Re: Would Buffy quit?

["ebailey140" <ebailey140@xxxxxxx>]

--- In buffywantswillow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "ivygort" <ivygort@v...> 
wrote:
> Hey, the mods haven't shut this thread down, so I'll answer it on-
list.  As
> a fic hack this interests me and I would like to see different 
opinions.  I
> truly believe that there is no right or wrong answer.
>
> >
> > Ok, see that's where my thinking is. I don't know if after all 
that time
> she
> > 'could' quit. Not just because of the forces of darkness, but 
out of
> habit.
>
> Habits can be broken and if you take her out of Sunnydale it would 
be easier
> to break it.

Again, I don't see it as a habit, but as a combination of her sense 
of responsibility and her nature.
> > Or something to do with her energy. Remember S5? At the 
beginning she was
> > always going out late and hunting. She may have learned all she 
needed
> about
> > herself and stuff like that, but I think a little of that would 
come out
> if
> > she tried to just quit and be completely done with it.
> >
>
> Let me see if I understand this correctly.  Since the enjoining 
spell in
> season 4 that opened her up to the First Slayer you feel the 
energy of the
> slayer within her changed ... became for primal and now she craves 
the hunt?
> So it isn't a matter of doing her duty anymore its a matter of
> self-fulfillment?  Or that she has become "hardwired" and has to 
go out and
> slay or hunt?  So if this is true, then she would never have 
the "normal"
> human emotion of becoming tired or burned out with the struggle 
because she
> now built to enjoy it?
>
> Is that right or what you were thinking?

She DID go through a burned out period in Seasons 5 and 6.  But, she 
still had her sense of responsibility, and of course, those 
particular unique Slayer drives.  I don't think the craving was 
because of the enjoining spell.  A lot of Season 3 was about 
beginning to explore that dark side of her nature.  That was the 
whole point of Faith, she was Buffy's dark mirror, her alter ego, 
all this stuff that being the Slayer has made her, but she keeps 
locked inside.  By Seasons 5 and 6, though, she was wondering if 
this was all she was, this hunter/preditor who's very nature made 
her not the best girlfriend material, made some semblance of a 
normal life impossible, and the weight of the world had gotten heavy.

She got through that, but her sense of responsibility is still 
there, and she'll ALWAYS be a Slayer.  It's like how a certain 
friend of hers can't just walk away from magic, now, because it's 
too much a part of her.  AND, she has the same sense of 
responsibility to the world.     
> > Then, there's that issue of her being sooo against what the 
council
> > represented. I think she would help for a while, but once you 
get started
> in
> > something like that it's hard to get out of. You get in at the 
very
> > beginning being you she is, and I think she'd be too wrapped up 
in it.
> >
>
> Ok so even if she did get tired of it, you would feel that she 
couldn't walk
> away because she would want tohelp rebuild the council?  I don't 
know about
> this simply because I think she would trust Giles, Willow, and the 
others.
> She had the weight of all those deaths on her head and I would 
think that
> she wouldn't want that responsibility.
>
> But, I can see that happening.

Again, she's accepted the responsibility, and spent the show's last 
year growing into the leadership role.  Fighting the demonic forces 
in the world, helping people, is what she WANTS to do.  A Buffy led 
Council isn't going to be like Travers's.

E



Willow: "It's a good fight, Buffy, and I want in."
Buffy:  "I kinda love you."
                     'Choices'

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