happy endings

[deird_lj]

Someone, recently, was commenting on the Buffy/Spike comic cover that was released – you know, the one with them fighting back-to-back. And they pointed out that, in fact, none of the Dark Horse people thought it was a shippy cover, because they didn’t realise that Buffy and Spike fighting back-to-back is incredibly shippy from a Spuffyish perspective.

In fact, a shippy Bangel cover is going to look very different from a shippy Spuffy cover, just because the two groups of fans have very different ideas about what a happy outcome is.


Which is all a long, roundabout way of saying that I’ve been thinking about what happy endings I’d want for each character…


Buffy:
- ends up in a relationship with someone (although not Angel)
- goes shopping for clothes and tacky souvenirs
- is also in charge of the Slayers – because she finally doesn’t have to choose between slayage and shopping expeditions

Angel:
- doesn’t end up in a relationship with anyone
- instead, drops in on all the Scoobies from time to time, and makes broody jokes that they only get a few hours after he’s left
- gets to watch Connor grow up

Spike:
- either dies in a blaze of spectacular fighting glory, or ends up with Buffy
- spends a lot of time hanging out with Dawn and trying to beat her at poker
- also makes fun of Buffy’s constant glaring at and subtle threatening of all Dawn’s boyfriends

Dawn:
- becomes a brilliant Watcher
- has a run of incredibly cool boyfriends, and then decides to go out with Andrew instead
- lives in Boston

Faith:
- ends up as joint head of the Slayers, at Buffy’s request (protesting this decision constantly, and making repeated attempts to step down)
- probably ends up single (but I’m not entirely sure)
- develops a secret passion for museums, but tries not to let anyone know, in case it hurts her cred

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[angearia.livejournal.com]

Someone, recently, was commenting on the Buffy/Spike comic cover that was released – you know, the one with them fighting back-to-back. And they pointed out that, in fact, none of the Dark Horse people thought it was a shippy cover, because they didn’t realise that Buffy and Spike fighting back-to-back is incredibly shippy from a Spuffyish perspective.

In fact, a shippy Bangel cover is going to look very different from a shippy Spuffy cover, just because the two groups of fans have very different ideas about what a happy outcome is.



THIS SOUNDS LIKE ME. :P


Here's my wishes for Buffy: That she's happy. Genuinely happy. That she's in a relationship with someone that doesn't define her, but allows her to be her best self, to be her true self. I want her to find the safe space to let her heart be open again. Please, be healed, Buffy. I love you and your pain is killing me.

[deird1]

Here's my wishes for Buffy: That she's happy. Genuinely happy. That she's in a relationship with someone that doesn't define her, but allows her to be her best self, to be her true self. I want her to find the safe space to let her heart be open again.

Agreed. Definitely agreed.
That's one of the reasons I'm a Spuffy shipper - because I think Spike is the most likely option of "people who will let Buffy be her". (Although I have two backup options.)

[angearia.livejournal.com]

That's why I like Spike with her. I don't sense that he expects her to be anything but what she is and he loves her fully.

Angel and Xander have ~ideas~ about who Buffy is supposed to be and it changes her, puts pressure on her.

There's this happy future that I imagine for her and the only person she's ever been with that I can see fitting is Spike.

[snickfic]

.Although I have two backup options.

*wants to know backup options*

Um, Oz?

[deird1]

Oz? As a backup option for Buffy? *boggles*

(Fic-wise? I've paired her with 4 different people, in all. And only one of them doesn't make my list...)


Err - barring the Immortal, who she broke up with mid-fic, and Riley, who asked her out in the background of a fic, that is...

[angearia.livejournal.com]

Witness the chemistry of SMG/Seth Green and then tell me how you can resist, because I CANNOT COMPUTE!

It's the kind of wrong that's right. PLEASE FANDOM, WRITE MORE BUFFY/OZ FOR ME. I'M BEGGING YOU. SNICK!

[eilowyn.livejournal.com]

You know how when Lost was on, people would say "Desmond is my Constant?" (no, you probably don't, because I think most of the people in on this conversation are the ones who never joined the maddening crowd on Lost)? I now want to say "Oz is my backup". They can have wolf cubs with Slayer powers together, and I can write future!crossover!fic where there daughter (fanonically named Joyce Anne) meets and falls in love with Alcide and tells Sookie what an eedjit she is.

I just got home from work and apparently my rambling button is stuck in the "on" position. Expect irreverency.

[snickfic]

What angearia said below.

You're going to make me go look at your fic catalogue, aren't you? Drat.

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Oz? As a backup option for Buffy? *boggles*

Yeah, when Buffy's not available (busy, down or dead), Spike gets shipped with Oz instead.

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[angearia.livejournal.com]

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

I want her to find the safe space to let her heart be open again. Please, be healed, Buffy. I love you and your pain is killing me.

YOU ARE KILLING ME. KILLING ME DEAD.

OH BUFFY.

*sobs*

I've said this before and I'll say it again: this is why I sort of hate the very idea of the comics. Because when Buffy's ending is her standing on the edge of that crater smiling, that's all the hope I need to think that she'll be happy and healed eventually. And then the comics show her being hurt again! I can't handle it!

I need to write more happy post-NFA Spuffy now.

[angearia.livejournal.com]

I need to write more happy post-NFA Spuffy now.

This is always the answer!