"School Hard" / "Chosen"
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Apparently, Buffy isn't the only Summers woman who is going to be "a fireman [sic] when the floods roll back."
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Or, Kendra was her "daughter", Faith her "granddaughter", then Buffy and Faith got together and now the new Slayers have two mommies - which. ok, is kind of
incest-y, but no worse than the Fanged Four, right?
And Willow is their midwife. Something like that.
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Date: 2013-04-19 07:21 pm (UTC)You did make me realize that the pun isn't necessary at all - the Potentials are Buffy's metaphorical daughters. Hmmm *runs to edit post*
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Date: 2013-04-19 07:29 pm (UTC)Bring them to the slaughter and let them go!
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Date: 2013-04-19 07:34 pm (UTC)FYI - post has been updated, thanks for the brain wave, kind sir!
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Date: 2013-04-19 07:50 pm (UTC)the Potentials are Buffy's metaphorical daughters
Mom hair.
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Date: 2013-04-19 08:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-04-19 08:13 pm (UTC)The metaphorical mother to the potentials idea is one a buy into. Buffy doesn't have mom hair, of course, and Chosen references Lessons in lots of ways on top of the obvious Buffy leads a group of teens out of a hole in the school basement stuff.
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Date: 2013-04-19 08:42 pm (UTC)That seemed pretty clear to me when I watched S7 last year, and I think it's an extension of Buffy's role as Dawn's legal guardian (surrogate parent? everyone calls Tara her surrogate mom so - does Dawn have three mommies?) in S5-6
I definitely see Buffy as "mother" to Kendra and Faith in the exact same way that Angel is to Dru and Spike; but I don't see that referenced very often in the areas of fandom I've been to. (Which admittedly is limited.) But then again neither does the show, whereas the Fanged Four are referenced as "family" very explicitly. (childe/sire) There's no equivalent terms for the Slayer line of descent.
Although - it just occured to me (DUH) that it's the WC, not Buffy, who sire Kendra and Faith, until Buffy takes the power away from them. *Smacks forehead* I am so dumb. (But I still like the imagery, WTH.)
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Date: 2013-04-19 09:03 pm (UTC)Now, there's always the argument that not all parenthood is planned, but there's accidents and then there's accidents if you know what I mean.
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Date: 2013-04-19 09:40 pm (UTC)Somehow I suspect I shouldn't be laughing about this so much....
And of course I mean symbolically rather than literally for the Fang Gang. But it also works for me metaphorically as a reference to the fact that, until sometime until the 20th century, the leading cause of death among adult women in the Western world for several centuries was childbirth. (I haven't checked figures in the developing nations today for comparison.) Having children was considered a woman's destiny and duty, but it always came with the risk of death. As for the Slayer, if biology is destiny, then destiny sucks.
Of course I could also go with the Greek philosopher (forgot who) who claimed that everything of a child came entirely from the man and the women were nothing more than empty vessels that contributed nothing whatsoever....yada yada.
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Date: 2013-06-22 03:58 am (UTC)I'll be right back - plot bunny happening.
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Date: 2013-06-25 07:37 pm (UTC)But Buffy=mother of the Slayers needs to be explored in fic.
ABSOLUTELY. It's right there in the DNA of the show. I'm really still surprised how little fic or meta I've seen on the subject. I don't know why I expected more, given what I would guess to be the number of female fans especially? We've all been daughters and/or mothers at some point.
I'll be right back - plot bunny happening.
*bounces eagerly in chair* Has it happened yet?