Tag: btvs

fyeahdawnsummers:

btvsgif:

dawn summers: slaying + researching (requested by becauseoftara)

#i could see dawn being the one (years down the line; after she matures more; gains more life experience) #to restart and head a newer better watcher’s council #xander (despite his ‘see all’ rep) would reinscribe too much of the patrarichal approach to mentoring #there’s not enough room for experimentation and growth to be fulfilling to ambitious willow #dawn is the proto giles here; not just in their attention to slaying as theory and history #but slaying in practice #she HAS been through it all will buffy as much as giles really #but as a woman and a slayer’s sister she does have access to those emotional developments of a slayer #that giles can’t really transcend #invert the watcher’s council from being centered about the nebulous idea of the patriarchal father #to the little sister #i could see a legend of korra thing with grizzly chill old lady dawn mentoring the new head slayer or something

mad-madam-m:

hungrylikethewolfie:

buffytags:

emilianadarling:

I maintain that “she’s a hero, you see. she’s not like us” is one of the most telling lines about Giles’ characterization in the entire series. 

#also this is a tiny little thing  #and it holds barely any significence  #but to me it’s huge:  #Giles puts his glasses on just before he suffocates Ben  #He always takes his glasses off for the hard things the disgusting things the bad things  #he always takes his glasses off so he doesn’t have to see or face what is going on around him in full focus  # he can ignore the horribleness of certain things if it’s fuzzy  #but not this one  #not this time  #and I think that says a lot about Giles too (via ladyknightradiant)

#giles does what needs to be done  #he doesn’t want buffy to sacrifice that sort of integrity but he’ll do it because you know he’s probably done it before  #he won’t mind coloring his soul a little darker for the sake of hers or the world’s  #giiiiiiiiiiles D:  (via the-elusive-ollie)

#When this happened I was simultaneously like  #GILES NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO  #and also  #wow that is so spot on for his character I can’t even  #And this is where he continually brushes up against Buffy  #She will never condone killing for the greater good  #And Giles admires that  #but also feels that it is foolish  #and that it is his duty to act as this kind of protector for her and for the world#this is where the Watcher comes out in Giles the most I think  #guh (via 0tterp0p)

To me this has always been so extraordinarily meaningful for me, because most of the violence we’ve seen from Giles before has been in his Ripper moments, which frequently involve him not wearing/removing his glasses.  To me, the glasses have always been, more than anything, a signal of Watcher vs. Man.  Giles the man might not have been able to stomach this.  GIles the man might have been overtaken by the same compassion that made Buffy spare Ben’s life.  But Giles the Watcher?  He knows full well that the battle against evil is rarely a clean one; he knows that sometimes it’s not a matter of doing the right thing, because there is no right thing; he knows, just as he knew earlier when he was suggesting that Dawn might have to die, that sometimes an innocent life is the cost of the world’s survival.  And replacing his glasses—the symbol of an authority figure whose position at a comfortable distance from the action allows him to see the map of not just the battle, but the entire war—always read to me as a sign of him slipping back into that role again.  This isn’t Ripper that we’re seeing—it is absolutely, 100% Rupert Giles of the Watchers’ Council.

As her mentor, her ally, her surrogate father, Giles is proud of Buffy’s moral compass, that refuses to let her take an innocent life.  But as her Watcher, he knows that part of his duty is to cross the lines that his Slayer can’t or won’t.

One of the best Giles scenes in the entire show. Easily.

ereborne:

nonasuch:

dark-siren:

ifeelbetterer:

banrions:

into-every-generation:

peytonwinchesters:

#no one messes with buffy

#TEENY TINY BLONDE TEENAGE GIRL SCARES THE SHIT OUT OF FUCKBOY BULLIES #WATCH BUFFY (x)

#reminder no one even knew she was the slayer #they just knew she carried weird shit and sometimes showed up to save the day #and got arrested that once (via andymcnope)

#i would love to have seen an episode where the students’ mythology about her was discussed  #imagine what they thought  

okay how have I not seen a Lower Decks fic for BtVS in the literally TWENTY YEARS i have been reading fic for it

#the thing is #right #that they may not KNOW #but their hindbrain tells them she is a predator #the b i g g e s t predator #one with claws and teeth and the burning desire to protect those who cannot protect themselves #basically i’m saying buffy is a dragon #and her hoard is humanity via @andfullofterrors (x)