Love's Bitch

Oh my Jesus you are a perfect human being don’t ever change.

(via misskittyspuffy)

welcome-to-sunnydale:

“You’re just a girl…”

invested-in-your-future:

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30 Days of Buffy

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Day Nine - Favorite Romance. - Spike and Buffy

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While pairings like Willow/Tara, Giles/Jenny and Xander/Anya will always be in my heart, there’s no contest here. Really.

Buffy and Spike is pairing of contradictions and at the same time pairing of two very similar people, who walk the line between human and monster, alone. A highschool queen-bee alpha bitch turned Slayer and a romantic poet turned Vampire.

At some degree, both of them have flirted with death their entire life ever since they became who they became and at the same time both of them represent “death” to each other - Vampires kill the slayers, slayers kill vampires. Thus its only normal that their relationship began with those darker, death-infused sides of themselves.

Ever since their first encounter they have been pretty much obsessed with each other and enjoyed facing each other, finding such a “gamble with death” thrilling. Buffy was the first Slayer Spike could not sufficiently kill and Spike was the first vampire personality to actually provide a challenge,a  threat, danger. Its just like Spike says in “Out of Mind” - they have been dancing a complicated dances of death all their lives and the dance they had with each other never really stopped.

Spike is someone who is unexpectedly sharp and has a very deep understanding of her, of even those sides of her that she herself denies.  Buffy on other hand is easily capable of looking past Spike’s theatrics and the role the romantic poet is playing. They both are not fearful of calling out each other on their hypocrisies and flaws. Of taking each other at face value.

And that’s exactly what sets those two off when they collide, forming a strange, yet beautiful and unique love-hate bond. They are like two storm clouds crashing to form a hurricane. Unpredictable, violent, random, yet at the same time beautiful.

Its not surprising that they eventually are capable of bonding, as both of them and their insights into each other, provide the basis for that bond and an understanding of what each other is going through. They are one-of-a-kind, entities bound to not really fit into neither natural nor supernatural, haunted by their losses, pasts and complexes, as well as lost loves. Two wayward beings on the journey of self-discovery and self-destruction.

Its a flawed, realistic, “raw” and dangerous relationship with many many missteps and horrible things. At the same time its this empathic bond that goes beyond simple love, making them like two parts of the whole.

Its all the more evident because of insane level of chemistry between SMG and James Marsters, that will possibly never be seen again on tv ever.

Which ironically is exactly why they have been capable of helping each other develop as people. Of rediscovering their true self and accepting it. Of understanding and ultimately forgiving each other and themselves.

Essentially Spike is only one who truly understands Buffy and Buffy is only one who truly understands Spike, leading to a strange, for the lack of better words, faction of a slayer and vampire, who honestly believe in each other and learn to appreciate each other in their (both intentional and unintentional) loneliness and separation from everything else

I doubt there will ever be any pairing similar or even close to Spike/Buffy. Its one-of-a-kind pairing that had very nice build up, with those sparks flying to all sides from the very first moments they encountered each other.

i-wanna-lick-it:

“I laugh in the face of danger. Then I hide until it goes away.”

Fifty Favourite Characters (in alphabetical order) | 17. Xander Harris (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

Mortal enemies, ladies and gentlemen.

You’re doing it wrong.

i-wanna-lick-it:

“Smell is the most powerful trigger to the memory there is. A certain flower, or a-a whiff of smoke can bring up experiences long forgotten. Books smell musty and-and-and rich. The knowledge gained from a computer is a - it, uh, it has no-no texture, no-no context. It’s-it’s there and then it’s gone. If it’s to last, then-then the getting of knowledge should be, uh, tangible, it should be, um, smelly. “

Fifty Favourite Characters (in alphabetical order) | 14. Rupert Giles (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)