ice cream for freaks: buffy and angel fanfic recs

Dawn

Dawn/Anya  Dawn/Buffy  Dawn/Connor   Dawn/Dana  Dawn/Fred
Dawn/Giles  Dawn/Lilah  Dawn/Nina  Dawn/Other  Dawn/Riley
Dawn/Spike friendship  Dawn/Spike  Dawn/Tara  Dawn/Wesley  Dawn/Willow

Anywhere But Here
by Sarah T
Dawn, Ethan (Giles/Ethan)
Drama; after The Gift
The summer after her sister dies, Ethan shows up to take Dawn on an adventure. One of my favourite stories.

Arousal
by Maidenjedi
Character Study; Chosen
Despite the name, not Dawn-smut (dammit). The spell has an unexpected effect.

Best Friends 4-Ever
by Green
Character Study; Blood Ties

Sweet, sad look at ten-year-old Dawn, her insecurities and her best friends. The twist was something I didn't expect and yet so right. Loved this.

Daylight
by Branwyn
Character Study; AU

'Some people are just born quirky. It’s probably genetic: a theory she considers validated by the fact that her brother shares a lot of her weirder traits.' I don't think I've ever read this idea before. I love it.

The Hardest Thing in This World
by Aurora
Character Study; post The Gift

Dawn is left alone in the empty Summers house twenty-seven hours after Buffy's leap from the tower, as everyone's perception begins to break down. Sad and beautiful.

Jigsaw
by Perri Smith
Character Study; S7
Excellent ficlet about why Dawn suddenly became Watcher Jnr.

Kitten
by Tha Wrecka
Dawn/Glory
Darkfic; Weight of the World.

'She was glorious and you wanted her.' Eep. Just eep.

Not Real
by Tha Wrecka
Character Study; Vignette

Tiny snapshots of Dawn's history. Very short - I liked it a lot.

Puppy Love
by Flywoman
Dawn/m
Darkfic
The pairing and the time period necessarily have to remain a mystery to fully appreciate this creepy little diary entry.

Rainbows and Smoke
by Amberina
Dawn/Kit
Romance; S7

Dawn and Kit smoke pot in Kit's bedroom. I thought it was adorable, but then I have a thing for Dawn-slash. Warning for underage non-explicit sex and, uh, extremely accurate portrayal of pot-induced high. I've heard.

The Self-Same Lore
by Cynthia Liskow
Character Study; S6

This follows Dawn from All the Way through to Grave, and portrays her as a confused, messed-up, sometimes bitchy girl. A normal sixteen-year-old, in other words. Along the way she fools around with one boy and loses her virginity to another. The sex is handled really well - despite the rating, I wish I could have read this in my late teens.

Singing Back-Up
by The Walking Happy Meal
Character Study; Once More With Feeling

Dawn never did get to finish that solo. A look at her reasons for stealing, her feelings about her origins and her thoughts on the people around her.

To the Waters and the Wild
by SeraC
Horror; Futurefic
Dawn picks up a strange girl in Ireland. I love the melding of the Buffyverse with folklore.

A Twist of the Key
by Wigglesworth
S6/7

:cough: It's about Dawn. Err, getting spanked. Look, I don't give you grief about your fictional kinks...

Umad
by The Walking Happy Meal
Character Study; Tabula Rasa

Things to make you go "oooh…" This is a little Dawn-centric piece set during the final musical montage in TR as she thinks about her identity, her memories and the consequences of her creation. This brought up a very interesting idea that I don't want to spoil, but which made me think about some things in the series very differently.

Umad Learns Sumerian
by Annakovsy
Character Study; post-Grave
So how did Dawn learn Sumerian so fast? This has her studying it in the summer between seasons 6 and 7, and some of the lines are just so telling about how Dawn feels about herself and the others. Plus I'm a massive geek so I dug all the (authentic) Sumerian How-Tos.

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