[January Meme] January 5

“Due to the nature of Buffy and Tara's friendship in season 6, would Buffy still have fell away from the Scoobies in S7 if Spike hadn’t been there and gravitated toward Tara? Or would she and the Scoobies still be close?"

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I’ve been thinking about the last season of Buffy a lot, and especially how much I love Buffy and Tara’s dynamic so this is very timely!

Honestly, I think even without Spike, Buffy would have been distant from the Scoobies, even in canon she wasn’t allowed to be angry at her friends from pulling her from heaven and that alway bugged me. So I don’t see how that would change, I think it would make Buffy’s friendship with Tara more essential because she isn’t her friends, she isn’t family but I don’t think it would happen that quickly either because I think for Buffy, Tara is Willow’s, not in a possessive way, but that Tara is Willow’s Person.

I can imagine that once everything comes to a head between Tara and Willow happens, and the break-up happens, I think Buffy’s barely repressed resentment of Willow will start bubbling into the surface because she won’t be distracted by the Spike of It All.

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