What I found extra creepy about reading this chapter is that I had just woke up in a puddle of blood myself! (nosebleed)
I really enjoyed reading all the reactions of how Dawn was acting. ('for every action there is a reaction', ha!) I can really feel for all the characters here.
Dawn has really reverted into the emotional state of her physical age. So the trauma of being dropped into a world she believes she doesn't really belong in alone, slowly coming to terms that she may never go back, and then suddenly she sees her chance (or so she thinks?) to return via an apparition of her sister bleed all over her must be really intense!
Anita's reaction to Dawn's desperate desire to reunite with Buffy is heart breaking. I feel that it rings true with how some foster/adoptive parents feel when the child they grow to love and connect to still wants to be with their birth family. Or believes that their parents are going to "come back and get them". You can't blame the child for feeling that way or for not fully understanding the complexity of the situation, but that doesn't change the situation. It also true to Anita's character. Especially in the first set of novels. There was always someone that she had to take care of. Larry.. Stephan.. Nathaniel.. She's very much the motherly type, even if she doesn't want to admit it.
Nathaniel's freak out is also very much the fatherly/big brother type too. In his own way he takes up the role of care taker very easily. Him becoming frantic when he realized that there was blood in the house, lots of blood, is really believable. He probably became more frantic and confused when Micah wouldn't let him up the stairs. And it was cute how Dawn just walked up to him and held up her arms so he could pick her up and hold her. It was very touching and sweet moment in all the crazybuzzing going on.
And Micah. Oh,Micah. He seems so calm and held together. On the outside. I could only image what he's really thinking and feels about finding Anita and Dawn, with Dawn all covered in blood. But I guess someone has to be the "calm and rational" one in these kind of situations.
I also enjoy reading everyone else's comments and the theories people come up with. sweetinsanity90's theory about the blood being Anita's instead of Buffy's is pretty interesting. We see (though Dawn) that there are quite a few parallels between the Buffyverse and the Anitaverse. There's probably some kind of connection there...
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And I just realized how long this is so.. I'll just blame the babbling to the blood lose and be on my merry way!
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I really enjoyed reading all the reactions of how Dawn was acting. ('for every action there is a reaction', ha!) I can really feel for all the characters here.
Dawn has really reverted into the emotional state of her physical age. So the trauma of being dropped into a world she believes she doesn't really belong in alone, slowly coming to terms that she may never go back, and then suddenly she sees her chance (or so she thinks?) to return via an apparition of her sister bleed all over her must be really intense!
Anita's reaction to Dawn's desperate desire to reunite with Buffy is heart breaking. I feel that it rings true with how some foster/adoptive parents feel when the child they grow to love and connect to still wants to be with their birth family. Or believes that their parents are going to "come back and get them". You can't blame the child for feeling that way or for not fully understanding the complexity of the situation, but that doesn't change the situation. It also true to Anita's character. Especially in the first set of novels. There was always someone that she had to take care of. Larry.. Stephan.. Nathaniel.. She's very much the motherly type, even if she doesn't want to admit it.
Nathaniel's freak out is also very much the fatherly/big brother type too. In his own way he takes up the role of care taker very easily. Him becoming frantic when he realized that there was blood in the house, lots of blood, is really believable. He probably became more frantic and confused when Micah wouldn't let him up the stairs. And it was cute how Dawn just walked up to him and held up her arms so he could pick her up and hold her. It was very touching and sweet moment in all the crazybuzzing going on.
And Micah. Oh,Micah. He seems so calm and held together. On the outside. I could only image what he's really thinking and feels about finding Anita and Dawn, with Dawn all covered in blood. But I guess someone has to be the "calm and rational" one in these kind of situations.
I also enjoy reading everyone else's comments and the theories people come up with. sweetinsanity90's theory about the blood being Anita's instead of Buffy's is pretty interesting. We see (though Dawn) that there are quite a few parallels between the Buffyverse and the Anitaverse. There's probably some kind of connection there...
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And I just realized how long this is so.. I'll just blame the babbling to the blood lose and be on my merry way!