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It’s like this:
lyra_sena inquired yesterday about Warrior Angel-verse, and canon and fanon and whether or not I was smoking some mondo crack when I came up with Sean and Cal. The answer to this is obviously ‘yes.’ But that wasn’t enough for her. She wanted specifics and names and places.
It’s certainly not the first time that I’ve been asked what I’m doing, but since my boys seem to be popping up a lot recently, I thought I would take the time out to create a cheat sheet to explain the whos, whats and whys that I’ve extrapolated from the scraps the WB has fed us.
I’m not quite sure where to begin, so I’ll start by separating theirs from mine.
Canon
Season 1, Episode: Stray: We are introduced to Warrior Angel by the WB. Ryan has their comic books and enjoys them a lot. We see that Warrior Angel is a spandex-clad superhero who works for something called the Guardian Realm. Did I mention that the spandex is lavender and has wings, and he’s BALD? Take two Advil with that anvil, huh?
Season 2, Episode: Ryan: We find out more about Warrior Angel. We find out that Warrior Angel has an arch nemesis, Devilicus, who wears red spandex and quite possibly horns, not sure about that. We also find out that Lex is a huge fan of Warrior Angel and presumably has the entire run. He and Ryan talk comics, and we find out that Issue 66 is the big rift-o-rama between Warrior Angel and Devilicus, who were apparently 'good friends' once upon a time.
That’s all the WB give us.
Fanon, or things Zahra has created in her spare time
Who’s Who
Name: Callum ‘Cal’ King
Also Known As: Warrior Angel
Looks a hell of a lot like: This guy.
Wearing what?!: A purple spandex unitard with wings. Hey, talk to the WB. But in my world that's only WA-on-the-clock wear.
Why: Cal believes in truth, justice and doing 'the right thing.' He's not perfect, but he does try; that's pretty much all he expects of those around him, but he will always regret losing Sean because they didn't see eye to eye.
Other: Cal doesn’t have ‘superpowers’ but he does have certain mutations that make him stronger than the average citizen. He doesn't need Rocketboots to fly, which is why there are wings on his suit - so people don't freak out on him.
Note: Yes, both Cal and I are aware that the short version of his name is also a bed size.
Name: Sean Devlin
Also Known As: Devilicus
Looks a hell of a lot like: This guy.
Wearing what?!: A red spandex unitard, and I believe horns (don’t quote me on the horn thing though). That's only on Devilicus hours though, on Sean-hours he wears dark green and lots of blue. And ixnay on the spandex.
Why: Where to begin? Boy meets boy. Boy falls in love with boy. Boy is willing to do anything to make boy happy. Boy has holier than thou expectations that other boy cannot meet. There is a difference of opinion and everything ends badly.
Other: Sean is what people like to call ‘flush,’ meaning he’s richer than God. Both of his parents are dead, but lived long enough to see Sean graduate from the Academy, even though they wanted him to go into the family business: importing/exporting. Yes, Sean is a little shady.
Name: Hector Adams
Also Known As: Hector the Brave
Looks a hell of a lot like: Ian Somerhalder
Wearing what?!: A sky-blue jumpsuit with Viking markings on the right sleeve. Don’t ask me, I don’t know Norse.
Why: Hector was introduced in issue 87 as Cal’s new partner, fresh on transfer from Guardian Realm HQ. This did not go down well with a lot of people, and I'm not talking about just inside the comics.
Other: Hector and Cal began dating around issue 130. This has gone down even worse, and Sean is livid. That’s why Devilicus kidnapped Warrior Angel in issue 131 and stuck him in that terrarium filled with carnivorous spiders.
Name: Henry Constantinople
Also Known As: The Captain
Looks a hell of a lot like: Um. A eight foot tall blue hermaphrodite with a tiger tail. Seriously.
Wearing what?!: He’s eight feet tall. Whatever fits.
Why: Henry is Captain of the 32nd Zone police force. He’s worked for the Guardian Realm for a long time and has pretty much seen and done it all. He’s a friend as well as a boss, and he took Sean’s quitting very hard.
Other: From the Planet Tick. Is Clark’s favorite character in the WA-verse.
Name: Pepper Anderson
Also Known As: ‘Boom-Boom Blast’ Anderson
Looks a hell of a lot like: Thandie Newton
Wearing what?!: A red, black and white unitard – yes, I know, lots of unitards, but they make the flying easier. It’s got jagged lines cutting across it. She looks fierce, people.
Why: Pepper wanted to be a Protector from the time she was small. She’s always done what she set out to.
Other: Pepper is a few years older than Cal, and at one point they even dated, but she dumped him when it became quite obvious he was infatuated with Sean. She’s not mad at them. She’s got her own man. And woman. I mean look at her. She also likes things that go ‘boom.’ At all times she’s got her two favorite guns, Harry and Sally, strapped about her person.
Name: Nigellus Lawford
Also Known As: N/A
Looks a hell of a lot like: Sir Ian McKellen
Wearing what?!: Tends to prefer subtle and neutral shades when working on Devlin business.
Why: Nigellus was Devlin Sr.’s right-hand advisor, and after his father's death, Sean made Nigellus his proxy on all Devlin Enterprises business. After the rift, Sean came to work for the company, and Nigellus now advises him.
Other: Nigellus is Sean’s father figure, and he looks after Sean and his interests. He likes (ed) Cal, but in the post-rift days, Nigellus has great disdain for Warrior Angel.
Issue Backlog
Issue 1: Sean Devlin and Callum King, two young, jaded Academy graduates are assigned to the 32nd Zone in the Fifteenth Dimension. Pepper Anderson, Cal's ex, is already working there as a Protector, and much to Callum's chagrin, she and Sean get on like a house on fire. Sean and Cal get their first assignment - traffic duty.
Issue 4: The Warrior Angel uniform is born. The prototype requires Cal to put on baby powder and Vaseline to get in and out of it.
Issue 54: ‘It’s important to prioritze.’
Issue 66: THE RIFT manifests.
Issue 67-75: Post-rift madness. Sean quits the force and goes to work for Devlin Enterprises. Cal goes round the bend.
Issue 87: Introduction of Hector the Brave
Issue 88-92: Sean creates Tempus Inhibitors in an attempt to go back in time and heal the rift.
Issue 95: Warrior Angel meets The Ruttles
Issue 98: Warrior Angel and Devilicus duel after Devilicus kidnaps Hector
Issue 101-103: Devilicus brainwashes Warrior Angel into thinking he’s one of the bad guys.
Issue 112: Hector breaks Cal’s bisector detector. Cal is not amused
Issue 124-129: Devilicus attains telekinetic powers and tries to rob the Galactic Treasury
Issue 130: Hector and Cal tentatively start dating.
Issue 131-133: Devilicus kidnaps Warrior Angel, shrinks him and keeps him captive in a terrarium filled with carnivorous black widow spiders.
Issues 146-150: Devilicus plots with the Evil Zrog to ruin Warrior Angel, but double crosses him in an attempt to make off with his daughter, Princess Periodonta
Issue 177-180: Devilicus traps Warrior Angel in the Alabamus Dimension.
Vocabulary
Blue & Blast: An off-shoot comic featuring Pepper and Henry.
Dark Ages, The: Issues 67-75 of the WA run, which take place post-rift.
Fifteenth Dimension: Also known as Manhattan, it’s where everyone lives. Their particular area is the 32nd Zone, i.e. the Village.
Golden Age: All issues pre-rift, i.e. Issues 1-65 of the Warrior Angel run.
Guardian Realm: Governing body responsible for the safety and protection of all citizens of the Galactic Federation.
Metro-verse ™: The publishers of Warrior Angel; Terry Prentice – the Transparent Spectre; Blue & Blast – the Adventures of Henry Constantinople and Pepper ‘Boom-Boom Blast’ Anderson; Hector the Brave; and lots of other titles that I haven’t thought of yet.
Molotov, The: A club that Sean and Cal used to frequent together. Sean used to play there on open-mic night.
Protectors: Police. Those who work for the Guardian Realm in a legal capacity.
Puritans, The: Self-explanatory, even in this age, they run the Gamma Realm and have their own federation.
Warriors, The: Die-hard Warrior Angel fans. Lex has been a member of the WA Fan Club since he was eight. They hold IM chats on the first and third Sundays of every month.
Zeta Academy: Where Sean and Cal schooled together on Mars. There are several academies on several planets all run by the Federation, but they are all devoted to different specializations.
History
Warrior Angel was created in March of 1986 by two Jewish guys named Kavalier and Clay. Actually, no, wrong creators. Warrior Angel was actually created by a girl; we’ll call her Jane Doe. She was the girlfriend of an artist at Metro-verse, and she showed him the design one day on a lark. He took it in to his bosses, and the rest, as they say, is history.
Jane and said artist are no longer together, but they split royalties since he drew the first run.
For the record, Lex was five when the comics came out, but he didn’t discover them until issue 7.
Miscellaneous Crap
Q: Sean and Cal, any chance in hell of a reconciliation?
Heh. You never know.
Q: What’s with all the meta?
Dude. I’m writing stories about a comic book inside a show about a comic book, it’s free reign to talk about whatever I want the way I want: comic book morals, bad spandex, things that people shouldn’t do. Sean and Cal are Clark and Lex three centuries from now.
Q: Where are the stories where all this shit comes up?
Some are right here. The rest haven’t been written yet. I’m working on it.
Q: You got any art for this stuff?
Nope.
goss made some WA manips a while ago, and
rosenho made me a trading card for Pepper, but sadly it got lost in the great file wipe of April.
Q: How many issues are there?
Currently we’re in the two hundred plus category. June of 2003 was issue 218 in the Warrior Angel run. Hector the Brave has his own series, as do Henry and Pepper.
Q: Don’t you worry about being Jossed, especially since DC are putting out a mini-WA sometime soon?
I take what they give me, but it’s not going to stop me doing what I do. Sean and Cal existed for me long before DC decided to give Warrior Angel and Devilicus a second thought.
Q: Do you mind if other people play with Sean and Cal?
No, but credit is always a beautiful thing, and I wouldn’t mind getting a link to the stories so I can read’em, too!
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It’s certainly not the first time that I’ve been asked what I’m doing, but since my boys seem to be popping up a lot recently, I thought I would take the time out to create a cheat sheet to explain the whos, whats and whys that I’ve extrapolated from the scraps the WB has fed us.
I’m not quite sure where to begin, so I’ll start by separating theirs from mine.
Canon
Season 1, Episode: Stray: We are introduced to Warrior Angel by the WB. Ryan has their comic books and enjoys them a lot. We see that Warrior Angel is a spandex-clad superhero who works for something called the Guardian Realm. Did I mention that the spandex is lavender and has wings, and he’s BALD? Take two Advil with that anvil, huh?
Season 2, Episode: Ryan: We find out more about Warrior Angel. We find out that Warrior Angel has an arch nemesis, Devilicus, who wears red spandex and quite possibly horns, not sure about that. We also find out that Lex is a huge fan of Warrior Angel and presumably has the entire run. He and Ryan talk comics, and we find out that Issue 66 is the big rift-o-rama between Warrior Angel and Devilicus, who were apparently 'good friends' once upon a time.
That’s all the WB give us.
Fanon, or things Zahra has created in her spare time
Who’s Who
Name: Callum ‘Cal’ King
Also Known As: Warrior Angel
Looks a hell of a lot like: This guy.
Wearing what?!: A purple spandex unitard with wings. Hey, talk to the WB. But in my world that's only WA-on-the-clock wear.
Why: Cal believes in truth, justice and doing 'the right thing.' He's not perfect, but he does try; that's pretty much all he expects of those around him, but he will always regret losing Sean because they didn't see eye to eye.
Other: Cal doesn’t have ‘superpowers’ but he does have certain mutations that make him stronger than the average citizen. He doesn't need Rocketboots to fly, which is why there are wings on his suit - so people don't freak out on him.
Note: Yes, both Cal and I are aware that the short version of his name is also a bed size.
Name: Sean Devlin
Also Known As: Devilicus
Looks a hell of a lot like: This guy.
Wearing what?!: A red spandex unitard, and I believe horns (don’t quote me on the horn thing though). That's only on Devilicus hours though, on Sean-hours he wears dark green and lots of blue. And ixnay on the spandex.
Why: Where to begin? Boy meets boy. Boy falls in love with boy. Boy is willing to do anything to make boy happy. Boy has holier than thou expectations that other boy cannot meet. There is a difference of opinion and everything ends badly.
Other: Sean is what people like to call ‘flush,’ meaning he’s richer than God. Both of his parents are dead, but lived long enough to see Sean graduate from the Academy, even though they wanted him to go into the family business: importing/exporting. Yes, Sean is a little shady.
Name: Hector Adams
Also Known As: Hector the Brave
Looks a hell of a lot like: Ian Somerhalder
Wearing what?!: A sky-blue jumpsuit with Viking markings on the right sleeve. Don’t ask me, I don’t know Norse.
Why: Hector was introduced in issue 87 as Cal’s new partner, fresh on transfer from Guardian Realm HQ. This did not go down well with a lot of people, and I'm not talking about just inside the comics.
Other: Hector and Cal began dating around issue 130. This has gone down even worse, and Sean is livid. That’s why Devilicus kidnapped Warrior Angel in issue 131 and stuck him in that terrarium filled with carnivorous spiders.
Name: Henry Constantinople
Also Known As: The Captain
Looks a hell of a lot like: Um. A eight foot tall blue hermaphrodite with a tiger tail. Seriously.
Wearing what?!: He’s eight feet tall. Whatever fits.
Why: Henry is Captain of the 32nd Zone police force. He’s worked for the Guardian Realm for a long time and has pretty much seen and done it all. He’s a friend as well as a boss, and he took Sean’s quitting very hard.
Other: From the Planet Tick. Is Clark’s favorite character in the WA-verse.
Name: Pepper Anderson
Also Known As: ‘Boom-Boom Blast’ Anderson
Looks a hell of a lot like: Thandie Newton
Wearing what?!: A red, black and white unitard – yes, I know, lots of unitards, but they make the flying easier. It’s got jagged lines cutting across it. She looks fierce, people.
Why: Pepper wanted to be a Protector from the time she was small. She’s always done what she set out to.
Other: Pepper is a few years older than Cal, and at one point they even dated, but she dumped him when it became quite obvious he was infatuated with Sean. She’s not mad at them. She’s got her own man. And woman. I mean look at her. She also likes things that go ‘boom.’ At all times she’s got her two favorite guns, Harry and Sally, strapped about her person.
Name: Nigellus Lawford
Also Known As: N/A
Looks a hell of a lot like: Sir Ian McKellen
Wearing what?!: Tends to prefer subtle and neutral shades when working on Devlin business.
Why: Nigellus was Devlin Sr.’s right-hand advisor, and after his father's death, Sean made Nigellus his proxy on all Devlin Enterprises business. After the rift, Sean came to work for the company, and Nigellus now advises him.
Other: Nigellus is Sean’s father figure, and he looks after Sean and his interests. He likes (ed) Cal, but in the post-rift days, Nigellus has great disdain for Warrior Angel.
Issue Backlog
Issue 1: Sean Devlin and Callum King, two young, jaded Academy graduates are assigned to the 32nd Zone in the Fifteenth Dimension. Pepper Anderson, Cal's ex, is already working there as a Protector, and much to Callum's chagrin, she and Sean get on like a house on fire. Sean and Cal get their first assignment - traffic duty.
Issue 4: The Warrior Angel uniform is born. The prototype requires Cal to put on baby powder and Vaseline to get in and out of it.
Issue 54: ‘It’s important to prioritze.’
Issue 66: THE RIFT manifests.
Issue 67-75: Post-rift madness. Sean quits the force and goes to work for Devlin Enterprises. Cal goes round the bend.
Issue 87: Introduction of Hector the Brave
Issue 88-92: Sean creates Tempus Inhibitors in an attempt to go back in time and heal the rift.
Issue 95: Warrior Angel meets The Ruttles
Issue 98: Warrior Angel and Devilicus duel after Devilicus kidnaps Hector
Issue 101-103: Devilicus brainwashes Warrior Angel into thinking he’s one of the bad guys.
Issue 112: Hector breaks Cal’s bisector detector. Cal is not amused
Issue 124-129: Devilicus attains telekinetic powers and tries to rob the Galactic Treasury
Issue 130: Hector and Cal tentatively start dating.
Issue 131-133: Devilicus kidnaps Warrior Angel, shrinks him and keeps him captive in a terrarium filled with carnivorous black widow spiders.
Issues 146-150: Devilicus plots with the Evil Zrog to ruin Warrior Angel, but double crosses him in an attempt to make off with his daughter, Princess Periodonta
Issue 177-180: Devilicus traps Warrior Angel in the Alabamus Dimension.
Vocabulary
Blue & Blast: An off-shoot comic featuring Pepper and Henry.
Dark Ages, The: Issues 67-75 of the WA run, which take place post-rift.
Fifteenth Dimension: Also known as Manhattan, it’s where everyone lives. Their particular area is the 32nd Zone, i.e. the Village.
Golden Age: All issues pre-rift, i.e. Issues 1-65 of the Warrior Angel run.
Guardian Realm: Governing body responsible for the safety and protection of all citizens of the Galactic Federation.
Metro-verse ™: The publishers of Warrior Angel; Terry Prentice – the Transparent Spectre; Blue & Blast – the Adventures of Henry Constantinople and Pepper ‘Boom-Boom Blast’ Anderson; Hector the Brave; and lots of other titles that I haven’t thought of yet.
Molotov, The: A club that Sean and Cal used to frequent together. Sean used to play there on open-mic night.
Protectors: Police. Those who work for the Guardian Realm in a legal capacity.
Puritans, The: Self-explanatory, even in this age, they run the Gamma Realm and have their own federation.
Warriors, The: Die-hard Warrior Angel fans. Lex has been a member of the WA Fan Club since he was eight. They hold IM chats on the first and third Sundays of every month.
Zeta Academy: Where Sean and Cal schooled together on Mars. There are several academies on several planets all run by the Federation, but they are all devoted to different specializations.
History
Warrior Angel was created in March of 1986 by two Jewish guys named Kavalier and Clay. Actually, no, wrong creators. Warrior Angel was actually created by a girl; we’ll call her Jane Doe. She was the girlfriend of an artist at Metro-verse, and she showed him the design one day on a lark. He took it in to his bosses, and the rest, as they say, is history.
Jane and said artist are no longer together, but they split royalties since he drew the first run.
For the record, Lex was five when the comics came out, but he didn’t discover them until issue 7.
Miscellaneous Crap
Q: Sean and Cal, any chance in hell of a reconciliation?
Heh. You never know.
Q: What’s with all the meta?
Dude. I’m writing stories about a comic book inside a show about a comic book, it’s free reign to talk about whatever I want the way I want: comic book morals, bad spandex, things that people shouldn’t do. Sean and Cal are Clark and Lex three centuries from now.
Q: Where are the stories where all this shit comes up?
Some are right here. The rest haven’t been written yet. I’m working on it.
Q: You got any art for this stuff?
Nope.
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Q: How many issues are there?
Currently we’re in the two hundred plus category. June of 2003 was issue 218 in the Warrior Angel run. Hector the Brave has his own series, as do Henry and Pepper.
Q: Don’t you worry about being Jossed, especially since DC are putting out a mini-WA sometime soon?
I take what they give me, but it’s not going to stop me doing what I do. Sean and Cal existed for me long before DC decided to give Warrior Angel and Devilicus a second thought.
Q: Do you mind if other people play with Sean and Cal?
No, but credit is always a beautiful thing, and I wouldn’t mind getting a link to the stories so I can read’em, too!
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Date: 2003-07-09 10:51 am (UTC)*falls at your feet and adores you*
*wants to bear your children*
Brilliant. Effing brilliant.
Warriors, The: Die-hard Warrior Angel fans. Lex has been a member of the WA Fan Club since he was eight. They hold IM chats on the first and third Sundays of every month.
*spurts soda through nose* Lex...chatting! ROFL. sweet jesus, take me now.
also, i had another evil thought. *G* Erm. Wouldn't it be really cool if your website had its own special section devoted to Warrior Angel? And, and, and people made manips for you? And I could squeal in delight everytime I went there? *W*
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Date: 2003-07-09 03:33 pm (UTC)*falls at your feet and adores you*
*wants to bear your children*
Brilliant. Effing brilliant.
Thank me? Thank you! You finally made me sit down and write it all out, and now that it's in one place I don't have to keep trying to remember what I said five stories ago. I can go and play, and be happy.
Warriors, The: Die-hard Warrior Angel fans. Lex has been a member of the WA Fan Club since he was eight. They hold IM chats on the first and third Sundays of every month.
*spurts soda through nose* Lex...chatting! ROFL. sweet jesus, take me now.
also, i had another evil thought. *G* Erm. Wouldn't it be really cool if your website had its own special section devoted to Warrior Angel? And, and, and people made manips for you? And I could squeal in delight everytime I went there? *W*
Sadly, sweetie, my website is run by a very good friend of mine, and I'd hate to have her revamp the whole thing until I've got something seriously substantial to put up, you know? I know that bandwith isn't cheap, and I have enough reservations about asking her to put up the few book covers that I have.
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Date: 2003-07-09 05:47 pm (UTC)anywhoo, this is so awesome. lyrasena on AIM if you ever want to hit me up. *G*
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Date: 2003-07-12 12:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-07-09 10:54 am (UTC)Erm, for those research purposes I mentioned recently, would you say it was a long, slow slide to the rift, or did it happen unexpectedly and dramatically?
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Date: 2003-07-09 03:25 pm (UTC)*clears throat* I think...what do I think? I think that Sean and Cal have always been very different people, but because of the time they've spent together and their relationship they tried to make more allowances than anyone else might consider healthy. They fought, but they tended to argue about the wrong things and let the big things slide. There were always hitches, always things that were forgiven but not forgotten, and the residue kind of accumulated shall we say?
I've got ideas, but I'm thinking that 65/66 had some massive "thing" occur that stuck up a brick wall in the field and at home, and they just couldn't see past it. *sighs* My poor babies. Stupid boys.
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Date: 2003-07-09 11:18 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-07-09 03:26 pm (UTC)Re:
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Date: 2003-07-09 01:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-07-09 03:27 pm (UTC)Thank you, Punk, for taking the time to read the blatherings of my insanity. :)
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Date: 2003-07-09 01:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-07-09 03:29 pm (UTC)I hear you.
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Date: 2003-07-09 01:41 pm (UTC)http://www.ugo.com/channels/freestyle/heroMachine/
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Date: 2003-07-09 03:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-07-09 05:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-07-09 03:52 pm (UTC)You so obviously know your comics stuff, inside and out. I feel like I could flip through the boxes at the comics store and find these WA issues.
*loves*
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Date: 2003-07-09 04:59 pm (UTC)You so obviously know your comics stuff, inside and out. I feel like I could flip through the boxes at the comics store and find these WA issues.
*loves*
*grins* I'm so glad that I can use my geekiness to make the world a better place.
*jaw drops*
Date: 2003-07-09 04:40 pm (UTC)Re: *jaw drops*
Date: 2003-07-09 05:02 pm (UTC)From your ears to the people at DC's accounting department for real!
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Date: 2003-07-10 12:08 am (UTC)My kind of comic book trivia (where the boys sleep together). ;)
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Date: 2003-07-10 09:04 am (UTC)*bangs head on desk* I can't believe you guys know my shit better than I do. Bad Zahra, no cookie. Thanks for catching that.
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Date: 2003-07-10 11:15 am (UTC)Looks a hell of a lot like: Um. A eight foot tall blue hermaphrodite with a tiger tail. Seriously.
...fix it in this one:
Wearing what?!: He’s seven feet tall. Whatever fits.
Continuity. Remember, we're better than TPTB. :D
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Date: 2003-07-10 11:40 am (UTC)*cracks up* Yes ma'am!
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Date: 2004-11-29 07:35 pm (UTC)Dude. Seriously? *huge grin* That's so damn cool.
Man, I love all this that you've created. I had no idea it even existed. Know how I got here?
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Date: 2011-03-23 05:33 am (UTC)I was looking for the Warrior Angel Verse. Any advice on finding the first link? Or even the first link?