First and major warning:  Do NOT enter this page if you think Xena was the most infallible creature on earth, or that Joxer was a useless waste of space.  I promise you, you won't like what you find!

I was never very happy with the portrayal of Joxer as we saw him in the series, XENA: Warrior Princess.  It always struck me as bizarre that, in a warrior society such as Ancient Greece, such a seemingly bumbling and inept boaster had managed to survive long enough to have reached adulthood!  Joxer always seemed so useless and yet as the series progressed, he always seemed to be the one to say or do the right thing, or to be in the right place to help things work out.  It was almost as if that was why he was around....

So, having become a little tired of the 'all men are idiots' message which the show continued to ram down my throat, I started to play with an alternative scenario.  In the series, Xena was portrayed as being poised on the brink of being damned to Tartarus.  Ares certainly considered her to be his special Chosen One.  But Ares wasn't the only deity of war the Greeks had, and even if the series decided to virtually ignore her until the very last minute before wasting her, I couldn't see Athena standing by and allowing someone with the promise Xena showed to be thrown away.  But she wouldn't be able to make an overt move for her.  Not without triggering a clash with Ares which might spill over to hurt other people.

So maybe she decided to get sneaky and send an agent to help things along.  Someone no-one would suspect in a million years of being smart, and capable and an expert warrior.  Because he makes it so very, very obvious that he isn't.

This, then, is an AU of the Xena universe - or it will be when I get off my butt and write some more of the stories!  I won't even try and include everything which happened in the series, since the makers seemed to change their mind season by season and also seemed to have Xena time-travelling every five minutes!  My version of events remain contemporary with Hercules and are set (very roughly) in Bronze Age Greece.

Hope you enjoy the trip!

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