You sure you haven't been breaking into my apartment during the day?
Seriously though, if you do look at Xander as an adult child of alcolic parents, it does help a lot with his characterization. I'd even say canon does come at least pretty close to that. And I agree that high school Xander is a walking textbook of not very good coping skills, but I'd argue that by S7 he was coping (with a few hiccups along the way).
So, yeah, you're pretty dead-on where alternaXander is coming from in Water. Xander, at least we're somewhat lead to believe, reached some closure when he walked onto Kingman's Bluff and when he buried the hatchet with Anya. AlternaXander never had any of that closure.
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You sure you haven't been breaking into my apartment during the day?
Seriously though, if you do look at Xander as an adult child of alcolic parents, it does help a lot with his characterization. I'd even say canon does come at least pretty close to that. And I agree that high school Xander is a walking textbook of not very good coping skills, but I'd argue that by S7 he was coping (with a few hiccups along the way).
So, yeah, you're pretty dead-on where alternaXander is coming from in Water. Xander, at least we're somewhat lead to believe, reached some closure when he walked onto Kingman's Bluff and when he buried the hatchet with Anya. AlternaXander never had any of that closure.