Thanks for that! I may have read it in the past but it's been a while; this time I left a review (my own trail of breadcrumbs.)
I love fics that incorporate both Buffybot's humor and dark possibilities because she represents so much: a stand-in for the slayer line (girls who have been churned out on a "factory line", destroyed, replaced etc) and therefore an abuse of power, using the girls as tools the way both Spike and the gang do as a replacement for Buffy either for sex or slaying; lack of autonomy; buffy's depression and identity issues; the way the gang (and fandom) say they want Buffy but want her to behave like a bot....etc. Such a rich, rich character and it could have gone so wrong in the series but goes so right.
I'm surprised there are not more Buffybot fics - have you read mabus101's "(metem)psychosis"? I feel like I've mentioned it but can't recall: http://mabus101.livejournal.com/125867.html
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Date: 2013-11-06 03:53 pm (UTC)I love fics that incorporate both Buffybot's humor and dark possibilities because she represents so much: a stand-in for the slayer line (girls who have been churned out on a "factory line", destroyed, replaced etc) and therefore an abuse of power, using the girls as tools the way both Spike and the gang do as a replacement for Buffy either for sex or slaying; lack of autonomy; buffy's depression and identity issues; the way the gang (and fandom) say they want Buffy but want her to behave like a bot....etc. Such a rich, rich character and it could have gone so wrong in the series but goes so right.
I'm surprised there are not more Buffybot fics - have you read
http://mabus101.livejournal.com/125867.html