making you hope that maybe, just this once, love *can* conquer all.
Yes. That's what makes me LOVE them, just that little hope of happily ever after and that's made even more poignant by how impossible and unlikely it is. I agree that Buffy and Angel are about hope, hope that they could work out, and then the idea that two warriors who by definition are alone aren't alone.
This essay made me all ditzy and emotional and wanting them together or something because whether they're together or not there's something incredibly beautiful about their whole story that makes me all achey.
By the end, they are old and battled-scarred, separated by seemingly still impossible odds, insurmountable issues, time and space, years of separate lives, other lovers, a bleak and probably short future, unspoken resentments and old, still-bleeding scars... Yes, even after all of that, I still ship them and I guess it's pretty special that a lot of people can feel this strongly about a couple from a TV show.
I haven't updated my Buffy/Angel site in quite some time, but I'm not planning on closing it anytime soon because things like your essay make me realise how much I love this ship. Thank you for writing this beautiful essay! I had to make a B/A icon because I realised I had none in my userpics which is just not good.
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Yes. That's what makes me LOVE them, just that little hope of happily ever after and that's made even more poignant by how impossible and unlikely it is. I agree that Buffy and Angel are about hope, hope that they could work out, and then the idea that two warriors who by definition are alone aren't alone.
This essay made me all ditzy and emotional and wanting them together or something because whether they're together or not there's something incredibly beautiful about their whole story that makes me all achey.
By the end, they are old and battled-scarred, separated by seemingly still impossible odds, insurmountable issues, time and space, years of separate lives, other lovers, a bleak and probably short future, unspoken resentments and old, still-bleeding scars...
Yes, even after all of that, I still ship them and I guess it's pretty special that a lot of people can feel this strongly about a couple from a TV show.
I haven't updated my Buffy/Angel site in quite some time, but I'm not planning on closing it anytime soon because things like your essay make me realise how much I love this ship. Thank you for writing this beautiful essay! I had to make a B/A icon because I realised I had none in my userpics which is just not good.