Angelic Women with Brittle Smiles…

Reika Ayanami Quatermain

“You’ve just GOT to be kiddin’ me!!” protests one Xander Harris, clearly not only disbelieving of our revelations of Willow’s questionable deeds but clearly edging into hostility. Towards not only the person doing the revealing, but towards ME and my sisters.

Oh, I and the siblings have tried to keep things polite and as cordial with the now Drow woman, but I know we couldn’t keep an undercurrent of distaste (not “hatred”, but a distaste mind you!) for the woman.

No, it is not because in the TV show she eventually became what is known in TV troupes (http://tvtropes. org/pmwiki /pmwiki. php/Main/ HomePage as a “lipstick lesbian”. Frankly, that’s not why we came to rather despise her character in the TV series and no lingering “homophobic” feelings towards the real life version carried over, in any manner.

No, the problem with the TV Willow had been NOT been able to let Buffy Summers stay dead and buried after sacrificing herself to close that portal that Glory had opened. Had gone hog wild and jumped into a damned dark magical ritual to return her to life. Good, if one happened to (ash she had mistakenly believed) gotten their soul trapped in a hell dimension.

Buffy in the TV show had been in Heaven when Willow’s spell yanked her (quiet unwillingly) back into the land of the living.

Too close to what happened (against use First Children’s will) a few times due to someone named Gendo….

Too close to home for comfort by far and it showed.

Real life?

Just like what she had apparently been trying to do by enlisting a rather surprised Chaos God named Slannish’s aid.

That was before all sorts of kinds of Hell broke lose when a female screamed and the flutter of white wings (three guesses just WHAT kind of celestrial being they belong to here) and that was that.

That avenging angel (three guesses and the first two don’t count) that the first letter of her name begins with a B, might have saved Willow’s life (and afterlife), but. . .

Willow. I don’t know just why she went astral to go find aid in bringing Buffy back. I do not understand why this woman of otherwise genius level intelligence would not have first at least try to confirm . . .

No, I wish it had not come to this. I wish that we had been wrong and real life didn’t have to follow that damnable TV script when we meet real people reflected in TV shows.

The look that Willow has on her face tells me . . .everything we’ve said was true…

Not that anyone ELSE of the Scoobies seem to notice! Except for Buffy (who’s looking rather pissed at us right now), none seem to be believing…. And look to be turning rather hostile towards us…

“Even IF she did MISTAKE this Demon God for a helpful spirit you actually expect us to believe that Buffy was dead came back to . . . Holy SH*T!! shouts the long time friend of Willow since . . .that crayon incident so early in their lives.

Buffy has now just thrown off her mortal seeming and has dawned her true angelic nature (this time of the more traditional Judeo-Christian variety).

Never can really tell just how one of them will manifest, really. Sometimes they even appear as figures out of . . .well, out of non- Christian (or any thing related to Christian) belief systems. I know that sometimes they‘ll appear as . . .never mind and . . .whatever.

Not really important to the here and now. She IS radiant, though. And while she has the radiant beauty (and awesome mystical nature) to stun her mortal friends to silence and has a breath taking smile, it’s not exactly a serene smile.

Point in fact that smile is somewhat brittle, truth be told.

“Hold that thought I’ll be with you all in a moment,” she says sweetly before gesturing towards them with a hand and freezing them in their tracks with some kind of . . .power bolt. Alive but not able to interrupt what she’s going to obviously have to talk to us about.

“What . . .are you doing with Willow here, confronting her like that in front of everyone . . .like she’s a threat?!” the former Vampire Slayer sputters, clearly vexed with us. “Don’t you even CARE about this particular part of the goal of my Quest?! She is special to me, You should KNOW!!”

“Buff, what are you talking about?” Rei asks in a calm, almost emotionless tone. “We didn’t even know until you showed up --frelling back from the dead--that something was amiss, but not any details, messenger.”

“Frankly we did not realize that you were a true Angel until your unexpected visitation upon us all back in the Emperor’s bedroom chamber with his daughter in tow, to be pedantic.” Yuido adds helpfully. "And all parties concerned were either too young to ask the proper questions, too engaged with plays for regaining the throne of the Imperium, or just too terribly busy to finish business there and be off and away to safety to ask you proper questions about your Quest's Primary goals.”

1. "Much less any secondary or tertiary ones."

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