"School Hard" / "Chosen"

[red_satin_doll]

Like Mother, Like Daughter original artwork a gift to me from comlodge, an amazing artist and generous friend. Check out the original on her journal.



Apparently, Buffy isn't the only Summers woman who is going to be "a fireman [sic] when the floods roll back."

ETA: beer_good_foamy reminded me that Joyce's threat to Spike, "You get the HELL away from my daughter!" (Rock on, Joyce!) could be seen as applicable to Buffy's actions in Chosen, if we consider the new Slayers as her metaphorical "offspring".  (What's the plural for "childe"?)


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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Comments

[red-satin-doll.livejournal.com]

*lol* Totally forgot about the "mom hair"

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.)

[rebcake.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I don't think that Buffy is Kendra or Faith's "mother" in the same way that Darla>Angelus>Dru>Spike are a family, because, well, she didn't make the choice to have offspring — until Chosen. I think that's why the "Sister Slayer" nomenclature works for me. Siblings don't have to choose or do anything for new ones to arrive, while parents need to be a bit more involved.

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.

[red-satin-doll.livejournal.com]

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.

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.