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+DAWN+
Before sometime between Season 4 and 5, Dawn was basically a ball of
glowy energy (possibly green), but she was made human and inserted into Sunnydale
and the world in general. Very successfully, it turns out, because while
we viewers have Season 1, 2, 3 and 4 to know what life was like without Dawn,
as far as every character in Buffy is concerned, they can't remember what
life B.D. was like. Which 
makes a point about the Buffyverse mythology; human memories are fairly
fluid, and it's comparatively easy to completely reconstruct them, as in
episodes such as 'Halloween'.
In Season 5, then, Dawn is like the uber-teen: an adolescent with not just
the usual problems, but with great big metaphors for them. Dawn doesn't only
feel like she doesn't exist, that her family are talking about her behind
her back, or that adults have secrets from her; these things are happening
for real. But Dawn herself is real, and is Buffy's sister, as she
was constructed from Buffy's genetic material. So Buffy and Dawn are linked
on a metaphysical, as well as physical level; in the eyes of the universe,
they're the same person, because the end of Buffy's life stood in place of
the end of Dawn's in 'The Gift'. Which means that, speculatively speaking,
she might possess whatever Slayer powers Buffy does even if, so far, she
doesn't show them. But, then again, Dawn is clearly not simply Buffy's 'clone'.
So her future probably doesn't lie in becoming Dawn the Vampire Slayer. But
stranger things have happened.
+LINKS+
I Am The Key
Dawn site Photos, Spoilers, a message board, art, fanfic, poetry and much other stuff.
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