my girl, Dawn Summers
Nov. 24th, 2010 06:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
snick_backupOne of the things I most appreciate about Dawn is that she wants the truth, regardless of how hard a truth it is or how much it costs her to get it. She wants no comfortable illusions. She goes to where the truth is, and she gets it: by breaking into the Magic Box, by snookering intel from a hell god.
And once she has it, she acts on it. She doesn't smooth it over for other people and she's not afraid to follow the facts to their logical conclusion. If the emperor's looking a bit undressed, she'll say so; if there's an elephant knocking its head against the ceiling fixtures, she is by gosh going to mention it (and then either whack it with a broom or feed it treats, depending).
Partly I appreciate this because I am so very much not this way. I'm conflict-avoidant to a fault, and I also get pretty attached to my comfortable illusions. When they're inevitably shattered, my response is much more Oz-like than Dawn-like: I go into hiding and think about things until I think I've got them sorted. (I've been a bit disturbed recently to realize how much like Oz I am. Except for the cool factor.)
It occurs to me that Dawn would make a fabulous investigative journalist.
And once she has it, she acts on it. She doesn't smooth it over for other people and she's not afraid to follow the facts to their logical conclusion. If the emperor's looking a bit undressed, she'll say so; if there's an elephant knocking its head against the ceiling fixtures, she is by gosh going to mention it (and then either whack it with a broom or feed it treats, depending).
Partly I appreciate this because I am so very much not this way. I'm conflict-avoidant to a fault, and I also get pretty attached to my comfortable illusions. When they're inevitably shattered, my response is much more Oz-like than Dawn-like: I go into hiding and think about things until I think I've got them sorted. (I've been a bit disturbed recently to realize how much like Oz I am. Except for the cool factor.)
It occurs to me that Dawn would make a fabulous investigative journalist.
