Blogathon 2007 - Personal Canon Meme
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mllelaurelTell me a character, I'll tell you three things from my personal canon about them.
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unluckylasers: Tara MacLay
1. She got to be really close friends with Anya. It may have seemed at first like they didn't have a great deal in common, but they formed a bond back in the day, when neither of them quite belonged with the Scoobies. In part, it was self-preservation - someone to hide in the bathroom with, while the rest of the group flung proverbial mud at each other. In another part, it came out of a stubborn mutual desire to be seen as more than just Willow or Xander's girl. As it happened, though, their personalities meshed well and balanced each other out. Just being around the outspoken former demon made Tara more extroverted, and not that Anya told her this, but Tara was one of the few people she trusted to act as her personal conscience. Something to do with the way Tara didn't judge.
2. She slipped one night, when she was really tired, calling Joyce 'Mama.' Joyce didn't mind in the least, but it felt like such a sickening betrayal to her mother's memory that Tara never relaxed enough to do something like that again. She just wished she had, sometimes, after Joyce's death.
3. She'd been in love once, before she met Willow. Or at least she thinks it was love - those feelings never got voiced. At any rate, she was too scared to tell Willow she loved her for a good long while. Not just for fear of rejection, though there was plenty of that, festering in the back of her mind, but because she half-feared saying the words would make the feeling less sacred, somehow; make it go away. Instead, saying the words felt like imbuing them with power, and the act of it broke through a number of her personal barriers and fears.
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unluckylasers: Tara MacLay1. She got to be really close friends with Anya. It may have seemed at first like they didn't have a great deal in common, but they formed a bond back in the day, when neither of them quite belonged with the Scoobies. In part, it was self-preservation - someone to hide in the bathroom with, while the rest of the group flung proverbial mud at each other. In another part, it came out of a stubborn mutual desire to be seen as more than just Willow or Xander's girl. As it happened, though, their personalities meshed well and balanced each other out. Just being around the outspoken former demon made Tara more extroverted, and not that Anya told her this, but Tara was one of the few people she trusted to act as her personal conscience. Something to do with the way Tara didn't judge.
2. She slipped one night, when she was really tired, calling Joyce 'Mama.' Joyce didn't mind in the least, but it felt like such a sickening betrayal to her mother's memory that Tara never relaxed enough to do something like that again. She just wished she had, sometimes, after Joyce's death.
3. She'd been in love once, before she met Willow. Or at least she thinks it was love - those feelings never got voiced. At any rate, she was too scared to tell Willow she loved her for a good long while. Not just for fear of rejection, though there was plenty of that, festering in the back of her mind, but because she half-feared saying the words would make the feeling less sacred, somehow; make it go away. Instead, saying the words felt like imbuing them with power, and the act of it broke through a number of her personal barriers and fears.
