marbleglove | Willow and Hackers

There have been "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" / "Hackers" crossovers before. i've read several. Some of them are good, some of them are not so good, but none of them have really been ideal.

In "Hackers", there is this whole hacker style that involves everything from clothes to music to jargon. In the big climactic scene at the end, we see little snippets of hackers other than our main characters and it's clear that hackers come from all social circles, but our main character still consider it necessary for real hackers to have all the frills. The stories I've read all buy into this idea and thus, when Willow meets up with the hackers, she's dressed in tight leather and using equally unusual speech patterns.

I would like a story in which Willow, she of the comfortable clothing and California-speak, were to meet the hackers.

My current idea sets it after the end of the series, (I haven't read the comic books at all beyond noticing that Dawn has become a giant), and have Willow getting her teacher certificate so that she can go back and be properly certified in order to teach at the new Slayer Academy. As her experience is with computers and teaching such, she becomes a student teacher at Stuyvesant High School, helping out with the computer classes.

Dade, Kate, and the rest of the hackers are taking this class for the easy "A" they can get. They sneer a bit at the overly cheerful Willow. Then they realize that their easy "A" is going down the drain because the computer system there has been upgraded to the point where they have to work together (and learn their lessons) in order to hack the system, and the lessons Willow is teaching are *hard*.

They try to figure out who she is. Discover that she's the IT person for an apparently unhackable organization based out of Cleveland. Then it's pointed out that she's not scared of anything. She's all light and fluffy and working in a major New York highschool and nobody scares her.

She is surprisingly cool despite appearances.

Of course that's not really a plot, just a starting point. For a plot, I'm thinking one of them gets annoyed with her messing up their grade scheme so hacks her government files and makes changes, like they did to that one FBI agent in the movie. However this time, they did it to the file of someone who the US Army is extremely nervous of and sort of wants to kill on principal for the whole almost-ending-the-world thing.

The rest of the hackers then need to save her, let the army know that she wasn't making changes to her own files, and possibly learn a few things about magic and demons in the mean time.

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Give in, give in to the dark side. Resistance is futile. Go with the muse. Lay back and think of fandoms. ... possibly these are not the best metaphors to convince you with, but still, you should definitely try.

And everyone writes Mary Sues, or at least thinks about them. The good authors just realize that it's a bad idea to let anyone else read them. Plus, I can't imagine you haven't grown up a bit since 7th grade.

Come on, come into my parlor... drat it, not that metaphor either. But just give it a try. It'll be fun. And a learning experience... and doing the world a favor...

Tempt, tempt, tempt...

Well since you put ti that way, I'll try this weekend (at least I have an excuse to watch Hackers again.
But I don't promise you anything!

and how about you??
What favor will you do to the world? won't you post any more x-overs? I *know* you had some plans for a sequel for square peg, and some reactions for the SG-1crew with regards to what happened in the next chapter...
I was only more eager to read it after the review reply you sent me!

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Hmm. I've currently been bashing my head against the next section of my Labyrinth series, but it has not been playing nice. Neither has a chapter of an original story I've been thinking about for a while. The sequel to Square Peg is too humungous for me to think of without wincing.

I suppose I could do a one-shot Square Peg sequel but it would be more of a teaser than anything else, because, wow, is there a lot of work in taking over the universe.

How about a one-shot Methos/SG-A as a token thank you for your story. Would that do?

Yes well, you are the one who volunteered to suffer through it and help me. You are going to need to be very patient and helpful! you hear me?

Ohhh oh yes it would!
it sure would! it would also help you take your mind of Labyrinth for a while. Some of the best things come when you aren't looking for it... best way to remember something is not to think about it after all!
Though if you want to write that SG1 teaser you won't hear any complaints from me!

(and likely not from you fans!)

Excellent. I look forward to seeing what you create. And I'll try to write an appropriate thank you this weekend too.

I may need to re-watch Hackers, too.

Wacth away... because if you get ideas from it I won't mind you writing an x-over either... like you said the world needs more of them!

Ack. Except what my brain does not need is more story ideas. This livejournal is supposed to be a way to get these stories out of my head, not to develop more of them!

Do you remember that one Sandman story in which Morpheus gives the playwright too many plot and characters ideas to deal with and it drives him insane? I would sympathize except for the whole kidnapping/torture/rape bit.

I do not need more ideas than I already have.

I remember well that story... unfortunately all I have to say about that is "Oopsie"
and I will try do it again soon *wink*

Heh. I will be strong and resist your evil whiles. At the same time, of course, trying to tempt you with my evil whiles.

Nooo... you shall not resist my whiles!
be tempted!!

So have you had a chance to work on this? Any luck?

I've started both a Methos/SGA story (which is about half done) and a future-Square Peg teaser (1/5th done maybe?).

Not much luck so far things are going *very* slow and I can't seem to pick a scene to write even though I can *see* it in my head.

Yayyyyyyy
you deserve a cookie!! I am very glad to hear that and I will work extra hard!

Yeah, it's frequently hard to get started. Once you have a scene in your head, you just need to start describing it. Or start with the dialogue and ignore the description entirely. Type whatever with the understanding that you don't care if it's good or bad at this point as long as it has the virtue of existence. Then you can go back later and edit.

Okay. I'll try that

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