someone did a great meta on the soul in Buffyverse in which these two changes are explained and related to Liam/Angel/Angelus. I don't know where it is or who wrote it!
Very thoughtful, thinky thoughts. I commented to someone else above and will repeat here... I think Liam was a very frustrated person in life, and that while he had some fun drinking, carousing, and pissing off his father - I don't think any of it made him happy. NOw, he could have actually gone to do things that made him happy - nothing was really in his way. But he had this depressive/faithless aspect, and without feeling a tug he wasn't going to try.
That's why Cordelia is there in AtS-1 - because without people pulling him, he's sooner or later going to get so depressed by a failure that he's going to crawl in a dark hole for a few decades rather than try and fail again.
I like how you note that a lot of his groth points revolve around him deciding to make the effort anyway.
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Might be me. I had a big "Grand Unified Theory" post from way back.
Very thoughtful, thinky thoughts. I commented to someone else above and will repeat here... I think Liam was a very frustrated person in life, and that while he had some fun drinking, carousing, and pissing off his father - I don't think any of it made him happy. NOw, he could have actually gone to do things that made him happy - nothing was really in his way. But he had this depressive/faithless aspect, and without feeling a tug he wasn't going to try.
That's why Cordelia is there in AtS-1 - because without people pulling him, he's sooner or later going to get so depressed by a failure that he's going to crawl in a dark hole for a few decades rather than try and fail again.
I like how you note that a lot of his groth points revolve around him deciding to make the effort anyway.