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timepiececlock"To light a candle is to cast a shadow."
-Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea
This quote intrigued me this afternoon. In the context it's meant to comment on causes/effects of actions, to say 'if you do this, that will happen.' However, taken as a statement alone, it brings to mind all sorts of delicious philosophical-y stuff, unrelated to the context but interesting in their own right. Thoughts about balance, about the necessity of having both light and dark in any situation to succeed, about night and day.
Also, it's making me wonder about niggling fanficcy ideas. If there's an ultimate good in BtVS verse, must there be an ultimate bad? If that ultimate good is the Slayer, do vampires as a collective race constitue her polar opposite, or is their something else?
When those old shaman dudes made the first slayer, was somethign equal and opposite also created? Is there someone just like Buffy and Faith out there, a Chosen young girl running around strong and smart and fast, whose only mission is to fight good and further evil? Would it even be a girl, or would it be a boy, to further the opposites trend?
Or was the slayer created as the equal/opposite of vampires/demons?
God, I need a life.
-Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea
This quote intrigued me this afternoon. In the context it's meant to comment on causes/effects of actions, to say 'if you do this, that will happen.' However, taken as a statement alone, it brings to mind all sorts of delicious philosophical-y stuff, unrelated to the context but interesting in their own right. Thoughts about balance, about the necessity of having both light and dark in any situation to succeed, about night and day.
Also, it's making me wonder about niggling fanficcy ideas. If there's an ultimate good in BtVS verse, must there be an ultimate bad? If that ultimate good is the Slayer, do vampires as a collective race constitue her polar opposite, or is their something else?
When those old shaman dudes made the first slayer, was somethign equal and opposite also created? Is there someone just like Buffy and Faith out there, a Chosen young girl running around strong and smart and fast, whose only mission is to fight good and further evil? Would it even be a girl, or would it be a boy, to further the opposites trend?
Or was the slayer created as the equal/opposite of vampires/demons?
God, I need a life.
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Date: 2003-04-29 04:35 pm (UTC)When those old shaman dudes made the first slayer, was something equal and opposite also created?
Another thought on this: Is it possible that the equal and opposite is inside the slayer herself, considering that her origins are the very thing she is supposed to fight? Since Giles mentioned there were rogue slayers before Faith, is there a constant struggle inside the slayer herself?
Or would a turned slayer be the opposite of a slayer?
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Date: 2003-04-29 10:53 pm (UTC)Ohh, tricksy tricksy question!
I don't think a turned slayer would constitute an opposite, because as far as we know Kendra was the first time there were two Slayers at once, and the idea of opposites would mean that the opposite was ALWAYS there somewhere, not there sometimes or there suddenly now. Also Faith is inherently a good person, as we know because she's changed her ways. Also, I think its logical to assume that any Chosen girl is inherently good inside-- that would be a requirement of being Chosen. And it's circumstances and personal flaws that lead to rogue Slayers, like in Faith's case.