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Buffyverse couples

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7Worfs · 07/11/2023 17:18

I'm re-watching Buffy (as you do) and am thinking of how I would've coupled them up for the happily ever after.

Buffy with Riley (the whole point of Angel leaving was to make space for someone who could give her what he couldn't)

Angel with Harmony (I mulled this over for ages; I thought he belongs with Cordi, but actually he needs someone silly and light-hearted, with a bit of bloodsucking thrown in)

Cordi with Xander (her high standards push him to become a successful business owner and they have a nice life)

Willow eternally single, having become a supreme witch, she's outgrown human notions of love and neediness. Or maybe Oz returns and he's very wolfy and they have a new kind of relationship

Wesley with Illyria

Not sure what to do with Gunn, possibly a newly invented childhood sweetheart

Spike - no idea!

Giles with Buffy's mum

Faith with the principal guy she ended up with anyway

I'd also scrap the whole Buffy's little sister arch - what rubbish that was.

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Tanaqui · 07/11/2023 17:35

Spike with Giles
Spike with Xander
Spike with Angel
Spike with Tara
Spike with anyone else
Maybe Oz with Willow

StiffyByngsDogBartholomew · 07/11/2023 17:55

Willow and Anya
Buffy and Xander
Angel destined to be alone. Or maybe Chanterelle/Lily/Anne/sister sunshine (are you impressed, that was from memory lol)

7Worfs · 07/11/2023 18:04

StiffyByngsDogBartholomew · 07/11/2023 17:55

Willow and Anya
Buffy and Xander
Angel destined to be alone. Or maybe Chanterelle/Lily/Anne/sister sunshine (are you impressed, that was from memory lol)

My God, social worker Anne was Chanterelle?! Proof that clean hair makes you a different person!

PS Anya was insufferable, Tara triply so.

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MrsLeonFarrell · 07/11/2023 18:05

Buffy and Angel, always.

7Worfs · 07/11/2023 18:06

StiffyByngsDogBartholomew · 07/11/2023 17:55

Willow and Anya
Buffy and Xander
Angel destined to be alone. Or maybe Chanterelle/Lily/Anne/sister sunshine (are you impressed, that was from memory lol)

Interesting re Buffy and Xander, but you have to elaborate why it would work - I can’t see it.

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whatausername · 07/11/2023 18:07

Spike with Joyce. Sounds ludicrous. I bet it'd work.

7Worfs · 07/11/2023 18:09

whatausername · 07/11/2023 18:07

Spike with Joyce. Sounds ludicrous. I bet it'd work.

!!! I can totally see it working!

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JustAMinutePleass · 07/11/2023 18:09

I thought the Spike / Angel / Druscilla triangle was just beautiful. It made Btvs for me when I watched it the first time round. I was ambivalent about the other ‘ships and characters

heetud · 07/11/2023 18:10

Ah no Riley was a the perfect rebound guy but not happily ever after guy.

Have you listened to the audiobook series?

heetud · 07/11/2023 18:10

Because in that Drusilla and Tara are a couple 😂😂

7Worfs · 07/11/2023 18:13

heetud · 07/11/2023 18:10

Ah no Riley was a the perfect rebound guy but not happily ever after guy.

Have you listened to the audiobook series?

Hard disagree! Riley was just made to spec - on the perfect end of “normal” yet part of the fight against evil so Buffy wouldn’t have to deceive and lead a double life.

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Jessforless · 07/11/2023 18:16

Anya was the best, for that opinion alone I can’t take your list seriously

Xander & Willow
Cordelia & Angel
Giles and Anya
Spike and Joyce from above I’m loving!
Buffy and Jonathan 😂

Jessforless · 07/11/2023 18:16

Hate Riley. Let’s put him with Dawn for misery’s sake.

AllotmentTime · 07/11/2023 18:18

WILLOW WITH TARA FOR EVER

Dgaf about the rest.

7Worfs · 07/11/2023 18:20

Jessforless · 07/11/2023 18:16

Anya was the best, for that opinion alone I can’t take your list seriously

Xander & Willow
Cordelia & Angel
Giles and Anya
Spike and Joyce from above I’m loving!
Buffy and Jonathan 😂

Anya wasn’t written very well, some of her supposed quirks were really hammy. And the actress was barely believable as a school age girl.
But your list is good - Giles and Anya does sound workable.
Ignoring the Jonathan thing

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LoreleiG · 07/11/2023 18:20

Angel and Darla
Buffy and Riley
Spike and Anya
Willow and Tara
Giles with that Librarian/teacher woman whose name I can’t remember
Xander and Cordelia

AllProperTeaIsTheft · 07/11/2023 18:21

Willow & Xander
Buffy & Angel
Spike and... I dunno... Anya?
Giles and Miss Calendar Sad

Riley and Tara were both unbelievably tedious.

7Worfs · 07/11/2023 18:21

LoreleiG · 07/11/2023 18:20

Angel and Darla
Buffy and Riley
Spike and Anya
Willow and Tara
Giles with that Librarian/teacher woman whose name I can’t remember
Xander and Cordelia

Human Darla with Lyndsey tbh

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Magenta82 · 07/11/2023 18:24

Tanaqui · 07/11/2023 17:35

Spike with Giles
Spike with Xander
Spike with Angel
Spike with Tara
Spike with anyone else
Maybe Oz with Willow

Totally this!
I spent a good chunk of my late teens early 20s reading Spuke slash fiction.

DreamingInPhosphorescence · 07/11/2023 18:25

Riley was as interesting as watching paint dry.

Buffy and Spike is perfection.
Or if we’re allowed crossovers then add in Eric Northman…

DreamingInPhosphorescence · 07/11/2023 18:28

Magenta82 · 07/11/2023 18:24

Totally this!
I spent a good chunk of my late teens early 20s reading Spuke slash fiction.

Oh, same!

whatausername · 07/11/2023 18:30

Giles & Anya would be a very fun quirky couple. Both have seen plenty of the world and have (had?) a dark side. And they are both smart in their own ways.

Findapath · 07/11/2023 18:33

Oh god now thinking the Spike/Buffy dynamic has been accidentally my relationship goals my entire adult life 🤦🏽‍♀️

KatBurglar · 07/11/2023 18:43

I can't believe anyone would include Riley! He was such a tedious lunkhead, I couldn't wait to see the back of him.

Willow and Oz because Tara was kind of drippy in a Pre-Raphaelite way and I loved Oz with all my little hormonal heart.

Buffy and Spike, but we don't have the 'trying to rape her' scene, because there's no coming back from that.

Faith and Gunn would work, I think.

Cordelia gets a gig modelling Laboutin shoes and that satisfies her urge for fame and fortune. She returns to Sunnydale and marries Xander, who has become a successful building contractor. They have children with irritatingly perfect teeth and move to Santa Monica.

Anya meets an angry cynical lesbian on a trip to San Francisco, and they have a blissful life with no men and lots of houseplants.

7Worfs · 07/11/2023 19:00

Tara was kind of drippy in a Pre-Raphaelite way

Excellent description 👌

Faith and Gunn would work, I think.

Yep!

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