Fannish Friday Five

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fannish5: What are the 5 creepiest or most frightening pieces of fan fiction you have ever read?

WARNING! Although the level of creepiness and horror wary in these stories, all stories have disturbing content.

1) The Nightmare Series, by Lasarhiona

Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Giles-centric. A series of four stories where Giles finds himself in different kind of horrible situations. The first one is one of the most uncomfortable stories I've ever read in any fandom, which starts with violation of trust and becomes steadily worse, and nothing in the story goes past PG rating. The other parts stories are good too, but it's the first that really stands out to me.

2) What Guile is This? A Luddite's Love Story, by glossing

Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Giles/Buffybot. Buffy is dead, Giles is grieving. Luckily Buffybot is there. A lot of writers go for Ripper-route when writing dark Giles, but in this story we have the ordinary Giles at his pathetic, disturbing worst.

3) Choices, by Siubhan.

Star Wars, Obi-Wan/Maul. Siubhan was the first slash author whose works I read because she was who she was, and Obi-Wan/Maul was the first slash pairing that I read because it was what it was. Choices is an AU where Sidious is the one to face the Jedi, and Obi-Wan ends up looking after Maul. A disturbed, fucked up, broken Maul. Not exactly a creepy or horrifying story, but it deals with disturbing themes, and gives Maul sympathetic and three-dimensional characterization without stripping him of his villain status. The story is slightly outdated, but it's still a nice read.

4) A Confession

X-Men, Xavier-gen. An AU where Xavier has decided on another kind of approach to the mutant/human-problem from a very different POV. He goes to a Catholic priest to confess about it. A great example of how you can draw darkness out of a canonically good character.

5) The Ninth Silence, by Princess Artemis

Final Fantasy VII, Cid-centric. When it comes to victimized characters in FFVII-fandom, Cid isn't usually one of them, and this is one of the rare stories that set out to break him. Before the final battle, Cid doesn't return to Highwind along with rest of the Avalanche, and things go wrong. Later Cloud and Vincent find out why.

I was going to list my favorite creepy vids too, but I think I'll do that later.