fray-adjacent (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
frayadjacent) wrote2017-04-21 06:48 pm
frayadjacent) wrote2017-04-21 06:48 pm
meme from selenak
Comment with one of my fandoms, and I'll tell you:
the character I least understand
interactions I enjoyed the most
the character who scares me the most
the character who is mostly like me
hottest looks character
one thing I dislike about my fave character
one thing I like about my hated character
a quote or scene that haunts me
a death that left me indifferent
a character I wish died but didn’t
my ship that never sailed
the character I least understand
interactions I enjoyed the most
the character who scares me the most
the character who is mostly like me
hottest looks character
one thing I dislike about my fave character
one thing I like about my hated character
a quote or scene that haunts me
a death that left me indifferent
a character I wish died but didn’t
my ship that never sailed
no subject
no subject
I don't think there are any significant characters I don't have a good grasp on. Riley? Andrew?
interactions I enjoyed the most
First and foremost, the central four characters and their evolving group dynamic. Also: Buffy and Dawn. Buffy and Giles. Buffy and Willow. Buffy and Spike. Dawn and Spike. Willow and Xander.
To narrow it down to something more specific, Buffy and Dawn (and Joyce) in Season 5, between "No Place Like Home" and "Forever", pretty much owns my heart.
Ugh, there are so many good relationships on this show. <3
the character who scares me the most
I think the mayor can be pretty scary! Most notably when he enters the library in late S3. Also Warren. And, at times, Faith. The more human villains are the most chilling to me.
Also, the First is totally scary in Conversations with Dead People.
the character who is most like me
Hmm. In some ways Dawn, because I'm bookish and nerdy like she is but was never socially The Nerd like Willow is (like Xander, I got teased for other reasons). I was once part of a political organisation full of super smart, ambitious, amazing people, and I have never felt more like Xander (that is more or less the origin of my pseud, although it's also just that I found the phrasing funny). I'm not like Buffy, but she is definitely a source of inspiration to me IRL.
hottest looking character
Tara and Giles. <3
one thing I dislike about my fave character
Buffy's speeches in Season 7 annoy the shit out of me.
one thing I like about my hated character
Sorry, I love everyone in this bar. Even the commonly hated characters like Xander, Riley, Rona, Andrew, and Kennedy.
OK, I mean I don't like, e.g., Warren, but I'm not supposed to.
a quote or scene that haunts me
When Faith tries and fails to befriend Buffy, especially when she does the Girl-Solidarity thing and humiliates Scott Hope in front of his date. I understand why Buffy didn't want to be friends with Faith, but there are some moments when you see so clearly how things might have turned out differently, and they make me ache for Faith.
The first act of The Body. All of Restless.
"The hardest thing in the world is to live in it."
Sarah Michelle Gellar's performance of "Something to Sing About" in Once More With Feeling. That song guts me every time.
The way Buffy says "You're in love with pain" to Spike while fighting in Smashed. She shows so much hate at him and herself in that moment.
a death that left me indifferent
Spike's. I always knew he was coming back on Angel, but that's not the only reason -- after all, I know that Angel comes back after S2 but his "death" is always a huge blow because of what it does to Buffy. Spike is one of my favourite characters, but his death never had much impact. It's meant to represent his redemption, but that question is re-opened so much in Angel that it doesn't really work. And its effect on Buffy is ambiguous at best.
a character I wish died but didn’t
If you accept the comics as canon, then fucking Warren. Piece of shit should have died at the end of S6.
OK, never mind, comics aren't canon. I can't think of anyone!
my ship that never sailed
Well, if comics aren't canon, then Buffy/SoulfulSpike. I know there is a lot of shippiness at the end of S7, but it's open and ambiguous as is probably appropriate for the tone of the show at that point.
Really, I just want Buffy to have sex and not get punished. I think she could have that with Spike.
no subject
"Really, I just want Buffy to have sex and not get punished. I think she could have that with Spike."
Yeahhhh, that would be nice.