♥ verses ━ dumb old fairy tales and their happily ever afters.
this is so outdated, ftr. update coming eventually.
verses.
still can't get laid.
til death.
the resort.
over the rainbow.
unscribal.
♥ at ━ unlaid.
Starting with an S4 AU, Willow and Fred maintain a friendly relationship, making it a simple matter for Angel to contact her directly during the events of "A Hole In The World." Though Illyria still possesses Fred's body, her soul is magically extracted before Illyria's essence can consume it. Reconstructing a body for Fred, she and Illyria can now coexist.
canon point ⎬ 5.09.
with ⎬ andrew, angel, anya, bethany, buffy, cordelia, darla, drusilla, faith, halfrek, harmony, illyria, knox, lorne, remy (oc), spike, wesley, willow.
♥ at ━ necrogamy.
In the darkening of Los Angeles, Angelus comes upon Fred at the Hyperion Hotel and turns her, hoping to gain more insight into the Beast and the entity controlling it. Fred struggles to deal with her new lack of humanity and learns what it means to live without a soul. Both thought dead by Angel Investigations, she and Wesley form a dichotomous codependency: Wesley trying to rehabilitate whatever morality remains in Fred, and Fred trying to warp what's left of Wesley's.
canon point ⎬ 4.14.
with ⎬ wesley.
♥ at ━ nexuses.
Like many others, Fred finds herself stranded at The Resort, an interdimensional nexus whose semi-regular rifts in reality wreak havoc on the setting and the characters within it.
canon point ⎬ 4.15.
♥ at ━ xenaphobic.
An alternate Los Angeles is similar to the canon one in every way, save one: Angel and company do not normally exist in this universe. However, portals have opened, drawing characters from various canon points to the still vacant Hyperion Hotel, circa season two. While they're trapped, they attempt to reestablish Angel Investigations while coping with the knowledges afforded by their disparate timelines.
canon point ⎬ 3.05.
with ⎬ andrew, angel, anya, buffy, charles, connor, cordelia, darla, dawn, faith, illyria, lindsey, nina, spike, wesley, willow.
♥ at ━ unscribal.
Immediately following the events of "Spin the Bottle," this verse is a rewrite of Angel's fourth season, in which Jasmine hijacks the body of another seer and continues to seek out Connor, while Team Angel deals with the aftermath of season three's false prophecy - with both the help and hindrance of a certain rogue slayer.
canon point ⎬ 4.06.
with ⎬ angel, charles, connor, cordelia, dawn, faith, wesley, willow.
Character name: Winifred "Fred" Burkle
Character fandom: Angel: The Series
Version: V2
Canon point: 4.14 "Orpheus"
Importing development from old game? No
Background: Buffy Wiki & Wiki Classic.
Changes from canon, if AU: This version of Fred will have been turned by Angelus during his brief attack on the Hyperion. In this alternate universe, Lorne was away from the hotel doing a reading. Fred was unable to defend herself with the tranq gun; Angelus attacked her and made good on his promise to rape her to death, biting her at the end of her torture and forcing her to drink his blood. She will arrive as a soulless newborn vampire, two days after.
Personality:
that was then...
"She had a warmth that took you in and held you until everything cold and distant melted away."
- Knox, 5.16 "Shells"
Of Angel Investigations, if Wesley is the Brains, Gunn the Muscle, Cordelia the Heart, and Angel the Champion, Winifred Burkle is the Light. Her expressive nature can be infectious, she's perpetually positive, and has a natural talent for bringing out the best in people. All this may sound grating, but Fred's personality is never intrusive: she simply exists between her own little world and the world of those around her.
This has adverse effects as well, of course. Fred tends to get carried away with things: work, thoughts, sentences. Strangers will have a difficult time deciphering her yammering when she really gets on a roll, but even if she starts three sentences and only winds up sticking with the third, rest assured that each and every one was begun with a point. Fred's not illogical or overly absent-minded, but she is odd. Her social filter isn't 100% functional: having spent the majority of five long years alone with no one to talk to, she became out of practice reading the cues of of others, physical and conversational. Thankfully, over the two years she's had to readjust to society it's majorly improved, and she is now capable of catching on quickly if not immediately to nuances and inflections if she's familiar with the person she's interacting with. If not, she's still aware of obvious signals, but may mistake the occasional facetious remark.
Growing up in a loving two-parent home, Fred is an inherently trusting person - though once lost, it takes considerable effort to regain her confidence and respect. She cares deeply both for those close to her and those mostly unfamiliar, and doesn't like to see anyone in pain (well, anyone that hasn't deserved it; if you enable her best girl friend to be possessed by a rogue Power-That-Was, she'll quite happily whip up of a Sphere of Infinite Agonies for you). She's fiercely loyal and doesn't lie well superficially, though in grave situations she can pull off quite a game face. Even then she excels more at deception by omission.
A genuine genius, Fred has always been intellectually gifted, primarily at science and mathematics. She finds mathematical constants soothing and greatly enjoys puzzles and equations, and is always looking for a new way to better explain the universe. When leaving Dallas for college she tells her parents "I'm gonna learn every damn thing they know there, and then figure out some stuff they don't." In this way, many complex thoughts and theories come very easily to Fred, and you may find her rambling them off to you, even though a part of her is aware that hers is the only head in the room they aren't completely going over. Though her age is never declared in the series, it's likely that Fred was somewhat of a prodigy, already having been in a graduate program at the University of Los Angeles before she got lost in an alternate dimension, and even five years later she still looks to be in her mid-twenties at the oldest.
Her superior intellect is certainly a contributor to her quirky nature. Though she grew up in the largest city in Texas, where her intelligence could be nurtured, her likely advanced placement kept her from forming normal relationships with the same ease as other people her age. She tells Wesley at a Halloween party once that she's never been very good at parties, and usually winds up by the snack table trying to look occupied; however, during a regression of mental age due to a botched memory spell, a Fred who believes herself to still be in high school is nonetheless awkwardly outgoing, and proves herself to be a bit of a reserved wild child, hanging off of banisters, proposing conspiracy theories, and even asking for weed. While who Fred was is not entirely who she is, it's important to note that she's always been a bit surprising, and unreluctant to take risks, since the satisfaction of her curiosity typically outweighs the safety of ignorance.
Fred believes that most people are well-meaning (with the word "people" being used lightly), but there are obvious exceptions. She has an extremely low tolerance for betrayal and regards traitors coldly and with scorn. For instance, when Wesley confers with Holtz in private rather than confess to the team about his discovery of a foreboding prophecy, she warns him never to return to the Hyperion (which she also did out of concern that Angel would kill him if he did, though her own hurt played an apparent role). Likewise, when she and Gunn find out that Connor has sunk his father to the bottom of the ocean, she unapologetically tortures him with a taser, despite having implored Gunn prior to be patient with him. And that is saying nothing of Seidel, the physics professor who sent Fred to Pylea, whom her boyfriend murders for her in an attempt to spare her the guilt of doing it herself.
This is the catalyst for the complete unraveling of an otherwise loving and trusting relationship. Fred becomes the first to withdraw, her concept of Gunn having been altered too greatly (she tells Wesley before the murder "Charles doesn't have it in him. It's part of what I love about him"). All this alludes to Fred's unexpectedly impressive ability to bear a grudge. Because of how normal and harmless a life she led before her banishment to a hell dimension, she can take things very personally, and handle them poorly as a result. Though Fred may eventually forgive, she doesn't forget.
Her darkness likely stems from her years living under severe oppression in Pylea, where humans are referred to instead as "cows" and sold as slaves. Fred escaped to the hills and lived in a cave there as a fugitive, where she scrounged, stole, and killed animals in order to eat, becoming a highly skilled survivor. When Angel arrives and Pylean authorities follow him to her cave to bring the two of them to justice, she aids him in fighting them off, and later offers to roll the captain, whom they've kept to acquire information, "over a cliff into the Drokken gully, like [she] did the others." Later, in Los Angeles, she remarks bitterly that Angel and Gunn want her to be "all sunshine and light." Fred is very capable of vengeance - and unapologetic vengeance at that - but only when harshly provoked.
Though she can be self-deprecating (calling herself stupid for mistakes both simple and complex), Fred is also loathe to patronising behaviour. After the reveal of Seidel's betrayal, she allows Angel and Gunn to believe they've talked her out of her homocidal rage, Gunn offering her a mug of hot cocoa which she later mocks. When she is shot in season five after a shady supply deal goes awry and Wesley blames himself, saying he "should have protected her," (following her admittance of "all I had to do was hide and I couldn't even do that right"), she rather heatedly informs him that he's acting like a child.
Though she may not consider herself one, as she's not as conventionally imposing as Angel or Wesley, or combat-trained like Cordelia, Fred is a champion: she's brave in the face of danger and believes solidly in doing what's right. Aside from her rare lapses (as with Seidel), she is the most morally grounded member of Team Angel, being the least reluctant to accept Wolfram & Hart's offer of the firm at the end of season four. She continues to have misgivings about their presence there but is confident that the good effects outweigh the evil ones. Even as she dies, the remaining members are certain the one available method of saving her, effectively trading her life for thousands of others, would have nonetheless shattered her spirit and been the complete opposite of anything she would have wanted.
Regardless, she isn't completely unselfish. She remains at Wolfram & Hart not solely to be behind enemy lines in the battle of good versus evil, but also because it is the first place where her vast intellect has the resources to flourish. She is able to contribute to the team in a manner she hadn't previously been capable of, her participation in earlier seasons limited to solving puzzles (which admittedly she excelled at) and doing basic demon extermination. At Wolfram & Hart, she heads the entire science division, and her fierce passion for her work shows. Like the others, much of her life becomes devoted to her job, but she never once complains, and can often be heard talking about an experiment or offering to solve a problem or neutralise a threat with a little scientific intervention.
this is now.
"Angel and Gunn want me to be all sweetness and light. Cute little Fred. She'll turn the other cheek like a good girl. "
- Fred Burkle, 4.05 "Supersymmetry"
Winifred is not your friend, not really. She can exude sweetness as well as ever, but after her excruciating ordeal at the hands of Angelus, hours gone by with no rescue, by herself or by another, she prefers to think of it now as a weapon. She is done lying back and suffering the injustices of the world, of looking on the bright side and ignoring her darkness. She tried that, and all it got her was dead.
As a vampire, Fred is calculating, patient, and thinks of everything in terms of social exchange. What can be done for her. She's going back to that motto that served her so well in Pylea: look out for number one. She has the speed to run away now - but more than that, she has the strength to fight back. In public, she can find herself feeding off the power, even developing a slight addiction to it. It pleases and comforts her to know that in a room of milling human sheep, she is wolf for once. And what better disguise than the thin, weak body which had so attracted disaster when she'd had a soul?
Without that spiritual conscience, she has far less regard for human life. There are certain people she feels protective or possessive of. She knows how to pick her battles, and she knows how to lie, keeping up the facade of Sweet Innocent Fred at the Hyperion while the others continue to hunt Angelus. But Winifred doesn't trust, not anymore. Even those who love you can leave you torn and discarded. Angelus was not her first experience with this, but she's resolved that he will be her last. She won't put herself in that danger anymore, nor will she suffer betrayal.
Her previous perspectives have all become skewed. Even though she continues to feel deep attachments to her friends, they've become distorted and twisted. Her disappointment and anger with Charles at taking her away her agency in killing Seidell has twisted into a sort of quiet loathing; Cordelia and Connor, constantly cocooned away from the world, have become abandoners by omission (and in the former's case, traitor by evidence); Wesley, she feels, with his known infatuation with her, is a viable target for manipulation. Angelus she fears, and that fear is what keeps her in place. She hates it, and hates herself for feeling it, but knows she stands no chance throwing herself, even screaming and kicking, at an infamously deadly vampire two centuries older than her. But she has plans for him and knows, no matter what, she is going to kill him, and she's going to be clever about it. Any animal can be caught with the right trap.
Abilities:
Fred was a normal human in just about every way, except for being a genius. She excels at most areas of science and mathematics, though she's a physicist in particular. She's also very adept at puzzle solving, and working with Angel Investigations, as well as her time in Pylea, has made her quick to react and adaptable to volatile situations. She can and will defend herself, and can use melee weapons (such as swords and axes) as well as ranged weapons (guns, crossbows, etc). Stealing food and supplies from villages has made her light-fingered and a good sneaker. Cave girl is also a champion of hide and seek. You don't play hide and seek with Fred. You play hide and go get a coffee or something 'cause, damn, you're not gonna find her.
As a vampire, Fred retains all her memories, experience and knowledge gained as a human, loses her breath and pulse, and gains a few supernatural benefits. She thirsts for blood, more uncontrollably than an older vampire, has enhanced senses, speed and strength. The effect of vampirism on taste varies in the Buffyverse (Angel finds most things save for blood flavourless; Spike, on the other hand, continues to enjoy many different kinds of food). Considering her love affair with food, it isn't tasteless for her in her new form, but it does taste different. Things she loved she may no longer find delicious, and things she hadn't eaten much before (like raw meat) she'll find more flavourful. The sun (in waking life) can burn her ultimately to death if she is exposed to it directly.
verses.
still can't get laid.
til death.
the resort.
over the rainbow.
unscribal.
♥ at ━ unlaid.
Starting with an S4 AU, Willow and Fred maintain a friendly relationship, making it a simple matter for Angel to contact her directly during the events of "A Hole In The World." Though Illyria still possesses Fred's body, her soul is magically extracted before Illyria's essence can consume it. Reconstructing a body for Fred, she and Illyria can now coexist.
canon point ⎬ 5.09.
with ⎬ andrew, angel, anya, bethany, buffy, cordelia, darla, drusilla, faith, halfrek, harmony, illyria, knox, lorne, remy (oc), spike, wesley, willow.
♥ at ━ necrogamy.
In the darkening of Los Angeles, Angelus comes upon Fred at the Hyperion Hotel and turns her, hoping to gain more insight into the Beast and the entity controlling it. Fred struggles to deal with her new lack of humanity and learns what it means to live without a soul. Both thought dead by Angel Investigations, she and Wesley form a dichotomous codependency: Wesley trying to rehabilitate whatever morality remains in Fred, and Fred trying to warp what's left of Wesley's.
canon point ⎬ 4.14.
with ⎬ wesley.
♥ at ━ nexuses.
Like many others, Fred finds herself stranded at The Resort, an interdimensional nexus whose semi-regular rifts in reality wreak havoc on the setting and the characters within it.
canon point ⎬ 4.15.
♥ at ━ xenaphobic.
An alternate Los Angeles is similar to the canon one in every way, save one: Angel and company do not normally exist in this universe. However, portals have opened, drawing characters from various canon points to the still vacant Hyperion Hotel, circa season two. While they're trapped, they attempt to reestablish Angel Investigations while coping with the knowledges afforded by their disparate timelines.
canon point ⎬ 3.05.
with ⎬ andrew, angel, anya, buffy, charles, connor, cordelia, darla, dawn, faith, illyria, lindsey, nina, spike, wesley, willow.
♥ at ━ unscribal.
Immediately following the events of "Spin the Bottle," this verse is a rewrite of Angel's fourth season, in which Jasmine hijacks the body of another seer and continues to seek out Connor, while Team Angel deals with the aftermath of season three's false prophecy - with both the help and hindrance of a certain rogue slayer.
canon point ⎬ 4.06.
with ⎬ angel, charles, connor, cordelia, dawn, faith, wesley, willow.
Character name: Winifred "Fred" Burkle
Character fandom: Angel: The Series
Version: V2
Canon point: 4.14 "Orpheus"
Importing development from old game? No
Background: Buffy Wiki & Wiki Classic.
Changes from canon, if AU: This version of Fred will have been turned by Angelus during his brief attack on the Hyperion. In this alternate universe, Lorne was away from the hotel doing a reading. Fred was unable to defend herself with the tranq gun; Angelus attacked her and made good on his promise to rape her to death, biting her at the end of her torture and forcing her to drink his blood. She will arrive as a soulless newborn vampire, two days after.
Personality:
that was then...
"She had a warmth that took you in and held you until everything cold and distant melted away."
- Knox, 5.16 "Shells"
Of Angel Investigations, if Wesley is the Brains, Gunn the Muscle, Cordelia the Heart, and Angel the Champion, Winifred Burkle is the Light. Her expressive nature can be infectious, she's perpetually positive, and has a natural talent for bringing out the best in people. All this may sound grating, but Fred's personality is never intrusive: she simply exists between her own little world and the world of those around her.
This has adverse effects as well, of course. Fred tends to get carried away with things: work, thoughts, sentences. Strangers will have a difficult time deciphering her yammering when she really gets on a roll, but even if she starts three sentences and only winds up sticking with the third, rest assured that each and every one was begun with a point. Fred's not illogical or overly absent-minded, but she is odd. Her social filter isn't 100% functional: having spent the majority of five long years alone with no one to talk to, she became out of practice reading the cues of of others, physical and conversational. Thankfully, over the two years she's had to readjust to society it's majorly improved, and she is now capable of catching on quickly if not immediately to nuances and inflections if she's familiar with the person she's interacting with. If not, she's still aware of obvious signals, but may mistake the occasional facetious remark.
Growing up in a loving two-parent home, Fred is an inherently trusting person - though once lost, it takes considerable effort to regain her confidence and respect. She cares deeply both for those close to her and those mostly unfamiliar, and doesn't like to see anyone in pain (well, anyone that hasn't deserved it; if you enable her best girl friend to be possessed by a rogue Power-That-Was, she'll quite happily whip up of a Sphere of Infinite Agonies for you). She's fiercely loyal and doesn't lie well superficially, though in grave situations she can pull off quite a game face. Even then she excels more at deception by omission.
A genuine genius, Fred has always been intellectually gifted, primarily at science and mathematics. She finds mathematical constants soothing and greatly enjoys puzzles and equations, and is always looking for a new way to better explain the universe. When leaving Dallas for college she tells her parents "I'm gonna learn every damn thing they know there, and then figure out some stuff they don't." In this way, many complex thoughts and theories come very easily to Fred, and you may find her rambling them off to you, even though a part of her is aware that hers is the only head in the room they aren't completely going over. Though her age is never declared in the series, it's likely that Fred was somewhat of a prodigy, already having been in a graduate program at the University of Los Angeles before she got lost in an alternate dimension, and even five years later she still looks to be in her mid-twenties at the oldest.
Her superior intellect is certainly a contributor to her quirky nature. Though she grew up in the largest city in Texas, where her intelligence could be nurtured, her likely advanced placement kept her from forming normal relationships with the same ease as other people her age. She tells Wesley at a Halloween party once that she's never been very good at parties, and usually winds up by the snack table trying to look occupied; however, during a regression of mental age due to a botched memory spell, a Fred who believes herself to still be in high school is nonetheless awkwardly outgoing, and proves herself to be a bit of a reserved wild child, hanging off of banisters, proposing conspiracy theories, and even asking for weed. While who Fred was is not entirely who she is, it's important to note that she's always been a bit surprising, and unreluctant to take risks, since the satisfaction of her curiosity typically outweighs the safety of ignorance.
Fred believes that most people are well-meaning (with the word "people" being used lightly), but there are obvious exceptions. She has an extremely low tolerance for betrayal and regards traitors coldly and with scorn. For instance, when Wesley confers with Holtz in private rather than confess to the team about his discovery of a foreboding prophecy, she warns him never to return to the Hyperion (which she also did out of concern that Angel would kill him if he did, though her own hurt played an apparent role). Likewise, when she and Gunn find out that Connor has sunk his father to the bottom of the ocean, she unapologetically tortures him with a taser, despite having implored Gunn prior to be patient with him. And that is saying nothing of Seidel, the physics professor who sent Fred to Pylea, whom her boyfriend murders for her in an attempt to spare her the guilt of doing it herself.
This is the catalyst for the complete unraveling of an otherwise loving and trusting relationship. Fred becomes the first to withdraw, her concept of Gunn having been altered too greatly (she tells Wesley before the murder "Charles doesn't have it in him. It's part of what I love about him"). All this alludes to Fred's unexpectedly impressive ability to bear a grudge. Because of how normal and harmless a life she led before her banishment to a hell dimension, she can take things very personally, and handle them poorly as a result. Though Fred may eventually forgive, she doesn't forget.
Her darkness likely stems from her years living under severe oppression in Pylea, where humans are referred to instead as "cows" and sold as slaves. Fred escaped to the hills and lived in a cave there as a fugitive, where she scrounged, stole, and killed animals in order to eat, becoming a highly skilled survivor. When Angel arrives and Pylean authorities follow him to her cave to bring the two of them to justice, she aids him in fighting them off, and later offers to roll the captain, whom they've kept to acquire information, "over a cliff into the Drokken gully, like [she] did the others." Later, in Los Angeles, she remarks bitterly that Angel and Gunn want her to be "all sunshine and light." Fred is very capable of vengeance - and unapologetic vengeance at that - but only when harshly provoked.
Though she can be self-deprecating (calling herself stupid for mistakes both simple and complex), Fred is also loathe to patronising behaviour. After the reveal of Seidel's betrayal, she allows Angel and Gunn to believe they've talked her out of her homocidal rage, Gunn offering her a mug of hot cocoa which she later mocks. When she is shot in season five after a shady supply deal goes awry and Wesley blames himself, saying he "should have protected her," (following her admittance of "all I had to do was hide and I couldn't even do that right"), she rather heatedly informs him that he's acting like a child.
Though she may not consider herself one, as she's not as conventionally imposing as Angel or Wesley, or combat-trained like Cordelia, Fred is a champion: she's brave in the face of danger and believes solidly in doing what's right. Aside from her rare lapses (as with Seidel), she is the most morally grounded member of Team Angel, being the least reluctant to accept Wolfram & Hart's offer of the firm at the end of season four. She continues to have misgivings about their presence there but is confident that the good effects outweigh the evil ones. Even as she dies, the remaining members are certain the one available method of saving her, effectively trading her life for thousands of others, would have nonetheless shattered her spirit and been the complete opposite of anything she would have wanted.
Regardless, she isn't completely unselfish. She remains at Wolfram & Hart not solely to be behind enemy lines in the battle of good versus evil, but also because it is the first place where her vast intellect has the resources to flourish. She is able to contribute to the team in a manner she hadn't previously been capable of, her participation in earlier seasons limited to solving puzzles (which admittedly she excelled at) and doing basic demon extermination. At Wolfram & Hart, she heads the entire science division, and her fierce passion for her work shows. Like the others, much of her life becomes devoted to her job, but she never once complains, and can often be heard talking about an experiment or offering to solve a problem or neutralise a threat with a little scientific intervention.
this is now.
"Angel and Gunn want me to be all sweetness and light. Cute little Fred. She'll turn the other cheek like a good girl. "
- Fred Burkle, 4.05 "Supersymmetry"
Winifred is not your friend, not really. She can exude sweetness as well as ever, but after her excruciating ordeal at the hands of Angelus, hours gone by with no rescue, by herself or by another, she prefers to think of it now as a weapon. She is done lying back and suffering the injustices of the world, of looking on the bright side and ignoring her darkness. She tried that, and all it got her was dead.
As a vampire, Fred is calculating, patient, and thinks of everything in terms of social exchange. What can be done for her. She's going back to that motto that served her so well in Pylea: look out for number one. She has the speed to run away now - but more than that, she has the strength to fight back. In public, she can find herself feeding off the power, even developing a slight addiction to it. It pleases and comforts her to know that in a room of milling human sheep, she is wolf for once. And what better disguise than the thin, weak body which had so attracted disaster when she'd had a soul?
Without that spiritual conscience, she has far less regard for human life. There are certain people she feels protective or possessive of. She knows how to pick her battles, and she knows how to lie, keeping up the facade of Sweet Innocent Fred at the Hyperion while the others continue to hunt Angelus. But Winifred doesn't trust, not anymore. Even those who love you can leave you torn and discarded. Angelus was not her first experience with this, but she's resolved that he will be her last. She won't put herself in that danger anymore, nor will she suffer betrayal.
Her previous perspectives have all become skewed. Even though she continues to feel deep attachments to her friends, they've become distorted and twisted. Her disappointment and anger with Charles at taking her away her agency in killing Seidell has twisted into a sort of quiet loathing; Cordelia and Connor, constantly cocooned away from the world, have become abandoners by omission (and in the former's case, traitor by evidence); Wesley, she feels, with his known infatuation with her, is a viable target for manipulation. Angelus she fears, and that fear is what keeps her in place. She hates it, and hates herself for feeling it, but knows she stands no chance throwing herself, even screaming and kicking, at an infamously deadly vampire two centuries older than her. But she has plans for him and knows, no matter what, she is going to kill him, and she's going to be clever about it. Any animal can be caught with the right trap.
Abilities:
Fred was a normal human in just about every way, except for being a genius. She excels at most areas of science and mathematics, though she's a physicist in particular. She's also very adept at puzzle solving, and working with Angel Investigations, as well as her time in Pylea, has made her quick to react and adaptable to volatile situations. She can and will defend herself, and can use melee weapons (such as swords and axes) as well as ranged weapons (guns, crossbows, etc). Stealing food and supplies from villages has made her light-fingered and a good sneaker. Cave girl is also a champion of hide and seek. You don't play hide and seek with Fred. You play hide and go get a coffee or something 'cause, damn, you're not gonna find her.
As a vampire, Fred retains all her memories, experience and knowledge gained as a human, loses her breath and pulse, and gains a few supernatural benefits. She thirsts for blood, more uncontrollably than an older vampire, has enhanced senses, speed and strength. The effect of vampirism on taste varies in the Buffyverse (Angel finds most things save for blood flavourless; Spike, on the other hand, continues to enjoy many different kinds of food). Considering her love affair with food, it isn't tasteless for her in her new form, but it does taste different. Things she loved she may no longer find delicious, and things she hadn't eaten much before (like raw meat) she'll find more flavourful. The sun (in waking life) can burn her ultimately to death if she is exposed to it directly.