idle thought #404

[madimpossibledreamer]

okay, rich text is back.  this is good.
also i hate night highway driving.  i almost hit james bond.

wait, how old is the SCA?  Because Buffy and the others could definitely have used that as an excuse if it was around (tbf I should know this, I went to a coronation, I just...was spacing)
THIS IS REALLY WEIRD

edit: research says 1966.  and by research, i mean bing. google agrees.  wikipedia says that it was founded in California for double the relevance.  so yeah, they absolutely could have passed off their weapons, historical research, training, everything as being in the SCA.  also they could then have a subplot in which Xander actually finds use crafting medieval-esque shields, etc and Buffy becomes royalty of a branch.  I don't know if they have wiccan type stuff in the sca.  maybe the crafts and scribal arts bit?  and it'd also be a great front for any medieval research.  this would be incredible.  we needed an episode.  or, you know, a season arc.  barring that, a story.  I'd do it but I'd have to do a lot of research.  Mostly about the leadership, because if Buffy was going to take over a branch I'd need to know that stuff.  (According to Wikipedia, royalty are chosen by SCA armed combat.  Buffy would win by a landslide and mostly have to try to figure out a way to make it look natural and not actually hurt anybody.)  Giles would nerd out while trying not to appear like he was nerding out.  Willow and Tara could actually have met there and/or gone to one of the dancing classes, because among other things the percentage of men to women at the dancing classes was low, so no one batted an eye at women dancing together (and also I got the idea they were pretty cool with non-mainstream living) and they had archery classes, so they could practice there, and when we showed up for the coronation there were a decent number of people practicing fighting with swords and shields outside, so again.  Perfect cover.  And also a lot of story hooks and interesting stuff to do.

also honestly if they did it during the initiative arc and included Riley it'd make his character more interesting automagically.

I just.  man.  again i think we were robbed on this one.

(also also when they do eventually get multiple Slayers they could just keep using that as the perfect cover.)