Andrew needs therapy
Since Steph's playing a psychologist over at nancytribe and I'm playing post season seven Andrew there (for the first time ever, go me) we decided that it would be interesting to rp out some sessions between the two. So I now have another journal where I post about and rp with Dr. Grant. It's all kinds of character-developy goodness. You can check it out at andrew_unwells. Their first session has just started, but I'm hoping that eventually they'll get pretty deep.
Because face it, as funny as Andrew could be in season seven, he was all kinds of fucked up. The man he loved had been killed in a horribly graphic way, the killer had chased him and Jonathan around, trying to do the same, then "Warren" came back to him and convinced him to kill his only remaining friend in hopes of being together again with Warren as gods, only to find out after Jonathan had died that it wasn't Warren at all (which Andrew later mentioned that he suspected, but for just the chance of getting to be with Warren again he ignored it).
THEN he's assaulted by Warren's killer, taken back to Buffy's where he's attacked by everyone and the kitchen sink (ok, so I think the official list of slappers etc. of Andrew is Buffy, Dawn, Anya, and Xander, and then Spike attacking him) and forced to stay in the same house as everyone responsible for the death of the man he loved. Of course, on top of that he has the conflicting emotion of guilt for killing Jonathan and his need to redeem himself for that, so he starts helping the Scoobies (while still being fucked with by the first as both Warren and Jonathan).
And THEN it seems, for just a moment, that Warren had come back to him only to find out that under the touchable Warren facade was in fact Warren's murderer. That's gotta mess with you. By the episode Storyteller we also know that Andrew thinks he deserves to die in the final battle. He doesn't have the guts to kill himself, but sort of hopes that someone will do it for him. (Again I note how I'm so blown away by people who don't see how deep and serious Andrew is as a character. I mean, at the end of the episode he just SAYS that he hopes he dies!) And then, to finish things off, the one good friend he made in his time with the Scoobies is killed trying to protect him from the uber-vamps. All this while everyone at the Summers' residence teased and belittled him on a daily basis.
And I'm sure dealing with his homosexuality amongst all this didn't help any.
So yeah, at the very least, Andrew's got some issues to deal with. He may not be stark-raving mad or talking to the pink elephant in the corner, but he's not all right. I'm all kinds of happy that Joss had Andrew mention in Angel that he'd been seeing a therapist, because that is something that the poor kid really needed.
... well holy hell in sleigh bells, Batman. I meant to just plug the new journal (again, andrew_unwells) but I ended up ranting about deep!Andrew again. Ah well.
Because face it, as funny as Andrew could be in season seven, he was all kinds of fucked up. The man he loved had been killed in a horribly graphic way, the killer had chased him and Jonathan around, trying to do the same, then "Warren" came back to him and convinced him to kill his only remaining friend in hopes of being together again with Warren as gods, only to find out after Jonathan had died that it wasn't Warren at all (which Andrew later mentioned that he suspected, but for just the chance of getting to be with Warren again he ignored it).
THEN he's assaulted by Warren's killer, taken back to Buffy's where he's attacked by everyone and the kitchen sink (ok, so I think the official list of slappers etc. of Andrew is Buffy, Dawn, Anya, and Xander, and then Spike attacking him) and forced to stay in the same house as everyone responsible for the death of the man he loved. Of course, on top of that he has the conflicting emotion of guilt for killing Jonathan and his need to redeem himself for that, so he starts helping the Scoobies (while still being fucked with by the first as both Warren and Jonathan).
And THEN it seems, for just a moment, that Warren had come back to him only to find out that under the touchable Warren facade was in fact Warren's murderer. That's gotta mess with you. By the episode Storyteller we also know that Andrew thinks he deserves to die in the final battle. He doesn't have the guts to kill himself, but sort of hopes that someone will do it for him. (Again I note how I'm so blown away by people who don't see how deep and serious Andrew is as a character. I mean, at the end of the episode he just SAYS that he hopes he dies!) And then, to finish things off, the one good friend he made in his time with the Scoobies is killed trying to protect him from the uber-vamps. All this while everyone at the Summers' residence teased and belittled him on a daily basis.
And I'm sure dealing with his homosexuality amongst all this didn't help any.
So yeah, at the very least, Andrew's got some issues to deal with. He may not be stark-raving mad or talking to the pink elephant in the corner, but he's not all right. I'm all kinds of happy that Joss had Andrew mention in Angel that he'd been seeing a therapist, because that is something that the poor kid really needed.
... well holy hell in sleigh bells, Batman. I meant to just plug the new journal (again, andrew_unwells) but I ended up ranting about deep!Andrew again. Ah well.