'Empiricism' by Quinara (PG; ~1000 words)

[quinara]

This is a companion piece for my other fic, Idealism. I don't know if this really works how I wanted it to, but it's at the point of either posting as-is or scrapping entirely. Still with the Kant ("Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness."); set immediately after Dirty

Comments

[gillo]

Bleak, however, it is. But so true and believable too.

[quinara]

Thank you! Of course, bleak doesn't have to be hopeless...

[velvetwhip]

Well, well. This is really something. Tugs not so much at the heartstrings as at that empty, aching place inside. Wonderful.

Gabrielle

[quinara]

Oh, thanks very much! I don't know where things go from here; probably the rest of the season...

[zanthinegirl]

Goregous and yeah, a little bleak. But it really captures that point in time; if it wasn't a little bleak it wouldn't be honest.

[quinara]

Thank you! I actually find this point in the Spuffy relationship really interesting (as you might have guessed!), although it needs some resolution not to just be a misery fest.

[rahirah]

Oh, Buffy. It won't.

[quinara]

Of course it won't. :( I liek to think at some point, though, Buffy can realise that living for the apocalypse isn't really living at all...

[shapinglight]

Poor Buffy! Being the general sucks.

[quinara]

I blame the First Evil!