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Eek it’s been quite a few months now since I’ve properly visited LJ, I’ve mostly been on Twitter this year and really lost track of this site I’m afraid, but I came across this article today and thought it was interesting after the many fandom debates there have been on this question

Buffy The Vampire Slayer creator would make Willow bisexual in

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I mean honestly I don’t know if the writers ever thought that much about are we saying that Willow is actually gay or bi before season 7. They had Willow quipping about being gay now, but was that just Willow making the point that she’s in a gay relationship? I didn’t feel like the writers had entirely figured out what they were trying to say until Him definitively stated that Willow would need to remove RJ’s penis and work around it, whereas in season 5 she is still expressing interest in both April and Dracula, in season 4 she is torn between Oz and Tara.

I believe before season 7 that Marti had commented something along the lines of Willow falling in love with the person and not the gender, so it did seem like they originally vaguely had in mind that Willow was bi and attracted to both genders, but then the backlash to Tara’s demise meant introducing Kennedy for Willow so that they could leave the series on a more positive note. Not sure if there’s any actual truth to this or not, but I do remember over the summer stories were floating around about the writers considering pairing up Willow and Xander for the final season, and that generated huge backlash understandably.