Relationships (Dropped Characters)
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consultmybooksAlfonse Zena Meridia (Arc Rise Fantasia)
"Indeed. There's a lot to learn from the pages -- more than I can say I ever learned elsewhere."
Alf was stability - he was one of the stablest, most sensible people Giles knew in Luceti, unflappable in the face of an impossible situation. The fact that the impossible odds that made Luceti only seemed to stimulate his curious mind certainly helped the relationship take root - it says something that they first met in the library. Alf was a trusted friend that proved himself capable of being depended on several times over, no matter how much time had passed, and it says something more that their friendship wasn't drastically changed by Giles' return home and the time that had passed. When Giles returned, with Alf he was largely able to pick up where he had left off, and in the aftermath of Giles' death and the frantic nature of his return, that fact was both a comfort and an anchor. The two of them were researching ideas for the boat by that very night.
More than that, Alf displayed an optimism that was a very great help to Giles early on in his time in Luceti. Alf was the first one to tell Giles much of anything about his world, the first one to open Giles' eyes to the possibilities opened up by Luceti and the merging of worlds taking place inside the barrier. He was the first one to let Giles see Luceti as a stepping stone and not a prison, and now that Giles has no way of returning home, this is a mentality he has turned to more than ever.
Alf was a good friend who was remarkably good at offering emotional support when necessary. Their main points of connection were largely academic matters, even though Giles was certainly willing to trust Alf when the other offered his support. It might be easier to come up with a coat of arms for the boat with four instead of five on the crew, but the project will certainly suffer in Alf's absence. He was the only one with even a vague knowledge of the workings of a ship besides Kennedy, even if that ship happened to be an airship.
Andrew Wells (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
Jonathon Levinson (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
"I'd like to do right now, Mr. Giles."
Giles and Jonathon didn't have very much to do with one another while they were here together - Jonathon was apparently afraid of confronting Giles with the weight of his behavior as a member of the Trio over his head, and didn't think that Giles would recognize him much anyway. He was, unfortunately, right - so much time had passed since Giles' stint as a high school librarian, and he's never met the Trio, that Jonathon was well and truly off his radar.
They did have a connection that might have brought the both of them together - the connection of both being dead and trapped in Luceti - but it never came up. Even so, Giles bore Jonathon no ill will besides an authoritarian frustration over the desire of a decent enough boy to become a super villain. He had hoped to actually build some sort of bridge with the boy, but one thing led to another and too many things got in the way and Giles never found the time to seek him out. This is an error he bitterly regrets now that Jonathon is gone, a missed chance he wishes that he'd taken.
Under his current death penalty, Giles does not really remember Jonathon at all besides their sole conversation in Luceti and his status as a friend of Andrew's. However, the news of Jonathon's departure from the village shortly after Giles returned with his penalty was still a blow, if only because it meant that there was one less person from Sunnydale standing between him and his departure from the village.
Rachel Alucard (Blazblue)
"Oh, please. Do you think physical harm is the only thing for a human to fear? Or something not human?"
The two of them couldn't be called friends - not really. But there was a strange, twisted sort of cameraderie between the Watcher and the Vampire. It was a relationship of biting sarcasm, of competing for the best insults, of subtle mockery, and of debates over life, the universe, and everything.
Oh, and tea. Tea was important. For a vampire, Rachel always had truly excellent taste in tea.
Rachel was the first vampire that Giles could honestly say that he was glad to know and cared about. He valued their relationship, whatever it was. To some degree, Giles was afraid of her - he saw her fight, and considers himself lucky to have escaped the experience with his life. But by and large, Giles soon found himself feeling safe with Rachel. The distance in their relationship allowed him to place a sort of trust in her that he couldn't in any of his friends, a trust that Rachel never betrayed.
Her cool, composed way of looking at life - as the observer watching the play - often worked out well for the both of them. Sometimes it didn't - Rachel was the first to discover that Giles was a vampire when he was transformed without getting attacked for it, but she did nothing to stop him. However, when she deigned to reassure him during a bad bout of madness on Halloween, Giles believed her when he couldn't really bring himself to believe anyone else. She was a grounding influence during a turbulent period in his life, someone that Giles could safely vent his anger against because she could always give as good as and better than she got.
The strange affection and friendship that sprung up between Rachel and Xander only made things easier. Now they're both gone, and Giles is only just finding it in himself to admit that he misses Rachel. Luceti seems a little less sensible and a little less sane without her.
Ranka Lee (Macross Frontier)
"All right! I'll be ready, and I won't mess up even once, I'll make sure of it!"
Ranka was a sweet kid. Like several of Giles' friends nowadays, they first met during the Luceti Valley experiment that made Giles thinke he was the co-teacher of music at the school. Specifically, they first met when Ranka came stumbling back into the village right in the middle of the festival, scant hours before the class concert was due to start, ready and raring to perform no matter what had been done to her. Giles admired her earnest nature, her sincerity, and her dedication to her art. When Ranka sang, it was art.
They weren't terribly close, but there was some affection between them, especially on Giles' part. He liked her. With the help of the Doctor, Ranka was the first to bring the wonder that was jammy dodgers to the village, and she saved him six when he asked for four. When the news came from the Commandant that Ranka was to be sent off to war, Giles was able to soothe some of her fears with a reassurance that several of the more combat ready villagers would be willing to protect her and an unspoken promise that he would be one of them. Although his own half blind condition and Helios' eventual death prevented him from being terribly helpful to her, the promise was no less sincere, if the thought counted.
He will never forget the song she sang to bolster the draftee's spirits before they left. It bolstered him when few other things did before all hell broke loose.
Vivi Aislinn (Original Character)
"If he's a bad guy, then get him!"
Oh, Vivi. Giles never really had the chance to get to know you, and this is something he will regret for as long as Luceti lets him live.
He has to admire anyone willing to face down the often turbulent, nightmarish realm that can be his subconscious. Vivi did as much for him before they had ever exchanged names, and she went up to bat against a spectre of Twilight that, by rights, she should never have had a chance of defeating. Although Paprika's method of logical observation and attempting to understand might be more helpful in the long run, Giles appreciated the more direct assistance against the nightmares that had been plaguing him.
Luceti brought them together again during the Luceti Valley experiment, and made Vivi his adopted daughter. Giles can remember how he felt towards her, can remembering loving and adoring her as one of the most precious things in his life, with an intensity and passion that even his love for Buffy couldn't compare to. The way and degree to which his heart was manipulated scares Giles...but at the same time, he has several photographs of himself and Vivi together at the fair, and those memories are a comfort as one of the happiest times of Giles' life.
During that experiment, however, not only was Vivi his adopted daughter, but the one Giles had the least time for - perhaps it was simply a case of "absence makes the heart grow fonder." Some remnant of the guilt he felt for letting Robert Hastings raise her remained after the experiment, and Giles was determined to get to know the little girl, if she would allow it. Unfortunately, Giles was kidnapped shortly after the experiment, and occupied dealing with his blindness when returned. By the time he could even give Vivi a thought again, she had been sent home.
Warren Mears (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
"I'd like to know why no one told me that Warren was in the village in the first place. I suppose it just...slipped everyone's mind."
Warren and Giles never spoke while Warren was in Luceti. In fact, Giles' arrival preceded Warren's departure by a grand total of a week. This was probably fortunate for Warren - coming from the point in time Giles comes from, facing what he has faced, Warren would have represented the closest he could come to getting some of his own back against Twilight. Even if he had known that Warren was present, any search or attempts at vengeance would have been hampered by the fact that Giles had absolutely no idea what Warren looked like with his skin on. He only knew him as the skinless abomination who tortured Willow and assisted Amy in Twilight's army.
Above and beyond that, Warren represents Giles' failure to take the knowledge from his previous stay in Luceti and use it to avert the catastrophes Buffy told him would come. Tara still died by Warren's hand, no matter how determined Giles was to prevent it before he was sent home the first time. Some vengeance for her death would have been forthcoming, even if he had never lived to see Warren at the head of an army bent on their annihilation.
The mad scientist did manage to do one last bit of damage thanks to his departure. The realization that Warren's presence had been kept from him by Buffy, Andrew, and Dawn left Giles incensed and hurt. The subsequent argument with Buffy lasted for weeks, and not all of the issues raised from it have been resolved.
Willow Rosenburg
"We could make a group effort out of it. Scoobies dealing with everything bad again. It will be just like home."
If Giles was startled to know of Buffy's presence in the village, Willow's was only marginally less surprising. But the witch arrived in the same cycle Giles did, two days before and from a point just a few months ahead of him in their personal timeline. All in all, the two of them were the closest to actually being on the same page for the majority of their stay in the village together, and had the least conflicts of the fractured, conflicted Scoobies overall. That isn't to say that there weren't problems - Giles delivered a severe dressing down to Willow on his first night for messing with the laws of nature and allowing her magic to control her to the point of addiction, which, to be fair, she freely confessed had been the case. However, Willow's determination to better herself soon won Giles over.
As strangers together in a strange land, lost together even in the face of Buffy's wisdom with regards to Luceti, Giles and Willow found themselves drawn even more to one another in matters of intellectual curiosity and the worthy goal of keeping hope alive against impossible odds.
Buffy, who had foreknowledge of everyone's future at that point, soon drew Giles aside to inform him of what Willow was due to be facing and what the wrong experiment could easily bring out in her. Thus began the trend of the Scoobies crossing their own timelines for an attempt at group harmony - Giles was shocked, horrified, and saddened to know what was to befall his friends in just a few months, all without his presence, but promised to do what he could to help Willow control her magic so that it couldn't be manipulated by the Malnosso. He viewed it as a job that he should have taken upon himself a long while ago, and eventually managed to convince Willow to take her first steps back into practicing magic by contacting and making pacts with the Filial Spirits. The hours they spent together on the roof of Building 7 trying to contact Kipinn remains one of his dearest memories of Luceti, despite the fact that they were only waiting for someone to bring a ladder so they could get down.
Willow, when all is said and done, was always the Scooby that Giles could most identify with and get along with without serious emotional turmoil. She was so glad to have him back in her life, and Giles was so glad simply to see her trying to get better, that their relationship remained quite cordial for their respective stays in Luceti. Giles grew to depend on her persistent optimism in the face of all odds, including Buffy's own apparently stoic acceptance of their fates. It was an optimism he stepped up to defend on multiple occasions. The experiments generally served to draw them together rather than tear them apart, from the teleportation experiment that landed them both on the roof to commiseration over ridiculous Halloween costumes to Giles offering reassurance and comfort to Willow after they'd both spent the week chained up as vampires. He attempted to bolster her confidence and reassure her how much he cared for her in the letter he left behind before being sent back.
Giles and Willow have grown apart back home, thanks to distance and their own very conflicting ideals with regards to magic and the winning of wars. They hadn't had much to do with one another for several months even before Giles was killed. However, he also arrived back in Luceti knowing everyone's future, Willow's most of all, and was determined to work all the harder with her to get her magic under control. Unfortunately, Willow had been kidnapped before Giles had arrived. Scarcely two days later, Buffy discovered that she had been sent home. Giles still misses her deeply to this day, and can't stop himself from listening for a sign of her every New Feather cycle. It might be a selfish hope, but it's the only chance he has of ever seeing her again.
Xander Harris (In Progress)
"Right. Yeah, well, try not to let this stuff get to you. And, you know - I'm ready to answer the call if the Scooby Signal ever goes up."
If Willow was the Scooby that Giles understood the best, it was Xander that Giles always had the hardest time seeing eye-to-eye with.
"Indeed. There's a lot to learn from the pages -- more than I can say I ever learned elsewhere."
Alf was stability - he was one of the stablest, most sensible people Giles knew in Luceti, unflappable in the face of an impossible situation. The fact that the impossible odds that made Luceti only seemed to stimulate his curious mind certainly helped the relationship take root - it says something that they first met in the library. Alf was a trusted friend that proved himself capable of being depended on several times over, no matter how much time had passed, and it says something more that their friendship wasn't drastically changed by Giles' return home and the time that had passed. When Giles returned, with Alf he was largely able to pick up where he had left off, and in the aftermath of Giles' death and the frantic nature of his return, that fact was both a comfort and an anchor. The two of them were researching ideas for the boat by that very night.
More than that, Alf displayed an optimism that was a very great help to Giles early on in his time in Luceti. Alf was the first one to tell Giles much of anything about his world, the first one to open Giles' eyes to the possibilities opened up by Luceti and the merging of worlds taking place inside the barrier. He was the first one to let Giles see Luceti as a stepping stone and not a prison, and now that Giles has no way of returning home, this is a mentality he has turned to more than ever.
Alf was a good friend who was remarkably good at offering emotional support when necessary. Their main points of connection were largely academic matters, even though Giles was certainly willing to trust Alf when the other offered his support. It might be easier to come up with a coat of arms for the boat with four instead of five on the crew, but the project will certainly suffer in Alf's absence. He was the only one with even a vague knowledge of the workings of a ship besides Kennedy, even if that ship happened to be an airship.
Andrew Wells (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
Jonathon Levinson (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
"I'd like to do right now, Mr. Giles."
Giles and Jonathon didn't have very much to do with one another while they were here together - Jonathon was apparently afraid of confronting Giles with the weight of his behavior as a member of the Trio over his head, and didn't think that Giles would recognize him much anyway. He was, unfortunately, right - so much time had passed since Giles' stint as a high school librarian, and he's never met the Trio, that Jonathon was well and truly off his radar.
They did have a connection that might have brought the both of them together - the connection of both being dead and trapped in Luceti - but it never came up. Even so, Giles bore Jonathon no ill will besides an authoritarian frustration over the desire of a decent enough boy to become a super villain. He had hoped to actually build some sort of bridge with the boy, but one thing led to another and too many things got in the way and Giles never found the time to seek him out. This is an error he bitterly regrets now that Jonathon is gone, a missed chance he wishes that he'd taken.
Under his current death penalty, Giles does not really remember Jonathon at all besides their sole conversation in Luceti and his status as a friend of Andrew's. However, the news of Jonathon's departure from the village shortly after Giles returned with his penalty was still a blow, if only because it meant that there was one less person from Sunnydale standing between him and his departure from the village.
Rachel Alucard (Blazblue)
"Oh, please. Do you think physical harm is the only thing for a human to fear? Or something not human?"
The two of them couldn't be called friends - not really. But there was a strange, twisted sort of cameraderie between the Watcher and the Vampire. It was a relationship of biting sarcasm, of competing for the best insults, of subtle mockery, and of debates over life, the universe, and everything.
Oh, and tea. Tea was important. For a vampire, Rachel always had truly excellent taste in tea.
Rachel was the first vampire that Giles could honestly say that he was glad to know and cared about. He valued their relationship, whatever it was. To some degree, Giles was afraid of her - he saw her fight, and considers himself lucky to have escaped the experience with his life. But by and large, Giles soon found himself feeling safe with Rachel. The distance in their relationship allowed him to place a sort of trust in her that he couldn't in any of his friends, a trust that Rachel never betrayed.
Her cool, composed way of looking at life - as the observer watching the play - often worked out well for the both of them. Sometimes it didn't - Rachel was the first to discover that Giles was a vampire when he was transformed without getting attacked for it, but she did nothing to stop him. However, when she deigned to reassure him during a bad bout of madness on Halloween, Giles believed her when he couldn't really bring himself to believe anyone else. She was a grounding influence during a turbulent period in his life, someone that Giles could safely vent his anger against because she could always give as good as and better than she got.
The strange affection and friendship that sprung up between Rachel and Xander only made things easier. Now they're both gone, and Giles is only just finding it in himself to admit that he misses Rachel. Luceti seems a little less sensible and a little less sane without her.
Ranka Lee (Macross Frontier)
"All right! I'll be ready, and I won't mess up even once, I'll make sure of it!"
Ranka was a sweet kid. Like several of Giles' friends nowadays, they first met during the Luceti Valley experiment that made Giles thinke he was the co-teacher of music at the school. Specifically, they first met when Ranka came stumbling back into the village right in the middle of the festival, scant hours before the class concert was due to start, ready and raring to perform no matter what had been done to her. Giles admired her earnest nature, her sincerity, and her dedication to her art. When Ranka sang, it was art.
They weren't terribly close, but there was some affection between them, especially on Giles' part. He liked her. With the help of the Doctor, Ranka was the first to bring the wonder that was jammy dodgers to the village, and she saved him six when he asked for four. When the news came from the Commandant that Ranka was to be sent off to war, Giles was able to soothe some of her fears with a reassurance that several of the more combat ready villagers would be willing to protect her and an unspoken promise that he would be one of them. Although his own half blind condition and Helios' eventual death prevented him from being terribly helpful to her, the promise was no less sincere, if the thought counted.
He will never forget the song she sang to bolster the draftee's spirits before they left. It bolstered him when few other things did before all hell broke loose.
Vivi Aislinn (Original Character)
"If he's a bad guy, then get him!"
Oh, Vivi. Giles never really had the chance to get to know you, and this is something he will regret for as long as Luceti lets him live.
He has to admire anyone willing to face down the often turbulent, nightmarish realm that can be his subconscious. Vivi did as much for him before they had ever exchanged names, and she went up to bat against a spectre of Twilight that, by rights, she should never have had a chance of defeating. Although Paprika's method of logical observation and attempting to understand might be more helpful in the long run, Giles appreciated the more direct assistance against the nightmares that had been plaguing him.
Luceti brought them together again during the Luceti Valley experiment, and made Vivi his adopted daughter. Giles can remember how he felt towards her, can remembering loving and adoring her as one of the most precious things in his life, with an intensity and passion that even his love for Buffy couldn't compare to. The way and degree to which his heart was manipulated scares Giles...but at the same time, he has several photographs of himself and Vivi together at the fair, and those memories are a comfort as one of the happiest times of Giles' life.
During that experiment, however, not only was Vivi his adopted daughter, but the one Giles had the least time for - perhaps it was simply a case of "absence makes the heart grow fonder." Some remnant of the guilt he felt for letting Robert Hastings raise her remained after the experiment, and Giles was determined to get to know the little girl, if she would allow it. Unfortunately, Giles was kidnapped shortly after the experiment, and occupied dealing with his blindness when returned. By the time he could even give Vivi a thought again, she had been sent home.
Warren Mears (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
"I'd like to know why no one told me that Warren was in the village in the first place. I suppose it just...slipped everyone's mind."
Warren and Giles never spoke while Warren was in Luceti. In fact, Giles' arrival preceded Warren's departure by a grand total of a week. This was probably fortunate for Warren - coming from the point in time Giles comes from, facing what he has faced, Warren would have represented the closest he could come to getting some of his own back against Twilight. Even if he had known that Warren was present, any search or attempts at vengeance would have been hampered by the fact that Giles had absolutely no idea what Warren looked like with his skin on. He only knew him as the skinless abomination who tortured Willow and assisted Amy in Twilight's army.
Above and beyond that, Warren represents Giles' failure to take the knowledge from his previous stay in Luceti and use it to avert the catastrophes Buffy told him would come. Tara still died by Warren's hand, no matter how determined Giles was to prevent it before he was sent home the first time. Some vengeance for her death would have been forthcoming, even if he had never lived to see Warren at the head of an army bent on their annihilation.
The mad scientist did manage to do one last bit of damage thanks to his departure. The realization that Warren's presence had been kept from him by Buffy, Andrew, and Dawn left Giles incensed and hurt. The subsequent argument with Buffy lasted for weeks, and not all of the issues raised from it have been resolved.
Willow Rosenburg
"We could make a group effort out of it. Scoobies dealing with everything bad again. It will be just like home."
If Giles was startled to know of Buffy's presence in the village, Willow's was only marginally less surprising. But the witch arrived in the same cycle Giles did, two days before and from a point just a few months ahead of him in their personal timeline. All in all, the two of them were the closest to actually being on the same page for the majority of their stay in the village together, and had the least conflicts of the fractured, conflicted Scoobies overall. That isn't to say that there weren't problems - Giles delivered a severe dressing down to Willow on his first night for messing with the laws of nature and allowing her magic to control her to the point of addiction, which, to be fair, she freely confessed had been the case. However, Willow's determination to better herself soon won Giles over.
As strangers together in a strange land, lost together even in the face of Buffy's wisdom with regards to Luceti, Giles and Willow found themselves drawn even more to one another in matters of intellectual curiosity and the worthy goal of keeping hope alive against impossible odds.
Buffy, who had foreknowledge of everyone's future at that point, soon drew Giles aside to inform him of what Willow was due to be facing and what the wrong experiment could easily bring out in her. Thus began the trend of the Scoobies crossing their own timelines for an attempt at group harmony - Giles was shocked, horrified, and saddened to know what was to befall his friends in just a few months, all without his presence, but promised to do what he could to help Willow control her magic so that it couldn't be manipulated by the Malnosso. He viewed it as a job that he should have taken upon himself a long while ago, and eventually managed to convince Willow to take her first steps back into practicing magic by contacting and making pacts with the Filial Spirits. The hours they spent together on the roof of Building 7 trying to contact Kipinn remains one of his dearest memories of Luceti, despite the fact that they were only waiting for someone to bring a ladder so they could get down.
Willow, when all is said and done, was always the Scooby that Giles could most identify with and get along with without serious emotional turmoil. She was so glad to have him back in her life, and Giles was so glad simply to see her trying to get better, that their relationship remained quite cordial for their respective stays in Luceti. Giles grew to depend on her persistent optimism in the face of all odds, including Buffy's own apparently stoic acceptance of their fates. It was an optimism he stepped up to defend on multiple occasions. The experiments generally served to draw them together rather than tear them apart, from the teleportation experiment that landed them both on the roof to commiseration over ridiculous Halloween costumes to Giles offering reassurance and comfort to Willow after they'd both spent the week chained up as vampires. He attempted to bolster her confidence and reassure her how much he cared for her in the letter he left behind before being sent back.
Giles and Willow have grown apart back home, thanks to distance and their own very conflicting ideals with regards to magic and the winning of wars. They hadn't had much to do with one another for several months even before Giles was killed. However, he also arrived back in Luceti knowing everyone's future, Willow's most of all, and was determined to work all the harder with her to get her magic under control. Unfortunately, Willow had been kidnapped before Giles had arrived. Scarcely two days later, Buffy discovered that she had been sent home. Giles still misses her deeply to this day, and can't stop himself from listening for a sign of her every New Feather cycle. It might be a selfish hope, but it's the only chance he has of ever seeing her again.
Xander Harris (In Progress)
"Right. Yeah, well, try not to let this stuff get to you. And, you know - I'm ready to answer the call if the Scooby Signal ever goes up."
If Willow was the Scooby that Giles understood the best, it was Xander that Giles always had the hardest time seeing eye-to-eye with.
