more than a killer, more than a monster

[angearia]

I haven't written meta in ages, but I was watching a Spuffy vid and the imagery of Spike in chains and Buffy freeing him gave me ~feels.

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[kikimay]

Buffy doesn't think she's better than everyone else -- she knows she's better in some respects (slayer and all), but she doesn't think that she is so exceptional, that her ability to touch the dark and bring it into the light is unique. She even can't be unique totally - because if no one could ever do what Buffy did, then all the empowered girls are going to screw up. But basically, Buffy knows they can do it because she did it -- and her faith that they and Spike and Willow can make it becomes her faith that she can do it. She has returned from the labyrinth bearing not the exit to the labyrinth -- everyone's is different -- but the belief that it can be escaped, that the essential human nature when freed from restraints is, or can be, good. And the guy who wanted to be the hero of the story is there to accompany her sister, and the witch who suffered so for breaking the rules of nature finds a way to tweak them for the better, and she brings her guy into the light. And the town falls, and she smiles.

Don't mind me, I'm just having ALL THE BUFFY FEELS. <3