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Hyena!Xander
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| Synonym(s) | Hyena!Xander |
| See also | Omegaverse |
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Hyena!Xander is a trope in Buffy the Vampire Slayer fanfiction. In season one episode The Pack, Xander is possessed by a hyena spirit. He then creates a pack out of troublemaking teenagers and they wreak havoc in Sunnydale. At the end of the episode Xander is de-possessed and pretends to have amnesia regarding the events in the episode.
In many fanfics the hyena spirits either comes back (often prompted by a trauma Xander goes through) or never leaves in the first place. Fics with Hyena!Xander often see him trying to form a pack, acknowledging Scoobies as his pack and looking for a mate. Because Xander's hyena has been acknowledged as female, in fics he sometimes clashes with Buffy (the alpha female of the Scoobies).
Example Fanworks
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Archives & Fannish Links
- Hyena!Xander works on Ao3
- Hyena!Xander works on The Spander Files