5 Interesting “Fanons” in the Buffyverse Fanfic Community

I know I haven’t updated in over a month. School’s hard and stuff. After writing 10+ page lab reports a week on top of school and work, this site has not been my first priority. Bite me. That doesn’t mean I haven’t thought about posts I could make in the meantime. Here’s one of the shorter ones.

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I’ve been reading Buffy fanfiction for many years now, but incredibly periodically. One thing I do notice is that the fanfiction community has seemed to carve out its own reality in terms of the Buffyverse that mirrors but differs slightly from details in the show. These details may be small and insignificant, but what happens is its written into one story, which is read by many other ficcers, who unknowingly incorporate it into their fic and soon the entire community believes something happened in the show when it never really did. These are called “Fanon” (fan-canon). While reading this webpage that summarizes several canon vs. fanon, I thought the following common mistakes in fanfiction are worth note to all you fanficcers out there.

6 Badass Normal Humans (you don’t want to piss off)

The Buffyverse is filled to the brim with supernatural ass-kickers, from Slayers to Vampires to Demons to Witches. However, there are also a solid amount of humans with no demons or magics but are still quite able when it comes to holding their own in a fight. And they don’t even have to turn green for you to know that you wouldn’t like them when they’re angry.

Following are the characters who don’t need flashy lights or superspeed to demand respect from an opponent.