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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2018-03-18 03:33 pm

[ SECRET POST #4092 ]


⌈ Secret Post #4092 ⌋

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(Anonymous) 2018-03-19 12:54 pm (UTC)(link)
The difference is probably that as viewers we understand that not every series can begin with total strangers earning each other's trust, so when we start a new series, the characters may have established roles and relationships with other characters. We had no investment in any other dynamic and no reason to doubt their friendship, so it was easy to accept Willow and Xander as childhood friends.

Dawn, on the other hand, was introduced in season five, far past the point where people began expecting new character relationships to take a little more work. Plus it was an actual plot point (and a point of insecurity for Dawn) that she wasn't real and neither was her relationship with Buffy--that Buffy loved her only because the monks forced her to.