18 and 19 for the choosing violence ask game?
18. it's absolutely criminal that the fandom has been sleeping on...
I’m not sure if it’s just where I’m looking but something that I almost never see anyone talk about Dawn Summers and Hank Summers specifically. I feel like a lot of the time it’s only ever talked about in relation to Buffy, and like. That’s her dad too! And it gets brought up a few times on the show (especially after Joyce passes), but still people only ever talk about Buffy and Hank. Literally you can draw a straight line back to Hank Summers for why Dawn is the way she is. She’s had exactly two love interests, and one of them is evil and the other wants nothing to do with her. So Buffy’s relationships are about Hank Summers but Dawn’s isn’t??? And of course she’s scared of everyone leaving, he was the one to do it first. And just. Hardly anyone talks about it. Yeah sure she’ll get her name lumped in next to Buffy’s, but Dawn Summers literally has to live with the fact that she’s technically never even met her father. And we’re just not going to mention this???? Okay.
19. you're mad/ashamed/horrified you actually kind of like...
I’m going to get yelled at. Kennedy.
It’s not so much that I’m mad or horrified, but I do feel a little hesitant to talk about it cause so many people just actively hate her without much room for discussion. I think had she been done in a better, more cared for season, she’d probably get a lot more sympathy than she does. The writers had way too many characters in s7 and couldn’t really develop them in a good way, even some of the main ones. I think Kennedy would’ve been more of a Cordelia-esque type fandom wise, had she had the time. Her main crime was that she wasn’t Tara, any other character who has the same traits she does is beloved by the fandom (she’s stubborn and will freely speak her mind. She’s a little spoiled and will rush in without thinking entirely through. Say, doesn’t that remind you of anyone??? (Hint: it’s basically any character. Sooooo many beloved characters have these things.)). And if you give her a second of your time you’ll realize there’s a lot to her. She’s fighting the apocalypse in some random woman’s house who keeps telling her she’s going to die. Her watcher was brutally murdered like a week before this. I feel the need to clarify I do love Tara and I will probably always favor Tillow over…Wennedy?? Do they even have a ship name?? But I definitely think they’re not a bad couple at all, and that while a little rushed (again I think boils down to a s7 problem) they had solid scenes. The kite scene is one I really like, and as for second chance romances I think we need more rep.
(I ALSO. feel we forget Kennedy literally has a tongue ring. She literally lezzed out in the middle of an apocalypse with a tongue ring. Put some #respect on her name.
