On Buffy I think it was shy early-seasons Willow whose personality mine most resembled. Though I have tried to cultivate the tact-free/no BS aspects of Cordelia's in the intervening years.
Mal: Ready? Zoe: Always.
'Serenity'
Buffy and Angel 1: BUFFYNANGLE4EVA!!!!!1!
Is it better the second time around? Or the third? Or tenth? This is the place to come when you have a burning desire to talk about an old episode that was just re-run.
Matt the Bruins fan - Sep 13, 2010 2:02:40 pm PDT #7484 of 10464
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Strix - Sep 13, 2010 3:39:35 pm PDT #7485 of 10464
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I think I would be Willow-geekery, Giles-teachery, Kylie-sexxery, Cordy-bluntery and a wee bit o' Inara-glamorie.
With a soupcon of Mal-practicality meets cynical idealery.
quester - Sep 13, 2010 4:17:57 pm PDT #7486 of 10464
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
I would love to be Zoe.
beth b - Sep 13, 2010 6:25:43 pm PDT #7487 of 10464
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
If I am anybody from Firefly , I am Wash
Shir - Sep 29, 2010 11:02:50 am PDT #7488 of 10464
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
For the sociologists who are following at home, here's what I ended up with wrt Durkheim, suicides and super heros:
Buffy's suicide in 1x12: altruistic (too much integration)
Buffy's suicide in 5x22: fatalist (too much regulation).
Buffy's suicide in The Wish: egoistic (too little integration).
And, in what I interpreted as another suicide, Buffy's choice to leave a world in Normal Again: anomic (too little regulation).
Matt the Bruins fan - Sep 29, 2010 1:30:57 pm PDT #7489 of 10464
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
How are what Buffy did in "Prophecy Girl" and "The Wish" considered suicides? She got taken down by the Master in a fight both times.
Daisy Jane - Sep 29, 2010 1:33:09 pm PDT #7490 of 10464
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
At least in "Prophesy Girl" she knew for certain she would die. Sort of a twist on death by cop maybe?
Steph L. - Sep 29, 2010 1:33:58 pm PDT #7491 of 10464
I look more rad than Lutheranism
How are what Buffy did in "Prophecy Girl" and "The Wish" considered suicides?
I wondered the same thing. I wouldn't define "going into battle knowing that you *might* die" as suicide. For one, isn't a key element of suicide *desiring* to die? In "Prophecy Girl," Buffy says flat out that she doesn't want to die.
Otherwise we'd have to call all war-related military deaths suicides, and that doesn't sound right to me.
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At least in "Prophesy Girl" she knew for certain she would die. Sort of a twist on death by cop maybe?
There's that, but she still said she didn't want to die. For me, that makes it not suicide.
Strega - Sep 29, 2010 2:37:23 pm PDT #7492 of 10464
In Durkheim the altruistic suicide doesn't exactly want to die; it's about sacrificing your life for the greater good (like a soldier).
§ ita § - Sep 29, 2010 2:59:32 pm PDT #7493 of 10464
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Are all soldiers' deaths in battle altruistic suicides?