beer_good_foamy

Here's my second entry for this year's Buffyverse Bingo. Let's say this one is for "Autumn holiday/festival".

Title: Civilization
Author: Beer Good (beer_good_foamy)
Fandom: Angel, pre-series
Characters/Pairing: Darla, The Master
Rating: PG13
Word count: ~750
Summary: In our reality, the Roanoke colony in Virginia disappeared mysteriously at some point between 1588 and 1590, and the first successful English colony in Virginia was only established in 1607. In the Buffyverse, that colony appears strangely well-established in 1609. There's an obvious explanation for this, that includes the girl who would become Darla.

( Roanoke colony was so very small compared to Southampton. At first the girl had scoffed at playing with these children, most of whom had never seen city streets. She missed her friends back home, and having to do so much extra work in the fields and kitchens didn't feel much like the new start her mother had promised her. But truth was, she got along fine with the children, and running around the forests and fields was something new, something it felt like she'd been missing. And then there were the stories. )

OK, so here's the first instalment of my buffyversebingo card, checking off the box "Tradition".

Title: Give My Love To London
Author: Beer Good (beer_good_foamy)
Fandom: Buffy, pre-series
Pairing: Giles/Ethan
Rating: PG13
Word count: ~600
Summary: The morning after Giles drops out of Watcher school and joins Ethan in London, he thinks about what he's escaping.

"Not my circus, not my monkey."
- Polish proverb

( Ethan stirs as Rupert untangles himself from the sheets and rummages through the clothes and junk on the floor for some cigarettes. )

So apparently some kind soul has nominated "Building Character" over at wicked_awards. Huge thanks! I'm still giddy at how well that fic was received.



Also, on a less jolly note, here's a drabble for open_on_sunday and the prompt "record". I always liked Lydia... I want to say Chalmers, but apparently that's all fanon thanks to this awesome fic? Anyway, here's my take on her.


Academic

Lydia’s father was a Watcher, like his before him. She studied for years, but not everyone’s fit for frontline duty; they also serve et cetera, and archivists are always needed. She grew to love it. Countless unique records going back to antiquity and beyond, brittle from age, Slayers whose entire civilizations were lost but were remembered here.

She survived the blast that destroyed the Council long enough to recognize the ashes raining down around her. Lydia grasped a burning piece of paper, all that remained of Gunda (376-391 AD), and held it tight as the walls collapsed.

OK, so here's a plotbunny I've been poking at for a while. I've tried to work it into both series and post-series fic, as drama and as comedy, as drabble and as longfic... So I finally decided to post it tonight because it coincides with Mark reaching "Homecoming", and he has to go and point out the exact detail that this fic depends on. Gnnn... Oh well. Anyways, here we go.

Title: 67 Characters In Search Of A Memory
Author: Beer Good (beer_good_foamy)
Rating: PG13 except for the swearing
Characters/Pairing: Buffy/Faith...ish. Depends on who you ask.
Timeline:
Warnings: ***Teenage drunkenness, awkward confessions***
Word count: ~1800
Summary: It's Dawn's prom. Yay! Unfortunately, it's also the return of the plot of "Homecoming", which means Buffy and Faith must once again save high schoolers from disaster... Or does it?

( I'm talking about Slayerfest. What are you talking about? )

First of all, thanks to maureen for the nifty LJ gift! Happy birthday - remember what Dylan said: Keep a good head, and always carry a lightbulb!

OK, this one took me by surprise. It's for staringiscaring's Historical Slayers comment ficathon, and the prompt "Original Slayer, Ancient Egypt, cruising up and down the nile." Once I got this one image in my mind, I had to write this. It's slightly influenced by stormwreath's History of the Watcher's Council.

There's also an annotated version here.
Title: One, But A Lion
Author: Beer Good (beer_good_foamy)
Fandom: Buffyverse, very much pre-series
Word Count: ~1200
Rating: PG13
Summary: Egypt, 48 BC. A Slayer and her watcher take a trip and learn that even in ancient times, some things were more ancient still.

( She has to drag him from the burning building. )

Written records of her end here.

Happy Australia day to my upside-down friends. And for open_on_sunday's "Down/under" challenge:

Antipodean
Post-series

As the new Slayers gather from all over the world, they exchange stories. Their first slay, how they were called, and the nightmares (and occasional blind priests) of the preceding months.

The ones from Australia, though, have a slightly different story. Apparently the First Evil, being thousands of years old, never quite got the intricacies of the world being round (it's just a theory, after all) and the implications for the ones living on the underside.

"So that's what that meant?" Sheila laughs. "You know, I never understood what was supposed to be scary about From above you, it devours."

Yay! New still_grrr banner. Thanks a lot to everyone and especially to xlivvielockex!



Also, here's a drabble for open_on_sunday's prompt "Bow."

Proper Protocol

Bowing is how man shows submission; expose your neck, look at the floor, place yourself at the mercy of the other.

Slayers don't bow.

"Stupid girl," the demon lord chuckles as the captured girl is brought before him. "Come to assassinate me, hmmm...? Tell you what. Show proper respect to your new master and I might make it quick for you."

With a furious look, the girl holds out her skirt and bends her knees deeply ... then suddenly uncoils like a whip, pulling a knife from her boot as she leaps for his neck.

No, Slayers don't bow. They curtsey.

Three drabbles for open_on_sunday's challenge "Tax". One sad, one historical, one kinda silly.

( Sacrifice )


( Stood up to The Man and gave him what for )


( Big Bad )