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Angel 5: Is That It? Am I Done?

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P.M. Marc - Jan 11, 2005 10:58:17 am PST #3129 of 3531

So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

Oh I know (and sorry if I caused offense). It's just interesting to see what sets off your squick meter.

Snerk.

The weirdest things set it off...

Though there have been occasions where a former squick has gone away for some reason. That always makes me sad.

Frankenbuddha - Jan 11, 2005 11:01:23 am PST #3130 of 3531

"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

Though there have been occasions where a former squick has gone away for some reason. That always makes me sad.

Tis better to have squicked and lost, than never to have squicked at all. Or something like that.

Lyra Jane - Jan 11, 2005 11:18:15 am PST #3131 of 3531

Up with the sun

Scully/Giles is pretty easy to imagine for me. Buffy/Mulder ... I can see him lusting after her, but not much beyond that. (The fact he's biologically old enough to be her father does not help. Yeah, i know Angel is, like, five times Mulder's age, but ... is different.)

Neither squicks me as much as Buffy/Giles.

Steph L. - Jan 11, 2005 11:29:23 am PST #3132 of 3531

Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

Neither squicks me as much as Buffy/Giles.

Buffy/Giles is a HUGE squick for me. Way way way more than Batman/Robin (whichever Robin you choose).

Connie Neil - Jan 11, 2005 11:33:28 am PST #3133 of 3531

brillig

I like some Buffy/Giles

But I understand the squick. I keep my darker pleasures to myself.

Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 11, 2005 12:46:52 pm PST #3134 of 3531

"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

Well, when you get right down to it I'd say it's a lot healthier to have an inappropriate relationship with an older mentor figure than with a clammy reanimated corpse that's going to turn evil and try to kill you. Yet, Buffy/Giles still seems ickier than the canon romance.

Camcam - Jan 11, 2005 2:14:19 pm PST #3135 of 3531

When you have to shoot, shoot. Don't talk. --Tuco

Let's face it, Buffy/Angel is not so squicky because he LOOKS like a reasonable age for Buffy (or did at the time). Appearance counts for a lot, unfortunately for some of us.

§ ita § - Jan 11, 2005 2:17:12 pm PST #3136 of 3531

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I don't think age is a squick, unless one party is too young. I don't believe in too old, but I do believe in inappropriate interactions, and those have to do with relationships rather than age differences.

Also, Angel didn't act as old as Giles.

Steph L. - Jan 11, 2005 2:21:39 pm PST #3137 of 3531

Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

And yet, Giles/Xander? Not squicky at all.

Though I get that Giles really only had a quasi-parental relationship with Buffy. (I just wanted to see "Giles/Xander" on my screen.)

§ ita § - Jan 11, 2005 2:24:02 pm PST #3138 of 3531

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Giles really only had a quasi-parental relationship with Buffy

If she'd had a father in place, I could agree with the "only" and the "quasi." As it played out, he was more like a stepfather that just never had a Relationship with her mother, I think.

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