OH MY GODDDD WHY WOULD YOU SAY THIS IT'S LIKE WITH ONE WORD YOU CAN SPAWN IN ME THE DESIRE TO WRITE FUCKING EPICS
WHICH I BET YOU ALREADY KNEW
Um but okay there is a five thousand year kaleidoscope of answers to this question! I think Methos' will is absolutely always such that he would never just break down under the Ring's power; there is no world where he sits muttering over it in dark places. Obviously there's a time -- of a thousand years, and probably of over a thousand years, let's say at least five hundred afterward, and probably beforehand for as long as Methos' memory goes back -- in which Methos would take the Ring, and become Sauron.
(And now my mind goes on the world's most bewildering tailspin: Methos is with Kronos when he learns the art of ringmaking from ... whoever the elder Immortals are, and becomes the Highlander-universe's equivalent of Sauron. HEY BRAIN KRONOS IS NOT ACTUALLY MORGOTH.)
If somehow Methos-as-he-is-now comes into possession of the Ring, he wouldn't rule with it, nor change anything with it; but neither would he go on a quest to destroy it. I don't know if he'd find it laughable or potentially useful, but I do know that it would be a terrible temptation, and he'd just -- keep it, hidden, while he goes slowly more brittle. We can only pray that Amanda steals it and then, idk, Joe throws it into a volcano, Joe is the only person in that whole universe I trust to not go suddenly power-mad.
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WHICH I BET YOU ALREADY KNEW
Um but okay there is a five thousand year kaleidoscope of answers to this question! I think Methos' will is absolutely always such that he would never just break down under the Ring's power; there is no world where he sits muttering over it in dark places. Obviously there's a time -- of a thousand years, and probably of over a thousand years, let's say at least five hundred afterward, and probably beforehand for as long as Methos' memory goes back -- in which Methos would take the Ring, and become Sauron.
(And now my mind goes on the world's most bewildering tailspin: Methos is with Kronos when he learns the art of ringmaking from ... whoever the elder Immortals are, and becomes the Highlander-universe's equivalent of Sauron. HEY BRAIN KRONOS IS NOT ACTUALLY MORGOTH.)
If somehow Methos-as-he-is-now comes into possession of the Ring, he wouldn't rule with it, nor change anything with it; but neither would he go on a quest to destroy it. I don't know if he'd find it laughable or potentially useful, but I do know that it would be a terrible temptation, and he'd just -- keep it, hidden, while he goes slowly more brittle. We can only pray that Amanda steals it and then, idk, Joe throws it into a volcano, Joe is the only person in that whole universe I trust to not go suddenly power-mad.
WELL AS USUAL I HAVE ALL THE METHOS THOUGHTS.