[ SECRET POST #4423 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4423 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I'll admit that my glance at that page could barely be called skimming. Looking at the headings and the first line or two in response, I still don't see any rationalizing of the OP's comment.
(Obviously I could have missed it, and you're just literally giving me what asked for;; So this is just me rambling more than anything...)
The idea that the relationship must be romantic, and not paternal, because he lets her fight is what I find so strange. (I don't find their relationship to be either, tbh.) It's such a jump. Like he's gonna ban her from acting as the Slayer just because he see's her as a daughter is ridiculous, and impossible in it's own right. Even if he did see her like that I doubt he'd even try, not that she'd go for it if he had. For that to be the reason he must want to bang her, I can't even. There is such a thing as a middle ground, and I'm surprised every time people fail to see that it exists...

[(Anonymous)]

The person who wrote about that talks about how she's a mother and how Giles can't view Buffy as a child because no parent would ever let their child do what Buffy does and that therefore anyone who says their relationship is parental never had kids themselves.

[(Anonymous)]

Well, I certainly don't have any children, so I guess I wouldn't know... but wouldn't that situation apply to any job that has dangers involved. Like with that logic no parent could support their child becoming a firefighter? They work to save peoples lives, despite the possibility they could lose their own lives? (not a good example offhand, but it's what I got;;)

Also, when Buffy's mom found out about her being the Slayer she supported her. Befriended Spike even;;
Being a parental figure does not mean having a literal father/child dynamic. He groomed her to become as great as she was, and was proud of her for it, nothing more, nothing less? That's what I think at least;;
(this, again, is me ranting btw)

[(Anonymous)]

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that that mother is very unhealthy and probably has a super dysfunctional dynamic with her child. It's normal to want to shield your children, but it's not normal to try to prevent them from doing potentially dangerous things as they enter adulthood, or to withhold support from them if they do.

Since it was written 15 years ago, I hope that either she's grown or her kids have gotten away from her. The alternative is that she raised people who struggle to be independent and have adult relationships.

[(Anonymous)]

While I didn't really read it, I think (hope) she was just using her motherhood to force her ship.

[babydraco]

He doesn't have a choice, that's - he sang a whole song about how he wishes she didn't have to fight but it's his duty to teach her and then let her go.