Writing Meme

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Fic meme:

Pick a paragraph (or any passage less than 500 words) from any fanfic I've written, and comment to this post with that selection. I will then give you a DVD commentary on that snippet: what I was thinking when I wrote it, why I wrote it in the first place, what's going on in the character's heads, why I chose certain words, what this moment means in the context of the rest of the fic, lots of awful puns, and anything else that you'd expect to find on a DVD commentary track.

My fic can be found here.

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In the Here be Dragons ‘verse I wanted to use a character that could allow Faith and Buffy to remain in prison while they worked out the perfect escape scenario. I needed someone that was attached to them, but in the same moment they would do what needed to be done. We saw Andrew’s ability to manipulate when he murdered Jonathan, when he led someone he considered a friend and ally to their death with a smile on his face. It was in that episode that I started to see the strength behind all of his whining.

In my notes Andrew discovers where Faith and Buffy are nearly three years before and begins to use his influence to inform Connor of who they were and what they could mean for the Resistance. He continues slip in random comments so that the seeds are planted so that when Connor is taken to the Century Work Camp he puts forth a great effort decipher if Faith and Buffy are there and how to get them out when he frees the rest of SkyNet’s prisoners. (I haven’t yet decided on if Andrew knew of Connor’s possible capture and simply ‘failed’ to tell him.)

The events leading up to Andrew’s personality shift are, of course, Judgment Day, but thanks to the United States Military keeping tabs on the Sunnydale crew after Initiative fiasco SkyNet targets the Watcher’s Council during it’s first nuclear strike. Willow and the Devon Coven are also destroyed in that first wave which is the main reason behind Faith and Buffy having almost no contact with other Slayers after Judgment Day.

Andrew was shown to be adept at certain magics and helpful to Warren with his inventions. He’s adaptable and smart and willing to kill. I can see Andrew surviving in the Terminator world whether it be working for the humans or the machines. If Judgment Day happened before Warren’s death I would call a toss up between the two, but since this ‘verse happens after I’m certain he’d work with the Resistance or use the Resistance to work for him.

Hope that explains my reasoning behind Andrew.