FIC: Transilience [3/3 today (more to come)] PG

May 14, 2020 02:08

Title: Transilience
Author: Baphrosia
Setting: S2, pre-series
Rating: PG (for now, will change to R later)
Word Count: 3000
Summary: Early S2.  Ethan Rayne opens his costume shop a few weeks earlier than in canon.  This time, his cursed costume sends Buffy, who has yet to deal with Parent-Teacher night (and a certain vampire), on a journey through ( Read more... )

era: btvs s2, form: fic, creator: baphrosia, rating: other, genre: time travel, era: pre-series

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thenewbuzwuzz May 14 2020, 19:37:08 UTC
"Buffy's posture had undergone an immediate drastic and painfully uncomfortable improvement"
hee, what a fun way to put it

"Fidelia, who'd asked Buffy to call her Delly"
aww, so that's how they dealt with those names

"Mr. Rupert Edmund Giles, Esquire"
*giggles* Extremely proper

"She wasn't too sure what esquire meant, but it sounded good and"
:)))) love it

"she'd been in Mr. Giles' care for a little over a year"
I mean, not wrong

Oh, passports used to have descriptions instead of photos? Of course they would have, I guess. How fun!

"If Buffy had still had her Slayer powers"
OH NO

"she'd hinted at her parents' deaths being due to some sort of frontier drama too unseemly to discuss"
hee :)

"Thank goodness she and Willow had engaged in that Colin Firth-fest"
:)) Indeed!

"and today they'd returned to pick up the two dresses the dressmaker had hastily altered for her from an unclaimed order"
Very cool, that explains how they could be ready so soon

the WAIT, WHAT bloomers? This is all kinds of educational :)

Annnd... COUSIN WILLIAM!!! Yay!

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baphrosia May 19 2020, 10:14:59 UTC
Buffy's sticking as close to the truth as possible with being in Giles' care. Passports - yes, descriptions. Very detailed, and children and the wife would be on the man's, usually.

Did you ever read Puddinhead's, "Yours, William"? She's very educational on all things Victorian, and has been my role model whenever I try to go historical.

I kinda wish Cousin William was somebody else - absolutely nobody has been fooled by my lack of subtlety. :)

Thank you!

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thenewbuzwuzz May 19 2020, 11:26:04 UTC
I'm pretty sure I haven't read "Yours, William" - thanks for the rec! :)

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