Methos stomping around, pissing off a lot of wizards, and kicking the Lone Power in the face. :D
(The reason he goes off on his own instead of, y'know, helping MacLeod out with *his* embodiment-of-entropy problem is, of course, that Methos is terrified of accidentally letting slip that Mac is obviously an Abdal - he came too damn close to giving it away once already with that Too Important To Lose crack.)
...or I could just put down the Internets already and go re-read Wizard's Holiday now that I finally have a copy.
This leads to the existential question:
If I do finally write that fic where Methos gets *really* annoyed about Richie dying on Ordeal, and decides to go give his old friend the Lone Power a good hard talking-to about it, should I set it *before* Deep Wizardry, so that Methos can team up with Ed'rashtekaresket, or *after* High Wizardry, so that Methos can team up with Dairine?
(the Young Wizards timeline is sufficiently ... ineffable ... that I can pretty much have Archangel slot in there wherever I feel like it.)
And should Methos have lost his wizardry long ago as a result of dealings with the Lone Power, or be the *original* Immortal Wizard who was tricked into giving up his Wizardry so that his peoples' Choice was never finished, or be an avatar of the Lone Power like Peach was of the Champion (but spent so much time in Duration that he's, well, *changed*), or have him not have come into his wizardry *yet* because he's only now ending his latency period, or have him be just a Really Old Guy with no wizardry at all who's seen a lot and knows where all the bodies are buried?
I'm tempted to go with the last one, or possibly the first one, because I get tired really fast of all the stories where Methos has Super Saint Glowy Powers, as if he's not special enough *already*. On the other hand, if I pick any of the others, I have a ready-made plot, as opposed to just Methos stomping around, pissing off a lot of wizards, and kicking the Lone Power in the face. :D
(The reason he goes off on his own instead of, y'know, helping MacLeod out with *his* embodiment-of-entropy problem is, of course, that Methos is terrified of accidentally letting slip that Mac is obviously an Abdal - he came too damn close to giving it away once already with that Too Important To Lose crack.)
...or I could just put down the Internets already and go re-read Wizard's Holiday now that I finally have a copy.