What if she tries to deal and just can't handle it? This all reminded me of a quote from this essay about S6 Buffy and Spike:
But she [Buffy] loves enough to go on, cares enough to fight to care, cares enough to fight to care less when she knows that caring is killing her. Some of her actions are harsh, and selfish – even cruel – but I don't know that she acts that way in self-preservation. Or - there's the irony, I guess – she does. But surviving, in her case, isn't something she does for her own sake. She is the Slayer. Survival is in her job description. She doesn't get to indulge in falling apart. If she doesn't keep going the world ends, sooner or later. She let go once, gave up her own life because there was no other option she could live with, and the consequences of that have turned out to be overwhelming. This time she doesn't get to let go; she knows that. She has to hold on, because she's come back to find that the people around her are losing the stability they held onto through apocalypses and demon onslaughts and invasions by hellgods. But holding on in spite of everything comes at an enormous cost, and not just to Buffy.
Anyway... I'm astonished that Buffy manages to do anything at all. Me too. Especially in S6 - some people see her behavior there as very unheroic. I am amazed that she manages to carry on despite everything.
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This all reminded me of a quote from this essay about S6 Buffy and Spike:
But she [Buffy] loves enough to go on, cares enough to fight to care, cares enough to fight to care less when she knows that caring is killing her. Some of her actions are harsh, and selfish – even cruel – but I don't know that she acts that way in self-preservation. Or - there's the irony, I guess – she does. But surviving, in her case, isn't something she does for her own sake. She is the Slayer. Survival is in her job description. She doesn't get to indulge in falling apart. If she doesn't keep going the world ends, sooner or later. She let go once, gave up her own life because there was no other option she could live with, and the consequences of that have turned out to be overwhelming. This time she doesn't get to let go; she knows that. She has to hold on, because she's come back to find that the people around her are losing the stability they held onto through apocalypses and demon onslaughts and invasions by hellgods. But holding on in spite of everything comes at an enormous cost, and not just to Buffy.
Anyway... I'm astonished that Buffy manages to do anything at all.
Me too. Especially in S6 - some people see her behavior there as very unheroic. I am amazed that she manages to carry on despite everything.