Faith might have played that role entirely - you could redo the entire series with Faith in the role of Spike to Buffy
I realized this just recently! Faith is when they started to explicitly play with Slayers having dark sides and what that meant for Buffy. Looking at just the first three seasons, if someone told me both Faith and Spike were coming back, I might think Spike would go to Angel and Faith to Buffy, because of the builtup history and tension between them (Spike's most interesting relationship to anyone in early Buffy is with Angel, at least to me.)
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Date: 2013-09-13 03:54 am (UTC)I realized this just recently! Faith is when they started to explicitly play with Slayers having dark sides and what that meant for Buffy. Looking at just the first three seasons, if someone told me both Faith and Spike were coming back, I might think Spike would go to Angel and Faith to Buffy, because of the builtup history and tension between them (Spike's most interesting relationship to anyone in early Buffy is with Angel, at least to me.)