Madame Xanadu: Bookends

[espanolbot]

I'll get around to posting some of the other storylines from this series at some point, but first I thought that I'd post how the series ended, by bring back Amy Reeder and introducing some of the elements from the first storyline, Disenchanted.

It's in the late 1960s, and Xanadu is well established in her shop, even taking on an apprentice in the form of a former medical student who ended up with psychic powers relating to taste (yes, like Chew) after dropping some LSD with her hippy boyfriend (long story).

However, a familiar figure who Xanadu hasn't seen in some thirty years has appeared, now in more or les his standard outfit...

Comments

[icon_uk]

"An Archer and his Siren"

Excuse me Madame, but I think a certain much more impressive hero than "the Archer" would like to discuss appropriate priority in the billing you gave her here.

[endis_ni]

The Siren and her Archer does sound both more fitting and frankly more mythic.

[invadertoph]

Wait...did Madame Xanadu and Phantom Stranger have a thing?

[espanolbot]

...Sorta... It's covered in the first storyline of the series (I posted bits, follow the links above! :D). Basically Xanadu and the Stranger met numerous times over the course of roughly a 1000 years, and due to them both being immortals with magical and precognitive abilities, she initially wanted to join him as a companion if not a lover, due to how horribly lonely she was.

But due to the Stranger moving through time in a nonlinear fashion, him being doomed to be unable to have relationships because of this, and due to Xanadu thinking that the Stranger was manipulating tragedies for his own amusement (he was more... tweaking things here and there to get a better future, but too far ahead for Xanadu to see with her cards), they ended up parting on bad terms.