Hot damn, this is amazing! I love the betting motif! (I haven't read the fic this is remixed from -- I'm guessing that has something to do with it?) I love how this started with a bit of a gut punch with the Marcella stuff and increases the funnies from there.
Assorted thoughts:
- Your Marcella fic continues to kill me with its awesomeness.
- The post-Checkpoint piece was so great and so hilarious!!
- "Caring for the girl in the slayer" (Now I'm grinning ear to ear)
- I realized it was Xander almost immediately in the last piece. Great job capturing the character's voice (as was also the case in the Buffy-POV piece).
ETA -- wow, I just realized -- sorry for being dense -- how this fic maps the changing treatment of the Watchers toward the Slayers, adding another layer of "something to learn". The watchers evolve from slave-owner to authoritarians to tag-alongs to "partner and support team" over the course of this, thanks both to Slayers and likely to the actions of some of the watchers themselves. And it's so perfectly captured in the betting motif, where the watchers go from betting with each other or other people on the slayers to Xander betting with the new Slayer herself. Eeeeee now I seriously love this fic.
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Assorted thoughts:
- Your Marcella fic continues to kill me with its awesomeness.
- The post-Checkpoint piece was so great and so hilarious!!
- "Caring for the girl in the slayer" (Now I'm grinning ear to ear)
- I realized it was Xander almost immediately in the last piece. Great job capturing the character's voice (as was also the case in the Buffy-POV piece).
ETA -- wow, I just realized -- sorry for being dense -- how this fic maps the changing treatment of the Watchers toward the Slayers, adding another layer of "something to learn". The watchers evolve from slave-owner to authoritarians to tag-alongs to "partner and support team" over the course of this, thanks both to Slayers and likely to the actions of some of the watchers themselves. And it's so perfectly captured in the betting motif, where the watchers go from betting with each other or other people on the slayers to Xander betting with the new Slayer herself. Eeeeee now I seriously love this fic.