Post-NFA

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Synonym(s)post-finale
Related tropes/genresfuturefic, fix-it
See alsopost-Chosen
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Post-Not Fade Away, or more usually post-NFA, refers to Angel stories set in the wake of the S5 finale, 'Not Fade Away'. In this episode Team Angel destory the Black Thorn, but bring down the ire of Wolfram & Hart's senior partners. The survivors, Angel, Spike, Illyria and a severely wounded Gunn, meet in an alley and face down an army of demons with no chance of victory, determined to continue fighting.

The tone of Post-NFA stories ranges from fix-its giving a relatively happy ending to the NFA cliffhanger, all the way through to apocafic. Although even in dark fics, some of our heroes made it out of the alley and they are often on the run from the Senior Partner, or otherwise in hiding.

In many works, (most of) the remnants of Team Angel survived the fight. Angel and what's left of his team often return to the Hyperion Hotel and restart Angel Investigations. Many Post-NFA works are also Post-Chosen fics; Chosen was the series finale of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Characters from the wider Buffyverse often appear in Post-NFA works, although usually such works ignore the subsequent comics.

Post NFA fics can be ship-centric, and focused on the reconciliation of a previously doomed relationship; usually Buffy/Angel, Buffy/Spike or Spike/Angel, but other pairings also appear, including Spike/Illyria. These stories can also be gen character studies. There are post-NFA works about Connor's return to school at Stanford, or his reconciliation with Angel. There are many stories focused on character's attempting to process their grief and trauma.

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