With the show finale of Angel the Series, it looks like the Buffyverse is coming to a close. While I have told people, “there is always fanfiction”, it looks like that well is drying up too. The usenet group, alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer.creative, at one time my chief source for quality BTVS fanfiction, has fewer and fewer new fics being posted on it.
Then Ryan Kinkor, author of the Harsh Legacy and Black & White series, has announced that he will not be continuing the series:
I totally understand Ryan’s reasons for choosing to discontinue his series. This post is just to thank him for writing the series in the first place.
Ryan wrote 27 stories in all for Harsh Legacy and its sequel series, Black & White. His original character, Marcus Valmont, fit into the Buffyverse smoothly and unlike many original characters in fanfiction, enhanced the storyline rather than stealing it. Ryan’s characterizations of the various Buffyverse characters seemed to keep their essence, while still allowing room for growth. I particularly like what he did with Dawn and Xander. Dawn got to do the maturing the real show seemed to deny her, while Xander was never the “buttmonkey” in Ryan’s stories.
The plotlines and arcs of the series were also excellent. Nothing seemed forced, they were always interesting, and required no more suspension of disbelief (much less in cases) than the TV show.
All of this, while using proper English, grammar and spelling!
In some ways, I am more sorry to see the Black & White series end than I am to see Angel end. I never felt as much affinity for the characters on Angel as I did for the ones on BTVS, and Ryan’s stories primarily focused on the BTVS characters.
All of the Harsh Legacy and Black & White stories may be found at fanfiction.net,
http://www.fanfiction.net/profile.php?userid=102069 or in the E-book section on this site.
Ryan – Once again, thanks for the stories 🙂 and sorry to see you go :(.
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