Well, linking Methos to Daniel is just soooo easy, of course everyone does it! At first. *eg* If you look around a bit more, then you realise that while it's Danny who pulls Methos into the SG-1 world, it's Jack who keeps him there. So really, I just cut out the middleman and kept the cliche anyway. ;D
Though I do agree with XWA that I don't think Methos would reveal his true name to his family. I don't think the majority of his wives and/or families even knew about his Immortality, nevermind his true name, but that's purely my own supposition.
We're all just going to have to agree to disagree on this point, I think. ;) I know Methos is careful and having anyone, even his closest loved ones, know his name is an immeasurable risk... but I stll think it's a risk he'd be willing to take. I mean, if he were that opposed to the sheer chance of his existence becoming known, he'd have killed MacLeod for blabbing to Joe, then Amanda, then Richie, the who knows else. And if he can tolerate MacLeod's loud-mouthed behavor of shouting his name without regard for witnesses without beheading the bastard, then I doubt he'd have a problem with the people he loves most, his family, sayng his true name in private.
Besides, he might even need it! Thousands of yeas of avoiding other Immortals, of hiding, of so thoroughly subsistng his own personality under whatever character's he chooses to adopt... Methos might very well be feeling the identity crisis. Just having someone, anyone, on Earth who knows his real name and addresses him as such would act as a reminder about who he really is. And his family, the people he loves and who love him just as completely in return, would be the safest ones to trust with that powerful secret.
(I will grant you, however, that this admission is not a blanket assertion that everyone one of his wives/husbands/children knew his name, or even of his Immortality. Out of 68 marriages, I'm sure a good number of them were of convenience, or coerced, or for some other purpose than love. But the ones he married because he loved them? The children he raised and promised to protect for the rest of their lives? The special people who realised how remarkable a man he was even without knowing the truth and would willingly die for him just because they loved him? Them? Yeah, I think Methos would trust them enough to tell them his name -- whatever the possible consequences.)
Good to have you back in LJ-land, Shifty! Are your PC troubles all resolved?
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Though I do agree with XWA that I don't think Methos would reveal his true name to his family. I don't think the majority of his wives and/or families even knew about his Immortality, nevermind his true name, but that's purely my own supposition.
We're all just going to have to agree to disagree on this point, I think. ;) I know Methos is careful and having anyone, even his closest loved ones, know his name is an immeasurable risk... but I stll think it's a risk he'd be willing to take. I mean, if he were that opposed to the sheer chance of his existence becoming known, he'd have killed MacLeod for blabbing to Joe, then Amanda, then Richie, the who knows else. And if he can tolerate MacLeod's loud-mouthed behavor of shouting his name without regard for witnesses without beheading the bastard, then I doubt he'd have a problem with the people he loves most, his family, sayng his true name in private.
Besides, he might even need it! Thousands of yeas of avoiding other Immortals, of hiding, of so thoroughly subsistng his own personality under whatever character's he chooses to adopt... Methos might very well be feeling the identity crisis. Just having someone, anyone, on Earth who knows his real name and addresses him as such would act as a reminder about who he really is. And his family, the people he loves and who love him just as completely in return, would be the safest ones to trust with that powerful secret.
(I will grant you, however, that this admission is not a blanket assertion that everyone one of his wives/husbands/children knew his name, or even of his Immortality. Out of 68 marriages, I'm sure a good number of them were of convenience, or coerced, or for some other purpose than love. But the ones he married because he loved them? The children he raised and promised to protect for the rest of their lives? The special people who realised how remarkable a man he was even without knowing the truth and would willingly die for him just because they loved him? Them? Yeah, I think Methos would trust them enough to tell them his name -- whatever the possible consequences.)
Good to have you back in LJ-land, Shifty! Are your PC troubles all resolved?