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sillies

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The way that Spike knows immediately that Buffy clawed her way out of her grave because he's done it himself. The horror of being pulled from Heaven back into a previously decaying, rotted body, alive again where everything is too bright, too loud, and you had already been done and warm and safe and at peace. Mirrored by the horror of your soul returning to earth, in the body of a demon, burdened with the knowledge of all the suffering you've inflicted, a man suddenly reunited with a monster and twisted into a whole once again, lines irrevocably blurred, tortured by guilt. The fear that you came back wrong, maybe a little less human. The knowledge that you did come back wrong a long, long time ago, that even ensouled, you are still a monster, still have teeth and hunger and the urge to bite. Buffy being frightened of her Otherness, of being more or less than human. Spike unable to be a man, unable to be a vampire. Buffy finding solace at night, in a graveyard, in a crypt, in the arms of a vampire, being at home in the dark. Spike venturing out into the sun, eating and smoking and drinking like a human, seeking out a Slayer, who glows, who is effulgent. Buffy keeping a touch of death with her, Spike unable to entirely shake the remnants of his life. Both with a deathwish, both have died and come back, resurrected over and over and over again. Never able to just rest (can we just rest now?) Looking for something they desperately miss in the other. (The I love you/No you don't exchange being uttered by both of them, reversed) Mirror images.

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Buffy the Vampire Slayer 5.18 | "Intervention"

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It's very interesting to me that they seemingly purposefully juxtapose Spike with other vampires several times in season 2 in ways that not only make him more human but also less evil. I don't just mean the Judge saying that he has humanity or his team-up with Buffy in "Becoming" (though those also contribute). He came to the hellmouth to help nurse his sick partner back to health. He allows several potential victims to be freed in order to save Drusilla from Buffy in "Lie to Me". He actively discourages it when Dru wants to torture one of their minions in "Surprise". He gifts Dru a necklace in "Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered", juxtaposed to Angel's gift of a human heart. He pets the dog that Dru gives him as a snack instead of eating it in "Passion". He repeatedly tells Angel to stop toying with Buffy and seemingly thinks that psychologically torturing someone (rather than fighting them outright) is lame.

Some of this is obviously to show just how unbelievably evil soulless Angel is, but it also implicitly tells the audience that Spike is capable of acting selflessly for the people he cares about (Dru), he doesn't care much for torture, and can even do something that is ostensibly good (helping save the world) if he is given a reason to, which directly contradicts what we are told vampires are capable of. It fits very well with where they take him in future seasons but it is kind of crazy that they were doing this with a character that was initially only meant to appear in 5 episodes.

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My sparkle dies every time Sarah Michelle Gellar says she’s Bangel. For the love of God, don’t bring that into the revival.

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Buffy the Vampire Slayer — 6x06: “All the Way”.

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Buffy Summers as text posts

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Sarah Michelle Gellar as Buffy Summers in Buffy the Vampire Slayer season 5 (2000-2001)

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underrated buffyverse dynamics ➵ buffy summers & daniel "oz" osbourne

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what do you mean you havent used mindfulness techniques to accept the state of the torture labyrinth as is yet. its like youre not even trying

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*If you ever feel like we are not enough...Just forget about us and make some real friends, okay?

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GREED KNOWS WHATS GOOD! 

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it was all called that New shit. y'all seen that New shit they're doing? and then later they were like "oh that was pointillism, it turns out"

- jacob

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spuffy is one of those rare pairs that got me thinking that yep! they are married! it`s so important for them both and in their endgames they sure are married, it just makes sense. not everybody needs that, but these freaks are for sure married, and this fact makes them giddy everytime (me too). i saw something blue and how buffy had tears in her eyes and how it`s the happiest she`s ever been, then there`s spike on BOTH knees, so nervous and trembling, and how they are the craziest people in love ever?? what else can i think?? yep, they are officially married. they are husband and wife, they are husband and husband, they are wife and wife, they are spouses, they are besties, they are partners, they are mr amd mrs big pile of dust-summers.

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