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7/8?!!!?!

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At her core, Willow wants to be special. She grew up ignored and neglected by her parents, no matter how perfectly she did in school, and was continually belittled by her classmates. She has her moments of jealousy and cattiness, and tends to latch onto anyone that shores up her self-esteem. She's matured a good amount since her time in high school, but the fact remains that a lot of what she does is determined by other peoples' opinions... And when she does start to stand up for herself, things get loud and messy.

Willow can be incredibly selfish. Time and again, the times she makes mistakes in the show are due to her own self-interest - from tampering with Tara's memories to making out with Xander way back in season two, and to bringing Dawn with her to get high on dark magic instead of taking her out as she'd promised, it's all drawn from that same flaw of selfishness. In particular she's given to being impulsive, as well: those spells of hers that don't work were often ill thought out and done on the spur of the moment. Both of these character traits feed directly into her eventual problem with addiction.

Magic is something Willow sees as making her unique, special, and loved. It's important to remember the root of her character, and indeed of most Buffy characters: parental neglect. Willow grew to replace that need for parental approval with need for approval from her friends, but in her selfish, impulsive way, she wants to set the terms for what they'll approve of. It hit her unbelievably hard when she realized what she'd done wrong, and that the support of her friends was conditional on what they decided, not what she wanted it to be. Magic wasn't a fix-all, and she really could mess up irreparably. Telling Giles that he was jealous of her power, heady after her success of resurrecting Buffy, was the first sign of her denial that anything that made her happy could be wrong.

But, at the same time, these kinds of flaws are common in people her age. They just don't usually have the power to change someone's memory or end the world.

Other: I'd be starting her at the beginning of season three and taking her through canon, so her samples reflect that time period. And I'm still not sure if I'll be using the comics - once we get there (and once I read them rofl), we'll see! \o/

Additional Links: Her Buffypedia entry. I've skipped a lot of things in Buffy canon, because seriously, I am not out to write a novel here even though I sort of did anyway. :|; So if you need anything cleared up, Wikipedia should have it somewhere, or you can always ask me.

First Person: You know, I think I've heard this song before, only now it's a different verse. Less 'demon trapped in computer' and more 'sentient internet community'. Pretty similar.

At least this one doesn't kill people, right? ...Right? There aren't any records of it - well, there's some people that were killed in a game, but they were brought back to life right after, so it's almost like it doesn't count! Except for the part where they died and have memories of it, but, pfft, death. It's so passé to have a permanent death these days.

But, just to check, no one here is named Malcolm Black, are they? Cause that one's a no starter.

But to introduce myself... I'm Willow, I'm a senior in high school, and I'm from California, 1999. Is it not cool to ask for spoilers on things like presidential elections and Y2K and whether the world really will end in 2012 like the Mayan calendar says it will? Cause part of me's interested, and part of me just keeps thinking of the temporal prime directive. Let me know what the dos and don'ts are here.