Tavia wrote:

Sally wrote:

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Avon does give the *impression* of vulnerability under those shields, and Gan doesn't. Whether it's canonically true doesn't really matter in this

instance,

...

methinks, since fanfic writers are as much influenced (if not more so) by what they read into the characters as what is strictly on screen.

One of the strange things about fanfic is that it's definitely more inspired by other fanfic and fanon (either in positive or negative, 'I don't believe that!' sense) than by canon... So possibly the answer to 'why Avon' is that there's an archetypal Avon torture myth, now lost in the mists of time, that every h/c story is ultimately descended from ...

That'll be that story in Standard by Seven, the one where Avon and Vila are stuck on a primitive planet, and Avon breaks his back and Vila saves his life. 'The Human Factor'. Great stuff.

Una