Fic/Drabble Challenge - Buffy episode titles

[emony]

You know those nights where you wake up half-way through a brilliant idea? I had one of those a few days ago. I mentioned said idea to Anna, who thought it sounded quite fun, so here it is. I propose a Buffy Episode Title Drabble Challenge. It's not really a challenge so much as something that might hopefully inspire a few people. I woke up, for example, absolutely sure that I was on the brink of writing a brilliant and awe-inspiring drabble/fic based around some combination of Amy, Katrina, Tucker and Warren, called "The Yoko Factor". Some of the ep titles are .. well, I think you'd have a had time drabbling or ficing to them, but y'all are a very talented bunch so I hope to see some interesting stuff *g*



Taken from tvtome.com.

17-Sep-1992 Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Pilot
P-1 4V79 UNAIRED Unaired Pilot

Season 1 WB
1. 1-1. Welcome to the Hellmouth (1)
2. 1-2. The Harvest (2)
3. 1-3. The Witch
4. 1-4. Teacher's Pet
5. 1-5. Never Kill a Boy on the First Date
6. 1-6. The Pack
7. 1-7. Angel
8. 1-8. I Robot, You Jane
9. 1-9. The Puppet Show
10. 1-10. Nightmares
11. 1-11. Out of Mind, Out of Sight
12. 1-12. Prophecy Girl

Season 2
13. 2-1. When She Was Bad
14. 2-2. Some Assembly Required
15. 2-3. School Hard
16. 2-4. Inca Mummy Girl
17. 2-5. Reptile Boy
18. 2-6. Halloween
19. 2-7. Lie to Me
20. 2-8. The Dark Age
21. 2-9. What's My Line? (1)
22. 2-10. What's My Line? (2)
23. 2-11. Ted
24. 2-12. Bad Eggs
25. 2-13. Surprise (1)
26. 2-14. Innocence (2)
27. 2-15. Phases
28. 2-16. Bewitched, Bothered And Bewildered
29. 2-17. Passion
30. 2-18. Killed by Death
31. 2-19. I Only Have Eyes For You
32. 2-20. Go Fish
33. 2-21. Becoming (1)
34. 2-22. Becoming (2)

Season 3
35. 3-1. Anne
36. 3-2. Dead Man's Party
37. 3-3. Faith, Hope and Trick
38. 3-4. Beauty and the Beasts
39. 3-5. Homecoming
40. 3-6. Band Candy
41. 3-7. Revelations
42. 3-8. Lover's Walk
43. 3-9. The Wish
44. 3-10. Amends
45. 3-11. Gingerbread
46. 3-12. Helpless
47. 3-13. The Zeppo
48. 3-14. Bad Girls
49. 3-15. Consequences
50. 3-16. Doppelgangland
51. 3-17. Enemies
52. 3-18. Earshot
53. 3-19. Choices
54. 3-20. The Prom
55. 3-21. Graduation Day (1)
56. 3-22. Graduation Day (2)

Season 4
57. 4-1. The Freshman
58. 4-2. Living Conditions
59. 4-3. The Harsh Light of Day
60. 4-4. Fear, Itself
61. 4-5. Beer Bad
62. 4-6. Wild At Heart
63. 4-7. The Initiative
64. 4-8. Pangs
65. 4-9. Something Blue
66. 4-10. Hush
67. 4-11. Doomed
68. 4-12. A New Man
69. 4-13. The I In Team
70. 4-14. Goodbye Iowa
71. 4-15. This Year's Girl (1)
72. 4-16. Who Are You? (2)
73. 4-17. Superstar
74. 4-18. Where the Wild Things Are
75. 4-19. New Moon Rising
76. 4-20. The Yoko Factor (1)
77. 4-21. Primeval (2)
78. 4-22. Restless

Season 5
79. 5-1. Buffy vs. Dracula
80. 5-2. Real Me
81. 5-3. The Replacement
82. 5-4. Out of My Mind
83. 5-5. No Place Like Home
84. 5-6. Family
85. 5-7. Fool for Love
86. 5-8. Shadow
87. 5-9. Listening to Fear
88. 5-10. Into the Woods
89. 5-11. Triangle
90. 5-12. Checkpoint
91. 5-13. Blood Ties
92. 5-14. Crush
93. 5-15. I Was Made to Love You
94. 5-16. The Body
95. 5-17. Forever
96. 5-18. Intervention
97. 5-19. Tough Love
98. 5-20. Spiral
99. 5-21. The Weight of the World
100. 5-22. The Gift

Season 6 UPN
101. 6-1. Bargaining (1)
102. 6-2. Bargaining (2)
103. 6-3. After Life
104. 6-4. Flooded
105. 6-5. Life Serial
106. 6-6. All The Way
107. 6-7. Once More, With Feeling
108. 6-8. Tabula Rasa
109. 6-9. Smashed
110. 6-10. Wrecked
111. 6-11. Gone
112. 6-12. Doublemeat Palace
113. 6-13. Dead Things
114. 6-14. Older and Far Away
115. 6-15. As You Were
116. 6-16. Hell's Bells
117. 6-17. Normal Again
118. 6-18. Entropy
119. 6-19. Seeing Red
120. 6-20. Villains
121. 6-21. Two to Go (1)
122. 6-22. Grave (2)

Season 7
123. 7-1. Lessons
124. 7-2. Beneath You
125. 7-3. Same Time, Same Place
126. 7-4. Help
127. 7-5. Selfless
128. 7-6. Him
129. 7-7. Conversations with Dead People
130. 7-8. Sleeper
131. 7-9. Never Leave Me
132. 7-10. Bring On The Night
133. 7-11. Showtime
134. 7-12. Potential
135. 7-13. The Killer In Me
136. 7-14. First Date
137. 7-15. Get It Done
138. 7-16. Storyteller
139. 7-17. Lies My Parents Told Me
140. 7-18. Dirty Girls
141. 7-19. Empty Places
142. 7-20. Touched
143. 7-21. End of Days
144. 7-22. Chosen


Feel free to post them here, or to post links to them here. Feel free to write in whatever fandom you feel inspired to write in. Feel free to write for a title even if someone else has already written for it. The more the merrier and all that. I hope some people write stuff for this. I think it might be cool :)

Also, on a CSI note, because there had to be one *G*, there need to be (more) "Catherine's investigation doesn't prove Nick innocent in time, and Nick gets sacked from CSI" AUs. Just because I watched that ep today, and .. well, there should be.

And - Happy New Year :) <3

Comments

1 Welcome to the Hellmouth (100 words)

[niennah.livejournal.com]

Parents. One semester left in high school and they had to choose now to break up. Warren kicked the dust in the quad for the tenth time, wishing his father had never existed except for that single important moment. California sun glared brazenly against the stone.

Then the kid walked by, awkward and too tall for his age, his hair a shock of blond. Warren saw his t-shirt first, Trek symbol on the left, and then his face: bright, wide eyes, naiveté radiating out of every clear pore.

Warren watched him pass. Welcome to Sunnydale, he thought with a smile.

56 Graduation Day (100 words)

[niennah.livejournal.com]

Warren and Tucker missed the fight.

Neither would claim responsibility, yet both ended up with gowns shucked up to their necks and mortar boards flung aside in the locker room, far from the explosion and, as Jonathan said later, the giant snake. Neither of them cared that they had missed out on Sunnydale High’s most bonding experience since the class of ’63 were immolated in an unexplained vortex in the gym on prom night. Neither cared for lifestyle choices or rights or rainbows.

Both said later that it was the best sex ever, so they tried it again. And again.

Re: 1 Welcome to the Hellmouth (100 words)

[emony.livejournal.com]

Heheh, I do like that *g* So fitting too, as an introduction to the evil pull off the Hellmouth that seems to benign at first but ends up with that whole crime, murder, deadness thing. Mmm yes. <3

Re: 56 Graduation Day (100 words)

[emony.livejournal.com]

<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3

Best. Image. Evah!

Re: 1 Welcome to the Hellmouth (100 words)

[niennah.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Your reading is very deep. I just liked the image of Warren checking out Andrew's ass as he walked by, heh heh. ;)*g*

Re: 56 Graduation Day (100 words)

[niennah.livejournal.com]

I know! I had to write it! <3 your drabble challenge. *g*

First Date (100 words)

[maryavatar.livejournal.com]

Their first date wasn't so much a 'date' as it was... sex. Andrew had been giving Warren those lingering looks, and Warren thought 'Why not?' It wasn't like it was all that different really, in the dark. Not that he had much to compare it to: one girl, one robot, and Andrew.

It kept Andrew in line, even if he didn't seem to enjoy it much. Sometimes Warren thought it might be a good idea to Google for gay sex tips and try again, but usually he dismissed it as a waste of time. Defeating the Slayer was his priority.

Re: First Date (100 words)

[niennah.livejournal.com]

I love that! Googling gay sex tips... that's classic. You've got a great deadpan delivery in this that is just excellent. *g*

70 Goodbye Iowa (100 words)

[niennah.livejournal.com]

The road stretched out flat like a tapering line to the horizon, heat rolling off it in sulphurous waves under the burning summer sun. Tucker pushed up his sunglasses and rested his hands on the wheel, confident that the next bend in the road was somewhere miles ahead or behind, beyond the place where the sky met the never-ending corn. He felt as if he existed where the rear view mirror met the world.

“He’s behind us!” said Amy, panic in her voice as she looked back.

Tucker sighed. “Goodbye, Iowa,” he said wearily, pushing the pedal to the floor.

24. Bad Eggs (100 words)

[bitterbyrden.livejournal.com]

"Are not."

"Am too. Your hellhounds didn’t even make it past Buffy," Andrew’s voice, still a shade too close to a whine, gathered strength through the phone.

"Hello?" Andrew asked, looking at the display to see if he was still connected to his brother.

Tucker sighed, replying, "And your flying monkeys were what? Trained to irritate the drama club? They were fucking stupid. Mine were trained to kill. So, I win. I’m the bad egg."

"Yeah, but I’ve got plans. Big ones. I'm part of a syndicate, and—"

"'Syndicate'? Ooh, you’re bad now," Tucker snapped. "But I still win."

Re: 56 Graduation Day (100 words)

[emony.livejournal.com]

I <3 it too :D

Re: First Date (100 words)

[emony.livejournal.com]

Aw, poor .. everyone. That's so Warren. <3

Re: 70 Goodbye Iowa (100 words)

[emony.livejournal.com]

Those poor kids, they're always driving somewhere, and they're usually driving away from someone! They need to settle down and have some babies or something, yo ;D <3

Re: 24. Bad Eggs (100 words)

[emony.livejournal.com]

Ahah, that's so cute :D

Re: First Date (100 words)

[maryavatar.livejournal.com]

Thanks :) For some reason writing drabbles is a lot easier when you're using the LJ comment box. I think I'm scared of Word.

Re: First Date (100 words)

[maryavatar.livejournal.com]

Heh, thank you. I only like Warren/Andrew when it's tragically doomed ;)

19. Lie to Me (100 words)

[roissy0.livejournal.com]

They lay tangled amidst the clothes and sheets. The only thing that had mattered was their need to touch each other, taste each other. Andrew knew this was all they were, all they ever would be. To Warren he was just a cheap knockoff for what couldn’t be replaced. He also knew he would do anything for this man. It was the growing emptiness inside him that made him ask, “Do you love me?” Warren never moved as he watched the ceiling fan whirl slowly around. Andrew reached over and lightly stroked his face and said, “Just lie to me.”

46. Helpless (100 words)

[roissy0.livejournal.com]

This wasn’t how it was supposed to be.

I’d finally given in to the furtive glances and uncomfortable silences. Thinking what the Hell, I’m horny, he’s willing and we have time to kill. I didn’t plan on this becoming a regular thing… until he said those words. “I’ll do anything.” That made me hard just thinking of the possibilities. Since then Andrew had taken everything I gave him and was grateful for it.

Now, He’s on his knees in front of me, his arms harnessed behind him and all I can think is, he’s so fucking hot when He’s helpless.

Re: 70 Goodbye Iowa (100 words)

[niennah.livejournal.com]

I know, I know. But the title just cried out for more Road Trip!Verse, lol.

Some day they'll have babies, when I get a minute to write away from hordes of relatives (though tonight they bestowed presents, yay!).

Re: 19. Lie to Me (100 words)

[emony.livejournal.com]

That works so well. I love the description and the hinting at more and it really fits the title. Thanks :)

Re: 46. Helpless (100 words)

[emony.livejournal.com]

Again, that's so fitting. Mm yes. *eg*

74. Where the Wild Things Are

[lm.livejournal.com]

It was only natural that the survivors would band together; most of of the people the Initiative took would never walk free again. Somehow we found each other, responding to a call we couldn't quite understand, across a continent, until we were all in one place on a harbor's edge.

"I found a place for us," Ethan Rayne said, " where they'll never trap us again." And those of us who had nowhere to go back to followed him, gratefully.

The island is home, now, and we've found some kind of balance. Plus, there's no end to the Swiss Family Robinson jokes.

Ethan's seen that movie.

Ethan's seen a lot of things.

He's dangerous, but so am I. I can almost control the wolf, but sometimes it forces its way out. He chains me up and stays with me, nearer than anyone else would dare.

There's something about him that keeps me from hurting him.

Sometimes I still dream that they've found us, the soldiers. I dream I'm alone and naked in a cell again.

But then I wake up, and he's there.

"Right as Rayne," he'll say, when he wakes up suddenly, shaking, and I ask him how he is.

Sometimes it's hard to get by here. Rough. It's hard for most of us to just stay sane. But we'll make it. It'll be all right. We're the survivors.

77. Primeval

[blackgarden.livejournal.com]

The shadows of those ancient girls touched everything Buffy did.

Gifted with power, she was, with a side effect of emotional retardation. Buffy had found herself unable to foster relationships with others; when involved in interpersonal confrontations, she’d pout, she’d yell, she’d stomp off and slam her door. Willow distanced herself. She saw Dawn forming the sort of complex bonds with people that she herself had tried and tried to create.

The personality traits had been there, all along – Buffy’s stubbornness, her petulance, her neediness – but unlike normal young women, she never outgrew it. Twenty-three years old, and inside, deep, she still felt the volatile fury of the teenaged girls that had Slayed before her. Thousands of years of bloodlust and self-righteous anger were written into her Slayer DNA.

It colored her worldview red.

It left her isolated, with only ghosts of the dead girls in her blood for company.

Re: 77. Primeval

[niennah.livejournal.com]

That is so clever on many levels - as a criticism of Buffy, as a criticism of how she is written, and also as a sympathetic piece. It's very impressive.

I wish you would write more!

Re: 74. Where the Wild Things Are

[niennah.livejournal.com]

This is a great idea based on this title. The Oz voice is creepy yet familiar. Ethan's vulnerability is excellently written - not overstated, but there. I love it. :)