I love B/A because Buffy thinks that she can have something normal with Angel, precisely because Angel is the most not normal thing out there
It's the moment at which, if B/A was "just a first love", their love fails. It fails, but it continues afterwards, which makes it not "just a first love". Take the first three words off that quote and you have it. It's love.
He loved her that much and that unselfishly.
It's about loving Angel in a way that isn't going to go away no matter who else she loves or what else she does, because it is grown up and real--enough so to sustain any change, any situation or separation.
this made my B/A heart flutter. You expressed so beautifully what we all love about this couple.
Theirs is a love that will never end, literally never. Death, age, fights; no obstacle could ever get in thier way enough to stymie their love.
I sometimes think that, as someone who has yet to fall in love, being so devoted to the Buffy/Angel relationship has ruined my chances of ever actually experiencing love to it's fullest extent. I doubt whether I am capable of loving as wholly, as fully, as unconditionally as Buffy and Angel love each other. The love they share is deeper and stronger than anything I could ever hope to have. It's so true and so complete that even while they do nothing but hurt each other so badly they need to exit thier lives (ala Becoming through Anne and i-can't-remember-the-episode-Angel-visits-some-monks-when-Buffy-dies) they still can't stop, still need to love each other, still enjoy loving each other.
They complete each other. Without Buffy, who would Angel be right now? A rat-eating vampire living in an alley. Without Angel, who would Buffy be right now? Well, dead, vapid, hollow, that cheerleader she was before she was called.
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It's the moment at which, if B/A was "just a first love", their love fails. It fails, but it continues afterwards, which makes it not "just a first love". Take the first three words off that quote and you have it. It's love.
He loved her that much and that unselfishly.
It's about loving Angel in a way that isn't going to go away no matter who else she loves or what else she does, because it is grown up and real--enough so to sustain any change, any situation or separation.
this made my B/A heart flutter. You expressed so beautifully what we all love about this couple.
Theirs is a love that will never end, literally never. Death, age, fights; no obstacle could ever get in thier way enough to stymie their love.
I sometimes think that, as someone who has yet to fall in love, being so devoted to the Buffy/Angel relationship has ruined my chances of ever actually experiencing love to it's fullest extent. I doubt whether I am capable of loving as wholly, as fully, as unconditionally as Buffy and Angel love each other. The love they share is deeper and stronger than anything I could ever hope to have. It's so true and so complete that even while they do nothing but hurt each other so badly they need to exit thier lives (ala Becoming through Anne and i-can't-remember-the-episode-Angel-visits-some-monks-when-Buffy-dies) they still can't stop, still need to love each other, still enjoy loving each other.
They complete each other. Without Buffy, who would Angel be right now? A rat-eating vampire living in an alley. Without Angel, who would Buffy be right now? Well, dead, vapid, hollow, that cheerleader she was before she was called.
By the way, mind if I friend you?