"Come As You're Not" Party - help please!

[unfeathered]

OK, following umpteen mentions of karaokegal's "Come As You're Not" Party, I have finally found a very vague something to sign up to write!

Everything I have posted so far has been a)in the Doctor Who fandom (aka the Jack Harkness fandom) and b) written from a bloke's POV. In fact, if you look closely, I hardly ever even mention any girls. (The only instances that come to mind are Giles angsting about Buffy in Connection and the Ninth Doctor grumbling about Rose in Stupid.)

So I'm going to do something in the Buffy/Angel fandom, and I'm going to write it from the POV of one of the female characters.

However, that's still a rather vague premise with the whole twelve seasons of Buffy and Angel to choose from. So I need some help, please.

Who should be my POV character?

Female characters I can think of are (and I've probably missed some):

Buffy
Willow
Cordelia
Anya
Dawn
Tara
Fred

Votes welcome, even if you have no idea who they are! *g*

Comments

[travels-in-time.livejournal.com]

There's a girl named Fred?

...Are you sure this isn't the Doctor Who fandom?

[unfeathered]

LOL It's short for Winifred :-)

[travels-in-time.livejournal.com]

OK. Well, I'm voting for Dawn, because I like her name.

[unfeathered]

*nods*

It is a very pretty name. (Pretty girl too.)

And not a bad choice. Most people don't like Dawn, but I do.

(And so you know who you've voted for: she's Buffy's younger sister, who's not really her sister but an ancient 'Key' to a demon dimension. She does a lot of whining in Season 6, but she's cool in S7.)

[karaokegal.livejournal.com]

I know almost nothing about the fandom, but am THRILLED that you're coming. I guess I'd vote for Willow because I think that actress was once on House MD.

[unfeathered]

I guess I'd vote for Willow because I think that actress was once on House MD.

Not according to IMDB, though that's not infallible. jadesfire would probably know, as she knows both shows!

[karaokegal.livejournal.com]

My bad. I know one of the Buffy girls was the PoTW in "Safe," but I'm not sure which one.

[unfeathered]

OK, looked it up (good old IMDB!) and, ironically, that was Dawn (Michelle Trachtenberg), whom travels_in_time voted for! *g*

Do you want to change your vote?

[karaokegal.livejournal.com]

Vote changes to Dawn. (Annoying patient she was, too.)

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

I always vote for Willow, because she is made of awesome. She also has the best character arc, ever, bar none. And she gets all the best lines and the fun stuff. I'm still actually very fond of the 'Malcolm' episode, which was her first focus-episode and very funny. I've never properly written her POV, mostly because I'm not sure I can tell where she ends and I begin...

[unfeathered]

I knew Willow would get votes.

I suppose it might be good to make me write Willow. I really went off her in the later seasons - make that late S3 onwards, basically as soon as she started being witchy, though that's not the reason. (Actually, I suspect a large part of my problem with her, and Buffy, and Spike, is that they got good storylines while poor old Xander and Giles fell by the wayside.)

So I could either write early Willow, which I like, or later Willow and try and get my head round her. Could be an interesting challenge...

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

oooh, Tara from Btvs or Fred from Angel (or whatever her name was when she morphed into their weird god creature, she beat up Spike a bunch, that was cool)

[unfeathered]

LOL, I did have a very tiny plot bunny once for Illyria actually keeping Spike as her pet as she wants to - but no. Not for this. *g*

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

oh, Illyria, that's right. Okay, not for this.. just sometime? Spike as a pet... sometime soon?

[unfeathered]

Probably not soon, but maybe sometime... :-)

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

I can wait.. I'm all kinds of patience.... (no laughing now)

[morgynleri]

I'd actually vote Faith, but you don't have her on the list, so if I have to choose one of 'em on there... Anya. Because she amuses me.

[unfeathered]

See? I knew I'd forget someone.

But tbh I don't think I could write Faith's POV. From someone else's POV, yes. But I just don't get her (and I don't have time for loads of rewatching to rememdy that).

Anya, on the other hand, I love.