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[calime]

It's a bit past midnight here, to be honest, but my timesense has always forgotten to begin the new day at 00:00 precisely...


Fandom:Highlander
Characters: Methos
Disclaimer: Not mine
How would a 5000-year-old man celebrate All Souls'?


The thing with traditions, within five millennia there are too many to choose from. Too many details to get right, too many memories connected to each, good or bad...

Remembering and honouring one's ancestors is kind of a moot point, really, if one doesn’t appear to have any. Appeasing the souls of the departed, laying the table with their favourite foods – how, when there are so many, and some of those he doesn’t want to make welcome in his home? Not to mention the obvious difficulties regarding the supplies, considering for example that Caspian’s preferred dish was children’s hearts.

Neither does he feel the need to keep them away with fire and fearsome faces; he’s never yet met a ghost on Samhain Eve that didn’t keep his company around the year, and the candles don’t exorcise the regrets.

Blending in with the customs of the present is what he does well, but he feels that his artistic talent doesn’t quite stretch to creating immortal carvings from a vegetable matter. He should be far past his dressing-up phase by several thousand years and he never liked candy.

So he falls back to what has never failed him yet – he watches. Watches Duncan carve a pumpkin or two, or Joe lighting the candles; watches Amanda flittering around like a child, filling the bowls with candy, waiting for the trick-or-treaters to show up. Watches, and feels content. The oldest tradition, best suited to any holiday.

Comments

[weesam.livejournal.com]

Oh, I love this. It so captures Methos as I imagine him to be.

[sparklebutch.livejournal.com]

Beautiful boy.

It's what - it's just what - it....

Never fully participating. The curse of an outsider.

[calime]

Yeah.. I do wonder if he was always that way ... if he has learned the hard way that with too much participation, the price may be too high ... as in getting stuck in the moment and having to chew one's limb off to escape the trap...
If you participate, you live. If you live, you are in danger of dying. I get the vibe that Methos sometimes is very much not fond of dying, though at other times he seems very desperately wanting to live.
Hard to set priorities that last, in such a long lifeline.

[calime]

Thank you!
You know, this 'writing something every day' isn't at all easy...not that I'd expected it to be, but still. I went through all of my wips and ended up looking at most of them with the expression that said 'get thee away from me, icky drivel'. Which probably is an attitude in need of adjustment. As are the wips :)

[pat-t.livejournal.com]

That seemed to capture Methos very well. He does tend to sit back and watch uless he senses someone he cares about is getting into trouble. Amazing man.

[holde-maid.livejournal.com]

aww, that's sweet.


he’s never yet met a ghost on Samhain Eve that didn’t keep his company around the year, and the candles don’t exorcise the regrets.

yup, sounds Methosy

[cbtreks.livejournal.com]

This captures Methos (and the others, I think) very well. I especially liked, "Remembering and honouring one's ancestors is kind of a moot point, really, if one doesn’t appear to have any." *sniff* Poor Methos!

[sparklebutch.livejournal.com]

Life's a bitch, short or long.

[calime]

He is good at not wasting unnecessary energy, yes.

[calime]

*smile*

[calime]

Poor Methos, yes... though, at least he doesn't have any problems of not living up or down to any illustrious or not-so-illustrious ancestry, at least :)

[elistaire.livejournal.com]

Very introspective, and very real to Methos. Lovely.

[calime]

Thank you! I'm very happy it seemd to turn out ic!