You know, the twisted Virgin Mary image struck me, too, hence Buffy finding a portrait of Darla as Mary in City Girls (http://www.fanfiction.net/s/1723301/1/).
...and speaking of twisting Marian imagery, there is also Cordelia as the Transcendant Mother, Jasmine works as a reversed Jesus, the divine giving birth to herself via using Connor and Cordelia and becoming one flesh with her followers not via being consumed by them but by consuming them, and if Michelangelo's pieta juxtaposes an impossibly young Mary with Jesus who seems older than her, there is Jasmine who of course doesn't just look older than Connor but is older, by millennia, and yet is his daughter...
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Date: 2007-01-05 01:33 pm (UTC)...and speaking of twisting Marian imagery, there is also Cordelia as the Transcendant Mother, Jasmine works as a reversed Jesus, the divine giving birth to herself via using Connor and Cordelia and becoming one flesh with her followers not via being consumed by them but by consuming them, and if Michelangelo's pieta juxtaposes an impossibly young Mary with Jesus who seems older than her, there is Jasmine who of course doesn't just look older than Connor but is older, by millennia, and yet is his daughter...