If you're not talking Invincible I don't wanna talk.

Finish off what you had planned and let it be your wildest, wackiest draft yet. If you’re gonna get rid of it anyway, why not have fun with it while it lasts? And maybe while you’re at it, you’ll unintentionally come up with something that can be useful later on, even if you don’t keep it in its current form

Jake’s doomed Howler

the teams have very similar setups, Rachel and Buffy Summers are basically the same person, she might lean a little more faith at times.

both have team Dynamics that fall into the hands, brain, heart, spirit sort of framework but shuffled a bit. Marco is the Xander but instead of being the heart he's the brain and like the brain and buffy, he makes the hard calls to let people die or kill them, you know those sorts of decisions. Rachel is the hands still. she also has her own Cordelia in the form of Melissa Chapman. I would also say Cassie is the heart and Tobias is the spirit but those might be backwards, still chewing on it. I honestly think that makes Ax = Kendra. raised in the fight, trained for the fight, thinks only of the fight and his duty to the fight and gradually starts to open up to normal shit as the team pals with him.

even thinking about the weird vampire lore in buffy, the way it talks about the person you know is gone, they've been replaced by a monster. they've been inhabited by a demon. that's what the Yeerks is doing. you end up with the same dynamic of not really knowing who is a vampire or a yeerk controller until they become a threat. there's a lot of similar ethical questions that arise in both franchises as well in terms of slaying versus killing and saving the world versus killing innocents. and both don't really reckon with those ethics until you're like halfway through the series.

there are freaky prophecy dreams, there are Higher Powers beyond this small fight that move pieces on their own agenda, you even have First Evil vibes with an antagonist later. oh and David = Faith. he even succumbs to a character like the mayor

mostly I just can't stop thinking about my obsession with women who are doomed by the narrative, who were born to fight in a war they didn't ask for but find themselves without purpose if they try to leave it