#vampire xander

Her sire stands in front of her; a petite vampire in black with long red hair and an eager smirk. “Hopefully she’ll make a better vampire than a human, not that it’s saying much.”

“She’s not bad looking.” Her sire’s companion strokes a finger along Cordelia’s chin.

Xander and Anya (Buffy, The Vampire Slayer).

Wallpaper quote: “I  just don’t know if that means anything for us anymore.  You still love me.”

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@gallifrey1sburning requested a drabble of Draco and Pansy if they were vampire Xander and Willow so I wrote this in like 5 seconds, someone else finish it if you want idk what happens next

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Pansy won’t stop starving to undeath. “I can’t just drink from any old commoner, Draco,” she starts again. “It’s beneath me!”

Draco doesn’t notice.

He’s just spotted Potter standing under a street lamp with tousled hair and a leather jacket, and he doesn’t even hear Pansy’s head thunk against the pavement behind him over the string of “ohshitohfuckohshit” running through his brain.

Potter catches his eye, light glinting off the rim of his glasses, pops a cigarette between his lips as he crosses the street.

“Malfoy,” he nods.

Draco’s mouth is very dry.

“I see you finally finished Parkinson.”

“Wha—?” He twists to look behind him, spots the pasty lump of Pansy blending in with the gray sidewalk. “Oh, hell.”

Draco reaches into his coat and pulls out a blood pouch, spears a straw through the side of it.

“I don’t think she’s going to be able to use that, mate.” Potter’s eyes crinkle in amusement.

“I’m not your mate, mate.” Draco rolls his eyes as he slices open the bag, wrings out the contents carelessly over Pansy’s face.

Serves you right, you picky twat, he thinks as she stirs and sputters against the blood dripping into her mouth. She sits up and wipes a hand roughly across her chin.

“Draco, I swear if you fuck up my makeup reviving me one more time—“

“Then stop bloody fainting and feed already, you daft bint!”

“Then find me someone worth feeding from!”

Potter coughs around his cigarette. Pansy’s eyes dart to him, a predatory smile creeping over her blood-splattered mouth.

So, like most fans of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, I’ve got pretty mixed feelings about Xander Harris for the bulk of his appearance on the show, even if he does wind up a lot better by the end. His good moments are very good, though, so I like to run with those as the basis for my show headcanons because, dammit, he could have been such an excellent character if they’d consistently kept him up to the standard of those good moments he has.

Anyways, I could probably write a freaking thesis about Xander and how much better his character could have been employed by the writers, but I’ll save that for another time XD

The whole point of this pic was to draw up a headcanon of mine for post season 7 Xander where he gets turned into a vampire, but after all the shit he's been through with Buffy and the scoobies he's like... hella competent at being a vampire and avoiding detection/living off the slayer radar XD He's not properly evil because after helping literally fight the source of all evil, one measly little demon in his head is fairly easy to ignore. Not having a soul kills off all of his self doubt, anxiety, and fear, though, so it definitely leaves him... changed. Xander keeps up the fight against evil partially out of deeply ingrained habit, but mostly because, soulless or not, he definitely doesn’t want some jackass bringing about the apocalypse after all the work he’s put in since he was a literal kid.

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If in the Wishverse Buffy never moved in Sunnydale, it means that everything between Welcome to the Hellmouth and The Wish didn’t occur as it actually did. Buffy and Joyce move to Cleveland, Willow and Xander are turned into vampires, and Giles, while still in Sunnydale (apparently awaiting Buffy), is miserable and possibly estranged from the Council (Angel clearly meets a similar fate awaiting Buffy).