You're so so good. This is wonderful. I thought that this series had a great deal of potential when you started it, but I can't believe how sharp and vivid and addictive it's become.
Now that it was dark and they was no buffer Niced timing -- I was just thinking how well Paddy functions as a buffer character. The moments of tension that descend when Xander and Oz are alone are almost startling given the playful nature of the scenes in which Paddy whows up.
His own broken soul. Which was not up for discussion. Sad that Xander gets it and doesn't want to get it.
I really thought the confrontation about Oz's recalcitrance worked well. Xander's past the stage of just seeing it as cool or envying Oz for his demeanor, and wants give-and-take.
I remember you very differently than you are now. Smart line -- made me think and realize with some surprise how very much Xander has changed since Oz was in the narrative. This angle that they have a history and yet have changed so much that they're strangers to one another provides an intriguing depth to even their simple interactions.
as the kiss deepened, starting a burn somewhere dark in him, a place he'd been certain got buried along with Sunnydale. Effective and so poignant.
Beautiful through and through in two later passages in particular -- Xander's unexpected thought about the tiny freedoms of this place and being with Oz, and the aching yet comforting feeling of the blessings of Xander's dead in the last paragraph.
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Date: 2004-03-17 06:14 am (UTC)Now that it was dark and they was no buffer
Niced timing -- I was just thinking how well Paddy functions as a buffer character. The moments of tension that descend when Xander and Oz are alone are almost startling given the playful nature of the scenes in which Paddy whows up.
His own broken soul. Which was not up for discussion.
Sad that Xander gets it and doesn't want to get it.
I really thought the confrontation about Oz's recalcitrance worked well. Xander's past the stage of just seeing it as cool or envying Oz for his demeanor, and wants give-and-take.
I remember you very differently than you are now.
Smart line -- made me think and realize with some surprise how very much Xander has changed since Oz was in the narrative. This angle that they have a history and yet have changed so much that they're strangers to one another provides an intriguing depth to even their simple interactions.
as the kiss deepened, starting a burn somewhere dark in him, a place he'd been certain got buried along with Sunnydale.
Effective and so poignant.
Beautiful through and through in two later passages in particular -- Xander's unexpected thought about the tiny freedoms of this place and being with Oz, and the aching yet comforting feeling of the blessings of Xander's dead in the last paragraph.
Excellent chapter.