[ SECRET POST #5156 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5156 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

#1 and #4 I agree with, though #4 doesn't actually make a Dawn/Xander relationship more problematic in a Watsonian sense.

#2 and #3 I do not care about at all. It's a squick for some people, and I respect that, but there's nothing inherently wrong or toxic about it.

[(Anonymous)]

DA

I agree with you about 2. But 3 absolutely, if you knew them growing up and you were an adult at any point when they weren't, then I do think there is something inherently problematic about that. In real life anyway. People can ship what they want. A little squicked that it got written into the comic that is supposed to be Buffy canon, though.

[(Anonymous)]

Maybe if you knew them at ten, and you were twenty, then yeah, that becomes dubious. Which is to say, if you knew them as a child—when you were an adult, then it becomes dubious. If you knew them as a kid when you were mid-teens, or if you knew them as a mid-to-late teen when you were in your twenties? Nope, don't care.

It's not my business what two legal adults wanna do together.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, agreed. If we were talking like a ten-year age gap here, then that would be weird if they'd known each other growing up. But five years? That's nothing.

[(Anonymous)]

Tbh, I think I'd be less weirded out by the whole thing if Dawn hadn't been played by an Actual Teen, while the Scooby gang actors were all adults even in S1. I know the age difference between the two characters was only supposed to be five years, but the actor age difference is like fifteen, and it showed.

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SA

They may not have actually known her as a kid, because she never actually was a kid. Xander and Dawn have memories of knowing each other when Buffy was 15 (season 1) and therefore Dawn would have been 9 or 10.