Great post! Thanks. I think she twists every dynamic. I think Darla is one of the most compelling characters ever written for television. I see her as a twisted Virgin Mary of sorts, the Mother of the greatest vampire of them all. Mary brought us Jesus and Darla produced Angelus and later Connor. The Master, Darla's almighty father, wants her son Angelus to sit on his right hand (of the father). Darla comes from a Virgin/ia colony. The Master is almost an Angel Gabriel figure coming to Darla singing in the night when he vamped her. The psychic split between human/Darla and Vamp/Darla shown in Reunion, echoes the split in the human Mary and the mother-of-god-Mary while she retained her "virginity" after conception and birth. Darla encourages Angelus' role as evildoer like V-Mary encourages Jesus' role as savior. Whedon twists everything about her and dynamic is just great.