#buffy and willow

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BTVS as textposts part 3

Part 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

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Buffy Meme: [6/10 Scenes] 6x10 Wrecked

"You are more than 'some girl'."

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[stuckinsquahamish]

Do I think Willow and Buffy are one of the great truly platonic friendships of all time?

Yes, absolutely, 100%.

Do I think Willow had a bit of a crush on Buffy in the early seasons?

Also yes.

Do I think Buffy, who had never had an erotic thought about Willow in her life up until that point, had some...interesting dreams and thoughts after they fought in Season 6?

...also yes. Just a little bit.

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Buffy the Vampire Slayer 4x10

[nevergonnabemuchmorethanweather]

I know Buffy had a strict code about not killing humans but had I been in her position, I would've helped Dark!Willow punish him for what he did to Tara. And what he tried to do to Buffy.

She didn't really have a strict code against killing humans as such. Faith was human-- a super powered human, but definitely a human, with a soul and everything. Buffy had a strict code against killing humans unnecessarily, otherwise known as murder. If Willow had killed Warren to prevent him from killing Tara, Buffy wouldn't have blinked an eye except to hug her and tell her she did what she had to do. Trying to stop Willow from murdering Warren in revenge had nothing to do with protecting Warren and everything to do with protecting Willow from, well, exactly what ended up happening.

Buffy also was against abuse of power, particularly supernatural power, because... well, look what happened literally every single time anyone tried to solve their problems that way? It doesn't work, and once you start, where do you stop? What's to stop you from trying to police the whole world once you cross that line? What's to stop you from pulling a Faith and deciding you can do whatever you want just because no one can stop you? Buffy had seen, over and over, just how bad that path was and she didn't want that for Willow because no one would want that for someone they love.

[pzyii]

Y'all ever think about that the like last conversation Buffy and willow had irl in s2 before Buffy ran away was Buffy saying willow was their last hope.

And that the last conversation they had, just the 2 of them, in S5 before Buffy died was Buffy saying willow was her big gun

Yeah.... Me neither (lying)

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Another amazing character study video from you yet again. Okay, before I go into my commentary, I would just like to say that I love Gabrielle Aplin. I’ve been obsessed with her debut album ‘English Rain’ for like… ever.

Buffy and Willow are a dynamic that is so interesting because there’s such rich history there and therefore lots to talk about with them. I do feel like their showdown in ‘Two To Go’ had been a long time coming in the show given how much jealousy, resentment and ignorance Willow had towards Buffy. And we learned in ‘Restless’ that she feared Buffy just being Buffy would expose her for the fraud she believes she is. Her being the one in her nightmare to rip the cool identity off to reveal the nerdy identity underneath. In a way Willow always believed Buffy to be her downfall just because she couldn’t match up to her. Just because Buffy was somebody and she wasn’t. I’ve written in my BUFFY REWATCH recap for the episodes ‘Welcome To The Hellmouth’/‘The Harvest’ about how that very first one-on-one interaction and conversation they had in the first episode told us so much about Willow and her problematic relationship with the theme of consent. Why she ignores, disregards and even takes it away. What the root cause for her doing that is. It has a lot to do with not being asked for it herself. How the people around her just expect her to do things just because she can. Just because she makes herself available to them. And honestly Buffy is the worst for it. But it’s specifically because it’s Buffy why it’s even more bothersome for her because who would she be without Buffy? Who is she without Buffy in general? Willow is someone that places her worth and value so much in the people around her that she doesn’t really know how to function as an individual person otherwise. Which is extremely sad but it’s honestly one of the most fascinating things about her character. That she’s only ever playing a role and assuming an identity that’s not authentic to who she really is or how she feels in the moment. And you never really get to see the ‘true’ Willow because of this. Because she’s the inner circle surrounding Buffy along with Xander and Giles, everything she does or says is performative as to prove herself to them. And with Buffy especially she’s always looking for ways to be useful or valuable to her and that’s partially why she gets into magic and becomes dependent on it. Because she knows Buffy needs it and she wants to be the one that provides it because that makes her feel special.

So by the time all of what goes down in Season 6 happens - this revealing of who she truly is and how she truly feels… it feels like tremendous payoff because we were waiting for something we didn’t even know we were waiting for. Didn’t even know we wanted. And the feeling that it’s been overdue for a long fucking time because this has always been Willow’s perception of Buffy and her relationship with and to her.

Which is just another reason why I think Season 7 is the worst season. Because they don’t properly reconcile with each other over it and reconnect as best friends. They don’t talk about what went down between them. The fact they used violence on each other, the fact Willow really felt this way. It’s so inorganic and unnatural how they interact in Season 7 it’s almost disorienting. It doesn’t feel right at all. But then there’s a lot that doesn’t for me when it comes to Season 7. ☹️

FAITH VICTORIA: “I just started listening to Gabrielle Aplin and I'm really loving her songs.

Willow and Buffy in season 7 peaked in same time same place, with Buffy admitting she thought Willow was still murdering people, and giving away some strength. But then it was rarely ever addressed again. They go back to interacting as friends, which is nice but ignores the massive climactic showdown they had last season. Maybe if they had made meditation more of a regular thing they both do in order to regain balance within themselves, Willow with magic and Buffy with slayer powers, they could have continued to bond and talk about their resentment and problems in a healthy manner without interrupting the plot much. I would have been really interested to see Buffys reaction to finding out Willow wanted to turn Dawn back into the key, and Willow's response. And maybe them comparing retroactively how they both view their friendship. I mean Buffy always thought of Willow with affection, so I imagine it would be quite confusing for her to hear that Willow always thought she had something to fake.”

It wasn’t enough. I mean none of the core Scooby interactions are enough in Season 7 but they especially seem so bloody distant. And I would understand that if it was about being hesitant to pick and clean up the debree from the explosion that was their relationship in Season 6…. But it’s not. It’s just because the writers don’t want to bother with it. So them being completely okay again for the final season just like that feels extremely unearned and therefore off. They don’t sit with the emotional beats enough to make them feel satisfactory. ‘Same Time, Same Place’ should have been just the start. Instead it was really all that we got for it.

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Aww, I just love this page: of Buffy looking at this picture of her and Dawn, while Dawn's in another dimension at the moment and she doesn't know if/when she's going to be able to get her out.

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BTVS as textposts part 10

Part 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

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Buffy Meme: [4/6 Relationships] Buffy/Willow

"It's gonna be okay, Wil. You're gonna be okay." "I know, you're here."

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Buffy the Vampire Slayer 4.04 | Fear Itself

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This episode was gold