I suppose it was a figure of speech. Her words weren't supposed to mean that demons were gnawing on fairies feet while the latter were kicking and screaming.
Obviously, there was a lot of mutual hostility in the undercommunity. The fairies have parasitic method of reproduction, so the hostility could be justified (at least partly).
The biggest problem for me here is finding the right frame of reference.
Are we supposed to regard the events as a black\white "comics" universe with unambiguously good and unambiguously bad guys? Or we're supposed to analyse it from RL POV? In that case Buffy-2's mission is quite dubious: she penetrates foreign territory and starts a war between different species.
I live in a former communist country and I remember times when we were taught in schools that our goal is to achieve communism all over the world. According to that ideology, Soviet spys who organized communist revolutions in African and Latin American countries, were the ultimate heroes. But if we look at their activities from the POV of people who died in these revolutions, they were monsters.
But the question is - should we apply RL logic to comics universe? And if we apply traditional comics logic to The Chain, then Buffy-2 is a hero who valiantly fights against oppression.
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Date: 2007-08-16 06:34 pm (UTC)I suppose it was a figure of speech. Her words weren't supposed to mean that demons were gnawing on fairies feet while the latter were kicking and screaming.
Obviously, there was a lot of mutual hostility in the undercommunity. The fairies have parasitic method of reproduction, so the hostility could be justified (at least partly).
The biggest problem for me here is finding the right frame of reference.
Are we supposed to regard the events as a black\white "comics" universe with unambiguously good and unambiguously bad guys? Or we're supposed to analyse it from RL POV? In that case Buffy-2's mission is quite dubious: she penetrates foreign territory and starts a war between different species.
I live in a former communist country and I remember times when we were taught in schools that our goal is to achieve communism all over the world. According to that ideology, Soviet spys who organized communist revolutions in African and Latin American countries, were the ultimate heroes. But if we look at their activities from the POV of people who died in these revolutions, they were monsters.
But the question is - should we apply RL logic to comics universe? And if we apply traditional comics logic to The Chain, then Buffy-2 is a hero who valiantly fights against oppression.