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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Beneath You

“A hundred plus years.

And there's only one thing I've ever been sure of. You...

I'm not asking you for anything. When I say I love you, it's not because I want you. Or because I can't have you. It has nothing to do with me. I love what you *are*. What you do. How you try... I've seen your kindness, and your strength. I've seen the best and the worst of you. And I understand, with perfect clarity, exactly what you are... You're a hell of a woman... You're the One, Buffy.”

this vampire who's missing something she can't identify, but the lack of it is killing her. she yearns and she yearns but all she ever finds is emptiness. her only relief is found in battle. in flirting with the threat of her own demise. the more risky, the more alive she feels. that's what leads her to start hunting slayers.

The reason for the existence of slayers is to be in opposition to vampires (and other demons but vampires are the most natural and common enemy) and how in that sense Buffy exists to be an opposite to Spike (and Angel ig) and so, even though they are her natural enemies, Buffy’s existence as we know her is only possible because vampires (Spike and Angel) exist.

Whereas there was never supposed to be more than one slayer existing at a time. Her existence is supposed to make Kendra and Faith’s existences impossible. And it’s true. In spite of the fact that they are natural allies both Kendra and Faith’s existences were only able to exist as we know them because for just a few moments Buffy did not exist.

It’s natural for slayers to have enemies but it’s unnatural for them to have allies who fully understand them

Human Spike AKA “William the Bloody” | 5x07 Fool for Love

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER (1997-2003)