Facing the Heart in Darkness (WiP)
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Title: Facing the Heart in Darkness (WiP)
Author: Liz Marcs
Characters: Xander, OCs
Prompt: Original Character
Rating: PG-13
Length: Epic
Brief summary: My love for this story cannot be textually rendered. Even though, on the surface, it looks like it should be horrible. It's narrated by an original female character, who's a coward, hates Xander, and (as the author's said) suffers from the delusion that she's in an Bronte novel. And yet, awesome. Part of it's the fact that the story's written as if it's Eva's memoirs, so we get to see that she won't always be insufferable. But a lot of it's the universe the story takes place in, where a post-Chosen Xander is in Africa, training Slayers, and smack in the middle of a schism in the Council. It also has the most horrifyingly logical explanation for the Cruciamentum I've ever heard. And there's nifty Slayer lore and smart villains and the whole thing leaves me torn between: 1) smacking Eva in the face, bunches, 'til she shapes up, 2) squealing incoherently of my chest-bursting love for Xander, all grown-up and loyal and clever and flawed and still awesome beyond the telling of it, and 3) shouting "Viva la revolution!", because Roger Wyndham-Pryce and his nasty little cabal are getting put down and hard and I can't freaking wait.
Link to the story: Facing the Heart in Darkness
Title: Facing the Heart in Darkness (WiP)
Author: Liz Marcs
Characters: Xander, OCs
Prompt: Original Character
Rating: PG-13
Length: Epic
Brief summary: My love for this story cannot be textually rendered. Even though, on the surface, it looks like it should be horrible. It's narrated by an original female character, who's a coward, hates Xander, and (as the author's said) suffers from the delusion that she's in an Bronte novel. And yet, awesome. Part of it's the fact that the story's written as if it's Eva's memoirs, so we get to see that she won't always be insufferable. But a lot of it's the universe the story takes place in, where a post-Chosen Xander is in Africa, training Slayers, and smack in the middle of a schism in the Council. It also has the most horrifyingly logical explanation for the Cruciamentum I've ever heard. And there's nifty Slayer lore and smart villains and the whole thing leaves me torn between: 1) smacking Eva in the face, bunches, 'til she shapes up, 2) squealing incoherently of my chest-bursting love for Xander, all grown-up and loyal and clever and flawed and still awesome beyond the telling of it, and 3) shouting "Viva la revolution!", because Roger Wyndham-Pryce and his nasty little cabal are getting put down and hard and I can't freaking wait.
Link to the story: Facing the Heart in Darkness
