#Spike Testing

[shalmonsdraws]

spokey dokey

[hrokkall]

Somebody else

[socratesgirlnextdoor]

sorry don't hate me but I don't think I'm alone in saying that I mourn Soulless Spike sometimes. ATS s5 Spike, while some of his decisions about not contacting Buffy are quite odd to me, is proof that Spike could have been this in BTVS, but it was too soon and not enough had happened yet for him to return to his full identity.

but besides that. so much fanfiction I read is about preventing the need for Spike to find a soul. and I think that's so interesting because truly, like how Spike's demon fell in love with Buffy, we all fall in love with Spike the Neutered Vampire. If it wasn't for the chip in his head, everyone would be a goner (lmao no buffy would stake his ass but you know.)

But something the show goes into a little when he's soulless is that after years of abstaining, he no longer wants to bite or hurt people. In 6x09, when he thinks his chip has stopped working, he does immediately go to kill someone, but he sort of has to hype himself up to do so. He has to remind himself that he wants this. He wants to be a monster. One episode earlier, we learn that without his memories, Spike doesn't feel the need to bite anyone as a vampire and assumes he helps people because he doesn't want to.

This is about Buffy so it's a little less significant because Spike not wanting to kill Buffy makes sense because he's in love with her but in 5x07, in a fit of rage he is loading his shotgun and tells Harmony that he's going to shoot her through the searing pain, which accidentally reveals that Spike has had the ability to kill her or anyone this entire time, but he's never really wanted to in the last year, not enough to go through the pain.

And even when he points the gun at her (which, in a joke in season 4, shouldn't be possible because he points a fake gun at xander and he gets a headache), nothing happens because he wasn't going to shoot her.

Don't get me wrong, Soulless Spike loves to kill. Souled Spike gets a rush on it too, but he transferred all of his killing and passion towards demons and Buffy that his desire to kill humans has poofed and he's too close to them now.

And the writer of The Initiative episode calls it the episode Spike gets a Clockwork Orange'd and BTVS touch on the point that what they do to Spike is inhumane in itself, but dude oh the possibilities to get into with the question of how this inhumane act is what puts Spike into a position where he slowly becomes a part of human society as well as vampire society.

But fuck, what an arc. I understand that it isn't a supreme message to say any old vampire can be soulless and good (even though they sorta did that) but I mean, that's why his good actions always meant more. Him protecting Dawn meant so much because why on Earth did he grow so close to her? And we know that vampires can love, if not wisely, and fuck I don't know.

The show does get into this, also, the whole thing about how separate the soulless and the ensouled are because a soul is implied to be a filter for morality, an ego, and Spike's filter for morality is based on how it affects Buffy, and I understand that that's not sustainable, but. I don't know.

It's weird because I don't want to separate the Spike I loved for 4 seasons from s7 and ats s5 Spike because late season 5 and some parts of season 6 soulless Spike are good even without a soul.

Like yes, no morality, evil, bad, not a long term thing. But the show never completes the question of Buffy and Soulless Spike's relationship, like obviously they wouldn't have become so good without the soul, the show argues (and sure that makes sense), but like hey! show can you tell me why they are like that then and the significance of that before you give me New Spike?

I don't know. I don't know!

[esprei]

also happy ingo day here's a WIP of my dystopian AU comic where he shows up in a panel 👀

[rungssparemodelpieces]

Perceptor, Brainstorm, and human walking into meeting

Brainstorm: “Sorry about the tardiness, we were doing experiments.”

Human, looking all razzled up and smirking: “I’m experiments.”

[pzyii]

BTVS + text posts ???

(Damn there was a lot of willows in this one)

[skullislandproductions]

Rough pose test of Tom, Jerry and Tuffy working together to steal the diamond back from the bad guys, “Tom and Jerry Meet Sherlock Holmes,” 2010.

[kagooleo]

wasn’t able to doodle as much as I'd like to lately from projects (and totally bc I didn’t get absorbed into a rarepair which i may or may not post later) but here’s my take on a hypothetical ancestor for lance on his appreciation week! a grandpa who has a lot of gyarados theming around him 🐉🌊

[outerspacedunce]

pike testing out how sensitive vulcan hands are heh

[chazchaschad]

I tried my best at a tiny bit of animation 😭 I’m terribly out of practice I really need to do more

I did the cheap little hair wave and that’s about it 💀

[magentacat]

Another idea from my forever WIP RWBY:

Ren is a vigilante.

Somewhere between Anima and Beacon, Ren got a taste for righteous violence. Maybe it started in order to protect Nora. Or because they both were once vulnerable kids and now wants to prevent others from being victims too.

Either way, whenever Nora isn't holding him back, Ren takes a domino mask and goes out to Vale to pick a fight with whatever crime syndicate he runs into.

Kind of like a mix of Green Hornet and Casey Jones.

Oh, and he's a drunken fist master, but also a teetotaler. Only Nora knows this, and the absolute menace Ren could be with enough sake in his system.

[maepersonal]

my reason for living is watching Jun Han slowly come into his emo, gender-norm-breaking self

[cannibal-nightmares]

apothecary's log, march 9th, 2025: duloxetine for treating whatever the fuck is going on with me: 1/10 rating. still feel like im being fried to death at night.

[hartxstarr-art]

spike and ophelia REAL

[horrorsequel]

corey posts abt a movie we watched together and says "with joey" imagine me squinting for five seconds and then saying "wait... I'M JOEY?!" while remembering that i am, in fact, joey. and getting really excited and happy.

[pup-pee]

hey guys? can kon have loom bands & bart have kandi? ok, thnx, bye