a really really random question for people who are more widely read in buffyverse fandom than i am

[lirazel]

Although my flist might not be the best place to ask this:

Are there many Buffy/Angel fics where Buffy and Spike are really good friends? Because I was thinking the other day about how much I enjoy writing Angel as a friend to Buffy and Spike in my future 'verse, and how much I enjoy whenever he pops up in other people's stuff in a similar way. And I was wondering if the other side of the "shipper debate" (whatever--like what you like! I don't care! Am I supposed to get upset about it or something? I don't!) enjoys writing a Buffy-Spike friendship in the same way. Anybody know?

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[rebcake.livejournal.com]

Oh man. I try really hard not to make Angel a total asshole in post-Chosen B/S fic, on the "do not bash" principle. I want them to be friends, if only so Buffy can have somebody to commiserate with about Spike's frequently less than grown-up behavior. But it feels like a lie, Peewee. *shakes head*

[rahirah]

I had Angel get his assholishness out early, so I'm free to write him being non-adversarial in later years (and of course my Angel has other things going on in his life - I haven't written much about it, but he's really busy off in L.A.) but it takes years for him and Spike to develop the prickly familial relationship they finally end up with, and even longer for him and Buffy to reconcile. And oddly, I think what they end up with is more familial than anything else, too. They will always love one another, but they can't be in love again - and Spike was right, they can never be friends, either. But if either one ever needs help, the other one would move mountains to give it.