Any Highlander fans out there? I have some questions.

[thefourthvine]

Do you know HL? I need some help from people who have seen Highlander canon. Here's what I'd like to know:

1. What are all the ways to permanently kill an immortal? I know cutting off heads, but is there anything else? And is it different the first time they die? And does it matter if the whole head doesn't come off - like, can they come back if the neck is only mostly severed?
   
   
2. What happens the first time they (don't) die? I mean, they think they're mortal for a period of time, right? And then they die, except they don't, and they say, "Whoa, dude. I must be immortal, because that sure as shit should've killed me." (Although I think most people would assume the injury or whatever just hadn't been as bad as they thought, so - do some of them have to die a lot before they figure it out?) But I'm a little foggy on the whole deal, frankly. Do they have to be buried and then rise again, like vampires? Or is it more of an instantaneous thing?
   
   
3. What happens if you shoot an immortal (who has already done the first not-death, if that matters) in a way that would kill a human but won't kill him? (Like, gaping chest wound, something like that.) I'm pretty sure he has at least a period of, shall we say, limited activity, but how long is he down for? And exactly how limited is his activity? And what happens - like, do the wounds visibly close over and heal, or does he just suddenly sit up all better, or what?

As much detail as you've got, that's how much I'd like.

And if you know any sources for getting this kind of information without bugging my friends list - like, a Highlander encyclopedia or whatever - I would love to know about it.

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[mamadeb.livejournal.com]

Most of your questions have been answered, and I just had a lot of fun answering some details.

Because Highlander...well. It's sort what got me into fanfiction. See, my husband liked the really bad cartoon HL, and then we discovered the series (in its fourth season, I believe.) and he looked around Usenet (web was just starting up at that point) and found an ftl site full of HL fanfiction. Most of it was gen or het, of course. I remember one very clever one that had Al from Happy Days as an Immie - in the late sixties, he'd become a cop named Murray (from the Odd Couple.) It was cute.

There was some slash, but very little. I remember using Altavista on Lynx to find slash HL and finding three stories. Then came "Comes a Horseman" and it all exploded. :)

Anyway, it's a way fun fandom. Just remember that Methos is NOT a main character, appeared in relatively few episodes and that Joe is *much* sexier to some of us. :)