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Spike, seeing Tara’s shitty family trying to tear her down and take her away, with the Scoobies all standing together to protect her: “Don’t look at me, I don’t care what happens to her!”

Also Spike, 0.2 seconds later: “I’ll immediately identify why her family perpetuated the demon lie and prove that Tara’s pure human in less than a minute!”

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favorite buffy + dawn moments: s7e04 | help

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RIP Tara you wouldn't have kicked Buffy out of her own house.

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for all that Buffy is basically a superhero, I think it’s Willow who’s really OP. (disregarding the fact that she’s a magical prodigy whose first spell was literally to curse a vampire with a soul and she ends up as some kind of grand sorcerer who bends laws to her will.) she is also apparently recruited by the government for her intelligence in high school, sought after by every top tier university, well versed in biology, medicine, computer science/programming, robotics, engineering, mathematics, chemistry, ancient languages, psychology, and has the capability of casually hacking/tracing/whatever-ing anything as the plot demands.

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Wait are you telling me that in all the time Buffy spent dead, Willow and Tara didn't even try to find a job WHAT THE HELL

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the next impulsive decision I make will involve my choice of dentures

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VAMPIRE APPRECIATION WEEK 2022 → day two: favorite vampire/non-vampire dynamic. — SPIKE & BUFFY ⤳ “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” (1997 - 2003).

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if i had a nickel for every time Buffy wasn’t herself and her friends didn’t notice i would have two nickels. which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice.

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it’s so interesting to me that Spike gets to keep parts of himself as a vampire. Like we know there’s a demon basically occupying their body and while vampires talk, act and have the memories the person is basically gone (unless you’re like Angel and have a soul).

But the thing is Spike never changes that much. He goes through torture to get his soul back, but his character and the way he js never changes like it does for Angel. Angelus and Angel are two different individuals, based on whether or not they have a soul. Soulless Spike and Not-Soulless Spike are… the same? Like yes, he feels more guilty about killing and in some scenes definitely holds back, but I don’t see that massive of a change with him.

And it always gets me thinking, because even his mom gets turned (which i only watched BTVS, i know there are probably flashbacks in Angel, but i cannot watch it). She changes. From a loving mom, a boy mom she changes and he kills her, but he doesn’t. Yes, he gets more violent, but that is expected, like bro is a technically demon. STILL he goes back to his mother, that care and love for her never leaves (unlike for example Angel’s. The moment he’s Angelus he wants to terrorise Buffy, he’s obsessed with her and plans on making her suffer for the thrill of it).

Angel’s love for Buffy doesn’t exist unless he has a soul. Spike falls for her without one and as a demon, whose supposed to be evil and well a demon, goes out of his way to endure torture to get his soul back, to be „a better man”.

I always found it interesting how the show was pretty clear on their vampires, yet Spike seemed to be the exception. Even if we don’t want to talk about him in relation to Buffy — He loved Dru. She preferred Angel or both, i cannot remember how exactly that dynamic looked when Angelus was back. But he still loved her, he didn’t care she was crazy.

My point is that obviously turning into a vampire changed William. He wasn’t the exact same, he was more like a vampire, hungry for blood and slayers and torturing people. But we can see there are some prominent traits he never lost. His love. He loved his mother and turned her to give her a forever life. He loved Drusilla and travelled with her all around the world. He loved Buffy and would do anything for her (including getting a soul).

I’m not claiming he has never done a bad thing, because he has, obviously. The point is, if he has a chance to do good he does it, he still has some core values and qualities from his human life, which was decades ago. Angelus would never. Drusilla would never. The vampires we meet in Buffy would never.

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BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER

2.09 | “What's My Line?: Part 1”

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I think one of my favorite little details about spike's character is how he treated drusilla. he wasn't just "patient" with her disability, he actively treated it as just another thing about her to love. he verry rarely coddled her or tried to get her to be more present in a situation when she wasn't capable. (I can't think of a single time that he did but i feel like there were some when he was already upset at other people?). he learned to understand what she was saying even when it sounded like nonsense. when she was upset he comforted her, no matter how often it happened. when she started dancing he danced with her.

and we see in buffy 5x20 that it wasn't just his love for dru that made him act like that. when tara was incoherent and opened the window in the van, he didn't just immediately forgive her for burning him, he never got upset in the first place. he yelled, of course, because he was hurt, but as soon as willow started apologizing and trying to explain he just nodded. because it's no biggie! he already understands. some people are just like that, and he doesn't see accommodating that as the big deal that the people around him are making it out to be.

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BTVS Easter episode where Anya kills the easter bunny

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S6E15 "I'm sorry, WILLIAM" you knowwwww that broke his heart you could see the tears rising in his eyes. 'Oh no she's serious this time. Oh no she's apologizing to the man, not the monster. She knows she hurts me. She knows every time I lower myself and say she can use me all she wants and I don't care that she doesn't love me I'm lying. She knows how bad I have it for her. I'm sorry William. I've heard that so many times. Unloveable William. Not dirtbag Spike. Pathetic loverboy William.' My HEART

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moodboard: dawn & tara

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It's such a simple moment, but I like that Buffy and Spike don't need to actually talk in Wrecked to communicate that he should get Dawn to the hospital. It's also a nice nod to his promise to take care of her "until the end of the world."

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season 1 buffy is so tiny and sad. she's already super traumatized but also she's a literal baby. like giles stop telling her to fight vampires. it's a school night, she should be in bed

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