Thank you for writing this. It's interesting, rather well written and most importantly the way you portray the characters is amazing. I am especially enjoying the explorations of Ethan, Giles and Xander. They all feel like very real and human people. Not since I last read Litmouse's "Father Goose" series have I quite so enjoyed the filling out of the characters. Most authors just write them as THEY see them and hopefully they resemble the original character. Good authors show the characters as they are just in new situations or just making different choices but you are here doing that and also showing something more. I was a bit worried that Eris was going to be a bit Mary Sue but so far I loke what you have done with here. Please continue this.

Glad you're enjoying it. The joy of fic is not being constrained by executive meddling and pandering to the ratings, so nobody has to act like a braindead idiot, or be the designated chew-toy all the time. It never sat well with me, that smugness in the show when Ethan got dragged off and disappeared, because frankly, he was very small-time compared to some of the things the ostensible 'good guys' did to each other and got forgiven - and he had the potential to be so much fun, as a recurring awful reminder to Giles of his embarrassing youth.

With Eris, the original challenge issued was to have another deity or power muscle in on the action, so I took it literally. There are reasons for her not to be up to worldbreaker power-levels, because that just gets boring, but you can do a lot with the right information.

I never even thought about Ethan setting up Buffy and counting on the slayer spirit to kill the sleeper. It's probably more effective than using a vampire.
The idea that Xander became twice as loud and cheerful to try to make up for the loss of Jesse also never occurred to me. Great chapter!

If you follow the logic of only one demonic tenant per ride, then it would seem like the sort of half-thought out disaster Ethan's planning tended to lead to - he was going to end up with a superstrong pis$ed-off something, either way. The Jesse thing just struck me that way when I looked back at it.

I was happy to see the update. This is one of my favorite fics and yet it gets better every time I read a new chapter.

I can see Buffy going for the 'doomed romance' angle, and far too many people seem to think that vampires are sexy. (Cold feet on a man are bad enough, cuddling a corpse is just...no) But yes, something was off somewhere for Giles to not kick up. I will be addressing that.

Sooner or later, the PTB are going to start looking seriously for whoever has managed to bork their entire chessgame. They just think they are dealing with a lucky human with a few magical talents. As opposed to a pis$ed-off Primal Force of the Universe.
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Yetch. Walking blood-sucking corpses sexy? I swear, people are stupid. I refuse on general principles to even watch movies or read books that have vampires in a positive light, hello! They think we're happy meals on legs, not romantic interests!

Heh. Do not screw with Chaos. It has ways of gorking you up in ways you don't want to be gorked.

Glad to see this continuing. This fic is so much better than the usual crap that crops up in fanfiction.

I suspect that Eris is going to bring Spike to heel.

Very nice. Far enough away from canon to make me happy.

Being a long term Drucilla fan, I gotta ask - dust Spike, return Dru to human via Chaos spell - hey, what could be more chaotic than that? - so we can keep Kendra around a bit longer...

Come to that, Calling Faith via Kendra's heart stopping from electrical shock further extolls Chaos AND gives Faith a safer haven than canon at this point. Plus it'd really, really make Buffy's fat head explode...

Very good, nice chapter!

That was nicely written. I liked the introspection a lot. But, if you've read any of my stuff, you probably would have guessed that.

Another nice chapter. Keep up the excellent work. :)

Great chapter. There were parts that had a realism to them, you could feel them in your gut.
- When Eris told Ethan Xander was similar to him...
- Giles thinking about Kendra
- Willow thinking about Jesse

REALLY GREAT. Thanks.

Dead Angel. YAY! I always hated that pedo-necrophiliac angle of Buffy's laughable relationship with the poof. My thoughts were, she would have had to have been bespelled to even consider dating a vampire, I'd think her slayerness would have seen vampire, slay vampire thing going. That and her mom/watcher. What were they thinking?!

The guy even in life was way older than her, plus as a vampire, just ewww. I get the major icks just thinking about it. So yeh, I think there were some major behavioral modification spells going on there for that train-wreck to be even viable, much less progress as it did. It's probably something Eris should look into and Ethan should certainly gronk on it, since he's a practicing sorcerer himself. Then as a logical flow of thought, track it back to the source.

I'm sure, even as a human, Eris can still call on her family to help deal with the pricks that be, especially since they're completely violating the whole 'free will' concept and probably every pact the higher powers have.

I can see Buffy going for the 'doomed romance' angle, and far too many people seem to think that vampires are sexy. (Cold feet on a man are bad enough, cuddling a corpse is just...no) But yes, something was off somewhere for Giles to not kick up. I will be addressing that.

Sooner or later, the PTB are going to start looking seriously for whoever has managed to bork their entire chessgame. They just think they are dealing with a lucky human with a few magical talents. As opposed to a pis$ed-off Primal Force of the Universe.

With Xander's luck with both magic and women, odds are the first time he tries to cast a fireball he'll get an amorous female fire demon summoning instead...

VERY VERY GOOD!! Very funny as well!