[ SECRET POST #5720 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5720 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Disagreeing with your fandom

[philstar22]

I agree with this. Same goes for calling characters who aren't parents that. I mean, I hate, hate, hate the ship Giles/Buffy. But he isn't her father. He's her mentor. Those aren't the same thing. he didn't raise her. I don't like mentor/student ships, but they aren't incest.

Re: Disagreeing with your fandom

[(Anonymous)]

I agree with you. Hell, as a Starker shipper who sees a lot of anti sentiments expressed specifically by IronDad people insisting Starker is "practically incest," I agree with you from a place of personal experience.

But to play devil's advocate for a moment, I find the perspective that Giles is "like Buffy's dad" somewhat understandable, considering there is an actual line in canon in which a character describes Giles as having "a father's love for [Buffy]." Does that make him her father? Not remotely! They are not genetically related and he didn't even meet her until she was sixteen; it's pretty darn conclusive that he is in no way, shape, or form her father. But canon encourages the reading of him as a pseudo father figure pretty heavily, so I definitely get where the argument that he's "like her dad" comes from. The narrative invites us to view him in that light. (OTOH, if someone argues that Giles is "practically Buffy's dad," I'm going to balk at that, because no, he may fill a paternal narrative role, but he is not anywhere close to being her actual father.

Re: Disagreeing with your fandom

[(Anonymous)]

He is absolutely and unquestionably a father figure for her. And honestly, I can get why viewing the relationship as romantic would squick some people.

Of course, (a) it isn't incest (b) it doesn't matter if it squicks some people, they can just not read it (c) it wouldn't matter if it was incest