FIC: Mirror Mask

[angearia]

This piece was written in response to the SlayAlive Scribes challenge that I'm running.  I've decided not to enter the challenge as I'm moderating it (maybe down the road I will, but I'm serving in an advisory capacity right now), but I desperately wanted to write something for this prompt:  "Using your favorite Whedonverse character, show us what

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[menomegirl]

Oh, sweetie. This is a very well-written, awesome look at at the character of Buffy.

Thanks for sharing!

[angearia]

Thanks for reading and leaving feedback! *hugs*

[obiwahn]

This was lovely. Sad, but beautiful at the same time. Good work!

[angearia]

Thanks!

[debris4spike]

That is truly beautiful - last year I attempted to write a post-Chosen, but this is truly special.

Thank you for sharing it - and for writing the Buffy we love, in the love we know she shared.

[angearia]

Thank you for reading and commenting. :)

What happened to your lost attempt? Was it being unwieldy? Bad fic, naughty! :P

[debris4spike]

Oh I did post it - http://debris4spike.livejournal.com/31025.html

But when I read this work, I realised that "attempted" is the word I needed to write about this story!

[moscow_watcher]

Great character insight. Thank you for reminding one more time why I love me my Buffy :)))

[angearia]

Thank you! It's so easy to love her. :)

[louise39]

An excellent picture of Buffy - brittle, brave and beautiful.

She’d been shallow and joyously happy. Once upon a time.

She clutches at love long after it’s lost its warm gleam, courting flames in the dead ashes of love abandoned.

Lovely.

[angearia]

An excellent picture of Buffy - brittle, brave and beautiful.

Yes, exactly yes. And once upon a time she was happy. I like to think that all this sadness and pain is merely paving the way for a greater joy in her future. That she will know greater happiness due to knowing such great tragedy.

[louise39]

Buffy seems to carry this simmering feeling of loss and she goes onward, with acceptance and resignation, head held high.

I hope, too, that she will find a happier future.