Oh I'm very pleased you snagged that icon! It is such a compliment to the maker as you know - and it also allows me to see that it really looks good even sized down on my template here, the composition and color etc are all right. *beams and pats self on back*
*ahem* Thank you for indulging me. :D
she was so fragile, wasn't she?
And YET - she survives, she soldiers on, she inspires others, she reaches out to them in their moments of darkness the best she can. That's what defines her heroism, to me. Not that she's "made of steel" but that she isn't - she's human.
You always articulate what I love about Buffy better than I am able to!
but then when she lost her mum, to tell her to kill her sister
I can see why he does that - he reverts to his rigidity, to his training, when push comes to shove. (Most of us do that.) but - UGH. Really, Giles? I can't get over it when I see him in the Body, that he was the one she telephoned, that he was the first person after Buffy (and the paramedics) to see the Body, that he's been there and seen her agony, over and over, sat with her in her own Garden of Gesthemane; listened to her talk in the training room "if these are the choices, I don't see the point". and is still able to tell her do that?
I don't see it as out of character, but I don't understand how he would think for a moment she would be ok with that. (Never mind with LMPTM. OH GILES....) I suspect he wasn't really close with any of his family members; that Buffy is perhaps the first person he's experienced that bond with?
One fragile girl, who had to save the world, her friends and her sister on a daily basis.
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*ahem* Thank you for indulging me. :D
she was so fragile, wasn't she?
And YET - she survives, she soldiers on, she inspires others, she reaches out to them in their moments of darkness the best she can. That's what defines her heroism, to me. Not that she's "made of steel" but that she isn't - she's human.
You always articulate what I love about Buffy better than I am able to!
but then when she lost her mum, to tell her to kill her sister
I can see why he does that - he reverts to his rigidity, to his training, when push comes to shove. (Most of us do that.) but - UGH. Really, Giles? I can't get over it when I see him in the Body, that he was the one she telephoned, that he was the first person after Buffy (and the paramedics) to see the Body, that he's been there and seen her agony, over and over, sat with her in her own Garden of Gesthemane; listened to her talk in the training room "if these are the choices, I don't see the point". and is still able to tell her do that?
I don't see it as out of character, but I don't understand how he would think for a moment she would be ok with that. (Never mind with LMPTM. OH GILES....) I suspect he wasn't really close with any of his family members; that Buffy is perhaps the first person he's experienced that bond with?
One fragile girl, who had to save the world, her friends and her sister on a daily basis.
THIS - So much so!