Quite an interesting take on the story. I've never done a remix like this where you take elements from the original and do something completely different with them. I'll have to consider that for next time. Dawn was quite nicely grown up here, hard around the edges, obviously much more has happened to her than we know from this story but the mileage shows. Makes me think he intervening two years would be quite a story itself.
I agree that Xander is just this stubborn and I love the Kyle not Arnie line. Quite wonderful.
Ranging afield from the original idea is more the rule for me than the exception; what’s unusual is when I stay close to the original story. In fact, I’ve wondered more than once (posted several of these wonderings) if the way I do remixes is actually what is normally meant by ‘remix’. It seems to work for me, though, and definitely entertains me, so I’ll probably keep at it for a while.
As for what Dawn was up to during those unspecified years? No doubt it would be interesting to us, but thoroughly routine for the Scoobies.
Finally got the time to catch up with this story. It's definitely an interesting thought to take the kernel of the other story and take it in a completely different direction
I agree that Xander is definitely stubborn enough to send support back to his younger self, but he should probably have known how his younger self would react to the augmentation if he thought he was a threat to his girls. Mind you, at 90, he had probably forgotten that his younger self tended to go on gut reaction.
I really enjoy tough talking Sarah Connor Dawn - Xander really didn't stand a chance once she found him.
As I noted in my reply to texanfan, veering widely from the original concept is something of a hallmark of mine. Rather than telling the same story as I would have if it had been my idea, I’ll get ideas from someone else’s story, and then follow out those ideas. This one came so naturally that I never considered (or thought to consider) any other way.
As for future-Xander failing to anticipate how his younger self would react? Yeah, we do tend to imperfectly remember the way we used to be, especially when obsession (go back! make it all right!) is driving the wagon.
I suspect that a lot of Dawn’s ‘new’ persona was directly the result of unexpectedly encountering Xander again: i.e., grief and guilt redirected into aggression. But, no, he never really had a chance.
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Date: 2018-01-04 10:38 pm (UTC)I agree that Xander is just this stubborn and I love the Kyle not Arnie line. Quite wonderful.
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Date: 2018-01-08 08:13 am (UTC)As for what Dawn was up to during those unspecified years? No doubt it would be interesting to us, but thoroughly routine for the Scoobies.
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Date: 2018-01-06 10:05 pm (UTC)I agree that Xander is definitely stubborn enough to send support back to his younger self, but he should probably have known how his younger self would react to the augmentation if he thought he was a threat to his girls. Mind you, at 90, he had probably forgotten that his younger self tended to go on gut reaction.
I really enjoy tough talking Sarah Connor Dawn - Xander really didn't stand a chance once she found him.
Very enjoyable and interesting fic.
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Date: 2018-01-08 08:23 am (UTC)As for future-Xander failing to anticipate how his younger self would react? Yeah, we do tend to imperfectly remember the way we used to be, especially when obsession (go back! make it all right!) is driving the wagon.
I suspect that a lot of Dawn’s ‘new’ persona was directly the result of unexpectedly encountering Xander again: i.e., grief and guilt redirected into aggression. But, no, he never really had a chance.
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