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So: a little sister.
(Watching the show as a preteen, I assumed she was Gellars real-life little sister.)
Their arguments, frequent and fiery, came to define how these characters love each other.
Gellars eyes soften, holding back tears.
For all that Dawn made herself unwelcome, she is family, no matter what.
OnBuffy, however, more than inHarriet the Spyor onGossip Girl, Trachtenberg could showcase a rich emotional depth.
Here was a death that was permanent in the mundane sort of way.
Dawn fights off the ghost, bleeding and shrieking into the void, pouring her heart into the battle.
But the ghost of Joyceisthe malicious presence and warns Dawn that Buffy will betray her.
Trachtenberg lends her characters grief a moving desperation Dawn desperately wants time not to have passed.
They are miserably, permanently human.
And yet Youre not special, he tells Dawn.
