BTVS/Angel Ideas, Recs, and Discussion

UberIguana

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A thread for the discussion and recommendation of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and/or Angel fiction.

Posted because I just read The Monster's Loose, a WH40k YAHF with a small twist that has got me thinking about the setting again. It's not amazing, but it is only getting started.
Xander goes as Sanguinius. His mortal mind isn't able to handle the sheer power of a Primarch and he is subsumed by him. Cue Sanguinius being stuck in Sunnydale.

Other recs would be There and Back Again, a Horseman's Tale, and its sequel, Call of the Gathering. It's a Highlander crossover in case you don't recognise the references. There are more in the series, but they aren't worth bothering with IMHO.
Cordelia's wish in season 3 ends up being a little different, so Anyanka gives Willow and Xander the quickening of a couple of pre-immortals and sends them back to the dawn of human history in the Highlander universe, thinking they'll die long before the timeline catches up. They don't. A favourite of mine as I just like the idea of someone living through and watching all of human history.
 

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I'm currently writing a story titled 'The Winter 7' in which Xander is Captured by Hydra and turned into a Winter Soldier. The story goes from there.
 

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Successor is a quest over on SV, the premise is that the title of mayor of Sunnydale is a "You Kill It, You Bought it" thing. Fairly original flavor in that it's broken up into episodes, and really captures at least for me how downright wacky a lot of Buffy episodes were. One thing I've really liked about it is that Xander is allowed to grow and come into his own without the story being about Xander or him feeling OOC.

One warning about it though is that it does have Buffy in a homosexual relationship. It doesn't seem poorly done or the focus of the fic, but it is present if that's a dealbreaker for you.
 

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Successor is a quest over on SV, the premise is that the title of mayor of Sunnydale is a "You Kill It, You Bought it" thing. Fairly original flavor in that it's broken up into episodes, and really captures at least for me how downright wacky a lot of Buffy episodes were. One thing I've really liked about it is that Xander is allowed to grow and come into his own without the story being about Xander or him feeling OOC.

One warning about it though is that it does have Buffy in a homosexual relationship. It doesn't seem poorly done or the focus of the fic, but it is present if that's a dealbreaker for you.


Her and Faith? Thats the usual pairing in that catagory.
 

LindyAF

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Her and Faith? Thats the usual pairing in that catagory.

No. The quest diverges from canon at the end of season 3, and another thing I actually quite like about it is that the QM to some extent forces the questers to work from where the relationships were as opposed to forcing early reconciliations and redemptions that haven't happened yet.

The pairing is Buffy/vampire!Harmony. It's unusual, but starts well into the fic and honestly makes a good deal of sense in context.
 

LindyAF

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I think I'll pass. I mean, Buffy does have a thing for the dead. Just...not seeing it with Harmony.

Fair enough. It's something that makes more sense in the context of where they are well into the quest than anywhere they get in canon. That said, it was a write-in by the questers, not an option presented by the QM, and isn't exactly my favorite part of the quest.
 

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Fair enough. It's something that makes more sense in the context of where they are well into the quest than anywhere they get in canon. That said, it was a write-in by the questers, not an option presented by the QM, and isn't exactly my favorite part of the quest.


Im more of a B/X fan myself but its not important to a story.
 

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Successor is a quest over on SV, the premise is that the title of mayor of Sunnydale is a "You Kill It, You Bought it" thing. Fairly original flavor in that it's broken up into episodes, and really captures at least for me how downright wacky a lot of Buffy episodes were. One thing I've really liked about it is that Xander is allowed to grow and come into his own without the story being about Xander or him feeling OOC.

One warning about it though is that it does have Buffy in a homosexual relationship. It doesn't seem poorly done or the focus of the fic, but it is present if that's a dealbreaker for you.
I will definitely rec this as well. The whole story is done (with a couple of exceptions, but that's from the QM being ambitious and trying to do something new and it not landing, not any problem with the writing itself). The QM is really good at allowing write ins. I got one through that started basically a whole episode where instead of waiting for an invasion from another dimension, we went in to do a decapitation strike.

Another thing I like is how true to the original tone of the series it strikes, despite Buffy becoming Mayor, and how the QM lets the quest screw up.

I think I'll pass. I mean, Buffy does have a thing for the dead. Just...not seeing it with Harmony.
In defense of the story, it's a fairly different Harmony, as she is soulless (I'm pretty sure there was an interesting choice about ensoulling her at one point, and in her perspective, she comments on how she's happy she's not the 'old' Harmony). It makes for a very interesting relationship, as her non-human mentality isn't just handwaved away, but actually explored.
 
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