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Grounded, trapped within my house, my imagination flutters about, wanting to soar free. It often takes refuge in fannish thoughts, hiding within them. I return to old loves, old fandoms, allowing them to mingle with more recent ones.

What if Jaye Tyler from Wonderfalls and George Lass from Dead Like Me crossed paths, causing a commotion, to quote an old Madonna song? What if the muses and the gravelings were at odds and got into a major swear-off? Jaye and George might end up exchanging long suffering glances at the end of it all, no matter how much their colleagues pitted them against each other.

What if the gravelings from Dead Like Me formed a swooning fandom around Hannibal Lecter from Hannibal? They might hang around his kitchen, mooning over him, melodramtic operatic love numbers playing in the background. After all, Hannibal makes their job much easier. They don’t have to drop a piano on him, or do anything with a serial killer like him. They can just kick back and watch him create what may well appear to many of them as majestic artworks of death. By the same token, the gravelings may hate Ned, the pie maker from Pushing Daisies, because Ned and his magic finger really screw up their schedules. They can’t actually harm Ned, though, because he’s somehow immune to their antics. For what if Ned’s father was one of the few Grim Reapers who managed to reproduce, fathering three sons? The effort might have aged him. Perhaps Dwight Dixon and Charles Charles knew some of his secrets? There might have been other reasons Chuck’s father wanted Chuck to stay away from Ned other than the obvious.

Speaking of the obvious, it’s fairly obvious to want to connect George and Reggie Lass to Miriam, but what if they were also related to Sara Pezzini, Kate Lockley, and the bloodline of the Witchblade? What if they were all members of the Sisterhood of the Witchblade, only some members of this warrior bloodline choose other battlefields and other weapons? Some of them might not even choose weapons. It’s irresistible, adding Jaye Tyler to this bloodline since her concept of ‘hearing voices’ was inspired by Joan of Arc, whom was a past Witchblade wielder. Not to mention the more I learn about Lucrezia Borgia, the more I want to tweak the part she played on Witchblade. I thought of a way to do that with Kate doing a little deductive reasoning and research, perhaps with the help of Alex Moreau from Poltergeist: The Legacy?

In the meantime on the Hannibal front, I’ve got all sorts of wild ideas of how Will and Hannibal might have escaped from death, from a very intricate scheme involving Chiyo to vampirism. Hannibal Lecter, however, might well have been one of the few men offered eternal life by a vampire who turned it down. According to Hannibal, death gives life meaning. Making life eternal might render it meaningless. How much might this principle be challenged by the threat of not losing his own life, but losing Will’s?

These are just some of the ideas swimming around in my head. Tell me, dear reader and/or fanfic writer, what are some of yours?
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I find doppelgangers fascinating both in art and literature.

One of the things I loved about the Witchblade TV show with Yancy Butler was its use of exquisitely artistic surrealism, often employing doppelgangers.

In the pilot, Sara Pezzini looks into a mirror, to see her dead friend, Maria looking back. The two women almost seem to mimick each other’s movements. Sara falls back on her bed in Static in almost perfect time to Lorelei, falling from a roof.

This was one of the reasons why I wanted to write a fanfiction cross over between Witchblade and Angel with Kate Lockley being not only Sara Pezzini’s long lost sister and a blood heir to the Witchblade, but someone who mirrored, echoed, and Sara’s experiences with the supernatural weapon.

I saw Kate Lockley, played by Elisabeth Rohm in an alley, hair pulled back in a ponytail, wearing a jacket in the Angel episode, Sense and Sensitivity. She seemed to mirror Sara in the pilot at the Rialto, acting as a doppelganger for her heart and rage. Both of them were going after an untouchable bad guy, on a one woman crusade other cops shrank away from, a crusade the bad guy wouldn’t tolerate.

The likeness struck my imagination and inspired me. I wanted to channel some of what I saw, the likeness of the two women into a story. The idea for the fanfiction, Sisterhood of the Witchblade came to me.

This story has been growing in my imagination for years, coming out in bits and pieces. I only just posted the first two parts of it.

It’s quite a task, channeling this into a coherent form, especially while juggling many other projects. It’s one that’s quite dear to my hear, expressing much of my love for the beauty of the Witchblade TV show. It also gives Kate Lockley a chance to fight back against a world which has gone insane to use Sara’s own words.

Kate fought the same battle Sara did. I wanted to give these two warrior women a chance to join forces.

This flight of fanciful fandom has been a long time coming. I hope its results intrigue you as much as it intrigued me.

Everything is connected in the Witchblade. This is often true for me in fandom as well. Stories overlap and spill into each other, becoming part of a vaster universe.

Enjoy the overlap at Archive of Our Own.

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