I'm So Chatty!: Wesley Wyndam-Pryce and the Shipping News

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lokifan also asked me for two Wesley ships that I love and one Wesley ship that I dislike. Just as with CJ Cregg, I also went overboard and needed to write a whole separate entry.

Wesley/Lilah: LoveAngel sucks at established ships- except for Angel/Darla and Wesley/Lilah. I think Wesley/Lilah just might be my favorite. Wes/Lilah is a hugely popular ship

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Glad that I upped the sympathy for the Buffster! I think Buffy *took* Angel's turn the hardest- and that does mean quite a bit because Buffy did feel genuine pain at Angel turning. However, yes, Giles lost the most. I don't think Willow quite reacted with the most pain as Buffy. However, Willow received a lot of empirical pain from S2 Angelus. She was viscerally threatened in Innocence and Passion. Willow loved Jenny as a teacher and mentor. I don't know if Willow dwelt on this, but Willow lost a potentially wonderful resource and mentor in Jenny as Willow embarked on her career as a witch. Angel's Acathala plot landed Willow in a coma in the hospital and we don't know how long it took or how many painful, time-consuming rehab sessions Willow needed to walk again. Last we saw in Becoming, she was in a wheel-chair because a big-ass bookcase fell on her teensy, non-slayer body.

Buffy really didn't have the monopoly on pain from Angel. I think half of Buffy gets this and half of Buffy really doesn't and thinks of the second half of S2 as all about about her doomed love affair.