Alternate Halloween costumes for the xman
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Nametag with 'God' on it, like Oz did later.
Vicent Valentine, FF7
That Tao priest Guy from Okami.
Archer, from Fate Stay Night
Zell, from FF8
Spike Spiegel (seen this done once, but it was never finished)
Phule, from Phule's company
Skeeve, from the Myth series (Robert Asprin)
Viewtiful Joe (or Captain Blue, if he was a fan of the movies - wakes up next day with his own V-watch)
Harman Smith - Killer7
Vicent Valentine, FF7
That Tao priest Guy from Okami.
Archer, from Fate Stay Night
Zell, from FF8
Spike Spiegel (seen this done once, but it was never finished)
Phule, from Phule's company
Skeeve, from the Myth series (Robert Asprin)
Viewtiful Joe (or Captain Blue, if he was a fan of the movies - wakes up next day with his own V-watch)
Harman Smith - Killer7
For the Good of the Empire
Xander dresses up as Grand Admiral Thrawn.
Silver Tongued:rofl:
I won't ruin the costume for you, just read it. It also has 2 sequels but I can only link one because the other is lemon.
Iron Fisted
Kheram
Xander dresses up as Grand Admiral Thrawn.
Silver Tongued:rofl:
I won't ruin the costume for you, just read it. It also has 2 sequels but I can only link one because the other is lemon.
Iron Fisted
Kheram
Here's a few random ones I've never seen done before:
Casey Jones from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fame
Jar Jar from Star Wars 1 (Crack fic anyone?)
Admiral Ackbar from Star Wars 4 (So yeah, I was watching the Robot Chicken Star Wars special awhile ago)
Some random Klingon
A Ferrengi
Alan Quartermaine (Not from League of Extraordinary Gentleman, the older movies)
Gene Simmons
David Bowie as portrayed in The Venture Brothers
Brock Samson from The Venture Brothers
Casey Jones from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fame
Jar Jar from Star Wars 1 (Crack fic anyone?)
Admiral Ackbar from Star Wars 4 (So yeah, I was watching the Robot Chicken Star Wars special awhile ago)
Some random Klingon
A Ferrengi
Alan Quartermaine (Not from League of Extraordinary Gentleman, the older movies)
Gene Simmons
David Bowie as portrayed in The Venture Brothers
Brock Samson from The Venture Brothers
*hangs head*
*sighs*
:headbanger: :headbanger: :headbanger:
I'd forgive one. Maybe two. If they're amusing. But for the love of whatever deity you worship, people, keep with the fucking chronology, okay?
As in, _when_ that particular episode takes place (come on, it's not that hard to look up the airing year of that season), and when the character you're having him dress as actually comes into being.
-Griever
*sighs*
:headbanger: :headbanger: :headbanger:
I'd forgive one. Maybe two. If they're amusing. But for the love of whatever deity you worship, people, keep with the fucking chronology, okay?
As in, _when_ that particular episode takes place (come on, it's not that hard to look up the airing year of that season), and when the character you're having him dress as actually comes into being.
-Griever
The thing is, though, that Halloween fics so saturate the Buffy fandom, that throwing something slightly more contemporary into the mix can be the only way of making them even slightly more interesting.
It doesn't help that I'd sell the important body parts of other people to see EMIYA! or Gilgamesh! Xander. And, as it happens, one could quite easily twist the episode to accomodate the latter.
Let's say his History or English or Religion class are looking at the Enuma Elish, and Xander decides to dress up as the badass God-King. Have Ethan's little spell replace Xander with the closest metaphysical equivalent of Gil, which would here be borrowed temporarily from the Throne of Heroes. Voila. Extra points if you can swing him keeping the Key to the Gate of Ownage. With the shit Gilgamesh collected over the years, you could throw all sorts of elixirs and such to make Xander stronger or give him more Prana, but still stick to BtVS power tiers.
Perhaps, though, I'm not the best author to comment - I once started a fic with the A/N; 'Computer technology is ahead by about a decade here' so that I could have Xander dress as Vergil. I feel no shame, though - it was a hell of a lot of fun. ^_^
It doesn't help that I'd sell the important body parts of other people to see EMIYA! or Gilgamesh! Xander. And, as it happens, one could quite easily twist the episode to accomodate the latter.
Let's say his History or English or Religion class are looking at the Enuma Elish, and Xander decides to dress up as the badass God-King. Have Ethan's little spell replace Xander with the closest metaphysical equivalent of Gil, which would here be borrowed temporarily from the Throne of Heroes. Voila. Extra points if you can swing him keeping the Key to the Gate of Ownage. With the shit Gilgamesh collected over the years, you could throw all sorts of elixirs and such to make Xander stronger or give him more Prana, but still stick to BtVS power tiers.
Perhaps, though, I'm not the best author to comment - I once started a fic with the A/N; 'Computer technology is ahead by about a decade here' so that I could have Xander dress as Vergil. I feel no shame, though - it was a hell of a lot of fun. ^_^
It's tolerable if you actually give _some_ lip service to that. That justification for Xander getting Gilga-meshed (any my, what a bad pun that is) is actually great. Salutations.
Thing is ...
... most don't bother. Which is intensely annoying to me.
Also, most of these fics are just plain bad, or barely mediocre.
So come on, someone change my mind and write that Gil thing.
-Griever
Thing is ...
... most don't bother. Which is intensely annoying to me.
Also, most of these fics are just plain bad, or barely mediocre.
So come on, someone change my mind and write that Gil thing.
-Griever
Many thanks, kind sir. I have to agree, though, that the majority of Halloween fics are utter bollocks. All it takes is for one fanboy to get a "cool" idea in their empty head, and we have the questionable privilege of being exposed to the end result.
That put me off the whole genre for a long time, until some decent authors used the idea well. ^_^
That put me off the whole genre for a long time, until some decent authors used the idea well. ^_^
Depending on what kinda Xander you want to see here are a few I dont think I have seen.
For Uber Xander you could have him dress as
Elminster the Arch-Mage
Belgarion for David Eddings series
A Herald-Mage Adept from the Mercedes Lackey books
All of those would kick ass so hard in the Slaververse that it's not even funny
If that's not your cup of tea how about someone who would be a different take on the soldier he actually went as.
Col. Falekenberg from Falkenberg's Legion
Col.Slammer from Hammers Slammers
A soldier from Starship Troopers..The book not the stupid movie
Raj Whitehall from a book series by S.M.Stirling
As far as I remember all of these have skills both tactical and physical that would boost Xander quite a bit without him being overpowered in the physical sense.
Now as for silly I dont think I've ever seen a fic where he dressed as either
Shaggy from Scooby Doo or the silly wizard from the old staurday morning D&D cartoon
For Uber Xander you could have him dress as
Elminster the Arch-Mage
Belgarion for David Eddings series
A Herald-Mage Adept from the Mercedes Lackey books
All of those would kick ass so hard in the Slaververse that it's not even funny
If that's not your cup of tea how about someone who would be a different take on the soldier he actually went as.
Col. Falekenberg from Falkenberg's Legion
Col.Slammer from Hammers Slammers
A soldier from Starship Troopers..The book not the stupid movie
Raj Whitehall from a book series by S.M.Stirling
As far as I remember all of these have skills both tactical and physical that would boost Xander quite a bit without him being overpowered in the physical sense.
Now as for silly I dont think I've ever seen a fic where he dressed as either
Shaggy from Scooby Doo or the silly wizard from the old staurday morning D&D cartoon
Those would be insanely overpowered for the setting. You would need to have a really good author to keep from falling head-first into the Bad Uber!Xander trap.
It would all depend on what power level of Herald Mage. It would take him dressing as Vanyel to truly kick ass, but that would be a recipe for a slash fic when you take into account that Vanyel is gay in canon. Its all just speculation thought since Lackey is extremely against fanfiction being written about any of her worlds.
Kheram
It would all depend on what power level of Herald Mage. It would take him dressing as Vanyel to truly kick ass, but that would be a recipe for a slash fic when you take into account that Vanyel is gay in canon. Its all just speculation thought since Lackey is extremely against fanfiction being written about any of her worlds.
Kheram