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Date Posted: 19:21:23 03/28/03 Fri
Author: Linda_Delurked
Subject: Oooooh, I like it!
In reply to: crumpet, who loves the flashback eps 's message, "I've written/decided all the backstory" on 19:00:18 03/28/03 Fri

Isabella of Spain. Ha! That sounds like a well thought out backstory, I'm looking forward to it!

It would also be great if Raven suffered because she was the slayer, which I think is the direction you seem to have taken her backstory. My original idea was a slayer who was scarred for life and left with terrifying nightmares after that test Buffy went through in "Helpless" (the one where her powers are taken and she's locked in that creepy house with that horrible vampire who was played by the guy who played Rack.) She refused to speak to the council ever again and ended up becoming close to a vampire who convinced her to let him sire her as she lay dying after a battle.

Yeah I know, quit plugging your ideas Linda. Anyway, the point is that it was the council that made her suffer (in her eyes) and so she slaughtered as many of them as she could get her hands on when she was sired. I think that hatred of being the slayer, and the belief that it only ever leads to pain, would add an extra edge to Raven's battle with Buffy. After all, here is a slayer who has suffered in so many ways and who actually managed to abandon the council and then make them be her tool, and who above all has managed to create a happy life for herself. The more Raven realises that the more she'll hate her, and the more of a failure she'll feel. Sort of like the Faith story, only with fangs.

Okay I think I've wandered several miles off the point, so I'll leave it there. But yes! Loving the hints so far!

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[> [> [> [> I'm only dropping one more hint... -- crumpet, 19:28:16 03/28/03 Fri

My episode is supposed to be a "Buffy & Giles"-centric episode, so the Slayer/Watcher dynamic is going to be very important.

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[> [> [> [> [> Gaaah! You make fun of me during my pain! -- Linda_Delurked - wanna read fic nooooooowwwwww!, 19:53:42 03/28/03 Fri

*sob* You bold person you! Now I'm going to be on tenderhooks 'till that fic is out!

What are tenderhooks anyway? Is there any word on that?

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[> [> [> [> [> [> Ooh I know the answer to that!! -- Sgt. Rock, 20:22:40 03/28/03 Fri

Although the phrase you're thinking of is being on tenterhooks.

They were used to hook wet cloth onto a frame, called a tenter.

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