The Greatest Meme Ever

[lirazel]

Everybody's doing it! (By everybody, I mean angearia and snickfic, of course!) I don't have any confidence I'll do it nearly as well as they have, but I'll take a whack at it nonetheless because theirs were so fun.


Give me the title of a story I've never written, and feedback telling me what you liked best about it, and I will tell you any of: the first sentence, the last sentence, the thing that made me want to write it, the biggest problem I had while writing it, why it almost never got posted, the scene that hit the cutting room floor but that I wish I'd been able to salvage, or something else that I want readers to know.

Aaaand...GO!

Comments

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes, of course you'd like that one! Cassidy always had an otherworldly quality to him anyways, so deciding to have the Powers That Be choose him? Kinda obvious. And he and Willow did have a ton in common, and Willow definitely reminded me of Mac, so there's that, too.

I'm so glad to know you thought the moral complexities worked! I admit that because I love Cassidy so much, I was worried I might whitewash his behavior too much. But his moral ambiguities did seem to fit very neatly into the Jossverse.

My favorite parts were definitely the foreshadowing of Dark Willow. I had the feeling that Cassidy, as someone who was once innocent and became murderous, would be able to see the potential in Willow. I'm glad it came across so clearly! Actually, the last line was originally supposed to be, Even if nothing could erase that darkness lurking in her. But I went with something a bit more hopeful because, after all, Willow is redeemed in S7.

So yeah, the main endeavor with this story was to make it fit within canon, and I think I managed to pull it off! Plus, Cassidy seeing her potential for darkness really does make Willow's fall in S6 of canon even more depressing, don't you think?

I've thought about writing a sequel where he visits her again during her time in England between S6&7, but I don't have the right angle on it yet. Maybe it'll happen someday!

now everytime I see my favorite River moments, I think "that girl is batshit insane" XD Hee! I'm flattered!

[redsilverchains.livejournal.com]

Sequel should be very cool, specially since Dark Willow was redeemed by love--which was sorely lacking in Cassidy's life *sniff*

Yes, it definitely fit within canon! Nevermind that strictly, the timelines should be incompatible, because it fit so well.

So what was the most amusing scene for you to write? And the most heart-wrenching exchange? And ;)

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

Most amusing? The one with the frog, definitely. So many forget Willow's deathly fear of them, but it's just as much fun as Anya's bunnies!

The most heartwrenching was when Cassidy told Willow about Mac and asked her if she'd look her up and make sure that everything was okay with her.

That would also be an awesome sequel: the friendship between those two girls unfolding offscreen during both their canons!