#kennedy btvs

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People are too harsh about Kennedy from btvs. I have nothing but respect for the fact that her watcher was brutally killed just days or weeks ago, her life is under threat from relentless forces she's borderline defenseless against, new town, knows no one but she's in Buffy's house, Willow pings her gaydar and she immediately devotes herself to tryna hit. Everything else is chaotic and horrible and traumatizing but that DOESN'T stop her, she approaches every interaction with a single minded conviction to make SURE Willow knows she's down to fuck and GOD what a triumph of the human spirit, y'know? What dedication to lesbian pursuits, in the face of utter bleakness. She's an inspiration

[maybebitterxox]

Okay so I am not fond of Kennedy, but we know that she sussed Willow out immediately. Her gaydar is peak, this is canon.

Therefore I am inclined to believe she 100% also sniffed out Faith and was undeniably flirting here. If anyone ever asks for proof of gay Faith, I’m using this scene

Look at her. She KNEW another homo had entered the house. She could sense it.

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Buffy the vampire slayer - Female characters

I know I forgot some characters like Joyce, but I didn't have the space. I added the traits I liked about those characters.

And then Happy international women day !

[faith-thee-slayer]

obviously the joke is that andrew's too gay to care about girls kissing but like willow and kennedy knew he was standing right there why did they keep going😭

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THAT’S Kennedy?

BUFFY SEASON 7 SPOILERS

nooo she’s so… straight? There’s not correct way to be gay but I’m pretty sure she’s doing it wrong. “You, uh, better not hog the covers.” IT FEELS LIKE A “oh she’s so cool, she has brothers or smth” INSUFFERABLY STRAIGHT LEAD IN AN INDIE MOVIE??? I know I probably just don’t like her because she’s not Tara, but I feel like I wouldn’t like her either way?? Nooo get her out get her out she doesn’t capture the soft wlw feeling Twillow did :((

Why can Hollywood never leave characters single?

Edit: BTW “THAT’S KENNEDY?” WASN’T COMING AT HER APPEARANCE CUZ SHE’ STUNNING I JUST DON’T LIKE HER WRITING AT ALL OR HER OVERALL BEING THERE YK

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something that annoys me so hardcore about willow and kennedys relationship is that they actually worked well!! their relationship couldve been so interesting! except for the fact that the used their relationship to vacuum over tara so aggressively, it hurts their relationship so hard. the actors had actual good chemistry, and their storyline couldve been cute, but it was so overwhelmingly ignoring all the real actual pain willow would still have been feeling over the death of tara.

[saivanmarly]

There, how is that for fandom accuracy? Yeah, I changed 'Universally Despised' to 'Most Often Despised' because every character has at least one person that likes them, saying universally is like making the people who do go poof from existence. And I don't want to exclude anyone, you know. I guess the same could be said for 'Universally Beloved' because some people actually do dislike Buffy and so on. I feel like I've seen less negativity towards Dawn ever since her actress, Michelle Trachtenberg, (rest in peace 💔) passed away. This doesn't reflect my opinion though, I like them all. 💙

[finalgirl1984]

I think I would dislike willow and kennedy's relationship less if Tara didn't die if that makes sense? Like her death set off the series of events for the finale. It's obviously a big deal in the show. Willow killed two people and was ready to end it all for everybody over this woman. She went full villain. I think with a reaction as explosive as that I expected more fallout. Sure there was that one episode when she turned into Warren and the episode she first comes back to sunnydale. But both of those felt more about her guilt at having killed and hurt people than her grief over Tara. I think if Tara had somehow survived and her and Willow just broke up, But Willow and kennedy's relationship and the episodes I mentioned were left as is, The relationship might have gone over better for me.

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oh damnn 😭😔

alt text:

willow: We could have moved on. Raised Dawnie, moved somewhere nice... but I chose

(willow crying, buffy frowning) I chose you over her

(kennedy hugging willow) I can't do that again... to the woman I love

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the kennedy defender has logged on btw.

she's a GOOD character, okay? she's a little spoiled and sometimes doesn't read the room. kind of arrogant and maybe prone to a power trip here and there. so?

she's also STUPID brave, which i love. even as an unpowered potential she is willing (and 9 times out of 10 the absolute first) to throw herself headlong into danger at the first opportunity. even in episodes like showtime, when buffy is struggling in a fight, kennedy's first instinct is to leap in and help. she might be a little bossy with some of the other girls, but she DOES try to to protect them every single time there's a fight and they clearly like her - when kennedy is hurt or in danger, the other girls respond.

chloe's suicide is absolutely not kennedy's fault - if the show really wanted you to think that was the case, they would have made more of a point of it. even buffy, who is a pretty frequent target of kennedy's criticism, assures her that it wasn't her harsh words during training that lead to chloe's death - it was the fact that she was scared and vulnerable and the First (the thing that is really, really good at making people kill themselves) was whispering in her ear alll night about how cool it would be to die.

kennedy's a bit harsh with buffy but to be fair none of the potentials were really feeling great about buffy's leadership at the point in the season where we had the most conflict. and from there perspective, it's actually pretty sympathetic. they were scared to fight, didn't feel ready, buffy had been harsh with them to toughen them up and then a bunch of their friends were brutally slaughtered or maimed in front of them while buffy got her ass handed to her and they were all promised more of the same. a bit of discontent, a bit of panic, a bit of mutiny - not unexpected! (not looking to litigate though, it was dumb conflict tbf)

she was good to willow! a little forward, but she never pushed willow into anything she didn't want to do. even after willow turned into warren post-kiss, kennedy didn't freak out and abandon her. she stuck with her through a lot of freaky magic shit and emotionally volatility and looked down the barrel of a GUN for her - AS DOWN BAD AS IT'S HUMANLY POSSIBLE TO BE. even after getting a little freaked out with the magical draining that happened later, she got over it pretty quickly. she's patient and understanding when willow has reservations about sleeping together for the first time, gives the cute little kite string speech (if you can't learn to adopt willow's metaphors during conversation, you don't deserve her).

genuinely i think she's a good character. i wish there had been more room in the season to characterize her more gradually, but for the amount of hate i've seen her get over the years, i just don't think she's that bad.

also she has a tongue stud and who could hate that.

ALSO being a teenage mexican-american lesbian and seeing bisexual mexican-american actress iyari limon on screen licking alyson hannigan's neck with that very tongue stud TRULY unlocked things for me that nothing else could have. cannot stress that enough.

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So I like to think post Chosen Kennedy and Willow are long distance for a bit, Kennedy's busy on the Cleveland Hellmouth, Willow gets to go back to uni and finish her education, at I dunno MIT doing cool techno witch stuff, now that everything's not so dire that she needs to be on hand for magic solutions. And that she's not in quite so dire a place. Anyway this is them meeting up for the first time in a few months. Willow's roommate is exiled for the night and then the day after she's showing off her super cool super powered hot girlfriend who totally exists she just lives in Cleveland and fights vampires to all the friends she's made at uni.

[nicnacsnonsense]

So I just read a quote from Joss saying Kennedy was designed to be the “anti-Tara” and I just… Joss you already tried to do that with Riley — literally, he is called the “anti-Angel” — and it went over very badly. Why would you do that again??? Especially when this time it makes no sense for the character and adds nothing to the narrative, because the way in which she is anti is Tara was quiet, emotionally mature, and compassionate, whereas Kennedy is an immature self-described brat who has no respect for Willow’s boundaries.

[annairaleigh]

It's been 22 years since it aired and 13 years since I first watched it and Kennedy annoys me just as deeply as she did in day one.

What was her point even

What was the point of her

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Why is that the 19th episode of these seasons are always cursed?

BUFFY SEASON Y AND 7 SPOILERS

Episode 19, season 6 (Seeing Red): Absolute catastrophe.

Tara dies, Willow goes insane, Buffy gets shot and by WHO? A random nerd who’s mad cuz his gf broke up with him like huh. Awful.

Then, Season 7 Episode 19: this has to be rage bait.

It seems that every time Buffy is begged to take a leadership position she says no, and once she finally takes it, she actually leads and they’re all like “but ur meann :( 😖” like HUH? Willow I kind of expected because they haven’t written her character the best recently, Xander has always been a mood-swinging prick, and the potentials like Rona and Kennedy are both scared and dicky so wv, but Giles and Dawn? Like, Giles has been saying since the beginning “Buffyyy train harder and listen to me so you don’t have to listen to me and can lead.” And now he’s complaining that she’s doing exactly that? And Dawn, what did she even do to you? Sure it’s your house too but like isn’t Buffy the only one paying the bills? And you sacrifice that because you’re mad she didn’t tell you stuff? I feel bad for Faith cuz she’s just trying to help and they’re using her to make a point. But at the same time she does exactly the same fucking thing and they’re all suddenly ok with it. Why do they hate Buffy or smth??? My girl Buffy is quite literally trying to stop them from dying and they’re all trying to tell her she’s not being nice about it. What the fuck?

It’s the way that all my favs (Tara, Cordy and Oz) would NEVER let them get away with this evil. And I haven’t seen Spike and Andrew’s reaction, and I don’t really like them, but they also would be like “what the fuck?”

Point: Buffy is right. I miss Tara. I hate Warren. And 19 is cursed.

Edit: fucking knew Spike would tweak, I still don’t like him very much but at least HE has a little common sense.

Edit 2: WAIT THERE’S AN EXCEPTION! season 4 episode 19 new moon rising TWILLOW BECOMES CANON!

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