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[amand_r]

Has there ever been a consensus about what happens to a Quickening when no one is around to take it? I so forget this part.

Like if an Immortal was beheaded by a non immortal and there was no one aboot. I know canon covered this. And doesn't one of the films conflict it?

Anyway. HALP.

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[joanwilder.livejournal.com]

It defaults to Your Mom.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

IF ONLY.

YOU ARE NOT HELPING.

HA HA HA.

[joanwilder.livejournal.com]

omg geez this just made me think about what would happen if there wasn't an immortal around, but there was an airplane omg it might get struck by lightning OH NOOOOOOOOOOOO! One more thing to worry about okthnxbye.

[rodlox.livejournal.com]

and they land on an Island run by a really old guy named Jacob. ;)

[joanwilder.livejournal.com]

NOOOOOO! *gouges eyes out*

sorry

[rodlox.livejournal.com]

he probably owes Methos money anyway.

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

It's absorbed by the local raccoon population.

You know, I don't recall them ever saying what happened. So you can probably make crap up with abandon.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

Gah. Yeah, but my nagging memory recalls a discussion about this. It involved the guillotine.

Damn you, fandom memory! You are bleeding together!

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

For some reason, the thing that pops into my mind is that the quickening is basically wasted. But honestly, I can't recall if that's canon, or email discussion, or heck, fic. It all blurs together. And if it is wasted, how close does an immie have to be to get it so it ins't? It's like the time it takes to come back to life or how far away they can feel a buzz -- it's all very elastic depending on the episode.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I think in a deleted scene flash back from one of the films, one of Connor's friends is beheaded in France, and he's in the crowd, and he gets the quickening. Proximity, I guess. Dammit.

[rodlox.livejournal.com]

my hunch would be - the Quickening zips into the ground or holy site. (though maybe it fries the mortal first...1 time in fifty, it make him Immortal?)

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

Well, I don't think there would be any reason the energy would gravitate on holy ground. While Holy Ground is debatable (canon conflicts itself here, and I choose to go with the idea that it's a convention and not some mystical rule).

The idea that it makes immortals is intriguing, but not useful here. Perhaps for later exploration.

Hrm. I think it might just release, like a storm, but not ground in any person in general. Gah. I wish I remembered. If not, I'm just going to go for the general. What I don't want is for the canon to be that nothing at all happens. I need the lightshow.

[rodlox.livejournal.com]

well, head to Holy Ground in the absence of any Immortal-shaped option.

welllll, not so much of making an Immortal...but if you're really really really lucky, a mortal might survive getting hit by a Quickening, and be left as an Immortal.

yeah, a general release might be good....maybe it acts like a normal Quickening, but touches nothing at all - as there's no Immortal to ground it.

[mackiedockie.livejournal.com]

Fitz seemed to think the Q was wasted, when he was staring at Horton's Guillotine.

Darius, on the other hand, was foreshortened on Holy Ground, with no discernable damaging effects, besides a lot of chairs falling over. No other Immortals present. I think he infused himself into the mold tea.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

See, okay then. would it be believable if there was a little bit of a lightshow, but no one was zapped by lightning and no windows were blown out? Just a little mini quickening? Quickening lite?

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

Thinking back to that episode, I don't think there was any evidence of a Quickening. Anything that was toppled over looked like it was done by Horton and his goons. And now I'm thinking that was what I was remembering last night in regards to the Quickening being wasted.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

Gah. CANON! YOU ARE NOT HELPING ME!

[mackiedockie.livejournal.com]

Now that I misremember, maybe the camera cut away before any Quickening effects could be shown, in Darius' case.

Maybe the quickening goes all negative, with black lightning and creepy cold fogs, like an old Swedish movie.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

Ah, Ingmar, why did you never direct an episode of HL?

[mackiedockie.livejournal.com]

Wow. MacLeod would have an angst implosion.

It would be interesting to imagine HL under famous directors. John Ford would be sweeping--many pretty horses! And Methos would be stunning in a Cecil B. DeMille sandalflick.

[teresa-c.livejournal.com]

Oh my brain! Gahhh.

[lastrega.livejournal.com]

Didn't they use this in The Raven when pre-Immortal Broody McEyebrows took some random Immie's head?

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

If they did, I don't remember it.

[amonitrate.livejournal.com]

I don't remember anything official and canon-like, only many iterations of fanon. Sorry!

[darthhellokitty.livejournal.com]

Cats eat it.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

OH YEAH, IT'S ALL FUN AND GAMES UNTIL SOMEONE NEEDS TO WRITE ABOUT A QUICKENING.

Hahaaahahha. That's where they get their special Thursday evil.