Free-for-all fic: The Ghost Who Walks

[beer_good_foamy]

Title: The Ghost Who Walks
Author: Beer Good (beer_good_foamy)
Rating: PG13
Word Count: ~1400
Fandom: Buffyverse
Prompt: 118: Dana
Characters: Buffy, Dana
Warning: General angst. Mystical mental illness. Mention of character death.
Summary: Way post-series (2040-ish). Buffy pays her semi-annual visit to the one they could never save.

"Je est un autre." ("I is

Comments

[brutti_ma_buoni]

And I was just asking about Dana-fic. This feels very real: she can't be cured, but she can be helped, as much as anyone can ever expect to help her. I loved the painful role you give her, of the one who truly feels what it is that the Slayers' work means.

[beer_good_foamy]

Thanks a lot! Dana is one of the most fascinating oneshot characters in the entire Buffyverse IMO, so it was nice (well, sort of) to get to make up one possible future for her, as sort of a mirror for the others. Glad you liked it!

[angelus2hot]

Very sad and powerful fic!

[beer_good_foamy]

Thanks!

[jen_nsync_landl]

Interesting character study with a really powerful ending. Fascinating!

[beer_good_foamy]

Thanks a lot!

[gillo]

That's powerful, sad and touching - and it makes sense that she'd need to feel enclosed when she experiences so much pain and violence when she's asleep.

[beer_good_foamy]

Thanks a lot! It's a dark sort of idea, but I'm glad it works.

[mierke]

Wow. When I saw you wrote a fic around Dana I was expecting something heavy and intense, but this was even better than that.

I loved the contrast between the atmosphere in Dana's room and the joy in their videogame of the guards.

It's heart-breaking to see Dana; nothing they can do could save her and she dies every night a little more.

[beer_good_foamy]

Thanks a lot, so glad you liked it! I'm not sure if this is the future I picture for Dana post-series, but it's a fascinating one.