Slayers/Fanfic Recs
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These are recommendations made by Tropers for Slayers fanfics, all of which have to be signed to stay on the page. Feel free to add a fanfic of your own to the list, but remember to use the template found here.
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Authors and Websites
Anything by Davner
- Recommended by Will Z
- Comments: One of the more interesting ones is Slayers Faces, about an interesting look at an unlikely duo. It wasn't meant to be a ship to upset the fans - it was more an experiment on HOW different pairings could or couldn't work. It goes on for a sequel or two and keeps it entertaining throughout.
General Fics
Stories focused on the family and the friendly relationships of the cast. Plot-focused stories or light day-in-the-life stories. Pretty much anything that isn't focused on romance.
Slayers Reflect, Chaos, and Rebirth trilogy by Twoflower
- Recommended by Unknown Troper, Kilyle
- Synopsis:
- Comments: The Slayers Reflect, Chaos, and Rebirth trilogy is amazingly good. It's by Twoflower, the same person who did Sailor Nothing, which might give you some idea of the quality. The characterization is perfect, and the plot starts out simple but quickly becomes more complex.
- Kilyle: The fics I recommended in other areas are good but in many ways not as good as they could be. This Slayers series is quality writing with a tremendously effective plot. Also, I highly enjoyed the role played by Xelloss.
- Comartemis: Original Flavor at its very best. This one's an absolute must-read for all Slayers fans everywhere.
- Ano Sa: I have to agree, but add a caveat: this predates Sailor Nothing significantly, and Twoflower's writing style is still developing. It's quite good, but it's also very much an early work by an author who has a consistent tendency to improve.
- wescotta: I actually like this one even better than Sailor Nothing, which is saying something. There isn't as much technical trickery going on, and the writing is certainly more primitive than Sailor Nothing, but the fast and loose style fits the source material pretty well. The Slayers Trilogy would never pass as fiction but as fanfic it's probably one of the best ever written.
- thekashif: The writing starts off very ametuerish, its not bad but its clear that this was some of his earliest work.
- It gets better fast and his characterization is nearly perfect. I kinda get the feeling that he doesn't like Amelia though.
Revolutionary Girl Amelia by ryoko11
- Recommended by fortune Cookie
- Synopsis: the slayers cast take over the roles of the Revolutionary Girl Untena characters. Amelia as the titular Utena and Zelgadis as the rosebride. He is not amused.
- Comments: I rarely if ever like crossovers but this fic is the most hilarious thing I've read in quite a while. the characters are semi-aware of their actual relationshpis/roles. Some more, some less. Reading it for the first time I only had a vague idea of Utena -lots of roses, a prince, everyone is a bishonen- and it was funny even then. Enough to make me watch Utena in the first place and it got only better. I laughed out loud reading this. Only flaw: It's too short.
Shards of Chaos by Dust Traveller
- Recommended by Seven Of Diamonds
- Synopsis: An epic next generation fic taking place after Slayers Try, featuring Lina's daughter Mina falling in love with Gaav. Permanent hiatus, but worth it.
- Comments:
Slayers Knightfall Assassins and Shadows by Tom the Mighty
- Synopsis: Lina and Gourry thought it was just going to be a vacation visiting Lina's family,but disturbing visions and unspeakable tragedy draw the Demon Slayers once more into chaos and death. Rated for Violence, Language, Crude Humor and some lime scented febreez
- Comments: The plot takes a turn to the grim dark side of the non-cannon-but-plausible. Yet despite the world going to hell in a hand-basket(case), the characters you know and love, and xellos, are still the characters you know and love, and xellos.
Nightmares in the Apocalypse by Lina Friend
- Recommended by Endless D
- Synopsis: a journey into a fantastical landscape in which the Second War of Resurrection has destroyed most of the Earth and its inhabitants, in which Lina, now a 22 year old, copes with humanity's downfall, and in which she manages to pull herself together and launch a new war against the seemingly unstoppable monsters
- Sequel: Nightmares in the Revelations (chapter images are missing but the links still work)
Shipping Fics
Stories focused on the romantic relationships between the cast.
None yet.
AU Fics
Stories set in an Alternate Universe.
Of Life and Lemonade by J. Rhaye
- Recommended by: Queen BEAUTY
- Synopsis: Alternate Universe set in modern-day southern California (in which the kingdom of Saillune and other locales are now regular towns and cities) centered around the lives and complex relationship between Amelia, now the daughter of an influential lawyer (Phil) and a law student, and Zelgadis, now a police detective. Suspense and drama ensue when Amelia, her father, and her sister begin getting threats from an unknown source, eventually spiraling into something even more dangerous. Traditional pairings and the like. On hiatus, but might be picked up again soon.
- Comments: Arguably one of the best Alternate Universe Fics out there in general, as the authoress takes the setting and canon stories and seamlessly places them in a modern time setting without making awkward references. Characterization, while a bit off-key, is very good overall, and the writing is the perfect balance between flowery and straight to the point.) It is very long (37 chapters as of this writing, all lengthy, but worth it. Plot is stellar and interesting, as is the relationship dynamic between Amelia and Zelgadis. Amazing read, highly recommended.