XIII -- voice -- filtered from Drusilla;

[breakmychest]

[Guess who just reached School Hard in his Buffy rewatch? It was a weird experience. On the bright side, Spike comes off as very cool, and the part where he incinerated the Anointed One, well, he's just bloody badass. There's a small part of him that's flattered at the part where Angel talks about how terrifying an enemy he is. And of course, he and Buffy fight brilliantly together. Even if it's just actors, and it's... bloody weird. He's already decided that watching the commentary and such is more than he can take.

He also isn't crazy about seeing himself kill again. And watching Buffy with Angel, knowing how that'll turn out, seeing things he was clearly never meant to witness. Then there's Drusilla. The former love of his life, back when things were good between the two of them. Her being here is confusing and difficult and he wishes he weren't this affected. But he's always love's bitch, even if he's no longer in love with the woman in question.

God, he misses Buffy.]

So, who's found out they're fictional somewhere? And if you have, did you manage to find it? Did you bother looking? Was it... like your life?

[A pause.]

One of the new inmates, Drusilla, she's from my world. She's bloody insane and incredibly deadly. [It's one of those things he used to love about her.] I think she doesn't have a warden yet, so I guess you can talk to me if she gives you trouble. If anyone can help, it's me. Probably.

Comments

[Video]

[bigbad]

I put that poorly. No one here's fictional, but with different universes... sometimes there are fictions in other worlds. [A pause.] Who're you?

[Video]

[so-meretricious.livejournal.com]

Indeed, there are quite often fictions in one's own time.

I am Sherlock Holmes. Whom might I have the pleasure of addressing?

[Video]

[bigbad]

Spike. And I hate to break it to you, but you're definitely fictional where I'm from.

[Video]

[so-meretricious.livejournal.com]

[Processing...]

An interesting proposition, Mr. Spike. I imagine you have discovered someone or something that has decreed you similarity fictional?

[Video]

[bigbad]

Just Spike. And yeah, someone did. And now I've been watching the DVDs.

[Video]

[so-meretricious.livejournal.com]

[Why so familiar, modern times?]

Pardon me, what is it that you've been watching?

[Video]

[bigbad]

[Hey, it's not like he's got an actual last name. That he'll admit to, anyway.]

Oh, right, you wouldn't know what that is. Um, you know how right now we're talking through this little moving picture device? It's like that, but recorded.

[Video]

[so-meretricious.livejournal.com]

[What kind of name is Spike, anyway?]

Ah. To watch your life play out before you on a stage, as it were. I understand I have been portrayed thusly countless times myself. You are perhaps braver than I, to subject yourself to such media.

[Video]

[bigbad]

[This from "Sherlock?"]

Back home, I risk my life more or less daily. I can take a bit of discomfort.

[Video]

[so-meretricious.livejournal.com]

[It is a perfectly respectable name.]

And what is it you do that puts your life in such great and constant peril?

[Video]

[bigbad]

[Keep telling yourself that.]

Fight evil, mostly. Save the world, that sort of thing.

[Video]

[so-meretricious.livejournal.com]

[...Just because Baby Name Guesser (http://www.gpeters.com/names/baby-names.php?name=Sherlock) thinks it's a girl's name is no reason to deride it.]

Would that be an official position?

[Video]

[bigbad]

[Pfft.]

...well, it's not really something I'd put on my résumé, if I had one, but it's recognized by the Powers That Be.