Fic: The Great Random Xander Story - Iteration One - Installment 16

[m_mcgregor]

Yet another installment with some NSFW flavor (you'll get the pun after you read it) to it, so consider yourself warned.

Comments

[anonymous]

Nice. We are moving into uncharted territory now (as far as I can tell) - out of major villains, sort of (after all The First was supposed to have been linked to the resurrection mojo...right?).

Loved the Xander-Dawn interaction. That's the Xander that I've been missing.

I do wonder wonder, with some mild trepidation, what Willow is going to do. I mean she is getting cranky because she no longer has all the gossip she could want, and Xander's doodad finally worked on a magic scale so the jealousy is probably up a notch. I wonder if magic addiction is going to rear it's ugly head, though with Tara & Jonathan there and a lot less Hellmouthy stress she is likely to be better adjusted.

Are Warren & Co. going to make an appearance?

What about the Terminator?

Cheers,
Nick

[m_mcgregor]

We are moving out of Big Bad territory, that's true. Jonathan will almost certainly not be a villain in the S6 timeframe, and yeah, the First doesn't have a foothold since Buffy probably won't die and be brought back. That's kind of the downside of this story at this point, actually. Xander's super science is just so useful that it's hard to maintain any kind of threat from the normal bad guys.

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why there's been a lot of sex in this story lately. Sex is great when you don't have any actual conflict in your story.

[dsample]

I always suspected that it was Buffy's first death, at the Master's hand, that caused the disruption that the First decided to exploit. It was that death that split the Slayer line, after all, and the First first showed up trying to disrupt their lives long before Buffy died the second time.

[m_mcgregor]

It's certainly possible to interpret it that way, but I think the fact that the First didn't make a move until after Buffy was resurrected says a lot. If it was Buffy's first death that created the "whatever" that allowed it to go forward with its plans, it would have done it much sooner than S7.

[dsample]

When you're millions or billions of years old, what difference does a couple of years make?

Plus it had to take the time to build itself a force of Bringers, recruit Caleb, and do whatever other things it needed to do before taking overt action against Buffy.

[m_mcgregor]

Like I said, it's a valid interpretation. I wouldn't roll my eyes if I saw it in a fic. However, combine the fact that the First claimed it was Buffy's second resurrection with the timing of its attack on the potentials, and I think you have to accept that it's basically canon that it was the second resurrection that did it.

Again: I have no problem with an alternate interpretation, but the most likely scenario is the one that was presented to us on the show. The First could easily have lied about things, but there doesn't seem to be a particular reason for that.

[jlbarnett]

well, the First appeared in season 3. It had Bringers. Maybe it couldn't empower Caleb or track Slayers but I bet it could do something. Like con someone in opening that seal under the school.