Rex and Hannah Chronicles General Discussion

[wakas]

Sounds very mysterious. I'm sure I'll love it. When will it be available?

[Tim]

When will it be available?

Sometime this weekend, if all goes well.

I've actually finishing writing the story.  Now it's just a matter of editing and proofreading it.

[wakas]

Great ! This weekend, that means very soon ! Yeah !

[Tim]

I guess that most of you have read The Island by now.  This marks the beginning of a critical phase in the battle with the Old Ones.

With Hastur now free, he will be trying to free his fellow Old Ones.  Of course, at this point, R&H still don't know that Hastur is back.

[wakas]

When will the next story of R&H be available? You can't keep  us in suspense like that, it's too cruel 

[Tim]

I hope to write it during the summer.

I'm planning on bringing back a character from Rex and Hannah's past.  That's all I'm going to say

[wakas]

That's very mysterious. I'm sure I'll devour this new story! I always enjoy reading Rex and Hannah's adventures

[Tim]

Hard to believe that we're coming up on ten years since I started the Rex and Hannah Chronicles.  Yep, 2018 will be the 10th Anniversary of the R&H Chronicles.  Right now, I'm still thinking of how to celebrate it.

Among the things that I accomplished with the R&H Chronicles was to correct some of the mistakes that Charmed made in regards to some of the characters.  Among those characters was Christy Jenkins. 

Christy appears in my 7th R&H Chronicles story, The Troubled Spirit, back in 2009.  Here my entry on my Wiki in regards to that incident:

Accidentally freed from Purgatory by someone fooling with a Ouija Board, the now remorseful spirit of Christy Jenkins returned to Earth in 2009. Christy was in search of her younger sister, Wilhelmina "Billie" Jenkins, whom she hoped to reconcile with. Christy’s search led her to Rex and Hannah, who she identified herself to. The name seemed familiar to Rex and he soon located references to it in some scrolls that he had captured during an Insurgent raid on the then Demon controlled Magic School, several years before.

The scrolls revealed that the reason that Christy had been kidnapped in the first place was because the Triad had a long range plan to overthrow the Source and rule the Underworld themselves. Since they would need the support of the Upper Level Demons to do so, the Triad figured that taking out the Charmed Ones was the way to achieve that goal. Hence their plan to use Christy and Billie against the Charmed Ones, a plan the Source knew nothing about, since it would have led to his downfall.

Seeking more information on Christy, Rex and Hannah consulted with Paige Matthews, who told them about the Ultimate Battle and how Christy had died, some three years earlier. In her years of Demon captivity, Christy had been slowly brainwashed by Dumain, a Demon working for the Triad, and was now converted to their cause. As a result of said brainwashing, Christy had slowly been turning Billie against the Charmed Ones. The Triad hoped that the combined powers of Christy and Billie would be enough to eliminate the Charmed Ones (and they hoped Christy and Billie would perish as well, leaving no loose ends). However, in the end, Billie realized the truth and would not go along with Christy any longer. After the Charmed Ones vanquished the Triad and Dumain, Billie tried to reason with Christy, but it was too late. Christy conjured a fireball and hurled it towards the Charmed Ones. Billie, on instinct, used her own powers to send the fireball back at Christy, incinerating her. Billie was devastated at the loss of the sister she had worked so hard to save, and, as a result, cut ties with the Charmed Ones and left San Francisco soon after.

Doing some leg work, Rex, Hannah, and Paige tracked Billie down to her new apartment in Seattle, Washington, and told her about Christy’s spirit.

At that point, Christy's spirit appeared, having followed Rex, Hannah, and Paige to Seattle. Although she was reluctant to listen at first, Billie soon heard Christy out and realized that Christy was indeed sorry for what had happened. Christy now realized that she'd been used and manipulated for years. Christy and Billie then finally reconciled and Christy, finally at peace, crossed over to the Spirit World.

Now at peace with herself, now that she had reconciled with Christy, Billie soon moved back to San Francisco and renewed her ties with the Halliwell sisters.

I have to admit that this story was also inspired in part by the TV show, Ghost Whisperer.  Like Melinda Gordon on that show, R&H helps Christy find peace and cross over into the light, where her parents awaited her. 

I always felt that the ending to the Jenkins sisters storyline was very badly handled on the show.  It seemed that, when they realized that the Billie/Christy spin-off was off the table, the writers just said "F*ck it, let's just dispose of Christy, like she was just another Demon and be done with it.  We need to squeeze in more pointless guest stars."

This was a storyline we'd followed for the latter half of the season, and this was the pay-off!?  What the hell, Kern?  What the hell!?

Since Kern dropped the ball on Christy Jenkins, I decided to pick it up again.  The Troubled Spirit was my way of, IMO, properly ending the Jenkins sisters story.  Christy is crossed over and Billie is at peace with herself (something we didn't see on the show, aside from a brief glimpse of Billie babysitting Phoebe's kids, years later).

I'm very proud of that story, and it has been well received by those that read it (Charmed and non-Charmed fans alike).

[wakas]

Yes it has . You are right to be very proud of your story as it was a very, very good one ! I enjoyed reading it a lot.

I hope the next one will come out soon ?

[Tim]

I'm starting to plan out my next R&H story.

I pretty much know what the story is going to be about, I just have to figure out how it all goes together.

[Melinda Halliwell]

I get that with my stories to Tim.

[Tim]

Another thing I've done is tackle time travel.  However, there are rules, I follow.  The following comes from my Wiki and deals with the events of the R&H Chronicles story, The Tides Of Time. 

In this story, Hannah finds herself trapped on the Titanic:

In 2012, Hannah was accidentally transported, via a magical idol, to the RMS Titanic on its final day, in 1912. Once she realized just where and when she was, Hannah tried to find a way to escape the doomed ship, before it sank.

During the course of this adventure, Hannah met five children travelling to America from Russia: Sergei, Yuri, Yulia, Natasha, and Svetlana Kerensky. Sergei told Hannah that the five of them were travelling with their tutor to join their parents, who were already in America.

Soon after, the Titanic hit the iceberg and the ship was fatally damaged as history has decreed.

Having realized that the idol was somehow responsible for her arriving in this place and time, Hannah broke into the Purser’s Office, to try and use the idol to return to her own time (the idol had been found in a deep sea probe of the wreck of the Titanic in 2012, and had been given to Rex), but was unsuccessful (Hannah didn't realize that the idol could only be used once by the same person). However, she then used a nail file to scratch a message on the bottom of the idol, for Rex to see a century later.

Later, when the Titanic was sinking, Hannah encountered the Angel Of Death, who had arrived to collect the souls of those destined to die when the Titanic sank. The Angel pointed out that Hannah did not belong there, and that she could not interfere with the events unfolding around them. Hannah replied that she had no intention of interfering, rather she just wanted to survive herself.

Soon after, Hannah again encountered the Kerensky children, who had been abandoned by their tutor, and decided to rescue them. Posing as their Governess, Hannah successfully got the children, and herself, aboard a lifeboat and they soon watched as the Titanic disappeared beneath the waters of the North Atlantic. At least 1517 crew and passengers were lost in the disaster.

Several hours later, the RMS Carpathia arrived and rescued the Titanic survivors, Hannah and the Kerensky children among them. Three days later, the Carpathia arrived in New York City, and the Titanic survivors disembarked. Hannah watched as the Kerensky children were reunited with their parents, Sergei telling them that Hannah had saved the lives of himself and his siblings. While this was going on, a reporter snapped a photo of Hannah and the Kerensky family.

Rex then arrived, having seen Hannah’s message on the idol and then using the Time Key to travel to 1912 to rescue Hannah. After having met the Kerensky family and then watching them leave, Rex told Hannah that he was able to locate her by the photograph the reporter had just taken of her and the Kerensky family. He showed her the same photo he had brought with him from the future (he had downloaded the photo from the Internet). However, Hannah was distraught because she was unable to stop the Titanic from sinking, that she was unable to make a difference. Rex worried about her as they returned to their own time.

Soon after their return to 2012, Rex showed Hannah that she did make a difference in the past. He introduced her to Hannah Macmillan, the daughter of Sergei Kerensky, one of the five children Hannah had rescued from the Titanic. Sergei had named his daughter after the woman that had saved him and his siblings, that woman being Hannah. Hannah realized that Hannah M. and her whole family would not have existed without her. Thus Hannah, having realized that she had indeed made a difference, had her mind put at ease.

The rule of time travel is that, while fixed historical events cannot be changed (at least not without disastrous results), minor ones can.  Hannah could not stop the Titanic from sinking, but she was able to rescue those five children.

So, Hannah was able to make a difference.  She did save some lives that would have been lost had she not been there.

[wakas]

I remember that story. A pretty good one!

I always found the sinking of the Titanic chilling. I had a relative who died there, an uncle I think. He was a cook or something.

[Melinda Halliwell]

Whoa that's interesting wakas.

[Tim]

Wish I could get Rex and Hannah added to the character list of the Cthulhu Mythos section of FF.net, however, I don't think I can. 

R&H are not native to the Cthulhu Mythos.  Rather they are, as TV Tropes would say, Canon Immigrants