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What is your favorite haylijah scene in the actual show AND in TGW?
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It's hard for me to pick a favorite Haylijah scene, because I adore them all. Even the fights. But my favorite has to be their reunion in 4x01. It just perfectly encapsulated them.
We have badass Hayley protecting herself and then Elijah showing up and immediately taking out anyone who dared threaten his love. But I just adore him walking up behind her and her instantly relaxing because she knows it's him. She had been alone for seven years, having to protect herself, and for the first time she could relax because Elijah was there.
The first thing he does is give her his jacket, ever the gentleman and I love that she instantly turns around and throws herself at him. This kiss is so passionate but quick, like she needed it to believe he was truly there and not dead. But then she prioritizes the comfort of his embrace, not even caring about the jacket he had rested on her shoulders. She only cared about holding him. As I've sad, they are big into physical touch. I also love that Elijah is clearly struggling with blood lust and his emotions (maybe just my interpretation of DG's acting) but there is nowhere else he would rather be. He hasn't fed in 7 years, who cares, he is holding Hayley.
This scene is just so perfect to me. Every second of it. It will definitely find its way into TGW.
Why I love this scene kind of goes to my favorite scenes I've written for TGW. I feel like this is one of the few scenes the writers actually allow haylijah to just be a couple. There are so many moments, especially in season 4, where haylijah is an established couple, that the writers just didn't give haylijah a second to interact. There's an episode where both Hayley and Elijah almost die and we don't even get to see their reactions to this or show them comforting one another. We know they are each other's comfort based on brief moments of interaction, but TO writers focused so much on the drama that the relationships get pushed aside. Also there way to deprioritize Elijah's emotions.
So my favorite scenes I've written have just been them interacting as a couple would (even though we really haven't gotten much of this yet). I loved writing Hayley debating going to comfort Elijah after he went into Astra's head and took her pain and then Hayley ultimately going to him (Ch 6 and 7). In season 2 of the show, we see Hayley is torn and then at the end of season 3 she easily goes back to Elijah. But we hardly see these complex emotions in between that. Her feelings for Elijah didn't just disappear when she went through with the unification ceremony. The writers just made her look indecisive rather than letting her have complex emotions. I've really enjoyed writing how difficult it would be for everyone invovled in that situation and fleshing out those emotions. So that comfort scene to me was really special to write. And then, of course, Elijah and Hayley feeling awkward about it the next day and Elijah apologizing. Really just writing the friendship that the show seemed to lose after season 1.
I can't actually tell you my favorite scene I've written for them (and it's not actually for TGW) but it would be a major spoiler.
Thanks for the ask!