Playing with myself
Get your mind out off the gutter! I'm simply avoiding the papers I should have marked during the holidays so I decided to do what nobody asked me to...Answer the fandom meme for BTVS and Ats, since it's actually the only fandom I know and belong to (I watch other shows but I don't know the fandoms).
1 . The first character I first fell in love with: Giles and I love him still. I started watching the show because of Giles.
2. The character I never expected to love as much as I do now: Ethan. When I first saw Halloween, I noticed him and he caught my interest but I would have never expected to love that much a character shown in only 4 episodes.
3. The character everyone else loves that I don't: Jonathan. He was there from season 1, Buffy saved his ass many times and he kept making the wrong choices over and over. He was weak and never learnt his lesson. I didn't like Anya much until season 6 either...
4. The character I love that everyone else hates: Buffy? I love Buffy, but many fans disliked her at the end of the show. I love Buffy the first 3 seasons but didn't relate to the HighSchool Valley girl much...Willow was my favourite character then. I prefer a darker Buffy who is less of a little girl and more of a woman. Loved her in season 5, and still loved her in season 6 and season 7.
5. The character I used to love but don't any longer: Willow. It isn't that I don't love her anymore, but the character was very disappointing in season 7 after STSP. I actually loved Willow until BY, then I don't care much about her.
6. The character I would shag anytime: SPIKE !!!!!!!
7. The character I'd want to be like: I could say Giles for many of his facets, but I think I'll say Buffy for her courage, her resilience and above all her ability to forgive everybody around, because she did forgive them, all of them...while I kinda bear grudges.
8. The character I'd slap: Xander from time to time.
9. A pairing that I love: Spuffy first and above all. The best couple ever seen on tv. They were incandescent on screen. Spike is my favourite character, but it's Spuffy that I'm obsessed with and that led me to read fanfictions. It's a bit scary to be into a fictional couple the way I am. But I can't help...they keep moving me like nothing else does.
10. A pairing that I despise: On the show? I can't tell that I despised any pairing. There are some I didn't support but they had a role to play in the story (Buffy/Angel in season 3, Buffy/Riley, Giles/Jenny...). Ok maybe Willow/Kennedy!
Now in fanfic I dislike many pairings that are only fanon and aren't credible at all given to what we saw on screen like Giles/Buffy or Spike/Xander. For me they are nonsense and fanwank. I'm so happy they never made a Faith show with Spike in it btw.
And I can't stand Spike with someone else than Buffy, especially if Buffy is "around". It's okay if it's BB (Before Buffy!) though. The only exception is that Jack guy with whom Spike had a liaison in herself_nyc 's Lovingkindness!
And to be honest I don't like any threesome involving Spike and Buffy (except if it's with another Spike!) because I think it's out of character for both of them.
1 . The first character I first fell in love with: Never really fell in love with an Ats character, but Wesley in L.A definitely got me watching the show!
2. The character I never expected to love as much as I do now: Angel because I didn't care about him in BTVS and he even annoyed me a lot in season 3...It was a good idea to give him his own show! Or Faith, she was great in season 4. Oh and Harmony in season 5!
3. The character everyone else loves that I don't: Fred...Groo...
4. The character I love that everyone else hates: Darla?
5. The character I used to love but don't any longer: Knox. Loved him at the beginning of season 5, thought he could be so much more...but they destroyed him in A Hole In the World turning him into a mere acolyte. It was a great disappointment. Same with Lindsey, a character I loved in earlier seasons and that was much less interesting in season 5 IMO.
6. The character I would shag anytime: Wesley...until season 5, then it would be Spike of course.
7. The character I'd want to be like: None but Wesley probably would be the closest.
8. The character I'd slap: season 3-4 teenage Connor
9. A pairing that I love: I kinda loved Wes/Lilah or Angel/Darla...but above all Wes/Illyria!
And I would have loved Wes/Faith to happen. The torture session in season 1 and later the way they worked together in season 4 showed a lot of potential for that couple! Faisley would have rocked!
10. A pairing that I despise: "Despise" is a bit strong but I never supported Wes/Fred, and I disliked Cordy/Connor (not because it was wrong and looked incestuous, but because the writing was poor and it was forced on us). I didn't like Angel/the blonde cop either, and I dislike Cordelia/Groo.
What would be your answers?