But she seems even more convinced that the underlying problem is that she and Dawn can’t talk about it.
Which goes to show how solipsistic Buffy's becoming. The causal relationship "Kenny turns Dawn into a monster" has nothing to do with Buffy; she has no influence on what HAS happened. She does have the possibility to make something ELSE happen, though, and she doesn't.
Kenny’s spell seems all too like that penance malediction and if it is the cure can only happen when Dawn stops cursing herself for what she did.
And if they'd actually asked Kenny about it, maybe we'd know if that were indeed the case. As it is, it's pure speculation which could easily be checked.
If help means going Cosa Nostra on her ex it doesn’t seem that Dawn wants to be helped.
Because in the Buffyverse, beating up the bad guy never solves anything. (OK, it's not usually that simple, but there's a reason SMG had a fight coach and stunt doubles, remember?) And again, if you notice, I never suggested beating him up as an end in itself; the point isn't to punish Kenny (though I wouldn't complain, and I get the feeling Buffy or Xander wouldn't either), it's is to find out what (if anything) he did to Dawn and how to reverse it. They did that exact thing with every single MOTW back in canon. Why not now? If it turns out he can't reverse it even if he wants to, fine; why won't they at least check the possibility?
She’s snarking about the downsides of being what she currently is but she’s never said what she wants to be
If she's turned from a girl into a giant, and wants to stop being a giant, might what she wants to be returned to possibly, conceivably, outside chance, be... a girl?
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Date: 2008-12-28 04:50 pm (UTC)Which goes to show how solipsistic Buffy's becoming. The causal relationship "Kenny turns Dawn into a monster" has nothing to do with Buffy; she has no influence on what HAS happened. She does have the possibility to make something ELSE happen, though, and she doesn't.
Kenny’s spell seems all too like that penance malediction and if it is the cure can only happen when Dawn stops cursing herself for what she did.
And if they'd actually asked Kenny about it, maybe we'd know if that were indeed the case. As it is, it's pure speculation which could easily be checked.
If help means going Cosa Nostra on her ex it doesn’t seem that Dawn wants to be helped.
Because in the Buffyverse, beating up the bad guy never solves anything. (OK, it's not usually that simple, but there's a reason SMG had a fight coach and stunt doubles, remember?) And again, if you notice, I never suggested beating him up as an end in itself; the point isn't to punish Kenny (though I wouldn't complain, and I get the feeling Buffy or Xander wouldn't either), it's is to find out what (if anything) he did to Dawn and how to reverse it. They did that exact thing with every single MOTW back in canon. Why not now? If it turns out he can't reverse it even if he wants to, fine; why won't they at least check the possibility?
She’s snarking about the downsides of being what she currently is but she’s never said what she wants to be
If she's turned from a girl into a giant, and wants to stop being a giant, might what she wants to be returned to possibly, conceivably, outside chance, be... a girl?