Dear Flist, I need your help. Sincerely, me

[kwritten]

This poll is research for my Thesis on fandom. Please, please, please share and tell your friends.

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[finkpishnets]

I first watched the series when it originally aired so viewed it in order, and maybe having no preconceived notions about any of the characters had an impact on my fondness for Dawn. I love her a lot. I've written only a little fic about her (though as one of my two starter fandoms, my thirteen year old self wrote a lot of Buffy fic that will never see the light of day) and that hasn't really impacted my opinion of her, the same way reading other fics hasn't, because I've always loved her and, over the years, I've come to realise how unchangeable that is.

That, of course, doesn't mean I don't see the flaws in her character, because nothing is without flaws and no character would be half as interesting without them. I have never, though, found her annoying. Perhaps that's because I was a teenager at the time of her appearance and related to her? Maybe it's because I have a younger sibling and know what they're like and that it doesn't make you love them any less? I've never really analysed why I like her (outside of the obvious), I just know that I do.

(There is only one exception to this and it applies to every character that's not Buffy or Spike - Empty Places. At that point in time I would have been happy if Buffy had said "fuck you all" and she and Spike had left them all to die. Obviously this is exaggerated it's not but whenever I watch it I get so angry. So. Yes. Exception.)

Annnnnd, this isn't really helpful outside of saying that, yes, I love Dawn, yes, I always have, and yes, I watched the series in order the first time through. I'm sure I could get exceptionally meta on the topic but I haven't done any proper Buffy literary analyses since I wrote my dissertation, so I'll just leave this here.

[kwritten]

Thank you so much for participating! And for your lovely comment, this is so nice and helpful.

but I haven't done any proper Buffy literary analyses since I wrote my dissertation
May I ask what the connection is?