"Every Wednesday it hits my brain"

[hermionesviolin]

hedy reminded me that I meant to look into the state initiatives (and the gubernatorial race while I'm at it).  Anyone who has thoughts or links, please feel free to share.

Unrelatedly, Eric's family wins at dysfunctionality.  Obviously I always think my parents are awesome, and I already know from various stories that his mom would drive me nuts, but, um, I totally had a flash of Ted's parents from this week's HIMYM episode.  Yeah.  I literally said, "Remind me to call my parents tonight and thank them for being so functional."

And now to attempt Ulysses.

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character love meme.  (Still taking requests if you wish.)

What Dawn Summers Loves Most About Four People for scrollgirl

If you asked her during the Sunnydale years, Dawn would have said that what she likes best about Spike is that he's not responsible to anyone, but even then she knew that wasn't true.  She loved how much he cared.

She will never forget that he was the one who helped her break into the Magic Box, leading to her discovery of who she really was, but the part she never tells anyone is how months later, during the summer after her sister died, she told Spike about how she had burned her diaries that night, and he held her as she cried.

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Faith, on the other hand, really did seem to be beholden to no one.  Dawn wanted to be her.  She oozed sex.  In her later years, Dawn realized how much of that was a front, but she was still the most sexually open person Dawn had ever known.

She never understood why Faith stayed with Robin for so long.  And if there was some kinky reason, Dawn really didn't want to know about it.  Dawn was not complaining, however, when they were out clubbing one night and Faith followed her to the ladies' room and fingerfucked her in one of the stalls.

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It was years later that Dawn learned that Giles had been willing to let her die to save the world.  Buffy's fierce love for her scared her sometimes -- even though Buffy also forgot about her an uncomfortable number of times.  Dawn felt safer knowing there were people willing to make the hard sacrifices.  She really wasn't looking forward to living in a hell dimension just because couldn't bear to kill their little brother.  Sometimes she wished she could thank Giles, but she didn't think he'd enjoy being reminded of it, plus there was really no way to say it that wasn't royally creepy.

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She loved to watch her sister fight.  She didn't get to watch her fight for real very often, but watching her training....  Dawn loved to dance, but she knew she would never have the control of her body that her sister did.  Her sister as Slayer was beyond human, and that should probably scare her -- especially after all those months of speeches -- but while she didn't really know what to think about her sister at the time, in looking back she knows her sister was scared, scared as any of them, maybe even more scared because the decisions were in her hands.

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Tara Maclay for alixtii

Oz scared her the first time she met him -- of course -- but she couldn't help respecting his willingness to leave when Willow made her decision.

She did a spell to check on him once.  She realized she could never tell Willow what she saw, so she never did it again.  Not that she saw anything bad.  On the contrary, she saw strength, dedication, and commitment.  She admired him tremendously.  She wasn't sure she'd have the strength to leave Willow if she needed to.

Sometimes she wished he would come back, just once, so she could talk to him.

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Comments

[lunabee34.livejournal.com]

I always wondered what Tara would think of Oz if she got to know him. Nice insight.

All these were lovely. Especially the Giles one.

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

Thanks very much. I like Tara/Oz ('shippy or no) a lot. And the Giles one is one of my favorites as well.

Thank you very much for reading and commenting, and I'm so pleased that you liked them.

[scrollgirl.livejournal.com]

Wow. These are all deeply, deeply awesome. Dawn & Spike: you've reminded me why I was such a fan of them back in those days. Both outsiders, often overlooked, they had such an awesome big brother/little sister dynamic.

Dawn was not complaining, however, when they were out clubbing one night and Faith followed her to the ladies' room and fingerfucked her in one of the stalls.
I don't read a lot of femslash, but this is just HOT. Faith/Dawn? I definitely need to read more of them. (Though I am a fan of Faith/Robin. I like the idea of Faith finally comfortable enough with herself to give a guy a real chance.)

Sometimes she wished she could thank Giles, but she didn't think he'd enjoy being reminded of it, plus there was really no way to say it that wasn't royally creepy.
Oooh, love this. My favourite. Which probably says a lot about me. It's not simply that I adore Dawn for understanding the necessary things, but that she's grateful for other people, like Giles, who get it too, even if it'd means she dies or people she loves dies. Plus, "royally creepy" is such a Dawn thing.

Buffy and Dawn, oh my girls. Love how much Dawn admires her sister, what she can do, who she is. Dawn looks up to Buffy as her hero.

Excellent Tara and Oz. Y'know, I've always had a yen for more interaction between those two. They're alike in many ways, but not exactly the same. Given half a chance, I think they'd really get along and understand each other, even if they didn't unburden all their deepest, darkest secrets.

You've just covered four of my absolute favourite characters. I can go to bed happy now, thank you! :)

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much for the detailed praise (both the "detailed" and the "praise" part).


I wanted to say something about why Faith was with Robin but couldn't really make sense of the pairing my own self, and it seemed in character for Dawn to not get it either.

I'm not that into Faith, though I've read and recced a couple Faith/Dawn (http://www.athenewriter.com/whedonficrecs/dawnfaith.html).

"Royally creepy" was a kind of off-the-cuff phrasing (I wanted to get these finished before I went to bed) so I'm glad it worked.

The Giles ficlet is definitely one of my favorites. I have such sympathy for that mentality, and "my" Dawn does as well.

I also really like ('shippy or no) Dawn/Spike and Tara/Oz.

[alixtii.livejournal.com]

Okay, your Dawn is so much my Dawn, and I appreciated the insight into your Tara.

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

:) The Dawn&Giles was possibly my favorite of the ficlets.

I tend to focus more on strong Tara, but I really liked what I came up with in this ficlet.

Glad you liked, and thanks for taking the time to comment.