Buffy/Xander
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| Pairing | |
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| Pairing: | Buffy Summers/Xander Harris |
| Alternative name(s): | B/X, Bander |
| Gender category: | M/F, Het |
| Fandom: | Buffy the Vampire Slayer |
| Canonical?: | One-sided (S1/S2) |
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Buffy/Xander is a Buffy the Vampire Slayer het pairing.
The ship was more common in early seasons but seemed to lose the appeal as the series progressed. It was considered a doomed ship and an unconventional couple.[1]
Canon
Common Tropes in Fanworks
- Friends to Lovers
- Family of Choice (Also possibly a reason the pairing was never canon[2])
Example Fanworks
Meta
- Heart and Hand -- Inspiration and Action by butterfly, an essay for ship_manifesto (November 2004)
Fansites and Communities
- Beloved by the Zeppo, part of the BtVS Writer's Guild (archive link)[3]
- Older Fanfiction section with approximately 185 stories
- Buffy's White Knight, a fansite and "online fanzine" (archive link)
- All That Glitters, a fansite, archive, and resource site (archive link)
- Buffy and Xander 'shipper Ring, a webring (archive link)
- buffyxander, a Livejournal community (archive link)[4]
External Links
References
- ^ Buffy's White Knight - Always site clique: "If you’re a fan of this unconventional couple and currently operate a website, then get listed at Always." Archived 5 December 2004 by the Wayback Machine.
- ^ Angles and Incest "And there was another great thread about families of choice--which, as many posters noted, is A if not THE theme within the Jossverse. Which could be why there was never any canon Buffy/Xander or Buffy/Willow, and why Oz, Tara, and Anya had to be brought in--so there could be Scooby Exogamy to combat the threat of Scoobycest." ~Executrix, posted 25 Feb 2007. Accessed 14 Feb 2013.
- ^ Alternate link: bxfic.8m.com/guild, archived 11 January 2001. Zone master Duchess of Buffonia.
- ^ Founded 25 July 2006 (buffyxander - Community Profile, archived 17 January 2012). secondalto was co-mod in 2007 (Author profile Katy/secondalto, posted 11 February 2007). Community deleted sometime between 2012 and 2019.