The Bloodshedverse :: Spuffy with Bite

Saggit

08/20/2015 06:52 am

It seems to me that quite a few Buffy-Spike dialog stories just rehah angst without anything much to work off. You've found an imaginative angle, what with the questionaire, and for all that it could have easily degenerated into something simple, fluffy, and smutty, you've produced some unusual depths and character insights. Thanks for that, because I'll certainly keep reading.

Thank you so much. It was actually really hard for me to stop it from degenerating into something violent and angry, so I'm very, very glad to hear you felt it could have gone the other way! It was always really important to me that this story not include sex: I find I need a heroic suspension of disbelief to swallow Buffy and Spike falling into a healthy relationship - or bed, for that matter - within five years of Seeing Red. This story was also at least partly inspired by wanting to see what they would be like once they'd grown up a bit. The TV series did the growing up theme incredibly well, but that meant they could never really get there and be grown-ups. These people have done that.