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Back before the Buffy comics retconned it away, Xander supposedly went on a Slayer recruitment tour of Africa following season 7. In 2006, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ludditerobot hosted "Scatterlings and Orphanages," a Xander in Africa writing challenge, and this series was born.
Title: At the Crossroads Well Met
Summary: The Yorùbá god Eshu meets an interesting man in a market in Benin or, for sixteen palm nuts, Xander accidentally hires a divine tour guide.
And its sequel:
Title: Goddess in the Water
Summary: Xander and Eshu find romance, a mystery and car trouble on the road, just not necessarily in that order.
I did a crap ton of research for this series. Both are set in Benin and feature a lot of local religious and mythical figures from that region. I actually had several more stories planned for it. The next one would have been "The Masks We Wear" in which an evil mask turns its wearers into vampires and Xander teams up with some followers of the warrior god Ogun to help put a stop to it. In retrospect, it would've had some pretty serious white savior bullshit going on, so it's probably for the best that grad school ate my life at that point. The third one would have involved actually finding a Slayer and would have tied in somehow to Benin's long tradition of female warriors. I wish I still had my notes for that one, but they got lost somewhere along the way. Oh, well.
ludditerobot hosted "Scatterlings and Orphanages," a Xander in Africa writing challenge, and this series was born.Title: At the Crossroads Well Met
Summary: The Yorùbá god Eshu meets an interesting man in a market in Benin or, for sixteen palm nuts, Xander accidentally hires a divine tour guide.
And its sequel:
Title: Goddess in the Water
Summary: Xander and Eshu find romance, a mystery and car trouble on the road, just not necessarily in that order.
I did a crap ton of research for this series. Both are set in Benin and feature a lot of local religious and mythical figures from that region. I actually had several more stories planned for it. The next one would have been "The Masks We Wear" in which an evil mask turns its wearers into vampires and Xander teams up with some followers of the warrior god Ogun to help put a stop to it. In retrospect, it would've had some pretty serious white savior bullshit going on, so it's probably for the best that grad school ate my life at that point. The third one would have involved actually finding a Slayer and would have tied in somehow to Benin's long tradition of female warriors. I wish I still had my notes for that one, but they got lost somewhere along the way. Oh, well.
