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Spamming the globe, I give a modified version of the Drabble I posted for this week's ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
open_on_sunday challenge - themed around "Faith".
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Title: The Mechanism
Character: Giles
Spoilers: BtVS Season 7.22 "Chosen"
Disclaimer: Property of Mutant Enemy
Theme: Faith
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All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others
You don’t know who or what makes for “potential”. You don’t know why one girl is Chosen and another isn’t.
You have to hope that they’re Chosen for a reason. Athleticism, power, and other gifts… but living with it is taxing. So whomever is Chosen, for whatever reason she’s picked – there has to be a reason.
You know that Not Just Anyone… so you have to believe that any girl who’s chosen, is a girl who – deep down - can handle it. You have to believe they’re special. Because otherwise, you might just be damning the world to save it.
A.N.1: The italicized quote comes from George Orwell’s, Animal Farm.
A.N.2: Generally, I try to avoid second person.
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Comments: This is was a hard choice, where I was confused as to who would be the "speaker". I think Giles was one among several principal figures in Buffy's decision to expand the "slayerness" that would have some doubts. I went with Giles, because he among the group often seems in the position of "The Mind", but who was also guided by his need to believe in bigger heroes and a better world - while so few of them retained much faith in humanity in general.
The Slayer, whomever she is, has had to believe there must be some good in everyone chosen to be a slayer -- some reason she was chosen. It becomes a critical element of the ego needed to rectify the near impossible choices that slayer invariably faces. For Giles, a watcher who cares about the women he's watched become slayer, I think he too needs this faith. That She is somehow better able to handle it than other women -- otherwise, it becomes near-impossible for him to justify the burdens placed upon Her. The burdens he's spent his adult lifetime explaining and reinforcing. And the power entrusted to her (but not others) as well - when he's seen power abused by himself and others.
open_on_sunday challenge - themed around "Faith".----------------------------------------------------------------------
Title: The Mechanism
Character: Giles
Spoilers: BtVS Season 7.22 "Chosen"
Disclaimer: Property of Mutant Enemy
Theme: Faith
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others
You don’t know who or what makes for “potential”. You don’t know why one girl is Chosen and another isn’t.
You have to hope that they’re Chosen for a reason. Athleticism, power, and other gifts… but living with it is taxing. So whomever is Chosen, for whatever reason she’s picked – there has to be a reason.
You know that Not Just Anyone… so you have to believe that any girl who’s chosen, is a girl who – deep down - can handle it. You have to believe they’re special. Because otherwise, you might just be damning the world to save it.
A.N.1: The italicized quote comes from George Orwell’s, Animal Farm.
A.N.2: Generally, I try to avoid second person.
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Comments: This is was a hard choice, where I was confused as to who would be the "speaker". I think Giles was one among several principal figures in Buffy's decision to expand the "slayerness" that would have some doubts. I went with Giles, because he among the group often seems in the position of "The Mind", but who was also guided by his need to believe in bigger heroes and a better world - while so few of them retained much faith in humanity in general.
The Slayer, whomever she is, has had to believe there must be some good in everyone chosen to be a slayer -- some reason she was chosen. It becomes a critical element of the ego needed to rectify the near impossible choices that slayer invariably faces. For Giles, a watcher who cares about the women he's watched become slayer, I think he too needs this faith. That She is somehow better able to handle it than other women -- otherwise, it becomes near-impossible for him to justify the burdens placed upon Her. The burdens he's spent his adult lifetime explaining and reinforcing. And the power entrusted to her (but not others) as well - when he's seen power abused by himself and others.