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sb_fag_ends2015-10-28 11:25 am
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Prompt: Lock the Door, It's a Minotaur! (comedy)
Prompt: Lock the Door, It's a Minotaur
Setting: "Something Blue"
Rating: PG
Words: 140
Spike pounded on the bathroom door. “Come on, Buffy, love, open up.”
“No,” she said between sniffles. “Go away.”
“You’re being unreasonable, sweets. Come out here and let’s talk it over.”
Buffy sniffled louder. “I’m not being unreasonable. You said – you said –” She hiccoughed. “You’re being unreasonable.”
Spike sighed. He might have been a little too vehement. He still didn’t like it, but what did it matter in the long run? If it made the love of his unlife happy... “I’m sorry, my lamb. I know I was being a bit bull-headed.”
There was a shuffling on the other side of the door, and then it cracked open. “A bit?” Buffy said.
Spike caved the rest of the way. It was the teary eyes that did it. “Completely bull-headed. We can have ‘Wind Beneath My Wings’ if that’s what you really want.”
Setting: "Something Blue"
Rating: PG
Words: 140
Spike pounded on the bathroom door. “Come on, Buffy, love, open up.”
“No,” she said between sniffles. “Go away.”
“You’re being unreasonable, sweets. Come out here and let’s talk it over.”
Buffy sniffled louder. “I’m not being unreasonable. You said – you said –” She hiccoughed. “You’re being unreasonable.”
Spike sighed. He might have been a little too vehement. He still didn’t like it, but what did it matter in the long run? If it made the love of his unlife happy... “I’m sorry, my lamb. I know I was being a bit bull-headed.”
There was a shuffling on the other side of the door, and then it cracked open. “A bit?” Buffy said.
Spike caved the rest of the way. It was the teary eyes that did it. “Completely bull-headed. We can have ‘Wind Beneath My Wings’ if that’s what you really want.”
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Sensible, that. A girl only gets one (first) wedding day.
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*strokes chin* Verrrry interesting....have you read the meta on tumblr drawing parallels between Buffy and Dru? I've thought the parallels have been under explored for a long time - Dru as the victim Buffy would have been w/out her super strength, Dru as unintentional foreshadowing of S5 and S6 mental illness and depression themes (esp in terms of female characters) etc etc. I think there's a lot of there there - but it didn't occur to me to see that when I read this fic. Now that does give it a darker cast!
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As far as Buffy as a victim without her super strength, I believe she would have had a much different life if she wasn't the slayer, which would not make victim-ness or depression a foregone conclusion.
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Well the depression-ness might be a foregone conclusion simply because Whedon seems to have a fascination with mental breakdowns (although the issue isn't always treated with due seriousness) but I was referring mostly to how Angelus' intention with Buffy was the same as with Drusilla - to slowly torture her by hurting and killing the people around her first. Buffy is the girl who is able to escape Drusilla's fate:
http://muchbuffy.tumblr.com/post/117116716988/buffy-and-drusilla-angel-created-drusilla-as-a
I do recommend muchbuffy's meta, inspired by drusillathekiller's re-evaluation of Dru:It's concise and a quick read:
"Just like Drusilla is an absolutely terrifying worst-case scenario for Buffy, Buffy is a heartbreaking reminder that Drusilla could have been a great asset for the forces of good."
Sorry that I misunderstood your intent!
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Well gosh, no need to be sorry!
"Just like Drusilla is an absolutely terrifying worst-case scenario for Buffy, Buffy is a heartbreaking reminder that Drusilla could have been a great asset for the forces of good."
Yes, that's a brilliant observation. I did read the meta, and I see the similarity she is pointing out. But still, it's not like I see Buffy and Dru as two sides of the same coin or anything. What I really agreed with though was the discussion about Angel/Angelus. Yes, I would totally buy into that.
Well the depression-ness might be a foregone conclusion simply because Whedon seems to have a fascination with mental breakdowns (although the issue isn't always treated with due seriousness)
I totally agree.
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I actually think S2 was trying to play up the two sides of the same coin angle - Buffy sees Angel with Dru not knowing who she is and is somewhat anxious/jealous; she sees Dru - not Spike - kill Angel repeatedly in her dreams; although Dru does no such thing and in fact it's Buffy who kills Angel (not Angelus); and Dru was Angel's victim prior to Sunnydale. So I suspect that Buffy is seeing herself in Dru but unbeknownst to herself.
I think Spike and Dru were meant to contrast against and parallel Buffy and Angel in S2 before Angel lost his soul - the "good lovers" and the "bad lovers". Then both Spike and Angel "switched sides" and suddenly all bets were off. (And aren't we all the better off for it?)
I totally agree.
Drusillathekiller wrote about how Drusilla's condition is treated as a joke in another (very good) meta, in ways even I hadn't stopped to consider. http://drusillathekiller.tumblr.com/post/117959695958/ive-noticed-theres-a-pronounced-and-perhaps
(Hint: this is gonna end up on my buffyverse top 5 recs in january)
Buffy, Spike, and Fred are presented as losing their minds. Drusilla is- with the exception of a few flashback scenes- presented as having lost her mind. The use of past rather than present tense makes a huge difference....
....we as an audience were encouraged to laugh at Drusilla’s suffering and struggles to survive with a mental illness. She’s already insane. She’s lost her humanity (both figuratively and literally). She isn’t a person anymore, she’s just crazy. You can laugh at her. It’s funny.
But when someone isn’t insane yet but in the process of being driven insane, this is tragic, because we all know if you have a mental illness you no longer qualify as a person but a commodity in the eyes of most fiction, right? How sad that they’re losing their humanity. That’s why we’re made to laugh at Drusilla and cry for Buffy, Winifred, and Spike.
In a lot of fiction, if you have a mental illness then you’re no longer written as a person.
And I hope the mods will forgive me for hijacking the thread and taking it down a bunny trail.
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