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

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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!

Comments

Re: Wonderful!

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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.

Of course, that was obviously an anomaly, given what Whedon later did with bringing back the First Evil and presenting those ridiculous "powers that be" in Angel. But still.

Buffy thought she'd been to Heaven, but I think it's pretty clear that was just another parallel dimension -- no reason they should all be demonic.

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Oh, and you should look up Gene Wolfe's recent two-book fantasy _The Wizard Knight_: the pagan gods (Norse) are fit into a Christian system though Christ never gets named. On a rather lower plane, I might also suggest _The Year of the Warrior_ by Lars Walker, which is an explicitly Christian fantasy.

Re: Wonderful!

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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.