#correlations

-Big hair

-Irish heritage

-Connection to Italy

-Claims to be asexual, possibly more to the story

-Deeply impacted by a falling out with an eariler associate

-Racist

-Catty

However, what both episodes have in common is that both are a way of Willow avoiding addressing and dealing with her emotions. Both are using magic as a means to escape feeling her emotions. Both are a crutch to make up for what she feels she lacks in herself. And in that way - they are directly connected and show that Willow’s arc was always in character despite it not being made clear it’s true foundation. Where the addiction actually stems from and what kind of addiction it actually is. It’s an emotional one.

Every time someone says that Willow’s magic addiction just came out of nowhere and was just a way to create drama between Willow and Tara and the Scoobies, I mention ‘Something Blue’. Because in both cases magic is used as drug to self-medicate and that self-medicating had second-hand smoke effects on everyone else. It was harmful for everyone. Whether it was intended to be or not doesn’t matter. The fact is that Willow’s use of magic leaned more towards destructiveness than beneficialness and she excused it as “helping” or “healing” when it was actually harming and hurting both herself and others.

Quick fixes and bandaids never help or heal anything. What they do is they make problems more difficult to solve or take longer to find solution. Willow needed to be told that her abuse of magic was dangerous for everyone involved - whether purposeful or accidental. And she is all throughout the show but the conversation always avoids the main point. Which is that using it to offset something internal - emotions/insecurities/anxieties - will only lead to both internal and external destruction because it is not addressing and dealing with them honestly, intimately and head on. It is avoiding and escaping them instead - thus making things much worse “inside” and “outside”.

So if ‘Something Blue’ is the start of Willow’s spiral into emotional addiction, then ‘Tabula Rasa’ is the inevitable conclusion of it. Ignore the “magic” part. That’s not as relevant as the necessity to use it’s power to counteract Willow’s insecurities of being powerless or useless or valueless or worthless. She knew it was her best chance because it’s what she’s best at. They could have done the same with her preference for hacking and technology engineering but they never do - instead they give Warren that arc. And it’s not lost on me the similarities between them as far as the need for accumulation of power goes. All they do is make it clear Warren’s intentions are evil - he intends to control, he intends dominate, he intends to rape, he intends to murder. Willow never intends any of this - but it is exactly what she does anyway.

“They’re the bad guys - I’m not the bad guy.”

Translation: “It is justified for me to do it because I do not intend to do evil with it. They do.”

But Willow - you become like them anyway because you avoid the truth behind the actions. And the truth is that you’re the one in pain. You’re the one that’s sad. You’re the one that’s confused. You’re the one that HAS THE PROBLEM. Not Buffy and Tara. And you know this is the truth, you just refuse to face it.

I will keep saying it: the only thing that’s wrong with this character is that this character thinks and believes that there’s something wrong with them. It’s entirely an insecurity issue right from the beginning. And they mislead you into thinking that that is improved or fixed - when it’s only just covered up. This is the meaning of Willow’s nightmare in ‘Restless’. The hiding and disguising. The “costume” she wears. The “character” she plays. The “part” she performs. It’s all Willow. There’s no doubt about that. But at the same time - it’s a perception severely filtered by lies and an identity veiled in ego. It’s not so much that she’s pretending to be someone she’s not because you can’t pretend to be something you’re not aware of being. But it is an act. A performance. An obliviously and obsessively chronic and compulsive behaviour.

Here's some correlations I found a few months ago between the Big 5 and the 4 Greek Temperaments:

I then went through using the formula mentioned in the paragraph that says: Global 5 notation=temperament blend, and used it to create a quick correlation chart for all the 5 uppercase letter combinations. Here's what I came up with:

SLOAN-Choleric/Sanguine

SCOAN-Choleric/Phlegmatic

SLOAI-Sanguine/Choleric

SCOAI-Sanguine/Melancholy

SLUAN-Sanguine/Choleric or Sanguine/Phlegmatic

SCUAN-Sanguine/Phlegmatic

SLUAI-Sanguine Dominant

SCUAI-Sanguine/Phlegmatic

SLOEN-Choleric Dominant

SCOEN-Choleric/Melancholy

SLOEI-Choleric/Melancholy or Choleric/Sanguine

SCOEI-Choleric/Melancholy

SLUEN-Choleric/Sanguine

SCUEN-Choleric/Phlegmatic

SLUEI-Sanguine/Choleric

SCUEI-Sanguine/Melancholy

RLOAN-Phlegmatic/Choleric

RCOAN-Phlegmatic/Melancholy

RLOAI-Melancholy/Sanguine

RCOAI-Melancholy/Phlegmatic

RLUAN-Phlegmatic/Sanguine

RCUAN-Phlegmatic Dominant

RLUAI-Phlegmatic/Sanguine

RCUAI-Phlegmatic/Melancholy or Phlegmatic/Sanguine

RLOEN-Melancholy/Choleric

RCOEN-Melancholy/Choleric or Melancholy/Phlegmatic

RLOEI-Melancholy/Choleric

RCOEI-Melancholy Dominant

RLUEN-Phlegmatic/Choleric

RCUEN-Phlegmatic/Melancholy

RLUEI-Melancholy/Sanguine

RCUEI-Melancholy/Phlegmatic