Dru fic recs
Mar. 26th, 2010 10:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
snick_backupY'all know I'm rather fond of Drusilla, as can be guessed from my default icon. *points* However, she's more static a character than just about anyone I can think of in the Buffyverse. I'm always glad when she appears on-screen because she's chilling and occasionally humorous and gorgeous, but there's not much there to hang fic on. She's more set piece and plot device and motivation for others than she is a character.
Here, then, are four fics where she is a character and allowed to develop, through various means.
Ministers of Grace, by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
penny_lane_42
This fic is the first - maybe the only? - fic I've ever read that explores Dru pre-turning. "I don't want to be an evil thing," she says in canon, but that's all we ever get to contrast her bloodthirsty innocence with a purer, human kind. Gracefully, sympathetically, this fic follows her as she's tormented first by her foresight and others' reactions to it and then by Angelus, all informed by her religous upbringing and driving to a devastating last line.
The Barter Economy, bybobthemole
This is fundamentally a horror story about a half-demon ferryman in Peru. However, the horror comes to the story by way of the lovely and venerable vampiress who buys passage up the Amazon. Here Drusilla is not only heartless but purposeful, a fearful combination, and for me half the interest in the fic is the question of what she'll do afterwards.
Untitled AU, bya_pretty_fire
Less about character development than the others, but fascinating nonetheless: what if Dru had been chipped instead of Spike? What does a Slayer do, exactly, with a chipped insane vampire? The fic is as much about the Scoobies' response to this quandary as anything else, with an elegant and inevitable ending.
Crazy Madcap Redemption, byhello_spikey
This is it, folks: the big multi-chapter fic in which Dru gets a chance to choose who she is and be her own person. Dru finds Spike hanging about Wolfram & Hart, and Spike, heartsore, lonely, and remembering sweet times past, takes it upon himself to save her. This doesn't work out quite how either of them expect. It's all very satisfying, with lovely characterizations and occasional bits of Spikey's hilarious dialogue.
Here, then, are four fics where she is a character and allowed to develop, through various means.
Ministers of Grace, by
penny_lane_42This fic is the first - maybe the only? - fic I've ever read that explores Dru pre-turning. "I don't want to be an evil thing," she says in canon, but that's all we ever get to contrast her bloodthirsty innocence with a purer, human kind. Gracefully, sympathetically, this fic follows her as she's tormented first by her foresight and others' reactions to it and then by Angelus, all informed by her religous upbringing and driving to a devastating last line.
The Barter Economy, by
bobthemoleThis is fundamentally a horror story about a half-demon ferryman in Peru. However, the horror comes to the story by way of the lovely and venerable vampiress who buys passage up the Amazon. Here Drusilla is not only heartless but purposeful, a fearful combination, and for me half the interest in the fic is the question of what she'll do afterwards.
Untitled AU, by
a_pretty_fireLess about character development than the others, but fascinating nonetheless: what if Dru had been chipped instead of Spike? What does a Slayer do, exactly, with a chipped insane vampire? The fic is as much about the Scoobies' response to this quandary as anything else, with an elegant and inevitable ending.
Crazy Madcap Redemption, by
hello_spikeyThis is it, folks: the big multi-chapter fic in which Dru gets a chance to choose who she is and be her own person. Dru finds Spike hanging about Wolfram & Hart, and Spike, heartsore, lonely, and remembering sweet times past, takes it upon himself to save her. This doesn't work out quite how either of them expect. It's all very satisfying, with lovely characterizations and occasional bits of Spikey's hilarious dialogue.
