Where Oh Where is Canon!Spike?

[botias]

A few folks have asked this because of my Fic!Spike vs. Canon!Spike comparison. I'm the wrong person to ask, probably, as I don't care for dark!fic and I'm guessing fics that would feature such a Spike in a prominent way are going to get dark fast. However, I have a few suggestions:

beanbeans has some great evol Spike stuff, mostly very adult. Check out her Smut 69 prompts, her fic "The Consort" and if you look in her memories you can still find her WIP "Solace", a Spike/OC fic which is worth the read even for being on indefinite hold.

Another I can recommend that way is rahirah. She is an unabashed fan of 'soulless Spike' and a good writer as well. Her Spike is an impulsive, unapologetic, homicidal asshat to the very end. I love the way she keeps his badass rep that was allowed to fall by the wayside in canon.

herself_nyc_fic has quite the body of work featuring soulless Spike, and is also a good writer, with the caveat that Herself's Spike is about 125 years more mature than canon!Spike and not quite as 'deliciously violent', or at least not when he's on-stage.

rikki_oko is working on a Season 2 Spuffy fic right now in which evol Spike is quite, well, delightfully evol, as are the rest of the fanged, well-characterized, crew.

My widely-read flisties, can you help? Where have you spied Canon!Spike?

ETA: I fixed my many errors; that's what I get for posting right before I had to run out the door.

Comments

[botias.livejournal.com]

Pretty much as soon as:

a) the Scoobies had no fear of him whatsoever, (Dawn: "I feel safe with you")
b) everybody kicked him around at will (Off the top of my head, I'm remembering Buffy, Riley, Xander and Giles all manhandling him. I can't blame them, but this does nothing for his 'rep')
c) he regularly got knocked out in the first 2.5 seconds of fight scenes so Buffy could engage the baddie without interference
d) all he did was mope and drink and watch soaps instead of trying to kill the Slayer. Surely he could pay a coyote to drop anvils on her from cliff tops or something?

[botias.livejournal.com]

Yup, I've heard that too, many times. If I were to pick a spot I would have to say it was the chip. I wouldn't change anything about the show, but I did miss the Spike that was feared by demon and Slayer alike. I like to think Season 2-3 Spike would have popped the Scoobies in the nose for trying to rough him up, no matter how much it hurt his wittle noggin.

[botias.livejournal.com]

I thought it was hard to watch too, but possibly for a different reason. His 'kicked puppy' look just rips my heart out, serial killer or no. And of course, he was pretty pathetic, it's hard for me to imagine season 2 Spike taking the stalker approach. He was a much more... actiony kind of guy.