New Fic - Just Shadows
So, the last word that Mutant Enemy gives us on the state of Slayers in the Slayerverse (minus the comics, which I don't accept (although No Future For You is pretty good)) is the Angel season 5 episode "Damage", where an emotionally damaged and institutionalized young woman comes out from under Thorazine to go on a killing spree. At the end, it is revealed that Buffy's Slayer Crew no longer trust Angel and his team, because they're at the top of the L.A. office of Wolfram & Hart, and a lot of Slayers flood the zone and take Dana, making her their problem and no longer Angel's.
So, there's a woman with deep and debilitating problems, and with the Potential to make it everyone else's problem, and a woman and her team who are used to handling problems at a larger scale but haven't been as good at the personal level. I thought there was a huge story there.
I'm also one to want to see the "deep and debilitating" in this. When I see fic with Dana in it, I see a Dana who is somewhere between wacky and disoriented but ultimately functional, and I am desperate to see how Dana got out of her head.
So I wrote "Just Shadows", a fic from Dana's POV (mostly) about the steps and missteps of her recovery.