Magical Theory (Wednesday, 05/03/2006, 4th Period)

[romanywitch]

"Last call for final presentations," said Jenny.

OOC: Feel free to handwave, naturally. Please tell me what grade your character deserves for the course and the presentation.

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Re: Presentations - Magical Theory, 5/3

[soldtoarmenians]

Xander has handouts. They look like stick figures. That's 'cause they are.

If Buffy were here, she wouldn't complain about the hips being too wide, but she'd lift an eyebrow at the size of the tiny stick-figure bazoombas.

"Okay so once upon a time, there was a Girl. But actually it kinda goes like this. Once upon a time there was no girl, and there were demons, and somebody thought they had to do something about it, so they took a girl, little g, and they screwed up her life and turned her into a Girl, big G, and from then on, there was always a once upon a time with a Girl in it. With me so far? {glazed eyes} Riiiiiight.

Okay, so once upon a time there was a Girl who was a Vampire Slayer, that better? And they never have real great lives to start with, or real long ones, but this one had an especially shitty one laid out for her, pardon my non-French. Laid out, because there was a prophecy. A bunch, probably, because there always are with Girls big g, but this one came true -- sort of -- during our... um, her sophomore year, and it went something like this:

The Master will kill the Slayer, and he'll rise, and demons will pour out of this skanky hole in the ground under the library, and we'll all have a fine old time.

I paraphrase a little.

So okay, there's a prophecy, and maybe you can get away from those and maybe you can't. Let's say this is one that's just... Fate. You can't. Nobody's ever got away from a prophecy that came out of this book.

Except in one timeline, there's a Girl, big G, still walking around, and in another, there's not.

One reality, she walked straight into it knowing...or well, thinking, she was gonna die, and hating every second of it. And she did. He left her for dead face down in a pool of water, and she choked. And the Master rose, and demons poured out of the hole in the ground.

Another, she never came to the town with the skanky hole in the ground til way late. Had what you'd call a longer life before she met up with him, if you can call it a life, since she didn't really have any friends, wasn't allowed to care about anything but her job. And she walked straight into it knowing she could die and not caring, because that was what she was there for. And she did. He broke her neck. And the Master rose, and demons poured out of the hole in the ground.

Except in the first one, after she died, she came back to life. She had some friends who helped her out. Prophecy didn't say anything about that, and... it's not like she beat Fate in one world and didn't in the other. Take it literally and the same things happened. But..."

Xander shrugs. "In one timeline, there's a Girl, big G, still walking around, and in another, there's not."

"Just saying that it's hard to say what exactly fate or destiny mean, even if you can see the future. Might not be your future. Might not mean what you think it means. Might not be able to change it, might, might not even want to, but you never know 'til you get there."

Re: Presentations - Magical Theory, 5/3

[romanywitch]

Jenny? Might be all kinds of pleased-looking with this presentation. For some odd and funky reason. You know. Like it sounds familiar maybe.