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[scarfman]

shipperx wrote about Buffy as a role model.

I think you're right about Whedon's Buffy never being allowed to grow beyond certain boundaries. To some extent it's a requirement for the format of the stories she's in - in my fanfiction Buffy becomes a leader, but that means she stops patrolling herself in order to be making the Big Decisions instead; she gives up being Captain Kirk to be Captain Picard. Whedon'll never let her do that.

It's the same thing with 'shipping. I read all sorts of discussion of Buffy's relationship with [insert your favored souled vampire's name here], especially in the wake of the latest comics issues. Everyone complains that Joss seems to have it in for their OTP, and I have to say, "Well, of course. There's no story in being happy." Now, letting them be happy is the story I'm trying to do. But expect it from Whedon? What do they say is the definition of insanity?

(I didn't mean to turn it into an ad for my own works. In retrospect I hope I haven't put anyone off...)

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[morvashepley.livejournal.com]

How about motherhood? Is it even an option for Buffy?

[scarfman]

Actually, I've done that once, sort of. (But not really developed it any.)