A. My first Amy fic, is my third Buffy fic--second to be completed--written in 2004 when Angel was still on the air and I didn't even know that LiveJournal existed. It was, quite simply, a fanwank of "The Killer in Me." And that was and is a large part of what attracted and attracts me to Amy: she appears in every season but season 5, but it's never quite the same Amy Madison, and it's fascinating trying to fill in the gaps to figure out she got from the mild-mannered identity theft victim of season 1 (not to mention the brownie-loving friend of Willow who came before but we never got to see) to hex-throwing Wicca with coven we see in season 7 (not even to mention the season 8 comics!). Each version of Amy we see is fascinating and interesting and complex in her own way, and I love them all. True Love was a response to rewatching BB&B and reallizing just how much I loved Amy's role in that episode (it's one of the better parts of a so-so ep, IMHO).
Also, she's constantly invoking Hecate to work Her will, which I find fascinating.
(Ficlet!Amy--the Amy of About Power (Amy/Illyria) and other shorter pieces--is written by me as being a lot more power-hungry than Watcher!verse Amy, because I'm trying to get to the sex a lot faster.) B. She is able to adapt. The Scoobies work by trying to twist the universe to meet their goals and objectives; Amy twists her goals and objectives to meet the realities of the universe.
C. She is selfish and doesn't care what happens to other people, or at least likes to act as if that were true, a la Faith (which is why the two of them would have such a fascinating dynamic together, and why they really worked as a pairing for me when I wrote Triangle).
D. Hmm. The words usually come. My assumption that she does know what she's talking about and does understand the balance between light and dark does need to be reined in sometime to keep her from becoming some type of noncanonically saintly figure. I had the most difficulty with this in Before Thee Let the Unclean Thing Crawl, in which Amy acts in a mentorship position towards Harmony.
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Date: 2007-09-09 12:18 am (UTC)Also, she's constantly invoking Hecate to work Her will, which I find fascinating.
(Ficlet!Amy--the Amy of About Power (Amy/Illyria) and other shorter pieces--is written by me as being a lot more power-hungry than Watcher!verse Amy, because I'm trying to get to the sex a lot faster.)
B. She is able to adapt. The Scoobies work by trying to twist the universe to meet their goals and objectives; Amy twists her goals and objectives to meet the realities of the universe.
C. She is selfish and doesn't care what happens to other people, or at least likes to act as if that were true, a la Faith (which is why the two of them would have such a fascinating dynamic together, and why they really worked as a pairing for me when I wrote Triangle).
D. Hmm. The words usually come. My assumption that she does know what she's talking about and does understand the balance between light and dark does need to be reined in sometime to keep her from becoming some type of noncanonically saintly figure. I had the most difficulty with this in Before Thee Let the Unclean Thing Crawl, in which Amy acts in a mentorship position towards Harmony.