The thing there is I think Angel is in love with all of Buffy, too, and he still sees her as food.
Ah, see, there's the difference for me; I don't think the demon parts of Angel love Buffy. Or later, Cordy. And even more weirdly, Angelus didn't even seem very interested in Connor, whom he ought logically have been obsessed with. (I do think he loved Darla, oddly enough, for all that he denied it so strenuously.)
That's the one reason I might be interested in a B/Aus fic, if it explored the reasons for the emotional differences between souled and unsouled Angel, when most of the other vampires we've seen change states have so much more emotional continuity. It's something that bugs me.
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Ah, see, there's the difference for me; I don't think the demon parts of Angel love Buffy. Or later, Cordy. And even more weirdly, Angelus didn't even seem very interested in Connor, whom he ought logically have been obsessed with. (I do think he loved Darla, oddly enough, for all that he denied it so strenuously.)
That's the one reason I might be interested in a B/Aus fic, if it explored the reasons for the emotional differences between souled and unsouled Angel, when most of the other vampires we've seen change states have so much more emotional continuity. It's something that bugs me.