(Also, hi! I friended you recently for the cool meta posts, like this one.)
Thank you.
I'd blamed it on the characterization in the fics, but I think it's more fundamental than that: it's because the fics I'm thinking of tend to keep Spike as the manly hero figure and therefore put Buffy as the damsel in distress.
I've read some of those as well. They don't quite work for me either. Spike feels all wrong somehow.
Of course there's the other extreme that makes Spike almost too weak, too much of a damsel. They don't quite work either.
Spike's odd because he's both Beta and Alpha. He's a Beta male who has constructed an Alpha persona that is not real or false bravado. Basically we have a lovelorn poet who has created the alpha male persona that he believes he should be. Rory - the Last Centurion in Doctor Who reminds me a little of Spike in some respects. Buffy is equally interesting in this respect because she...is both Beta and Alpha. She's both the girly girl, the one who wants to feel protected, and the fighter who saves the day. I like the fact that the show allows them to be both. Too often, as we see in most fanfic, the characters are either beta or alpha, either this or that, when in reality we are both, not one or the other. If that makes sense?
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Date: 2012-04-08 07:45 pm (UTC)Thank you.
I'd blamed it on the characterization in the fics, but I think it's more fundamental than that: it's because the fics I'm thinking of tend to keep Spike as the manly hero figure and therefore put Buffy as the damsel in distress.
I've read some of those as well. They don't quite work for me either. Spike feels all wrong somehow.
Of course there's the other extreme that makes Spike almost too weak, too
much of a damsel. They don't quite work either.
Spike's odd because he's both Beta and Alpha. He's a Beta male who has constructed an Alpha persona that is not real or false bravado. Basically we have a lovelorn poet who has created the alpha male persona that he believes he should be. Rory - the Last Centurion in Doctor Who reminds me a little of Spike in some respects. Buffy is equally interesting in this respect because she...is both Beta and Alpha. She's both the girly girl, the
one who wants to feel protected, and the fighter who saves the day. I like the fact that the show allows them to be both. Too often, as we see in most fanfic, the characters are either beta or alpha, either this or that, when in reality we are both, not one or the other. If that makes sense?