But in my fic, Spike typically winds up being - hmm...nicer is too simplistic a word. But certainly easier to love.
For what it's worth, I've always found your Spike to still be mean and scrappy and small and vicious in all the right places. But I see what you describe come up a lot in A/S. In the A/S I prefer, anyway, if I had to choose who to hang out with in the fic I'd pick Spike and stay the hell away from Angel because he's motherfuckin scary.
But actually one of the things that makes me timid about writing Spike is making him too nice, and too lovable. I *don't* always like Spike on-screen; I don't want to always like him when I write him because then it won't be Spike to me, but someone else. Most of all, I don't want Spike to just be . . . the counterpart. The nice against Angel's mean. The insight against Angel's blindness. Etc etc. I think that's an easy trap to fall into, especially when you do have a preference for The Other Guy.
I can't write Buffy for shit and she is my hero times ten.
I really, really loved everything you did with her in "All Ways". Her voice was perfect. So I don't believe you, ha.
But Buffy, I'm not sure I get her, either. Which is actually why I fell in love with her. My heroines of choice always *used* to be thinky girls who sat around dreaming of being in books and stuff.
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But in my fic, Spike typically winds up being - hmm...nicer is too simplistic a word. But certainly easier to love.
For what it's worth, I've always found your Spike to still be mean and scrappy and small and vicious in all the right places. But I see what you describe come up a lot in A/S. In the A/S I prefer, anyway, if I had to choose who to hang out with in the fic I'd pick Spike and stay the hell away from Angel because he's motherfuckin scary.
But actually one of the things that makes me timid about writing Spike is making him too nice, and too lovable. I *don't* always like Spike on-screen; I don't want to always like him when I write him because then it won't be Spike to me, but someone else. Most of all, I don't want Spike to just be . . . the counterpart. The nice against Angel's mean. The insight against Angel's blindness. Etc etc. I think that's an easy trap to fall into, especially when you do have a preference for The Other Guy.
I can't write Buffy for shit and she is my hero times ten.
I really, really loved everything you did with her in "All Ways". Her voice was perfect. So I don't believe you, ha.
But Buffy, I'm not sure I get her, either. Which is actually why I fell in love with her. My heroines of choice always *used* to be thinky girls who sat around dreaming of being in books and stuff.
I'm confused too.