happy endings

[deird_lj]

Someone, recently, was commenting on the Buffy/Spike comic cover that was released – you know, the one with them fighting back-to-back. And they pointed out that, in fact, none of the Dark Horse people thought it was a shippy cover, because they didn’t realise that Buffy and Spike fighting back-to-back is incredibly shippy from a Spuffyish perspective.

In fact, a shippy Bangel cover is going to look very different from a shippy Spuffy cover, just because the two groups of fans have very different ideas about what a happy outcome is.


Which is all a long, roundabout way of saying that I’ve been thinking about what happy endings I’d want for each character…


Buffy:
- ends up in a relationship with someone (although not Angel)
- goes shopping for clothes and tacky souvenirs
- is also in charge of the Slayers – because she finally doesn’t have to choose between slayage and shopping expeditions

Angel:
- doesn’t end up in a relationship with anyone
- instead, drops in on all the Scoobies from time to time, and makes broody jokes that they only get a few hours after he’s left
- gets to watch Connor grow up

Spike:
- either dies in a blaze of spectacular fighting glory, or ends up with Buffy
- spends a lot of time hanging out with Dawn and trying to beat her at poker
- also makes fun of Buffy’s constant glaring at and subtle threatening of all Dawn’s boyfriends

Dawn:
- becomes a brilliant Watcher
- has a run of incredibly cool boyfriends, and then decides to go out with Andrew instead
- lives in Boston

Faith:
- ends up as joint head of the Slayers, at Buffy’s request (protesting this decision constantly, and making repeated attempts to step down)
- probably ends up single (but I’m not entirely sure)
- develops a secret passion for museums, but tries not to let anyone know, in case it hurts her cred

Comments

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I guess it is all of those things. I typically just think "cold" and "annoying accents," but I think that's my Dixie-ness showing. ;D

In my canon, I usually have her in London or Oxford, for similar reasons (sans the American one, obviously).

[eilowyn.livejournal.com]

I'm now imagining you with a Scarlett O'Hara accent going "damn those Yankees!" while you're thinking about Boston and Dawn. Maybe you could counter with reasons why Dawn could end up in the South? Maybe good real estate deals in post-Katrina New Orleans means they can build the ultimate Slayer School, but a voodoo priestess is angry at slayers invading her city, and a whole 'nuther series begins, maybe called Slayer Blues?

I'm bored right now, and a TV series about the slayer school with grown up Dawn in a role like Connie Britton's on FNL appeals to me, perhaps with other Scooby cameos as instructors?

[deird1]

Maybe good real estate deals in post-Katrina New Orleans means they can build the ultimate Slayer School, but a voodoo priestess is angry at slayers invading her city, and a whole 'nuther series begins, maybe called Slayer Blues?

WRITE IT! WRITE IT!

[eilowyn.livejournal.com]

See, here's the thing - I'm really, really good at coming up with plotty ideas and such, but the actual writing part? I kinda suck. So this is yet one more plot I probably will never get to.

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

Maybe good real estate deals in post-Katrina New Orleans means they can build the ultimate Slayer School, but a voodoo priestess is angry at slayers invading her city, and a whole 'nuther series begins, maybe called Slayer Blues?

I love this idea.

Also Dawn = Tami Taylor = awesome.