Day three of the Sanctuary Appreciation Week got me thinking about: Favourite Season/Story Arc. There's two answers to this.
My favourite season is season three, not just because it's the season that brought me back to the fandom like five years later, or because of this cardigan:
(I *will* knit my own one, one day) but because it is just such a comfort blanket for me. So much happens but at the same time there's also chances for the show to sit and breathe.
But also because it is the season that brought me back to the fold and I love the dvds I got signed by Amanda at ATX.
But my favourite arc isn't in one season, it bridges two. I am, of course, talking about Nikola's devamping and subsequent revamping.
(Sorry, random aside. There were scorpions in the Tesla ep of Doctor Who?
... I'm not thinking of my 2017 Teslen fic, no siree bob.)
Anyways! The arc starts with Sleepers and ends with Awakening (which, fwiw, I love the probably unintentional thematic bookends).
I love that he gets a defining feature torn away from him by his own silliness (... wait, was he hoist by his own petard? Have I literally only just understood that term 15 years after finishing English Lit? What does that say about my education? Wow, don't go there, Rach.) but he's gifted his definition again by the same person (we assume) who gave him the gift the first time around. We get to see what Helen saw when she injected him the first time.
And, as the audience, we get to actually see how and why they've remained friends. They snip and snipe at each other but when someone Will targets Nikola, Helen leaps to his defence, and looks like this after...
(Gif by @thenightisfullofangels.) And when Adam messed around with Helen's health, what did mortal!Nikola say:
(Yeah, stole from @thenightisfullofangels again - Tumblr does me dirty every time, I stg.) He's mortal there, telling Adam Hyde he'd do that. No, I don't care that this scene was deleted. It got recorded and released, I'm keeping it in my canon.
So yeah, my favourite arc is Mortal Nikola, because it shows the very human feelings of both Helen and Nikola.
(Yup, another goodie from @thenightisfullofangels. I love this one to pieces.)
