FIC: Fin Amour (6/6)

[angearia]

Title: Fin Amour
Author: angearia
Summary: The monks’ spell to create the Key goes wonky.
Timeline: Season 5 AU
Rating: R for (highlight to view) language, graphic violence and character death.
Word Count: ~14,000

Author’s Note: The beginning dialogue in the prologue is lifted from the BtVS episode No Place Like Home and one line borrowed from Spiral-all

Comments

[diamondtook862]

I wasn't able to comment when I first finished reading it. I was too gutted. This was an excellent story: tragic, with a beautiful ending. Thank you for writing and sharing it.

Congrats on the award! It's well-deserved.

[angearia]

Thank you!

[timeofchange]

Beautifully written, and an apt end for a hero.

[angearia]

Thank you. ♥

[angearia]

Yes, exactly this: tragic but with a bloodthirsty grace.

Thanks so much!

[eilowyn]

Damn it, now my mascara is running.

I think my most original comment other than the "OMG THIS IS SO F-ING GOOD WHY'D YOU BREAK MY HEART?!!?" reaction most people would have after reading this is that I imagine Buffy's smile in the last scene is the exact smile she has at the end of Chosen: this is the same realization she came to at the end of the canonical series, and I think that, other than achieving the goal of a story with romantic love without sexual expression of love (which you did phenomenally well, btw), is that Buffy's character goes through the same arc she did in season 7, and comes to the same conclusion, although by different means.

that concluding realization about Spike, love, and Buffy herself is why I feel the comics are entirely unnecessary and completely self-indulgent on Joss' part, but that opinion changes on a bi-weekly basis, or with monthly hormonal fluctuations, so don't quote me on this.

And I demand a sequel. Yeah. With a happy ending. Don't you have a schmoop bingo card to fill, just like everyone else

[angearia]

*hands over tissue*

"OMG THIS IS SO F-ING GOOD WHY'D YOU BREAK MY HEART?!!?"

LOL! I ♥ you.

I imagine Buffy's smile in the last scene is the exact smile she has at the end of Chosen

You know, I'm so glad you imagined her smiling. Her happiness is bittersweet but also so happy she can't contain it, the grief giving birth to the happiness. This is one of those moments where I'm gratified to know I didn't have to tell she was smiling in order to show. It's a great compliment. Thank you. (A few people have told me it's very easy to visualize my stories, that they fit very well into canon. Maybe that's a part of it, too

[seapealsh]

That was so beautifully written but it was so gut-wrenching sad. Whew.

[angearia]

Thanks. ♥