Comments | fpb: What if Glory had won? My only Buffy story

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What if Glory had won? My only Buffy story - with some GKC on top

Apr 17, 2008 21:26

Behind the cut lies one of my own favourite stories, and I do not imagine any of you have ever read it. So, on with the story, and I hope you enjoy it!
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buffy, fanfic, gk chesterton

Comments 4

Wonderful! dr_dgo April 18 2008, 05:42:15 UTC

A very real alternative to what Whedon gave us. But he does not believe in angels, or if he does, it never showed in the series. Buffy did go to a "good" place on her death, but I do not think that Heaven was ever mentioned. Like most fantasy writers, he uses only half of the medieval myths. There are devils, demons, and all of the bad things, but nary a word about the higher powers that oppose them. Christopher Stasheff is the only fantasy author I know that explicitly puts christianity into his fantasy (well Andrew Greeley does as well, but then he is a priest).

Re: Wonderful! fpb April 18 2008, 06:01:14 UTC

Thank you. In point of fact, I was working on a multi-chapter Buffy fic in which it turned out that Buffy had never been in the real Heaven at all, but in a kind of cosmic gilded cage designed by Glory.

Re: Wonderful! luckymarty April 18 2008, 12:57:45 UTC

To be fair, Whedon did once allow for actual no-kidding divine intervention, in the Christmas episode -- which many of his fans dislike, I think in part because of the implications. I thought it was handled quite well: the snowfall allowed God plausible deniability while still being clearly miraculous, and it was a moment of grace which came only after Buffy had done as much as she possibly could. Including beating up all the mortal-world minions of the devil (not so termed, but come on -- "the First Evil", older than men and demons), who was properly presented as immaterial and with no actual powers of his own except deception and lies ( ... )

Re: Wonderful! fpb April 18 2008, 14:02:48 UTC

I've done all that myself. Before I ever got into HP fandom, I was into superhero comics, and I developed my own mythology, which included several pagan groupings. The only problem is I never had the capital to start a comics publishing company and publish my own stuff, so, except for a handful of small-press items, I never did really accomplish much.