The Story Summed Up
Feb. 13th, 2004 03:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mishalakThe Slayer stood alone against the demons. The only one to stand against the tide, to live, to fight, and to die giving her powers to another. Thus it had been since the first had been given her power by men who watched. For even as they feared doing to themselves what they had done to her, they were also afraid of what they had created. So there would be only one out of all who could be, so that they might control the Slayer.
Until there came a Slayer who broke every rule given to her and instead did as she thought right. Sometimes she erred, but she made the choice. Instead of dying alone as ancient words said she must, she came back because of those she loved. Instead of killing every demon that crossed her path in an inflexible slaughter she took the worst and left alone those no worse than most humans. She even loved one who was part demon and inspired another to be more than just a soulless thing. And at last she did not stand alone, but with other Slayers and then the power truly belonged to them, rather than being bestowed upon them by men. Their destiny their own to write for good or ill.
Until there came a Slayer who broke every rule given to her and instead did as she thought right. Sometimes she erred, but she made the choice. Instead of dying alone as ancient words said she must, she came back because of those she loved. Instead of killing every demon that crossed her path in an inflexible slaughter she took the worst and left alone those no worse than most humans. She even loved one who was part demon and inspired another to be more than just a soulless thing. And at last she did not stand alone, but with other Slayers and then the power truly belonged to them, rather than being bestowed upon them by men. Their destiny their own to write for good or ill.
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Date: 2004-02-13 10:18 pm (UTC)What made you come up with a summation today?
Re: Stories & Slayers
Date: 2004-02-13 10:48 pm (UTC)This isn't totally a reply to that, but that is where my thought train started. Buffy broke with everything that had gone before. First she refused to give up trying to live in the world, rather than standing alone. Then she came back from death, because she had friends, including a vampire, something no other Slayer has ever had. And so it went. Although they were not right for each other in so many ways, it was right for the story that Buffy and Spike were together for a while. And so I wrote a summing up of what I see the story of Buffy the Vampire Slayer as being about in my usual folktale style, as if it were centuries later.
Re: Stories & Slayers
Date: 2004-02-14 07:42 am (UTC)Re: Stories & Slayers
Date: 2004-02-14 08:12 am (UTC)Re: Stories & Slayers
Date: 2004-02-14 11:24 am (UTC)Namely, seasons one and two, and some episodes here and there. I missed Riley completely.
Re: Stories & Slayers
Date: 2004-02-14 11:27 am (UTC)Re: Stories & Slayers
Date: 2004-02-14 02:10 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-02-14 05:27 am (UTC)Re: Yay!
Date: 2004-02-14 02:10 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-02-14 08:15 am (UTC)