Summary: The author is thrown into the thick of things.
Category: Self Insertion
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Crossovers: Ah! My Goddess, the real world
Pre-fic Comments:
This is in the grand tradition of Carrotglace, Hung Nguyen, Twister, and many other highlights of fanfiction.
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Hild tapped the sphere in front of her. Who needed cable television, when you could see directly what people dreamt of?
She stopped on a universe created by someone's mental musings. It was a Buffy the Vampire Slayer universe, strongly divergent from the original creation. It had a tie-in to another universe -- the Forgotten Realms. Hild quite liked the Forgotten Realms -- she had a bet going with Lloth on when Vhaeraun would realise she knew all about him.
How delicious! The White Knight of the Slayer's gang as Drow, skilled in torture and trained in assassination! Even better, the supports of his world hunting him, believing him to be someone who her subordinates took lessons from!
What underling created this variant? Whoever it was deserved closer examination. Hild's fingers moved slightly, following the connections that the Universe had.
The strongest one was to a mortal! She picked through the man's head, discovering him to be the creator of that world. His mind was wonderfully hazy in morals, continually wandering from laughing at dark fantasies to insomnia, thinking of more ways to twist his creations. She found more ties to other worlds from him, in which one he'd managed to ensnare Eris and a minor Spirit.
Daimakaicho Hild decided to give him the chance to take a more hands on approach.
She created another copy of the man's mind, melding it slightly with Nidheg, the energy that Hell runs on. Next, she split another variant from the original canon, fresh.
Xander Harris... yes, the man seemed to take a special interest in the one normal man in that universe. She looked further back in Harris' family line. How ironic -- he was part of what he fought!
Hild always did have a soft spot for her incubi and succubi, even their mortal descendants.
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Post-fic Comments:
Yes, this is merely framing the story.