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''[http://mabus101.livejournal.com/33416.html#cutid2 DeadWar]'' is a post-series Buffyverse tale (taking into account both ''[[
The vampire that results from Buffy's turning is dominated not by hedonism or simple bloodlust, but by Buffy's anger at the loss of any chance at a normal life and her overdeveloped sense of responsibility for the world. She continues her culling of the world's demons, adding to this a vampiric appetite for [[Cold
Buffy's reign of terror, combined with the effects of the newly-empowered multiple Slayers, produces an unprecedented result. Believing that Angel's apparent immunity from her persecution stems from his soul, vampires in Buffy's path [[Better to Die Than Be Killed|choose ensoulment over the prospect of torture and death]]. Some of the ensouled attempt to redeem their fellow vampires by granting them souls as well; more darkly, other vampires and demons use ensoulment as a weapon against those they expect to be destroyed by guilt. Soon the movement takes on a life of its own, apart from Buffy's actions, and inexorably, the balance between human, vampire, and demon begins to shift.
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* [[Dead Like Me|Ellen Muth]] as "Dena Greer"
* Erica Hubbard as "Regan Stacey"
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* Jenna Edwards as "November Hall"
* [[Rachel Billings]] as "Brittany Morgan"
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* [[Percy Daggs]] III as "Gabriel Keller"
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* [[Actual Pacifist]]: Regan Stacey (a Wiccan Slayer) is trying to be this. In practice, she wavers between this and a [[Reluctant Warrior]].
* [[Ascended Fanboy|Ascended Fangirl]]: November Hall, Slayer, is a Trekkie with a thing for Klingons. She attempts to use [[Improbable Weapon User|a wooden bat'leth.]] It doesn't work too well.
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* [[Blood Knight]]: Subverted by Buffy (aside from the obvious pun). Both of Buffy's supernatural essences drive her to enjoy the rush of combat, but what remains of her human personality is desperate for an end to the fighting so that she can finally rest. Played straight by a number of Slayers.
* [[Boomerang Bigot]]: Vampire Buffy.
* [[Boy Meets Ghoul]]: See [[Did We Just Have Tea
* [[Child Soldiers]]: An as-yet-unnamed Ugandan Slayer is working for Roger Wyndham-Price as his personal Slayer and bodyguard. When necessary, he threatens to reveal that her brother is in the country illegally so that he'll be sent back to Uganda and, most likely, end up as one of these.
* [[Cute Bruiser]]: Solita Munoz, whose Slayer powers seem to have manifested exceptionally early (she's barely twelve). She's at least on a par with Dena, who's been a Slayer for several years, and she can leap out a five-story window or be hit by a speeding truck and barely notice. {{spoiler|Then it turns out she's not a Slayer at all...she's a demon.}}
* [[Dare to Be Badass]]: Played with by Brittany, who frequently dares Angel ''not'' to fight, but to find another, more effective solution to his (and the world's) problems.
* [[Dark Fic]]: Did you have to ask?
* [[Did We Just Have Tea
* [[Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?]]: This has become the standard modus operandi for dealing with Illyria's alien perspective, though it only works off and on. Most recently, {{spoiler|Xander manages to scam Illyria into saving Amy's soul from Korsheth...but she fails to outwit him, being behind the times on demon law.}}
* [[Drives Like Crazy]]: Played with and partially inverted by Dena, who loves to drive--and must be good at it, or she'd be in a lot more wrecks than she is. She terrifies passengers anyway.
** [[Dynamic Entry]]: When confronted with a pair of seeming angels, Dena decides to let them do as they please. Then the normally nonviolent Regan arrives on the scene in a borrowed pickup truck....
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* [[Fantastic Religious Weirdness]]: Especially common in ''Schism'', but also elsewhere at times.
** Dena Greer is a Christian fundamentalist of the Charismatic variety. She understands her Slayer abilities in terms of a divine calling and tends to interpret them as miracles. Prophetic dreams? Check. Speaking in tongues? Check. (She has no idea what she's saying, or what the context is, so sometimes played for laughs.) Super-strength? Check. (She notes that when she first got her powers, she was afraid to style her hair, let alone cut it--as per Samson.)
*** Related to Dena's perspective: she is overruled on objecting to using a particular church as an ambush site for vampires. It proves to have almost no crosses and no holy water; dumping a vampire into a full baptistry has no effect. Her allies are reduced to tossing Bibles at the vampires. This is a (fairly common, though not universal) characteristic of the Churches of Christ (to which the author belongs), due to lack of belief in modern supernatural events and priorities leaning away from symbolism. [
** Regan Stacey is Wiccan (that is, she practices Wicca as a religion, and is not merely a witch in the supernatural sense). Though she is pacifist in most cases, she makes an exception for vampires, concluding that they're outside the cycle of life and death. Other Wiccan characters are not so certain about her belief on the subject and question whether she's not being unduly influenced by Dena.
** Sadha Kaur, Watcher and ensouled vampire, is attempting to return to the Sikh faith after over a century. She has the advantage of not having any strict dietary requirements, but (aside from having been evil in the moral sense) she's discarded certain ritual items she was supposed to keep at all times (and the one she still has is a dagger, of a ritual type usually no longer used as a real weapon), and she needs to stay covered up if outside during the day (Sikh women are not supposed to cover themselves as some Muslims do). In addition, Sikhism states that all beings are capable of redemption, which conflicts with the standard beliefs espoused by the Watchers. In spite of her problems, once she finally manages to contact a temple in Houston, the religious leaders there welcome her back and try to accommodate her.
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* [[The Fundamentalist]]: Dena Greer, Slayer. See also [[Knight Templar]].
* [[Groin Attack]]: Harmony gives Xander a vampire-powered one {{spoiler|when she discovers he's under Buffy's thrall and he attacks her}}. Dena Greer delivers one to a jock who calls her a [[Curse Cut Short|"dy-"]].
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* [[Hybrid Monster]]: Buffy still has all her Slayer powers. Some of them are stronger than before.
* [[I Knew It!]]: Vamp!Buffy's attitude toward vampirism in this fic is ''extremely'' similar to vamp!Gunn's perspective in ''Angel: After the Fall'', which began over a year later. Very unlikely that it's a [[Sure Why Not]], though nothing's impossible.
* [[I'm a Humanitarian|I'm A Vampire-tarian]]: {{spoiler|Drusilla}}'s fate, and not just in the blood-drinking way.
* [[I Hate You, Vampire Dad]]: {{spoiler|Drusilla}} certainly came to regret turning Buffy. Angel's not too pleased about his partial responsibility either.
* [[I Just Want to Be Normal]]: And she never will be, ever again.
* [[Ineffectual Loner]]: It's a ''good'' thing that Buffy has become this.
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* [[Looks Like Orlok]]: Not yet, but Buffy's over-powered nature is causing her [[Game Face]] to "age" prematurely.
* {{spoiler|[[Losing Your Head]]}}: Normally, decapitation kills vampires dead. {{spoiler|Buffy decides to experiment with carving out the spine. Later, ''penanggalan''.}}
* [[Mistaken for Gay]]: Buffy thinks Faith's [[Combat Sadomasochist]] tendencies are coming out in her attempts at training Harmony to fight, and accuses her jokingly of "molesting vampires". Er...not so much. (Regardless of [[Foe Yay]] with Buffy, Faith regards Harmony as utterly boring for being [[The Ditz]]. Harmony just isn't into that, period.([[If
** Because she's both [[The Ladette]] and [[The Fundamentalist]], characters are prone to assume that Dena Greer is pulling a Larry Craig. Her real issue is that she prefers people stronger than her, which is no longer true of her boyfriend--or indeed, any human male.
* [[Nay Theist]]: Brittany Morgan, Slayer. Not surprising, given who her Aunt Lilah worked for; the only "gods" she's familiar with are [[Jerkass Gods|jerkasses or worse]].
* [[Pragmatic Villainy]]: Played with, beginning with a vampiric bartender whose main evil trait is greed rather than sadism or a love of fighting.
* [[
* [[Put Down Your Gun and Step Away]]: A Jasminite demon tries to use this on {{spoiler|human Angel}}. He's [[Genre Savvy]] enough to keep the hostage's head mostly in front of his own, but Michelle uses vampiric dexterity to plug the demon anyway. (The hostage gets grazed in the ear.)
* [[Script Fic]]: The two sideline plots, ''Schism'' and ''Haven'', are currently written in this format, as it was popular on BuffyWorld forums at the time the fic began. This may change.
* [[Shell
* [[Shout
* [[Standard Female Grab Area]]: Utterly subverted. Grabbing a Slayer or female vampire this way will get you punched in the face or slammed against the wall, if you're lucky. Angel in particular makes this mistake with Brittany.
* [[Stringy
* [[Suicide Attack]]: [[Shout
* [[Took a Level
* [[Transhuman Treachery]]: Averted by Buffy...which makes the situation ''worse'' than it would be otherwise.
* [[Unresolved Sexual Tension]]: Inadvertantly created between Giles and Sadha Kaur (who, after all, does look like [[Aishwarya Rai]]). The author was soon asked for [[Lemon]] fic involving the pairing. Soon thereafter, though, Sadha left Giles' cast herd.
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* [[Vegetarian Vampire]]: Used and averted. Most vampires can manage to survive on animals, if they're willing, but Buffy's Slayer powers require more "juice". Feeding only on animals will leave her disoriented and weak in about a week's time.
* [[War Is Hell]]: Almost literally. [[Hell Is War|Hell is not war, though.]]
* [[What Measure Is a Non
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