Re: "Did Buffy really Love?"

[Andy Stoffel <see2go4me@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Jul 20, 2005, at 6:06 PM, Enriqueta Nuñez wrote:

> Do you think that Buffy ever loved Angel,

It's canon that she did. I don't consider it to be "soul-mate" scale 
love (Hey! This IS aB/W shipper mailing list/group:-)) more like 'first 
serious love'. If it had been one of those "forever" kind of things the 
hard core B/A shippers insist on... she would have followed him when he 
left Sunnydale - "Hellmouth be damned"

[We don't talk about the Parker fiasco..]

> Riley

Riley was her first attempt at a "normal guy" relationship after Angel. 
She had to have some feelings for him. I can't imagine her sleeping 
with him otherwise. But "Love"? I don't think so...

> and Spike

The "Spike thing" is a special case. I don't think she loved him 
either. But he was the only person who really tried to get close to her 
after she was resurrected - whatever his reasons - and she responded 
because he at least gave her SOMETHING to feel.
(Willow was already on HER downward spiral by the time Buffy/Spike 
happened... and not noticing much of anything outside her own little 
manic world.)

> or was it just a cover-up? Was she jealous of Oz and Tara?

That's always a possibility. But she had a part of Willow that neither 
of them did.

> Getting into lots of problems with Faith, was that because she liked 
> her better than Willow?

No. While Willow was visibly jealous of Faith's relationship with Buffy 
I don't believe it was something that contributed to the trouble Buffy 
and Faith got into together. Faith was different, which allowed Buffy 
to express a different side of her own personality - the reckless, 
careless feeling, not thinking, strictly emotional part of her self..

>  And the problem of her for [Faith] sleeping with Riley was that she 
> can only touch Faith?

Not sure I understand that... Do you mean - "Was the reason Buffy was 
upset with Riley sleeping with Faith was because only Buffy was allowed 
to sleep with Faith?"

Not something I would admit to on a B/W shipper list/group :-). I think 
she would have been more upset if Faith had slept with Willow. Buffy 
and Faith had a lot of issues... which I attribute more to sibling 
rivalry than UST ( except when I'm writing a B/F centric fic of course 
:-))


-Andy-

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