30 Days of Buffy, Day #23

[itsnotmymind]

Day #01: Favourite season
Day #02: Favourite episode
Day #03: Favourite song used in an episode
Day #04: Favourite female character
Day #05: Least favourite female character
Day #06: Favourite male character
Day #07: Least favourite male character
Day #08: Favourite friendship
Day #09: Favourite romance
Day #10: Least favourite season
Day #11: Least favourite romance
Day #12: Least favourite episode
Day #13: Favourite potential slayer
Day #14: Favourite female villain
Day #15: Favourite male villain
Day #16: Episode you like that everyone else hates - Favourite piece of monologue
Day #17: Character you relate to the most
Day #18: Character who didn’t get enough screen time
Day #19: Character you like that everyone else hates
Day #20: Best Spike-centric episode
Day #21: Best Willow-centric episode
Day #22: Best Xander-centric episode
Day #23: Two characters you wanted to get together that never did
Day #24: Favourite example of 90s special effects
Day #25: Favourite Buffyverse saying
Day #26: Favourite Scooby moment
Day #27: Cutest moment
Day #28: Character you love to hate
Day #29: Episode you hate that everyone else loves
Day #30: What you think made Buffy so great


Day #23: Two characters you wanted to get together that never did
I went through a phase where I was a Faith/Spike shipper. This started before they even sort of met in "Who Are You". I'm not sure that they would work as a long-term couple, but they would be hot in the short-term.

Comments

[tigerpetals.livejournal.com]

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.)

[red-satin-doll.livejournal.com]

Faith is when they started to explicitly play with Slayers having dark sides and what that meant for Buffy.

They actually dealt with this a little as early as S1 in Nightmares, and S2's "Ted" (Buffy thinks she's killed a man), an episode which the show calls back to time and again: Consequences, DT, Selfless, etc. But you're right, this is when the theme starts to become front and center. I rewatched a bit of Enemies where Faith says "If you kill me, you become me" - and then watched Dead things again today. Buffy's experience with Faith, and the way Faith "got inside her" figuratively in S3 and literally in S4 (TYG/WAY) is all over the place.

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.)

Exactly, I would have thought the same as well.

Spike's most interesting relationship with anyone else besides Buffy is with Angel, which is why I ship them slightly. Not in the sense of seeking out Spangel fanfic (unless something really good falls in to my lap - or B/A/S), but in the sense of acknowledging that it's an interesting dynamic.