#Lord Refa

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3x20: And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place

"Well, I run to the rock just to hide my face And the rocks cried out, no hiding place"

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it's *unpopular character Monday*

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bad bad decisions

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Refa: You going to shoot me?

Londo: Maybe. Well, probably. But not right now.

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It's so fucking funny that Londo had the ability to slip Lord Refa the other half of the two-part poison all along but instead he had him beaten to death for political purposes. 

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Chapters: 1/2 Fandom: Babylon 5 & Related Fandoms Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Londo Mollari, Michael Garibaldi, Stephen Franklin, Delenn (Babylon 5), Vir Cotto, Antono Refa Additional Tags: Drinking, Comedy, Londo has a drinking problem Summary:

What if there was an underground Centauri shock comedian on B5? Nobody asked for this? Well to bad, because here it is.

@branmer snuck in a mention of your Branmer b/c he is now part of my head canon, thank you.

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The “No Hiding Place” sequence going between the chapel and Refa is just INCREDIBLE.

And as a white girl who has through odd twists of fate ended up in a lot of “gospel” churches, I so understand how Lennier feels in that scene. 🤣🤣🤣

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Vir's expression is the Centauri equivalent of "This meeting could have been an email."

Vir was always the best.

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That feeling when you're rewatching Buffy the Vampire Slayer after finally watching Babylon 5 and you realize 25 years late that it was Lord Refa who told Buffy her mom had cancer.

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🍰️ prizes! 🍰️

We did our very best to honour our winners which was a hard task when all their fics are so fantastic, but many tentacles make light work, and we hope you enjoy this small token of our pak'mappreciation 💖️

For 20 excellent drabbles, jam packed with some wonderful and fascinating OCs and an excellent taste for delicious angst, a Morden awarded to @annakeller / @kellygrayson! You can find them all under this fantastically curated series here at SquidgeWorld!

For 2 1k fics, both with wonderful Timov characterisation, a triumphant Timov awarded to @allowedtobewrong ! (Don't let her expression trick you, she's secretly very pleased about her victory) You can find these fics here and here at ao3!

For 2 1k fics, featuring Susan/Talia and Lennier/Morden, a jubilant Londo awarded to @herr-toyota ! You can find these wonderfully twisty character studies here on this participant's fabulous roundup post!

For 1 5k fic incorporating 5 prompts, with some wonderful Minbari OCs, a Neroon and Sinclair awarded to @branmer ! This was a challenge and we were absolutely blown away :D You can find this fic here!

For 20 wonderful drabbles, featuring all our favourite B5 ladies, a Lyta and G'Kar awarded to @neeoma / @lochley! They are walking off victorious and so should they :D This participant made a super organised round-up post where you can find all their drabbles!

But wait! There's more!

Please give a round of applause also for our runners-up: everyone who completed anything (which we could find) for the event!

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by @allowedtobewrong: "Layovers" : three drabbles, featuring Susan, Vir, Kat the bartender, Lord Refa, and Brother Theo

by @greenscircus : "they said the streets were paved with gold", a drabble featuring Zack Allan and an amazing pak'ma OC! "By the Sword", a drabble featuring Ta'Lon and Nelson Drake this amazing art fill featuring Nelson Drake, the Ikarran war machine (and Tu'Lar too), and an excellent Brakiri OC!

by cgparker : (we can't seem to tag you) a drabble, featuring Susan and Talia three more drabbles, featuring Susan, Talia, Lyta, and Control

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Congratulations to everyone and thank you for participating! 🥳️

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hahahahhahahahahhahahahhahahahhahahahhahahahhahahahhahahahahahhahahahhahahahahhahahahahhahahahhahahahahhahah guess Vir is going to get to see Refa's head lopped off and put on a pike on this hellsite as a warning to future "generations that some power comes at too high a price"

Lord Antono Refa from Babylon 5

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B5 S04E06 Into the Fire previous episode - table of contents

Since I mentally opted-in to the CGI style seasons ago I 100% buy in and it looks so comforting in a lot of ways. :P  

Back to Ivanova's season recap personal log. And she's on her First Ones field trip with Lorien! I know she (probably?) doesn't know that Lorien is THE First One, but it's still funny that she's dictating terms to him. "You have five more minutes," she coolly informs one ofthe greatest powers in the galaxy. 

Lorien comes through, having successfully contacted a species who are so insular they haven't spoken to a single member of another race in centuries. 

The White Star (with John and Delenn) has just destroyed a Vorlon observation outpost. They do not mention if it was inhabited by non-Vorlon species or not. I'd like to think not? But they didn't say, although the buildings had lots of windows on discernable stories full of light. 

(credits) 

The Flying Saucers First Ones join the space battle alongside the White Star fleet and turns the tide of battle! 

The Shadows believing in strife building civilization never required a galaxy-wide war. War isn't the only form of strife. Interpersonal strife is impossible to eliminate. Imagine the show if they did focus on interpersonal conflict. 

Prime Minister Mollari feels very comfortable in the seat of power. Twelve hours to kick out the Shadows before the Vorlons arrive. 

Sheridan is keeping his word to Ivanova and stalling "the end" till Ivanova arrives. Perhaps the flying sauvers weren't the First Ones after all. 

Lorien encourages Ivanova in her skepticism, then asks what her heart tells her.

Ivanova is skeptical on a structural level. The first sentient being couldn't invent fire and the wheel in one lifetime, let alone science up to the scale of inventing an immortality treatment.

He says no, they were born fully realized as immortal beings.

Alright. And his species didn't do an awesome job parenting the nascent Vorlon and Shadow species if they've ended up in this much conflict now. I wonder if they were so ideologically extreme in the beginning of their tending the lower races alone while all the other Powers went away, or if they radicalized in opposition to each other over the millenia. 

Drama!! This new Centauri character says Cartagia had him investigating Londo and they inestigated who killed Adira. It wasn't Lord Refa, it was Mr Morden. The truth is out! And Londo's just now realizing how much he was manipulated. The scales are off his eyes. 

He doesn't take it well. 

It seems that Ivanova is trusted with a White Star command with her limited, and error-prone, Minbari. And Lorien is a delicate fellow and informs her quietly.  Luckily, the next vocab she uses is correct. 

Sheridan tells Lyta her coming into contact with the Shadows at Z'ha'dum is the only advantage they've got, even though Lyta and several Minbari telepaths mentally fought and killed Shadows in a battle before that. Will those Shadows-experienced Minbari be part of it, I wonder. 

Morden's incredibly burn-scarred skin has been healed up by "his associates" it seems. Londo wishes to speak privately, then his guard shoots and kills(?) a bunch of invisible Shadows accompanying him. 

There's a bunch of Shadows on an island on Centari Prime and Londo blows it up, to Morden's extreme dismay. But will it make the Shadows leave orbit? 

Morden is really not taking this well. Has he never faced a significant setback before?  

Susan Ivanova has rejoined the fleet! Lyta, who's changed her style since not-Kosh's demise, senses the Shadows before they roll in. Susan really made it in the nick of time! And the Vorlons pop in as well. Sheridan's plan is proceeding with impeccable timing. 

Sheridan mined the area and some of each First Ones ships get exploded. Lyta narrates their reaction. they didn't take it well, either, and since they're just chronically overlooking the lower order species, they turn on each other. 

Sheridan sends a hail scolding them for trying to kill billions of humans, and Lyta sends a mental hail. 

Vir gets to live his dream of seeing Morden's decapitated head on pike. Nicely placed flashback, got a laugh out of me when Vir waved. Vir has certainly gotten tempered over time! I think the beginning of the series Vir would have been pretty horrified at seeing an enemy's head on a pike. 

There's some interesting looking ships fighting amongst the Vorlons and Shadows. Londo has sent a message telling the Vorlons there's no Shadows on the planet and has decided that he's already saved Centauri Prime. Vir says no, the planet isn't clean of the Shadows influence, not while Londo is there, and sure enough the Vorlons begin to descend. 

And Vir points out, Londo even informed them of his presence, never thinking of himself as a potential target.

However, those hails from The White Star(s) come through and the Vorlon ship ascends again.

Lyta unwillingly channels the Vorlons, then the Shadows, and they each attach Sheridan and Delenn with lightning. Classy. Lorien explains what Sheridan apparently told him. Let the lighting effect continue, and the battle moves to a psychic space. 

Sheridan is speaking with a representative of the Vorlons. They claim they have been doing what's best for the lower species and Sheridan calls BS. 

The Shadows project themselves as Ivanova for Delenn. Then Franklin. Then Lennier.

All presenting arguments for why war and death makes races stronger, serves evolution. Delenn refuses to believe it.

Sheridan accuses the Vorlons of trying to kill the message, not the messengers. 

Delenn accuses the Shadows of trying to make the lower races pick sides to vindicate their own positions. Sheridan and Delenn both independently refuse to choose. 

After Lorien pulls them out, Ivanova confirms that their mental conversations were broadcast psychically to the whole fleet. The Shadows and Vorlons trap them in a minefield back! Choose. choose. 

John and Delenn give 'em a good lecture. Excellent speeches. 

Although the Shadows and Vorlons try to assasinate them to destroy them and their defiance, a Drazi warship takes a missile intended for B5, and the rest of the fleet moves into a protective position. 

Sheridan says to get out, and Lorien gently lectures them, too.And says he will go with them, to see all who have gone before them. A Vorlon asks plaintively, we will not be alone? And Dad!Lorien says they will never be alone. 

Shadows and Vorlons: *leaves* Marcus: "Did we just win?" Ivanova: "Don't jinx it."

Lorien has one final thing to say: teach the lower races as they arise, and leave when it's your time to step aside. And the First Ones will wait for them beyond the rim. 

Tnat is a pretty cool destiny. 

Partner: "Do you think it's all over?" Me: "Can't be, it's only episode six." 

Vir thinks they've won and should be happy, even if something bad might happen later, because Londo deserves to be happy for a night. Aww. No he doesn't really. 

They have a touching hug. Vir and his stalwart heart have been one of the only subplots that made Londo's plotline even half-way bearable.

Sheridan is excited and sobered by the responsibility of standing on their own, and Delenn thinks the universe feels smaller with the First Ones gone beyond the rim. And although Sheridan feels like the magic is gone, Delenn hasn't lost her sense of whimsy. 

What on earth are we going to do do for the rest of the season! I'm not sure if the future they saw is an alternate one or not. Could be that Centauri Prime still gets destroyed, by a different party or by a late-stage First ones invursion. 

Everything feels wrapped, and nothing feels resolved. Perhaps their problems will be less galaxy-scale now and more on the micro scale for awhile. 

Bet Draalplanet doesn't leave, though. Does a supercomputer planet interfaced with an immortal Minbari count as a First One, I wonder? Or does Draal's comparatively youthful age counteract the First Ones tech?!

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