idle thought #523

Dream: Buffy, Xander, etc were all half-human. Xander and Willow were homeless and sleeping in the park. Ethan had this camera that brainwashed you when he took a picture of you, but the recharge was super long. He went after Buffy first because she was the strongest fighter. (I don’t think they’d met before that point. Buffy was the Social Queen of the local half-human organization but Xander and Willow were just trying to stay off the grid.) Xander was trying to explain all this to Tara, who was the last one. Xander’s powers had nothing to do with fighting but he does have a partial resistance to the camera thing, so he was able to warn Tara even though he was also not quite there when it came to trying to explain and was trying to strangle her now and then during the middle. (Fortunately, she learned after the first time and backed up to a safe distance where she could easily slip out if she needed to do so.)