okay, some of those were a bit obscure
Jan. 5th, 2009 08:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadowscastNot that anybody's asked, but I thought a few of the letters in the Buffyverse Alphabet could use a bit of explanation.
E: In case you didn't get the, er, pun—this refers to Eve the Potential, who was killed by minions of the First Evil before she ever arrived at Buffy's house (as opposed to Eve from Wolfram & Hart).
K: Katrina was Warren's ex-girlfriend, who he killed (sort of accidentally) when he hit her in the head with a bottle. Kendra might have been a better choice for K, but I thought of Katrina first for some reason.
M: This refers to Buffy's first Watcher, from movie canon. (And not from the comic version, in which apparently he shot himself instead of being killed by the vampire. But I couldn't find a way to make "shot himself" rhyme with "coat.")
S & T: I just want to say, it is very sad that "amulet" and "bullet" don't actually rhyme.
U & V: I don't think I rose to the challenge of these letters very well. The only "U" I could find in the series was Cecily's implied last name from that one flashback, and then since Cecily didn't actually have a grisly death but Halfrek did, I had to make the Cecily=Halfrek connection ... and that was a lot to fit into one short line. Also I would've liked Veruca's line to be more specific to her manner of death, but, agh. I couldn't manage it.
X: Xin Rong is the name of the Chinese Slayer that Spike killed, according to the tie-in comics (or rather, according to the Wikipedia article which cites the tie-in comics—I haven't read that comic myself). It was funny to do a Buffy alphabet and not use Xander for X, but again, my theme here was grisly death!
Y: Okay, Y was weak. Really weak. Um, it makes slightly more sense in the context of the Shadow Puppets tie-in comic, in which Smile Time did actually put on an arena show. The kids didn't die, though, which means it doesn't really fit in this alphabet. But Y was damned hard, and I needed to rhyme with "hyenas"!
Z: I'm rather proud of Z, actually.
E: In case you didn't get the, er, pun—this refers to Eve the Potential, who was killed by minions of the First Evil before she ever arrived at Buffy's house (as opposed to Eve from Wolfram & Hart).
K: Katrina was Warren's ex-girlfriend, who he killed (sort of accidentally) when he hit her in the head with a bottle. Kendra might have been a better choice for K, but I thought of Katrina first for some reason.
M: This refers to Buffy's first Watcher, from movie canon. (And not from the comic version, in which apparently he shot himself instead of being killed by the vampire. But I couldn't find a way to make "shot himself" rhyme with "coat.")
S & T: I just want to say, it is very sad that "amulet" and "bullet" don't actually rhyme.
U & V: I don't think I rose to the challenge of these letters very well. The only "U" I could find in the series was Cecily's implied last name from that one flashback, and then since Cecily didn't actually have a grisly death but Halfrek did, I had to make the Cecily=Halfrek connection ... and that was a lot to fit into one short line. Also I would've liked Veruca's line to be more specific to her manner of death, but, agh. I couldn't manage it.
X: Xin Rong is the name of the Chinese Slayer that Spike killed, according to the tie-in comics (or rather, according to the Wikipedia article which cites the tie-in comics—I haven't read that comic myself). It was funny to do a Buffy alphabet and not use Xander for X, but again, my theme here was grisly death!
Y: Okay, Y was weak. Really weak. Um, it makes slightly more sense in the context of the Shadow Puppets tie-in comic, in which Smile Time did actually put on an arena show. The kids didn't die, though, which means it doesn't really fit in this alphabet. But Y was damned hard, and I needed to rhyme with "hyenas"!
Z: I'm rather proud of Z, actually.
