Think about it. Angel was WAY too old for Buffy, and the fact that he preyed on an underage girl damaged his character in an unnecessary way. Giles is age appropriate. Sure, he's not 200+, but he's in his forties, which is reasonably mature in human years. Giles had already grown up and had had other sexual and romantic relationships. I don't think that there would be an emotional power difference age wise. Angel should have been a mentor to Buffy, which would have given him something to connect with Giles over. They're both also highly intelligent bookworms(I'll fight anyone who calls Angel dumb; he has a photographic memory and knows several languages, the fact that he has blind spots and isn't always smart about every single thing doesn't take away from that), and I bet Giles would love to hear about all the historical events that Angel was there for, and all the things he knows about other cultures. Angel would be very intrigued to learn all the things Giles knows about Slayers and demons from the Watcher's archives, and whatever other knowledge Giles might have accrued in his life. I can also see them liking the same music.

Giles could have given Angel his moment of perfect happiness, and Buffy would still have had a hard time killing Angelus because of how much Angel meant to Giles, and because Angel had been a mentor to her that she admired and cared for, like she did Giles. It could have been Giles who killed Angel at the end of s2. Buffy could have fought him until right before Angelus got his soul back, but she gets knocked out, and Giles intervenes right before Angelus kills her, but then he's reensouled. And it's Giles who has to make the heartbreaking choice of killing him.

Then, when Angel comes back in s3, Buffy still keeps it from Giles because she's afraid of how much it would wreck him emotionally, and she's also afraid that Giles might accidentally give Angel his moment of perfect happiness again and she doesn't want that to happen. Angel still leaves at the end of s3 because he also doesn't want to risk somehow achieving a moment of perfect happiness without sex, just from a moment of deep love, and he can't bear the thought of all the pain Angelus would cause, especially to the man he loves.

i mean they're fine. I don't hate them. I jus don't like them either. Is this a hot take

My favorites are:

Caine

Ribbit

The poorly rendered fish

Pomni is eh and I wish she got more development (I feel like Jax/Grezenedge was the true main character and pomni was more of a narrative device to pick a starting point for the show and reveal more of Grezenedge's backstory)

Ragatha is fine. I feel like she gets too much hate but I think she's ok

Kinger is kinger

Kaufmo is meh, Gangle and Zooble are cool but they didn't get nearly enough actual development, etc

All in all I feel like the show would be better and the characters would be more likeable and developed if they got more screen time and actual development. Also does anyone else think the ending was a more poorly handled version of the hfjone ending.

like now I'm gonna talk about the ending

Gangel is Jax older sister in real life. And Jax would push her face into the cake on her birthday every year. Even fight others who tried to do it before him. And at every party, he would wrestel with her inside the jumper. Then, he'll turn off the jumper with Gangel still inside. But Jax would also fight children when the piñata breaks, with the piñata spike in hand. Just so he could get Gangle some candy. He's a good little brother. And Gangel is that sister who's a hopeless romantic and gives Jax dating advice from anime. And doesn't let Jax out on a date in rags. She'll give him a make-over and do his eye liner for him. When he doesn't comply, she drags him to the Latino salon where their tías will take over instead.

"Tranquilo! I will not let you go on a date with Ragatha looking like this!" Gangel trying to fix Jax hair.

And Jax teasing Gangle about her crush on Zooble. Kissy noises and forcing her to talk to Zooble.

My morning is ruined. But luckily is was just the written part that didn't save. So the drawing is saved. Here, take a piece of the Gangel character card since it is October.

Big ol’ Angel art dump from my Twitter that I completely forgot about until just now-. Whoops.

Some cute Angels. Some asexual Angels (mostly just from RPs cause everyone is so God Damn Horny there [which I support cause I’m horny too]). Some Angels completely and utterly terrified of any type of animal no matter how cute it may be. Some sad Angels. Some happy and gay Angels. We got it all at the Angel Emporium.