Xander groaned as a new costume was dropped in front of him. "Again? I have to go through the entire fiasco again? How many different costumes will you put me through until you are satisfied?" The authoress scowled at the uncooperative protagonist. "You will have to go through it as long as the stupid bunnies don't leave me in peace." And she poited behind her, where a horde of bunnies could be seen playing. A really big horde... and it was getting bigger by the minute.
He groaned again. "You live to torture me, do you?"
"Hey, that's not fair! Don't tell me you didn't had fun, dressing up as some of those characters!"
"Well, let me see:
In "A little Helloween Music" you made me merge with someone who broods more then Deadboy and who's reflex to kill first and ask no questions later I had a horrible time to suppress. Do you know that I had a really miserable time regarding mirrors afterwards?
"In "Willow's Choice" you turned me into a baby stealing, singing and tights wearing creature that loves to mess up the minds of any young female he encounters!
"Then there was "Magic of Helloween". Ok, I'll give you that one. Nothing bad happened to me there. By the way, why did the Avada Kedavra work on Spike? I mean he is a vamp, undead, how can you hill him again?"
"I'm a big subscriber to the theory that the killing curse works by destroying the connection between body and spirit. Since vampires are basically corpses, animated by an demonic spirit, it should work on them as well."
"OK. Going on there was "Angel of Helloween" That was damned scary! You basically turned me into Death itself! And have you any idea how much those damned wings weight?
"Then there was the "Matching Costumes" episode. Well he was not bad a character to be for a night, but then you saddled me with the magical equivalent of a sentinent atomic bomb with that stupid juwel!"
He took a deep breath and ranted on.
"I don't have much to say about "Consequences of wounded Pride", it's one of the few I'm ok with
"But then you realy started to torture me: "Fate's Game", not only did you left me stuck in that form, but you dropped my older Halfbrother onto my doorstep. How often does he have to try and kill me before you realize that he is not the nice brother you wanted me to have?
"Unfinished" He took a deep breath and his brown eyes became larger, with a traitorus wet sheen and his lower lip wobbled. "You really hate me sometimes, do you?"
"Then there were two variations of "Helloween, after Colony Style", basically varieties of the soldier thing, I can deal with that."
"But then you decided to go all out, didn't you? "Like a Shephred", I had Stigmatas for an entire year before they went away! Willow can't look at me anymore and could you please do something about this aura thingie? It is very annoying to glow like that!
"And because you were on your God trip, you had to turn me into another one in "Ruler of the Waves", right. But why him? Why Poseidon and not Ares? It would have made more sense if you turned me into the War God than into the Sea God."
"Because another author already had written you as Ares, I checked before I started the story. I wanted to put you down as Ares first, but after I found that story, I decided to switch it. Satisfied?"
"No, I'm not! 'Cause now we are coming to the fic I had the most problems with: "Memories of a Serpent". Not only did you turned me into a bigass Snakegod with HELLpowers, you almost made me destroy the world, got me booted out of my Universe and stuck in another, you also made me a loner, because nobody wanted to get close to me and YOU PUT ME IN JAIL! I WAS CHAINED DOWN IN A DARK DAMP PRISON CELL FOR MORE THAN THREEHUNDRED YEARS!"
"Don't blame that on me, blame it on the manga-ka who wrote the characters. Anyway I like Touda and you got out afterwards, didn't you?"
He glared at her, but she just smiled at him.
"Then there was "Tyger Symmetry". I got stuck with a tail and the cat ears, the Japanese Meifu is after me and I'm unable to go out cause even on the Hellsmouth people will notice me."
"And finally the last one so far, "Hiten Mitsurugi Ryu". Not only did you made me dress up in the Mantle of Doom, you made be being stuck with Hiko afterwards! I admit he is a master swordsman, but he's also an arrogant asshole that drinks alcohol like other people dring water and loves to brag about himself."
"Poor Xander. But until the bunnies leave me alone, you will have to deal with it."
The mass of bunnies had grown into a twitching, wiggeling mountain and Xander sighed.
"Well, who is it this time?"
He asked as he reached for the costume.
The authoress smilled. Evilly
"Well that... is a secret."
The characters so far:
01) Erik from "Phantom of the Opera" (Book/Musical/Movies)
02) Jareth from "Labyrinth" (Movie)
03) Severus Snape from "Harry Potter" (Movies/Books)
04) Modelled after Azrael from Wolfgan Hohlbein's "Azrael" (Book)
05) (Bel-) Garion from David Eddings Belgariad/Malloreon Saga (Books)
06) Yami Yuugi from "Yu-Gi-Oh" (Anime/Manga)
07) Inuyasha from "InuYasha" (Anime/Manga)
08) Edward from "Edward Scissorhands" (Movie)
09) Duo Maxwell from "Gundam Wing" (Anime/Manga)
10) Zechs Merquise from "Gundam Wing" (Anime/Manga)
11) Jesus from the Bible
12) Neptune/Poseidon from Greek/Roman Mythology
13) Touda from "Yami no Matsuei" (Anime/Manga)
14) Byakko from "Yami no Matsuei" (Anime/Manga)
15) Hiko Seijuro the 13th from "Rurouni Kenshin" (Anime/Manga)