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A Buffy the Vampire Slayer fan-fic. The Scooby Gang thought they might actually get a breather in the brief span between Graduation and college... but this is Sunnydale, and they really should have known better. As Xander returns from his road-trip, a number of attempts are made on the lives of the whole Scooby Gang by an unknown group. The Scoobies have become ensnared in someone's Evil Plan(s) and are making new friends and new enemies... but which is which?

You can read Matryoshka here.

The following tropes almost certainly contain SPOILERS for the plot!!!


Tropes:

  • Good Guns, Bad Guns - averted; everybody's using Western hardware from all over the show.
  • The Mole - if you turned it into a drinking game, your liver would thank you if you counted the characters who aren't double- or triple-agents.
  • My Death Is Just the Beginning - Taz and Misha used the enemy's intent to assassinate them to plant a Mole in the other camp. Neither expected their newly-acquired Healing Factor to actually save them to participate in the ensuing stages....
  • One Dialogue, Two Conversations - Xander references the SHRIKE callsigns during the hospital-visit with Oz, apparently to get a rise out of "Shooter" and "Nemo". It's meant to look like he's checking for the mole(s); really, he's winding them up over how 'well' the plan has gone so far.
  • Rock Theme Naming - the SHRIKEs are callsigned for gemstones and precious stones.
  • Title Drop - in chapter 15, Xander describes the Scoobies' current predicament as having "more layers than a matryoshka doll".

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