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chaniIn 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!
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!
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Date: 2005-10-04 01:23 pm (UTC)What Dru said about Miss Edith speaking out of turn and when she turned her away shows that sometimes Dru didn't want to hear what Miss Edith said indeed but it also shows that Dru believes in punishment. She was very into punishing Angel for what Angelus did to her family for instance in "What's My Line". She had always had a grudge about that.
But it is always in a twisted way. Angel is punished for what Angelus' crimes, while Dru worships her soulless Daddy, and Miss Edith is punished for what Drusilla did. But after all it makes sense. It is the soul that can be punished in Hell, because it is the soul that can suffer, not the soulless person...Punishing Angelus would be pointless. Dru does have a logic.
Miss Edith being not allowed to watch Dru feeding also kinda reminds me me, in a twisted way, Angel who didn't want to drink blood in front of Buffy. Here Dru decided to turn the doll away. In Angel's case he was the one facing away.
The more I think about it, the more I come to the conclusion that Miss Edith represented Dru's soul.
PS: I suppose you haven't gotten the postcard from Jordan. This is crazy. Nobody in Europe got them! But I swear I sent them!