RE: [buffywantswillow] Unconventional Spike Shipping, An Overview

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I have been reduced to uncontrollable laughter due to this Overview, can't
wait to hear about Angel.

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Subject: [buffywantswillow] Unconventional Spike Shipping, An Overview



Faith: "OK, that was fun! Who's next?"
Buffy: "Yeah, I'm feeling frisky!"
Tara: "Don't you too need to rest after all that?"
Cordy: "They're Slayers... They're sexual energizer bunnies."
Willow: "Oh, I know... Try being a Slayer's roommate... Every night she 
comes in from patrol..."
Spike: "Where the bloody..." (Harmony slaps him) "Owww!"
Harmony: "Jerk!"
Anya: "Oh, good. You're here. We can start."
Spike: (Looks around) "Bloody hell... You all aren't drunk, are you?" 
(Buffy, Willow, and Cordy snicker)
Faith: "What'd I miss?"
Willow: "Well... One night... Buffy, Cordelia, and I were drinking... 
and... BWAHAHA!..."
Buffy: "We'll get you caught up."
Spike: (Noticing Dru) "You're here, too? Now, I'm really worried..."
Faith: "First, the formalities... Dru?"
Spike: "This is Hell... And I'm being judged..."
Buffy: "Close..."
Dru: (Bouncing) "I get to do the formalities... 

Title: Unconventional Spike Shipping, An Overview
Writer: E... Oooo... What does the E stand for... Enigmatic...
Evil...?"

Cordy: "First initial..."
Dru: "Oh... Is it Miss Edith?"
Spike: "NO, IT'S NOT BLOODY MISS EDITH!!!"
Buffy: "Jeez, Spike, chill."
Spike: "Right! You try having tea with Miss Edith for a century..."
Dru: "Miss Edith says you're mean..."
Tara: "Dru, Miss Edith says she'd like you to get back to the intros..."
Dru: "Oh... Yes...

E-mail: ebailey140@xxxxxxx
Notes: Continuing the Unconventional Shipping series, following the ones
for 
Buffy, Willow, Faith, Cordelia, Giles, and my kitten.
Disclaimer: E's only borrowing us, for mysterious purposes... We belong to

the wizard, Joss, and foxes and frogs.
Spoilers: Fanfic, the earlier Shipping Overviews, and Restless and To
Sanshu 
In LA.
Warnings: The usual sexual situations, and some violence.
Archiving: Yes, but let E know."

Willow: "Tara, that was brilliant..."
Tara: "You just have to know how to handle them..."

We're back for another look at unconventional shipping in Buffy fanfic, this

time focusing on the bleach blond vampire, Spike. Spike was sired by either

Angel, or Dru, or both... Nobody's sure which. The three vamps were 
inseperable, until Angel was cursed by gypsies with his soul...

Spike: "And turned into a bloody wanker..." (Buffy hits him) "Owww! Oh, 
come on!!!"
Anya: "What are you complaining about? Isn't this usually foreplay for you

two?"
Spike: "Oh yeah, that's right..."

After that, Spike and Dru were inseperable for decades, with Spike being 
devoted to his Dark Goddess. Unfortunately for him, though, Buffy boinked 
the soul out of Angel for a while, and the now evil Angel rejoined his old 
family. He proceeded to take Dru's attentions, while Spike could only watch

and stew, due to having been temporarily put in a wheelchair by Buffy
(though 
not through boinking). Once back on his feet, Spike entered into an
alliance 
with the Slayer, to stop Angel and Dru from destroying the world, and to get

their significant others back. It didn't work out well for Spike, though,
as 
Dru proceeded to be, in Buffy's words, a big ho...

Dru: (To Buffy) "Why did you call me a farm implement?"

Dru dumped Spike for a series of increasingly gross demons. There are still

many writers who are still attatched to them as a couple, though. A 
depressed Spike turned up in Sunnydale, with a new girlfriend, Cordette 
turned vampire, Harmony...

Buffy: "Punishing yourself?"
Harmony: "Hey!!!"

This didn't work out, but writers think they're a fun couple, so there's 
still fic. However, many writers prefer to pair Spike with others. There 
are two figures that dominate unconventional Spike shipping, as they seem to

dominate all shipping...

Buffy: "Gee, can't guess who that could be..."
Willow: "We do get around."

Spike/Buffy...

This is based on many things. First, there's the obvious chemestry.
There's 
sparkage in every scene, together. Then, there's the fact that visually, 
they match, nicely, both being lean, blonde, and fond of leather. They also

share a love for sex and violence. Spike is obsessed with Buffy. He was
the 
Big Bad, the Slayer of Slayers, and she trounced him time and again. He 
loves watching her in action, and craves the physical contact. He defines 
his unlife by a romantic ideal. He needs a Goddess to love and worship. 
Every jab, both verbal and physical, is a challenge to him, to conquer
her...

Cordy: "Yes, yes, we get it, already..."

Oh.. OK. The other primary Spike ship is...

Spike/Willow...

This is based on Spike's affection, sort of, for her in Lover's Walk and The

Initiative. He really wants to bite her, among other things, and she has a 
tendency to try to comfort him when he's depressed...

Willow: "I still think he settled... He was looking for Buffy..."

Well, yes, but he wanted to vamp you, as part of his plan to get Buffy...

Buffy: "How did HE know Willow and I had this subtexty thing going?"
Spike: "Hey, I'm observant. You two are bloody inseperable, and I really
do 
like Red, so it would have worked out great, if I hadn't got stuck with this

chip in me head.."
Willow: "That's sweet... Except for the being turned into vampires
part..."

In many ways, it's Buffy's dark side that appeals so strongly to Spike. So,

naturally, he'd get shipped with the embodiment of Buffy's dark side...

Spike/Faith...

Anya: "So, rather than being the slayer of Slayers, he's now the layer of 
Slayers."

Of course, there's also a lot of delving into Spike's past, and the 
relationship between sire and childe, leading to...

Spike/Angel...

This tends to get a bit rough, especially when Buffy's involved. The sire 
tends to be rather dominant, in every way. With a mutual Slayer love in the

mix, Angel has a tendency to demonstrate who's the Alpha, soul or no soul. 
Given that Angel spent a lot of years with his own sire, she and Spike had
to 
spend a lot of time together themselves, leading to...

Spike/Darla...

Darla: "You don't think I'd let Angel have all the fun..."
Buffy: "Aren't you dead? I mean, as in dust dead?"
Darla: "I got better." (Noticing the scar on Buffy's neck) "Angel...?"

To continue with the family theme, there is...

Spike/Joyce...

Buffy: "Spike..."
Spike: "Hey, she makes great hot chocolate, and she always listens..."

Spike's made his way through the various Scoobies, even....

Spike/Cordy...

Cordy even saw quite a bit of Spike before she was shipped with him in a
very 
funny fic...

Spike: "FUNNY?!!! I was helpless, in a wheelchair, being molested by three

drunk teenagers..."
(Buffy, Willow, and Cordy start laughing, hysterically)

It seems the three were having a sleepover, drinking lots of wine coolers, 
and looking at smut Cordy had swiped from Harmony's mom...

Harmony: "So THAT'S where it went!"

...And Willow and Cordy, still being virgins at the time, wanted to see a 
real man's "thing", as they put it, instead of just looking at pictures. 
Cordy had knocked Angelus out with a bottle, but Buffy wouldn't let them see

his thing, that being for her eyes only (though she took some time to play),

so she agreed that they'd take the now tied up Angel home to the factory,
and 
she'd let them see Spike thing, whether he was willing or not...

Faith: "Damn. I should have been there..."

Because they bonded in a recent episode, we have...

Spike/Anya...

And completing Spike's tour of the Scooby gang, we've had his short term 
roommates...

Spike/Giles and Spike/Xander...

There is also, it seems...

Spike/Adam...

Buffy: "Ewww!"
Spike: "Look, pet, forget about that... I can think of things I'd rather
be 
doing."
Buffy: "Such as?"

(Buffy and Spike begin a steamy make-out session. A shadowy, dark, figure 
slips up behind them...)

Willow: (Recognizing the figure) "Um... Guys..."

(WHACK!!! Spike is knocked to the floor by the figure)

Buffy: "Uh oh..."
Cordy: "Hi, boss."
Dru: "DADDYYYYY!!!"
Spike: "Bloody hell..."
Angel: "So, Spike, my boy... Playing with what's MINE without my 
permission..."
Buffy: "Not again... Look, Angel, I'm NOT your fledgling!!!"
Tara: "W-what's going on?"
Anya: "Oh, that's the vampire family hiarchy thing. You see, the childe
has 
to have the sire's OK to have what's the sire's property. Otherwise, it 
turns into a disciplinary thing, where the sire has to re-establish his 
mastery, in an NC-17 fashion.."
Cordy: "Well, I'd say this is a good time to take my leave..." (Angel 
glares at her, sniffs, then growls at Spike some more) ...Or not..."
Buffy: "I am NOT your property!!! I don't care how it is with vampires,
but 
you DON'T OWN A HUMAN BEING!!!"
Harmony: "Well, he did mark you... You have the scar... Speaking of 
which..." (Starts to approach Willow)
Faith: "Oh, no you don't!" (Knocks down Harmony) Yeah, yeah, I know when 
you vamps bite someone, you're marking them as your territory, but Red here 
was also bit and drained by the First Slayer!"
Buffy: "Yeah! So, Willow's OUR property!!!" (Turning to Angel) "Now, as
I 
was saying..."



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