with what you say about how Wes comes to love the ideal of Fred without knowing the actuality of her, as a person.
Still thinking on her death as a "loss of dreams of home and normalcy" thing, as I'm not sure it quite fits: I like the way you portray them falling for her as she represents that: but to me, she showed that "normal" and "home" is what you make it, in the middle of whatever hell is busting loose around you. That you can be aware of the darkness and the Big Fight and still keep a sense of joy, of "home."
She and Wes take time to make googlie-eyes at each other over the romance of a roasting BEM nest that she's just set on fire: normal, and sweet, and yet surreal.
Huh. She's also the protector of "home" in that whenever a betrayal occurs, she is the fiery goddess of vengeance. Tasering Connor. Going forth to kill her professor. She is most outraged by a betrayal of trust, by a violation of the sanctity of a "home", perhaps because "home" is so much more a fragile and tenuous idea in their world.
... which makes it all the more odd that she was protective of Wes, after he'd stolen Connor, now that I think about it.
*wanders further afield, all delightedly thinkful, and stuff*
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I'd agree..
Date: 2005-08-15 10:37 pm (UTC)Still thinking on her death as a "loss of dreams of home and normalcy" thing, as I'm not sure it quite fits: I like the way you portray them falling for her as she represents that: but to me, she showed that "normal" and "home" is what you make it, in the middle of whatever hell is busting loose around you. That you can be aware of the darkness and the Big Fight and still keep a sense of joy, of "home."
She and Wes take time to make googlie-eyes at each other over the romance of a roasting BEM nest that she's just set on fire: normal, and sweet, and yet surreal.
Huh. She's also the protector of "home" in that whenever a betrayal occurs, she is the fiery goddess of vengeance. Tasering Connor. Going forth to kill her professor. She is most outraged by a betrayal of trust, by a violation of the sanctity of a "home", perhaps because "home" is so much more a fragile and tenuous idea in their world.
... which makes it all the more odd that she was protective of Wes, after he'd stolen Connor, now that I think about it.
*wanders further afield, all delightedly thinkful, and stuff*