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SpoilerSPOILER/COMMENTARY
The
initial scene, the prologue if you will, is a description of the ending of
Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight, issue #39. Obviously this fanfic is a complete alternate
universe, its divergence point being the ending of that issue.
The
cliff overlooking what you have undoubtedly guessed is Sunnydale is Kingman’s
Bluff, where Angel had his Christmas miracle, and where Willow tried to destroy
the world (and was stopped by the power of Xander’s love). So it’s a site of good and evil, which is
appropriate.
Lilah
Morgan is, as mentioned above, a lawyer for Wolfram and Hart, the primary
antagonists of Angel in the television series Angel. She was never the big bad, but was always
working for them while at the same time maintaining audience sympathy with her
ambiguous nature.
The
Senior Partners, also known as the Wolf, Ram, and Hart, are three demons who
run the law firm Wolfram and Hart, which in turn seemingly rules the
world. They have various apocalyptic
plans, many of which revolve around Angel.
The
black cat is the same one which is seen in the opening credits for the first
few seasons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
However in its appearance, it never talked. The true identity of the black cat, and the
little girl it turned into, will be revealed later. But observant readers have probably already
figured it out.
The dog
is, as observant readers may have already figured out, the Twilight Dimension,
the big bad of the comic series Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight. When the Twilight Dimension first showed up,
it possessed the body of a dog, and then possessed the body of an airline
stewardess that Angel saved. Its true
form, if it could be said to have one, is that of a winged lion with its head and tail surrounded by green fire.
The identity of the glowing woman is a
spoiler, though it’s pretty easy to guess.
Here’re some hints: ascended to a higher plane, cares about fashion, had
painful visions.
The
Slayer and her vampire Twin are Melaka Fray and her brother Harth Fray, from
the comic book mini-series Fray. It took
place in a far-future when the first Slayer in hundreds of years is
called. There was a recent crossover in
Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight, where Buffy was sent to the future and
had a pretty typical comic-book encounter with Melaka Fray.
V.C.
Andrews was a novelist, famed for her books about incestuous siblings and child
abuse.
“Scanners”
is a movie by David Cronenberg. In it,
psychics, or Scanners, have the power to read people’s minds, with the side
effect of making their heads explode violently.
Darla
is the vampire that turned Angel into a vampire. She herself was turned into a vampire by the
Master, another very old vampire, sometime during the Colonial period. Darla when she was alive was a prostitute and
was dying of some venereal disease before being turned into a vampire. It is mentioned that she hates religion and
thus loves religious wars. Since this
takes place in Spring of 1996, it corresponds with the end of the First
Chechnya War.
The
kid, aka the Destroyer, should be simple enough to guess, too.
“I
don’t suppose you know what Manichean means yet, do you?” Jack Frost to himself, The Invisibles.
The
initial scene, the prologue if you will, is a description of the ending of
Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight, issue #39. Obviously this fanfic is a complete alternate
universe, its divergence point being the ending of that issue.
The
cliff overlooking what you have undoubtedly guessed is Sunnydale is Kingman’s
Bluff, where Angel had his Christmas miracle, and where Willow tried to destroy
the world (and was stopped by the power of Xander’s love). So it’s a site of good and evil, which is
appropriate.
Lilah
Morgan is, as mentioned above, a lawyer for Wolfram and Hart, the primary
antagonists of Angel in the television series Angel. She was never the big bad, but was always
working for them while at the same time maintaining audience sympathy with her
ambiguous nature.
The
Senior Partners, also known as the Wolf, Ram, and Hart, are three demons who
run the law firm Wolfram and Hart, which in turn seemingly rules the
world. They have various apocalyptic
plans, many of which revolve around Angel.
The
black cat is the same one which is seen in the opening credits for the first
few seasons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
However in its appearance, it never talked. The true identity of the black cat, and the
little girl it turned into, will be revealed later. But observant readers have probably already
figured it out.
The dog
is, as observant readers may have already figured out, the Twilight Dimension,
the big bad of the comic series Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight. When the Twilight Dimension first showed up,
it possessed the body of a dog, and then possessed the body of an airline
stewardess that Angel saved. Its true
form, if it could be said to have one, is that of a winged lion with its head and tail surrounded by green fire.
The identity of the glowing woman is a
spoiler, though it’s pretty easy to guess.
Here’re some hints: ascended to a higher plane, cares about fashion, had
painful visions.
The
Slayer and her vampire Twin are Melaka Fray and her brother Harth Fray, from
the comic book mini-series Fray. It took
place in a far-future when the first Slayer in hundreds of years is
called. There was a recent crossover in
Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight, where Buffy was sent to the future and
had a pretty typical comic-book encounter with Melaka Fray.
V.C.
Andrews was a novelist, famed for her books about incestuous siblings and child
abuse.
“Scanners”
is a movie by David Cronenberg. In it,
psychics, or Scanners, have the power to read people’s minds, with the side
effect of making their heads explode violently.
Darla
is the vampire that turned Angel into a vampire. She herself was turned into a vampire by the
Master, another very old vampire, sometime during the Colonial period. Darla when she was alive was a prostitute and
was dying of some venereal disease before being turned into a vampire. It is mentioned that she hates religion and
thus loves religious wars. Since this
takes place in Spring of 1996, it corresponds with the end of the First
Chechnya War.
The
kid, aka the Destroyer, should be simple enough to guess, too.
“I
don’t suppose you know what Manichean means yet, do you?” Jack Frost to himself, The Invisibles.