Lurker Central

We're watching "Once More With Feeling" and guys, there's fic out there that has Castiel and Anya meeting, right? Fallen!Cas and the former vengeance demon bonding over the indignities of being stuck as human? Cas and Anya sharing war stories about dealing with their respective humans? Cas dropping in on the Magic Shoppe (literally!) during his time travel adventures in "The Song Remains The Same" and Anya explaining, "Yep, that's an angel. So, what was the big ~emergency~?"

It doesn't have to ship fic! Just fic where they're both being their awesome, not-humans surrounded by troublesome humans selves!

This does exist, right? Right?

( spoilers for Lost )

Switching gears, there's a discussion going on at fanficrants about the logistics of crossing over Buffy the Vampire Slayer with Harry Potter, specifically the differences in the magic systems (watch me misremember canon!). I don't think the two systems are irreconcilable; it's much easier if you use Tara or Jenny as your baseline witch instead of Willow, especially since Willow is a freakish prodigy even by BtVS standards. I like to play it as different ways of channeling the same energy; Int vs Cha casting in a way. BtVS mages (especially Willow) can blow most HP wizards out of the water by sheer power, but the HP kids seem to be able to do more with their magic. Most Hogwarts students have Transfiguration pretty much down by the time they take their O-Levels, but Willow does it exactly twice (and of those times was by accident). The only other character I can remember doing anything like that is Ethan, and he clearly has a prestige class.:) I'm not sure I wouldn't stat Chaos Mage as some kind of freaky Buffy-verse cleric, honestly.

Anyway, while I was think all of that over I started thinking about the way the two sources treat vampires, and whether that's not a bigger sticking point than the magic when something occurred to me. In BtVS, vampires are essentially corpses animated by a demon imprinted with the deceased's memories. The vamp may act like the person, but the actual soul of the person is long gone. In HP a Dementor's Kiss destroys the soul but leaves the person otherwise intact, so far as we've seen. Now what would happen if a BtVS-vampire bit someone who'd been Kissed? The demon would still take up residence and get imprinted, right? So in theory, vamping, say Barty Crouch Jr would almost bring him back to life, wouldn't it?

It would be a fun post-POA AU to have Sirius actually fall victim to the Kiss and later get vamped. Now what happens?:)

And since I'm apparently in a fannish sort of mood, a meme! (not that people respond to my memes.:) Oh well, you never know, and I've always liked this one): Give me a character from any of my fandoms, and I'll give you three facts from my personal "fanon" for that character.