“You're committing me,” she said again, more loudly, hurling it at them like an accusation. “Poor Buffy's got a few too many screws loose, so let's toss her in the looney bin.”
I don't know if this was how it was for Buffy when when her parents had her committed, but it could have been. So much sadness and apathy and betrayal.
Another heart wrenching chapter. This story is so good and original. So many people write series fic or post series fic or even all human but I've never seen fic for this part of her life before. This is so well written and characterized.
This really is so well done - so true to canon for Buffy and Joyce. "I can't." Once again - nail, head. Joyce wants to do something but has talked herself into the notion that she's helpless (what's the term for it, learned passivity?) We see it in the series and I think Buffy inherits it from her, which we see more so in S5-7, again has her confidence is eroded and the traumas pile up. She could run, she could not save the world, but that goes absolutely against her grain. She and Faith come from opposite places in that regard.
Are you getting tired of my comments yet, hon? ;)Ha, no. Actually, just talking about Buffy again for real and not just with myself really made me think again about why I'd started this fic to begin with and what my original plan for it was. One of the reasons I stopped was because I wanted to go back in and add Willow, Xander, Giles, Spike...all their perspectives, so we see how everyone grew from year 0 (pre-Pilot) to s7. But now I've finally accepted that that's way too big a project and Buffy is the one I'm truly interested in deeply exploring. (still may do some bonus chapters or something...maybe; like, what's Spike doing while Buffy's training with Merrick (and why does he decide to go to Sunnydale, and what's Dru doing? Giles (and how does he take the news that he's getting a Slayer of his very own)? Xander and Willow? What about Anya
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still may do some bonus chapters or something...maybe; like, what's Spike doing while Buffy's training with Merrick (and why does he decide to go to Sunnydale, and what's Dru doing?
As side projects maybe? Not that I'd want to tell you as the author what to do *shifty eyes*. But Spike, in terms of fanfic? BORED NOW. Drusilla? Sure I'm up for looking at her more (now that I'm noticing the deeper parallels between her and Buffy), but Spike fic is just all over the place and - yeah. Stopping now.
so I could hopefully start updating again by next week.
*iz happy*
I guess one of her flaws is the tendency toward throwing her hands up and saying she can't control the car so why should she try to steer it?That's Joyce in a nutshell; and Buffy falls into that repeatedly in the late seasons - TWoTH, S6, EP/Touched. It's an inherited trait and for all that fandom says that there's not much of Joyce there or she's inconsistent, I'm not sure that's so true when you really examine Joyce's personality, especially in the early seasons
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Mostly the idea was to situate. I think it'd be interesting to do something like, say, when Willow first met Giles, from either perspective, just because neither have any idea who they will become to each other (and to get a glimpse of Willow before Buffy). Or Giles considering Buffy after he first receives the news that she's his near-future charge. Or Faith -- how she got called, her life before and after (though I read a good fic that addressed that, but, still). Spike may've been done to death in fanfic, but, I mean, none of that is fic I've read, and part of me has always been curious about what took Spike and Dru from Prague to Sunnydale. The S/D became interesting to me when it became clear in later seasons through flashback that the two of them weren't just lovey dovey forever; that they'd had problems and Dru had probably drifted in and out of commitment with Spike, but Spike (I'd speculate) never fell out of commitment with her (thus explaining why the quality of Spike's feelings for Buffy were the way they were). The
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I don't know if this was how it was for Buffy when when her parents had her committed, but it could have been. So much sadness and apathy and betrayal.
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This really is so well done - so true to canon for Buffy and Joyce. "I can't." Once again - nail, head. Joyce wants to do something but has talked herself into the notion that she's helpless (what's the term for it, learned passivity?) We see it in the series and I think Buffy inherits it from her, which we see more so in S5-7, again has her confidence is eroded and the traumas pile up. She could run, she could not save the world, but that goes absolutely against her grain. She and Faith come from opposite places in that regard.
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As side projects maybe? Not that I'd want to tell you as the author what to do *shifty eyes*. But Spike, in terms of fanfic? BORED NOW. Drusilla? Sure I'm up for looking at her more (now that I'm noticing the deeper parallels between her and Buffy), but Spike fic is just all over the place and - yeah. Stopping now.
so I could hopefully start updating again by next week.
*iz happy*
I guess one of her flaws is the tendency toward throwing her hands up and saying she can't control the car so why should she try to steer it?That's Joyce in a nutshell; and Buffy falls into that repeatedly in the late seasons - TWoTH, S6, EP/Touched. It's an inherited trait and for all that fandom says that there's not much of Joyce there or she's inconsistent, I'm not sure that's so true when you really examine Joyce's personality, especially in the early seasons ( ... )
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