Two short essaylike things.
As you probably aren't aware, Buffy decided she wants to marry Kon now, and she told Kon, and they agreed in a special retarded minimalist way that they sorta want that to happen soon. I was trying to figure out why Buffy decided this, and I came up with this simple timeline:
1. Kon proposed.
2. Buffy sort of quietly and to herself freaked out and agreed to engaged because engaged was both rilly rilly cool and not at all frightening. Engaged, to Buffy, basically means, "We're getting married someday," and she already thought that.
3. Buffy got used to engaged. She referred to Kon comfortably as her fiancee. She was cool with the relationship being at that point.
4. Kids showed up. I mainly wanted this to make Buffy less emo about her future, since she spent so long frustrated about not having any idea if she could be with Kon. It also, however, sort of got her thinking that no matter what if camp ended and she couldn't see Kon, she would be profoundly and horribly emo, and she moved away from thinking as clearly that getting married would make not seeing him worse.
5. Kon got x-ray vision, which let Buffy mostly get out her issues with Kon and checking out other girls, which he actually basically made better for her there even if he didn't know it. She also thought pretty clearly and hypothetically about what she would have to do if Kon had not told her he wouldn't perv on other girls with his x-ray vision, which involved thinking about breaking up with him. Which...sucked. Buffy, at this point, has a pretty detailed life planned that she really likes, and she sort of realized that Kon was the only part of that she absolutely wouldn't change if she had a choice.
6. Lu Xun came back and was really happy about getting married. (Why are Junyi's characters always involved in this?) And Buffy started thinking "Yeah, that'd be cool."
(This was about when I started noticing Buffy was making "...married :D" noises and stuff; around this time was when her answer to "When're you getting married" changed from "After we get out of camp" to "We don't know.")
7. The dance came around and Buffy missed Kon not being there and was like "fuckit next time I see him I'm telling him I wanna get married."
And she did.
Yeah, I don't know either, I was kinda surprised. Links are: Buffy brings up married soonish (quickly abandoned for making out!), Kon talked to Robin here, Megan here, various people in his post (notably Cal and Rikuou, I think), and as far as Buffy's concerned agreed soonish was good here.
Also, because I was meaning to, Buffy on marrying a fictional character:
Mainly, she forgets. Kon's here and as real as she is and they're both fictional and it's hard to remember someone's a comic book when they're getting you naked, so.
When she remembers, she cares about the following things:
-How terrible she knows the life she and Kon have planned out would be in the genre she and Kon are in
-How crossover rights would be expensive as hell and if their universes are still fictional and they go back to them it just couldn't work
-Having Superboy comics at home that might follow a completely different continuity than Kon's and freaking herself the hell out with things that aren't actually happening to him
-It means both their universes are hella risky
-Kon probably isn't a main character, which makes him expendable
Mostly she ignores that. The thing that bothers her the most is actually spoilers. She doesn't ever spoiler him exactly, but she was actually really sad she knew things like "Clark Kent is Superman" before Kon told her, because it meant so much to her that he trusted her with that, but it was tainted by the way she already knew it. She figures this is true of him with Wendy too, and she dislikes that, but keeps telling him stuff because she knows it means more.
1. Kon proposed.
2. Buffy sort of quietly and to herself freaked out and agreed to engaged because engaged was both rilly rilly cool and not at all frightening. Engaged, to Buffy, basically means, "We're getting married someday," and she already thought that.
3. Buffy got used to engaged. She referred to Kon comfortably as her fiancee. She was cool with the relationship being at that point.
4. Kids showed up. I mainly wanted this to make Buffy less emo about her future, since she spent so long frustrated about not having any idea if she could be with Kon. It also, however, sort of got her thinking that no matter what if camp ended and she couldn't see Kon, she would be profoundly and horribly emo, and she moved away from thinking as clearly that getting married would make not seeing him worse.
5. Kon got x-ray vision, which let Buffy mostly get out her issues with Kon and checking out other girls, which he actually basically made better for her there even if he didn't know it. She also thought pretty clearly and hypothetically about what she would have to do if Kon had not told her he wouldn't perv on other girls with his x-ray vision, which involved thinking about breaking up with him. Which...sucked. Buffy, at this point, has a pretty detailed life planned that she really likes, and she sort of realized that Kon was the only part of that she absolutely wouldn't change if she had a choice.
6. Lu Xun came back and was really happy about getting married. (Why are Junyi's characters always involved in this?) And Buffy started thinking "Yeah, that'd be cool."
(This was about when I started noticing Buffy was making "...married :D" noises and stuff; around this time was when her answer to "When're you getting married" changed from "After we get out of camp" to "We don't know.")
7. The dance came around and Buffy missed Kon not being there and was like "fuckit next time I see him I'm telling him I wanna get married."
And she did.
Yeah, I don't know either, I was kinda surprised. Links are: Buffy brings up married soonish (quickly abandoned for making out!), Kon talked to Robin here, Megan here, various people in his post (notably Cal and Rikuou, I think), and as far as Buffy's concerned agreed soonish was good here.
Also, because I was meaning to, Buffy on marrying a fictional character:
Mainly, she forgets. Kon's here and as real as she is and they're both fictional and it's hard to remember someone's a comic book when they're getting you naked, so.
When she remembers, she cares about the following things:
-How terrible she knows the life she and Kon have planned out would be in the genre she and Kon are in
-How crossover rights would be expensive as hell and if their universes are still fictional and they go back to them it just couldn't work
-Having Superboy comics at home that might follow a completely different continuity than Kon's and freaking herself the hell out with things that aren't actually happening to him
-It means both their universes are hella risky
-Kon probably isn't a main character, which makes him expendable
Mostly she ignores that. The thing that bothers her the most is actually spoilers. She doesn't ever spoiler him exactly, but she was actually really sad she knew things like "Clark Kent is Superman" before Kon told her, because it meant so much to her that he trusted her with that, but it was tainted by the way she already knew it. She figures this is true of him with Wendy too, and she dislikes that, but keeps telling him stuff because she knows it means more.