Character Meme!

[bluemage55]

From ceciliaj, pocochina and gryfndor_godess

Name me a character! I will tell you:
* How I FEEEEEL about this character
* All the people I ship romantically with this character
* My non-romantic OTP for this character
* My unpopular opinion about this character
* One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon.

Comments

[bluemage55]

Angel's a big, fluffy puppy with bad teeth. =P No really, Angel's a total dork, but in an amusing way. As he's told by a manager in the first episode, Angel's an actor, and he tries too hard to play what he thinks is his part, whether that's as Buffy's epic tragic love or the Batman of LA... and often fails hilariously. I do like him more on AtS than BtVS; he gets to be the buttmonkey of his own show! :D

I ship Darla/Angel/Dru/Spike as a foursome, and Angel with each of the other Fanged Four individually. Angel/Darla and Angel/Dru are both deliciously fucked up with plenty of sexiness, evil, and incest overtones to spare, while Angel/Spike is like a legitimized crack pairing (To quote Joss: "We finally found the right girl for Angel - Spike). I also enjoy Angel/Cordy as the sweeter pairing, and would embrace it more if not for the fact that I believe Angel should always keep fighting instead of finding a happily ever after.

Non-romantic OTP is definitely Faith. I found the Five by Five-Sanctuary arc quite moving, and as fellow redeemers they understand each other in a way that nobody else can. I fully believe that Angel was the only one who was really capable of saving Faith's soul, and I like that they'll never give up on each other, even when they've given up on themselves. Put these two back to back and they'll never go down, if only because they're fighting for each other.

My unpopular opinion on Angel is that I actually liked his relationship with Buffy (the first one, I'm not gonna consider sparkly space!sex a relationship), which is probably rather uncommon in the Spuffy corner of fandom. Though I think it was intended to be subversive, and their relationsip was immature, overly angsty, and at times ridiculous, I still think that they really did love each other and that there was some good romance while it lasted. Even though I'm glad that it ended and think they should both move on from each other, I think that they're both better for having been with each other and that they should look back on their time with fondness but with the understanding that moving on was best.

I'm delighted to see that Faith is taking care of Angel at the conclusion of S8. I would wish that we'll be getting some exploration of that in the future, either as part of S9 or as a spin-off.

Edit: left out some things