Another Day Obsessing Over Biffy and Lyall, what a surprise!

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I’m staring at my list of prompts from the BigDamnTable minus the ones that I’ve done so far. It’s still a massive list of course. I’ve only done a handful of them, but I’m proud of the ones I’ve done so far. I’m debating right now doing another one next or if I’m going to write another story about Biffy and Lyall. Part of me wants to work more on the list I’ve got going since it’s huge. See the following:

understanding

conversation

darkness

again

warm

cold

lost

rain

unexpected

sunshine

abrupt

pictures

hard

soft

reminder

relaxation

dreams

In the past

in the future

kitchen

late night

early morning

taking charge

coats

leadership

help

risk

blood

power

Avenger/s

time

control

fairness

regrets

transportation

empty

washing

Mission

But I’m still sort of enamored of the story I have of Biffy and Lyall in this time. I would like to see if I could come up with a way to write Channing post a mortal lifetime with Faith and her death. I don’t think he’d be the same wolf we see through the other books. I’m thinking the way Imogen feels about him in “Romancing the Inventor” might actually be a good way to portray him if I decide to go for it. He’s still kind of an ass in that. He’s still haughty, he’s still a bit smarmy at times, but he also genuinely cares for another being and treats her with kindness and support. She’s probably the only one to honestly like him until maybe Faith and even she doesn’t initially like him. I think Faith falls in love with him before she likes him. Imogen likes him from nearly the start. She fears him at first, but within seconds he allays that by respecting her.

One of the things I find really interesting about Channing through the series is that when we first meet him, he’s nearly forcing himself on Alexia, but he also is doing it in such a way that he knows he’ll be stopped. The entire pack is there, including Lyall, the Beta (the only wolf beside his Alpha who can best him in a fight) who will most definitely put a stop to him hurting anyone. When we see him in Romancing the Inventor there’s no one there to stop him coming onto a woman, but when he (quite quickly) realizes that Imogen’s tastes run to women and not at all to men, he immediately respects that. I wonder sometimes if he learned his lesson after how he treated Alexia or if he did what he did because he was always looking for ways to punish himself for the things in his past and he thought pushing Alexia around would get Lyall to punish him. Perhaps it was a bit of both.

Still, I think the way Imogen sees him, someone who is in pain, but wants to good things (chatting with her when she’s hurting, bringing her candy, making sure she’s protected, etc.) might be who is in the time period I’m writing about. And if I could capture that, that pain along with a little bit of peace and forgiveness that Faith brought with her, it would be really awesome to write more about the pack in general.

I think this is probably a decision for another night. I need to finish editing the other story before I really dig into another one and I think getting the story edited and posted will help me clarify better what I want to do next.

At the same time, I think there’s a good chance that I won’t be able to resist writing about Biffy and Lyall getting married and that I’m going to get sucked into that story exactly like I did this last one.

I’ll find out soon enough!