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scarlettgirl's journal in which she's talking about Giles with Buffy. Rather than write reams over there I shuffled back to my own comfy chair to waffle.
I'm English so none of the Scoobies have ever seemed too young for sex to me. When Giles met Bufy she was 16 so she was legal in the culture I grew up in. No squick factor with corrupting minors. Just wish when I first had sex (at sixteen) it was with someone like Giles instead of who it was with. Oh, for a time machine so I could seduce an older man instead (and I know just who I'd have gone for - now). Darn.
Umm. Giles. I've never seen him as a father figure to the Scoobs. Quentin might have said Giles had a father's love for Buffy but this is Quentin. He's a short sighted pillock. I got my revenge by torturing him and making him insane in a fic but I still hold a grudge. Giles connived with them to fool their parents. Often. He was an older friend, a mentor, a teacher. They're not necessarily parental characteristics. Most teens would do anything to avoid learning from their parents, much less confiding in them. So I don't get an incest squick from Buffy/Giles either.
So why doesn't it appeal to me? Because Buffy likes a little monster in her man? No. Ripper's about as tough as they come. On a mundane level, she would hurt him if she wasn't careful but Parker survived (pity) as did Riley after the drugs wore off. He knows her secret identity, he knows her weaknesses and her strengths...maybe too well. Maybe they've built up such a close relationship that adding a sexual, romantic element to it would be fatal.
Or maybe (whisper it) I just don't think she's good enough for him and he deserves better. I admit it. I have Buffy issues. Don't hate me or throw pointy things.
scarlettgirl's journal in which she's talking about Giles with Buffy. Rather than write reams over there I shuffled back to my own comfy chair to waffle.I'm English so none of the Scoobies have ever seemed too young for sex to me. When Giles met Bufy she was 16 so she was legal in the culture I grew up in. No squick factor with corrupting minors. Just wish when I first had sex (at sixteen) it was with someone like Giles instead of who it was with. Oh, for a time machine so I could seduce an older man instead (and I know just who I'd have gone for - now). Darn.
Umm. Giles. I've never seen him as a father figure to the Scoobs. Quentin might have said Giles had a father's love for Buffy but this is Quentin. He's a short sighted pillock. I got my revenge by torturing him and making him insane in a fic but I still hold a grudge. Giles connived with them to fool their parents. Often. He was an older friend, a mentor, a teacher. They're not necessarily parental characteristics. Most teens would do anything to avoid learning from their parents, much less confiding in them. So I don't get an incest squick from Buffy/Giles either.
So why doesn't it appeal to me? Because Buffy likes a little monster in her man? No. Ripper's about as tough as they come. On a mundane level, she would hurt him if she wasn't careful but Parker survived (pity) as did Riley after the drugs wore off. He knows her secret identity, he knows her weaknesses and her strengths...maybe too well. Maybe they've built up such a close relationship that adding a sexual, romantic element to it would be fatal.
Or maybe (whisper it) I just don't think she's good enough for him and he deserves better. I admit it. I have Buffy issues. Don't hate me or throw pointy things.