Moving Drabble for open_on_sunday

[quinara]

Ever since the show ended, I've been feeling sympathy for Buffy much more than I ever used to. It's very odd.

Anyway, the drabble, which I couldn't think of a name for:

Warnings: None.

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She was pretty sure she could do it. Over the past couple of weeks she’d been able to do all kinds of neat stuff.

OK, here goes.She leapt; span once,

Comments

[red_satin_doll]

Oh wow, I did not expect that ending - that punch to the gut. She and Xander really do have a lot in common in that regard despite the class differences, don't they? Another area left unexplored on the show (and that's what fanfic is about, isn't it?)

[quinara]

Thanks! And yeah, they certainly do - though practically everyone in Buffy seems to have dysfunctional parents for some reason.

[red_satin_doll]

Watching the show as a newbie is kind of interesting, by myself, seeing all this stuff such as "gee, everyone has unhappy families are parents who abandon, abuse or neglect them" - and then discovering that 1) there's this HUGE fandom, and everything has been analyzed a million ways to Sunday already, and 2) they actually mention JW's unhappy families/bad parents trope on TV Tropes. (And what is up with that, seriously?)

BTW - I'm very happy that your feelings have changed about Buffy (or at least they had of your 2009 comment upthread, not sure where you stand now?) I certainly would never have thought you didn't like her from this fic, which is so compassionate, and beautifully observed.