dragonyphoenix

Okay, I've got a Watcher. Quentin's nephew. Probably about a decade younger than Giles. He wants information that's proprietary to the Council and is also something he's not supposed to be getting into. Men of the Taylor family have worked for Cecil's family, on Council business, for generations. Jeremy Taylor is working directly for the Council and has access to the information Cecil wants.

So, Cecil is going to ask him for the data, but Cecil, being an idiot, is going to have them meet someplace that 1) screams "I'm trying to be clandestine" and 2) is someplace he generally would't be seen since he considers Jeremy to be a social inferior. Oh, and it should be in or near London since I'm guesstimating that's where Council HQ is located.

Any ideas? Thanks!

Title: In a Corner of My Soul
Chapter: Prologue posted on AO3 because it's too long for LJ
Fandom: BtVS
Summary: Giles as the Big Bad of season 1. Original concept from Red Satin Doll's meta post
Rating: I think it's only PG
Concrit: Please, in comments
Disclaimer: They aren't mine, not yet, but they will be... once I've taken over the world! Bwah-ha-ha
Note:

• Many thanks to pickamix for the wonderful banner.


• Thanks to Gabrielle for suggestion Giles hadn't completely broken away from Eyghon


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• My prologue is too long for LJ. My prologue! It's possible I don't quite grasp the concept but there was so much pre-series that I needed to set up.

I just did a rewatch to get info for a couple of scenes of my Giles as the Big Bad story.

I vaguely recall first seeing this movie in the theater but don't recall whether I liked it or not. After I got into BtVS, the TV version, I did watch the movie again and hated it. This time I rather liked it. I thought quite a bit of it was funny. I particularly liked Pike's "You're floating. Go away." moment.

pickamix made a banner for my Giles as the Big Bad story. Isn't it awesome!

pickamix made me an excellent evil!Giles image for my Giles as the Big Bad story, which is taking forever but I am working on. Anyway, check it out. It's perfect!

I have some things I'm trying to work out for my story and I could use feedback. BtVS, naturally.

During Never Kill a Boy on the First Date, in my verse Buffy and Rupert go to the funeral home before her date with Owen, meaning her date isn't interrupted and she doesn't break up with them. Possibly before or during I Robot; You Jane, Owen sees Buffy slaying and starts patrolling on his own but what would their relationship be like until then?

Evil!Giles introduces Willow to tantra, not directly because he doesn't want anything to get back to Buffy, but he manipulates Willow into "borrowing" some books. Part of what she reads involves violating boundaries and so I'm trying to work out what kinds of boundaries first season Willow would break. I'm thinking light and possibly humorous things like eating a ham sandwich and then folding up the wrapper really small before throwing the wrapper away so nobody will see it and guess what she's done. What other things might she do?

I couldn't resist. I just finished my first draft of the "Nightmares" episode for an early season rewrite I'm doing. Damn but that rewriting that ep dragged on and on and on!

Yes! *doing the happy dance*

I'm writing a fanfic with Giles as the Big Bad and I've finally finished my first draft of "The Puppet Show" episode's rewrite. Damn but that chapter dragged on forever and ever and ever.

Happy. Happy. Happy.

In the eight episode -  i, robot ... you, jane - why is Giles having his texts scanned? Jenny makes some comment about an index and a database but Giles hasn't gone near it. Given how much of a Luddite Giles is, the database is obviously not for him. He has no interest in using it at all.

And Gabrielle nailed it: You could use Eyghon. Perhaps Giles didn't actually break off his whole "demon possession" fun.

The idea is that Ripper, either because he was more prideful than the rest of the group or because he thought of it first, performed a ritual that made him Eyghon's priest. This opened a permanent connection between them. It was in this ritual that Randall (is that the name of the one who died back then?) died, which sent a shockwave through the group, breaking them up and sending Rupert back to the Council. However because of the connection, Eyghon has been able to influence and corrupt Rupert over the years. Rupert's plan, as he arrives at the Hellmouth and takes over as Buffy's Watcher, is to corrupt the Slayer line by calling Eyghon down into the Scythe. He could replace the First Slayer as the root of the Slayer power-base which would allow Eyghon to possess them as they are called.

However, since I only saw season 7 once and that was about four or five years back, I need some background on the Scythe. Would this plan work?

Edited: Oh, and the original idea for Giles as the Big Bad came from Red Satin Doll's meta post.

More edits: And another question. I'm thinking that Giles will be a corruptor. For example, he'll notice Willow's power and lead her toward dark magics very early on. But I'm not sure what he might do to corrupt Xander. Maybe I'll get some ideas as I'm watching the episodes but maybe not. He's going to want to keep Willow alive so he'll have access to her power. His motivation to keep Xander around will be that he will want to use Xander's death to weaken Buffy if she starts getting out of line (or what he would consider out of line). So, Xander there for that reason but while Xander is there, Rupert will certainly not resist doing something corrupting. I'm just not sure what.