Artistic Anniversary Banner Submissions
The Artistic Anniversary event is now closed :(. If there are banners listed here that have not been claimed, you may contact the artist to see if they are still available for use in non-challenge stories.

Banner 1 by Sunalso
 This banner has been claimed by sosa lola!
Characters: Xander, Buffy, Spike
Rating: Any
Season/Episode: S4 or later
Must have:
1. Xander play a prominent role in the story.
Can have:
1. Xander/Anya
Can’t have:
1. Willow or Xander bashing.
Banner 2 by Sunalso
Characters: Buffy, Spike (well, Joan and Randy), Anya, Giles
Rating: R or higher
Season/Episode: S6, Tabula Rasa
Must have:
1. Fluff/Comedy
2. The spell going on a lot longer than in canon.
3. Ganya
Can have:
1. Tara/Willow figuring things out.
2. The spell not breaking.
3. Riley and/or Angel showing up.
Can’t have:
1. A ton of angst.
2. Super whiney Dawn.
Banner 3 by javajunkie247
Characters: Buffy & Spike, author can add anyone else
Rating: Any/All
Season/Episode: Any/All/AU
Must have:
1. Time travel/Fix it.
2. Mature Buffy who knows who she wants, and exactly how to get him.
3. Spike's demon is the source of the slayers power, which causes him to regain his soul after sleeping with Buffy.
Can have:
1. Brief hookup with the immortal, who then grants Buffy the power to go back and prevent her death/rise of the first.
2. Drusilla earns her shanshu and sanity by helping Buffy.
3. Glitter Bombs
Can’t have:
1. No rape
2. No baby fic
3. No whiny/needy Buffy
Banner 4 by javajunkie247
 This banner has been claimed by Sigyn!
Characters: Buffy & Spike. (Authors choice to add anyone else.)
Rating: Any/All
Season/Episode: Any/All/AU
Must have:
1. Vamp!Buffy with a soul.
2. Crossover (Author's choice)
3. Buffy no longer a doormat to the Scoobies.
Can have:
1. Time travel
2. Lorne
Can’t have:
1. No rape
2. No baby fic
3. No whiny/needy Buffy
Banner 5 by javajunkie247
 This banner has been claimed by Stealthofdays!
Characters: Buffy, Spike & Anya (author
Rating: Any/All
Season/Episode: Any/All/AU
Must have:
1. Sick of the Scoobies ignoring her fabulous ability to be brutality honest, Anya makes a wish to Halfrek (Hallie) so now anyone within the boundaries of Sunnydale cannot lie..
Can have:
1. Angel confessing that demons, specifically Spike can love just as deeply as humans.
2. Buffy admitting she will never be happy with normal.
3. Spike kicking back and enjoying the consequences.
Can’t have:
1. No rape
2. No baby fic
3. No whiny/needy Buffy
Banner 6 by SoaringClaws
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Characters: Any
Rating: Any
Season/Episode: Post Something Blue
Must have:
1. A surprise newspaper announcement.
Can have:
1. Spike being the one who put it in for whatever scheming reason.
Can’t have:
1. Character bashing, please!
Banner 7 by SoaringClaws
 This banner has been claimed by myrabeth!
Characters: Any
Rating: Any
Season/Episode: Probably post-series? Doesn't really matter.
Can’t have:
1. Character bashing! For reals.
Banner 8 by angelic_amy
 This banner has been claimed by slaymesoftly!
Characters: Buffy and Spike obviously, the Scoobies, Drusilla.
Rating: PG-13 and above
Season/Episode: Season 2 - Becoming Part II
Must have:
1. Spike removing Drusilla from the Mansion, but then deciding to go back and help Buffy in her fight against Angelus.
2. Willow's spell to re-ensoul Angel fails. It's Angelus that gets sucked into the hell dimension.
3. Buffy and Spike forming an uneasy friendship (since he helped her save the world and all) and then a relationship developing from there.
Can have:
1. Xander being a jerk to Spike, but coming around eventually.
2. Willow suggesting to Buffy that she tries the soul spell on him, and Buffy rejecting the idea.
Can’t have:
1. Angel bashing.
2. Spike/Drusilla reconciliation.
3. Buffy leaving Sunnyvale for L.A. Either Spike, or one of the Scoobies should bust her trying to escape.
Banner 9 by pfeifferpack
Season/Episode: Post series reunion.
Must have:
1. First time reunion after Spike dies in Chosen and NFA.
2. All the 'good guys' recognize Spike as a hero.
3. Buffy angry with Angel, and maybe Giles, for keeping Spike's return a secret.
Can have:
1. Angel's crew surviving NFA, including Wesley.
2. Dragon and Phoenix (Yin/Yang) reference.
3. Buffy understanding Spike staying in L.A.
Can’t have:
1. Buffy angry that Spike didn't call or come to her.
2. No human Spike, if anyone Shanshu's it must be Angel.
Banner 10 by pfeifferpack
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Season/Episode: Season 2
Must have:
1. Angelus kills Joyce and Willow as well as Jenny.
2. Dru throws Spike out for her daddy, Spike has had enough.
3. Buffy and Spike working together to bring down Angelus.
Can have:
1. Spike physically harmed by Dru and Angelus.
2. Spuffy romance builds slowly through story.
3. Giles and Xander not trusting Spike.
Can’t have:
1. Angelus turning either Joyce or Willow, death must be permanent.
2. Angelus getting his soul back leading to being forgiven.
3. Acathla or the Judge.
Banner 11 by pfeifferpack
Season/Episode: Season 3 - Band Candy
Must have:
1. Spike, Ripper, Faith and Joyce bond during Band Candy.
2. Fluffy comedy or farce.
3. Joyce and Ripper sexcapades.
Can have:
1. Buffy jealous of Faith and Spike flirting.
2. Angel being a hinderance not help (like wrong place or wrong time).
3. Ripper and Spike on a vandalism spree.
Can’t have:
1. No Faith and Spike sex.
2. Angst...drama okay, but no angst.
3. Ethan death.
Banner 12 by pfeifferpack
 This banner has been claimed by waddiwasiwitch!
Season/Episode: Season 4 - Beer Bad
Must have:
1. Cave Buffy meets Spike during Beer Bad.
2. Buffy makes moves on shocked Spike.
3. Spuffy sex...hot and primal.
Can have:
1. Scoobies searching for Buffy but not finding her.
2. Spike tossing Harmony out.
3. Spike avenging Buffy with Parker (not killing him though).
Can’t have:
1. Buffy being a bitch to Spike in the morning.
2. Buffy caving in to Scoobies about Spike.
3. Buffy forgetting how
Banner 13 by pfeifferpack
 This banner has been claimed by zabjade!
Season/Episode: No set season.
Must have:
1. Buffy and Spike chase a demon through a portal while she is patrolling.
2. Scoobies delayed with search and rescue.
3. Spuffy love begins in the other dimension.
Can have:
1. One of them injured, leading to closeness.
2. If in season 5, Riley being jealous.
3. Dawn key ability used to open portal for search if Season 5 or later.
Can’t have:
1. Buffy turning her back on Spike when they return out of fear of the Scoobies reactions.
Banner 14 by pfeifferpack
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Season/Episode: Season 6 - Entropy
Must have:
1. Buffy gets to the Magic Box too late and Xander stakes Spike as she arrives.
2. Buffy making a wish to Anyanka to undo it in some way.
3. Buffy realizing she loves Spike before making the wish.
Can have:
1. Time travel to any season you choose to make it right (or just to the beginning of the episode if you wish).
2. Alternate Universe if you prefer.
3. Other Scoobies present when Buffy makes the wish.
Can’t have:
1. If wishverse is chosen cannot have the wish taken back.
Banner 15 by pfeifferpack
Season/Episode: Season 6 - Dead Things
Must have:
1. Willow overhears Buffy's comment
2. Willow thinks chip is not working, or has been removed, and calls Riley on the sly for help.
3. Riley arrives to 'take care of the problem'.
Can have:
1. Buffy not finding out about what Willow has done until bad things happen (your choice on what that is).
2. Buffy searching for Spike in the alley and fearing he's been dusted.
3. Tara discovering what Willow has done.
Can’t have:
1. No dusting Spike, but anything else goes.
Banner 16 by RESPICE FINEM
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Characters: Buffy, Spike, ensemble
Rating: Any
Season/Episode: Alternate Reality
Must have:
1. Grunge/punk kilt-wearing Spike in at least one scene.
2. Buffy as an 'uptown girl'.
3. One saving the other (see if you can try for Buffy saving Spike) from a dangerous situation.
Can have:
1. Set in a different decade (banner image is set around late 70' to early 80's, but modern is fine too).
2. Xander is old friends with Spike (not Buffy and Willow at first).
3. Set in another city than Sunnydale.
Can’t have:
1. Any of their Ex's showing up 'on screen' (mentioned is okay).
2. Actual rape (please no).
3. Character death.
Banner 17 by RESPICE FINEM
Characters: Buffy, Spike, ensemble
Rating: Any
Season/Episode: Alternate Reality
Must have:
1. Cowboy/girl theme (actual old west if comfortable).
2. At least one scene involving a lasso.
3. A chase scene by horseback and or/wagon.
Can have:
1. Spike or Buffy is a guide for the other to get somewhere.
2. The horse ends up at one point being the hero to Spike/Buffy.
3. If Spike's a vampire, then he has had the Gem of Amarra for years.
Can’t have:
1. Character death.
2. Actual rape (lease no).
Banner 18 by RESPICE FINEM
Characters: Buffy, Spike, ensemble
Rating: Any
Season/Episode: Post series, alternate reality
Must have:
1. Backstage drama/comedy (banner is from EuroVision 2016).
2. Enermies and/or allies as competing groups.
3. Harmony is the host (or co-host is fine0.
Can have:
1. Everything that can go wrong, will go wrong during the show/performance.
2. Anya places a bet on herself/group and wins because she plans for everything.
3. The judges are the Powers That Be.
Can’t have:
1. Actual rape (please no).
2. Copy past of entire songs (specific lines are okay).
3. Character bashing.
Banner 19 by angelic_amy
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Characters: Buffy, Spike, (author's choice on the others)
Rating: R and above
Season/Episode: All Human
Must have:
1. Buffy has just finished college (degree type optional) and has broken up with her longtime boyfriend (anyone except for Angel). She decides to get a fresh start, so instead of moving home she follows her college roommate back to her hometown and they get a place together.
2. First night in a new town, finished unpacking the essentials, the girls decide to go to a bar, where the bartender (Spike) flirts up a storm with her all night.
3. Immediate attraction, which Buffy doesn't trust, so Spike has to convince her to go out with him.
Can have:
1. Spike just filling in for the night, not a full time bartender.
2. College boyfriend following Buffy a few weeks later to try and win her back (unsuccessfully of course).
3. Buffy's family making a visit and Spike making a not so good impression with them.
Can’t have:
1. Instant romance. Spike needs to work for it. :)
2. Cheating.
Banner 20 by angelic_amy
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Characters: Buffy, Spike, ensemble
Rating: R and above
Season/Episode: All Human/Alternate Reality
Must have:
1. Spike being significantly older than Buffy; at least 8 years.
2. Buffy meets Spike in an unusual way. For e.g: he stops to help her with a flat tyre, she finds his wallet and gives it to him, etc. Instant chemistry and they very quickly fall into bed together.
3. Spike realises the morning after that Buffy is much younger and tries to 'do the right thing' by staying away. But Buffy is relentless, they're good together and she's determined to have her man.
Can have:
1. Angst.
2. Both Buffy and Spike's family/friendship circles unhappy with the age difference.
Can’t have:
1. Cheating. A date with another character is fine, but it shouldn't go further than a goodnight kiss.
2. Character bashing.
Banner 21 by javajunkie247
Characters: Buffy, Spike, Angel, Dru, Lorne and Xander (Author
Rating: Any/all
Season/Episode: Any/All/AU
Must have:
1. Spike and Buffy claiming.
2. Xander singing and Lorne discovering he is his soulmate
Can have:
1. Angel and Spike working together.
2. Angel and Dru claiming each other, which returns her sanity enough to give him hell for the rest of eternity.
Banner 22 by -Carrie-Ann-
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Characters: Spike, Buffy
Rating: NC-17 or Adult Only
Must have:
1. Hot monkey love.
2. Spike and Buffy sharing details of their own first sexual encounter (By sexual encounter this could be anything from a kiss and a bit of groping or more)
3. Banter and annoying one other.
Can have:
1. Comedy and fluff.
2. Fighting.
3. Any season of your choice involved/AU.
Can’t have:
1. Any other characters (unless mentioned in a flashback or dream sequence).
2. Angelus/ Angel, Darla or Dru cannot be involved in the tale of Spike or Buffy’s first sexual encounter.
3. Buffy running away from Spike.
Banner 23 by Spuffy93
Must have:
1. Riley after giving Buffy and ultimatum has to stay, but not because Buffy reached him. (Maybe he had an incident and couldn't leave in time, so he had to stay in Sunnydale).
2. The Scoobies find about what Riley did in the bite house.
3. Spike, Joyce and Dawn cocoa date (XD)
Can have:
1. Joyce alive.
2. Riley suggesting to kill the key.
3. Buffy trying to rekindle her relationship with Riley.
Can’t have:
1. Riley and Buffy sex. You can put them together but their relationship can't be sexual.
2. Spike or Dawn death.
3. Sexual Buffybot.
Banner 24 by pfeifferpack
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Characters: Buffy, Spike, Dru, Ethan Rayne, Angel (any others you choose)
Rating: Any
Season/Episode: All Human
Must have:
1. Downton Abbey type TV series starring Buffy Summers, Drusilla Rayne, William Pratt and Angel O’Connor and produced by Ethan Rayne (Dru’s husband).
2. Buffy and Angel “America’s sweetheart couple” (he has an “all American good guy” image)but he’s secretly having an torrid affair with Dru.
3. William (has “bad boy” image though it’s a façade) loves Buffy, fears she’ll have her heart broken.
Can have:
1. Scandal breaks as affair is discovered, series in jeopardy of cancellation.
2. Ethan with volatile temper seeking revenge.
3. Buffy turning to William when she finds out about affair.
Can’t have:
1. Too much Buffy and Angel love/sex in detail cause…ewwww.
2. Crazy Dru although a drug problem is acceptable.
3. Anything supernatural.
Banner 25 by DauntlessGrace
 This banner has been claimed by Apfeltorte!
Characters: Buffy, Spike, Giles, Xander, Willow
Rating: Any
Season/Episode: Season 1 - Alternate Reality
Must have:
1. In this verse, Sunnydale is a different town as a result of the nightmare world and the chaos it left behind. It's much darker there now, and Buffy killed the Master during the Harvest. But a new evil has set up shop in Sunnydale.
2. Spike is a soulless vampire, but is also an agent for the Powers That Be. They have given him an assignment, and that's to work with the slayer to defeat this new evil. He's not sure how to feel about that, considering his history with slayers.
3. How Spike came to fight on the side of good.
Can have:
1. Angel.
2. Cordelia.
3. The story going into Season 2.
Can’t have:
1. Character bashing.
2. Spike with Drusilla.
Banner 26 by jhiz
Characters: Buffy, Spike, William, An Evil Spike (time not specified), any other as appropriate.
Rating: PG or above
Season/Episode: Any
Must have:
1. Multiple renditions of Spike/William.
2. Physical altercations between Buffy and at least one of the Spike renditions
3. A pink flower delivery van.
Can have:
1. A spell gone wrong.
2. Multiple Buffys.
3. Someone getting food poisoning.
Can’t have:
1. Ethan Rayne responsible for the extra Spikes.
2. Willow responsible for the extra Spikes.
3. A juggling mime.
Banner 27 by Wonder and Ashes
Characters: Buffy, Spike, Angel (and others)
Rating: Any
Season/Episode: Season 4
Must have:
1. Buffy is so over Angel.
2. Happy Spuffy.
3. Angel finally moving on from Buffy.
Can have:
1. Supportive Scoobies.
2. Angel/Cordelia.
3. Soulful Spike.
Can’t have:
1. Riley.
2. The Initiative.
3. Evil Angel.
Banner 28 by Wonder and Ashes
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Characters: Buffy, Spike, Dawn (and others)
Rating: Any
Season/Episode: Season 6
Must have:
1. Family dynamic between Buffy, Spike and Dawn.
2. Eventual happy Spuffy.
3. Confident Buffy.
Can have:
1. Scoobies comeuppance.
2. Tara as part of the Summers family dynamic.
3. Riley getting kicked out of town in
Can’t have:
1. Nerd Trio.
2. First Evil.
3. Depressed, self-destructive Buffy.
Banner 29 by Wonder and Ashes
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Characters: Buffy, Spike, Dawn (and others)
Rating: Any
Season/Episode: Late seasons
Must have:
1. Family dynamic between Buffy, Spike and Dawn.
2. Fluff.
3. Happy Spuffy.
Can have:
1. Older, more mature Dawn.
2. AU setting.
3. Shanshued Spike.
Can’t have:
1. Angst.
2. Character bashing.
3. Major deaths.
Banner 30 by Wonder and Ashes
Characters: Buffy, Spike, Dawn (and others)
Rating: Any
Season/Episode: Season 5
Must have:
1. Buffy making a positive realization about Spike.
2. Buffy, Spike and Dawn bonding.
3. Happy Spuffy.
Can have:
1. Joyce surviving.
2. Scoobies understanding.
3. Riley's painful death.
Can’t have:
1. Episode
2. Buffy dying.
3. Whiny Dawn.
Banner 31 by Wonder and Ashes
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Characters: Buffy, Spike, Dawn (and others)
Rating: Any
Season/Episode: Season 6
Must have:
1. Spike and Dawn bonding.
2. Scoobie comeuppance.
3. Happy Spuffy.
Can have:
1. Soulful Spike.
2. Awesome Tara.
3. Dark Willow.
Can’t have:
1. Buffy and Spike's destructive relationship.
2. Nerd Trio.
3. First Evil.
Banner 32 by Wonder and Ashes
Characters: Buffy, Spike, Dawn (and others)
Rating: Any
Season/Episode: Season 5
Must have:
1. Mama Buffy and Papa Spike.
2. Scoobie teamwork.
3. Happy Spuffy.
Can have:
1. Mature Dawn.
2. Riley's painful death.
3. Joyce surviving.
Can’t have:
1. Buffy dying.
2. Spike dying.
3. Dawn dying.
Banner 33 by Puddinhead
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Season/Episode: This would happen during season 5 or 6, your pick and would deal with Spike
Must have:
1. Principal Snyder (ghost or zombie) as a carnival barker.
2. A Pokemon GO player who has gone off the rails.
3. Must follow the Choose Your Own Adventure format, with different choices leading to different outcomes (at least three).
Can have:
1. Any of the other Scoobies you want. Bonus points for using the Nerd Trio.
2. Sexy fun with caramel apples and cotton candy.
3. Working into the carnival all of the 'Big Bads
Can’t have:
1. Giles ever cleaning his glasses, no matter how badly he may need to. Bonus points for making this a running gag.
2. Xander saying anything.
3. Circus animals held in crappy conditions like they are in real life cause that shit bums me out.
Banner 34 by Puddinhead
Can have:
1. So, this could be titled anything you would like. No Direction. Direction Downward. And it can be about anything you want. Spike is stuck being the band manager as an alternative hell dimension. Dawnie goes backstage at a 1D show and wackiness ensues. Or... these four guys represent strength, spirit, heart and head as in
Banner 35 by teragramm
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Characters: Buffy, Spike author can add anyone else
Rating: PG13 or R
Season/Episode: Season 6
Must have:
1. An alternative Season 6 with much less angst.
Can have:
1. A glimpse of Spike's life after Buffy's death.
Can’t have:
1. The
Banner 36 by Puddinhead
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Season/Episode: AU - This one should deal with those house flipping shows. I
Must have:
1. They should remain naked for most of the story.
2. Creative use of carpenter's glue and/or a pressure washer.
3. Spike should steal something from the crew.
Can’t have:
1. I got nothin' here. Knock yourself out.
Banner 37 by Wonder and Ashes
Characters: Buffy, Spike (and others)
Rating: Any
Season/Episode: Season 3
Must have:
1. Adorable feral Spike acting adorable.
2. Happy Spuffy.
3. Buffy getting over Angel.
Can have:
1. Buffy's eighteenth birthday.
2. Accidental kidnapping.
3. Freaked out Scoobies.
Can’t have:
1. Claim.
2. Bangel.
3. Vampire Buffy.
Banner 38 by Wonder and Ashes
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Characters: Buffy, Spike (and others)
Rating: Any
Season/Episode: Any early season
Must have:
1. Feral Spike.
2. Snarky Buffy.
3. Happy Spuffy ending.
Can have:
1. Humour.
2. Hell dimensions.
3. Drusilla.
Can’t have:
1. Vampire Buffy.
2. Claim.
3. Bangel.
Banner 39 by Wonder and Ashes
Characters: Buffy, Spike (and others)
Rating: Any
Season/Episode: Any
Must have:
1. Happy Spuffy.
2. Fluff.
3. Humour.
Can have:
1. Scoobies.
2. Soulful Spike.
3. AU-ish setting.
Can’t have:
1. Angst.
2. Unhappiness.
3. Ex-boyfriends/girlfriends.
Banner 40 by Wonder and Ashes
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Characters: Buffy, Spike (and others)
Rating: Any
Season/Episode: Season 3 / Season 4
Must have:
1. Buffy getting kidnapped.
2. Spike coming to her rescue.
3. Happy Spuffy.
Can have:
1. Snark and banter.
2. Road trip craziness.
3. Evil Council / the Initiative.
Can’t have:
1. Scoobie bashing.
2. Bangel.
3. Biley.
Banner 41 by Wonder and Ashes
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Characters: Buffy, Spike/William, Angel/Liam (and others)
Rating: Any
Season/Episode: Season 3
Must have:
1. Spike and Angel turning in William and Liam.
2. Buffy realising what an ass Angel used to be as Liam.
3. Happy Spuffy.
Can have:
1. Spike accepting his William side.
2. William
3. Band Candy.
Can’t have:
1. Bangel.
2. Xander bashing.
3. Mean Buffy.
Banner 42 by Wonder and Ashes
Characters: Buffy, Spike (and others)
Rating: Any
Season/Episode: Pre-series (eventually leading into the series)
Must have:
1. Slow-build to Spuffy.
2. Witty banter.
3. Mentor Spike.
Can have:
1. Soulful Spike.
2. Lothos.
3. Merrick.
Can’t have:
1. Angel.
2. Underage sex.
3. Buffy in the looney bin.
Banner 43 by RESPICE FINEM
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Characters: Spike, Robert Dowling, Buffy, ensemble
Rating: PG13+ very likely
Season/Episode: Season 10+
Must have:
1. Robert Dowling of the SFPD Supernatural Task Force asking for Spike's special investigative assistance (Spike requests for Buffy as backup).
2. Mystery object was used on crime scene, but is missing.
3. Investigative work.
Can have:
1. Buffy & Spike accidentally flirting in the Police Department offices (They're supposed to be professional).
2. Buffy jealously sees policewomen flirting with Spike at the offices.
3. Spike, Buffy, and Detective Dowling learn almost too late that the culprit is more dangerous than they thought.
Can’t have:
1. Character Death.
Banner 44 by teragramm
Characters: Buffy, Spike and any others author would care to add
Rating: PG13, R
Season/Episode: No season, all human AU
Must have:
1. Takes place in Washington DC.
2. Romance.
Can have:
1. A political backdrop.
2. Buffy and Spike working in the same office or in rival offices.
Can’t have:
1. Political preaching, story is not to be used to promote authors view point.
Banner 45 by Sunalso
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Characters: Any
Rating: Any
Season/Episode: Buffy, Spike, plus any others the author wants
Can have:
1. No specifics- it's whatever the author wants!
Banner 46 by SoaringClaws
Characters: Buffy, Spike, Riley, Angel, any additional ensemble
Rating: Any
Must have:
1. Comedy! Because that's the point of an obnoxious Rom-Com banner.
Can have:
1. I based the banner on this fun Tumblr idea: http://marilynmay.tumblr.com/post/134399228068/theargentcode-deactivated-btvs-au-rom-com
2. Do with that what you will.
Can’t have:
1. Character bashing (which would be easy to fall into with this prompt and I think would make it significantly less fun).
Banner 47 by Wonder and Ashes
Characters: Buffy, Spike, Dawn (and others)
Rating: Any
Season/Episode: Season 5
Must have:
1. Buffy, Spike and Dawn on the run.
2. Exotic locations.
3. Happy Spuffy.
Can have:
1. Scoobies in on the plan.
2. Angel searching for Buffy.
3. Riley searching for Buffy.
Can’t have:
1. Buffy dying.
2. Spike dying.
3. Dawn dying.
Banner 48 by Wonder and Ashes
Characters: Buffy, Spike (and others)
Rating: Any
Season/Episode: Season 3
Must have:
1. Buffy moving on from Angel.
2. Helpful Spike
3. Happy Spuffy
Can have:
1. Soulful Spike.
2. Understanding Scoobies
3. Faith
Can’t have:
1. Angel
2. Bashing
3. Mean Buffy.
Banner 49 by Wonder and Ashes
Characters: Buffy, Spike (and others)
Rating: Any
Season/Episode: Season 4
Must have:
1. Happy Spuffy
2. Shades of grey
3. Angel comeuppance in
Can have:
1. Chipped Spike
2. Someone beating up Riley.
3. Faith's redemption
Can’t have:
1. Adam
2. Biley
3. Bangel
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Characters: Buffy, Spike, Willow (and others)
Rating: Any
Season/Episode: Season 4 - Something Blue
Must have:
1. Happy Spuffy
2. Humour
3. Fluff
Can have:
1. Angel freak out
2. Riley freak out
3. Hot sexy times
Can’t have:
1. Everlasting spell
2. Biley
3. Buffy swimming in denial.
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Characters: Buffy, Spike, Dawn, Joyce, any others as desired
Rating: Any
Season/Episode: Season 5/Starts very end of Buffy Vs. Dracula
Must have:
1. Dawn is part of a demon species that practices brood parasitism with their young until maturity when their magical talents develop.
2. Dawn is placed with the Slayer because she is royalty and her demon family is at war with another demon faction that killed her last substitute family.
3. Memories of the parasitic demon in human disguise is passed like an infection any time a person meets Dawn or someone else who is infected already.
Can have:
1. Memory spell only effecting living beings so vampires are immune.
2. Riley killed by the rival demon faction.
3. The spell does not change the physical world just mental perception of it (ie the pictures don
Can’t have:
1. Glory as a hell-god of any type.
2. Keyness of any type.
3. Dawn having any special powers to protect herself.
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Characters: Buffy, Dawn, Spike, Ensemble
Rating: Any
Season/Episode: Season 5, Checkpoint or later
Must have:
1. A scene like that in the foreground of the banner: Buffy presents an idea for dealing with Glory that shocks and divides the Scoobies.
2. Conflict and divisions in the team that have a noticeable impact on how the Glory problem plays out.
Can have:
1. Individual Scoobies
2. An ending that does not include a full Scooby reconciliation.
Can’t have:
1. Buffy caving to Scooby pressure to give up her plan.
2. Dawn's death (at least that much of Buffy's plan should succeed).
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Characters: Buffy, Spike (and others)
Rating: Any
Season/Episode: Season 4
Must have:
1. Buffy and Spike teaming up.
2. Happy Spuffy
3. Snark and witty banter
Can have:
1. The Initiative
2. Riley's painful death.
3. Hot sexy times
Can’t have:
1. Chipped Spike
2. Soulful Spike
3. Biley
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Characters: Buffy, Spike (and others)
Rating: Any
Season/Episode: Season 2
Must have:
1. Buffy travelling back in time (mentally)
2. Humour
3. Happy Spuffy
Can have:
1. Spike and Angel freak outs
2. Things going extremely AU
3. Scoobie freak outs
Can’t have:
1. Bangel
2. Too much Spike/Drusilla
3. Buffy being sent back to her own time.
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Characters: Buffy, Spike (and others)
Rating: Any
Season/Episode: Season 1
Must have:
1. Spike going back in time (mentally).
2. Happy Spuffy.
3. Fun Buffy.
Can have:
1. Soulful Spike.
2. Spike staking Angel.
3. Things going extremely AU.
Can’t have:
1. Bangel.
2. Underage sex.
3. Spike getting sent back to his own time.
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Characters: All Scoobies, Angel
Rating: Any
Season/Episode: Season 5 / Season 6
Must have:
1. United Scoobies standing against Angel
2. Happy Spuffy
3. Angel comeuppance
Can have:
1. Wolfram & Hart
2. Spike and Xander friendship
3. Angel/Cordelia
Can’t have:
1. Evil Angel
2. Bangel
3. Biley
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Characters: Buffy, Spike (and others)
Rating: Any
Season/Episode: Season 3 -The Wish
Must have:
1. Buffy somehow surviving
2. Buffy and Spike on the run
3. Somewhat happy Spuffy
Can have:
1. Dawn
2. Evil Watchers Council
3. The Initiative
Can’t have:
1. Vampire Buffy
2. Buffy dying
3. Buffy and/or Spike travelling to the original 'verse.
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Characters: Buffy, Spike, Dawn, Xander, Willow
Rating: Any
Season/Episode: Season 2 - Reptile Boy, Alternate Reality
Must have:
1. Spike somehow ending up at the frat party.
2. Xander and Willow watching a young Dawn while Buffy is away at the party.
3. Spike being far from happy about it, but coming to Buffy's rescue.
Can have:
1. Your own take on any episodes that follow this one.
2. Dawn taking a liking to Spike.
3. A slow building Spuffy romance.
Can’t have:
1. Character bashing.
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Characters: Buffy, Spike, Lorne, Scoobs
Rating: Any appropriate to story
Season/Episode: Season One (additional seasons up to writer). Note - the text included is Not Title but thoughts of the characters.
Must have:
1. Lorne representative for TPTB
2. Spike dying and given second chance to live by becoming the Chosen Vampire Warrior to help Buffy
3. Angelus and Darla are the primary villains against Buffy and Spike
Can have:
1. Alternative events and villains from the series
2. Future love relationship between Buffy and Spike shown to them by Lorne
3. Romantic relationship between Joyce and Giles or Giles and Jenny
Can’t have:
1. Sex between Buffy and Spike in this time period
2. Ensouled Angel returned to take control of Angelus
3. Extreme antagonistic relationship between Giles and Spike - healthy reservations OK.
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Characters: Buffy, Spike, Tara, Anya, Scoobs
Rating: Any appropriate to story
Season/Episode: Season four or five or both Time Travel. Note - the text included is Not Title but thoughts of the characters.
Must have:
1. Tara and Anya become great friends with Buffy and get a lot more respect
2. Tara is a lot more powerful witch, Anya's knowledge and experiences used to greater advantage
3. Spike helps Tara and Anya have a lot more belief in their own abilities and self worth.
Can have:
1. Dawn discovers and can use her Key powers
2. Giles helps mentor Dawn
3. Giles and Anya develop an outstanding working relationship and romantic relationship
Can’t have:
1. Xander bashing
2. Super antagonistic relationship between Giles and Spike - healthy reservations between them OK.
3. Willow taking precedence over Tara as the super strong witch but there can be a Dark Willow
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Characters: Buffy, Spike
Rating: Up to R
Season/Episode: Early Season 6
Must have:
1. A simple premise for a simple banner: Get Buffy and Spike to actually TALK to each other soon after her resurrection. A few conversations could snowball into incredible changes.
Can have:
1. Other minor alterations to canon that could snowball into something bigger, for better or worse.
Can’t have:
1. Our two favorite walking trainwrecks jumping into bed early in the relationship. The point is for their season six relationship to NOT be centered on sex.
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Rating: Any rating
Season/Episode: Any season but 4 makes the most sense. This fic almost writes itself! Buffy is stuck playing The Dating Game. Why? You're the writer, oh creative one. You tell me!
Must have:
1. The contestants have to be Riley, Parker and Spike
2. A sexy food question
3. Buffy has a wardrobe malfunction
Can have:
1. Spike should punch someone. In the audience? Or the dude that runs the show? Or Parker? I dunno!
2. Willow coaching from the sidelines.
3. A natural disaster occurring during the show.
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Characters: Buffy/Spike & Cast, Sookie Stackhouse/Eric Northmam & Cast
Rating: Any/All
Season/Episode: Season 6/AU/Crossover
Must have:
1. Buffy wakes up in Bon Temps, trapped in a telepathic waitress's body. Meanwhile, Sookie Stackhouse learns how stressful/liberating a resurrected slayer's job can be in Sunnydale.Both deal with each others lives while learning to appreciate their own.
2. Spuffy of course.
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Characters: Buffy, Spike, Scoobies
Rating: Author's choice
Season/Episode: Alternate Universe, non canon
Must have:
1. Buffy as celebrity
2. Spike recognizes her as someone he knew once upon a time
3. Previous unfinished business between them
Can have:
1. Anya as Buffy’s agent
2. Angel or Riley as Buffy’s love interest or ex
3. Screwball situations
Can’t have:
1. Violence
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Characters: Season 7
Rating: Author's choice
Season/Episode: Buffy, Spike, ensemble
Must have:
1. Spike went to get his soul and ended up split into unchipped vamp Spike and souled chipped Spike (non vamp)
2. Souled Spike has to decide to stake or keep vamp Spike
3. Buffy has to decide if she should stake or keep vamp Spike to use in battle against the First
Can have:
1. Love/Romance
2. Buffy hiding truth from Scoobies
3. Spike hiding his
Can’t have:
1. Anyone other than Spike or Buffy staking vamp Spike
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Characters: Spike is the main character but you can put whoever you want in the story
Rating: All ratings are accepted
Season/Episode: Start in season 6 but goes back to season 4 (and even 5 if you want)
Must have:
1. Spike before
2. Spike and Joyce bonding
3. (If you go as far as season 5) Spike killing Ben after Dawn come into existence.
Can have:
1. Spike faking being chipped so to get Buffy trust
2. One of the Scoobies finding out about Spike being a time travel and helping him after he explain some things about the future.
3. Gem of Amara still in Spike possession
Can’t have:
1. Soulful or chipped Spike
2. Buffy/Other sex scenes
3. Easy acceptance of Spike. He must work for it, it can be too easy, I mean they still think him the big bad.
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Characters: Spuffy & Cast
Rating: Any/All
Season/Episode: AU/Crossover
Must have:
1. Xander never made it on time to revive Buffy. Spike died in Prague along with Dru. The Master has just started his blood production line. Enter AU Spuffy to save the day and help the Scoobies defeat future baddies
2. Buffy rescuing a teenage Tara from her abusive family, keeping Willow from becoming a control freak.
3. Xander stays with Cordy, Giles & Joyce fall in love. Angel gets his soul anchored & moves to L.A. Taking Faith & Miss. Calendar with him.
Can have:
1. Spuffy & gang eventually take over the Council & shut down the Initiative.
2. AU Anya getting her vengeance on by popping in to help Spuffy because they are BFF
Can’t have:
1. No Glory, please. Being a hell god that Buffy defeated in her original timeline, she wouldn
2. No Dawn either. (sorry)
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Season/Episode: Takes place in Season 7. Guidance Counsellor Buffy is sent to Forks, Washington to talk some sense into Bella, a very mopey girl, who has next level skills at lip-biting and bumping into things. Bella has developed a crush on a vampire and it
Must have:
1. An explanation about that stupid sparkling thing. Have fun with it!
2. Spike getting Edward drunk.
3. Spuffy sexiness.
Can have:
1. Edward getting the crap staked out of him. If you want. Anyone you wish can wield the stake.
2. Joss doing a cameo and beating the crap out of Stephanie Meyers.
3. Oz having a heart-to-heart with that werewolf guy. Jacob, I think?
Can’t have:
1. There are no can't haves in this one. :) You're enduring Twilight so ... just Go, Team, Go!
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Characters: Spuffy & Company
Rating: Any/All
Season/Episode: Any/All
Must have:
1. Inspired by the song 'Time after Time' by Cyndi Lauper
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Rating: Any rating
Season/Episode: Any season
Must have:
1. No, it's not that evil 'Twilight.' But it could be if you wanted. Your challenge is to recreate an episode of Buffy as if it were an episode of 'The Twilight Zone.'
Can have:
1. Will everyone but Buffy have pig faces? Will Giles find himself watching a monster disassemble the airplane wing on his way back to England? Or will Spike wake up to find that he suddenly sparkles and a certain mopey new girl in town won't leave him alone? Only YOU can tell us!
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Characters: Buffy, Spike, Oracles - others by choice of author
Rating: Any appropriate to story
Season/Episode: Season - Six and OMWF episode - additional by choice of author
Must have:
1. Buffy transported by Oracles during OMWF
2. Buffy given information about future and told she must reclaim her powers to live and be strong as Slayer and Woman
3. Spike shown as a vital source of strength and partner
Can have:
1. Buffy telling Giles that Spike will be vital to their future and fighting with them
2. Buffy and Oracles discussing Angel/Angelus
3. Buffy making the decision to set different parameters for her relationship with Scoobs
Can’t have:
1. Angel returns to Sunnydale
2. Angel Bashing
3. Buffy under the extreme depression for extended time as in the series - a gradual recovery OK
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Characters: Buffy, Spike - others by choice of author
Rating: Any appropriate to story
Season/Episode: Season - Six - others by choice of author
Must have:
1. Buffy Spike mature discussion of her history with Angel/Angelus goes from normal argumentative to mature
2. Spike goes through honest examination of their relationship and why he needs to be in this relationship
3. Spike makes the choice to leave and returns - he can have new friendships but not a new lover
Can have:
1. Riley returns and Buffy uses him as her relationship crutch
2. Riley stills goes to vamp bite house - for same reason other other
3. Buffy and Tara discuss her relationship with Spike and Riley
Can’t have:
1. Riley character bashing
2. Spike finds new lover - he needs to learn how to live without a dependence on a lover
3. Spike going to Angel and LA
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Characters: Season 4 ensemble
Rating: Any
Season/Episode: Season 4 / Something Blue (meets Season 6's Tabula Rasa!)
Must have:
1. As in the original, Willow is distraught over Oz leaving and decides to attempt a spell. However, this time rather than trying to will her pain away, our favorite kooky witch just wants to forget. She does her witchy mojo. She thinks it hasn't worked.
2. The next morning the Scoobies are all gathered at Giles' apartment, in order to perform the truth spell on Spike. Buffy is hauling Spike's ass from the tub when Willow's memory spell takes hold, buckling their knees and leaving them in a heap on the floor.
3. Now you grab the fic and go nuts!
Can have:
1. General hilarious sheenanigans and mix-ups. Who's dating who? Who's the daddy? What are they all doing in this strange, musty apartment anyway?
2. Randy and Joan <3
Can’t have:
1. A quick, easy fix. Let's make a bit of a mess, first.
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Characters: Season 4 ensemble, Oz
Rating: Any
Season/Episode: Season 4, after Oz has left Willow, before Spike has escaped the Initiative (bit of a timeline juggle, necessary for the plot)
Must have:
1. Oz is captured by the Initiative after breaking things off with Willow. The Scoobies are none the wiser, thinking that he has left town as intended.
2. Inside, the very human-seeming Oz is a cause of uncertainty for many of the soldier boys, and is thus kept in his wolfish state to allay their unease. However, he shifts back into human form when pitted against a familiar snarky vamp - who then refuses to fight him (because he doesn't fancy the headache, not because he's principled). A decidedly ruffled Walsh dumps the pair in a cell together, hoping that one will solve the problem of the other before too long.
3. Instead, Spike and Oz bond (as they always should have done!) and plot the bloody downfall of their captors.
Can have:
1. Spike and Oz bonding over music, wit and pop culture.
2. Spike escaping (with Oz's help) and seeking the help of Buffy and the Scoobies, rather than high-tailing it out of town as they might have expected / or Oz escaping (with Spike's help) and convincing the Scoobies that they need to charge the Initiative and rescue his friend
3. Riley? Friend or foe? I'll leave that up to you.
Can’t have:
1. Oz dying. Nope. Not here.
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Season/Episode: 5 or 6 makes the most sense.
Must have:
1. Weaponized blooming onions.
2. Spike and Buffy in a drinking contest.
3. A vampire barista.
Can have:
1. According to the rules, you can name this whatever you want. It might make more sense if you call it
2. A food fight at The Bronze.
Can’t have:
1. I have a hard time with can't haves. Seems like I'm limiting you needlessly. On the other hand, as a writer, I find that sometimes these kind of rules can get your creative juices flowing - like the time Joss limited himself to not using dialogue and he created
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Characters: Buffy, Spike, Tara, Willow
Rating: Any
Season/Episode: Season 6, Based on this prompt by hcconn: http://hcconn.tumblr.com/post/147694794074/ (with hcconn's permission)
Must have:
1. Willow's
2. Spuffy engagement still happening.
3. Willow wishing to life more confident or darker/bad girl version of Tara.
Can have:
1. Willow's wills for Giles and Xander different than in
Can’t have:
1. Character or ship bashing.
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Characters: Buffy, Spike, Riley, Giles, Willow, Xander, Tara and Anya
Rating: Any
Season/Episode: Season 4
Must have:
1. Dragon
Can have:
1. Angel crossover
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Characters: Buffy/Spike & Cast
Rating: Any/All
Season/Episode: Any/All
Must have:
1. It's a post apocalyptic zombie nation where Buffy & gang have learned to never leave home without a vampire because everyone knows the living dead is the only thing that can repel the brain dead.
2. Spike becomes a hero.