Writing: Dawn Summers
Dec. 17th, 2012 08:19 pmSwiped from ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
lettered. Just because I am poking at an ages old Dawn-centric Christmas fic. This year I might finish it, skip the beta, call it a day, and post it. Maybe.
Pick a character I've written and I'll list the top ideas/concepts/etc I keep in mind while writing them that I believe are essential to accurately depicting them.*
- Dawn is made out of Buffy. She never ever, ever, ever forgets that.
- Because she was made from someonelse, Dawn is never sure if what she feels are her emotions or the echoes of what her sister feels.
- Dawn, even after season 7, isn't sure if she is a real person.
- Dawn loves Spike
- What Dawn doesn't know, but that I do, is that she loves him more completely than Buffy ever will. She grew up with his affection and his kindness (even though, in the beginning it was mostly just to earn brownie points with Buffy). But then he went and got a soul, got his heart broken by Buffy, and maybe in the future he really does love Dawn, after all.
- Dawn always had a crush on Xander, but will never admit that she also had a major crush on Angel. Buffy "lurved" him, so she will totally deny that she ever thought he was cute or anything.
- Joyce dying is the hardest thing that Dawn ever had to deal with. It was harder than Buffy dying. If it meant she got to keep her mom, Dawn would have preferred that Buffy had died way back in Season 1 before Dawn was a real person, but of course, she wasn't then, so the wish is irrelevant.
- Tara is Dawn's replacement mom, so, it's really like her mom died twice. Even though Buffy died twice, Dawn is still more affected by her mom dying twice.
- Dawn started doing research so that she wouldn't have to be alone after her mother died. The Scooby Gang made a habit of congregating around tables when they did research. Joining in gave Dawn a real reason to be in the room.
- Dawn dreams of her life before she was Dawn, when she was the Key. The dreams are dim and indistinct and sometimes she's convinced they're real memories and other times she thinks they're only dreams.
- Dawn will never be sure if she's a real girl, after all.
lettered. Just because I am poking at an ages old Dawn-centric Christmas fic. This year I might finish it, skip the beta, call it a day, and post it. Maybe.Pick a character I've written and I'll list the top ideas/concepts/etc I keep in mind while writing them that I believe are essential to accurately depicting them.*
- Dawn is made out of Buffy. She never ever, ever, ever forgets that.
- Because she was made from someonelse, Dawn is never sure if what she feels are her emotions or the echoes of what her sister feels.
- Dawn, even after season 7, isn't sure if she is a real person.
- Dawn loves Spike
- What Dawn doesn't know, but that I do, is that she loves him more completely than Buffy ever will. She grew up with his affection and his kindness (even though, in the beginning it was mostly just to earn brownie points with Buffy). But then he went and got a soul, got his heart broken by Buffy, and maybe in the future he really does love Dawn, after all.
- Dawn always had a crush on Xander, but will never admit that she also had a major crush on Angel. Buffy "lurved" him, so she will totally deny that she ever thought he was cute or anything.
- Joyce dying is the hardest thing that Dawn ever had to deal with. It was harder than Buffy dying. If it meant she got to keep her mom, Dawn would have preferred that Buffy had died way back in Season 1 before Dawn was a real person, but of course, she wasn't then, so the wish is irrelevant.
- Tara is Dawn's replacement mom, so, it's really like her mom died twice. Even though Buffy died twice, Dawn is still more affected by her mom dying twice.
- Dawn started doing research so that she wouldn't have to be alone after her mother died. The Scooby Gang made a habit of congregating around tables when they did research. Joining in gave Dawn a real reason to be in the room.
- Dawn dreams of her life before she was Dawn, when she was the Key. The dreams are dim and indistinct and sometimes she's convinced they're real memories and other times she thinks they're only dreams.
- Dawn will never be sure if she's a real girl, after all.
