Fun ride. Wish you didn't bring Drusilla back to life since you don't plan on a sequel. It could've ended there and still had a possibility of a sequel and be a true ending without a cliffhanger. I mean there's still the Mayor, the Initiative, Glory ect ect.
Still glad your wrote this and hope the Muse finds you again.
Comments from author:
Glad you still liked it. *shrug* What can I say, I like Drusilla. A mad, beautiful, seeress is something you can do almost anything with. It gives me a lot of options as an author.
Review By [Downery] • Date [10 Dec 12] • Rating [10 out of 10]
Love the story and enjoyed this chapter. Keeping to cannon but still making changes. I hate when stories don't change even though they introduced a new component into the mix.
Also i would think Xander would've at least taken a little blood to make sure Kendra wasn't lying. I mean if you think someone is an evil assassin out to kill you the fact that they may be lying should've entered his mind. He checked the bug dude even if it was a bust so why not check someone that actually seems human.
Comments from author:
That is an excellent point.
Review By [Downery] • Date [10 Dec 12] • Rating [9 out of 10]
If Xander is almost as strong as Angel and the Minions are almost as strong as Xander i'm guessing in your verse vampire barely gain anything strength with age? A lot of Buffy fics go either way so i was just curious how your story is going to be.
Great story so far.
Comments from author:
Hmm... There was originally going to be a bit more difference in strength. The main point was that Xander was faster though.
Review By [Downery] • Date [10 Dec 12] • Rating [9 out of 10]
I'm totally on board with you regarding Lucian's survival (and the fact that the second and fourth movies, particularly, were pretty much AU or suggestions, rather than canon, since they just outright contradicted too much of what was in the first movie).
Comments from author:
Yes, I think the series could have been even better. One reviewer said that there was some behind the scenes fighting that resulted in changes being necessary.
Review By [RevDorothyL] • Date [4 Dec 12] • Not Rated
Well, i suppose that is the end of this fic. I'm kind of sad it ended as early as it did but long fics are a pain so I can understand you wrapping this one up. Especially if it wasn't supposed to be long to begin with. And wow, only a quarter of the Scourge of Europe remains and its Dru. I sort of half expected one of the vampires to end up with a soul since Jenny contacted her family and threatened Spike but, it was rather short notice. Ah well, look forward to you next fic.
Comments from author:
In canon, it took her 3 weeks to figure out the curse on her own because her tribe wouldn't help.
And yes. Muse allowing, I'm hoping to start posting one of my 'planned' fics soon. I've got a couple standing at 60k+ words.
Review By [souldriven] • Date [4 Dec 12] • Not Rated
I wish you would do a sequel this is such a unique world you have build, but i do understand. Well done and you have convinced me that I need to keep an eye out for your new work. Finally I'll give you the best complement I could give a fellow writer... Its apparent from your writing that you love to write. Until later.
Comments from author:
My mom, who is a teacher, is still friends with most of my former English (and otherwise) teachers and shocked them all by telling them that I now write for fun when they were unable to get me to write at all. :-)
Review By [lillyb] • Date [3 Dec 12] • Rating [10 out of 10]
okay for some reason this last chapter turned my stomach.
Maybe it's the Fact that Kendra got Offed again!
Maybe it's the fact you turned Xander into a Murdering monster who can not feasibly recover from what he's done
Maybe cause logical progression means that either he ignores the whole thing or takes it all on angsts about it becoming Angel 2.0
maybe it's all of the above? all I can say for certain is the chapter drags down what in my mind was a brilliant story
Comments from author:
First of all, Kendra is down. He didn't finish her off though. She could still live. Secondly, Kendra dies in a lot of fics simply because it's canon and we're mere fanfiction writers. If we had original ideas, we'd be real authors.
As far as Xander goes, Why can't he? Willow came back. Hell, even Spike came back. Killing people changes someone, but it doesn't automatically make you a monster or a brooder.
Extremes like that are very rare in real life and my stories.
IF I were to continue this story, I can tell you that Xander would follow a path to recovery/acceptance a bit like Willow but without the leaving and running away. Feeling guilty, yes. But no, no brooding.