People don't seem to write much Buffy/Dawn, do they? I read one story once about Dawn and the Buffybot that I thought was interesting, but that's it, I think. Alot of Buffyverse people are totally on the Wincest wagon, so I know it's not that incest in fic bothers them.
I agree with you that it's really hard to make incest work between Buffy/Dawn. Sam/Dean and River/Simon are so easy to pair--their relationships are almost eroticized on screen. I see many parallels between the three sets of siblings, so it's much harder for me to figure out why it's more difficult for me to buy Buffy/Dawn. Maybe it's because while Dawn needs to be physically protected, she doesn't derive all or even nearly all of her emotional needs from Buffy like Sam and River do from their siblings. Or maybe it's because Buffy doesn't seem to need Dawn in the way that Dean and Simon need their siblings. I don't know.
Feel free to steal this idea! I might write more of it myself at some point as well. It's been a long time since I wrote Buffyfic and I kinda missed it.
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Re: So this turned out dark and kinky
Date: 2009-11-07 04:59 pm (UTC)I agree with you that it's really hard to make incest work between Buffy/Dawn. Sam/Dean and River/Simon are so easy to pair--their relationships are almost eroticized on screen. I see many parallels between the three sets of siblings, so it's much harder for me to figure out why it's more difficult for me to buy Buffy/Dawn. Maybe it's because while Dawn needs to be physically protected, she doesn't derive all or even nearly all of her emotional needs from Buffy like Sam and River do from their siblings. Or maybe it's because Buffy doesn't seem to need Dawn in the way that Dean and Simon need their siblings. I don't know.
Feel free to steal this idea! I might write more of it myself at some point as well. It's been a long time since I wrote Buffyfic and I kinda missed it.
:)