Broken
Title: Broken
Author: girlpire
Rating: I'm calling it NC17.
Pairing: Fred/Angelus
Disclaimer: This story is based on the "Angel" series, with which I am not affiliated in any way. Joss Whedon is my master, etc.
Distribution: Please no. kthnxbye. :)
Summary: Fred deals with the consequences of her decision to release Angelus from his cage.
Warnings: Well, it's kind of dark. There's some hitting and other sorts of abuse. I mean, it's Angelus, right?
Author's Notes: This WIP takes place during season four of "Angel" and season seven of "Buffy." Here are all of the parts so far:
banner by the lovely frimfram
Breakable (A short ficlet which can stand alone. Broken is the sequel to Breakable.)
Broken, Part One: Sick Little Girl
Broken, Part Two: Just Water
Broken, Part Three: External Tools
Broken, Part Four: The Mind and the Body
Broken, Part Five: Reason
Broken, Part Six: Schroedinger's Hostage, or the Duality of Light
Broken, Part Seven: Demonic Possessions
Broken, Part Eight: Orbs of Day
Broken Interlude: Not the Same
Status: This story is currently on hiatus. *sigh*
fabulous art by the awesome mods of banner_grab
i will be updating this post as i add new parts of the story. enjoy!
Review from the Forbidden Awards: --Why did I choose Broken? Because it shouldn't have worked. The pairing of Angelus and Fred should strike the reader as obscene, but girlpire has gorgeously crafted a piece which is simultaneously an AU and a study of characters often neglected. Her Angelus is absolutely evil, but girlpire has imbued him with traits (confusion, impatience, nebulous feeling) which render him almost human, instead of the caricature he becomes in most fanfiction and, frankly, in canon as well. Fred is too often treated as an afterthought, or is not adequately explored as a character in her own right. This Fred is broken, but not destroyed; she has desires which she neither understands nor can voice, but is still able to acknowledge. Broken is a masterful story of an obscure pairing which is more authentic and heartfelt than many canonical couplings.
Review from the Forbidden Awards: Broken by girlpire is what happens when a brilliant author takes an unconventional coupling to its extreme and effortlessly manages to enthrall the audience into welcoming and rooting for the wrongness. Fred is the most realized she has ever been - in either canon or fanfiction. Angelus is as multilayered as fans always believed him to be, but whose character was too often ignored for the purpose of the easy evil. Simply. The. Best.
Author: girlpire
Rating: I'm calling it NC17.
Pairing: Fred/Angelus
Disclaimer: This story is based on the "Angel" series, with which I am not affiliated in any way. Joss Whedon is my master, etc.
Distribution: Please no. kthnxbye. :)
Summary: Fred deals with the consequences of her decision to release Angelus from his cage.
Warnings: Well, it's kind of dark. There's some hitting and other sorts of abuse. I mean, it's Angelus, right?
Author's Notes: This WIP takes place during season four of "Angel" and season seven of "Buffy." Here are all of the parts so far:
banner by the lovely frimfram
Breakable (A short ficlet which can stand alone. Broken is the sequel to Breakable.)
Broken, Part One: Sick Little Girl
Broken, Part Two: Just Water
Broken, Part Three: External Tools
Broken, Part Four: The Mind and the Body
Broken, Part Five: Reason
Broken, Part Six: Schroedinger's Hostage, or the Duality of Light
Broken, Part Seven: Demonic Possessions
Broken, Part Eight: Orbs of Day
Broken Interlude: Not the Same
Status: This story is currently on hiatus. *sigh*
fabulous art by the awesome mods of banner_grab
i will be updating this post as i add new parts of the story. enjoy!
Review from the Forbidden Awards: --Why did I choose Broken? Because it shouldn't have worked. The pairing of Angelus and Fred should strike the reader as obscene, but girlpire has gorgeously crafted a piece which is simultaneously an AU and a study of characters often neglected. Her Angelus is absolutely evil, but girlpire has imbued him with traits (confusion, impatience, nebulous feeling) which render him almost human, instead of the caricature he becomes in most fanfiction and, frankly, in canon as well. Fred is too often treated as an afterthought, or is not adequately explored as a character in her own right. This Fred is broken, but not destroyed; she has desires which she neither understands nor can voice, but is still able to acknowledge. Broken is a masterful story of an obscure pairing which is more authentic and heartfelt than many canonical couplings.
Review from the Forbidden Awards: Broken by girlpire is what happens when a brilliant author takes an unconventional coupling to its extreme and effortlessly manages to enthrall the audience into welcoming and rooting for the wrongness. Fred is the most realized she has ever been - in either canon or fanfiction. Angelus is as multilayered as fans always believed him to be, but whose character was too often ignored for the purpose of the easy evil. Simply. The. Best.