BtVS Double Drabble: Reflections

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Title: Reflections

Fandom: BtVS

Author: badly_knitted

Characters: Drusilla

Rating: PG

Word Count: 200, a double drabble.

Spoilers: General for Dru’s backstory.

Summary: Drusilla reflects on mirrors.

Content Notes: None needed

Written For: Challenge #101: Mirrors at fan_flashworks

Disclaimer: I don’t own BtVS, or the characters; they belong to the great Joss Whedon.

When she was yet human, mirrors were considered a sign of vanity. They were something a modest, god-fearing young woman learned to avoid lest she be considered prideful.

Drusilla had tried to be good, dressing in a manner befitting the kind of woman her father expected her to be, but visions tormented her and there were times she saw fear in her father’s eyes when he looked at her. At those times, when she retired to her bedchamber, she would stare at her reflection in her night-darkened window, trying to understand what she saw there and why she had been blessed or cursed with the sight.

When she became a vampire, mirrors could no longer capture her reflection, yet to her eyes, she was still clearly visible in them and she would smile gleefully, preening and primping. She had no need now to fear for her immortal soul; it was long gone. So she embraced vanity, dressing in expensive gowns and the finest jewellery stolen from her victims, and at last she understood.

Mirrors and reflective surfaces had always lied to her; only now was her true self finally visible, a predator reflected in the terrified faces of her prey.

The End

Comments

[killing-kurare.livejournal.com]

Drusilla is my all time favorite character and I really like how you portrayed her in this :-)
I like the turn it took and that she finally can be who she is ^^
Thanks for sharing!

[bk_forever]

Thank you, I'm glad you liked it.

As a vampire, she's not the same person as she was when she was human. Without her soul, there's nothing to hold her back. Before, she needed to be a dutiful daughter because of the time she lived in, but her visions were already pushing her towards insanity. It makes her one of the most fascinating characters on the show, and one of my favourite 'villains'.

[4bdnsn0wflake.livejournal.com]

I still love Dru.

Very nice job with this drabble.

[bk_forever]

Thank you!

I loved Dru and Spike together, but she was great on her own too. Juliet Landau made her such a memorable character with so many sides to her personality. I think she was the most interesting of all the vampire characters.

[timelordshines.livejournal.com]

Nice. Good use of the prompt.

[bk_forever]

Thank you! I rather liked the way this one turned out =)