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All Human + Fake/Pretend Relationship
Buffy's career is going nowhere, her love life is dead in the water and her roots are showing, but there's no time to spare on any of those problems: she's got a whole wedding to plan. And that’s only before she decides to do the stupid thing.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer 2.22 | 7.17
What, that chip in your head? That's not change. That's just holding you back. You're like a serial killer in prison! I'm counting on you… To protect her.
S05E14 Crush S05E22 The Gift Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003)
one of the things that is really refreshing about buffy is that she does not really want to be a mother.
angel insists that she can not be with a vampire bc sooner or later she would want to have "fat grandchildren" even though buffy says she doesn't care about that and she is not a good nurturer.
she never really embraces a maternal role to dawn. she tries her best to be responsible for her but clearly struggles and is miserable in the role that is not right for her.
i was worried that the show would "fix" that aspect of buffy's characterization but while buffy grows into a more responsible and resourceful adult, she still does not embody the parental persona that is often forced onto her.
also, i haven't read the comics yet but i know that there is a storyline where buffy mistakenly thinks she is pregnant and chooses to have abortion. and i like how in the comics, she embraces the role of auntie instead, lol.
anyways, this is yet another reason why i hope the sequel won't have her married to some random human man so that she can have children and be "normal".
just give us domestic spuffy raising cats together!
oh you think your favorite character suffered like jesus on the cross? well this is mine
SARAH MICHELLE GELLER as BUFFY SUMMERS BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER (1997-2003) | S04E20, New Moon Rising
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All Human + Fake/Pretend Relationship
Buffy's career is going nowhere, her love life is dead in the water and her roots are showing, but there's no time to spare on any of those problems: she's got a whole wedding to plan. And that’s only before she decides to do the stupid thing.
spike having so little to build an identity around - not a man, not a monster, bedroom literally burnt to cinder, trusted with dawn but treated like less than dirt by the people who love her most, all good actions attributed to the chip and all bad actions attributed to the lack of soul - one of the very few things he says about himself, that other people agree with, is that he doesn't hurt buffy. that's basically all he's got. that's something he can confidently hang his hat on and hold close against everything else that anyone can say about him. he may not have a human moral code but that is his line in the sand, it's how he knows what is right and what is wrong. and when that's no longer true, even unintentionally (and i think this is in fact the most important bit) he has an identity crisis and goes to remake himself so (in his mind) he can no longer even accidentally hurt her. and i don't think that level of identity breakdown can occur unless things shatter so badly that the understanding he has of how to build himself around buffy collapses and he recognizes the need to be able to stop himself, on his own. anyways. thinking.
