Rex and Hannah

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As those of you who are familiar with my Charmed Fan Fictions may know, I took a lot of time to develop the characters of Rex Buckland and Hannah Webster. R&H were, of course, the two Warlocks who appeared early in Season One. In my Fan Fictions, I transformed R&H from power hungry Warlocks into a loving couple who became trusted allies with the Charmed Ones. I received a lot of comments from readers of my Fan Fictions, saying that they liked “my” Rex and Hannah better than the ones that appeared on the show! I considered that a great compliment and I was pleased that my work was so well received.

That got me thinking about something. It seemed that, as far as the show was concerned, the characters of R&H had a lot of potential that was just never realized. However, I was able to see potential in these two characters right from the moment they were first introduced. There were many ideas that could have been used. A couple of examples are listed below:

1. We could have had a flashback story that revealed just how R&H become Warlocks in the first place.

2. R&H could have done some soul searching and realized that they really had no desire to harm the Charmed Ones. Then they could have gotten the nerve to stand up to the Source and assert their right to choose their own destiny.

Sadly, neither of those scenarios happened. Instead, the writers just tossed these two great characters aside and forgot about them. When Charmed ended in 2006, after eight seasons on the air, it was without a return appearance of R&H. To this day, I feel that the show missed a great opportunity when it never brought R&H back.

Of course, once R&H were no longer on Charmed, they fell into my capable hands. I decided to give R&H the chance to shine that the writers of Charmed never had the inclination to give them.

My latest series of R&H Fan Fictions is called The Rex and Hannah Chronicles. This is the third incarnation of the R&H characters that I have created (my Original Charmed Stories and the Charmed Extended Universe being the previous two). As you can guess from the title, R&H are the STARS of these new stories. I hope to provide new and fascinating adventures for R&H (in fact I have already written several stories as of the writing of this article). I invite all my readers who have enjoyed my R&H stories in the past to come along. Believe me, you won’t be disappointed.

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There is a certain poster at a certain board who has criticized me for "ruining" Rex and Hannah because I turned them good. So, a Charmed character can turn evil (hello Gideon), but they're not allowed to go the other way? Talk about a double standard here.

But, I digress...

So maybe I should consult the tons and tons of Fan Fictions that R&H appear in to get a feel of... Wait. What's that you, say? Oh yeah, there aren't any!

Seriously, I challenge anyone to go to the Charmed section of FF.net and find a story with Rex and Hannah in it. You're more likely to see the Loch Ness Monster.

You want a Next Generation/Power of fill-in-the-number-of-kids story, take your pick. However, if you're looking for Rex and Hannah, good luck to you (of course, there are my stories, you'll find them in the Cthulhu Mythos section).

Here is an interesting fact. R&H vanished out of the Charmed character list when I transferred my stories to the Cthulhu Mythos section, a couple of years ago.

Yeah, maybe what I've done with Rex and Hannah does not fit well with some people, that's fine. However, I like to think that I've kept these two characters alive in my stories. As I have said, I've managed to pick up fans who have never seen Charmed, one didn't even know of its existence. My Rex and Hannah were the ones they saw first.

So, through my stories, and my new Wiki, Rex and Hannah will continue to thrive.

PS: The only story I've seen with Rex and Hannah in it, and that I had no connection with, was An All Knighter. This was one of the stories in the excellent Destined (no relation to this board) series. Alas, due to the closing of the Destined project, it was never completed.

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2018 was not only the 20th Anniversary of Charmed, but also the 10th Anniversary of the Rex and Hannah Chronicles.  Yep, I've been working on this project for thatong.  Most Fan Fiction projects are lucky to last half that long.

Mind you, for those of you who have followed my stories, I moved R&H away from Charmed, a few years ago, when I realized that I was aiming for the wrong audience.  For two years, after I started up my FF.net account in 2012, my stories sat gathering dust in the Charmed section, and didn't get a single review.  No doubt the reason was that I was writing about characters that most Charmed fans had no interest in reading about.  They wanted the Halliwell sisters and their family.  I can't fault those readers for that, however, I wish some of them had given the R&H Chronicles a chance.

However, once I decided to move the R&H Chronicles towards the world of H.P. Lovecraft, that changed.  In 2015, I moved my stories into the Cthulhu Mythos section of FF.net.  I began to get reviews.  I have one big fan, it seems, a person that goes by the name of "Lovecraftfan1991".  Whenever I post a new story, this person comments on it.  I have no idea who "Lovecraftfan1991" is (I'm assuming that the 1991 in their screen name is the year this person was born in), however, as long as this person keeps liking my stories, I don't care.  And I have gotten a few other reviews there as well.

And, of course, I have my fans elsewhere.  One fan, Tess (aka Wakas) stands out because she enjoyed but had never heard of Charmed!  I had to explain it all to her.  That I can get fans of my stories, fans who have never seen the parent series, does say something.  And I picked up some fans over at the Alexander Palace Time Machine board as well. 

So, here's to more than ten years with the Rex and Hannah Chronicles

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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.