Maybe you're right. I was thinking that he would stop her simply because its boring being stabbed everyday, thats all. You're probably right. I'm just going on what I remember from watching BTVS and that was some years ago.
So, 1997 then. He's got two full years to use Hubert J Farnsworth as an alias/acting template before anyone thinks it's weird. Well, if the BTVS and Prototype universes are one and the same, then Grandfather paradoxes aren't an issue - how else do you get New Game+ Mercer?
The first evil can only use psychological manipulation through the appearance of the dead. It's not like there aren't any superpowered biological demonic monstrosities with fledgling identities or extreme baggage coming into being in the next decade or so which I think coincide with the first going active. It is also not like they will be lost and extremely suggestible and likely to latch onto the first bit of connection they grab hold of. Though the first is not likely going to ever be a problem if Mercer decides to get involved in preventing Buffy's first death by being pissed off by the vamp in the first place.
God, you lot remind of a bunch of FF net pairing fanatics. I thought I'd finally gotten away from that. Anyway:
Nice snip I am looking forward to more normal!Mercer. It hits my humor spot that Zeus which is very far from being human is more normal then the BtVS cast.
Normal, psh, yeah right... Buffy's the Slayer - later a Slayer, who has set her first school's gym building on fire during a dance ball or something - okay, she had a good reason for it, but still... as well as who falls in love with the very kind of thing she is supposed to fight. Willow has the potential to become the most powerful human magic user ever. Giles has done some crazier stuff than normal teenagers happen to do in his youth. Alex is, well, you know. No need to expand on that front. Angel, Spike and Drusilla are vampires, with the last one being so psychologically disturbed she's practically on par with Elizabeth Greene. Only Xander can be considered somewhat normal in a sense, though in his own way he is special in the fact that he has uncanny observation and rationalization skills. Plus a rather unhealthy chronic interest in female beings that aren't much good for his prolonged well-being.
It wouldn't be Dana who'd put out the hurt on him, though. Canonically he's 'danced' with the Mantis Lady, Incan Mummy Girl, Anya, Dark Willow, Faith... Need I continue? Because I think there's more than just that.
Seconded. If only for the humor value and to see how it could work. Personally I just find it interesting how a relatively top of the food chain Alex will take some of the normal events of the series. I can't see him taking someone trying to end the world well, even if just to protect Dana. "But he is just a science teacher..."
About Xander/Dana. When he's on the road trip (with more money or better car due to Alex's butterfly wings), he gets to New York and hits it off with Dana. What would Alex do in this case, I wonder?
No, I'm not going to put Unslain up on FF for a while yet, not until I'm progressed fairly into the plot and want to keep going. As for Xander/Dana, I have no damn idea. I don't think they'd be compatible, all things considered. I'm on a roll, here:
I feel kind of sorry for the various demons, now. Especially any of them that threaten his cushy teaching gig. Also, I fear for the day when Alex actually decides to stop a demon from eating his students. Partially because that demon will be very confused why the students seem more afraid of their teacher than him... "Oh, GOD, NO! It's Dr. Mercer!" "Oh, wait, whew. It's not him, guys, no need to panic. It's only a nine-foot-tall demon with a belt of skulls and a flaming sword."
