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Buffy and Angel 1: BUFFYNANGLE4EVA!!!!!1!

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Connie Neil - May 07, 2005 7:26:46 pm PDT #570 of 10458

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Darla.

When she was human and dying, he went to extraordinary lengths to save her. He was going to put everything aside to take care of when it turned out she couldn't be cured. I don't think it was just a redemption thing, either. The soul let him express a kinder version of the passion Angelus had for her, and was going to do his damnedest to make things right for the woman who had meant so much to him for so long.

Buffy was a young man's dream, for all that Angel had had the soul for a century by then.

SailAweigh - May 07, 2005 7:55:01 pm PDT #571 of 10458

Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb

That pretty much sums up how I feel, connie. Angel's love for Buffy was very much an "adolescent" love, as was hers for him. They were on an emotional level when they first met. By the time Darla came back into his life, he'd started to realize that there was more to unlife than "twu wuv."

§ ita § - May 07, 2005 7:55:34 pm PDT #572 of 10458

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

Darla gave birth to his baby. Really, how can any woman compete?

SailAweigh - May 07, 2005 7:58:11 pm PDT #573 of 10458

Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb

Well, Darla was definitely closer to the earth. Especially after Drusilla put her in it.

§ ita § - May 07, 2005 8:18:02 pm PDT #574 of 10458

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

And then she was dust!

SailAweigh - May 07, 2005 8:22:55 pm PDT #575 of 10458

Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb

Talk about the one who got away. No one recovers from that.

Zenkitty - May 07, 2005 8:32:06 pm PDT #576 of 10458

Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

Changed my mind. It's Darla.

SailAweigh - May 07, 2005 8:53:27 pm PDT #577 of 10458

Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb

I think we need to rename the thread. "DarlaNAngle4EVA!!11!!

Alibelle - May 07, 2005 9:41:23 pm PDT #578 of 10458

Apart from sports, "my secret favorite thing on earth is ketchup. I will put ketchup on anything. But it has to be Heinz." - my husband, Michael Vartan

I love Darla. Seriously. I think she's awesome. But I also think that he went to such great lengths to save her because he saw himself in her. They did share a lot. I don't think it was anything special and particular about Darla herself that made him want to go out of his way to help her, I think it was just history, and what could have been, if things had gone a little differently for Angel. I still say that the most important person to Angel is Buffy.

Gris - May 07, 2005 11:03:31 pm PDT #579 of 10458

Hey. New board.

Oh, please. The most important person to Angel was obviously Cordy. TheirLoveWasSoPure!

(ducks)

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