![]() It also brings back my favorite villain of season 5: the wonderfully creepy Doc, who has his own past with a deeper connection to the Scoobies than you might expect. We slowly learn to compassionately understand how each of the characters ended up where they were at the end of that season and how they can grow from there.Īs with Bread, the major characters are Willow, Dawn, and yes, Tara her return is a mystery whose depths we gradually explore throughout the course of the story. Once again, Tulipp gathers up the discarded and underused threads of the past season's story and weaves them together in a new tapestry of surpassing beauty. Willow returns with Dawn from their summer with the Coven in England after the events of season 6 (this story was written before season 7). This story does not lead to any of the events of season 6. While I'd read her work for her elegant style and beautiful descriptive writing alone, it's her command of character that allows her to write those small, often wordless, moments that touch me the most and that inspires me to reread her works. Tulipp has a superlative ability to deeply and compassionately understand the characters of Buffy, both their flaws and their strengths. It has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, "Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone It begins and ends with one of my favorite quotes from Ursula K LeGuin: Focusing on Willow, Tara, and Dawn, it tells the story of the summer after The Gift in a handful of moments where small changes made all the difference: A June night. This jewel of a short story is the perfect farewell to Buffy. I hope you'll enjoy them as much as I do. ![]() Willow is my favorite character, so she's as central to any of these stories as she was in Doppelgangland or Something Blue, with the one exception of Season Noir. Stories that are very short or fluffy won't make it to my list. ![]() I prefer long, serious stories with well-developed plots and where the characters I recognize and love from Buffy grow and change. To be fair, I should mention my biases as a reviewer. The completed fics are vaguely in order of my preference, while the works in progress are listed alphabetically by author. I will get to ten of each eventually, and I already have several stories in mind that I need to reread so I can write up recommendations for them, but I suspect fourteen recommendations will keep you reading for some time. Here are my top seven completed fan fiction stories, along with my favorite seven works in progress. Top Seven Completed and Top Seven WIP Fics My Favorite Top Seven Completed and Top Seven WIP Stories ![]()
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