burntcopper | :shakes head:

megolas has heard all about this. Story coming through on one of the Wes lists, and one of the Ethan lists, and I curiously click on it. Only read one of the authors pieces before, and it's not great.

Dear God. It turns out to be one of those train wreck pieces, where you just have to keep reading each part because it's so bad. Spelling, missed words, grammar... Then comes the plot. Oh, the plot is something to be believed. Apparently Buffy is Ethan Rayne's daughter. And Wesley is her twin, kidnapped at the age of two by the Council as he's a slayer-twin and therefore good breeding fodder for future slayers. (Um, age difference? I hear you say... worry not. It gets better.)

Then we find out that Spike is in fact their ancestor. And knows about it, at least Buffy. He had a wife and kids pre-turning, who were hidden from the Council as he was a slayer-twin too. The interchangeable 'son', 'granddaughter' and 'however many greats' are fascinating. I actually went away and checked on when my great-granddad was born so I could estimate how many greats would be involved to get to Spike being a relation. (1896, so Spike would work out to be either my 2x great grandfather or 3x if he'd had kids when he was about twenty if you're curious...) Not to mention the fact that Spike's kind of obviously a virgin in 'Fool for Love'.

Oh, and then we get the fact later on that Ethan is Spike's actual son that he didn't know about, a dhampire of sorts, and then the Forever Knight lot come on it.

I wrote to the lovely author about it, pointing out all the salient points and the fact that I couldn't stop giggling at how bad it was. Got reply. Her response appears to be mostly 'oh, this will all be explained' and 'used a spell to make him age faster and a hard life ages someone prematurely' but I'm still loving the all time classic of 'I know canon and I hated canon.'

Dear god, I just shouldn't even have asked...

EDIT: She's just posted a new part, and all those things that she said would be explained? Have been explained. One in each paragraph while Wes is in a hospital bed with a bullet wound in the stomach. Considering how short the damn fic is as it is... oh, and Quentin Travers has just been arrested by the Sentinel police crew who've apparently had the missing persons thing out for Wes since the start.