Vamp Neil AU: After He Gets Sired, His IT Skills Make Him A Sought After Henchman, Who Goes On To Work

Vamp Neil AU: After he gets sired, his IT skills make him a sought after henchman, who goes on to work for for every Big Bad - so in every villain scene, he's around somewhere, saying things like "Mondays, am I right?" and "Working hard or hardly working?"

Eventually, due to a series of unlikely coincidences, his soul is restored and he moves to LA to work for Wolfram and Hart. S5 of Angel is about the deep rivalry between Angel, Spike, and Neil.

I have a weird amount of affection for this random one-scene character. He's like the living embodient of the phrase "hump day".

I posted my first ever fanfic!

Title: Haircut, Home & Heaven

Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Faith Lehane/Buffy Summers)

Summary: Truthfully, it’s impossible to know. Buffy can’t remember if they had felt like this before they jumped from Glory’s tower. Maybe that’s when it started. Or maybe their body hadn’t felt like it was truly Buffy’s since they were fifteen years old on the steps of Hemery High, getting called as a slayer. Being told that you’re being imbued with supernatural abilities is bound to irrevocably change your relationship with your own body.   - - -

In which Buffy explores their relationship to their own identity, gives themself a haircut, and then comes out to Faith.

You can read it on AO3!

Oz is such a slight presence in his first couple of appearances, I was worrying I might not like him this time around - then 'What's My Line' hits, and... Oz is here. He's fully here - not the deepest character, sure, but just being a vaguely enjoyable presence all over the place. Buffy needs that - the character who isn't fully a part of the big dramatic plots, but is just generally fun to have around; it's one of the roles Anya will fill when Oz leaves.

(I'm also realising that the reason I was surprised to see Oz earlier in 'Inca Mummy Girl' is that I always remembered this episode as his real introduction. I'd just forgotten in the more-than-a-decade since my last rewatch.)

With his relentless, manipulative cruelty, his obsessive tendency make people live out the tragic narratives he's imagined for them, his ableism towards a wheelchair-bound Spike, plus all the murders...

... is Angelus a Vriska?

we can fix him. we had the technology.

We rewatch Buffy the Vampire Slayer, each time hoping that this time, it might be different; this time, maybe Xander will just fuck a dude and stop being so insufferable.