Just some explanation-type stuff for what I was trying to do here. No need to drag anyone else into it.
Part Four
I was initially daunted by how to make it all fit in a Buffy/Matrix crossover. But the more I thought about it, the more it worked and eventually I was able to get most of it in. There are a few questions people might be asking now, though, that I'd like to address, since I just couldn't get it all in to this one story. The overarching thing to remember is Morpheus' line in the movie: "Your mind makes it real."
Where did the Watchers come from in this reality?
In a reality that has spontaneously created demons, vampires, Snyder, etc., it seemed only logical that a group of minds who were of a more inquisitive bent would adapt themselves to the reality by attempting to codify it. Of course, they never knew that the Slayer was in fact an intelligent program, and very much the creation of cold science rather than mysticism. The Chosen One agent tolerates them, because she knows it fits nicely with the whole mythos that has been created to account for the corruption spread by the Zi'On virus.
Agents looked the same as they jumped from body to body. Buffy looks different. Explain that.
A different kind of agent, a different kind of manifestation. The Chosen One agent isn't quite so all-encompassing. She's more like that hair colouring that works with your own tones and highlights than the kind that just strips all your colour off and replaces it with something else. (Why yes, I did just get my hair done, why do you ask?)
What happened Faith?
Ah, that is a conundrum When last we saw her, Faith was out cold in the library cage. In the sequel, she busts loose and causes all kinds of trouble for the rebels in the rest of the matrix, because that's just the kind of gal she is.
Sequel? There's a sequel?
No. And I don't really plan on writing one, since it would be more of a Matrixfic than a Buffyfic. If you want to write one, knock yourself out. Just give me credit for the original idea and for Joss' sake use proper grammar and spelling.
Explain vampires in this context. People still only live 75 or so years, whether or not they're jacked into machinery.
Well yes, but my vampires are in fact dead. Some other vampire bit them and then mixed their blood. That spread the corrupt code to the next person, (it's all a big metaphor) and had the side effect of keeping their code alive, even though the original person is actually dead; killed in the vampire attack. They're literally (ravening, bloodthirty) ghosts in the machine.
Wait a minute. But the Matrix has only been online about 200 years. Angel's been dead for at least 220. How do you explain that?
New math *g*. I didn't say it all worked.
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