...not sure the background check thing works as well here as it would work back home. And even then it was a tossup whether a good P.I. could turn up evidence of demoniness.
You can ask me for advice too, you know. I'm an advice machine.
Re: videostakesthingsOctober 15 2011, 04:26:02 UTC
Depends on your personality-stashing skills.
[Private!]
No. After my experiences with dating and that one thing with the vampire, she's lucky I let her mingle. Anyway, since when are you Mr. Dating Advocacy?
Still. My problems? You could call them familiar territory.
[Private!]
I'm not advocating... Look, Buffy, I don't want her getting into trouble any more than you do. You know that. But I've seen the other side of the potentially endless, relationship-free existence, and I wouldn't recommend it.
[plus she is not a vampire, nor cursed. so there's that.]
I just don't want her getting lonely.
...or killed. I'm being clear on that part, right?
video | PRIVATEstakesthingsOctober 15 2011, 06:12:20 UTC
I know she's--
--I know.
Which means I've got to protect her. She's inherited the Summers problem.
You know. A taste for the wrong guys.
And now she's got the other Summers gift, too. That Slayer Thing.
If I let her go out there and do the dating thing, in a few weeks she'll be... going to dinners. And... sharing slurpees. And you know where that leads? That leads to dragging boys to graveyards, or trying to keep her friends from being.... mated with and killed by giant preying mantises. And then her best guy friend will hit on her, and she'll die fighting a big veiny master guy, and fall for another guy who is less with the perma-veiny but still has his veiny moments. And then there'll be curses and apocalyps...ii, and waitressing and before you know it, her part-time veiner will be gone, and she'll be all, Simon and Garfunkel-worthy and there'll be fire and collapsing towns and then she'll be here with mr. veins and his new... prophet girlfriend who, by the way? She can't even hate because of all the history
( ... )
video | PRIVATE 2/3atonementsucksOctober 15 2011, 06:36:54 UTC
Okay. I'm picking up some projection issues.
My point was, she's your sister. As in, forbidding something doesn't guarantee she'll listen. Let's face it, if she wants something, chances are she's going to go after it anyway. That's why she needs you to guide her, to show her that she can do this without fear of... mantises or waitressing. Protecting her doesn't mean keeping her in a bubble. It means teaching her.
Even if she does have the Summers thing, she doesn't need to go through everything you did, and...
[what is even wrong with you Summers girls]
Maybe you should mention something about a background check. Just to be on the safe side.
Reply
...not sure the background check thing works as well here as it would work back home. And even then it was a tossup whether a good P.I. could turn up evidence of demoniness.
You can ask me for advice too, you know. I'm an advice machine.
Reply
No, but... there are people willing to investigate. People who can detect things that others can't. Get information. It couldn't hurt.
[Sorry Buffy, force of habit.]
Besides, the ageless thing they have here doesn't really work with "wait until you're thirty-five".
[...]
You mean... send something in?
Reply
[...]
Why doesn't it work!
Reply
[all his years of hanging around skulking and never once did he write in for advice.]
Well, unless you count by how long she's stuck here, she'll never age enough to reach thirty--
[wait, maybe that's what Buffy was going for.]
[oh.]
Reply
[....]
Shh.
Reply
[Case in point.]
[He gives her a knowing, slightly sheepish nod. And then switches to private.]
That doesn't strike you as a little... harsh?
Reply
[Private!]
No. After my experiences with dating and that one thing with the vampire, she's lucky I let her mingle. Anyway, since when are you Mr. Dating Advocacy?
Reply
Still. My problems? You could call them familiar territory.
[Private!]
I'm not advocating... Look, Buffy, I don't want her getting into trouble any more than you do. You know that. But I've seen the other side of the potentially endless, relationship-free existence, and I wouldn't recommend it.
[plus she is not a vampire, nor cursed. so there's that.]
I just don't want her getting lonely.
...or killed. I'm being clear on that part, right?
Reply
--that's...
...totally better.
Reply
She's your sister.
Reply
--I know.
Which means I've got to protect her. She's inherited the Summers problem.
You know. A taste for the wrong guys.
And now she's got the other Summers gift, too. That Slayer Thing.
If I let her go out there and do the dating thing, in a few weeks she'll be... going to dinners. And... sharing slurpees. And you know where that leads? That leads to dragging boys to graveyards, or trying to keep her friends from being.... mated with and killed by giant preying mantises. And then her best guy friend will hit on her, and she'll die fighting a big veiny master guy, and fall for another guy who is less with the perma-veiny but still has his veiny moments. And then there'll be curses and apocalyps...ii, and waitressing and before you know it, her part-time veiner will be gone, and she'll be all, Simon and Garfunkel-worthy and there'll be fire and collapsing towns and then she'll be here with mr. veins and his new... prophet girlfriend who, by the way? She can't even hate because of all the history ( ... )
Reply
Reply
My point was, she's your sister. As in, forbidding something doesn't guarantee she'll listen. Let's face it, if she wants something, chances are she's going to go after it anyway. That's why she needs you to guide her, to show her that she can do this without fear of... mantises or waitressing. Protecting her doesn't mean keeping her in a bubble. It means teaching her.
Even if she does have the Summers thing, she doesn't need to go through everything you did, and...
Reply
Mr. Veins? Buffy.
Reply
Reply
Leave a comment