Thank you so much! It's so wonderful to hear people like this and stuff like Conceit(s)...they're not exactly straightforward fiction!

didn't River say something like that about herself

I can't remember. But it sounds like her ;o)

it is such an Angel(us) attitude, those words,

Yeah, Connor's issues had some definite parallels to Angel's own. So that when Connor's lost everything, I think he could sound a lot like Angelus.

Thanks so much for your lovely comments. You really made my day.