my consistent post-series headcanon

[deird1]

My post-series Buffyverse tends to be full on contradiction. If you look at my fic, you'll find all sorts of couples, Buffy dying before Faith, Faith dying before Buffy, Giles dying before everyone... It's all a bit of a weird mess. (And I like it that way.)

There are a few things, however, that I definitely think happen. They always happen, no matter what else my fic does – and I get irrationally irritated every time someone else's fanfic contradicts them.

Here's my headcanon:

- They all end up where Andrew says they are in Damage, for at least that year. (Buffy and Dawn in Italy, Giles in England, Willow and Kennedy in South America, Xander in Africa)

- Only one person (don't care who) survives the battle at the end of AtS.

- Buffy and Faith are joint Head Slayers. They are also besties (or a couple).

- Willow and Kennedy never break up. Kennedy never stops feeling like Willow's heart still belongs to Tara.

- At least once, Kennedy and Buffy got extremely drunk together and had a massive session of complaining about relationships, exes, and romance in general.

- Dawn goes to university in Boston, and studies languages and ancient texts.

- Dawn and Andrew are best friends.



Minor things, but important in my head. I'd be interested to know what the rest of you have as your headcanon absolutes.

Comments

[out_there]

I don't have any incredibly strict post-canon absolutes, other than Buffy and Dawn were in Italy (but that's AtS canon so I kind of feel like that should be taken as show canon still).

For a show that I was so invested in, I'm very relaxed about what might have happened afterwards.

[beer_good_foamy]

I made a post about my tentative post-canon 'verses a bunch of years ago that I'm tempted to revisit (if nothing else because the links don't work anymore). Since then, I think I may have added the Willow In England 'verse where Willow goes on her entirely own thing at some point post-NFA.

But yeah, especially as canon disappears in the distance and people stop trying to remember the *spit* comics, it's useful to have some ideas to lean on. Not to mention liberating.

[elisi]

- Only one person (don't care who) survives the battle at the end of AtS.
I've had this open in a tab for like, an hour, and this does still not compute...

But then most of my headcanon uses Not Fade Away as its starting point, and features Spike and Angel in some way. Often Illyria too.

How things play out after that tends to depend on who I feel needs Spike more - Buffy or Angel. (If I HAD to choose, it'd be Angel.) Although Buffy/Spike/Angel also features a lot.

Overall it's a Schrödinger's headcanon, with several timelines existing simultaneously.