Heh - I'm glad you picked up on the understated line! The ficathon seemed the place for bald statements, but I do prefer the subtlety generally...
With the gang thing, I think Willow and Xander (and Giles!) would definitely pull that into question, but for some reason I was thinking all the way back to Welcome to the Hellmouth and the girls in the locker room (who mention Blue as their gossip source) who reckon Buffy got kicked out of Hemery for starting fights. Blue's in the school year above Buffy, after all, so Buffy wasn't there saving her class when their trips and projects went awry, and she never heard about the class protector award; she just knows what she's heard, that no one's seen her at any after school activities, that Snyder hates her and that she hangs out with this older guy at the Bronze quite a lot of the time.
And, on top of that, I think I was trying for some sort of meta comment on the tropes Joss was playing with in the first place - because as much the show is about inverting the tropes, it also reinforces them by depending on them for its concept. The tropes need to be there for the show to exist. So, if Buffy isn't the blonde white girl, she can't be the one baiting vamps into the alleyways - as a Latina, the rules of the world cast her into one of Michelle Rodriguez's tough!chick horror roles...
Image trumps reality, every time.
*nods nods nods* I think that's true over here as well.
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Date: 15/01/2011 10:16 (UTC)With the gang thing, I think Willow and Xander (and Giles!) would definitely pull that into question, but for some reason I was thinking all the way back to Welcome to the Hellmouth and the girls in the locker room (who mention Blue as their gossip source) who reckon Buffy got kicked out of Hemery for starting fights. Blue's in the school year above Buffy, after all, so Buffy wasn't there saving her class when their trips and projects went awry, and she never heard about the class protector award; she just knows what she's heard, that no one's seen her at any after school activities, that Snyder hates her and that she hangs out with this older guy at the Bronze quite a lot of the time.
And, on top of that, I think I was trying for some sort of meta comment on the tropes Joss was playing with in the first place - because as much the show is about inverting the tropes, it also reinforces them by depending on them for its concept. The tropes need to be there for the show to exist. So, if Buffy isn't the blonde white girl, she can't be the one baiting vamps into the alleyways - as a Latina, the rules of the world cast her into one of Michelle Rodriguez's tough!chick horror roles...
Image trumps reality, every time.
*nods nods nods* I think that's true over here as well.