I love this - cold blood - both figuratively and literally.
Ha, glad you caught that. When I started this fic I looked in an idiom dictionary for every saying involving blood (in cold blood, bad blood, it runs in the blood, blue blood...I cheated!)
Reading this, I get the sense that he's drowning in (or being sucked into) a fetid swamp. He's trapped.
I'm glad! That's exactly what I was going for!
Hee. Sorry, all I can think of is human Krispy Kreme. Hot and sugary and melts in your mouth. I eat one about as often as Angel feeds on a human.
I almost put Krispy Kreme in there, then decided against it because it's not as universal of a brand name as Starbucks and I didn't want anyone who didn't know what it was thrown off by it. But human Krispy Kreme is exactly the image I wanted to provoke! (I try to stay away from them too--they're addictive!)
I'd love to see what you could do with Lawson (the guy Angel fed from/turned) in "Why We Fight" (season 5, AtS). Or Penn. Or Spike.
I haven't seen S5, so I didn't know about Lawson. I definitely considered putting Penn in there--I also wanted to include the criminals Angel eats during the rebellion and the prostitute he drinks in "Innocence"--but I was afraid I couldn't come up with unique enough ideas to differentiate each one. I especially wanted to do Spike--but since Angel would've only drunk Spike after he was dead, he'd probably just taste a lot like Darla (and even as a human he would've just tasted normal, like Kate).
I'm so glad you liked this and thanks for your comments!
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Ha, glad you caught that. When I started this fic I looked in an idiom dictionary for every saying involving blood (in cold blood, bad blood, it runs in the blood, blue blood...I cheated!)
Reading this, I get the sense that he's drowning in (or being sucked into) a fetid swamp. He's trapped.
I'm glad! That's exactly what I was going for!
Hee. Sorry, all I can think of is human Krispy Kreme. Hot and sugary and melts in your mouth. I eat one about as often as Angel feeds on a human.
I almost put Krispy Kreme in there, then decided against it because it's not as universal of a brand name as Starbucks and I didn't want anyone who didn't know what it was thrown off by it. But human Krispy Kreme is exactly the image I wanted to provoke! (I try to stay away from them too--they're addictive!)
I'd love to see what you could do with Lawson (the guy Angel fed from/turned) in "Why We Fight" (season 5, AtS). Or Penn. Or Spike.
I haven't seen S5, so I didn't know about Lawson. I definitely considered putting Penn in there--I also wanted to include the criminals Angel eats during the rebellion and the prostitute he drinks in "Innocence"--but I was afraid I couldn't come up with unique enough ideas to differentiate each one. I especially wanted to do Spike--but since Angel would've only drunk Spike after he was dead, he'd probably just taste a lot like Darla (and even as a human he would've just tasted normal, like Kate).
I'm so glad you liked this and thanks for your comments!