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[chani]

In School Hard, we met Drusilla and what was the creepiest about her was her gagged dolls that matched gagged Sheila!
Miss Edith, especially, wasn't allowed to watch Dru feeding...Why?


Dru said it was because Miss Edith spoke out of turn and was a bad example...

I used to think that Dru's dolls were a wink to the classic evil dolls in Horror flicks as well as a way to point out Dru's broken innocence. Besides when Angelus sired Dru she stopped growing up and remained a forever child, so it makes sense that she kept playing with dolls and longing for her Daddy! Miss Edith would be the imaginary friend that a lonely child makes up.

But Miss Edith was more than that. Dru seemed to foresee stuff thanks to Miss Edith's whispers and yesterday I read a (spuffy)fanfiction that I recommend, and in which the author gave an interesting explanantion concerning Miss Edith. Here's the link:

Prayers for a Poet

Basically Fetching Mad Scientist, the writer, said that Miss Edith is Dru's "magical whatzit, the leftover from her life, before" and that Drusilla was simply the name she took when becoming a vampire like a nun changed her name when taking her vows(or like Angelus was renamed Liam)) which btw makes sense since Angelus pretented to be a priest hearing her confession before he turned her, and Drusilla was Caligula's sister (and also the name of his daughter!)but "in life, Drusilla was Edith Christine Hillary. Miss Edith."

In a way Angelus played with Dru and she was his doll...the Devil's doll!

William's leftover was Spike's heart, and I think it's quite poetic if Miss Edith was Dru's double or rather a metaphor of Dru's lost humanity. Not an evil doll then, but a shelter for Dru's soul.

Maybe what I like the most in that story is that this is Spike's explanation for Miss Edith. Only a poet could come up with such an idea!

Comments

[pfeifferpack.livejournal.com]

Wonderfully logical, not just poetic. Thanks for sharing. I think there is so much more to Dru than a nutcase to dismiss or evil to despise. The character is a rich one and also quite important to the backstory of why Spike is the way he is. I always thought one of the reasons he held on to so much of his humanity was his compassion for Dru and his need for that humanity in caring for her. Without Dru needing those characteristics from him, who knows what parts of William he may have lost over the years.


Ethan, just for my Chani.

Love,
Kathleen
Taking a brief catch up break while writing ch 48 of GLE to get to Mary for beta. Did you catch my NC17 chapter last week? Going to have to actually post on the BoB board too.....been a bit busy this week and only read the digests!

[frenchani.livejournal.com]

Thanks for Ethan!

I saw that you posted it but I haven't read it yet. I guess that now I won't dare to comment it with a "it's about time!". ;- )

It is on my to-read list of course.

*hugs*