Your brain is turning it into Spyro :P Okay, I can see a couple of ways the Spencer thing could work...
1. What if it comes after Brendon comes back? 'Cause I worry that if Ryan's had this semi-positive (well, not as bad) experience in the middle and fallen for Spencer and is pining after him, then it lessens the dramatic impact when Brendon comes back. So the rescue fails and Brendon is captured as well. Ryan is not happy about this. Ryan gave in years ago, but that was only him, that wasn't...and there's nothing he won't do to save Brendon from this. Ryan is fighting again. Ryan fights, and keeps fighting, and won't work, and says he won't work until they let Brendon go, and nothing they do to him can move him. They can't just let Brendon go, he'll go tell everyone they kidnapped him, so Ryan is useless to them now...and so they sell him off for a crapload of money (and possibly Brendon too, lol, you could have them sold together, or have them separated) to Spencer's dad. Enter your whole Spencer scenario. As my brain immediately jumps to gsf XD Dear god. Lmao.
2. OR, if you wanted it before, you could have it quite early on that it happens, so Ryan's still fragile and broken, and he almost, sort of begins to heal living with Spencer. He remembers himself--remembers the person he was--remembers Brendon, and goodness, and hope. With Spencer, he almost finds himself again. And then Spencer's father sells him on, and he's abused and trampled and torn to pieces, and it's so much worse because he'd almost hoped again, and that just breaks him and burns him away more than ever. He'll never heal by the time Brendon finds him, because the one time he let himself almost try, it destroyed him, and everything was snatched away back into the dark.
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Date: 2009-04-16 04:39 pm (UTC)Your brain is turning it into Spyro :P Okay, I can see a couple of ways the Spencer thing could work...
1. What if it comes after Brendon comes back? 'Cause I worry that if Ryan's had this semi-positive (well, not as bad) experience in the middle and fallen for Spencer and is pining after him, then it lessens the dramatic impact when Brendon comes back. So the rescue fails and Brendon is captured as well. Ryan is not happy about this. Ryan gave in years ago, but that was only him, that wasn't...and there's nothing he won't do to save Brendon from this. Ryan is fighting again. Ryan fights, and keeps fighting, and won't work, and says he won't work until they let Brendon go, and nothing they do to him can move him. They can't just let Brendon go, he'll go tell everyone they kidnapped him, so Ryan is useless to them now...and so they sell him off for a crapload of money (and possibly Brendon too, lol, you could have them sold together, or have them separated) to Spencer's dad. Enter your whole Spencer scenario. As my brain immediately jumps to gsf XD Dear god. Lmao.
2. OR, if you wanted it before, you could have it quite early on that it happens, so Ryan's still fragile and broken, and he almost, sort of begins to heal living with Spencer. He remembers himself--remembers the person he was--remembers Brendon, and goodness, and hope. With Spencer, he almost finds himself again. And then Spencer's father sells him on, and he's abused and trampled and torn to pieces, and it's so much worse because he'd almost hoped again, and that just breaks him and burns him away more than ever. He'll never heal by the time Brendon finds him, because the one time he let himself almost try, it destroyed him, and everything was snatched away back into the dark.