Dawn Summers and Key Symptoms
Mar. 1st, 2009 10:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
marblegloveThere are way too many stories that say Dawn Summers is no longer the Key since the Glory used it and Buffy stopped it. An equal number of stories say that Dawn should now have access to the power and the memories of having been an ancient glowing-green ball of energy.
However, I would like to have a story that keeps Dawn as a human created out of said glowing-green ball of energy with the canonical tells: dogs will bark at her, crazy people will see her as only a glowing green ball of energy, and occasionally people in the know will try to use her.
It would be interesting to see her grow up and no, she's not allergic to dogs, it's more of them being allergic to her. And she doesn't really work well with insane people. And given that she's been fighting in a secret war most of her life, she probably runs into a fair number of crazy people.
My favorite crossover character is Methos, and really I'd say no one lives for 5,000 years without being more than a little off in the head, he just manages to convince most people that he's merely eccentric. But I can see him having some trouble trying to act normal when confronted with a group of watchers one of whom he can't look at directly because the glowing green light is too bright. And this is the one that's their language expert. Dawn can't figure out why the other language expert seems to hate her so much he won't even look at her.
On the other hand, maybe a story could go with a more widely accepted crazy guy. Dawn goes to Gotham. The Joker attacks. And Batman is completely taken aback when his arch nemesis retreats in horror from the very presence of some random girl.
As a more angsty alternative, and a non-crossover, a story could show the Scoobies slowly being worn down by the life they lead. Xander or Giles or Andrew or someone struggling more and more to remain sane in the face of ongoing suffering and fighting, and being able to track their own failure by the fact that Dawn looks more and more like glowing green energy and less and less like their friend.
I suppose it could even be a series: "Dawn's Adventures With Crazy People" or some such. As she traipses through the multi-verse, the reader discovers who is faking insanity, who is faking sanity, and who is simply just that crazy.
Also, I can't remember if, in canon, Dawn ever comes into contact with a werewolf. Are they close enough to dogs that they'd see her as out of place?
Anyway, I release this plot bunny out into the wild because I really don't want to have to deal with it. Enjoy.
However, I would like to have a story that keeps Dawn as a human created out of said glowing-green ball of energy with the canonical tells: dogs will bark at her, crazy people will see her as only a glowing green ball of energy, and occasionally people in the know will try to use her.
It would be interesting to see her grow up and no, she's not allergic to dogs, it's more of them being allergic to her. And she doesn't really work well with insane people. And given that she's been fighting in a secret war most of her life, she probably runs into a fair number of crazy people.
My favorite crossover character is Methos, and really I'd say no one lives for 5,000 years without being more than a little off in the head, he just manages to convince most people that he's merely eccentric. But I can see him having some trouble trying to act normal when confronted with a group of watchers one of whom he can't look at directly because the glowing green light is too bright. And this is the one that's their language expert. Dawn can't figure out why the other language expert seems to hate her so much he won't even look at her.
On the other hand, maybe a story could go with a more widely accepted crazy guy. Dawn goes to Gotham. The Joker attacks. And Batman is completely taken aback when his arch nemesis retreats in horror from the very presence of some random girl.
As a more angsty alternative, and a non-crossover, a story could show the Scoobies slowly being worn down by the life they lead. Xander or Giles or Andrew or someone struggling more and more to remain sane in the face of ongoing suffering and fighting, and being able to track their own failure by the fact that Dawn looks more and more like glowing green energy and less and less like their friend.
I suppose it could even be a series: "Dawn's Adventures With Crazy People" or some such. As she traipses through the multi-verse, the reader discovers who is faking insanity, who is faking sanity, and who is simply just that crazy.
Also, I can't remember if, in canon, Dawn ever comes into contact with a werewolf. Are they close enough to dogs that they'd see her as out of place?
Anyway, I release this plot bunny out into the wild because I really don't want to have to deal with it. Enjoy.
