I approached BtVS on first viewing as a Spike. He's still my default mode - if I'm frustrated or confused at any development going on - I usually revert to Spike's POV. Which, really, is how I learned to love Buffy SO much. Spike started as my favorite character. Then he had to scooch over and make room for Buffy. Because when I finally understood her, when I finally got it? That became a love unrivaled by anything. Spike made me do it. He loved her more than life, and made me look at her closer to understand why.
This is VERY similar to my experience. I'm not exactly sure when my POV moved from Spike's to Buffy's. I'm inclined to believe it was during season 6 sometime. But once it moved there, I realized how alike she and I were, and I haven't been able to tolerate a bad word against her since then.
But I still have that Spike-POV lens on almost all the time. Well... It's a Buffy POV lens, but with a Spike POV gauzy overlay effect or something. My point is that I most deeply identify with Buffy--but that the initial connection to Spike is always there for me.
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This is VERY similar to my experience. I'm not exactly sure when my POV moved from Spike's to Buffy's. I'm inclined to believe it was during season 6 sometime. But once it moved there, I realized how alike she and I were, and I haven't been able to tolerate a bad word against her since then.
But I still have that Spike-POV lens on almost all the time. Well... It's a Buffy POV lens, but with a Spike POV gauzy overlay effect or something. My point is that I most deeply identify with Buffy--but that the initial connection to Spike is always there for me.