They brought her back to save the world. She awoke in the Sacred Land, accompanied only by ghosts. However, the old paths are beginning to change. (Games -> Other Genre)
He knew patience was a virtue that Angel had more than mastered, but it always bothered Gibbs to test it. AtS/NCIS/The OC, S1 crossover. Tony/Abby, burgeoning Kate/Ari, so far; Seth/Connor but BtVS/AtS canon relationships, in general. ACTUALLY UPDATED! (NCIS -> Angel-Centered)
I love how Angel (the series) is like here’s how Angel has grown and matured. And then Spike shows up in season 5 and its like but actually he’s still a jealous petty little bitch (affectionate).
the way sex is presented in buffy is like “sex is very special, it can be so fun to enjoy this with someone you care about, it even can be one of the happiest moments of your entire life! and that’s exactly why you should be careful with it: you can’t just trust anyone with that (ESPECIALLY if you are a girl!!!!! we are feminist btw #girlpower), because if it goes wrong then you might go crazy and start killing people. or, uh, get seriously hurt, i mean. anyway. enjoy it, but also make sure you don’t treat it like something frivolous, because that will reflect badly on you and can be really awful for your partner. got it? good. now that’s out of the way did you know old man giles fucks like crazy? it is vital that you are aware of this.”
The thing about Cordelia Chase is that she could’ve fought in Buffy.
She’s been insane and capable since day one, lest we all forget her gleefully driving her car through the school (while Willow and Jenny, who understood the gravity of the situation far better, both tried to discourage her bc they realized that was an insane thing to do) in s1. And she’s a cheerleader (HEAD cheerleader), which does require legitimate athleticism. Sure, she’s not slayer strong, but neither were Willow or Xander. And, sure, Willow has her magic, but she didn’t always practice magic and her amateur practice of it made her actually a little unreliable in that regard during Cordy’s tenure on BTVS.
So why did she always get kidnapped and put in danger so much more than everyone? I think it’s simple: she was on the fringes of that group. She was never fully accepted and indoctrinated into the Scoobies, as evident by her leaving the program for the spinoff without much fuss. Sure, she helped more often than not and, sure, she was involved in many a plan to take down the monster of the week, but lbr the Scoobies never really treated her as one of them. Her absence was never missed or noted, being cold or icing her out or saying things that discouraged her presence around them was the norm from everyone, she clearly wasn’t really considered a close friend by any of them— these are all things that make it easier to prey on her.
Bc who cares if Cordy is here means who notices if Cordy is gone? If it’s not weird (or, even, seen as a blessing) to not see her around, how tf are you gonna know that demons or vampires or whoever kidnap her? If Willow or Xander is in a bit of trouble, you close ranks and defend them. If they’re acting weird, you pick up on it and notice. If they’re not spending as much time with the group, you wonder where they’ve been. Cordelia doesn’t get this treatment, and therefore it is easier for monsters to get at her.
Her being the damsel in distress so much has nothing to do with her being weak or unable or unwilling to fight, and everything to do with her not having the same support that the others did, and god that makes me mad for her like no other.
i don’t remember when she shot him the first time but i agree. oh they were so funny together. he was so awful. very much joker & harley quinn vibes (which makes buffy batman). harmony should’ve got an ivy character who whisked her away and helped her move in from spike only then of course harmony would fall under her thrall as well……and that character should have been drusilla
1.Dead Man’s Party- Honestly any mention outside of a one-off line about how those pesky murder charges had been dropped would have been nice. Maybe have her ask Giles what happened to Kendra’s body and Giles tells her Mr.Zabuto came to collect her, it would be a sad contrast to the heart felt reunion Buffy and Giles get this episode.
2.Doppelgangland- what if vampire Willow wasn’t the only one who got pulled out of the wishverse? Though this is a pretty fun episode so I think having Buffy face to face with a version of her dead friend, right after (as far she knows) just getting Faith back from the brink would probably make the tone a little sadder.
3.Graduation day- I like the idea of Faith throwing Kendra’s death in Buffy’s face (I’m pretty sure it’s implied Mayor Wilkins had some idea of everything that happened the year before, so its not completely unbelievable that he’d have found out another Slayer was around and was subsequently killed around the time Angelus was on the loose, and mentioned this to Faith in passing) Maybe something like “you gonna feed me to Angel? Is that what happened to Kendra, did your boy drain her?”
4:Restless-I love a good dream sequence but having a white woman translate for a black woman who’s credited as “the primitive” was certainly a choice. Besides that I think having Kendra there makes much more sense with her actually being another deceased Slayer.
5.Literally anytime during season seven, but specifically in Showtime. It’s all about the First taking on the face of a dead (potential) Slayer and using her to tell the rest how Buffy can’t protect them and how they’re all going to die. Why not show the last young Slayer who died on Buffy’s watch? What if it changed from the potential to Kendra when she said the “well you can’t save them all can you?” line?
love of my life season 4 a season where the knockoff CIA is the villain. spike is domesticated in like 3 episodes and just becomes vampire kramer. they try to kill buffy cough because shes part demon cough cough. outfits are great. canon sapphic romance. marriage spell spuffy episode. xander is a bartender????? angel the series has started and now sometimes he shows up and sometimes buffy goes there. faith and buffy freaky friday episode with the doomed toxic yuri?? pedro pascal dies in the first episode. ends with a twin peaks ass david lynchian episode that foreshadows dawn summers. TARA MACLAY IS INTRODUCED. buffy makes thanksgiving dinner. spike explains the yoko ono beatles lore to a robot. giles canonically fucks again? buffy has curly hair when something is off eeeeek! vampire harmony kendall. beer drunk cavegirl buffy smacks a douchebag over the head. riley finn says yes i am a lesbian. oh how a season comforts me
One Spuffy take that genuinely confuses me is that Buffy was an active participant in Spike’s redemption arc. That she fixed him. That’s not what their seasons 5/6 dynamic is. Spike is in love with Buffy, and her feelings about him are slightly ambiguous. He is trying to be better in order to win her favor, and as it goes, he starts to be able to do good things without an ulterior motive. Most of the time, Buffy believes that, because he is a soulless vampire, Spike is incapable of truly being good. She tells him as much several times. There are rare instances where she treats him like a human and 1 (one!) time where she rewards him for being a good person (“Intervention” kiss). Otherwise, she sees him alternately as a useful tool in battle, something to have sex with in order to cope with her depression, and someone whom she has complicated romantic feelings for but represses it. She does not see him as someone worthy of redemption or make any efforts to personally further that redemption until after he regains his soul, a choice he makes all on his own. Buffy isn’t invested in Spike’s redemption. She doesn’t believe that redemption is even an option for him, much less does she help facilitate it. She doesn’t “fix” him.
Spuffy isn’t an “I can fix him” fantasy, it’s a “he fixes himself” fantasy.
I know there are a lot of feelings about Giles leaving Sunnydale and I’ll probably post my feelings on it at some point
but I would not trade that storyline for anything simply because of the scene in S6, E22 where he takes one look at Buffy and notices that she cut her hair and the scene where Buffy explains what’s happened since he left and we see them fully laugh together for one of the few times in the series
Like I’m sorry that’s still her dad he never stopped thinking about and caring about her
melting. xander calling buffy sweetie is like. ik I’m not supposed to take that as sweetly as I do but also he calls dawn things like honey and cordy and anya get called pet names all of the time. I think willow might be the only one of his girls that he’s never called something sweet. he’s just a bit of a pet name guy!!! and it’s killin me!!!!!
Perhaps this is one of those cases where you can see the huge difference between Spike and Angel.
The angel who currently has !SOUL!, walks with tHe lOvE oF hIs lIfE, without even holding hands.
What is Spike, a soulless “cruel monster” doing at the same time? He carries his woman in his arms, as if saying: What’s that? Should a woman walk? DAMN IT, THEN WHY DO I NEED HANDS? I WILL CARRY HER IN MY ARMS UNTIL THEY FALL OFF OR I DIE.
And then, the Angel will tell everyone in the neighborhood, including Buffy, that a vampire without a soul cannot love and only he is the most sensitive and loving vampire in the world …
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