Thanks! And that's fine by me. :) Though any Buffy fan really should watch Return Of The Living Dead; horror comedy at its very finest.
Willow trying to maintain her humanity while she goes more godlike while Illyria tries to prevent humanity seeping in while she comes closer to us
Exactly! I often start my fics with some short epigram, but I couldn't think of one that fit this fic - until just yesterday, so here it is:
Humans need fantasy to be human, to be the place where the fallen angel meets the rising ape. - Terry Pratchett
Also, off-topic and probably just a coincidence, but I just found this out the other day, re: Willow's identity. Of course, the story beind a lot of Jewish surnames is empress Maria Theresa decided to "integrate" them by giving them German-sounding names. (It didn't really work.) What I didn't know was that one of the people hired to come up with credible names was... ETA Hoffmann, of The Nutcracker fame. One of the names he came up with was "Rosenberg." Willow's name was made up by the father of the horror genre. (And Fred had her first sexual dream about the Mouse King.)
(And speaking of classic horror movies, she shares a first name with Britt Ekland's character in wicca-inspired The Wicker Man, whose father is Lord Summersisle, played by Dracula Christopher Lee... but now I'm really reaching.)
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Willow trying to maintain her humanity while she goes more godlike while Illyria tries to prevent humanity seeping in while she comes closer to us
Exactly! I often start my fics with some short epigram, but I couldn't think of one that fit this fic - until just yesterday, so here it is:
Humans need fantasy to be human, to be the place where the fallen angel meets the rising ape.
- Terry Pratchett
Also, off-topic and probably just a coincidence, but I just found this out the other day, re: Willow's identity. Of course, the story beind a lot of Jewish surnames is empress Maria Theresa decided to "integrate" them by giving them German-sounding names. (It didn't really work.) What I didn't know was that one of the people hired to come up with credible names was... ETA Hoffmann, of The Nutcracker fame. One of the names he came up with was "Rosenberg." Willow's name was made up by the father of the horror genre. (And Fred had her first sexual dream about the Mouse King.)
(And speaking of classic horror movies, she shares a first name with Britt Ekland's character in wicca-inspired The Wicker Man, whose father is Lord Summersisle, played by
DraculaChristopher Lee... but now I'm really reaching.)