Well buckle up Rupert, cause I've turned pro.

[lynzie914]

I'm currently frustrated, upset, angry, and fighting back the urge to cry for all of these reasons. So distraction memes! Please, PLEASE, please come and play with me.

Pick a trope from this list and provide a fandom/pairing and I’ll tell you something about the story I’d write for that combination (i.e. write a snippet from the story or write not!fic or tell you the title and summary for the story I would write)

1. road-trip
2. forced to share a bed
3. drunk!fic
4. huddling for warmth
5. pretending to be married/fake!dating
6. jealousy fic
7. amnesia
8. hurt/comfort
9. friends to lovers
10. truth or dare
11. forced proximity fic
12. fluff
13. apocalypse fic
14. curtain fic *
15. High School / College AU


Give me a character and I will tell you...

-How I feel about this character
-All the people I ship romantically with this character
-My non-romantic OTP for this character
-My unpopular opinion about this character
-One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon.
-Something about them I consider true, even though it's only my head

*I have no idea what curtain fic is, so...if you pick that, you either have to explain to me or IDK expect a literal curtain somehow involved.

(All my current fandoms should be listed on my profile, as well as characters and ships, but feel free to shout out anything you want. If I'm familiar with it, I'll attempt it.)

Also, I owe people comments like crazy (Sunny you especially, I still promise that someday your inbox will be full of comments from me. Enough to drive you crazy.) And I'm sorry. I'm working on it, life just sucks and its getting in the way, and I have issues that don't help. But I love you all. I do.

Comments

[lynzie914.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

And yay Dawn! I love it when I get to talk about characters I don't get to talk about a lot.

-How I feel about this character

I LOVE Dawn. I have so much love for her character and the idea of how they integrated her into the story, taking this over used and usually badly done trope and turning it on its head and making it into something so interesting to watch and then continuing to let us watch her grow and see how she fit into the story, how she made her own story on the sidelines. And I just have a lot of Dawn love in me. I’ve recently been searching out good Dawn fic. But yeah, basically it boils down to a lot of Dawn love. I have no idea who my favorite BtVS character is, but Dawn’s definitely on the list.

-All the people I ship romantically with this character

I’ve realized recently, that for all my Dawn love, I don’t have a lot of ships for her. I tend to go more platonic. But I do have a few. Dawn/Spike in a screwed up kind of way (and once she’s older), Dawn/Faith (it could totally be a thing), Dawn/Elena Gilbert crossover (all the parallels man, so many parallels), Dawn/Sam Winchester crossover (the early years for him more so though), and maybe a few more I just can’t think of this moment. I’m usually invested in possible ships for characters I love, but for Dawn, I struggle with finding people that I think fit her just right,

-My non-romantic OTP for this character

Um, Buffy and Dawn is probably my favorite relationship for her on the show in general. But IDK if that totally counts because their sisters, so it’s automatically non-romantic. I also really loved her relationship with Tara and her relationship with Spike which I’m quite happy as a platonic relationship as well.

-My unpopular opinion about this character

I think the fact that I love her character, might fit this just by itself. But other than that, I really kind of hate Dawn/Xander as a ship. It just, it squicks me out. The idea of her crush being something that the monks implanted into her memories and the power that gives him, if that makes sense. I prefer them in a big brother/little sister kind of a way. But I’ll admit to having Xander issues, so that might play into it. (I don’t hate him, I just feel like a lot of his flaws, especially in his treatment to the women around him, don’t always get addressed. All characters should have flaws, but they should be addressed.)

-One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon.

I wish they had explored what her being the Key meant more after S5 and her role in ending the world was over. Because yes, that threat had ended, but she was still a bundle of energy made into the shape of a girl and there was just so much potential there. I would have loved to see something even as simple as Bad!Willow attempting to use her powers against her and the energy protecting her. It could have come up again when facing the First too, because Dawn for as young as she is on the outside, is ancient on the inside and I would have liked to have seen the two of them meet and how it would have gone down. Maybe the First promising her a way to let that power out without losing herself (Dawn), to become something more than just a girl again. And then the struggle of her wanting it but then knowing that nothing good could come from the First. IDK, those are just random ideas. All I know really is that I wish they had spent some more time on her key-ness.

-Something about them I consider true, even though it's only my head.

The summer after Buffy died, Dawn buried herself in books and research and trying to learn as much about the supernatural world as she could (hence her knowing things like Sumerian), in the hopes that the knowledge would keep her from losing anyone else she loved again.

Also, she still sometimes shoplifts and steals. It’s a habit that hasn’t completely disappeared.

[clockwork-hart1.livejournal.com]

Because your Dawn headcannon is symmetrical to mine

Gifts From Those Departed (post The Gift) And Maybe Somewhere (Dawn/Tara)

(you might have to skip past the meta)

[lynzie914.livejournal.com]

YAY DAWN FIC! You make me all kinds of happy and I'm going to bookmark them to read later. XD

Thank you.

(Also yay for symmetrical head canons!!!)

[kwritten.livejournal.com]

Maybe the First promising her a way to let that power out without losing herself (Dawn), to become something more than just a girl again. And then the struggle of her wanting it but then knowing that nothing good could come from the First.
My body is ready. I need this to be a thing.

(putting a pin here because I want to say all the things but will have to come back tomorrow)

[lynzie914.livejournal.com]

My body is ready. I need this to be a thing.

Shouldn't it though? It should definitely be a thing. I just finished power watching S7 and I realized I was disappointed by the lack of The First/Dawn interaction and it just, wouldn't this have been an awesome way to correct that? Even if it was just an episode. Even if it was a lie, used to get Dawn on her side or serve as a distraction to Buffy and the crew. I would have loved everything about it. (Though I'd prefer if it was true and The First did have the power/knowledge to draw out that side of her, because, well. Again. It needs be a thing.)

But yay! I'm glad I'm not alone in this. There was just so many places they could have gone with it, never having to make her more powerful than Buffy (since she's the hero of the story) but still reminding her that she is this powerful thing trapped within a teenage girl.

[kwritten.livejournal.com]

the lack of The First/Dawn interaction
I've always felt that way.

Well they were comfortable enough letting Willow be more powerful than Buffy, so I don't see why not?

The series just went no where with Dawnie. (from what I understand S9 has her playing dying!damsel to Xander/Buffy and that makes me so angry I can't even)

[lynzie914.livejournal.com]

I've always felt that way.

I think I had forgotten who and how they had The First interact with everybody and kind of forgot that Dawn only interacted once with it. So on rewatch, it ended up being super disappointing and I realized all of the ways they could have gone with it. And also how much they seemed to forget about her Key-ness when it didn't suit the plotline.

You're Willow thoughts are very true. I always figured it was a different kind of power and that's why they let it happen, but Dawn would be the same. The power wouldn't have come from Buffy, it would have come from what she was. More so than Willow even, despite how powerful she was, she wasn't always a witch. But then, Willow was one of the core three, so I wonder if that had to do with it as well.

There were some shining moments in S7 but yeah, on rewatch there was definite disappointment of the lack of Dawn. (And I'm so glad that I don't read the Buffy comics. I think they would only drive me crazy on so many different fronts. I just wouldn't be able to handle it. Everything I've heard about them, makes me upset.)