Challenge #2 - Entry #9 - Illyria's Confrontation

[The Muse]

Title: Illyria's Confrontation
Challenge: Villain's POV Drabble
Fandom: Angel
Pairing/Characters: Illyria/Wesley
Summary: It's from Illyria's POV, that's really all i can say until you read it.
Rating: PG-13 there is talk of violence
Warnings: violence, slight gore speak
Disclaimer: These characters were created by Joss Whedon, i am just having fun here!
Word Count: 100
Author's Note: Thank you for stopping by and taking the time to read this to all who do!



I do not like the looks of you. You are puny and unpleasant to my newly human eyes. Even though you reek of fetid death, I have the strangest urge to swallow you whole. I wish to dissect you and prod you with sharp, hot objects just to see if you deserve to be killed by one such as me. I desire to see your innards decorating my footpath. It unnerves me that you do not move to stop my wrath.
I bite into you and hear no screams.
“How's the taco, Illyria?”
“It pleases me Wesley. You have more?”

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Please feel free to leave feedback for the author!

[gumgnome]

Really took me by surprise! Very funny.

[meliafairy]

The drabble is very well written. I enjoyed the twist at the end. I really believed she was thinking about killing a person buuuuutttt...

the fact that Illyria is actually thinking about a taco just shows that she isn't really a villain. She is truly more of an anti-hero.

I know that there are times when she is presented as a villain but this seems to be written during the times when she is attempting to be human. Illyria is trying to "walk in this world" as she says in Angel.

[Secret Scoobie]

*chuckles* ahahaha this one made me laugh!

I think you've captured her voice wonderfully, it's a great insight into her crazy mind, and the reveal was very well handled!

Oh but in agreeing with Meliafairy - yeah she isn't really a villian in this bit is she.
I guess it would be like writing about Spike when we was inlove with Buffy trying to be good - would that be allowed? I'm not saying it shouldn't - I just realised Meliafairy was right.

[Skytteflickan88]

I really thought it was Wesley. It's great that you wrote that it was Illyria/Wesley.

It's very well written, I actually think I will link to this from my blog.

And now I want taco.

[fayth]

Taco! hah, but as said before very un villian-esque... Still, this is my favorite. I love her intense sense and lack of emotion for such funny things. Great job!!

[zorthrip]

It was kinda cute and funny, but I don't think it goes along with the prompt.

Illyria was really only a villain up until she discovered she could raise her army and take over that world, which I think lasted one episode.

[Skytteflickan88]

I think Illyria counts as a villain, since she's well, murderous and evil. If she got her powers back, I'm not sure her affection for Wesley would keep her from destroying humanity.

In this drabble she seems pretty disapointed that her prey isn't suffering, which I think is evil.

[Emmie]

First, I want to say that this is a very well-written piece with an excellent twist, setting up reader's expectations and then re-imagining them. Insightful and funny.

I disagree with the author's intention that Illyria is a villain at this point in her characterization quite strongly, but I think that discussion is better suited for another thread.


Edited because it got way past the original point of this thread.

[Skytteflickan88]

Sory for turning this thread into a discussion thread, but I gotta take this.

Jul 10, 2009 10:35:42 GMT -5 Emmie said:

The wanting the taco to "suffer" is dark, but this is put into context by the fact that Wes is having her eat the taco to learn to be human. That ultimately makes it a good action even though her thoughts are misguided. She's trying to be human here, trying to be good.

I don't think I understand what you mean(could be because I'm sleepy). Wanting something to suffer isn't good, even if it's human. A evil deed is a evil deed, human or not.

I'm of course accepting the idea that being human doesn't equal being good, so even if Wesley told her it was a human thing, to eat tacos, it's still bad to want it to suffer.

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I think that you're wrong, Illyria was and is a villain(I haven't read issue 23 of the angel series tough, maybe she changed), because at any moment could she kill without remorse. She might feel weird about it, because of the remains of Fred that is still in her, and her need to please wesley(and perhaps Spike) but since she is evil at heart, wheter she works for good or not, she is evil, a villain.

Illyria's a bad, selfish person doing good, unlike Willow, who was a good person doing bad in Tabula Rasa.

However, since the term "villain" isn't set in stone, we should of course agree to disagree.

Re: wanting her prey to suffer. Clem eats kittens. I think that's evil. Certainly more evil than eating a taco. Doesn't make Clem a villain, though.

Do you think eating cows is evil?

I myself think that eating animals, wheter it be kittens or cows or deers, isn't evil. It's a acceptable part of nature.

I think that uneccassary hurting the animal while eating it is evil tough. Keeping cows in small confined spaces for a long amount of time, not being able to stand up, is evil. Beaking a cat's neck and eating it, isn't.

So if Clem ate kittens in a "human" way, that would be less evil than Illyria wanting to hurt a taco.

It's the intention that counts for me.

[siredbyspike]

O.K, I guess I had better jump in and explain this..and I apologize. I DO NOT WISH TO OFFEND ANYONE WITH THIS, IT IS JUST MY HUMBLE OPINION. The prompt said villain's POINT OF VIEW. And that is what I wrote from, Illyria's P.O.V. I didn't take that to mean that they had to do something bad or be evil in the prompt.Some villains may not believe what they do or stand for is wrong.


Look at anyone on Buffy or Angel who was a Big Bad, and then look at it from their p.o.v...wear their shoes for a minute and see through their eyes. Glory for example just wants to go home to her dimension so she can be worshipped. The Mayor just wants to acheive ascension. I'm sure to them, Buffy was the villain, and they were being wronged. Any way you all choose to look at this is your opinion, but IMHO Illyria was a villain from the first moment simply because she killed Fred taking over her shell.



Whether she intended to or not, she killed off a main character and caused conflict, which to me always made her a villain. Sure she may come around and grow and change and fight for good's side like Spike did, or Anya, but depending on the time frame you could say just about everyone had a villainous moment at one point.



And about the time frame.. "my newly human eyes" I hoped would help explain it. She was new to this world, this shell, and still a bit confused by things. Hence, she doesn't like the look of a taco Wesley has, but the Fred in her seems to be craving it/remembering the smell. She is conflicted by this because she wants to kill everything she sees pretty much at this point, especially what she doesn't understand. I mean, she was in a human body- did you never wonder if she had to eat at some point before she collapsed from hunger even when she was still "bad"? I did, and happen to ponder what would happen if she walked by and saw Wesley had a taco and then this came about.



It is only 100 words so you can't convey a whole lot, I just wanted to have a twist that jumped out at the reader so hopefully they would be amused and enjoy it and it would be short and sweet. I didn't realize there would even be a question as to whether this fit the prompt or not, because in my opinion it did. Thanks for the feedback everyone, good and bad!