awesome ladies don't have to be human. that's...somethingism

[pocochina]

Obviously Dru talk can veer into some unhappy territory. I’ve attempted to keep the conversation as very very vague as possible but I’d much prefer to be upfront.

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[auroramama]

This is splendid! And so beautiful. This prose is as full of jewels as a pomegranate is of garnet arils. Your vision of Dru as a creature outside of time, extending in space, aware of events all along the timeline but not her own location, is inspiring.

Because she has none of those limitations on self, she can understand and destroy others like no other character can.

Yes. She sees Kendra taken from her family by her Watcher, the need to perform, to do, as Potential and as Slayer, and the ferociously repressed desire to be a child again, to just *be* within someone's love. Angelus created/adapted a girl with interesting powers into a being who can do what he can't.

People used to write stories where Angelus was a tyrant to the vampire Drusilla, and I used to argue with them. Angelus talks big, and he's proud of having destroyed the woman, but he doesn't give Drusilla orders and force her to obey. He's quite careful not to bang heads with her straight-on and see who's stronger. When she protects Xander in BBaB, he complains that she's not being fun. And then he sulkily walks away.

She is everyone else, but nobody else can be Dru.

True. And also very like my Dear Spouse's self-description when younger: "I'm kind of like each other person, so I'm different from anyone."

[pocochina]

Thanks! I love Dru. She's timeless to me, as well, she still has the fascination for me now that she did two years ago when I wrote this.

People used to write stories where Angelus was a tyrant to the vampire Drusilla, and I used to argue with them. Angelus talks big, and he's proud of having destroyed the woman, but he doesn't give Drusilla orders and force her to obey. He's quite careful not to bang heads with her straight-on and see who's stronger. When she protects Xander in BBaB, he complains that she's not being fun. And then he sulkily walks away.

Yeah, it's definitely a creepy, possessive favorite-toy kind of vibe, but I don't see him as having been pointedly and overtly aggressive in the fandom-gets-it kind of way.