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I had little time and energy, so I will do a repost of a comment I made elsewhere and an image spam for the first day.
I have thought for a while that Buffy is introverted in a way, or at least has introverted tendencies from early on. Right now I have only scattered thoughts to offer.
She has very few friends. Of course this is partially due to her being regarded as a freak. But still, she has two people she regularly hangs out with, one of them is her one very close friend, and then there's the one guy whom she didn't want but gradually learns to value, Giles.
In the second season she is keeping things from her friends. This is partially due to the traumatic nature of what she isn't discussing with them, but again. She doesn't share it and then soon all is forgiven because they understood without having to talk about and she was repentant. While she still has closeness with Willow, she draws closer to Angel. In some ways it's as if these two have their own world apart from the rest of the characters. She doesn't really have more close friends. Although later on she is hanging with Oz and Cordelia they don't seem to be friends and I think Buffy, going through the after effects of her relationship with Angel, is still in that separate world they two had. Only it's wrecked and he left it.
Then, she becomes more separate and even leaves, cutting off contact. I think Buffy is less close to Willow and Xander after that, and though Angel comes back they certainly can't build that fluffy little sanctuary they seemed to create in each other in early season two. Also, she does hide stuff from people in the beginning of the season and though they decide that maybe Angel can be left alive that doesn't address their problems with Buffy. This and the summer of no contact are dropped. I think we know what happens in season four and later on: the friendships fragment, and she doesn't make new friends. She gets one close relationship with Spike. She's not the close with Dawn or Joyce. She becomes more interested in thinking about what Slayer means instead of just fighting demons when they come while trying to be as normal as possible.
Oh, and her backstory. According to her she was worse than Cordelia, and we know she didn't have any real friends because she was too focused on maintaining an image and social status.
So Buffy's a girl who tends to keep things to herself more often than not over the years, has few friends, drifts apart from them soon in the show, and tends to be emotionally dependent on one or two people at a time, usually her love interests.
I think it's possible that she had some introvert leanings from the beginning, and learned really good social skills as a way to live up to a goal she had for herself -popularity- and then a lot of crap happened to her. This is partially dependent on how you define introverted. I know most people, me included, see Buffy, especially early Buffy, as the very stereotype of the perky outgoing extraverted girl. She is, but I think with the fact that the premise is supposed to deconstruct the stereotype, and having a definition of introvert that allows for good social skills and an appearance of openness.
The image spam. I am usually not someone fixated on the fashion of the female characters. This is partly due to them looking the same to me. But while watching the series I found this clothing really attractive on her.
A different outfit and not a closeup but it has some of the same feel that I liked in the previous one:
Edited to add: I found the images here a few weeks ago: http://cosmic-dare.org/relena/artbook.html
Tomorrow/today, a little more substance.
I had little time and energy, so I will do a repost of a comment I made elsewhere and an image spam for the first day.
I have thought for a while that Buffy is introverted in a way, or at least has introverted tendencies from early on. Right now I have only scattered thoughts to offer.
She has very few friends. Of course this is partially due to her being regarded as a freak. But still, she has two people she regularly hangs out with, one of them is her one very close friend, and then there's the one guy whom she didn't want but gradually learns to value, Giles.
In the second season she is keeping things from her friends. This is partially due to the traumatic nature of what she isn't discussing with them, but again. She doesn't share it and then soon all is forgiven because they understood without having to talk about and she was repentant. While she still has closeness with Willow, she draws closer to Angel. In some ways it's as if these two have their own world apart from the rest of the characters. She doesn't really have more close friends. Although later on she is hanging with Oz and Cordelia they don't seem to be friends and I think Buffy, going through the after effects of her relationship with Angel, is still in that separate world they two had. Only it's wrecked and he left it.
Then, she becomes more separate and even leaves, cutting off contact. I think Buffy is less close to Willow and Xander after that, and though Angel comes back they certainly can't build that fluffy little sanctuary they seemed to create in each other in early season two. Also, she does hide stuff from people in the beginning of the season and though they decide that maybe Angel can be left alive that doesn't address their problems with Buffy. This and the summer of no contact are dropped. I think we know what happens in season four and later on: the friendships fragment, and she doesn't make new friends. She gets one close relationship with Spike. She's not the close with Dawn or Joyce. She becomes more interested in thinking about what Slayer means instead of just fighting demons when they come while trying to be as normal as possible.
Oh, and her backstory. According to her she was worse than Cordelia, and we know she didn't have any real friends because she was too focused on maintaining an image and social status.
So Buffy's a girl who tends to keep things to herself more often than not over the years, has few friends, drifts apart from them soon in the show, and tends to be emotionally dependent on one or two people at a time, usually her love interests.
I think it's possible that she had some introvert leanings from the beginning, and learned really good social skills as a way to live up to a goal she had for herself -popularity- and then a lot of crap happened to her. This is partially dependent on how you define introverted. I know most people, me included, see Buffy, especially early Buffy, as the very stereotype of the perky outgoing extraverted girl. She is, but I think with the fact that the premise is supposed to deconstruct the stereotype, and having a definition of introvert that allows for good social skills and an appearance of openness.
The image spam. I am usually not someone fixated on the fashion of the female characters. This is partly due to them looking the same to me. But while watching the series I found this clothing really attractive on her.
A different outfit and not a closeup but it has some of the same feel that I liked in the previous one:
Edited to add: I found the images here a few weeks ago: http://cosmic-dare.org/relena/artbook.html
Tomorrow/today, a little more substance.
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So Buffy's a girl who tends to keep things to herself more often than not over the years, has few friends, drifts apart from them soon in the show, and tends to be emotionally dependent on one or two people at a time, usually her love interests.
I think it's possible that she had some introvert leanings from the beginning, and learned really good social skills as a way to live up to a goal she had for herself -popularity- and then a lot of crap happened to her.
I never thought of it that way, but that makes complete sense. Buffy does display a lot of traits of introversion, and they only get more pronounced over the years as she loses the desire/energy to put up a social and perky facade.